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Gabby, daughter of the Amazon Superhero The Amazing Aztec, at her family pool, helped to take care of the pool with her parrot sidekick and the colorful fishing bird who eats the piranhas. Created the same way as the previous picture.

Princess Tinkerbell, wearing armor with a touch of AI-assisted art editing.

What? Will Eisner’s The Spirit is planning to trap belfry bats. What did you think he meant?

Well, the end of everything draws nearer. President Pumpkinhead has passed the Big BugUgly Bill, which takes away some of Medicare and Obamacare to give billionaires and some lowly millionaires an even bigger bug-ugly tax break. People are going to die. He has also dismantled the clean energy programs that were supposed to help save the world, so good luck with learning to breathe CO2 in 900-degree heat (as is the condition on Venus.) Some experts are predicting the fall of the American Empire in 3 years or less. Soon, you will meet some of the Mad Max apocalypse characters in real life. I hope Trumpalump meets one who is a cannibal who likes his meat poorly bronzed.

I have been feeling like I was going to die soon anyway. But it is nice to know it is coming soon to end my suffering. It is not a comfort, though, that most of the rest of you will be dying with me. Bummer, that.

Anyway, enjoy the fireworks. And I mean on the 4th, not World War Three. It is possible I will enjoy being a ghost. I already have a list of who I want to haunt.

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This is a repost. She has been gone for a year now.

Dogs can’t live forever. Not even as long as a people can. And believe me, she believed with all her might that she was a people. She ate enough people food, mostly stolen, that she convinced herself she was turning into a human girl. But one people year is seven years of dog-year aging. And she was 98 by that measure. And she had doggy breast cancer, complete with a big nasty tumor.

Yesterday, in the veterinarian’s office, she laid down and went to sleep, leaving me and my daughter and my two sons and my wife behind. My fur baby passed away as I stroked her precious head for the last time ever.

She will be writing no more blog posts for me when I am not feeling well. She will no longer be thinking about running over neighborhood cats as she is driving the car. The local rats will fear her no more. And I will never be able to prove to anyone now that she was a talking dog.

We picked her up off the street as a lost puppy fourteen years ago. She apparently escaped from the local pet store and was written off on an insurance claim before the vet could even suggest that that is where she came from. A free Cardigan corgi puppy. She was a priceless part of our lives. She loved us as only a dog can, with ferocity, throwing tantrums and tearing up the trash can when we left her alone in the house.

I shall miss her until the day I die. Sleep well, Jade. You have earned your rest.

Susu in the cornfield.

The girl from San Antonio

The cat girl with the rainbow colors.

Again, these pictures were made with the assistance of Picsart AI Photo Editor and AI Mirror programs.

I finally got the novella above published this June. It was only delayed by emergency heart surgery. I had a pacemaker put in at the end of May. And I had considerable trouble getting it published. Amazon regularly resets all the formatting and printing rules to make it harder for us to publish with the actions we used before to control the process. I still have only the e-book published. And it may well be the last thing I get published.

It is getting hard to write with increasing health problems.