STRANGE STORIES FROM FIORELLA

FIORELA has eaten all her birthday cake and is now, with another half year behind her, contemplating her future. She can't just spend the rest of her life watching TV, but without having transportation, what is she to do? The weather is so intense that she can't even take a walk out in the evening. The only good thing is that her blood tests have returned to their former placid levels.

HOW ABOUT FIO ENTERTAINING YOU WITH A FEW OF HERE OLDIES LIKE "Fair is Fair."

       The last human beings had died eons ago and the nuclear-contaminated planet had revolved silently for fifteen million years after that--revolved and evolved so that scarcely forty more years later, the dino-sapiens were burning the carbonized remains of humanity to fuel their vehicles.

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Little Red Ridinghood started out on the path to her grandmother's house even though Henny Penny had warned her that the sky was falling and she have to seek shelter with Goldilocks in the three bears' house. When the wolf threatened to blow the house down, Little Red ran out of it and down the path no Cinderella's house, and when the clock struck twelve, she lost her shoe and turned into a pumpkin.......

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Once upon a time, there was a slender young woman, a good woman, who was married to the man of her dreams. Her best friend was fat and unmarried. "If you lost some weight, your true nature would and you would be able to attract a husband as wonderful as mine," the slender young woman said. "I will help you." So, with the encouragement of her friend, the fat woman dieted away one hundred pounds and became a devastating beauty. In fact, she as so devastating that she was able to seduce her friend's husband, who left his wife for her. "How could you do this to me?" the slender young woman complained to her formerly fat friend. "I have always been a good friend to you , and I was the one who helped you diet to reviel your true nature. "Yes," the woman replied with a smile, "but my true nature is evil."

NO GERMAN TODAY, Mein Freund!