Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Luniferous Gazette #45: Quillien and Penina Run Out of Ink

 Twenty to One 

  

Quillien: “Did you hear? We’ve got just twenty words left before our ink runs dry forever. Cut another with each scrawl.” 

Penina: “Wait, so I start with nineteen? No fair! I always meant to write an epic novella or scintillating memoir.” 

Quillien: “Economize, quickly, dear Pen. We should choose only the most searingly important sentences to preserve in amber script.” 

Penina: “Maybe trim your adverbs and adjectives, Quilly. Let’s share our favorite facts before silence gums the page.” 

Quillien: “I know! There’s a dust cloud at the Milky Way’s heart that tastes just like raspberries.” 

Penina: “Yummy! Er, scrumptious. Human touch can’t fully register the microscopically dense softness of otter fur.”   

Quillien:
“Neat. Who are these scribbles for when we can’t see past the paper’s curl?” 

Penina: “Don’t know. Perhaps we’re leaving behind a cairn of lost and found delights.” 

Quillien: “Confession: I wanted to be a glitter gel pen in another life.” 

Penina: “Counter confession: I wrote in cursive once and I liked it!” 

Quillien: “I’ll miss misspelling unusual words like ‘tintinnabulary.' It’s the n’s.” 

Penina: “And I’ll miss comfy clichés worn thin as ‘gossamer.’” 

Quillien: “FOCUS! Ask me only the hardest questions now.” 

Penina: “What utterance binds the cruelest syllabic sting?” 

Quillien: “Your atoms are anathema to mine.” 

Penina: “Which words bleed ink tears?” 

Quillien: Asterisk* ad infinitum(∞) interrobang‽” 

Penina: “And the kindest?” 

Quillien: “Love anyways.” 

Penina: “Okay. 
    Okay? 
OK!
    Okay . . .  

'kay.” 

*(∞)‽

~*~ 
 
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