Stories From The Head

The Town Main Shouter ”HAAAAAKKORAAAAL!" boomed the town main shouter. "The Hakkoral-statement has been passed". Gudo, standing in the midst of a crowd consisting of him and his friend Frequ, knew that the town of Tyreb was doomed. The Hakkoral-statement was a law that stated that the town would now be inhabited by a drunken sailor, a silent killer and a beautiful cat. Gude and Frequ realised that this meant, among other things – no more dinner parties. Just the sound of it "Hey let's invite a drunken sailor, a silent killer and a beautiful cat to a dinner party". The equation just didn't add up. (DS, SK & BC = DP.) Nulapor, the town scribe, who had been making his way through the extremely loose crowd, pushed the main shouter of his stool. "I have the solution", he said, quoting from an old book: "Replace silent killer with dinner". It all added up now. (D, DS, BC = DP.) Three years later the biggest and most wonderful dinner party ever held was cancelled because of the appearance of a silent killer in the main hall. "Well", Gude’s sister Daffa said. "It would have been a nice futteral". The irony of it all was that it wouldn't...

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