The Telling Compulsion

Excerpted from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

(JOHN EDWARDS’s phone rings.)

JOHN EDWARDS

What? That’s great.
The hand of fate
Has relaxed its stranglehold.
God’s mercy should be extolled.

(JOHN EDWARDS hangs up his phone.)

JOHN EDWARDS

Oh, wait, now she’s in remission.
I guess that means I have permission.

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