A scene from the ending phase of Pat and Rod’s now-defunct relationship.
Added 2023-09-05 03:31:16 +0000 UTCIn this short story involving Pat, a faulty MP3 player, and a policeman, we get to see a bit of how things were going toward the end of Pat and Rod's relationship.
It is important to note that the officer in the story, Keith, is in no way related to Kyth the masseuse with whom Pat was in a doomed rebound relationship.
(I'm experimenting with the best way to format these prose pieces for your ease and comfort of reading. Here is a single-column version in a larger type size. Please let me know in the comments how this and the other .pdf formatting of pieces is working for you.)
Comments
After reading this beautiful story of unexpected empathy and a whisper of a hope of transcendence, I asked ChatGPT-4 to read it too with a PDF plugin. Then I asked it: "If, in this story, you had to equate Pat with two of the Beatles and Officer Keith with the other two, what correspondences would you make and why?" It immediately said that Pat would be John and George, while Officer Keith would be Paul and Ringo. This was so obviously correct that I had no further questions.
dmf 23
2023-09-18 05:47:20 +0000 UTCholy emergency thermoses of chamomile. that was insanely impressive prose.
Michael Akey
2023-09-09 20:39:37 +0000 UTCSo sad, so inevitable.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2023-09-09 16:09:54 +0000 UTCLoved this. Thank you
Noah Chase
2023-09-08 02:59:06 +0000 UTCphenomenal. Reminds me of beef trying to steal the playgirl
Nikhil Brocchini
2023-09-07 16:06:42 +0000 UTCI always thought it was teeth…..
Omurice
2023-09-07 02:52:22 +0000 UTCMany thanks for taking the time, I appreciate this so much.
Omurice
2023-09-07 02:49:33 +0000 UTCThat weird little guy with his tongue sticking out is one of the great bit characters of the strip
Toilet Cobra
2023-09-06 20:33:33 +0000 UTChttps://achewood.com/2008/09/12/title.html
John Larsen
2023-09-06 20:11:28 +0000 UTCCould anyone point me to the Pat strip with the kid trying to raise money to visit the gubmint?
Omurice
2023-09-06 17:34:49 +0000 UTCI can't believe I'm feeling sympathy for Pat, he got done so dirty. Every good story needs an asshole, I suppose.
bird
2023-09-06 00:49:39 +0000 UTCI imagine Rod will do fine, whereas Pat will lose what little of himself there was besides spiraling rage and quinoa until he becomes a sort of a new-age Ringwraith.
Toilet Cobra
2023-09-05 14:58:09 +0000 UTCI liked the format and the story. I hope Pat found a good parking garage
A Cloth Map
2023-09-05 14:35:18 +0000 UTCSingle column definitely easier to read on mobile, but I'll take any format that even gets close to Rod Huggins
braap
2023-09-05 14:32:23 +0000 UTCFantastic
Matt Mitchell
2023-09-05 13:56:05 +0000 UTCI’m reminded of the scene where Thompson was fleeing Vegas and got pulled in Barstow: “The pig had done me on all fronts, and now he was going off to chuckle about it…”
Jay Williams
2023-09-05 13:42:36 +0000 UTCI definitely appreciate the single column format when reading on mobile - much more convenient and I don't need to zoom and scroll left and right and such. But that being said, I've always loved the classic multi column zine look, so I've never begrudged having to do a little bit of scrolling around.
Shepton
2023-09-05 04:08:19 +0000 UTC
