At Your Peril

There's a joke amongst writers: Do not upset us. Or is it a joke?

Howdy Horn Honkers.

Writer D.G. Speirs once reminded readers of an old idiom: Never quarrel with a man who buys ink by the barrel.

In other words: never piss off a writer.

Make that a New Year's resolution if you will.

If they write fiction (I don't) the author will name a character after you, a character everyone despises. They'll then kill you off, naked, in a three-way with a prostitute and a possum where you get eaten by a cocaine-crazed crocodile that was trained by the cartels.

And the audience will cheer your demise.

If they write nonfiction (I do) the writer will tell the raw truth about you, laying bare your assholey-ness, your secrets, your lies, or whatever cudgel you use to hit other people with instead of doing a little therapeutic gazing in the mirror as most thinking humans do.