PAUL A. TOTH lives in Michigan. His short fiction has appeared in The Barcelona Review, The Mississippi Review Online, Exquisite Corpse and many others, with nominations for the Pushcart prize and Best American Mystery Stories. He recently completed his second novel.  Paul's official website at www.netpt.tv includes complete credits, news and audio stories.

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"Don't make it hurt, no deaths, only minor injuries, but make it spectacular, historical."  He would not plant a bomb himself, nor assassinate the President.  He stared at his his big, stupid feet, clown shoes.  Ice cream stains on his jeans.  Why shouldn't he want some action on the other side of the country?  Life was a magazine in the bathroom, and not just literally.  Cycle of life. The threat of disaster is a form of constipation.  

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