Speed Read: A Dozen Long Stories Short

'Speare's Fears
To be?
Not be?
Hard Bard
query.
Hells Bells
Ed Poe
laid low.
Hell’s Bells
did so.
Oh, George
Which way,
you say?
Man’s plans?
Agley.
A Far Better Ending
Best and worst
interspersed.
The end,
Dear friend?
Not rehearsed.
Lone Survivor
Moby Dick?
Devil’s trick.
Ahab’s
last stab
failed. One quick.
Three Teasers
Eb’neezer’s
night teasers:
Three ghosts
play hosts
to geezers.

Crossfire
William Tell
aimed so well:
fruit shot;
son not;
Gessler fell.
The Yank
Long tale short:
At Art’s Court,
the Yank
called Hank
did cavort.
The Apprehentice
Sorcerer
told him, “Sir,
Magic?
Tragic
to bestir.”
Bartleby’s Nopes
Bartleby,
hired to be
a scrive.
His jive?
“Not for me.”
You Are So Brutiful
Caesar knew
most of you
who threw
his coup—
et tu, Bru.
It’s a Sin to Mock Justice
“Atticus,
What’s the fuss?”
“Justice
must miss
None of us.”