The monks at the French alpine Carthusian Monastery, however, had decided that catering to the North American thirst for green Chartreuse was a lower priority than their ecclesiastical studies and monastic rituals of devotion. The result was that the mixologist decided, with de Parque’s permission, to substitute Pernod. The result was inferior.

A broken rock tumbler is the first in a series of mishaps for a citizen of an alternate timeline.
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Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles. He writes the Substack, Right Twice A Day.

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