Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for September 14, 2002

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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling The Outer Reaches of Plot Twists Please don't tell your friends the shocking beginning, middle and ending! Host: Submitted for your approval: Wes Shelby. An ordinary man about to undergo a record-setting number of reality-bending and utterly shocking plot twists! Wes: Something about my life feels very spooky, slowly paced and poorly lit. BUT WHAT IS IT? Wes: Argh! So that was a LIVING DREAM I had, while robots harvest my body! Wes: But wait! The lighting is still creepy and tone is somber and foreboding! WHY? Aha! It's all coming back to me! Wes: I'm a DISEMBODIED BRAIN being electronically stimulated into believing it's a formerly deluded POD-PERSON! Wes: But...could there be yet ANOTHER startling revelation? Ah, it's obvious now -- I'M DEAD! Host: Shocking? Yes, but NOW this GHOST-BRAIN must wake up to the realization that its FALSE-REALITY SHOCKS were actually mere illusions...! CONJURED FIGMENTS of a hack screenwriter's limited imagination! Computer: Good lord! I'm FICTIONAL! The End?