Am I the only one that loved Number One with a Bullet? Mixing the NFL with sci-fi cults and monsters made for

one crazy sick story.  However, it is pretty impossible, all of the bloodcasts are amazing! 

I liked it too, it was very small in nature compared to some of the other ones...  I know that sounds weird, but it's the only way I can think of to describe it...  It was well done, but not fleshed out like his other stories, made the pacing seem a bit off... 

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Enjoyed that one for the comedy value...  you a vikings fan? 

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Of all of them, I liked Red Man the most.  I can see society reaching that point within the next couple of hundred years.  (I'm being optimistic on that, a few decades may be closer to the truth.)

Come to think of it, the Mt. Fitzroy preview is also up there, though I try not to think about it too much (the pains of EarthCrack withdrawal being too much).

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Most that are profound would choose to narrate tales of living men with nouns like sorrow, verbs like lose, and action scenes, and love, but then there are now some, and brave they be, that speak of Lunar cities raised and silver spheres and purple seas.

This one is my favorite. Just imagine the possible future story lines.

He lived on, and for a time, helped a government where industrial genocide was performed.

He becomes disgusted with racial hatred fueled mass murder, and yet he lives in a place and time where there is truckloads of racial tension.

He has an accent that identifies him coming from a country where the nazis that did a great evil not long ago, and there must me a lot of people that lost relatives that resent and distrust him.

 The red scare and paranoia is brewing slowly.

He is was so out there, that even other SS officers where disturbed by him.

Survivors might be hunting him to make him pay.

Sometimes he laughs so hard when he is about to finish off some one, that he actually endangers his own life.

The detective noir feeling is pretty cool.

How am I supposed to decide between buttery Snipe goodness and delicious Iwa Typhoon surprise.  Then, throw in some spicy Passenger pate and Chocolate Kissyman ...

Argh, I love them all.  To paraphrase an old advertising campaign.  Read all you want, He'll write more.

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I totally second that vote.  The only reason Red Man doesn't win outright is that there is not much plot there - it is really an idea/character piece (and a spectacular one at that!) but there is no active conflict.  The Great Snipe Hunt was just a rollicking great yarn, from start to finish.  The simple audaciousness of the "eliminations" were inspired.

Inspired, I tell you! 

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I think, therefore I'm right. -Hugo Rune

I love them all but "Number One With a Bullet" has got to be one of the best knee-jerk shorts ever written. I didn't even look at symbolism or theme, I just listened. The thing that caught in my throat with this story and left me choking down a coil of dry, acid sizzled esophagus at the end, was how real it felt. It begins so naturally and in not just a tangible world, but a jaded, commercially obsessed world being viewed through the long-term law enforcement lenses of the protagonist. There's a real sense that develops neck-breakingly fast that no detail escapes this guy. And suddenly, a supernatural survival story spills into the cool, early morning of any (football loving) town USA.

@ST4351: Your words are music to my ears. That's one of my constant goals: make the story feel "real," like it's the world you and I live in every day. If I can achieve that, your subconscious lets you slide deeper into belief. If a part of you accepts the story as "real," when the shit hits the fan it becomes far more frightening.