EXTRA! ISSUE #26
Wowtown Secedes
The entirety of Wowtown and surrounding Crossbone County, including Wowbegon Lake, collectively and spontaneously uprooted itself today from U.S. soil and took to the air. This massive island, like a huge chunk of sod, rose about 200 feet in altitude and floated gracefully and silently over neighboring states casting a shadow that created some confusion and alarm below but mostly just curious stares. Those witnessing it's passage from underneath were greeted by a few dangling worms, tree roots and groundhogs waving from the now bottomless ends of their holes as they passed. The island floated east and slightly south slowly, like a cloud, and eventually headed out over the Atlantic Ocean, where it came back down to rest on the water's surface and gradually moved out to sea.
-Thomas Truax 11/4/04
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