Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for April 03, 2022

The second answer sounds the most reasonable….

He feels flushed and drained and is plumb out of ideas.

Cosmo’s work at least deserves some respect.

But wouldn’t the novel clog up the plumbing? I mean, it would be a novel plug, wouldn’t it?

Didn’t the government shut down that pipeline?

Is his agent named TRUMP?

Shoe, I was thinking the same thing…

Trump’s memoirs are also in the pipeline.

Second response is very Trumpian.

Supposedly real 16th Century comments from publishers (who were at that time all members of the peerage):

“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house with your manuscript before me. Soon it will be behind me.”

“Thank you for sending me your manuscript. I shall waste no time in reading it.”

That’s harsh, man.

Unfortunately, it sounds too familiar to someone lost somewhere in the land of Amazon/Kindle.