{"id":31,"date":"2013-08-09T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maribranze.ro\/maribranze\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-04-20T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T10:46:13","slug":"the-land-of-radioactive-walruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maribranze.ro\/maribranze\/the-land-of-radioactive-walruses\/","title":{"rendered":"The land of radioactive walruses [Short story]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em><span lang=\"ro-RO\">Once upon a time, in a mythical land which belonged to Kla-Kla, the God of Absentmindedness, there was a huge army made up entirely of radioactive walruses.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">They were all training to fight against the laser-shooting belugas, who were the servants of the Goddess of Procrastination called Arimskina. The battle had been going on for at least 25 centuries, when suddenly, a spooky message came via the prophets of both divinities. If their believers didn&#8217;t join forces in an epic war against the Holy Mother of Angsty Teenage Writers, then the world would forever turn purple. Since nobody had anything in particular against purple (it was a pretty fashionable colour) and since there were a lot of political reasons at stake, the armies never became allies and so, the universe turned the seventh shade of the rainbow.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The end.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>***<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>(Azi am f\u0103cut ordine \u015fi am dat peste o gr\u0103mad\u0103 de t\u00e2mpenii, inclusiv peste povestea asta bazat\u0103 pe urm\u0103toarele prompturi:<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>radioactive<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>angsty<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>spooky<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>mythical<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>25<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><em>Imaginea e de pe http:\/\/www.clker.com\/)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share!<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-31\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maribranze.ro\/maribranze\/the-land-of-radioactive-walruses\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-31\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maribranze.ro\/maribranze\/the-land-of-radioactive-walruses\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maribranze.ro\/maribranze\/the-land-of-radioactive-walruses\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-31\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maribranze.ro\/maribranze\/the-land-of-radioactive-walruses\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maribranze.ro\/maribranze\/the-land-of-radioactive-walruses\/?share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20The%20land%20of%20radioactive%20walruses%20%5BShort%20story%5D&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maribranze.ro%2Fmaribranze%2Fthe-land-of-radioactive-walruses%2F&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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