P(at)rick Tales and other such

Highfalutin Mountebank is, in part, an adaptation of a true Russian historical event in which a con goes violently awry. Alongside the adaptation of the true event is a fairy tale involving children and a precocious duck which ends happily ever after. While one con is a goner, there is another which explains how the hero is a highfalutin mountebank instead of a hustler, scammer or bunco artist.

Life as Prick characterizes P(at)rick Squent as a rich personality who has obsessive compulsive di...