{"code":"haters","subroute":"haters","title":"Professional Haters","collection_type":"theme","header_1":"Professional Haters","header_2":"The bitter, the resentful, the jealous.","description":"A collection of short stories on bitterness and misanthropy.","has_text":true,"quote":{"quote":"“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death” * The Feast of Nemesis","code":"the-feast-of-nemesis"},"image":true,"image_alt":"A sketch of a lit firecracker with a note saying: Happy Nemesis Day!","image_filter":"contrast(1.5)","image_title":"The Feast of Nemesis - Sketch","image_code":"the-feast-of-nemesis","stories":[{"story":"the-last-word","description":"How was your weekend? What do you like to do for fun? Do you have any brothers? Any sisters? Have I bored you yet?\n*The Last Word* is about an innocent man just trying to make his way through the world, accosted by people with no original thought inside their mechanical minds."},{"story":"the-widower-turmore","description":"Working is difficult. WHy should I do all the hard work when others can do it for me?\n*The Widower Turmore* is about a very clever man outsmarting society around him and never working a day in his life, until one day someone comes along to ruin it all!"},{"story":"the-man-that-corrupted-hadleyburg","description":"Some people think they’re better than us! How dare they? No ones better than us!\n*The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg* is about a righteous man who shows the true spirit of the pretentious Hadleyburg, a town full of holier-than-thou people who claim they cannot lie."},{"story":"a-matter-of-prejudice","description":"It can be hard to understand how people like ugly things such as dogs, cats and human children. But as long as these things can be kept far away from us then let us leave them to their barking and squealing.\n*A Matter of Prejudice* is a tragedy about a very proper and intelligent lady worn down into sentimentality by her loud and obnoxious family."},{"story":"the-die-hard","description":"Things were better in the old days, despite the naysayers bringing up things like war and slavery. They simply don’t understand the little things in life such as pretty teapots and good manners.\n*The Die-Hard* is about a proud soldier surrounded by traitors and cowards that slander him with all sorts of horrible lies."},{"story":"the-feast-of-nemesis","description":"All of our holidays are insipid. Celebrations, festivities and gift-giving. Life has hate as well as love, and why shouldn’t our holidays reflect that?\nSaki’s recurring sarcastic character of Clovis introduces to a woman his ingenious idea of a holiday where you gift something dastardly to someone you dislike. January 1st, anyone? It could replace New Years Day."}]}