A Gleaming Panacea for the Vapid

by Aldo Chaparro

thank you.

“They call me the Filipino James Bond.  I was personal lawyer to the station chief of the CIA in the Philippines.  My forte was public and private international law.  You know, if a German guy has a child with a prostitute in Hong Kong, and it’s born in Africa, who gets custody?  That kind of stuff.  It was twenty-two months of stories and adventures.  The CIA got everything out of me.  Then they left me for dead.  So I retreated into the jungles for seven years of silence.  These were the deepest and filthiest of jungles.  The worst in the world.  Witches everywhere.  Genuine cannibals.  Eaters of flesh and blood.  I kept silent for seven years and only emerged when called by the Lord.  You don’t have to ask my name.  Just read Revelations 12.  Then tell everyone I’m here.  And that you met me.”