Swell Foop (32 page)

Now the credits, given in the general order of use in the novel, grouped when one person had more than one. I regret the names which are incomplete or absent, and will try to be more careful in future. This catches up roughly through NoRemember 1999.

The Demon Earth is not evil—Ariel Victoroff; amateur crastination, fowl ball, Vita men, intuition as a talent—Clay Gilmore; talent of causing random headaches—Jason Combs; talent of using music to heal wounds—Robert; insight: talent of seeing inside a person and telling what is wrong—J. Hoffman; Metros, Chronos—Cindy Rempel; the inconsistencies of Humfrey's use of youth elixir—Alan Chick; Where do puns come from?—Heather Oglevie; strawberries with straws, chick peas and navy beans, fur tree—Aaron "dzeghers"; the Five (Six) Rings of Xanth—Mike Henderson; Anna Gram—Brian Stewart; twin girls with random springs talents—Molly Suver; mere makes folk feel insignificant, metallergy makes folks sneeze—Rob and Rene; talent of seeing the future of an object—Daniel @Genius; Vanna Jane Morrow Shelton—R. Morrow Shelton; Rusty—Amber Middleton; Demons Molish, Lete, Flower—Juno Farnsworth; females sending smoke signals,
Charades
with puns—Nuwisha Man; talent of making animals sing—Tham Shu Fen; talent of forming living things into useful shapes—Eric Miller; male underwear freaking out females—Lenora Kenwolf; M-path, iron E's—Roger and Rosa Motti, Laura Cavallo; things go right, not left—Rafi; Ersup, who looks in purse to find something personal about whomever she concentrates on; Candi with the sweet tooth—Erin Price; magic infuses new adults too slowly to see—Ian Kurz; cross winds, sun glare—Meredith Holla; other types of centaurs with bodies of felines, deer, zebras, oryx—Lane Law; opti and pessi mist—bsukert; Com Ponent—Brian Ott; illusion of touch—Brandon Roberts; roc's flight feathers to make a flying machine, poke weed, wormhole leads to random time—Anonymous Peasant; tempera paint—Brianne "Brie" Smith; begonia, bring back Smash and Tandy—Tandy Dolin; Dafrey having a role—Thomas E. Shaffer; Unpun makes puns disappear—Seth Dorrity; Punny, creating puns—Bruce Morton; loss of the sense of humor—Brenda Roberts; cloudberries—Candace Suggs; Pook, Peek, Puck brought back, seeking the Mundane who can get to the Foop—Jaylin Allen; Cassaundra Centaur—Cathi Walker (When I checked for the email letter to see if there was any description or talent, I was unable to find it, so filled out the details myself, hoping that I didn't ruin it for Cathi); man-i-cure—Kat Velayo; peacock—Jon Steenbeke; cyclepath—Tim Reddick; Lyn, who makes machines—Mari Rose; horror-scope—SupreMage; elderberries—Nicole Freeman; shrinking violet—Jennifer Richter; eye of the beholder—Nicole Scott; talking to the wind, Talent Agent—Daniel Forrest; Watt's Gnu—Ed Breest Jr.; fish swallowing half a person—Jackson Howa; scarf, warm but eats much—Christer Ward; Miss Erry, who loves company—Karalee J. Beierschmitt; Miss Steppe, who falls down; faux tangle tree—Russell Thompson; relatives of MareAnn—Krystal Houston; heart beet—Kathryn Voskuil; circle of friends—Julianne Burslem; dot matrix—Kathy; brain eyeball—Tim Kozloski; show and tell a vision—Kristina Gilbride; jumping to conclusions—Joshua Jarvise; castration—Ken Kuhlman; Siamese cats—(I lost the credit); decipher any code, intimidate anything, hide anything, have leprechauns in Xanth—Jamie Stoops; oxymoron strip—Jennifer Richter (I had to cut the figures of speech section short, so much of her suggestion was lost. It was that there be an oxymoron strip, run by a pretty ugly stupid genius named Mistress Mann, who makes oxymorons literal. The problem is, I have had an oxymoron character before, so this overlapped.); talent of seeing the result of a decision—Ashli Foust; the Internet as a net—Josh Millman, Daniel Forrest; the Web as a giant spiderweb—Daniel Forrest; Arachid, human/spider, crossbreed—Brittany Nelson; Demon Type-O—Dancer; Post Orifice where letters and articles go—Tham Shu Fen; move-E—Sean Thompson; flying goblin child with rainbow-colored wings, talent of enlarging or minimizing living things—Megan Ward; Stretch Ogre—James Johnston; Inebriated and Intoxicated—Ashley Treadway; nymph lode—Roger Fachini; talent of mixing metaphors—Jennifer Hoffmann; suit tree with flight suits—RWheel; tangle tree nymph with tangled hair—Jim Roberts; Xanthus the talking horse—Jenny Scott; goblin/harpy crossbreeds have talents—Katharine Capps (missed before); goblins have definition, harpies have strength in talents; talents occur once per species per generation—Richard Reeves; talent of bringing something forward or back in time—Joe Baity.

And stay tuned to this station for Up
in a Heaval
next year. The Demons are not through with their games.