Salome, Dance For Me

By Kaysoon Khoo

This time around you don't just get to hear a story. You get involved. No, you don't become a character featured in the tale and acquire international fame. But you do become part and parcel of its unfoldment.

Perhaps I'd better explain. Imagine I'm a storyteller -- a professional, no less -- and you're the one listening to me in boggle-eyed wonder while I shoot off at the mouth. You've paid me for my services in advance and you're determined to get your money's worth. I'm doing the best I can but my job isn't easy because you're the kind of audience who refuses to shut that hole in his face and and leave the floor to the storyteller. However, being the epitome of patience, I persevere and you get to hear an oft-told tale delivered in a manner that leaves both storyteller and listener in a daze.

When the storytelling session comes to an end, you wonder if you're still sane -- while I swear by all the gods I'll never tell that story again -- not in the same way, anyway.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kaysoon Khoo
• Release date: Aug 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311763112

Kaysoon Khoo

All the world's a comedy stage and each must play a clown. We're none of us totally sane. Actually, there's NO such thing as total sanity. You can't even define it. So laugh while you can. It doesn't cost a bleeding cent and you get your emotional rocks off. Who knows what tomorrow may bring? Circumstance doesn't always turn out the way you want it to and chance is a bitch, more often than not. Having said this much, I don't have to explain why I write the way I do. I'd like to think that what I churn out is stuff you'll either love or loath. No halfway house, please. My life has always vacillated between extremes. And if we ever meet, give me a warm handshake -- or give me sufficient warning that you're going for my throat. I'll be publishing more madness on Smashwords as often as I can. And I'll be churning out and uploading more and more until that glorious day when they come to take me away.

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SALOME,

DANCE FOR ME

by

KAYSOON KHOO

Copyright 2014 Kaysoon Khoo

A Smashwords Edition

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This book is purely a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to any places or events, is purely coincidental.

Imagine I'm a storyteller – a professional, no less – and you're the one listening to me in boggle-eyed wonder while I shoot off at the mouth. You've paid me for my services in advance and you're determined to get your money's worth. I'm doing the best I can but my job isn't easy because you're the kind of audience who refuses to shut that hole in his face and leave the floor to the storyteller. However, being the epitome of patience, I persevere and you get to hear an oft-told tale delivered in a manner that leaves both storyteller and listener in a daze.

ME: The story I'm about to relate is one you've very likely heard before. In fact, I'm quite sure you know it. Everyone does.

YOU: Then why bother with it? Save your breath or tell me another. What's your story all about anyway?

ME: It tells of a shameful act committed by a shameless man with an even more shameless woman. It was perfectly shameful, all that utter lack of shame!

YOU: What a shame! But countlesss shameless people have been doing shameful things since the beginning of time. Give me something more original.

ME: Ah, but these two went down in history's Hall of Shame. And they were – royalty!

YOU: You don't say. Who were they?

ME: The man in question was Herod, a king in name and a louse in nature. There are a whole lot of other names more suitable for him but the one on his birth certificate was Herod. You've heard of him?

YOU: Can't say I have. That's a pretty unusual name.

ME: You mean you've never read the Good Book – that number one best-seller of all time? The Pope won't like it!

YOU: I've read many good books in the past but I don't seem to have come across that name you mentioned. I've an uncle who's in publishing and he says that unless a book sells, it isn't worth talking about. He also says reviews are worthless in the absence of sales. I totally agree. People who can't write do the next best thing. They critique. Did the sales of that book you mentioned hit the million mark?

ME: Hit the million mark? I've just told you it's the international best-seller of all time! It puts all other best-sellers in the shade. Millions of readers all over the world pick it up every Sunday. When you swear