People kept on calling. At first Armando told them that Jeff was in the bathroom. Then, when people started telling him that Jeff was in the bathroom a lot, he started telling them that Jeff had Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

From: The Commitment in: A Week’s Worth of Fiction, Volume 1 “Last night, he was sent to the nearby Military town of Kilakilla. He spent the night at a terrorist hideout disguised as a book store. He ate a wonderful meal, perhaps the best of his life. He filmed a video stating that he was opposed to the injustices his people had suffered. He gave cryptic goodbye messages to his friends and family without naming them.

From “I Exist” in Every Lyric Tells A Story.His mother thought he was a loserHis father thought he was a bumPlenty of times he felt like runningBut he really had nowhere to runHe fought it with everything he hadWith his brains and with his fistsAnd whenever anyone told him he was nobodyHe’d tell himself “I exist

From “Modern Man” in Every Lyric Tells A StoryHis life is run by telephones and clocksHe changes his women, like he changes his socksHe plays to win and sometimes he plays roughKnows a lot about sex but not much about love

From “Rock Star” in Every Lyric Tells A Story.What happens to a rock starWhen he gets too old to performWhen his public has faded Like the strength his voice once had?What happens to a rock starWhen he’s treated like yesterday’s newsAnd the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?