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Today’s Story of the Day comes from one of my favorite short story writers, Elizabeth Crane. Her collections—All This Heavenly Glory, You Must Be This Happy To Enter, and When The Messenger Is Hot—are some of the best around. Enjoy this one, from Guernica (and included in the Best of the Web 2010 anthology):

“We meet on Wednesdays. On the first Wednesday of the month we meet at one of our homes to discuss our achievements and share our profound and original thoughts. We have done everything from creating mathematical formulas to inventing technologies that will save your lives. We are architects, artists, physicists, and scientists. We are authors, composers, philosophers, and chemists. We are religious men and atheists. We are married, divorced, single, and straight. We know of a gay genius, but he does not attend the meetings. There are no women in our group. We are not saying there are no lady geniuses, but we sure don’t know any.”