Dog Eat Dog -- Things Get Ugly

December 22, 1997

Read Dog Eat Dog if you haven't already done so.

Until now, I wanted to believe that the Seven Deadly Sins Homepage and Jeff Heimberger's Seven Deadly Sins could peacefully coexist as vitual neighbors. You remember how, last time I sent a friendly letter to the proprietor, the listing for the 7DS Homepage inexplicably vanished from several search engines? And how, suppressing my uneasiness that the two events might somehow be related, last week I sent another lighthearted missive to the proprietor telling him about my realization that his website was not redundant, but a tamer and less innovative complement to mine, suitable for digestion by consumers whose delicate tummies might be upset by my tales? And how I waited eagerly for a response?

There was no response, save that once again, the Seven Deadly Sins Homepage vanished from one of the major search engines. Can you believe the outright nerve and unmitigated gall? As in all good conspiracies, there's no proof -- convincing or otherwise -- to connect the proprietor of Jeff Heimberger's Seven Deadly Sins with these unprovoked attacks on my hit-count. Irrelevant. This is a test of my Faith, my ability to believe the incredible in the absence of proof or reason. I can laugh this off as a minor electronic blip, a meaningless coincidence, or I can choose to believe I am the target of an uncreative attempt to cut me off from new readers. I choose the route of faith -- because faith ties off more of the loose ends in my life and gives this story a plot.

And not just any plot. A story full of ugly acts of personal vengeance, peppered with amusing quips. Now all that remains is to begin the Jihad and take my faith to the very gates of my enemies!


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