It’s damn near impossible for me to pick a favorite from the Awkward Yeti series by Nick Seluk. This piece is simply the one that started the whole thing for me. It was love at first sight for both of these adorable characters. Admittedly, the day I found it, I was all team heart, but as I’ve followed their adventures, I realize it all depends on the day for me.
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TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
If by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run – Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!
NOVEL Player PianoAugust 1952 NOVEL The Sirens of TitanOctober 31, 1959 PLAY Penelope (Alternate title Happy Birthday, Wanda June) 1960 NOVEL Mother Night1961 COLLECTION Canary in a Cathouse September 1961 PLAY The Very First Christmas Morning December 14, 1962 √ NOVEL Cat’s CradleApril 1963 NOVEL God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before SwineJanuary 1965 COLLECTION Welcome to the Monkey House August 1968 PLAY Fortitude September 1968 √ NOVEL Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death March 1969NOVEL Dance with DeathMarch 1969 √ NOVELBreakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue MondayJuly 1973 COLLECTIONWampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (Opinions)1974 √ NOVELSlapstick, or Lonesome No More!October 1976 NOVEL JailbirdSeptember 1979 √ COLLECTION Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage 1981 NOVEL Deadeye DickOctober 1982 COLLECTION Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays December 1984 NOVEL Galápagos: A NovelOctober 1985 PLAY Requiem 1987 NOVEL Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988)October 1987 NOVEL Hocus Pocus September 1990 COLLECTION Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage September 5, 1991 PLAY Make Up Your Mind 1993 PLAY Miss Temptation 1993 PLAY L’Histoire du Soldat 1993 NOVEL Timequake September 22, 1997 COLLECTION Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction August 1999 COLLECTION God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian October 1999 (note: originally recorded as fictional radio interviews) COLLECTION A Man Without a Country September 15, 2005 COLLECTION Armageddon in Retrospect and Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace April 1, 2008 COLLECTION Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction October 20, 2009 COLLECTION While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction January 25, 2011 COLLECTION Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941–1943 April 23, 2012 COLLECTION We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works October 9, 2012 COLLECTION Sucker’s Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing March 12, 2013 COLLECTION If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young April 30, 2013