Terence Kuch is a consultant, avid hiker, and world traveler. His publications include About Time anthology, Clockwise Cat, Colored Chalk, Creature Features anthology, Encounters, From the Asylum anthology, Medulla Review, North American Review, qarrtsiluni, Thema, Timber Creek Review, and others. His sci-fi novel "The Seventh Effect" was recently published by Melange Books (www.melange-books.com).
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a Kindermärchen
“Let us use the left foot,” said Good King John. “It is smaller, so it will take less plaster to copy, which will reduce our operating expenses; and instead of having to say ‘My palace is only three thousand four hundred twenty feet long,’ that is, Harryfeet, I will be able to say ‘My palace is very grand: it is all of five thousand one hundred and thirty feet long!’ ”
“But what shall we call the plaster copies of your foot, O grand sire?” asked Lord Reggie Toadie, knowing exactly what the king would say.
“Let us,” said the king, “call them ‘rulers,’ for I am the ruler, and my foot shall rule the world of measure forever.”
And so it was.
Harry and Janet went out of the foot business, but they had made so much money they never had to work again. They bought a hut twelve feet long somewhere far away from the king, and lived together happily ever after.
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