《If I Were An Evil Overlord 》作者： - Martin H. Greenberg (Editor) & Ru

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If I Were an Evil Overlord Martin H Greenberg amp Russel Davis Edition Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements Introduction IF LOOKS COULD KILL THE MAN WHO WOULD BE OVERLORD ENSURING THE SUCCESSION THE LIFE amp DEATH OF FORTUNE COOKIE TYRANT DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL GORDIE CULLIGAN VS. DR. LONGBEACH amp THE HVAC OF DOOM THE SINS OF THE SONS LOSER TAKES ALL THE NEXT LEVEL ADVISERS AT NAPTIME A WOMAN’S WORK . . . TO SIT IN DARKNESS HERE HATCHING VAIN EMPIRES STRONGER THAN FATE ART THERAPY Betrayal came from a direction I never anticipated. Rusty led the intervention on me. When I get out of Rehab I’m going to spend some qualitytime with his head. I don’t care what happens to the rest of his body. The rest of my top staff participated though some of them wore masks. Masks could not hidetheir visages from my awful wrath. I know the name of everyone who conspired to humiliate me.At night when I am strapped to the bed I use the point of a loose screw to inscribe theirnames one by one into the patina. My bed stinks of fresh paint because the minions here areefficient and desire that everything remain pristine so they paint over my list every day. Idon’t care that my list disappears. I am really scribing the names in my memory while I try toerase the things my inferiors said to me. The things they said to me “We caught you being nice to a random dog.” “Your personal assistant used sarcasm on you and you didn’t have him flogged.” “You smiled in public and it wasn’t the smile that sends small children screaming into thenight.” “You’re letting the intervention proceed without ordering us all killed immediately” saidRusty. “Boss you’re losing your edge. Trust me. You need help. You’re not our ruthlessMaster anymore.” —from “Art Therapy” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman Also Available from DAW Books: Hags Harpies and Other Bad Girls of Fantasy edited by Denise Little From hags and harpiesto sorceresses and sirens this volume features twenty all-new tales that prove women are farfrom the weaker sex—in all their alluring magical and monstrous roles. With stories by C.SFriedman Rosemary Edghill Lisa Silverthorne Jean Rabe and Laura Resnick. Under Cover of Darkness edited by Julie E. Czerneda and Jana Paniccia In our modern-