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Mulberry Jelly sat on the edge of the stage covered in sticky egg juice and rotten vegetable pulp.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t figure out what the crowd hated more, his clich\u00e9 street-rapper name or the combination-spoken word\/death metal version of \u201cI\u2019m a little tea pot\u201d he was performing before the riot broke out.\u00a0 One thing he knew for sure;\u00a0 His brilliant career in show biz was over before it started\u2026again.\u00a0 The same thing happened last week when he tried a blues\/ballet combo of \u201cFreak\u201d in front of the local Middle School Talent Show Fundraiser.\u00a0 He refused to accept his Mom\u2019s advice to study dentistry or go into his sticky Uncle Morty\u2019s carpet cleaning business.\u00a0 Who were they to call him a talentless hack?\u00a0 No!\u00a0 He would go on!\u00a0 He would make Mulberry Jelly a household name and prove to the world\u2026 Aw hell!\u00a0 Who was he kidding?\u00a0 The only reason people showed up to these things was to gawk at him for the bizarre growth on his\u2026..<\/p>\n

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***This artwork, which is only a red rough here, has been finished to a final render and is ready to be published in our \u201cBody-Oddies\u201d book…and it’s waaay cooler than what’s posted here, but you’ll probably never see it unless you get the book.\u00a0 I really only post roughs and older work online (and only a small percentage of the pages of my books).\u00a0 I save the best stuff for the books, so if you like the crap I let you see here, consider getting one of my books.\u00a0 It IS how I make my living.\u00a0 I have 3 books out so far and 2 more coming this year.\u00a0 There are links above or you can find them on Etsy and Amazon (search EEW books)\u2026\u2019they make excellent gifts.\u2019\u00a0 \u00a0-Marsha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Mulberry Jelly sat on the edge of the stage covered in sticky egg juice and rotten vegetable pulp.\u00a0 He couldn\u2019t figure out what the crowd hated more, his clich\u00e9 street-rapper name or the combination-spoken word\/death metal version of \u201cI\u2019m a little tea pot\u201d he was performing before the riot broke out.\u00a0 One thing he … Continue reading Foreheads<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118,150],"tags":[250,7,210,105,128,248,176,99,41,19,96,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sallemander.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}