Butcher

It was inevitable that, as the preceding two pieces of literature made their way through the collective consciousness of our social group, someone would pay homage to it in the form of a tribute. The man first up to the task was none other than the great Daniel Francisco Somavilla Snyder Bueno Herrera, whose literary exploits are here unearthed for the first and by no means the last time. A man silver of tongue, golden of wit, and leaden of pipe, he studied Hacker and DOOM intensely, gestating this short story only after months of careful scrutiny of the primary source documents.

Aristophanes, Juvenal, Miguel de Cervantes, and This Is Spinal Tap have all shown us that satire, sufficiently rich and incisive, can rise to the level of great art, equalling or surpassing the works it ridicules. To this list we must add Butcher, which positions itself as a direct sequel to Hacker. The parody distills the essence of Saunders's fractured, zig-zagging prose while also interpolating elements of DOOM's inimitable style. A minor classic in its own right, it is published here unexpurgated except to again omit the name of the author of DOOM, who is credited as a co-writer.