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OUR LADY OF THE FISHNET STOCKINGS by CHRISTOPHER MOORE Chriss Introduction to Our Lady of the Fishnet Stockings I wrote Our Lady in 1987 after I had a dream about some soldiers firing on a village of peasants and the bullets stopping and hanging in the air. This is the only story Ive ever written from a dream, and obviously that single dream image was only a scene that set off an alarm in my mind to get silly. As with Cats Karma, this story is a little rough, and Im not a little bit embarassed by it. Readers of my novels will be glad to see that Ive gotten a little better at my craft over the years, and perhaps those of you who are aspiring writers will get some encouragement out of the fact that you can get better. (Thank goodness). This is the first time Our Lady has appeared anywere, and probably with good reason, but for all its flaws, I still love the title, so much, in fact, that Im going to use it as a chapter heading on my new book [The Island of the Sequined Love Nun]. Have fun. Thanks for stopping by my sweaty little web site. Part 1: The Miracle The men with the guns came onto the village at dawn and demanded food and drink. There were twenty of them, all dressed alike except for one who wore a black beret and called himself Colonel Mendez. They ate and drank as they wished and by mid-morning they all lay full-bellied in the shade of the huts, belching and farting while Sister Octavia attended to their wounds, which were mostly suffered from moving through the jungle carelessly. By noon they were all asleep except for two that stood guard at the edge of the village. The children were not allowed to go into the fields to pick cotton as they usually did, but were made to stay in the huts while their parents gathered the supplies that Colonel Mendez had demanded. Sister Octavia asked the Colonel to show restraint in his demands because it was a poor village a