Kidding. Really—this IS my sense of humor.
I'm sorry to put you through this silliness. But now you'll understand why the proceeding story is not the purely humorous parody I'd intended when I sat down to write it. –Which is okay, because I've always wanted to select the 'Horror' category from the pull-down menu. It always seemed odd to me that it never applied to any of my Hannibal stories…
'til now MWAHAHAHA
…disclaimers to Thomas Harris and Stephen King and anyone else who cares…