Archive for the ‘fiction’ Category

little texans a big deal

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

At the time of this writing, 60% of Internet users who've read WISCTV.com's story of the 19-year-old Texas man who killed his girlfriend's unborn twins by stepping on her stomach believe Texas is too harsh. The other 40% believe the jury done good or should've done more. The girl, who ...

anatomy of a fairy tale (part 2)

Saturday, May 7th, 2005

[Click here to read part one.] "I come down stairs, and there set this man--" "A man was in your house?" deputy Phil Kelly asked skeptically, crunching his lips to the left. Why do these fellows never look at me when they're talking? he wondered. Frank Lomack swallowed, his adam's apple sliding ...

orpheus ascending

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

Roger walked into the living room just as a plume of flame shot out of the television and engulfed Shirley, his wife. He stood absolutely still for a moment, digging his way through the utter shock of it, and finally fell to his knees and started screaming. His wife, now ...

war games

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

A Monkey Story in the tradition of the tales I used to tell when I was a boy... ORKO WAS PATCHING UP the last corner of his specialized tank armor. He had proven wrong his more erudite siblings and cousins by pulverizing 8 shanks of high-grade "indestructible" rock liver, and he ...

anatomy of a fairy tale (part 1)

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Jan was awake at 7am, despite the wild night before, which wound down around 4am and only with her hoarsely shouted threat to call the cops. Call the cops, she thought as she drew a robe about herself and looked in the mirror, what a joke. She saw, ...

cancer

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

There were six of us sitting there with a shot glass in front of each of us. We had two bottles of whisky on hand, one of Crown Royal (to be consumed first) and one of Jim Beam (to be consumed after). We starting doing rounds, and we ...

the myth of the white rabbit

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

There once was a rabbit named Balsamic who lived long, long ago. He was the most virile rabbit in The Valley of One Hundred Meadows. He had enough strength and energy to rut with all the does of his meadow, and then begin again, without stopping. He would snatch bunches ...

indecent proposal

Thursday, August 5th, 2004

I was recently approached by an old friend at the DoD. It happened in the usual way; I picked up my phone to make a phone call, and suddenly Vance was there, talking to me, just as if my phone had been ringing when I picked it up. ...

bolgri and the long day of squashing

Monday, August 2nd, 2004

Once upon a time, dear children, there was a bolgri. This bolgri was a completely ordinary sort of bolgri; just the sort you've become accustomed to seeing whilst riding the chube, or popping out for a bun, or having tea. There was nothing so very different about this ...

hiring stephen colbert

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

The Hon. Stephen ColbertTo celebrate possibly getting some work, I decided it was time to expand. I need to hire some writing talent so that I can focus on the technical aspects of the business. No sooner had I thought this, when I bumped into Stephen Colbert of ...