Watch Your Kids

It’s the first day back to school from Summer break. In a grammar school class, Ms. Fay is teaching her students using mathematics with computers. She instructs all of her third-grade students to type in a website on their computers that are in front of them. “Now class, we’ll be covering addition using the website you should be on Mathway.com. […]

Tiny Short “Stories (Part 2)

1. The famous archeologist “South Carolina Smith” and Lucy, his female companion traveled to a remote village in southern India, which appeared far from civilization. Inegun, the leader of the tribe considered Smith and his lady as honored guests and invited them to share a special meal with them, as the gaunt, hungry villagers stared at them. Smith and Lucy […]

The Dummy

A ventriloquist named Jim walks into a restaurant with his dummy and sits down at the bar. Jim holds “Charlie” who looks like Charlie Chaplin. Jim is wearing a mask and pulls out a menu. The bartender sees Jim holding Charlie and comes out and stares at the dummy. “Sorry, but your dummy needs to wear a mask.” “Why?… No.” […]

The Most Lucrative Dissertation Defense

“Desperate University” is a college at the foot of a canyon in the Great Plains between Interstates 85 and 212 in South Dakota. The school includes undergraduate and graduate degrees for poor students with very little money. Founded in 1901 by an archeologist who got lost in the desert, apparently seeking old Spanish ruins. According to legend, only some of […]

The Weapon?

Agent B. Jones had been captured by the notorious terrorist named “Colonel Z” after he was caught rummaging around in Z’s office, looking for information that would send the criminal to jail without parole. Two of the Colonel’s cronies walked in and pulled out knives. Jones fought the man’s two goons but within fifteen minutes of karate action, they bound […]

Fighting Criminals Using Bibles

The Bible is sharper than any two-edged sword, but for Tennessee couple, Esther and Obadiah Lamentations take the Bible as a weapon to an entirely different level. One summer on a Sunday after church, Esther and “Obi” caught a robber stealing from their house. Within seconds, Esther suddenly remembered a joke about a God-fearing woman who told a burglar to […]

The English Class

A group of 20 migrant Mexicans trickled into the classroom for “Beginner’s English” at the “Shakespeare English School” in a town in Texas. As the students settled down in their seats scattered around the room, a tall man wearing a coat and tie walked in. He made his way to the teacher’s desk up front holding a stack of papers. […]

Just Five Minutes

A strange story surfaced about an old, downtrodden, poor husband named “Edgar Goose” who owned very little money. He told his aging wife that he decided to take their last stash of money, amounting to $10 to Las Vegas, Nevada to gamble their remaining money to see if he could turn that money into more money even though they had […]