Short Fiction A Wagon of Love – AND – Prairie Wolf – AND – Still and Silent I Lay – AND – The Mist in the Hollow A WAGON OF LOVE Oh, what doth the wintry snowdrift bring? Two puppies snug in a box of red and green In an old rusty children’s wagon of blue Are gifts to greet this Christmas anew The young pups gaze out over the snow Toward the house where the windows glow For there within, a girl and a boy Await […]
Short Fiction 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. […]
Short Fiction 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 […]
Short Fiction 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.” […]
Short Fiction 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 […]
Short Fiction 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 […]
Short Fiction 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 […]
Short Fiction 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. […]
Short Fiction How to Write a Book-Other Than the Putting-Sentences-Together Part If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me how to write a book-the part other than the actual constructing of sentences, that is-I could, well, take you and a few friends out to dinner. So I haven’t been asked scads and scads of times, but often enough to know it’s a popular question. I have four books […]
Short Fiction 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 […]