More Anecdotes Not Taken
According to their website, Reader’s Digest receives a quarter of a million humor submissions each year but prints only about one out of a thousand. Below are items I submitted that were among the 999. […]
Author: Bill Spencer
Bill Spencer is author of the book Uranus Is Always Funny: Short Essays to Make You Laugh (Humor Outcasts Press 2020). His humor writing has been published by Funny Times, Narrative magazine, Reader's Digest, The Sun, The Inconsequential, Clever magazine, Defenestration, The Short Humour Site, Hobo Pancakes, and Nuthouse. He has also published scholarly articles on the novels of Cormac McCarthy and is co-author of an unproduced screenplay, "Angel Pays a Visit." He lives in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina with his wife, artist-poet Carolyn Elkins.
An Alarming Trend
I don’t own a cell phone. Seriously. No GPS either. No apps. I don’t own an iAnything. The speed of technological change intimidates me, and the prospect of becoming an addicted screen zombie scares the […]
Group Foot Massage
Just so you know, I’ve never been into outrageously kinky public anything with anybody (other than my wife, of course). But when several women at the writers’ conference I was attending began soliciting participation in […]
Holding on to Old Ratty Things
Apparently, I’ve grappled with the problem of mortality from the age of four. My parents told me that I asked—probably triggered by an explanation about the death of my grandfather—“Why is God always making new […]
Married to an Identical Twin
Carolyn, my significant other, is an identical twin. And while she and her sister are easy to tell apart now, that has not always been the case. Distinguishing which is which in photos before the […]