That transformative moment when your plastic fork becomes a metal fork…
Category: Fiction
As Faulkner’s Birthday Nears, Mailmen Ask “What If?”
OXFORD, Miss. This college town of approximately 19,000 was once home to William Faulkner, one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, but before he became famous, Faulkner was postmaster at the University of […]
“Participation” Trophies Find New Life in Freedonian Infrastructure
DZIEWSKZY, Freedonia. Norgrebskz “Norgo” Vzlatz is construction manager at the site of the new 880-volt hydroelectric dam being built on the Vleebek River here, but this morning he’s casting an gimlet eye not at a […]
Factuality…
I’ve developed plots before but only in dreams. I’m asleep and I’m walking down the road. Will Smith is walking down the road towards me and he stops to apologize for the films he has […]
For Some Couples “They’re Playing Our Song” Has a Jingle to It
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. Marcia and Todd Fleming tied the knot Saturday in this western suburb of Boston, then followed their guests to the Chateau de l’Argent function room for a reception that Marcia’s father likened to […]
Intro to Rock Poetry 101
It was one of those fashionable academic parties where emulation–in the form of whom, among the assembled group, possessed the most extensive knowledge of classic rock lyrics, and whose tastes in the matter were most […]
Speeding Costs You Deerly…
Sometimes I ramble incoherently about non related things like soup and textures. It isn’t that I don’t know what I want to say but I don’t trust the words to come out the right way. […]
On the Line With the Cold Call Pope
Because of his penchant for phoning total strangers out of the blue, Pope Francis has earned the nickname “The Cold Call Pope.” National Catholic Reporter So I’m just about to lie down on the couch […]