Category: Fiction

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana. This city, the capital of Indiana, is also famed as the “Amateur Sports Capital of the World,” a fact that explains its selection as the site of the world’s first Carefulympics Games. “It’s […]

VATICAN CITY.  Pope Francis I today named Wladislaw Orzacg, a Polish brewer-bishop, as a candidate for canonization as the Patron Saint of Light Beer. “We’re all out of the IPA–would you like something lighter?”   “The requisite […]

A Boston company has created a two-armed humanoid robot named “Baxter” that performs mundane manufacturing tasks and gets a confused look on its face when it needs something. The Boston Herald   I don’t know […]

It was, I thought, an innocent act. My publisher called to say that the manuscript to my first book, The Year of the Gerbil, was finished, and that he had obtained a blurb, a quote in praise […]

Ho-hum.  Another year, another world championship.  Of that part of the world comprised of the U.S. and Canada. Four major sports.  In the 21st century alone, Boston teams have won thirteen championships–6 Super Bowls, four […]