Category: Fiction

John C. Lilly, an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, philosopher and inventor, injected seven dolphins with LSD in an attempt to teach them English.  Four committed suicide by refusing to eat or breathe. Review of “Tripping […]

SOMERVILLE, Mass. Maggie Turbek gave up on her hope of writing full-time long ago, but that hasn’t stopped her from crushing the dreams of others.  “I like to tell my young clients that they have […]

President Donald J. Trump has informed the United Nations that the planet currently known as “Earth” will become “Donaldia” on January 1, 2027.  “Our planet deserves a classier name,” the President asserted on Truth Social.  “The word […]

The wife is out of town this weekend, an opportunity for me to catch up with an old friend whose idea of a good time is, to put it mildly, not shared by the distaff […]

The kids are getting older–they’re in high school now–and with summer jobs and college campus visits, every year it’s harder to squeeze in the special family time of aggravation and bickering we used to experience […]

CONCORD, Mass.  This quiet town in the western suburbs of Boston was ground zero for the Transcendentalist Movement, a 19th century philosophical reaction to the prevailing intellectual and religious dogmas of the time, and traces […]