Excerpt from Reality of a Dream
Something new for HO. We are going to excerpt the work of HumorOutcasts Press authors – just to help them get their work out there more. First up, is Maela Torre. Although Mae lives in […]
Tag: fiction
Christmas and the Single Woman
The day after Thanksgiving: Black Friday! Eeeeeeek! I’m going to call in sick at work, feed the cat, then wrap myself in a blanket and pretend this day doesn’t exist. I will not leave the […]
Written After Reading Too Much Stephen King
Donnie was sitting in the kitchen eating Tofutti and talking softly with Teenie, a little boy who lived in Donnie’s liver. Donnie never knew how Teenie got into his liver. It must have been all […]
Life in the Good Old Days
Don’t let any of the over-55 crowd tell you that life was better when they were growing up. It wasn’t. I know, because I was there. We didn’t know at the time how miserable we […]
What Would Don Corleone Buy?
I know. I did this before, here: What Would Heathcliff Buy? . Well, I’m bored again and my mind is wandering down strange roads. Here are the fruits of today’s mental meanderings. Let us take […]
The Great Catholic Halloween Caper
It was Halloween of 1955, and the kids of St. Joseph’s Catholic Elementary School had been looking forward to it, along with every other kid in the United States. We got to dress up in […]
In My Wildest Dreams
Have you ever found yourself daydreaming about something WAY out of any possibility for you, unless you win the Powerball lottery, inherit a fortune or suddenly develop more skills than any known human ever possessed? […]
Why I Never Became an Architect
I first got an inkling that architecture was probably not my destined career when I was a young child playing with blocks. I would carefully put what I thought was a pretty good semi-vertical structure […]
Jason Elia is Our September Featured Writer of the on the Month
We try to promote our writers and authors as much as possible, so when a new book is launched, we want to get the word out and such is the case with Jason Elia and […]
The Secret Life of Me
ADMISSION (or DEDICATION, if that sounds better): I would like to acknowledge the work of Bruce Ferber, Donna Cavanagh and James Thurber. Because of them, I have superheroes, daredevils and daydreamers on my mind, screaming […]