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Humorous fiction and short stories

Bad Thunderclap

By Matthew Bruce on May 27, 2020

By Matthew Bruce Saberqueen tapped her bronze bikini top. “Lo,” she called to Thunderclap, the bull-chested man standing on the golden bridge above Moaning Chasm.…

When Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Came Home

By Ash Kaul on May 23, 2020

by Ash Kaul Autumn opened with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asking for sweeping new powers. Daadi, my paternal grandmother, followed her hawk nosed twin with…

Waste

By Jeffrey Meyers on April 19, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.” —Wordsworth “You wouldn’t want to see her, and she wouldn’t want you to…

Shame

By Jeffrey Meyers on March 28, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers I woke in a dark room from a troubled dream and didn’t at first know where I was.  Then I remembered that…

Fear of Flying

By Stephen Lyons on March 3, 2020
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Stephen J. Lyons Before I even entered the plane’s cabin I could see disaster lurking in the boarding tunnel. This is the staging area where…

Sex, Lies and Voyeurs

By Jeffrey Meyers on March 2, 2020

by Jeffrey Meyers Family fights are the worst; they leave the deepest wounds and cause the greatest pain.  Since everyone’s version of what happened was…

The Parity Catastrophe

By Foerthe on February 5, 2020

Danny had been randomly selected for incarceration duty by the Parity Algorithm. Of the men selected, a majority had at least one parent of Asian descent.

Corruption Therapy

By Zsolt Bajnai on February 3, 2020

“I have already done recovering alcoholic therapy, drug quitters’ therapy, and broken family therapy, but I think more people suffer from corruption,” the younger one replied.

The New Normal

By Jessie Seigel on January 1, 2020

By Jessie Seigel It was eleven o’clock at night. I was sitting alone in the one-room office of the Podunk Herald. This newspaper’s one newshound…

The Dying Roar of the Lions

By Edward Giron on November 21, 2019

“Ladies and gentlemen, they and them and y’all, wives and wives, husbands and wives, husbands and husbands, significant others; I’m glad you, them, their, y’alls…



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