Humor
Choices, an overheard conversation
Submitted by Dean Vandeusen on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 16:26It was a dark and stormy night...
no, no, no that’s not the way to start a story.
OK what do you suggest?
Job Haunt
Submitted by Dean Vandeusen on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 20:142012 and jobs in California are still hard to find, with the advent of high resolution computer graphics it is even hard to get a job as an extra on a movie or television filming, I need the help of professionals.
Ghost hunters
Submitted by Nick B on Wed, 02/08/2012 - 02:55
© 2012 Nick B
“What was that?” Bob asked, looking about nervously.
From a Flighty Mind
Submitted by Dean Vandeusen on Fri, 10/07/2011 - 14:08You’re working outside, on a beautiful day, but as you work your attention is distracted.
Cat and Dog
Submitted by Admin on Sun, 06/19/2011 - 23:11Cat and Dog
by Joyce Melton
The Cat woke up in her tree and took a long stretch before looking around. The sun rose over there and that was right. Birds, delicious birds, flew over there, and that was right. The Dog was sniffing under her tree, and that was wrong.
'poH
Submitted by Admin on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 11:51by Joyce Melton
I had a weird dream about working on a series of kid's books. They were illustrated and I wish I could draw like that. Some of it looked a lot like Brad Guigar's art on Evil, Inc.
One of the books was about a young owl discovering things. It was called, "Nobody Really Likes Liver."
Of Ping Pong Ball Interdimensional Diplomacy
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 13:27It seems it sort of started innocently enough, I guess – I don’t know.
All it took was two ingredients: Hank and that old tree in his back yard. How the old tree entered in what happened, you could understand, considering all the weird stories that have been told through the years about it.
Here Comes A Bureaucrat
Submitted by Admin on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 21:01Here Comes A Bureaucrat
by Joyce Melton
GNOME
Submitted by Dean Vandeusen on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 09:22I chose to have some fun with just a bit of Mis-characterization. Now my spell check hates me.
Stake Out
Submitted by Dean Vandeusen on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 09:51What’s that Joe?
I said they’ve spotted him.
Are you sure that’s the right person? Looks like a little kid.
Keeping Quiet, the unreported story
Submitted by Dean Vandeusen on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 09:36Temporal Address withheld under restrictions of the temporal security code of 2025.
Bed Time Story
Submitted by Dean Vandeusen on Sat, 11/14/2009 - 09:29Daddy! There's a monster under my bed!
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 25
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 11:45Boy is it dark!
I sense a presence in front of me – or – my sense of smell senses the presence – and boy does it sense it – phew!
Worth A Picture
Submitted by Laika on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 19:50
Here Today...
Submitted by Eric on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 05:36In which a mystery of long standing is solved, mewling writers and chirping critics battle for the last laugh, and one storyteller discovers that there are worse fates for satire and its practitioners than closing on Saturday night...
Farm Town Chronicles 9-12
Submitted by commentator on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 04:14Roamin' Holiday or 'Hare today, gone tomorrow'
I'm missing my friend Betty Sue. Oh, don't get me wrong she ain't dead or nothin'. But she did get herself into one heap o' trouble this past week. And now she's got extra chores and ain't got time to come and play with me. What kind of trouble you ask? More than you can shake a stick at!
Farm Town Chronicles
Submitted by commentator on Sat, 08/08/2009 - 13:56Farm Town Chronicles
by Commentator
Farm Town Chronicles 5-8
Submitted by commentator on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 15:30Greased Frightening and Pink Slips
The Farm Town Chronicles 1-4
Submitted by commentator on Mon, 04/06/2009 - 11:30The Farm Town Chronicles
Home on The Bananaza
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 23
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 12:10"Wait a minute!" I hear him say from beyond the door, wherever that is.
He comes back in, brings a chair, the two other men strip my clothes off me, tie me to the chair and put a bindfoild and gag on me.
"There!", he says, "That ought to do it!"
"This is getting bad," I think.
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 22
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 15:56He looks at me. I look away. He grabs my chin and forces my face to where I have to look at him. I close my eyes. He slaps me.
“Keep your eyes open!” He says.
I comply.
“What are you!” He yells.
“What do you mean?” I reply.
“What are you!” He yells louder.
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 20
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 15:48It was a hallway -- a corridor -- couldn't see the walls, but it was nonetheless a corridor -- couldn't move left or right, just straight ahead.
Then ended.
In the reddish landscape. Just POP!
Then there they were: Chloe and Ralph and Brian and Tom and Dick and Harry and Ahmed and Raphael and Jacques.
Ralph?
Happily Ever After?
Submitted by Laika on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 04:30A wicked and decadent sequel to the Cinderella story...
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 19
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 17:54“It’s a door!” I say, “A door upstairs! How’d that happen?
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 18 (added to)
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 14:25Well, I start to tell my story. Cars rush up to us, lights flashing. Men get out, bullhorn in one’s hand and guns in the hands of others.
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 17
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Sun, 10/26/2008 - 11:28Wow, the way things happen. So Raphael knows some people. He’s been around. He’s a surprising surprise. Quite the cosmopolitan. He has been helpful.
We are looking over the digs when men come up and talk with Jacques. Jacques comes over with them. They have uniforms on.
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 16
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 10:26“Mon Dieu!” Raphael exclaimed.
“What is it?”
“La Mer Morte.”
”The Dead Sea?” Chloe asked.
“Quite so,” Raphael said emphatically. “Look at those!! It’s a total row of doors!”
“Yes,” I said.
Raphael moved closer to inspect.
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 15
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Tue, 10/21/2008 - 10:55“We were nothing too.”
“Nothing, too.”
“Nothing too.”
“But you’re not nothing.”
“Nothing exists in the Nothing.”
“Okay,” I said, “let me show you.” And I pulled the door out of my pocket.
This is an Unexpected Bump for Sure -- 14
Submitted by Dale M. Cannon on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 12:09We sit down at Raphael’s restaurant, at a sidewalk table.
“Won’t somebody notice “Pierre” there?” Asks Chloe.
