• Gak!

    At Thanksgiving feast Gives a dinner blessing Chokes on a bone

  • Condemned

    Tom wandered about the prison yard with his fellow inmates, waiting for the coming sound of death. Moments before, the convicted was dragged away. There would be no stay of execution this day, no last-minute pardon for the truly innocent. The blow of the ax’s thud on the butcher’s chopping block made the flock burble…

  • Another form of TurDucKen: a Turk, stuffed with a Dutchman, stuffed with a Kentuckian. Happy Thanksgiving!

  • Zombie Wabbit

    It was after four in the morning when I got home from work. Our dog, Buddy met me at the door with a dead rabbit in his mouth. To understand the implications of this, our neighbor raises white rabbits, so I instantly knew it was theirs. It took me a minute to get the rabbit…

  • Podcast Resubmitted

    How or why the podcast disappeared has to be due to operator error: me. It has been corrected and is not ready to be heard. Please check the link to play it. This is a learning experience and I’m sorry about the inconvenience. Thank you for being patient with me…

  • If two meth addicts begin a relationship, is it considered ‘speed dating’ or simply ‘mething around?’ Asking for a friend.

  • Locker Number Six

    No one at the manufacturing company could recall the last time the lock had been removed or why it was there in the first place. And the one person who did, had died nearly thirty years before. It had been old man Martini who had warned that Number 6 should never be opened. However, in…

  • One woman says, “I have big breasts.” The other says, “I have small breasts.” Meanwhile the operative word for the man is ‘breasts.’

  • In So Many Words, Part One, Chapters 1-19

    After reading the story, “57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides,” by Sam J. Miller, I ruminated  on how lovely the shorter sentence and chapter was… Chapter 1. It was 2:23. A Wednesday morning. They said I was there, but cannot remember. My other-self went away as if he’d never been there in the first…

  • Call Back

    Inspired by a photographic image of Godzilla wading ashore at Crescent City, California, near Battery Point Lighthouse. The lighthouse was situated  some 20 nautical miles west and north of the nearest seaport, slightly short of the great drop into the inky depths of the Pacific’s cold waters. It had been there since 1895 and had…