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by Susie Cavenaugh (417 words, 2 minutes read time) Some say that size doesn't matter. I've met very few women who will agree with such nonsense. They will state that it is a misnomer, intended only to placate inadequate husbands, poorly proportioned boyfriends, and temporary playmates. Women know how little confidence most men have. That their... Continue Reading →
>~~ Brett ~~< (436 words, 2 minutes read time.) That's an easy one! I wasn't expecting to find Carmalita, my third (or was she my fourth?) wife on Royal Street in New Orleans. At my age, it's hard to keep track of them anymore, but I know there were seven. Three in my early years,... Continue Reading →
You say you want a real solutionWell, you knowWe'd all love to see the plan (358 words, 2 minutes read time.) >~~~~~8647~~~~~< I don't think it will take twenty years, but in the next ten years, we will have AI in a box. Once the billionaires, you know who they are, once they've spent their... Continue Reading →
... our wetish sci-fi dreams... (275 words, 1 minute read time.) Had you asked me when I was ten and building model rockets that shot to the sky, some in stages that glided home or landed gently in trees after drifting softly down tethered to parachutes that popped from their nose cones at apogee. I... Continue Reading →
392 words, 2 minutes read time. I know how the world of recent has encouraged us all to become more goal-conscious than ever before. A person can barely board a bus or pay a toll without being asked what their goals are. Their short-term goals, their life goals. financial goals, you name it. And some... Continue Reading →
Yes, a hobo. I've always aspired to be a hobo. Even now, after twenty years of serving the Humanities Department as Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Psycic Abominations at Pacific Tech, Malibu, I have never lost my desire to ride the rails and pitch for coin. Sadly, when retirement dawned, that opportunity nearly dissolved on... Continue Reading →
Was today typical? Which day? Or which moment of any day can be considered typical? If you live your life consumed by the present, then your presence is consumed in the now. Consider that 'within the now' no time exists! No time to spend, no time to waste, no time at all! Without the burden... Continue Reading →
"I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved" * (199 words, 1 minute read time) She lived, but less well than she had anticipated. Her youthful hopes prevailed, but only as time allowed, and his harsh short tolerance permitted. The hurt he withheld was nearly tolerable,... Continue Reading →
from: Sixteen Hours in Qatar. A collection of short stories Dear readers: this is the second installment of the first chapter of "The Salvations of Abda." I must have neglected to save a more embellished version of it, therefore, it is what it is. The text itself is still accurate. I will be taking a break from... Continue Reading →
from: Sixteen Hours in Qatar. A collection of short stories. My wife, Nalini, meant it as a joke- "Why not register Adba as an ESA animal, now, before we go to India?" Abba, which means 'calamity' in Sanskrit, is our rescued animal. We recently saved her from the Santa Fe Animal Shelter, where she had been abandoned... Continue Reading →