A Box to Hide In by James Thurber Published in the print edition of the January 24, 1931, issue. James Thurber, who died in 1961, was a cartoonist, a writer, a journalist, and a playwright. This story opens with a man asking a grocery clerk for a box – one large enough to crawl…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket… I went down to the bank the other day to cash my paycheck and what I found was as hysterical as it was bizarre. I didn’t know the bank had suddenly turned into Comedy Central. I first noticed something wrong when I approached the teller. She was laughing her head off when I…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket… My dad died from cancer. My two uncles died from cancer. My granddad, too. So you can imagine my annoyance when I started feeling tired all the time, then coughing and wheezing and spitting up blood. No, sir. I wasn’t getting cancer, too. Not me. In fact, it was right then and there…
by House-flipping Philly… I always wanted to be with a blonde. A TRUE blonde, not some brunette on summer vacation. I dated a blonde back when I was in high school. She was modest, so we used to do it in the dark. Eventually, we got to the point where she’d let me light a…
by Ted Myers… #tedmyers #realwritersmarket… I had nothing but the suit I was buried in. If I had been able to dress myself, I would have had my good pen. But no one thinks to put a pen in your pocket when you’re dead. Read the whole corpse-in-waiting story… Find Ted’s books, like…
by Elizabeth Scher… #ElizabethScher #realwritersmarket… Open in a church, community center, gathering area that might make sense for worshipers. Everyone has their phones out and no one appears to be older than 30. In walks a pastor, not gender or race specific. Wearing some sort of fan merch (preferably Beyonce) PASTOR Thank you…
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster is a short story by Franz Kafka, first published in 1912, not a full book, and is often included in collections like Contemplation. #kafka #franzkakfa The story follows a narrator who, after being led on a long, pointless walk by a seemingly charming but suspicious man, finally recognizes him as a…
Spy vs. Spy is a comic strip published in MAD magazine. It features two agents involved in comic-book espionage activities: one dressed in black, the other in white. A parody of the Cold War, the strip was created by Cuban expatriate cartoonist Antonio Prohías, first appearing in MAD Magazine Issue #60 in 1961. . .…
January 1953… Issue three takes on Dragnet with the story, “Dragged Net”, from Bill Elder. Wally Wood does “V-Vampires;” John Severin draws “Sheik of Araby” and Jack Davis writes the “Long Stranger.” Harvey Kurtzman does the cover art. .
#philiployd #realwritersmarket… “Get out your Sunday best,” said my wife. “He’s coming! He’s really coming!” Who? Who’s coming, I thought? But I dare not ask. When my wife gets excited like this, the best thing to do is just stay out of her way. Yes, I was a henpecked husband just like out of a…
