#MiaCouto #waroftheclowns… In the short story, War of the Clowns by Mia Couto, two clowns fight in front of bystanders, dividing them, causing violence in the town, and eventually casualties, all for money. The theme of the story was showing readers how wars get started by influencing the public through propaganda, and entertainment, that…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning… ―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up “All of a sudden I found myself in suburbia, living that life of quiet desperation. How I ended up there, I’ll never know. I must have followed a woman in.” Read the…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket The thing about the beginning of an acid trip is, wherever you are, that’s where you want to stay. Same thing with cocaine, but with acid it’s not just paranoia, it’s downright confusion. Even if you wanted to get up and go, you wouldn’t know how. Read the whole story… Before trying…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket “What’s seven feet tall, naked, and has its dick hanging out of the water? We’ll get to that soon enough. What’s Communing? We’ll get to that soon enough, too. “It all started one morning while I was fast asleep. All of a sudden there’s a banging on my door and it’s my good…
by Hornily Philly… I always wanted to be rich. I always wanted to have a beautiful wife. I never thought I’d have either. But guess what? Yep. I got both. Although the life is not all it’s cracked up to be, you’ll never guess in a million years how it all turned out for me.…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket Somebody’s poisoning me. I can feel it. It wouldn’t be the first time. For years now, someone’s been out to get me. Maybe it’s somebody in my family; maybe it’s even the maid. Maybe it’s because I’m stinking rich. Maybe. Read the whole story… Come check out these great indie publishers: POST…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket “Well, at least she’s no damn Yankee,” said Mother, and that was the closest thing to a compliment I was ever going to get. “That girl, while you were at Princeton, the one with the, the nose, you know, the…” “The Jewish girl,” I said. “Don’t you use that tone with me,” said…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket I went over to my friend Norton Throssberg’s house the other day to watch the Big Game. You remember Norton. He’s the guy who discovered our sister planet Eden in the Polaris 9876 Solar System in the Andromeda Galaxy. Wait, that doesn’t happen until the year 3085. Anyway. Read the whole story… …
by Turkey Philly, from a story told to him by Dr. Mark Newcomb, PhD… Every day in America, twenty-seven people are killed in drunk driving accidents. For a nation of over three hundred million, that might not seem like a lot; but that’s almost ten thousand people every year. That’s more than the average small…
#philiployd #realwritersmarket I was talking to someone in the park the other day. No one important, just some old man who came and sat down on the bench beside me. “All thinking men,” he told me, “are atheists.” “So does that mean,” I said, “that everyone who believes in God is an idiot?” “Not necessarily,”…
