The Huntress by Sofia Samatar is one of our favorites… For fear of the huntress the city closed like an eye. Only my window stayed open, because, as a foreigner, I didn’t know better. In the morning, poor children would scrub the stains from the roofs. Now the rain-dark head came down and rested on…
There are a lot of great Bukowski quotes, but we particularly like this one. Bukowski wrote novels, short story collections and poetry. Check out his books at Amazon.com See more Charles Bukowski right here on Flashbytes… Charles Bukowski is one of America’s most outrageous authors of poetry and prose, and, many would claim,…
They called him Dyno Dave. Dave dyno-tuned classic cars, analyzing the roar of metal on metal, listening for imperfections only he could hear. His ear was perfect, like a conductor overseeing an orchestra, detecting a sour note from a stray violin. But Dave didn’t wear protection, and the ceaseless volume macheted a forest of cochlear…
Two weeks ago, Abe Moscowitz dropped dead of a heart attack and was reincarnated as a lobster. Trapped off the coast of Maine, he was shipped to Manhattan and dumped into a tank at a posh Upper East Side seafood restaurant. In the tank there were several other lobsters, one of whom recognized him. “Abe,…
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is the story of a small group of people with nothing in common who somehow get together for “The Nature Cruise of the Century,” only to find themselves stranded and the last hope for the human race. As the story unwinds, we find a world in crisis. A financial meltdown…
Read John Hughes’ Original National Lampoon Vacation Story That Started the Movie Franchise In 1979, National Lampoon magazine published the future director’s fictitious tale of a family trip gone horribly awry. THR reprints the tale that launched an iconic movie series … “If Dad hadn’t shot Walt Disney in the leg, it would have been…
Well everybody, it finally happened: We’re in! We finally got published in The Satirist. God help ’em. What they want to do with the likes of us, I’ll never know. But it’s up and LIVE, the satiric piece #MeToo!!!, by your humble narrator. Let’s just hope they fare better than those poor schlubs over at…
by Serengeti Philly… The events in this story are true. I have written them down here almost verbatim, just as my good friend Zeudi Araya explained them to me. Whether you believe that a real-life, American hippopotamus could be found rampaging through the terminal at New York’s JFK Airport or not—or that there even is…
Here is a great little passage from one of our favorite little books, A Short History of a Small Place by TR Pearson. My good friend Graham Kraker sent the book to me years ago and I have read it at least a dozen times since. For all of you out there, this is one…
Come check out one of our favorite excerpts from one of our favorite novels, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace… It turned out that there was something terribly stressful about visual telephone interfaces that hadn’t been stressful at all about voice-only interfaces. Videophone consumers seemed suddenly to realize that they’d been subject to an insidious…
