If we had to start somewhere, meaning which Poe story first, there are a lot to choose from. We decided this one would be best. So, no better way to start things off than with the Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe, circa. 1843. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe is one of the…
Need your eyes for something else right now. That’s okay. You can listen to the story instead. Come check out A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor, Audio Book. Thank you. A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a Southern gothic story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O’Connor. In…
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor needs no introduction. It’s one of the most celebrated short stories of all time. When Grandma (unnamed) decides she would rather go to Tennessee than Florida after she reads about a serial killer going there. Against her better judgment, Grandma goes ahead on the trip.…
The world has gone completely mad. But of course you knew that. What you didn’t know is exactly how mad. Case in point: Check out this recent news clipping from the LA Times. This is what the article tells you. What the article doesn’t tell you is that this was no accident. The man crossing…
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by Philip Loyd… “In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning…” ―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up But seriously. Have you ever noticed? 3AM? It comes around once every day. Without fail. In fact, it comes around so quietly, you hardly even know it’s there. Long before I…
Cannibal by Chuck Palahniuk first appeared in Playboy Magazine in May 2013… While best known for his novels like Fight Club and Choke, Chuck is also a prolific author of short stories, many of which have appeared in major magazines like Playboy. Romance, Zombie and Cannibal are three, just to name a few. Chuck Palahniuk…
The biggest hardcover fiction bestsellers of 2024 are dominated by Kristen Hannah’s The Women, Sarah J. Maas, and Rebecca Yarros, with high-volume sales in romance, fantasy, and thriller genres. Top titles include The Women (1.5M copies), A Court of Thorns and Roses (1.3M), and The Scarlet Shedder (1.25M). 1) The Women by Kristin Hannah –…
by Philip Loyd… I used to live with this actress girl, years ago when I was young. She was diabetic, had to take insulin shots every day. I couldn’t stand needles, couldn’t stand even watching. It was a good thing she had no problem injecting herself. The diabetes made her tired. She took naps a…
Once after going on a 9-day drinking binge I thought I needed to sober up. So I did. After just one day of sobriety, what I needed most was a drink. Being drunk must be better than being sober, I concluded. Everyone knows you make better decisions when you’re sober, than when you’re drunk.
