The following is an excerpt: The Sisters B36 by Kurt Vonnegut – a Kilgore Trout story… On the matriarchal planet Booboo in the Crab Nebula, there were three sisters whose last name was B-36. It could be only a coincidence that their family name was also that of an Earthling airplane designed to drop bombs…
“Fear and Loathing in the Graveyard of the Weird: The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat” – Oscar Zeta Ascota by Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone, 1977. The basis for the movie Where the Buffalo Roam. We work in the dark, we do what we can.” Some poet who never met Werner Erhard said that, but…
Daggermouth by H. M. Wolfe @hmwolfe #hmwolfe #daggermouth by H. M. Wolfe is a viral dark dystopian romance novel about a mercenary, Shadera, who is forced into a political marriage with Greyson, the president’s son, after botching his assassination in a corrupt, surveillance-heavy city. The book is the first in The Heart Duology, an enemies-to-lovers…
HARRISON BERGERON by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. #HarrisonBergeron is a dystopian short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., published in 1961, set in 2081 where the government enforces total equality by handicapping citizens with superior intelligence, strength, or beauty. The story follows George and Hazel Bergeron, whose exceptionally gifted son, Harrison, rebels against this system by escaping…
Come read the story that was the inspiration for the Chevy Chase movie, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, written by famous movie director (before he was famous) John Hughes. Before the Breakfast Club and Uncle Buck, Hughes was a writer for the Lampoon. Enjoy! Christmas ’59 by John Hughes (National Lampoon) All in all it was…
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is a classic, dark science fiction short story by Harlan Ellison about a malevolent supercomputer named AM that has wiped out humanity, keeping five survivors alive to torture them endlessly in a subterranean complex. Told from the perspective of the narrator, Ted, the story details the group’s…
#oscarwilde The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde is the story of a ghost who is the victim of pranks by two inhabitants of the house he is haunting. The first of Wilde’s stories to be published, it appeared in the magazine The Court and Society Review (1887). Wide’s story is featured in our Gothic, Ghost,…
Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it. Then one day he saw it hanging in the town square… The Hanging Stranger is a Philip K. Dick short story about a man, Ed Loyce, who discovers a body hanging from a lamppost but finds no…
Strange Rumblings in Aztlan. “Aztlan – the “conquered territories” that came under the yoke of Gringo occupation troops more than 100 years ago, when vendito politicians in Mexico City sold out to the US in order to call off the invasion that Gringo history books refer to as the Mexican American War.” Hunter S. Thompson’s…
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde is a classic fairy about a giant who builds a wall around his beautiful garden to keep children out, leading to perpetual winter in his garden until a special child’s love melts his heart, bringing spring back and teaching him the value of generosity and forgiveness. The story is…
