Trademark USA

#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket My friend TJ Max isn’t just a sexist and a swamp rat, he’s an author as well.  In fact, he’s recently penned a treatise he calls Trademark USA, and plausible or not, it’s quite revolutionary.  The whole thing is more than two-hundred pages long and he wrote it all in one…

My Redneck Funeral

#philiployd #flashbytes #flashfiction I have this recurring nightmare.  It’s like that Cheers episode where Eddie Lebec, Carla’s husband, dies, and both his wives show up.  Only my nightmare is worse. Much worse. It’s the day of my funeral and there I am in my casket.  It’s a shitty casket, but I couldn’t care less about…

Serial Killers Anonymous: a Twelve-Step Program

by Murderously Philly… “Hi, my name is Ted” I say to everybody, “and I’m a serial killer.” “Hi, Ted,” says everybody. Everybody always says Hi. Welcome to Serial Killers Anonymous, a twelve-step program for rippers, rapers, stabbers, stranglers, axe murderers, chainsaw enthusiasts, and just about every type person who ever murdered over and over again,…

If These Walls Could Only Talk

What’s that old saying?  Oh yeah: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.  Here’s the thing.  I just bought this house in Lexington, Mass., a small town about half an hour’s drive from where I live in Boston.  And not just any house, but a two-story colonial that may very well…

Squatters Rights

I remember that morning just like it was yesterday I was still waking up working on my first cup of joe when out my back door I saw this family there They were digging and tamping down and hoisting and tying off It took a moment for the fog to clear but when it did…