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.
by Philip Loyd … (Blast from the Past) … That’s right, your beloved founder Philip Loyd is now doing his crazy Flashbytes thing on, of all places, Forbes. Philip on Forbes. And about whom? What? Hamilton? Franklin? Not hardly. How about William Duer? Huh? Exactly. William Duer and the great Wall Street crash of 1792.…
by Philip Loyd, American … 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…
by Philip Loyd … When a woman is in love with you, I said, nothing can change her mind. But when she falls out of love, she would just as soon leave you bleeding in the middle of the road. Not my Betty Sue, he said. My Betty Sue would take pity on me. I…
You may know him better as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, but his real name was Fedor Jeftichew. Fedor was a famous Russian sideshow performer who toured Europe with his father, the ‘Wild Man from the Kostroma Forest’, in 1873 and was brought to the United States of America in 1884 by P.T. Barnum. It was…
Post Hill Press Novels, True Crime, Non-fiction, Memoir, Bio posthillpress.com posthillpress.com/contact#submit contact@posthillpress.com Finalist Next Generation Indie Book Awards/Non-fiction, 2025 Founded in 2013 by a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and book industry professionals, Post Hill Press has successfully published a wide spectrum of books, with a focus on the categories of pop culture, business, self-help, health,…
Shirley Jackson is the queen of New England gothic horror. Did you know that she also wrote Haunting of Hill House which the Netflix series is based on? That’s right, many movies and even series are based not on novels but short stories. It seems to be the only way to sell stories these days,…
Can you believe it? With the hundreds of stories here on Real Flashbytes, we don’t have any Poe. Not one story. 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 best known stories ever.…
the midnight special by philip loyd (from his novel You Lucky Bastard) The Midnight Special is not an original term. It can mean several things. For people from my generation, it was THE TV show to watch late nights if you wanted to see your favorite band. And believe me, back then there weren’t many…
the insanity virus by philip loyd The insanity virus eludes to scientific research suggesting that certain mental illnesses, particularly schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis, may be brought on by viral infections (such as CMV, Toxoplasmosis, or HERV-W) that interact with the immune system. This hypothesis further asserts that infections can oftentimes create chronic brain inflammation leading to…
