by House-flipping Philly… I always wanted to be with a blonde. A TRUE blonde, not some brunette on summer vacation. I dated a blonde back when I was in high school. She was modest, so we used to do it in the dark. Eventually, we got to the point where she’d let me light a…
The Dog That Bit People by James Thurber “The Dog That Bit People” is the story of Columbus native James Thurber’s Airedale Terrier Muggs, the worst of the many pet dogs he had during his lifetime. Not only did Muggs bite family members, neighbors, and salesmen, he also bit a congressman and Lieutenant-Governor Malloy while…
by Ted Myers… I had nothing but the suit I was buried in. If I had been able to dress myself, I would have had my good pen. But no one thinks to put a pen in your pocket when you’re dead. Read the whole corpse-in-waiting story… Find Ted’s books, like Making It:…
by Elizabeth Scher… Open in a church, community center, gathering area that might make sense for worshipers. Everyone has their phones out and no one appears to be older than 30. In walks a pastor, not gender or race specific. Wearing some sort of fan merch (preferably Beyonce) PASTOR Thank you all for joining…
Unmasking a Confidence Trickster is a short story by Franz Kafka, first published in 1912, not a full book, and is often included in collections like Contemplation. #kafka #franzkakfa The story follows a narrator who, after being led on a long, pointless walk by a seemingly charming but suspicious man, finally recognizes him as a…
Spy vs. Spy is a comic strip published in MAD magazine. It features two agents involved in comic-book espionage activities: one dressed in black, the other in white. A parody of the Cold War, the strip was created by Cuban expatriate cartoonist Antonio Prohías, first appearing in MAD Magazine Issue #60 in 1961. . .…
January 1953… Issue three takes on Dragnet with the story, “Dragged Net”, from Bill Elder. Wally Wood does “V-Vampires;” John Severin draws “Sheik of Araby” and Jack Davis writes the “Long Stranger.” Harvey Kurtzman does the cover art. .
by Scholarly Philly… “Get out your Sunday best,” said my wife. “He’s coming! He’s really coming!” Who? Who’s coming, I thought? But I dare not ask. When my wife gets excited like this, the best thing to do is just stay out of her way. Yes, I was a henpecked husband just like out of…
An Evil Town by Charles Bukowski, whereby Frank Evans, a balanced man, moves from town to town. Time and again he is shocked by the perversity he sees around him. When his privacy is again threatened, this time by a hotel clerk, he loses control. We love almost everything by Buk, whether it be fiction,…
by Robert Burton Robinson… She took the elevator up to the fourteenth floor and went to Suite 1419. There was no sign. Nothing to indicate whose office it was. She reached into her purse and took out the slip of paper with her notes on it. Yes, this was supposed to be it. Read the…
