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…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket All the Unwanted Aliens (from the collection At War in America) Just deport ‘em all I said Ship ‘em off to some island somewhere Just like that asked José Just like that I said That’s your answer asked José Look I said Let’s face the facts They’re Aliens They’re dirty look…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket 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…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket 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…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket 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. Come check out The Panic,…
#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…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket 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…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket 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…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket 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 places for that. For my grandfather’s generation, the…
#RealFlashbytes by #PhiliipLoyd #realwritersmarket 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 psychotic behaviors.…
