“A man’s subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.”
P. G. Wodehouse
Sep
20
raise /rāz/ verb lift or move to a higher position or level raze /rāz/ verb completely destroy I’m calling bullshit on this second word. There is no way that it was intended to mean both. It’s so obvious that somebody in a position of authority somehow flubbed saying ‘raise’ in the right context […]
Sep
29
WARNING: This is only interesting to those of you that visit this website regularly… i.e. nobody whatsoever. I find it interesting so I’m going to share. I have been posting stories to this page since April 24, 2012. That’s a LOT of stories. On June 8, 2012 I posted a story called the myth of female […]
Sep
28
There were two things that stopped Sam’s ex-girlfriend Diane from maintaining the title and perhaps even graduating to much-sought-after wife status. The first was her toes. They were always in motion. She could spread them out until there was an unhealthy amount of lights between them. They were like five pieces of kelp endlessly moving […]
Sep
27
He realized he was never going to develop a fear of open spaces in his townhouse in New Jersey, so he decided to pick up and move to North Dakota. He bought a small house situated in the middle of a plot of land so flat that driving on it felt like pushing a Matchbox […]
Sep
26
(originally posted 9/30/2012) The first thing that Frank noticed as he entered the room was the smell. Something was not quite right. It has the usual scented-oil smell of a massage room, but behind that lurked another smell that he couldn’t quite place. Whatever it was it made him think of urinal cakes and […]
Sep
25
(first appeared at www.headstuff.org 8/26/14) To whom it may concern RE: The disappearance of Abigail Petty To all concerned parties, this is my account of the events leading up to the disappearance of Abigail Petty, known henceforth as Abby. From this point forward, I will stop attempting to sound formal and just tell […]
