This is my “I don’t believe you” look. They’re everywhere. Ads that catch your attention and try to draw you in to visit a web site so they can sell you more things. The initial sensationalism is meant to upset your belief system or your sense of security enough to have you searching for answers. …
Tag Archives: humor
Free Short Fiction: The Gibson Diet
Eighteen days was how long she claimed to have been on the Gibson Diet. It wasn’t bulimia. It wasn’t the Keto, or the Caveman, or the Mediterranean. She wasn’t crash-coursing on newly discovered vegetables from Bolivia either. It was the Gibson Diet. The point was to mainline digital nutrients right into the back of your …
Writing Exercises
One of the methods I like to use to boost creativity in writing is the writing exercise. There are many exercises including the writing prompt, which is a word or a phrase that spikes your juices. Creative juices. Another one is the photo prompt. Take a photo, like the one above with all the typewriters …
Recently Read: Apologetic Poems by David Lir
Apologetic Poems: Poems Written Under Duress. To begin, David Lir’s got himself a crazy sense of humor, the likes of which could cure cancer or bring world peace if only more people were aware of it. The masses run around like blind mice in mazes, missing the key turns that would bring them to …
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Young to Old
The secret to staying young is always telling the time by hours, minutes, and even seconds. Think about it. Give a child a digital watch and then ask them the time, what do they do? They tell you the hour, the minutes, and then the seconds as they tick by, “…forty-three, forty-four, forty-five…” Middle-aged people …
