The Time Mike Ate The World’s Hottest Pepper
The following is humor. As far as we know the extent of Mike Pences’s knowledge of the Lanthanide series is not, in fact, a matter of public record.
Tagged: Fiction
The Time Mike Caused $135,000 In Damage At His Local Target
Most people don’t associate Mike Pence with a swathe of retail destruction the likes of which would impress Genghis Khan himself, but it happened once.
The Day That Comprised The Totality Of Mike’s Bare Knuckle Boxing Career
Humor: “It was at a rest stop outside of Dayton, Ohio that the hunger kicked in. Mike Pence and I were with our roommate Dick Richards buying snack foods and drinks”
The Time Mike And The 23rd Indiana Light Artillery Castrated A Bull
Parody: To this day, Mike Pence carries a sharpened Newberry Knife about with him at all times, just in case.
Sunday Morning! “Good Citizens Need Not Fear” by Maria Reva
While getting by in strange times, I read a book of short stories about how average Ukrainians got by before and after the fall of Communism.
Stakes and Satiability: Part 4
“What better place to hide, my dear daughter, but within the cloak of British respectability,” Nathaniel said.
Original Fiction: Highest Noon By Michael Siegel
Original Fiction from Michael Siegel: “Kate made one last check, nodded to Samson and then slowly undid the seals on her helmet…”
Sunday Morning! “Fever Dream” by Samanta Schweblin
Parenting is terrifying, if this novella is any indication. And Schweblin makes much of the sheer terror of parenting
Stakes and Satiability – Part 3
Looking for the beginning of my Jane Austen-Bram Stoker mashup? Part 1 Part 2 After having spent a fitful night asleep at his desk tormented by dreams which ranged from blackest nightmare to flights...
Stakes and Satiability- Part 2
“Sisters are prone to jealousy, Mr. Blackabee. Some cannot bear to know that one of them wants something that they cannot all have.”
Stakes and Satiability – Part 1
Here you go, a vampire story in the style of Jane Austen, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Sunday Morning! “They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears”
A friend’s favorite book from last year, which describes a terrorist attack that either happened or did not happen, depending on which timeline we’re living through.
Short Story: Back to School
School had been out for a long time; longer than Jack could remember. He wasn’t sure why they’d had to stay away. But he was excited to be going back.
Defending Skyler White
Is Breaking Bad’s Skyler White the least sympathetic character in all of fiction?
Sunday Morning! “What we Salvage” (2015)
Reading a novel set in my current city three decades ago made me wonder how important setting is for fiction. Let’s talk about it.
