“The British are coming, thank God!”

Four Very Short Stories about William Shatner Considering she’d never met the man, my mother certainly had her share of William Shatner stories. There’s the one where they’d both gone t...

In honour of William Shatner’s 95th birthday, I’m reposting the #100word story I wrote about him a few years ago.

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Just do something that gets the Industrial Revolution started 100 years sooner.

A special congratulations to anyone who got today’s Wordle in one!

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Close Enough By the time I decided to shave off my first real beard, I’d pretty much forgotten how—mostly because I’d started growing it not long after I...

Occasionally, my short-short stories remind me how dumb I really was at 25.
#vss #100words #flashfiction

The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy

If nothing else, Marco certainly has an old man’s ears!

Just taking a break from my regular 100-word grind.

Spread from my graphic novel KENT STATE. The National Guard unleashes their deadly fusillade into a parking lot full of unarmed students.

55 years ago today. Kent State. May 4 is never about Star Wars in these parts.

Please take a moment at 12:24 this afternoon and remember... because a repeat of something like this is closer than you know.

From a Letter to Ray in Japan The last time you wrote, you were about to move into your own place, and you asked me for any tips I might have about bachelorhood. I ha...

When my pen pal, raymondsbrain.bsky.social, was studying in Japan, he also taught some English on the side. He once confided that he had wanted to use some of my letters as examples for his students. This 100-word story provides a clue why he couldn't. #vss #flashfiction #陰毛

In a heartbeat!

Curses! I’ve been looking for a new source for years. Marmite’s good, but not great.

a picture of the apple logo with the caption "0% tariff" next to a picture of a real apple with the caption "10% tariff"

A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

I still carry my Student Card from 1979. I can’t even begin to calculate the money I’ve saved!

Mad Bra Maddy worked in Tech Support, but if you were new, and she was in a cheeky mood, she might’ve introduced herself as Mad Bra—her nerdy joke o...

Working this week on the 🇨🇦 election campaign, I’ve been pressed into doing a lot more data entry than I’ve done in a while . . . made a whole lot easier by this simple little trick I remembered from back in the ’90s.

#vss #flashfiction #microfiction

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

Not nearly fast enough, if you ask me. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approv...

I don't think I've ever gotten through the night without peeing. The man is super human.

X is not worth 33 billion. He basically just paid himself $33B from another company, presumably to pay off his debts from the initial buy because he knows he'll never be able to raise the capital from X itself.

He is his own ponzi scheme.

Here's one. I think the artist captured the very essence of the man.

Sadly, I am afraid of dying—though that could change—but I’m certainly not afraid of sharing a cell with a bunch of other old cranky Canadians. So, sign me up for some #sabotaage!

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

Quarter-Pound Foolish The subway home from high school would drop me off on the southside of Bloor, out the rear entrance, and across the parking lot to the ...

Here's a 100-word story about my favourite candy store growing up. Fifty years later and my only regret—besides the wretched state of my teeth—is that I went for the candy and eschewed their cashews.
#flashfiction #microfiction #drabble

My family had a similar one from the 1970s. I always thought those random bars paid to be included.

Dick Tater.

π recalled Her point : a ring , a token declaring my ardent fancy , may apply unwanted pressures ( unusual urgencies , too ) on our ...

For #PiDay, a 100-word poem of young love and irrational numbers . . .

President Obama: Most world leaders are 'completely out of their mind' The President goes cruising in a 1963 Chevrolet Corvette with Seinfeld in the first show of his newest series Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee (pictured)

They let Obama drive, too; and with only his comedic license. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Trump lied saying the secret service wouldn’t let him drive the Tesla at the White House….well they let Biden drive a Jeep around