-Sci-Fi – 3 Pages – Package runner Alpha One-Six, nicknamed `Zeep’ to endear him to Joe Public and his slobbering troglodyte family, had only been distracted for four hundredths of a second. But in that time, he’d somehow managed to collide with a stationary object; unwittingly knocking out his GPS, comm-link, and access to the…
I awoke knowing the link had been severed. Tears stung my cheeks as I yanked the blankets off my body and stumbled out of bed, feeling sick and disoriented. By the time I made it to the bathroom sink in anticipation of throwing up my late night trip to Taco Bell, the feeling had thankfully…
By Mikel Davis
“You slimy sack of fish shit!” Deputy Ploggard slammed his hairy fist down onto the grey metal table which separated the two men. His hand landed with such force that it left a fist-shaped dent in the middle of the table. The noise which followed echoed off…
[A Halloween Special from the 2003 Archives] I thought the devil was red and had a tail. I had braced myself for His appearance, His style, even His odor if need be. So what happens when I call Him? He shows up at my door in a three-piece suit, looking like a successful businessman. OK,…
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So Bob has brought out the whip again and threatened to give me 39 lashes if I didn’t go through the dozen or so bags of fan mail that have been piling up and pick out some letters to write another Ask The Spamrider column. I asked him why he wouldn’t just give me 40…
By Bob SenitramNo bacon, just bringing home the nonsense… Well, I’ve been watching all them talking heads on TV and now I guess I got a little somethin’ to say about those midterm elections. To tell the truth, when I was younger, I didn’t think much about Mid-Term elections. I figured, “What difference would it…
Today I saw the tiniest little pillbug I ever seen in my life. Then suddenly I got this notion. So I watched. And I seen something move. It was just a tiny little speck. So I kept watching. And I seen it move again. So I looked closer. And sure enough, it was an even…
2 Pages A crowd was gathered outside the city. People milled about aimlessly, bumping into each other as often as they were bumped into. A feeling of quiet panic and frustration trickled through, subsiding once, swelling again. The only thing that kept an epidemic in check was the apathy that seemed to pervade beyond flesh…
By Kevin Easter There are parts of yourself that you hold back. You have to keep that part inviolate, hidden. It doesn’t matter how much you’re “in love” or how much you “trust” your therapist. That part remains. It’s your soul, your true name, your inner child, and you keep it to yourself. There’s one…
4 Pages The payphone is occupied. Another person, a man, a quirky man, hovers around its perimeter; he closely resembles a jabberwocky. “Excuse me, do you mind if I stare at you for a minute? I want to remember your face for my dreams.” Says the man. Though unquestionably a preternatural pariah, the mans behavior…
-Humor – 3 Pages – Ick Bollard had waited a long time for this. Longer than he could actually remember. And that was a long time. Ick didn’t know how long, because he’d forgotten how to tell the time, but he knew he’d waited a good while. Ages. Aeons maybe, even though he had no…
“Billy” from ‘The East Coast’ writes: Dear Mr. Bob,Many of the folks workin’ beneath me say you don’t know what you’re talking about when goin’ political. But time seems to favor your ideas. Now, I don’t wanna say who exactly I happen to be, but this much I can say without being too obvi-typical; I…
Devin Townsend Project—Deconstruction MoTW—The Great Texas Dynamite Chase As mentioned and threatened in my last post (three weeks ago?!), it isthat time of the year for me to share with all of our loyal readers themadcap adventures the woman and I had on our annual roadtrip. This year I wanted to take it easy. No…
Then came a knock at a door. We looked around for the door. The door we were looking for opened. We backed up. Scared. “There’s a door?” I asked as sweat poured from my face. “Of course there’s a door!” said the HR lady. “How do you think you got in here?” I thought about…
Pat Travers—Retro Rocket MoTW—Fury While farting around on the internet looking for a local Little Caesar’s because I had an urge for 3 1/2 feet of bacon, I visited Metsblog and noticed something very interesting. Someone mentioned “Lunatic Ravings”! Ok, it wasn’t a mention of this blog (or column or waste of space or a…
This week will be a quickie (which should appeal to all my male readers) since I have much better things to do than attempt to correct the wrongdoings in your life. From Walden in Missoula, MT: If there is a fight between you and the mystery woman, would mud or jello be involved? Walden, my…
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