by Arthur Candell There is much dispute concerning the invention of the airplane. While the United States claims that Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first heavier-than-air flight on December 17, 1903. Russia claims that it was there that the first flight took place. Several other countries dispute the U.S. and Russian claims, and take…
by Nils Erwin Length: About 6 pages I HAD MY FIRST BABY-SITTING JOB THE OTHER NIGHT. It was tough assignment, 3 kids – 24-hours. The parent was a family friend, Mandy, who seemed to have adopted the absurd notion that I was the man for the job, and moreover, that I should also be paid…
-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…
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I am currently seeking investors for a business opportunity involving an idea I came up with. I will go ahead and tell it to you because I know that nobody can pull it off but me and I don’t have to worry about somebody else swooping in and stealing my idea. Except maybe Newman. But…
Off we went, towards the fields. Antennas were ripped off of cars and used to whip Bob as he lead the way. Clothes were pulled off, wrapped around antenna and lit on fire. It felt like yet another Hallmark movie. Soon, some people were naked, especially those with the makeshift torches. The ones whipping Bob…
By Bob SenitramBecause nonsense don’t make itself… If you’re wondering about the 25 year history of TheWeirdcrap.com and thinkin’ “If they started the same time as Google, shouldn’t that site be a muliti-billion dollar industry by now?” Seems like it, but we don’t got much smarts in the business sense, heck, we can barely afford…
-Humor – 2 Pages Chapter 1 – Attack of the weird blue scraggy thing from outer space The blue scraggy thing ate his cereal and looked up. Outside against the silver metallic landscape lay a team of archaeologist greenfly. Unknown to the blue scraggy thing they were singing ring-a-ring-a-roses in remembrance of the great dragonfly…
Head in the sand by CMR Once upon a time there was an ostrich. The ostrich had no concerns and was content to while away it’s days with it’s head in the sand. It would awaken that way in the mornings and drift to sleep that way at night. During the day it would seek…
By Jon Stephenson “Oh, Kenny,” she said, as the tears streamed down her face. “I just saw the most horrible thing! I saw those human animals in the woods and they had these big yellow things with them!”
I was headed towards Union Square to shop for a birthday gift for my mother. Shopping, unfortunately, has never been my forté. My mother taught me well how to overcome so many of life’s little obstacles; but shopping simply wasn’t something I could master. I just didn’t have it in me. And several stores later,…
Jerome stood up and wiped the tears from his face. “That was a complete waste of time!” he yelled. “What was?” I asked, feeling THAT anger rise. “THAT STORY!” he yelled, but in a higher pitch. “Well, well, well,” said the HR lady while still sitting on the floor. Star Child Two started humming something…
Oh well, I’ve had another minor setback!!! For the last week, I felt something wasn’t quite right with me. I thought that I had a tumor or maybe even syphillis, but my eagle-eyed cellmate informed me that my huge boob was getting smaller!! Thank goodness it wasn’t a tumor!! I went to the prison doctor…
Streets—1st MoTW—Repo! The Genetic Opera The woman and I were heading home after a horrible experience at thegrocery store (a story for another day) a week or so ago and when wepassed a gas station she started complaining about the price which hadfallen to $1.77 from the $1.82 she had paid there the night before.…
Today reminds me of that time I was talking to someone about the latest episode of “Car 54, Where Are You?”. Right behind them was a sign on a building that stated “Beware Of Propeller”. Didn’t think anything about it as we talked about the latest hi-jinks of Toody and Muldoon when all of a…
Bob stared at the five versions of himself in the mirror. Then, just as quickly as they had appeared, they were gone. The bathroom door creaked open. Cindy peeked in, her voice groggy.“You were tossing and turning. Everything okay?” Bob blinked, snapping out of the trance.“Yeah. I think I’m… glitching. Like I’m seeing echoes from…
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