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A List Of 25 Things You Should Never Do
A List Of 25 Things You Should Never Do:(feel free to print a mirror image and staple to your forehead for ready reference) First, the obvious things you should never do: 1. Staple anything to your forehead2. Kill someone3. Take something that doesn’t belong to you4. Betray the trust of a loved one (or a Read more
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Mike’s Musical Monday – (I Wanna) Stick It Out With You
Before Late Model Humans there was Racy Dates. And before Racy Dates there was S&M. S&M was me and Rick Myers. Back then he was called Sal Iva so Sal and Mike made S&M. For reasons that escaped our understanding, Mike was S and Sal was M. In the mid-eighties Racy Dates went into the Read more
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Flash Fiction Friday – The Girl at the Machine
He could see her from the train. She was on the platform, standing at the ticket machine. A glove was hanging from her lips. Her teeth were holding firm to the glove’s index finger. She needed her naked hand for the job, what with the touch-screen and all. The tip of her nose, and a Read more
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Take Your Medicine
A spoonful of sugar, or anything sweet, helps the medicine go down. And we all have to take our medicine sometimes. I understand, usually, that it’s all for the best to take my medicine, to ward off the diseases and evil spirits that are always waiting at the gate for the slightest weakness to allow Read more
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Mike’s Musical Monday – I’ll Get You
Oh yeah. Oh yeahOh yeah. Oh yeah Imagine I’m in love with youIt’s easy, ’cause I knowI’ve imagined I’m in love with youSo many, many, many times beforeIt’s not like me to pretendBut I’ll get you, I’ll get you in the endYes I will. I’ll get you in the endOh yeah. Oh yeah. I think Read more
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Flash Fiction Friday – The Time I Died
Art by Ryan Kohler Did I ever tell you about the time I died? It sounds dramatic but it was really no big deal. My heart exploded, more or less, just like I always knew it would. My doctor once told me I had an enlarged heart, like there was something wrong with that. Read more
