Stories tagged humor

Orwellian 2. The Department of Applied Hermeneutics and Phenomenology 3. Circumlocution

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decrease unemployment by having two people doing the job of one.

The Fashion Police

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They entered the house stealthily, gliding over deep pile shag carpet, carefully stepping around a bean bag chair. A silver disco ball projected slivers of light on the popcorn textured ceiling. A lava lamp cast an unearthly pink glow. Barry Manilow's voice oozed from an…

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Orwellian 4. Stan Stealth 5. Staph Meetings

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The Director is always pointing to charts of statistical goals that are artificially skewed to show we are not working hard enough as the data is constantly manipulated to show a downward trend,

Sacrifice - 12 (Tink)

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We both rose at once, filling the room again with the tangled intrusive sounds of aggravated steel springs and old wood.

Sacrifice - 13 (Gladys)

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"He's an autodidact. Taught himself to break free of the bonds of conventional thinking and into a realm very few people can manage."

Orwellian 6. CBT 7. Industries Annual Retreat 8. Resignation

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We know for a fact based on research that people get just as well on waiting lists as in psychotherapy.

Chapter 14 (Enough of the one-word titles!)

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Were Tink's arrogance helium the walls and ceiling of our little room would have blown outward, the gas then ripping the entire building from the ground, and lurching it into the stratosphere.

Chapter 15 (Tink is Pink)

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"We simply cannot take the risk."

First sonnet

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Shit, I guess I'm gonna hafta

Starstruck

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He called it Rosebud, this chocolate starfish orb Of jacksy ring To rectify the back door thing His brown-eyed, elementary cleft did sing For Venus, Mars and more Considering the sun don't shine So much on Jupiter, but for The Plutoid bung of Saturn's rung…

Sacrifice - 16 (Can Mighty Mouse save the world?)

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Last chapter on Fictionaut, my friends. Amazon put Sacrifice in its Kindle Bookstore this evening. $2.99 and you can read the whooooole thing in one sitting!

Self Help For Daydreamers

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I think I’ll get a tattoo. Not just any tattoo, one I’ll regret. I’ll catch people peering at it, trying to interpret the twists and swirls of the black ink on my fair skin.

Christmas Presents

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There’s something Dad’s been telling us that I don’t think is true

Hemingway Test – Chapter 2 (Harry and Joe)

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“I want to sit in the front,” Trueblood said. “I'd feel like some kind of dipshit in the back seat.”