Stories tagged satire

Fear in a Handful of Dust

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I fear my personal information travels the World Wide Web/ and mad Ukrainians will steal my name and wealth./ I fear the fiscal cliff and raising the ceiling on national debt./ I fear a death by taxes.

Hemingway Test – 6 (The test)

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“God dammit, the Hemingway test! I need to know if you're a man or a fucking pussy!”

Hemingway Test – 7 (Crash)

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“We're at war and this is our bunker.”

Hemingway Test – 8 (Discovery)

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“I never kiss and tell.”

Hemingway Test – 9 ( Thumb talk)

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“At least you won. Better you broke his thumb than he broke yours.”

Urgent, breathers: Pee before reading this novel!

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A jollier zombie you shall never find. You must trust me on this!

The Suburban Cowboy Catalogue

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The Suburban Cowboy Old West Snack Platter It's quiet out there. Too quiet. Dust devils spin like drunken dervish dancers and scraggly tumbleweeds cartwheel through desolate streets. You lean back on your chair outside the front door of Miss Kitty's and listen to the…

Hemingway Test – 10 (Mission musing)

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“I'll clear my calendar.” Both men laughed.

Hemingway Test – 11 (Hacker on board)

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“...where Lincoln ate.” “Here? In this room?”

Hemingway Test – 12 (Man from WACKO)

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“My name is unimportant. What is important is that as a representative of the Worldwide Action Coalition Klux of Oligarchists I'm here to relay information.”

Hemingway Test – 13 (Em)

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“You really don't know what I do?”

Hemingway Test – 14 (Brainstorm)

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“It wasn't very well written, Aloysius. Sorry.”

Hemingway Test – 15 (Brainstorm – cont.)

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“Nobody's gonna believe the satire bit,” she said. “And even if they do they'll check it out anyway. You know they will.”

Hemingway Test – 16 (Mayhem at Reagan Middle - Part I)

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“Something at the school. They didn't tell Miriam what happened, just said they're taking everybody to the hospital. Get Joe and tell him we have to get there ASAP.”

Hemingway Test – 16 (Mayhem at Reagan Middle - Part II)

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Every siren in the goddamned District of Columbia and probly Northern Virginia screaming through the streets.