Gently opening the door just a crack, Stacy peeked into her teenage daughter’s bedroom. “Stacy means no harm,” the cartoon-style chatbot on the computer screen said to Stacy’s only child, 14-year-old Morgan. “Your ex-mother is just insecure.” Robotic and hypnotic, the avatar’s voice felt soothing even to Stacy, the way lowering your head underwater in […]
I got another handwritten letter from psycho killer Pug Mahoney. He wrote, “Hey Corbett I got good news and bad news. The good news is I haven’t killed anybody since I broke out of prison. The bad news is punkaphile Trump declared victory in Iran even though we lost the so-called WAR.” Pug wrote the […]
A fiction writer creates a teenage psychotic killer in a novel, a savage barbarian whose primitive rampages result in a state prison life sentence. Five years later, in an updated reissue of that original novel, the demented killer breaks out and escapes. A few months later the novelist publicly announces in Facebook, X and YouTube […]
In the dream I’m on a bike. I’m always heading home. Maybe we’re in Mexico, Stephanie and me, hiding out until the time is right for our next adventure. We still live one step ahead of the posse. In America, everybody does. In my dream the pandemic is over. We’re getting older, but enlightenment rises […]
“You can’t smoke that cigar in here, Pat.” “This is the Scranton Coal Hole, Mike. We can do whatever we want in our Irish neighborhood bar.” “Except hang a picture of Joe Biden on the wall because we hate Joe Biden.” “That’s why there’s already a picture of Joe Biden in the urinal.” Pat takes […]
