Fiction

  • Halloween

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    Halloween Halloween was over.  Frederick handed out candy during the rainy, bleak evening.  It was no longer time for ghosts and goblins.  The annual holiday was over.  Now it was time for real life.  But real life was like Halloween.  He handed out psychological candy to family, friends and colleagues.  They all came to him,…

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  • Team Spirit

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    Team Spirit Arnold was a respected Proctologist and Psychologist.  He told anyone who asked that the professions were related.   One of Arnold’s hobbies was watching sports on TV.  He loved the tension, excitement, the teamwork.  What he did not understand was why teamwork failed to exist in his own life.  At work he was frequently…

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  • Fred

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    Fred Fred walked the Earth.  Sometimes he drove if he had to, sometimes took a ferry–he walked whenever he could: observing, learning, wandering.  There was much to see, much to know, much to understand.  Fred knew it was good for his soul.  Talking with people, watching animals, living in each environment.  Walking the Earth was…

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  • Peace?

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    Peace? God created Peace but never energized it.  Peace often asked God why She created Peace only to never use it.  God’s reply was always Peace was a good idea but the time was not right.  Peace was discouraged.  Eons passed.  The time was never right.  As 2025 unfolded, Peace again spoke with God.  “You…

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  • War In 2025

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    War Everyone agreed it was time for the annual lunch with War.  War was on the move again.  It never stopped, really, but occasionally slowed.  War was born with humanity, gaining power and consciousness from any conflict.  As humanity and civilization grew, so did War, until War was Itself.  War considered itself crucial to humanity’s…

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  • King Leer

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    King Leer [Reader Advisory] King Leer was born Prince Lear but acquired his nickname in his teens.  It fit.  He slipped into being King Leer as easily as his hand into a fine glove, as he saw women: something soft to fit into.  He was not a decent fellow, dominated by male fulfillment and power. …

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    Hamlet Today Hamlet Today Hamlet did not consider himself a ditherer but doing nothing but watch had enabled a scheming idiot to marry Hamlet’s mother, the Queen, and become King, quickly revealing he was a tyrant—seeking petty revenge on opponents, sending troops onto the streets and seas to round up immigrants and kill drug runners. …

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  • No Kings Day

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    No Kings Day This year citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against the current administration with a No Kings Day (twice, but these are the times we live in.)  What about next year?  We will certainly have more No Kings Days, and in addition we could have: No Bullying Day No Personal Insults Instead…

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  • Dorian Gray As President

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    Dorian Gray As President Dorian Gray always wanted it easy.  He was born into wealth, dabbled in real estate and casinos, but often went bankrupt because he enjoyed stiffing contractors, spent too much on gold toilets, and working hard was not easy.  Dorian Gray always wanted it easy.  Dorian decided it was time to make…

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    The Church Of Me The Church Of Me The nation was created by Christians fleeing religious persecution by other Christians, founding it not as a Christian nation (they had seen the danger in uniting Church and State.)  However, over hundreds of years the nation evolved, as did its religion, which was a new version of…

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