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The Disney Gang

They called themselves the Disney Gang, despite the fact that two-fifths of their members were clearly aficionados of the Popeye milieu. In fact, Chester “Popeye”…

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How Landon, Ontario got its name

Here’s a little snippet that didn’t make it into The Fridgularity. I cut the description of Landon, Ontario’s founding because it doesn’t really add much…

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Remembering The Beard Wars

“Captain Chiggerson, can you hear me? Captain?” “I can hear you! I’m blind, not deaf.” “Sorry Captain, but you didn’t seem to be responding,” the…

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Why Canadians celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday

Here in Canada we celebrate Queen Victoria’s birthday, and it is known as Victoria Day.* Why? She has been dead more than a century, and…

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The Sarcastic Cyborg Debriefs

[recording starts] Is this thing on? Seriously. Is it on? I’m not getting any neural feedback. You humans are so odd. You are human aren’t…

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Twitterpocalypse

Writer’s note: Most of the Twitter handles are invented. And if the reverse chronology is a problem, you may prefer to start this short story…

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Planet of the knob-heads: Why do lit-ah-rary types look down on science fiction?

So what is it about science fiction that causes "literary" types to look down upon it? Is it too imaginative, or does it have more to do with lingerie?

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Apocalypse Cow

Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were going all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the…

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E-nnui

Toto the Bio-Sphere Demolition-Bot wondered what it was all about. Did life really mean anything? There had to be more to existence then the senseless…Continue ReadingE-nnui

Clown Apocalypse – the first flash fiction

Years later, the survivors discovered the Bozo Virus got its start at Escola de Clown de Girona, near the end of semester. The “Esclowna” was…Continue ReadingClown Apocalypse – the first flash fiction