Trailers for bad sequels

18 of my trailers for bad sequels. Plus one that didn’t make it into the contest: Transformers: The City Wars Narrator: First, there was Metroplex, the Autobot city. Then, there was Trypticon, Metroplex’s Decepticon enemy, a city of equal size and power. Scene: Two cities, facing off, with helicopters and jets in the air, subway [...]

Goodbye and Good Riddance

I’ve made a comfortable living as a writer. I sold my first piece forty years ago and I’ve done fine ever since. I was living in the mountains when I received my first acceptance. Of course, everything was done by mail in those days. Mail and fax. I lived ten miles from the nearest store [...]

My entries in a scene-writing contest

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Buzzy

Where did the giant fly come from? We just don’t know. What we do know is that reaction to the fly varied among officials, from a strong desire to swat it, to a demand that we nurture and study the insect. A call for manure went out and many small farmers responded. Government officials googled [...]

American Metamorphosis

Greg Samson, like Gregor Samsa, woke up one morning as a cockroach. Beyond that initiatory fact, the stories of Greg and Gregor are dissimilar. Samsa lived with his mother, father, and sister. He worked like a dog to support them. Samson lived with two slacker roommates. He worked at Blockbuster but the store was about [...]

Loris

Meet Loris. He’s a loris (Loris tardigradus). He’s big as a Volkswagen. He was the size of a cigarette pack when he appeared for the first time. I was strapped down. He sat on my chest. He will become big as a house. He is getting larger, right now. In the end, he shall have [...]

Resolution

I will kill my father. For what he has done to my mother. For what he has done to me. I will kill him. Thou shalt not kill? God kills hundreds while I bless my food. While I pray. Let God use me for one of these deaths. Why was my father born? Let his [...]

Reality Show: The Antichrist

Two distribution companies are interested in the following idea. Flesh it out and peddle it. I don’t have time to. Choose six contestants, to compete over six weeks, solving six tasks or completing six projects. Bear down on the 666 thing. Offer a disclaimer at the beginning and end of every show, making it clear [...]

My big break as a reporter

Folks ask me how I became successful in the field of newspaper reporting. Hard work, I answer. However, I did get one big break. I was just starting out as a cub reporter on the Parings Journal in northern Mississippi. I was walking down Main Street one evening at dusk and I came to John [...]

My Book: The Meaning of Life

Today, I reached page 1,000 of the book I’m writing about the meaning of life. I stopped for a moment to celebrate with a glass of grape juice, but as I gazed down at the stack of papers that the manuscript comprises, I realized that no one would ever read it, and even if they [...]