Recently I took a poll. A question came to me after I read a passage that got me thinking about why we read, and why we give up on reading. Continue reading
Author Archives: Caleb Coy
New Flash Fiction in Mystery Tribune
Want some fiction you can read in a minute or less?
Mystery Tribune published my flash fiction story, “Farsight,” on their website.
Check it out here!
Between the Sick and the Healthy
There are now over 530,000 known cases of Covid-19 in the U.S.
Speaking of numbers, there’s a not-very-well known account from the Book of Numbers having to do with a plague. In chapter 16, Moses is leading the Hebrews through the wilderness. This chap named Korah decides that he should be leading the people, so he rebels. Him and 249 other people. As a consequence, they are consumed in a fire. Continue reading
We Almost Just Died In the Time of Covid
Yesterday my wife and I took our two boys to the river so we could have a picnic with my parents but maintain our social distancing. Because you know, Covid-19.
Here we are wading through the shallow end, skipping rocks, stacking rocks, looking for critters under rocks. It’s pretty windy outside, even among these trees by the river. Continue reading
Nothing Like a Family-Friendly Moby Dick Madlib
So there was a madly in Writer’s Digest. I decided to fill it out with my wife and two children (ages 3 and 7). Call it a Moby Lib if you want. This is what we churned out. Continue reading
Why Sanders Won’t Bring a Socialist Revolution
I have no plans to vote for Bernie Sanders. I predict that the DNC will vote for Warren or Biden. But I also don’t believe in fear or gossip, and I believe in truth and distinctions. So let’s examine why we can be certain that if Bernie Sanders became president, the country would not become socialist. The same reason that, when Trump was elected, the country did not become a fascist regime. Continue reading
Quotes From Joker Spin-off Films
Due to the success of the film Joker, character studies for other Batman villains are already on the way. Here are some lines from the scripts:“Are you having any more kitty cat thoughts?”
“Doctor, all I have are kitty cat thoughts.”
Long Live the Age of Impeachment
Ironically, Ken Starr recently declared that we are living in an “age of impeachment.”
I would hope so.
Starr went on to make a completely and entirely bogus claim, that only a statutory crime or lawbreaking was impeachable. Every law expert knows otherwise, and so did the founders. Continue reading
More Than One Act
I grew up being taught that worship was a thing we do toward God in exactly five acts, no more, no less, and that on Sunday all five of those must take place with a prayer before and after. Continue reading
For God So Loved [insert country]
– For God so loved America 🇺🇸, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life… Continue reading
