This month I have a new short story appearing in Mystery Tribune online:
Click here to read “Cherokee Knives”
And this month’s satires:
It’s Me, First Watch: Stop Referring To Me as the Instagrammer’s Cracker Barrel in Greener Pastures
I, Herman Melville, Ask That You Please Stop Teaching My Bloated Whale Encyclopedia to High Schoolers in Jane Austen’s Wastebasket
Album Names For Your Dad’s Bluegrass Cover Band in Weekly Humorist
It’s a new month, and summer has been productive. Here’s an update on the writing that’s been coming out from Caleb Coy Industries—a thing that I just made up.
My latest personal essay out in Change Seven. “Neighbors Now” Take a look!
My first publication in a sci-fi journal, 365 Tomorrows. A flash fiction piece called “A Thousand Tiny Steps” Take a look!
A short article, “What Kurt Vonnegut Taught Me About Writing For a Living” in Writing101
And here are some of the recent satires:
“Help Me: I Am Vehicle Illiterate” in MuddyUm
“I, Male Director of This Film, am Excited to Flesh Out This Female Character, Who is On Screen For Three Minutes” in Greener Pastures
“A Sitcom In Which Putin and Trump Share a Prison Cell, Starring Only Actual Things They’ve Said”
in Doctor Funny
“German Words For Complex Emotions You Didn’t Know About” in Slackjaw
“T.S. Eliot Reviews The Little Mermaid” in MuddyUm
“National “Weed Your Garden Day” Is Now National “Weed Garden” Day” in The Haven
“Diaries of a Dying Jellyfish That Has Just Been Discovered By Two Third Grade Boys”
in MuddyUm
“We’ve Run Out Of Ways To Make a Message Self-Destruct” in MuddyUm
“Other Things To Try In a Small Town: A Tourism Guide” in The Haven
I was hesitant to listen to the news Dave album, as now they’re missing two original members, one who passed away and another who was dismissed. They must be the only band around that has had 7 consecutive 1 number one debut albums.
But bands change, their style and their lineup. We like bands that adapt and explore new territory. Dave is getting older, and this album really shows a man approaching old age. This is their post-pandemic album, some of the material written or recorded during the war on a virus, which drove us all a little crazy. Continue reading
Hey readers. If you’ve got 2 minutes to read some flash fiction today, check out my latest publication. While I’ve had a few stories with fantasy or sci-fi elements published in the past, this new story is my first publication in a sci-fi journal.
Read A Thousand Small Steps in 365 Tomorrows here!
With all the talk about AI language models, here’s one thing we know so far.
AI has a problem being funny.
After writing several humor articles myself, I decided to see if an AI engine could do it too.
I had this idea for a funny article. What if Breaking Bad had been written by country singer Vince Gill instead of TV writer Vince Gillian? Then I thought, it’s almost too simple of an idea. What if I got an AI to try it out?
So I logged into ChatGBT and gave it the following prompt:
You are singer Vince Gill. Write a song about the show Breaking Bad.
Hey readers!
Looks like it’s all satire for the month of May.
Here’s a rundown of the stuff you can read: Continue reading
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
In one of the most oft-repeated memory verses, we are told not to be obsessed with earthly treasure, but heavenly treasure instead. And while it is as true as can be, how we often see and interpret it sometimes misses the very point it makes. Continue reading
Happy Spring readers!
Thought I’d catch you up in what I’ve been able to get out in the past couple months.
“Sometimes freedom is the impoverished commitment of two lonely people who have fled.”
I had a short personal essay, “Times I Thought of Running Away,” appear in Sunlight Press. Read here.
As for the rest, it’s all satire:
READ “My Name Is Ken Follett and I Am Now Going To Writing Short Fiction” appeared in Slackjaw
READ “I, Belle, Am Tired of Living in an 18th Century Village” appeared in MuddyUm
READ “A Male White Oak Issues An Apology For Allergenic Assault” appeared in Doctor Funny
READ “Quiz: Who Said It? A MAGA Politician? Or Adolf Hitler?” appeared in The Haven
READ “This Cold Pizza is Not My Attempt To Prevent Unionization; It’s a Selfless Gesture of Thanks To My Employees” appeared in Greener Pastures
READ “Streaming Services and Their Enneagram Types” appeared in MuddyUm
READ “Letter to George Lucas From the Tunisian Ministry of Tourism, 1983” appeared in Doctor Funny
READ “Movies in the Cocaine Bear Cinematic Universe” appeared in Weekly Humorist
READ “My Name is Ishtar: Stop Confusing Me With Easter” appeared in Backyard Church
Recently I read a terrific article in Renew.org by Joel Singleton.
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