“Where did this long strip of tiny rocks come from?” Cornelia wondered. One of the pebbles spoke up: “Papa was a rolling stone.”
Tag: humor
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“No!” Tom screamed. “Spare me! Take my wife, please!” The vampire said, “All the people I could bite and I get Henny Youngman.”
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Craig was late for work and inhaled his coffee. He was even later after going to the hospital to have his scalded sinuses treated.
Fiction: Gunsmoke in Mesa View Gulch
The lean, scruffy outlaw had plenty of space at the bar, and the conversations swirling around him in the saloon carefully omitted any reference to him.
He heard a feminine voice behind him, and the voice was saying his name: “Barker Krebs.” He swiveled on his barstool and caught a small fist with his nose. He bellowed briefly and began bleeding into his bushy moustache. He stared hatefully in the direction from which the offending hand had come.
There he saw a woman. She was built along the lines an Amazon if the designer had been instructed to bring the project in under budget. That made her five feet tall, counting the boots and hat.
“Barker Krebs,” she said, “you killed my daddy, burned our home…”
“I’ve never seen you before, girl!”
“And had unnatural relations with what would have been a prize-winning watermelon.”
Krebs’s eyes went wide, and he brought his hand down from his bleeding nostrils. “Sarah Jane Buonarroti. I thought…”
Quotable 40
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
– Robert Benchley
Pen to Paper: The Sitcom Writers’ Prayer
The week began appropriately somber for Memorial Day. Now, let’s start the weekend with something light.
Chuck Lorre is a sitcom writer and creator. His credits include Roseanne, Grace Under Fire, Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men, and my favorite, The Big Bang Theory.
But even someone with those impressive writing chops occasionally looks upward and makes requests of a higher power.