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Sorry, Dorothy

Posted on October 27, 2010 at 8:12am 1 Comment

Having read something about it, she asked, "You know why the Chinese cook with a wok?"



They knew at once that the question, gravid with those inherently amusing k sounds, offered the perfect chance to…

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Prolix 2

Posted on September 24, 2010 at 2:13pm 4 Comments

"Here. Now it's shorter."
"Well...."
"Well, what?"
"No denouement."
"Rats."

Prolix

Posted on September 24, 2010 at 10:09am 5 Comments

"Here you are. A short story."
"Rewrite it."
"Again?"
"Yep. Too wordy."

Six O'Clock News

Posted on August 22, 2010 at 11:30pm 4 Comments

“Why are you sad, son?”

“On television, there was a teacher, and people were mean to her.”

“They were mean to her?”

“Yes, people were mean to her because she was a Presbyterian, and they wouldn’t let her be a teacher any more, and she was crying; it made me sad.”

He looked a question at his wife, who shrugged, palms up, so he asked the child, “What is a Presbyterian?”

“It’s when you’re, you know, gay, but you’re a girl.”

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At 12:20am on May 9, 2011, Robert McEvily said…
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