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John Wiswell
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I'm recovering a little every day. By Tuesday I should be up to walking down the stairs. I have this neuromuscular syndrome that makes recovery from surgery a lot slower, but it looks like I will make a full recovery. It'll just take a while. Sorr...
November 29
Sorry to keep you folks worried so long. I was completely out of it following the surgery. My friend did come to take care of me, but the notebook with the list of things to do (including Quin's number) got lost somewhere between the E.R. and post...
November 26
I am indeed looking in tonight! Linda, new-comer or old friend, I sincerely appreciate your well-wishes. To Mal (who I know from my more frequent days on 6S) as well. And Edward, I'm none too enthralled with the U.S. healthcare system myself. Eve...
November 17
Quin, thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping out with this. It's been a hectic week and the support of some good people has gone a long way to bring comfort.
November 17
November 5
John's got surgery soon and is busily editing and submitting as much fiction as possible before then.
November 5
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I'm a funny cripple with the gift of never wanting to stop thinking and the curse of the ability. I read as much as I can, and I write everything - humor, Horror, essays, short stories, microfiction, random dialogue, sports, and this quartet of Fantasy novels I may never live to finish.

My little Bathroom Monologues have reached more people than all that other beloved stuff combined. The Bathroom Monologues ( http://www.johnwiswell.blogspot.com ) is updated daily with some form of micro-fiction, monologue, list fiction or Other daily. And if you like my writing, free subscription for the daily fiction is right on the side. I like this little Six Sentences community, so much bigger than me, with so many kind and enthusiastic writers. Every six-sentence Bathroom Monologue shows up here first.
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John Wiswell

Dan's Challenge #1:???

I don't have one favorite writer, so I'm not going to name who this is. If I did a good job, you can guess it!

It's well known to those who know it that every six sentence story has seven sentences. How it got there, what it is about and if it made her point clear are matters entirely unknowable to the artist. Contemplating it is like contemplating God insofar as, as one micro-philosopher put it, "You can't do it." Not contemplating it is also ill-advised, though, as it leads to an exces… Continue

Posted on September 16, 2009 at 3:42am — 17 Comments

John Wiswell

Night King

Werewolf threw his arm onto the table and yelled, “If you think you’re the toughest thing that goes bump in the night then prove it, pretty boy!”

“How about I arm wrestle you tomorrow night?” Vampire asked with a toothy smirk. The full moon would be gone then, and the whole bar knew it.

Werewolf tried to jump the table, but Boogeyman caught him around the waist and pulled him back.

“It’s not worth it, man!”

They kept squabbling, not realizing they’d all be helpless when the Martians landed t… Continue

Posted on August 1, 2009 at 7:53pm — 4 Comments

John Wiswell

This Was How He Said Goodbye

Grandfather wanted him to be a Baptist, but the boy was one of experiences and emotions, not study, and certainly not pews. Grandfather threw the book at him, he ran from reading, and the two didn’t speak until the old man only had a few months left.

Their only conversation ran short, even though the boy said he’d recently started reading and liked Huck Finn. The dying old man barked that he needed a Bible, and Shakespeare, and Hemingway, and more and more until the boy simply walked out in tea… Continue

Posted on August 1, 2009 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

John Wiswell

Beats a Neon Sign

What punk it was that set the cross ablaze in their yard, none of them knew. There were guesses, with only so many people so low in Fleetwater, and fewer spotted fleeing neighborhood as the Cartwrights desperately tried to beat out the burning symbol of salvation. The old Cartwrights were studied Methodists, but the young were new to the game and didn’t quite grasp symbolism. The young Cartwrights went about with oil and wood, and that next morning every potential offender awoke to burning lette… Continue

Posted on July 11, 2009 at 1:04pm — 4 Comments

John Wiswell

Galactic Six Challenge - Earth Squared

Planets are square. Spaceships take photos of them with a round lens, so of course they look spherical, but if you notice there's black space around the edges of any picture, forming a square, or at least a rectangle. Even the round lens can't suppress angular planets. It's black there because that's where it's night on Mars. Even the sun is a cube. Our circular pupils can’t handle it, and deceive us to compensate.

Posted on June 29, 2009 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments

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At 10:13am on November 18, 2009, mike whitney said…
John,

Best to you, pal!! You've got a lot of people rooting for you!

At 4:21pm on November 5, 2009, quin browne said…
john--drop me a line, so i'll know how you are. if i can do anything, please let me know.


((hugs))
At 2:35pm on October 31, 2009, Absolutely*Kate said…

Tricks to your Treats and scaring up all the haunts you taunt. ~ Absolutely Spooky*Kate
At 4:28am on October 29, 2009, Absolutely*Kate said…

Wizard Wiswell ~ Through the mists I swallowed your message. I smiled. I sensated. I shimmied ~ like my sister Kate, absolutely. This *APPARITION* thanks you for giving a ghost*writer the perchance of your glance. ~ Mary?
At 4:26am on October 29, 2009, Absolutely*Kate said…
((( still good prayers ... piles of cares )))
~ Absolutely*Kate
At 1:53am on October 17, 2009, KAWFEEEE! said…
Sorry for the one-mess-fits-all, but I got blisters on my fingers tryin' to get the latest word out to y'all so you can help me live in a manner to which I'd like to become accustomed.

Hot off the cyber press, 20 years in the making (gawd, I'm not a very prolific writer, am I?) I finally got it done.

...The Twain Shall Meet, by: yours truly

"If you're a Twain fan you'll love it. If not, you will be"

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4837

And if you act now I'll include my gastrointestinal gourmet cookbook, absolutely free (if you don't already have it). but wait, there's more.... free weekend in Manila -- bring your own dinghy.

KAWFEEE
At 4:54pm on September 27, 2009, Allie said…
I LOVED Frankenstein's Monsters. Creative, funny, well written.
At 3:29pm on September 5, 2009, Jodi MacArthur said…
Hey John,
Where are those voice recorded sixes you did awhile back? I've never been able to find one.
At 3:22pm on July 27, 2009, Jeanette Cheezum said…
John, we made it to the second round along with Jodi and Angel. :0
 
 

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