Category Archives: Amusing

HARRIS COVERLEY: Medical Marvel

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“I’ve never seen ovarian cysts in a man’s neck before,” said the doctor, snapping his gloves off.

“Pardon me,” I said, “but I came here about the rash on my hand.”

I held up the offending appendage.

He stared at it for a while and eventually declared: “…That’s athlete’s foot.”

Harris Coverley has fiction published or forthcoming in The Scribe, Trembling With Fear, and The J.J. Outre Review. He is also a Rhysling-nominated poet, with forthcoming verse in Spectral Realms, Corvus Review, The Oddville Press, and many others.

CHRISTINA MARIE DIAMOND: The Critic

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Another day of wonder with my toddler.

I can only do so many unique voices and only one at a time. That’s why Mr. Elephant and Mr. Rabbit sound alike. She’s not pleased. I take her notes and will be better prepared for tomorrow’s encore.

I should’ve minored in theater.

Christina Marie Diamond is a storyteller residing in Hong Kong with her spouse and daughter. When she’s not being creative, the Brooklyn, NY native and her family are busy traveling around Asia.

AMY: Think Before Speaking

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One day, a man asked a woman, “Can you swim?”

The woman replied, “Umm, no.”

The man exclaimed, “Ha, you’re worse than a dog.”

She asked, “Well, can you swim?”

At once he retorted, “Of course I can!”

She responded, “Then what is the difference between you and a dog?”

Amy has a passion for writing and has just recently taken an interest in 50-word stories. She hopes you enjoy her first 50-word story!

HARRY DEMAREST: Social Distancing

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It was 1918. Grandpa loved his 9 grandchildren, but the Flu was deadly, so whenever a grandchild approached, he held up his hand, and shouted, “Hey!”

His grandkids still loved him, but they never hugged.

They started calling him “Heypappy”, and that’s how it was for his remaining 25 years.

Harry Demarest wrote this true story about his great grandfather, Franklin Conklin.

MICHAEL DREZIN: The Brain that Won’t Turn Off

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Sometimes I get an idea at 2:00 in the morning, and I have to write it down or else I’ll forget it.

That happens to other people, too.

When it happens to me, I have to sleep late on the weekends.

And that is the real reason I don’t exercise.

Michael practices law in the Bronx, writes short stories on the side, and has been published in Fiction On The Web.

SHARON GERGER: Bear!

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I give him a teddy bear and tell him it will keep him company, someone to talk to, while I work.

He returns him minutes later, saying the bear won’t stop talking about scratching his bum on trees and digging for bugs.

Such is life in quarantine with my husband.

Sharon Gerger loves to write and play more than she likes to work.

GEORGE J SEARLES: Sociologist’s Burden

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A much-published academic,
Prof. Dennis Wrong was quite a guy.

Filled with truly shrewd polemic,
his several books rank pretty high.

Now this would be all well and fine
but for one point adamantine:

It was for years good ol’ Den’s plight
to be called Wrong though always right.

Author’s Note: Dennis Wrong (1923-2018) was a widely acclaimed NYU sociologist.

George J. Searles teaches English and Latin at Mohawk Valley Community College and has also taught for Pratt and The New School. The editor of Glimpse, a poetry magazine, he has published many poems in other small quarterlies, along with three volumes of literary criticism from university presses and eight editions of a widely used communications textbook. He is a former Carnegie Foundation New York State “Professor of the Year.”

ADRI PERSAD: Butterfly Sandwich

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The philosopher awoke with a start, lifting his head from the coffee table. He had been dreaming that he was an open-faced peanut butter sandwich with an exhausted drug addict passed out on him.

He peeled the peanut-buttered bread from his cheek.

Who’s to say which reality was a dream?

Adri Persad is from West Virginia, and pursues interests in writing, engineering, fitness, and general grousing. You can follow him on Twitter @36_chambuhz.

TOM O’BRIEN: Lunch With the Boss

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He’s not as smart as his haircut, nor sharp as his suit, and nowhere near as polished as his shoes. “Bright” would have to be on a triple word score before someone used it about him, but times are tough so you smile and say, “Very droll, sir, very droll.”

Tom O’Brien is an Irishman living in London. He has words on many websites and in several print anthologies. His novella Straw Gods will be published by Reflex Press this year.

EILEEN MARDRES: Eternal Day

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I look at the empty street, spot one lonely dog trotting along the sidewalk, its leash attached to a drone, and tear a page off my calendar without bothering to look. It’s still today: each hour, each event being torn off the toilet paper roll that has become our life.

Eileen is retired from working for others, now a full time Grandma and a part time writer of poetry and flash fiction.