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Beevolution.

The leaders of the drones rose up and called for a change in the social order: no more queens! The queen, Hymenoptera, took this in stride. First, it was only the drones, which might live or die for all that anybody cared, if only they mated when they ought. Second, She was just as glad […]

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Machine

If you could make a machine to do anything, straight out of dreams if necessary, what would it be? It must do something, that is, it cannot “make world peace” — but it might make a pill that caused the people who took it to be unable to resolve a conflict with violence for the

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Cherry Limeade Trifle.

Okay, here’s the story: one day, somebody screwed up a cake. Oh, no! Then, suddenly, inspiration hit. Add pudding to broken cake pieces, decorate with fruit… Voila! The trifle was born. I’ve been trying to figure out a birthday dessert to make for someone at work. When I asked her, she said her favorite dessert

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Visitation.

I cried. At first, he just looked dead. Then I noticed they’d left his laugh lines in place, and he looked like himself. And then I cried some more. Bob came in, and we talked until I was laughing as much as I was crying…after a while, Bob said he had to go to a

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Norse Myth.

If you don’t go to midnight mass on Christmas eve, the trolls will come and steal you away. Or else, you are a troll yourself. This even applies to shepherds who had to keep watch over the sheep (apparently it’s impossible for a heathen to become a shepherd, as they’re a consistently pious bunch). I

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Anthem!

One of the chicas at work said she’d awakened one morning to have her boyfriend asking her, “Who is DeAnna?” “DeAnna? From work?” “I don’t know,” he’d said. “But last night, you sat straight up in bed and said, ‘That’s her anthem!’ “‘Whose anthem?’ “‘DeAnna’s,’ you said. Like I should have known already. “‘DeAnna from

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