Random Brain Droppings

F3 Prompt:  Use the following words in your story, or in the title, or both:  Gunshot, train, mime, balcony, monkey, rain Genre:  Any...

Many in my misbegotten family wonder why I am a liberal, at best they feel I am naive and lack some basic understanding of how the wor...

  It was close to four   o’clock in the morning in the winter of 1993 as I drove south on U.S. Highway Seventeen heading towards the s...

    There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.  ~Author Unknown The tension between...

 (Author's note: The following is all true, really I mean ever word. Now it did not happen all at one time.) There is an old saying...

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed...

Flash Fiction Prompt:   Tell us a story about a character facing the end of something–a job, a relationship, their sanity…  What is act...