Humor
Marked By an Owl
“Tell us something interesting about you. Tell us something that no one knows.” Marilyn, the Corporate Team Building Facilitator prodded. She really leaned into the prompt. It seemed to Marta that Marilyn was sending out strong Barbara Walters vibes. If Marilyn was hoping to summon tears, she’d be disappointed.
By Molly Valentin4 years ago in Fiction
A Letter to the Brown Admissions Board
My dear Brown University Admittance Committee, Thank you for your interest in reading my application. I suppose aren’t reading it so much with an interest in me, but rather in keeping up with your important work at your important person job. Nevertheless, thanks for showing up. That’s often the hardest part.
By Cameron Evans4 years ago in Fiction
An Owl Affair
David angrily speeds down an empty road. He was driving so fast that if a cop saw him, there was no way he was talking his way out of getting a ticket. The twenty-nine-year-old behind the wheel was so pumped up on rage that every five seconds he would punch the steering wheel or smack the rearview mirror.
By ethan chen4 years ago in Fiction
Dinner with Friends
Magilla Gorman arrived late to Girls Night Out, and slid his very large frame into the booth. That was okay because they always left one of the end seats of the booth open for him, seeing as how Magillla was claustrophobic. How bad? The eminent psychiatrist, the best in Geyserville had asked him that, explaining that with the new phobia cures you can get over almost anything. Magilla told him he couldn’t wear a coat in the car, even unzipped. The psychiatrist, as Magilla told it, lowered his voice to a semi-hypnotically suggestive whisper, and said, “Just stay away from closed-in spaces and it shouldn’t be a problem.”
By Paul A. Merkley4 years ago in Fiction
