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Category: POINTLESS STORIES for People with Vast Amounts of EXTRA TIME

This Is The Combination To Aunt Jane’s Safe

This is how I used to look at life a couple of months ago before my writing fell almost to zero. Here, with no regrets, is the perfect/current publication schedule: Recaps/Updates/ancillary topics anything I want, or possibly nothing on Saturdays. Bulletins on Sundays, or at odd and irregular times. Possibly nothing at all on Sundays, too. Make-up Work Monday published Mondays (For peeps who did absolutely no quality reading over the weekend) Newsletters for the Shy (previously called…

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Friday Struggle Bus, week 39

Is this lady smiling because she has a couple of outstanding warrants in Ohio, and the police can’t get the bus to pull over, and they are just about to cross into Indiana? The Struggle for Answers And to Bob, from Columbus, no, not EVERYBODY is experiencing a struggle right now, thus currently making us appear wildly insensitive. Some people have what is called a committee consciousness where we are advised by different voices to…

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Medium Writer Ruins Twitter, Gets 20% Increase in Twitter Followers

I read all the time. When I don’t write. When I write, I try to use Twitter to announce new stories. A couple of years ago I read that one way to increase Twitter followers was to find a similar or interesting person and follow them. As you do, I was instructed to just leave an invitation for them, by tweeting “Thanks in advance for the follow.” Some did. Some did not. Some said they would…

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Looks Like a Graduate Student has Rented the House Next Door

He is moving in the typical stuff- a desk, a box of books, aome LPs, a bong, a hookah, you know… But these newer students also have tiki-torches, very important to graduate work, things we never thought of. But, of course, as students in an earlier time, our apartments were tucked into basements and attics, and we really had little use for them. The 26 ft truck is from Alaska with just boxes of books…

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An Article Every Day, A Short Story Every Week, and A Book Every Month – A Tale of Two Franzes

This will be quite an undertaking. I need to rest. But I did not say they had to be long. Nor of the highest quality. Only that they would exist. In Vienna, Mrs Llszt was often heard to say “Franny, give me one more solid hour on that harpsichord, and you can go play video games.” Another Franz, Franz Joseph Haydn was quite given to flatulence. It is said his attacks were so frequent and…

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