Son, I have appendicitis, and it is slowly killing me. The doctors say that I have at most two weeks to live. My appendix is inflamed and will eventually burst, flooding the nearby tissue with dangerous bacteria. There is nothing they can do. Well, there are radical ‘surgeries’, and medications I can take, like prescription…
Category: shorts
extremely short stories, dialogs or scenes
I Know What You Did For Lunch
It was 9am, and Dick moved with purpose down the aisle from his office to the lab. As he passed the empty cubes of his subordinates he felt a grim satisfaction. They are all in the lab, he thought, and that means they are all working. But how hard are they working? And are they doing everything I told…
Gutt the Incredible
Gutt sat at his desk and watched the animated radar images of the approaching storm. It was a big one; he would have to leave early to stay ahead of it. At that thought he felt a twinge. Someone was going to try to foil his attempt to leave early. He felt it in the…
Infinite Confidence
Todd Park was tired. Not from lack of sleep, although he had tossed and turned all night. He was tired of his job. He didn’t know what he wanted to do, but he knew he had to do something else. His real name wasn’t Todd either, it was Myung-Dae, but Todd was much easier, and…
Hillary Ad Idea
Somebody please turn the following into a youtube videoand post the pointer to it here. [Start Hillary “3:am Call” ad video.][Voiceover:]The last time Hillary made a 3:am call to the oval office, it was an embarrassement to the entire country. Please don’t give the Clintons the opportunity to embarrass this great country yet again. Keep…
Messages Seen During System Boot-up
RPT: Multi-Processor environment starting PR1: Processor 1 starting PR0: Processor 0 starting PR1: Hi, I’m Processor 1. I’m in charge. PR0: No, I’m Processor 0, so I’m in charge. PR2: Processor 2 taking control of system functions PR1: What do you mean by system functions? PR2: Memory, I/O, everything. PR0: No way, I’m taking control…
Apartment Hunting
‘I’m looking for a one-bedroom with a garage.’ “Oh, a garage. We have some nice two-bedrooms with garages.” ‘No, that’s too expensive. I’m looking for a one-bedroom.’ “Oh, so you don’t want a garage?” ‘No, I do want a garage.’ “Well, we have some three-bedrooms with garages – one with a double garage.” ‘Three bedrooms!?…