Creative Writing
Click on the titles below to read each story.
Blame It On
the Rain
a humorous short story about assigning blame, and God, and how they are
related - or not.
"God
awoke and rambled onto his porch. The rain soaked his driveway. I
could make it a sunny day, God thought, but if I scheduled rain, I must
have had
a good reason for it..."
plural
a short story about the
relationship between 2 very close people.
"...Morphey turned his
head slowly, successfully confirming that
it was indeed the sun that was casting the rays of light that now were
scattered about the shag rug in his bedroom. Rising seemed particularly
out of
the question, so he settled for rolling over, wondering what time it
was,
remembering that he didn’t care, and gazing back at the spot
on his bedside
table where a clock was not..."
The Enemy Gap
This story takes place
in 1989, just after the fall of communism, asking what the U.S.
information agnecies would do in the future?
"...The United
States has always had enemies. It needs enemies. The U.S. has survived
because
it has always known it was the best. This Superiority complex has been
sustained by always keeping someone inferior, whether they really are
or not.
When we lost one enemy, there was always another to take its place. The
U.S.
now has a Respect surplus..."
The Three Little Communist Pigs.
A retelling of the story of the three little pigs, from a cold war
capitalist point of view.
"
Many times
when the liberal media
tells of the Wolf and Three Pigs, they are unfairly biased towards the
pigs. In
fact these pigs are simply heathen Godless communists who seek to
undermine the
wolf’s way of life. What follows is the objective view of
what happened in the aforementioned
incident..."
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