Don’t buy into or participate in the cynical, dark version of humanity that this president ran on.   When you strike out against or hate your fellow humans because you disagree with them, you are tacitly buying into his opportunistic rhetoric.   If you’re not into respecting your fellow humans as a thing unto itself,

I slide in behind her At an all-night diner. “Is this where I check my privilege?” I say.   She brokers a peace deal with her skirt, Turns in her booth, Sucks on her tooth, Says: “Baby, that ship has sailed.”   I shudder. That’s what she offers? A worn-out, semiotic ghost Aback a limpid,

Notice that even though the campaign is over, Trump supporters STILL feel the need to bring up Obama and Hillary when anyone calls out Trump or his frightening team of half-wits and robber barons. After all, what else can they do? After putting 98% of their principles and beliefs on hold so they could do

I am worried and angry about this shape-shifter being sworn in today, who regularly and without apology violates or ignores every important human-centric tenet we have all heretofore claimed to value and treasure.   I do not care to apologize for this viewpoint, which I consider sane and obvious. You may call it whining or

Corrupt as if cursed by Legion, Pure as if blessed by Three:   Legs, breasts, and souls — all bare. Marbled gooseflesh; primacy; canned air.   As far East as you can get, As much Camelot as you can take.

Explanation: I have for a while now been working on a series of short plays based loosely on historical events and/or famous historical figures. I call the collection “This Sort of Happened.” In this one, I imagine a scenario in which someone uses the famous/infamous “War of the Worlds” broadcast in 1938 as an opportunity to

I added some Pages at the top that enable you to go to specific genre categories of my writing without having to scroll a billion inches down to find what you’re looking for. Like Fiction? Then click on the Fiction button. Etcetera. Why are you reading this instead? Go! (Smart phone users: Click on that little 3-bar

We have a winner! Congrats to Don Sutton, the winner of the first ever *Writing Bad* competition! (See the Comments section below for the other 2 entries in full. They’re good too.) I enlisted three writing professors (who also like fun stuff) to judge the entries without any names attached, so it was all as

I have recruited 3 trained writing professionals to judge the entries I received. I will post the winner in the next couple of hours, and contact him/her about what prize they would like. Stay tuned!