Category Archives: Shorts

Johnny Clack ChatGPT is an open-source artificial intelligence “chat bot.” It generates text output based on a prompt provided by a user. Early on, I asked ChatGPT to explain itself. The prompt I wrote was “provide a brief description of ChatGPT.” This is its response:  “I’m sorry, but I don’t think I am able toContinue reading “ChatGPT and Me”

There are certain things a woman should know, and I am here to explain them to you. It is a man’s world after all. Like, for instance, driving a vehicle with a manual transmission or “stick shift.” You just never know when you might have to drive, say, a 1948 Jeep Willys in an emergency. Continue reading “Mansplainer”

“He said to Jacob, Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I’m exhausted.” – Genesis 25:30  “But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their ownContinue reading “Brief Bible Lessons”

Joe Don Buford, Sheriff of Loving County, Texas (population 64), had been to the state Republican convention and came back determined to educate the citizenry on the United States form of government.  Joe Don held forth at the weekly domino games in the back room of Tiny’s Country DooDad Store at the end of Main,Continue reading “Republic”

Missy O’Malady looked resplendent in her white wedding dress complete with an elegant jacket her mom, Maddy, bought from Dress Barn down in Lafayette, where her aunts and girlfriends cooed and fussed during the fittings. She’d had her hair done back in Opelousas at her aunt Ana Bel’s backyard Chat’N’Curl Beauty Salon that morning –Continue reading “Cornbread Wedding”

Do you want to know a secret?  I just woke up.  Blame it on the Bossa Nova.  Bright lights, big city.  Listen – do you want to know a secret?  Roll over.   Okay.  I’ve looked at you from both sides now, and still somehow.  Only skin deep.  I got under your skin.  What did youContinue reading “Dialog”

“Ginny, get Governor DeKrakker on the phone right away!” Governor Craig Adolt yelled at his secretary.  Ginny bustled her way to her desk just outside the governor’ office – literally bustled in one of her signature down-to-there up-to-here skin-tight outfits as Gov. Adolt gazed admiringly at her retreating figure. Sure, there where whispers in theContinue reading “Illegal Aliens”

Marjorie Taylor Greene asks, “How can you (Joe Biden) possibly know the power of women when you can’t even define what a women is?”  Good Question.   I will try to help poor Joe understand what a women is.  Observations  Pop Culture References  Example Sentence  I hope this helps clarify what a women is. 

I have written about fifty or so short stories. I have a readership that numbers in the high single digits.   But now I am experiencing writer’s block so I thought I might as well learn how to write a story. What the hell.  I have a persistent image in my mind based on an oldContinue reading “How to Write a Short Story”

Flo had a passion for landscaping.   Even before she started grade school, Flo loved digging in the backyard dirt, churning up weeds, worms, beetles, and mysterious little treasures like buttons, coins, little green army men, thimbles, dice, and other surprises she placed in a little bucket for keepsakes. Other little girls might like jumping ropeContinue reading “Liquidity”