Wife: I can't be held responsible for anything I say during menopause.
Husband: But you've been menopausal since the COVID year.
Wife: Or even before.
Husband: I'm not really comfortable with this.
Wife: Oh! Well, I am so glad that YOU aren't comfortable! Nice that it's all about YOUR feelings.
Husband: Shit. Walked right into that one.
Juan Rulfo "Pedro Páramo" Translated by Sayers
"I really don't believe men when they say they want a sexy woman, or a woman who is hot. I mean, men aren't really that discerning - men will stick their dicks into a hole in a TREE, for fugssake!"
"Well ... not if the hole is all dried dead wood. It's gonna have to be at least a little mossy."
"EW! You are completely disgusting!"
2024-0419
He sang “Start a fucking revolution” to the tune of “Glory Glory Hallelujah” in his car and fed it to his Instagram. He had driven up from Florida the day before and was now sitting in New York City, a place filled with congestion and people and pamphlets and fences and he could feel the conspiracy crushing him with every breath.
He had a box of pamphlets that he’d printed. The people needed to be told that they are being duped, led, controlled, and ultimately, would be abandoned. If only the people would listen, but they never seemed to listen. The people only wandered around in their own worlds, their own little minds, marching back and forth from their jobs to their homes to restaurants and high school football games like ants. Like mindless ants.
They would have to pay attention. The jury selection for the trial was underway and there were so many media cameras, he would get a perfect shot. He would light up like a beacon on their cameras. The media wasn’t good for much anyway, sending out nothing but lies and foam to keep the brains in fog, but at least today they were on a live feed, and they wouldn’t be able to pull away from the light.
He got out of the car, with his box of pamphlets and the liquid fire. He was Prometheus. The bringer of fire the bringer of light the voice crying in the wilderness, “I am come to bring you light, to awake all you who are sleeping in darkness!”
He walked to the center of the small square, threw the pamphlets in the air, and doused himself in the liquid fire and lit the spark and suddenly he was light and with light there was pain and such pain it was such exquisite pain and he screamed and in the pain of the scream there was truth, naked truth, and now at last, everyone would awake to the Truth and the Pain and the Light
So, our affair. Did it maim you, too?
Did ... you just quote Taylor Swift?
She speaks for a generation.
Yours, not mine, kiddo.
You seemed to enjoy her music those lunches on the way to the hotel.
#Erotica280 83 Affair
"When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror."
— Terry Pratchett
universalmom
March 10, 2012, 1:14 pm
He's an amazing author.
MmeScherzo
August 20, 2013, 1:38 pm
Sounds like a quote from Solzhenitsyn.
ronasid
September 4, 2015, 1:40 pm
You are missed
xenia
September 17, 2018, 10:46 pm
This reminds m a quote from Solzhenitsyn found on this site: "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again." (from The First Circle)
Majka
October 22, 2019, 10:25 pm
Don't know who said it but "A person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose or everything to lose."
mohamm1
February 17, 2020, 9:28 pm
And now it seems that everything has been said.
gracefulghost
November 24, 2021, 8:47 pm
I'm terrified that they're not through yet....
In short (as the stories are short) this IS a good read.
Flash Fiction, to be truly effective, depends on the twist, the turn, and the economy of word usage actually makes that more challenging than it may seem, and this writer has a fantastic hold on the form. Her stories have dark twists, thought-provoking twists, romantic twists. And each one leaves the reader with a smile, or a tiny shock, or simply saying, "whoaaaa!"
It is obvious that these stories were originally posted on Twitter. The hashtags have also been left in, which, for a reader unfamiliar with Twitter (if there are any) will find the hashtag a bit confusing, which detracts from the story. What would make this a five-star book would be a reworking of the stories for a book format: allow the writer to re-write the stories (as needed) beyond the Tweet character limit, reformat the pages, possibly even add titles, so that the eye doesn't run the stories together (one's brain may try to read them as a long thread instead of individual stories)
Again, these stories are delightful, and yes, they need to be read by many more people. This reader looks forward to a future edition of this tome where these wonderful tales are allowed a little more room to breathe, stretch, and become the best versions of themselves.
The Guilty (2021)
This was a pleasant surprise.
Also, I shouldn't read Rotten Tomatoes reviews, because this one time, I saw that the audience either loved this movie or hated it - no middle ground. And the disparity lies wholly in the setting: the setting of the entire movie is a 911 call center and most every camera angle is focused on Jake Gyllenhall's face.
So, as you may surmise, the people who didn't like it call it "boring! Fake! hates the police!" when really what they want to see is Speed, Rush, Ambulance, Fast and Furious 154, or John Wick 75.
But this is NOT "My Dinner with Andre"
This is indeed an action flick. The action simply takes place in the voices and the words and the inscrutability of Jake Gyllenhall's expression.
In short: Gyllenhall is a beat cop who, for some unknown reason, is stationed at a 911 call center and this is definitely NOT his forté. People skills - ZERO. Empathy and this character have never seemingly been in the same vicinity.plo
Then, he gets a call from a woman claiming to be abducted and is in a truck. Then there are increasingly intense twists and turns that eventually turn the story on its head.
No this is not a visual movie. Nothing is handed to you, as it is in, say, a Transformers movie. You do have to put part of yourself into the action to visualize what is going on ... on that level, this movie almost has a feel of what pre-TV Radio programs must have felt like, and when you can visualize the action through the voices and the dialogue, what plays out in your mind is most likely more more intimate and intense than anything they could have shown you onscreen.
Notes for Deacon
Efesios 6:19
Gen 3:15 - escojieron y esconde
Dios es el primer misionero
?Donde estas tu?
Lucas 6:12-16 - disciples
Simon Peter/Andrew
Jacobo/Juan
Felipe/Bartholemew
Matthew/Thomas
Jacob Alfeo/Simon Zelote
Judas Thaddeus/Judas Iscariot
Marcos 3:14
Lucas 9:1-12, 10:1
Hechos 8:4-8
Matthew 28:19
We'd gotten the residents all out safely, and had even been able to save some our equipment. The Fire Brigade was en route, and we gathered at the gates.
The residents huddled, giggling insanely.
Finally I could refrain no longer. "OK," I said, "who sneaked Nell a lighter?!"
