The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty “It’s just a flesh wound! Come back here & I’ll bite your leg off!” “Sir, no time for Python. Only by some freak of the geometry that the shockwave left six floors. Obviously no nuke. Maybe a MOAB?” “Yeah, this means that I can quit working on that stupid budget slide deck!” “Look: […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty READ PART 1 OVER AT Victory Girls When the mob came to the power plant, that Master’s Degree in Improvisational Propaganda came in to focus for Stevens. “My friends, I have struggled against the weight of Ungeheuer’s greedy capitalist inclinations for years. His oppression killed Carl Simmons outright, and drove both Henry Jones […]

Halloween Edition: Friday Fiction, 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty On that fateful Autumn eve ‘Neath a moon so full and bright Moon maidens would dance and weave Offering an eldritch sight That was until Saint Thorgun came Caught them at their pagan toil Dared their awful prance to tame And their magic cloth to coil For though their wanton wiles were strong […]

Sincere Opinion, Epic Troll, Or Both?

by Smitty SQLite (“sequel light”) is used all over the place, for example, within the FireFox web browser to hold configuration settings. It is “Small. Fast. Reliable. Choose any three.” It’s also public domain. Truly a wonder of our day. The author, D. Richard Hipp, apparently does just fine by offering support for the product. […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty He buried the accelerator pedal in the floorboard. The truck was already redlined. He is concentration was all on the road; the destination, the hospital a few miles ahead, was a fixed point. He seemed to move the vehicle by force of will against the wind to get there. The storm outside was […]

Why I Still Twitter

by Smitty The sheer blarney of it all: Celebery is that green stuff with zero nutritional value, because it's all fiber and water. — I Came; I Saw; I Got Over Macho Grande [K?] (@smitty_one_each) October 16, 2018 i think you mean celery. celebery is that brand of chocolate that’s the second-largest confectionary brand after […]

9 Second Explanation Of US Politics

by Smitty This has been all over Twitter: We need to discuss this clip as a metaphor for our political situation. "Cry to God" is the @GOP, which would normally just curl up in the fetal position when struck by the Sissy Punch Left. Whereas "Repent, Sinner" Trump catches the sissy punch and lets the […]

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

by Smitty The downpour masked the tears of despair. After six months in the brothel, she was dead inside. She ached from the abuse as she limped through the neon jungle to the little closet that was hers. It was only a matter of time before the exposure to strangers gave her one of the […]

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