[ ]   [ ]   [ ]                        [ ]      [ ]   [ ]

Republican Party - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 11:35pm
 
Wordle - daily game - NoEnzLefttoSplit - Apr 18, 2025 - 10:37pm
 
YouTube: Music-Videos - Steely_D - Apr 18, 2025 - 9:57pm
 
Lyrics That Remind You of Someone - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 9:50pm
 
The Obituary Page - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 9:15pm
 
Cryptic Posts - Leave Them Guessing - GeneP59 - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:40pm
 
Radio Paradise Comments - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:23pm
 
Immigration - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 7:05pm
 
Dialing 1-800-Manbird - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 6:43pm
 
Need A Thread Killed? - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 6:25pm
 
• • • BRING OUT YOUR DEAD • • •  - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 5:55pm
 
Live Music - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 5:49pm
 
Music Videos - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 5:19pm
 
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •  - oldviolin - Apr 18, 2025 - 4:54pm
 
Commercializing Facebook - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 4:49pm
 
April 2025 Photo Theme - Red - fractalv - Apr 18, 2025 - 4:34pm
 
Trump - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 4:34pm
 
M.A.G.A. - Red_Dragon - Apr 18, 2025 - 3:55pm
 
Today in History - R_P - Apr 18, 2025 - 3:26pm
 
Positive Thoughts and Prayer Requests - Antigone - Apr 18, 2025 - 3:04pm
 
Fascism In America - RedTopFireBelow - Apr 18, 2025 - 3:01pm
 
New Music - black321 - Apr 18, 2025 - 1:24pm
 
Comics! - Steely_D - Apr 18, 2025 - 11:04am
 
Upcoming concerts or shows you can't wait to see - Steely_D - Apr 18, 2025 - 10:49am
 
One Partying State - Wyoming News - ScottFromWyoming - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:58am
 
NY Times Strands - maryte - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:57am
 
NYTimes Connections - maryte - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:48am
 
How's the weather? - GeneP59 - Apr 18, 2025 - 8:40am
 
Breaking News - Red_Dragon - Apr 18, 2025 - 6:07am
 
NASA & other news from space - NoEnzLefttoSplit - Apr 18, 2025 - 12:36am
 
Ask an Atheist - Lazy8 - Apr 17, 2025 - 9:12pm
 
USA! USA! USA! - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 8:22pm
 
Song of the Day - oldviolin - Apr 17, 2025 - 8:11pm
 
Sorry Bill/Alanna - powdapilot - Apr 17, 2025 - 5:10pm
 
Strips, cartoons, illustrations - Red_Dragon - Apr 17, 2025 - 3:37pm
 
Cinema - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 2:53pm
 
Israel - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 2:24pm
 
Words that should be put on the substitutes bench for a year - Proclivities - Apr 17, 2025 - 1:44pm
 
Ukraine - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 12:01pm
 
260,000 Posts in one thread? - oldviolin - Apr 17, 2025 - 11:51am
 
Freedom of speech? - R_P - Apr 17, 2025 - 11:17am
 
Things that are just WRONG - GeneP59 - Apr 17, 2025 - 11:08am
 
the Todd Rundgren topic - Steely_D - Apr 17, 2025 - 10:43am
 
Name My Band - DaveInSaoMiguel - Apr 17, 2025 - 10:35am
 
Bug Reports & Feature Requests - Steve - Apr 17, 2025 - 9:04am
 
DQ (as in 'Daily Quote') - black321 - Apr 17, 2025 - 8:07am
 
Simpler Times???? - folkes.tom - Apr 17, 2025 - 6:46am
 
Little known information... maybe even facts - Coaxial - Apr 17, 2025 - 5:47am
 
Philly - Proclivities - Apr 17, 2025 - 4:47am
 
Flower Pictures - MrDill - Apr 17, 2025 - 4:43am
 
Economix - Lazy8 - Apr 16, 2025 - 8:48pm
 
Bad Poetry - oldviolin - Apr 16, 2025 - 8:46pm
 
Musky Mythology - R_P - Apr 16, 2025 - 8:42pm
 
Canada - R_P - Apr 16, 2025 - 6:19pm
 
Other Medical Stuff - Isabeau - Apr 16, 2025 - 6:01pm
 
Skeptix - R_P - Apr 16, 2025 - 7:13am
 
NY Times Spelling Bee - Proclivities - Apr 16, 2025 - 6:53am
 
News of the Weird - GeneP59 - Apr 15, 2025 - 4:44pm
 
Things You Thought Today - Red_Dragon - Apr 15, 2025 - 4:03pm
 
Lyrics that strike a chord today... - skyguy - Apr 15, 2025 - 12:12pm
 
Framed - movie guessing game - Steely_D - Apr 15, 2025 - 9:13am
 
Books - R_P - Apr 14, 2025 - 4:13pm
 
President(s) Musk/Trump - Proclivities - Apr 14, 2025 - 12:53pm
 
Quick! I need a chicken... - oldviolin - Apr 14, 2025 - 9:32am
 
Mixtape Culture Club - ColdMiser - Apr 14, 2025 - 5:46am
 
Country Up The Bumpkin - oldviolin - Apr 13, 2025 - 2:25pm
 
Apple Music app no longer showing song playing - audiophilepj - Apr 13, 2025 - 1:16pm
 
Derplahoma! - Red_Dragon - Apr 13, 2025 - 10:35am
 
Spambags on RP - Proclivities - Apr 13, 2025 - 5:06am
 
Is there any DOG news out there? - kcar - Apr 12, 2025 - 6:14pm
 
Talk Behind Their Backs Forum - winter - Apr 12, 2025 - 5:22pm
 
Strange signs, marquees, billboards, etc. - DaveInSaoMiguel - Apr 12, 2025 - 12:56pm
 
PUNS - EUROPE - charlimoran917 - Apr 12, 2025 - 10:06am
 
Congress - miamizsun - Apr 12, 2025 - 8:03am
 
The Corporation - Red_Dragon - Apr 11, 2025 - 12:25pm
 
Index » Entertainment » Books » Short Stories Page: 1, 2  Next
Post to this Topic
Proclivities

Proclivities Avatar

Location: Paris of the Piedmont
Gender: Male


Posted: Jun 24, 2015 - 7:21am

Mr. Short
DaveInSaoMiguel

DaveInSaoMiguel Avatar

Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA
Gender: Male


Posted: Jan 15, 2015 - 7:23am

 miamizsun wrote:
Classic short story by American master Ambrose Bierce.

Kurt Vonnegut called this story the greatest short story in American literature.

 

I really liked this 1962 French version that was originally introduced as a Twilight Zone episode also.


miamizsun

miamizsun Avatar

Location: (3283.1 Miles SE of RP)
Gender: Male


Posted: Jan 15, 2015 - 5:08am

Classic short story by American master Ambrose Bierce.

Kurt Vonnegut called this story the greatest short story in American literature.




Umberdog

Umberdog Avatar

Location: In my body.
Gender: Male


Posted: Aug 31, 2012 - 9:30pm


Manbird

Manbird Avatar

Location: La Villa Toscana
Gender: Male


Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 10:48pm

 oldviolin wrote:


Is she holding a hypodermic??? Because, if she is...
 
Jim Pluckett, you got you some ringworm. 
oldviolin

oldviolin Avatar

Location: esse quam videri
Gender: Male


Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 10:07pm

 Manbird wrote:
Oldviolin (Jim Puckett) and Evelyn Knudsen: June, 1964
Evelyn made soup for OV after she enlisted his help to rearrange
her living room furniture.  Evelyn moved from Tuscon to Lakewood, CO
and worked as a teller for the BCU credit union where she met Oldviolin.



 

 

Is she holding a hypodermic??? Because, if she is...
Umberdog

Umberdog Avatar

Location: In my body.
Gender: Male


Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 7:15pm

 Manbird wrote:
Oldviolin (Jim Puckett) and Evelyn Knudsen: June, 1964
Evelyn made soup for OV after she enlisted his help to rearrange
her living room furniture.  Evelyn moved from Tuscon to Lakewood, CO
and worked as a teller for the BCU credit union where she met Oldviolin.



 

 
So, who's Debbi?
Manbird

Manbird Avatar

Location: La Villa Toscana
Gender: Male


Posted: Apr 21, 2011 - 5:20pm

Oldviolin (Jim Puckett) and Evelyn Knudsen: June, 1964
Evelyn made soup for OV after she enlisted his help to rearrange
her living room furniture.  Evelyn moved from Tuscon to Lakewood, CO
and worked as a teller for the BCU credit union where she met Oldviolin.



 


Dave_Mack

Dave_Mack Avatar

Location: Ball of Confusion
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 3:36pm

lunar1963

lunar1963 Avatar

Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 2:12pm

honeygirl

honeygirl Avatar

Location: a tract of land... New England
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 2:10pm

callum

callum Avatar

Location: its wet, windy and chilly....take a guess
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 2:08pm

fureanbode

fureanbode Avatar

Location: hungary
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 2:07pm

honeygirl

honeygirl Avatar

Location: a tract of land... New England
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 2:01pm

lunar1963

lunar1963 Avatar

Location: Netherlands
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 1:57pm

Thea

Thea Avatar

Location: Sacramento
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 1:34pm

honeygirl

honeygirl Avatar

Location: a tract of land... New England
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 12:40pm

honeygirl

honeygirl Avatar

Location: a tract of land... New England
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 12:37pm

fureanbode

fureanbode Avatar

Location: hungary
Gender: Male


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 12:06pm

Thea

Thea Avatar

Location: Sacramento
Gender: Female


Posted: Nov 17, 2005 - 10:56am

Page: 1, 2  Next