Fiction, Satire
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The Pope Moves to Manyberries
by Alan Donnell
The Pope walks out of the Vatican and into the rest of the world. He quickly becomes more famous than he ever was, and sightings of the Pope are reported across the globe including The Last Ranchman bar in Manyberries, a village in the lower...
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Sir Middling U
by Kevin Crowley
A cheeky tale of campus folly! Things aren’t going well for James Duffy. The beleaguered communications director of Sir Richard Middling University is struggling to do the right thing while navigating the quirks and minefields of campus politics....
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Look Up
by Kenneth Thompson
These are short stories. Ranging from a Hit Man becoming infatuated with the person he is meant to kill to a person getting into a philosophical debate with their executioner to answering the fundamental nature of consciousness, these stories...
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The Paranoian
by Ray Sproule
There’s a rap on Lester Netherman’s apartment door. It’s a little blue man from the planet Paranoia named Pymm. And so begins a series of misadventures culminating in a bizarre journey to a remote desert region of Nevada. There, after an...
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You Might Feel a Little Prick
by Reuben Leder
A screaming snowman plummets from the top floor of Cleveland Mercy Hospital—a decaying relic built before the first pandemic—and disappears into the snow drifts below. By the time his thawed corpse is discovered the following spring, a body count...
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Imagination Drift: Space for Evermore
by Subhas
IMAGINATION DRIFT: SPACE FOR EVERMORE is the conclusion of the trilogy. The protagonists are spirited energy forms and their stories merge the human and animal worlds with all its rationalities and irrationalities; its realities and fantasies set...
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Dear Mommy's Boss
A Kid's Perspective of the Corporate Workplace by Sydney W. Joshua
Looking for a way to hint to your boss that perhaps it’s time to cut you some slack in the childcare department? Or perhaps you’ve been searching for a way to thank your accommodating boss because they've shown that they "get it". Dear Mommy’s...
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The Last Smoker on Earth
and the End of Literature by Basil Dillon-Malone
All great writers in history were smokers but now smoking had been banned globally effective New Year’s Day 2009. The Act of Cessation was launched during the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations with dire implications because of...
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Ordinary
The humorous life journey of a guy named Ron by Charles D. Davies
Based loosely on the author’s own life, this is the fictionalized account of the experiences of a man growing up in Canada in the ‘60s, with all of the complications, Playboy magazines, and bell-bottom jeans that implies. Ordinary takes the...
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Ace McCool
by Jack Desmarais
Ace McCool is an over-the-top spoof of the airline industry. It relates the hilarious misadventures of a fly-by-night, corner-cutting airline called Down East International, based in Moncton, New Brunswick. The stories start with Ace McCool, a...
