Category Archives: Poetry / Fiction
Paper planes and the coming Caliphate.
What do paper planes have to do with the coming Caliphate? Well, if you bear with me, watch the chalk board, I am going to blow your mind.
Barry’s advice to new parents
When your baby wants a bottle, Do not curse and do not throttle. Drag your butt from where you’re staying and make nice to stop the braying. And when your baby wants to sleep, tiptoe quietly, make not a peep. … Continue reading
THREE NEW VERY SHORT STORIES
EASTERNER I leave Kettle Cove, heading southwest beneath a cloudless sky. The sun is hovering over my shoulder. I’m on a port tack with a moderate easterly wind and rolling swells. I’m abreast Singing Beach when I see her heading … Continue reading
MY SOCIALIST BAR MITZVAH
Fifty years ago, when the time came for my bar mitzvah, I was not given the opportunity to spout off from the bimah at the local synagogue like my contemporaries. My mother held that religion was the opiate of the … Continue reading
PINCUS THE SHAMUS
Rabbi Moishe Hunter had habits one could count on. Every morning after spending precisely one hour on his treadmill and another quarter hour unwinding in a steaming shower, he’d wrestle a pair of blue jeans over his fifty-four inch girth, … Continue reading
