I recently listened to Mignon Fogarty’s podcast “Grammar Girl.” That episode was about ‘Feghoots.’ I’d never heard of them, but she explained that they are short, mostly humorous stories that build to a pun at the end. It’s like a bad dad joke with a pun based on a familiar phrase or title. This week I’m giving ‘feghoots’ a try.…
Threshold
A/N: On the writing platform TheProse, creator THATGRLZOE7 wrote a story called ‘CLARA.’ It’s about a woman who discovered an out-of-place iron gate that leads to a sentient-feeling garden, showing streams of her past and a possible future. A mysterious woman explains what the place is, but no more. I commented that I loved the story but wanted to know…
A Life Change
In my story ‘The Clock House,’ a future Timekeeper lost his job. I decided to do a follow-up story when my meet-up writing group presented me with the challenge theme: Life. The following plausibility may have happened to Delbert: The ChronoScope projector on Delbert’s living room mantle didn’t tick like the last outdated clock of the world, it pulsed. When…
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