‘Are We There Yet?’
Reading Time: 6 minutes – FICTION – ‘It’s too far’ said the tiny voice in the back seat. ‘Yes,’ her dad responded, ‘But look how far we’ve come!’ From “He Said, She Said.” 1,500 words.
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Howard Fielding’s original short stories, longer works in serial form, parables and other stories that want to be told.
The Old Man and the Seed
Reading Time: 6 minutes – HUMOR – The old man and his wife moved to the country from the suburbs. And the squirrels moved with them. Illustrated and inspired by true events.
Read More The Old Man and the Seed‘Revolution’
Reading Time: 5 minutes – FICTION -The words are right there: ‘But if you want money for people with minds that hate/ All I can tell is brother you have to wait.’ A scene from ‘He Said, She Said.’
Read More ‘Revolution’The Moral Equivalent
Reading Time: 7 minutes – SHORT STORY – In this scene from “He Said, She Said,” the owner of the Morning Sun and Evening Star tells “the troops” just what it means to go to war with an unseen enemy.
Read More The Moral EquivalentLost
Reading Time: 4 minutes – SHORT STORY – “Well, folks, I don’t know how you got here but that’s not important now,” the sergeant said. “What matters is where you go from here.”
Read More LostLast Call
Reading Time: < 1 minute – SHORT STORY – Is there anything sadder, more pathetic, than two old men reliving their glory days?
Read More Last CallThe Super-Smart Streaming Smartscreen
Reading Time: 4 minutes – FICTION – Streaming media and artificial intelligence enter the lives of the family that grew up — and apart — on television. Now what?
Read More The Super-Smart Streaming SmartscreenThe Wild, Wired Cable TV
Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – The Wild, Wired Cable TV continues her brother and sister’s quest to make America happy again. But instead people are drifting apart.
Read More The Wild, Wired Cable TVThe Happy Little Color TV
Reading Time: 2 minutes – FICTION – For a while, Brother, Sister, Mother and Father were happy, too. They saw a wonderful world of color, parades and cartoons, football and baseball, hillbillies and Gilligans.
Read More The Happy Little Color TVThe Brave Little Television
Reading Time: 3 minutes – FICTION – The little television could see how the black-and-white, us-and-them world was making her family sad and angry, but what could she do?
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