The Rat Squeaks

A Little Bit Of Dirt "and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless." J.M. Barrie, at the end o...

Ill-Starred Day It was an ill-starred day, the day after Christmas, when a powerful wave of water hit the coastal areas of India, Sri Lanka,...

Her husband spent a good deal more time with her, of course, and that bothered me. For his part, he couldn't help being afraid that she...

Come Back, Black Sheep! One of the silliest and yet one of the most efficient ways of "losing track of a blog post" happens when...

Ladies’ Home Journals I guess this is as good a day as any to introduce five new sites to the “Intelligent Blogs” list in my sidebar. bored...

Overheard at the library exit "Degrading things like that were always happening to me in the real world," he said glumly, glanci...

Don’t Worry, The FDA Will Save Us! What about these bizarre turnings all of a sudden against all our painkillers? And while serious questio...

Season’s Greetings Christmas Ennui has arrived. Now increasingly there are people as unoccupied as I am. Except that they have been shopp...

The bored housewife was a shapely matron And wouldn't talk to me much as a rule, But she met me today by the frozen meats And said, ...

He Takes His Second Shot Even as he spoke to distract her, his senses tracked another course in his body. He continued to experience the un...