It's obviously an allegory for America's political mess. The Libtard is dueling the Magatard on Twitter to no avail. The truth of the matter is that t...
There could also be a paradox of choice going on which leads to an admission of life being unsatisfactory despite all efforts to enjoy it. There are s...
Gratitude is likely associated with desired brain states (a feeling of satisfaction/peace/love). If love were an island, folks living on it would be b...
We are barreling toward extinction within a minute breadth of geologic time. No need to arrogate the right to end others lives. That's a punk nihilist...
What about the historical fact of polytheism with regard to gods? There's Shinto/animism, where just about everything is a god/spirit. There's the Gre...
But where does your dough ($) come from? It's a bit presumptuous to say the average wage/salaried earner worships Mammon. Maybe they see no comfortabl...
Rene Girard is the new trendy/intellectual cipher to understanding the motifs of Bible (the meaning of Christ's sacrifice). Jesus is the Last Sacrific...
Tell us what you think of his writing. If God is actually playing hand puppets, Praxis on one hand and Joe Mello on the other, I'm stoked for this gla...
Scheharazade had finally had enough. Five-hundred and seventeen nights of entertaining an infantile king, whose true character had shown itself in tim...
Well, maybe it's a bad term because as I think about it, most of what I think would might count as cultural enhancement already exists for those inter...
Do you mean unanimous or majority agreement in any community? I guess we can consider the home (or one's room) as a sovereign microstate and where bea...
I care from fear of suffering mostly. Maybe reason (if I could reason) would help to avoid unnecessary suffering. Secondarily, I care for pleasure. Th...
Think depression has quashed my ability to recall most dreams. The one's I do recall lack much of any kind of emotive charge/significance. I took a sl...
Because time is always an inescapable value factor that applies to any kind of labor. There would be no passengers if they could not expect to get to ...
But we've just established that at a certain speed only distance is metered. So if there isn't much traffic, a taxi driver can increase his daily inco...
Someone had thrown a can of what looked to be paint into the open entry of Anatol Wallich's tomb and I made the mistake of cleaning it. I slipped on t...
"But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highes...
@"Jack Cummins" Not so sure about the value of Ray's cutthroat therapist. A real grasshopper might do a better job of teaching Ray how to chill out an...
This is flash fiction. Join the thread. What does "in-moral" mean? I suppose it means not moral in the way the prefix works with inflexible. But shoul...
If a rider were paying for the taxi driver's time then wouldn't there be an incentive to slow down. Why rush off to your next customer when you can ge...
Too much of myself. Ray began another reverie. I, me, myself. His imaginary therapist, a life sized grasshopper wearing glasses and a mustache sat acr...
:up: Flash fiction could play an interesting roll in trying to learn and memorize what otherwise might be quite boring. Feel a bit more comfortable if...
Beats me. The flash fiction of the forum is of the serious, philosophical kind. Maybe there just wasn't enough philosophical content of any depth for ...
Carla dialed 999. Operator: Emergency. Which service? Carla: The one for last rights, Anglican, Papist and the one with the turban. Operator: I'm sorr...
Winston's nose quivered over the damp forest floor. The aromas of fungi composed the primary layers in the grand symphonic opera of his afternoon walk...
Beautiful prose but I wonder what Asian American readers would say or feel about this Kim Chi from Fukiuuto. The pasty Brits can handle a right good b...
Dr. Smith was just about to open the pericardial sac of a corpulent and very blue Jane Doe when he heard a loud drumming behind him. The sound was com...
Ray ought to find himself in a rich and factually detailed historical piece, at least some of the time. In 1930s Berlin he was Strahl, a zookeeper, wh...
Jesays Christi, Mary and Joseph, I feel like we've opened up a portal to a level of hell all about gutter humor. @"Praxis" you're so vicious to the Ra...
Here, dear reader, it will be efficacious to pause for the benefit and consideration of Ray's character. You may hold him in contempt for his racist c...
Using this dichotomy of winners and losers is a failure on my part. Virtuous/successful/loved/gifted people watch and read what their unlucky counterp...
Sorry, don't want to hijack your thread, so I'll stop here for others to give a try. Ray is pretty dull anyway. 200 words is a bit too limiting in my ...
"What's a cordwainer?" Ray asked no one in particular but within ear shot of a handful of pubgoers. "This is England! For Christ's sake man, everyone ...
The cold autumn rain puddled in the streets as the meeting of the prostitute weighed on Ray's mind. A troublesome and well worn vision of the 21st cen...
Ray was so fed up with his writer's block that he slammed the door on his way out of the house. How is it that I got such short stick in the brains de...
I had a strong Joseph Campbell phase and wager the story appears in one of his tomes. The myth of the origin of Kalo (Colocasia esculentus), starch st...
Gratuitous kinetic fun. A dancing flame or tornado, one of those weasel balls powered by a real weasel, rolling, smashing, spinning, skidding, jumping...
A mother who has lost her child might use these words. She says it twice. A bit odd/harsh maybe, maybe not given it's been 5 plus years. Possibly find...
Crime and Punishment (Loser has illusions of grandeur, commits murder, can't hold it together, gets caught... what a loser) Moby Dick (Losers stuck on...
Poor Laura seems to be dealing with a kind of sensory overload. Between these animal visions/hallucinations and the harsh flow of the world outside, h...
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