Archive for 'Comedy'

The Neighbor

by Andrew Oberg 1,000 words Buy all 20 of the “Randolph’s One Bedroom” shorts from drugstorebooks.com! Available in paperback form and as a Kindle ebook. “Mother fucking asshole! Braawk, mother fucking asshole!” Randolph sighed as he closed his apartment door behind him and took off his coat and boots. ‘What a welcome home,’ he thought, [...]

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The Message

by Andrew Oberg 1,010 words Buy all 20 of the “Randolph’s One Bedroom” shorts from drugstorebooks.com! Available in paperback form and as a Kindle ebook. The first thing Randolph would always do when returning home to his one bedroom apartment, even before greeting his parrot Stan, would be to glance at his answering machine to [...]

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Buntle’s

by Andrew Oberg 1,200 words Buy all 20 of the “Randolph’s One Bedroom” shorts from drugstorebooks.com! Available in paperback form and as a Kindle ebook. Randolph had most Tuesday’s off, and he usually put these to good use by stocking up on his weekly groceries. His local supermarket, Buntle’s, was only a few blocks from [...]

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Dead Astronauts

By Patrick Whittaker 3,300 words It was Sunday morning, Ed Morgan’s favourite time of the week. Free of the tyranny of the alarm clock, he drifted on gentle currents in those restful waters that lie between sleep and wakefulness. Mary, his wife, brought him a cup of tea. Ed reluctantly sat up and took the [...]

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The Progress Review

by Andrew Oberg 2,200 words Buy all 20 of the “Randolph’s One Bedroom” shorts from drugstorebooks.com! Available in paperback form and as a Kindle ebook. “Be-be-be-beep, be-be-be-beep!” Loreen reached over to the magnetic timer stuck to the small refrigerator and pushed the clear button firmly. “Okay Randolph,” she said. “It’s 11:52 a.m. on February 2nd, [...]

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Uncle Caulk

By Paul Dayton 5,600 words I have a downright weird family. Some of them are the sort of weird you avoid, like Aunt Vampira, whose lineage is highly questionable, and others like Uncle Caulk, who is a NICE guy. He’s definitely NOT like Uncle Mouth, and is a different uncle from Uncle Diarrhoea, Uncle Pigman [...]

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