Satire
epub |eng | 1997-10-24 | Author:Christopher Moore [Moore, Christopher]

* At Quebec, the delegates spoke of a “legislative council,” not a Senate. Throughout, I use the name that was adopted later. * Only in the 1980s did the appointive ...
( Category: Humorous November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Eric Smith [Smith, Eric]

Dressy Mode. Getting dressed up isn’t all that big a deal, and you’ll manage just fine when you’ve got the right things in your armory. • YES: A light blazer ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Virginia Ironside

9. Downsizing Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them! —Paul Claudel, ...
( Category: Essays November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Editors of Reader's Digest

* * * On the wall of the mess hall of one Marine Corps base: “This food must be good. Ten thousand flies can’t be wrong!” — JOE TURMAN * ...
( Category: Military Technology November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-27 | Author:Richard Scarsbrook

SECRET IDENTITIES “That’s one trouble with dual identities, Robin. Dual responsibilities.” — Batman, from the TV series Batman, 1966–1968 The Statistician wakes up and smells the coffee. Literally. He rubs ...
( Category: Humorous November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Alan Zweibel

Political Positions I am writing this from a squatting position. Cowering, actually. Inside a small closet in my home in Los Angeles. I spend an inordinate amount of time here ...
( Category: Essays November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-28 | Author:Courtney Hamilton [Hamilton, Courtney]

11 Did You Vest? I’m not one of those people who like to stay in contact with a boyfriend after we break up. I think the act of breaking up ...
( Category: Satire November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-22 | Author:Peter Mattei [Mattei, Peter]

2.14 After hanging up I wander into the Starbucks on Thirtieth about a block from my office and sit down and wait for Seth to swing by in his Range ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Odenkirk [Odenkirk, Bob]

Famous Quotations—Unabridged “You must be the change you wish to see in the world. If you want things to be more fun, bring toys and Frisbees with you. If you ...
( Category: Essays November 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Aasif Mandvi [Mandvi, Aasif]

THE CHILI PEPPER AT THE AGE OF SIXTY, my father was fired from his part-time job as a Verizon customer service representative for using profanity. Even though she had heard ...
( Category: Essays November 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Roger Ma

Goggles When fighting in close combat with a zombie, there is always a remote risk of having contaminated fluid spray against you, the chances of which increase dramatically depending on ...
( Category: Parodies November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Thomas Mann

CHAPTER FOUR Every day now, the bare-skinned, fiery-cheeked god piloted his heat-breathing chariot across the sky’s expanse, his golden locks waving in the simultaneously storming east wind. Silky white radiance ...
( Category: German November 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Leanne Shirtliffe

WE CAN USE THE MONEY FROM THE KIDS’ ACCOUNT TO PAY THE CREDIT CARD BILL Chris’s parents volunteered to look after William and Vivian at our house that fall so ...
( Category: United States November 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-02-06 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

Leopold Wapter P.S. If you have not yet seen the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank. I strongly advise that you do so. Mrs. Wapter and I were ...
( Category: Satire November 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-22 | Author:Philip Roth [Roth, Philip]

* * * “‘Tzena, Tzena,’ 1950.” Zuckerman was waiting for the light to change on the come across from Campbell’s. The title had been announced from just behind him. Unknown ...
( Category: Jewish November 21,2014 )