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Moo by Jane Smiley
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-24 | Author:Jane Smiley

42 Leben und Arbeit EVERY DAY, Dean Jellinek had to dig a little deeper to haul up the remaining glow from his courtship by the Final Four corporations who had ...
( Category: Satire April 5,2015 )
My Name Is Will by Jess Winfield
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Jess Winfield

Chapter Twenty-one If the Shakespeares were indeed oppressed Catholics, it’s no surprise that the earliest writing ever attributed to the Bard is a biting satirical ballad punning on the name ...
( Category: Humorous April 5,2015 )
We Are Still Married by Garrison Keillor
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Garrison Keillor

Chet had told me that he feels a little guilty when he plays well, knowing he’s probably playing too much golf and not enough guitar. “The way I’m playing today, ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2015 )
Sorry I Peed on You: by Jeremy Greenberg
mobi |eng | 2011-03-22 | Author:Jeremy Greenberg

Dear Mommy, I am so excited that you’re taking me to play in the yard! I will try to stay out of the garden and will be respectful of which ...
( Category: Satire April 5,2015 )
Country Music Broke My Brain by Gerry House
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Gerry House

Don Light, Mark Collie, and Jimmy Buffett DON LIGHT WAS A MANAGER, and his firm, the Don Light Agency, helped the careers of several artists. I can still see Don, ...
( Category: Country April 5,2015 )
The Other Language by Francesca Marciano
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Francesca Marciano

Lara’s apartment in Rome was the same one in Via Plinio where she’d lived with her husband. After nearly three months of absence it looked foreign, abandoned and dreary. For ...
( Category: Short Stories April 5,2015 )
My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top by Jon Glaser
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Jon Glaser

THE BEATLES After the Beatles broke up in 1970, one member of the band had a harder time letting go than the others. THE WHITE STRIPES The true nature of ...
( Category: Rock April 5,2015 )
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker by Finder Henry & Remnick David
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-12-11 | Author:Finder, Henry & Remnick, David [Finder, Henry]

A DEMONSTRATION OF ACTUAL WRITING It’s easy to talk about writing, and even easier to do it. Watch: Call me Ishmael. It was cold, very cold here in the mountain ...
( Category: Essays April 5,2015 )
Between Wrecks by George Singleton
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:George Singleton

There on the western edge of the Gulf, my uncle said, “Hey there, comrades, anyone here from ASA Radio Research?” which I later learned was some kind of battalion or ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage April 5,2015 )
You're Married to Her? by Ira Wood
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Ira Wood

My wife is a writer of prodigious literary output but some day it will be discovered by an astute grad student connecting the dots in her archive that her production ...
( Category: Jewish April 5,2015 )
My Inappropriate Life by Heather McDonald
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Heather McDonald

This past year, we could afford not to bunk with anyone and stayed at the Westin at the foot of the mountain. Brandon took lessons from a Swiss ski instructor, ...
( Category: Parenting & Families April 5,2015 )
Amy Falls Down by Willett Jincy
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Willett, Jincy [Willett, Jincy]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE No Goggling Amy became a weekly fixture on Maudine’s show, driving down to the KPBS station each Friday morning for a new “round table.” She had agreed to ...
( Category: Humorous April 5,2015 )
Confessions of a Scary Mommy by Smokler Jill
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:Smokler, Jill [Smokler, Jill]

Chapter 15 I HATE OTHER PEOPLE’S KIDS (NOT YOURS, OF COURSE) Mommy Confessions • I make faces at other people’s misbehaving children in the grocery store when their parents aren’t ...
( Category: Motherhood April 5,2015 )
The Sweet Potato Queens' First Big-Ass Novel by Jill Conner Browne
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-19 | Author:Jill Conner Browne

I sat around a table in the meeting room of the Jackson Public Library listening to a squeaky-voiced twenty-three-year-old graduate student named Fred read a section from his novel-in-progress. The ...
( Category: Humor April 5,2015 )
Harriet Beamer Strikes Gold by Joyce Magnin
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Joyce Magnin

Chapter Sixteen “MOM,” HENRY CALLED THE INSTANT HIS FOOT HIT THE porch steps. “Mom!” He pushed open the door. “Mom, we’re home.” Prudence followed behind. “Coming,” Harriet called. “We’re coming.” ...
( Category: Humorous April 5,2015 )

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