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Six Girls Your Brother Will Date in His Early 20s Who Can Do Better Than Him By Allyson Gilfeather-Larcom 23 November 2017 Nothing brings out those sisterly feelings like when your brother, a charming young man who drinks melted ice cream for breakfast and has... More »
“So, what do you think,” Sandra held up her new double Ds to her girlfriends at the barbecue. “Wow, they must have cost a fortune!” Abby admired. As did several of the husbands hanging around the grill with Sandra’s husband, Doug. Their eyes were riv... More »
To: Admission Director, Iowa Writers’ Workshop From: Cookie Chan Subject: Program Application Dear Admissions Director, I recently read that that a gentleman of the spry age of 68 is suing The Iowa Writers’ Workshop for not accepting his application based ... More »
I met Svetlana (not her real name) outside a Russian tea house in New York City. Not the famous Russian Tea Room on W. 57th St. that has hosted glitterati, literati and Russian ex-pats since 1927, but a hole-in-the-wall, Mama and Papa joint in the far reaches ... More »
Edward Stanton 14 November 2017 I’m not in the White House Situation Room right now because I’m representing the Free World in Asia, but I want to tell you the situation anyway. I’ll make this brief because I like short documents. I like them even more i... More »
By Carolyn Mamchur 8 November 2017 If murdering an old person and stealing his money is something you’ve been considering, here is exactly how to do it! I once had a friend who was being kept in filth and isolation in a “home” as his power of atto... More »
Peter Gregg Slater 3 November 2017 German government warning to passengers on the Lusitania, published in New York newspapers, May 1, 1915 After indisputably proving that certain big-time events had been faked — the moon landing, September 11th, various ... More »
By Tom Deisboeck 3 November 2017 ### Tom Deisboeck is a Harvard-affiliated scientist turned entrepreneur who attended Technical University Medical School in Munich, Germany, and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan Business School in Cambridge, ... More »
The president is revising the dictionary of the English language! Though he’s a man with three adjectives, two pronouns and few verbs, he’s made considerable headway in a daunting project. Usually, he simply reverses the meaning of a word, a phrase, or an ... More »