Deja vu is when your older self remembers what the younger you is experiencing at the exact same moment. You both sense each other. Live vs. memory. Together equals uncanny valley.

I remember the first time I saw a psychiatrist. He asked me to remember 3 things: house, ball, ocean. Then he asked me to explain common saying. "A stitch in time ..." "One swallow

You know. The kinds of questions that let you gauge how much analysis the subject is putting into the effort of answering. Does the subject have insight into himself? What does he

Although ubiquitous some aphorisms are hardly universal. Inclusion of them in standardized tests builds in a cultural bias. "One swallow does not a summer make," for instance. Some

A hunch had Chuck in a funk. The hunch was a bunch of … about the trunk in the truck of his work truck. He’d lunked that trunk in the trunk since Sputnik & the U2. Punchdrunk punk.

Ted came home to the house full of grandkids. Both his sons, and both of their wives, were First Responders and needed someplace for the kids to shelter in place. Ted was coughing.

Sven usually stopped at Jim's Truck stop about now to fuel and grab a meal. Today it was different. The kid behind the counter on the store side was playing Devil's Music by Diablo

The seer's glass shimmered and then we could see inside the enemy general's tent. We didn't speak their language and the sound was muffled like from a great distance. Still, we saw

They had to praise him tonight because they were also going to hang him in the morning. Violet Rasmussen from Evadale, a sister of the late, Rev. Obadiah Rasmussen-Beech, was there

The reverend couldn't take his husband's last name for professional reasons. But he wanted to show the world his commitment. So he chose to go with hyphenation. Rassmussen-Beech.

It's funny. Sometimes I'll remember why we were laughing and why it happened the way that it did. ELP was playing on somebody's radio at the next table. I was jamming out to it at

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My pet Sokoke, Chauncey, decided he wanted to go it solo, so, while I was out delivering pizza for La Gatta Mangiona, he barricaded himself inside the house, and changed the locks.

Look like I would be giving myself a hand on this one. "The canary caught the cat." He smiled but he didn't deny it. Nor should he. It wasn't his mom who went sniffing. Still, they

I didn't realize how much a leap of faith it was yesterday driving 399 miles to Fort Worth and 399 miles back. I hadn't decided on the gun by the time I left. So I left it. Purell.

It was a typical rainy day in Portland, Oregon. A man in a parka hurried down the wet downtown sidewalk. He pulled up the hood as he pushed through the doors of a bank.

It was a typical rainy day in Portland, Oregon. A man in a parka hurried down the wet downtown sidewalk. He pulled up the hood as he pushed through the doors of a bank.

Trump made a deal with COVID-19 to re-open the US economy. The deal gave COVID-19 up to 7% of the WORLD's population. Some countries, understandably, are not happy about that. Some

The idea fell into my mind like so many pots & pans, and an otter that was odder than most. I'm not saying he didn't fit the picture. The picture didn't fit him. Still, we bravely

Anew Nancy, boy! Hie there on the nonce and none of yon nun's nambly pambly nonsense about the United Nations and it's nascent New World Order. The term ignoble comes to mind. When