Stories Short and Strange
17 short stories for general audiences ranging from the unusual to the unbelievable to the just plain strange.
17 short stories for general audiences ranging from the unusual to the unbelievable to the just plain strange.
Jim Jenkins is an ace detective who solves the most difficult crimes. Yet he always works alone. Or does he?
“He followed me home, Mom, can I keep him?” Why do we each seem to know what the other is thinking? ... Anyone wishing for an adult PAW Patrol will love this!
Have you ever wished for a third arm? How much easier would that make your life? Believe it or not, technology is advancing to give you that wish. Researchers in Japan recently announced they have built a device that will allow people to perform a second task with a robot arm. The wearer of the
We hear a lot of talk about immigration, but it’s almost always from our viewpoint. Have you ever wondered how immigrating looks from the other side? Say, you want to come here from Somalia? Then you should listen to “Abdi and the Golden Ticket” about a young Somali who wanted to escape the turmoil of
I was teaching yesterday, helping another teacher in a high school English class discussing mythological literature. Then one of the girls asked a question that made me curious — who was Nike? The brand name we all know as the shoe and apparel company really did exist, at least in mythology. Nike was the Greek
There is a shortage of brains. No, this has nothing to do with politics. It’s about medical research. Neuroscientists require all kinds of brain tissue to study diseases that affect at least 15 percent of people around the world. I’m sure you’re well-versed with the concept of organ donation. Unfortunately, simply filling out an organ-donor
Facebook and its related privacy concerns have been in the news a lot lately. I thought this would be a good time to ask — how is Facebook doing? Are they meeting your privacy concerns? Or is this entire subject being overblown by the media? If you’d like to know what really goes on in
An amazing story jumped out of the newspaper at me recently. A young man gave his fiancee a smog free engagement ring ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/fashion/weddings/a-wedding-ring-with-a-dirty-little-secret.html ). A what? Four years ago, Daan Roosegaarde, a Dutch artist and technologist, was visiting Beijing, China, a city notorious for its air pollution. When he returned home, Roosegaarde decided to design
When I lived in Southern California from 1982 to 1986, I took an afternoon course about restaurants at the local community college. I learned such useful tidbits as to avoid the “Chef’s Special” — usually some forgotten meat they’d found in the back of the freezer, scraped the mold off, cooked it well, hid it
You’ve probably heard plenty of talk about how our diet has changed over the years. Specifically, reliance on processed foods have given us a disposition towards obesity. I believe this, because I’ve been reading food labels and I always find some type of sugar somewhere in the ingredients of almost everything. Or am I being
Since, I’ve received no complaints (yet) on my last post — The Science of Sex — I’ve found something on this subject that I think is worth adding. In 2011, the state of Mississippi passed a law that placed restrictions on sex education, specifically there could be no instruction or demonstration on the application of
On the theory that everyone likes to talk about sex (and if that’s wrong, this is going to be really embarrassing), but the NPR show Radiolab has recently broadcast a series of six programs on sexuality under the apt umbrella title of “Gonads.” The series began with “The Primordial Journey” (June 20) on sex selection