My Death I ran into My Death sitting at a wrought-iron table outside a café, reading the paper. What’s new? I asked, sitting across from him. Do you really want to know? he replied. Never mind, I said. What are you going to order? This place has the best brownies, he said. That and a […]
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Incremental Doom by Ian Willey
I was sitting on a bench in the mall watching the fountain when a guy sat next to me and you could just tell he was going to start up a conversation, and he soon did. He held up a small purple ball and said, I have in my hand an Orb of Incremental Doom. […]
Divide and Conquer by Ian Willey
In the days when I had a lawn to mow I’d begin by cutting a path straight down the middle as General MacArthur did in the Inchon Maneuver. The Inchon Maneuver was a bold tactical move which turned the tide of the Korean War and led to the eventual division of the Koreas at the […]
Zeus Gets a Ticket by Ian Willey
Zeus is going 60 in a 45 mph zone when a siren screams and a booming voice orders him to pull to the side of the road. He stays in the car with the window down a crack as a cop comes up and asks if he knows why he has been pulled over. Almighty […]
A Sad Story by Ian Willey
Last time I saw him was just after our wedding when after ten years he’d dropped out of college for the nth and final time and was doing the same thing he did back in high school: delivering pizzas. He was even working at the same place. In fact, the manager was one of the […]
Limbic Limbo by Ian Willey
Someone I knew obliquely through work got married and I was invited by default to the reception. I was standing off to the side by myself waiting for the right time to leave when a man who looked like the head waiter came up to me and asked if I’d seen the second appetizer selection […]
Plain and Simple by Ian Willey
I wonder what it would be like to be the parent of one of those minor characters who gets killed off early on in movies like Predator and Kong: Skull Island. How do they react when a pair of men in sunglasses drop by their homes in a post-credits scene to break the news by […]