aka, The Abject Muse

Category: Fiction

  • IF James Lipton Had Interviewed Susan Shuman

    Here is another interview that didn’t take place. If it had, below are the questions James Lipton might have asked, and the answers I may have provided. James: Susan! Thank you so much for agreeing to the interview. I’ve been dying to meet you! And now, here you are. Susan: Thank you, James. It’s an honor.…

  • Delores’ Porch

    The Daily Post   Delores had more dead friends than live ones. How unfair life is, she thought. You get close to someone and then they die. What was the point? Was there one? And the worst part, the saddest most baffling thing of all, was how nobody seemed to notice. A person loses someone…

  • The Stranger

    It wasn’t my fault. I swear to God, it wasn’t. I was on my way to New York. Everything was going along fine, just like it had a hundred times before. It was a clear day–good flying weather. Suddenly whoever was at the controls wasn’t there anymore. A stranger had taken over. I became dizzy…

  • Piers Morgan Doesn’t Interview Susan Shuman

    Below is an edited excerpt of Piers Morgan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey on January 17, 2011. MORGAN: Tell me this, Ms. Shuman. Do you ever get sort of surreal moments when — I’m just trying to picture what it’s like being you? When you wake up in the morning and you go, bloody hell, I’m The…

  • Eddie’s Underwear

    Eddie’s Underwear

      This week’s visual prompt for the Mutant 750 writing challenge is the image below. The word prompt is underwear. It was a wilder-than-usual Friday night at The Rubber Oyster. The place was packed. At 8:30pm, the waiting list was still over an hour and a half. Customers were three-deep at the bar, clamoring for Harvey…