aka, The Abject Muse

Tag: The Daily Post

  • Anatomy 101

    After a thunderstorm the kitten asked the earthworm, “How come I never see you unless it rains?” “What? Come ‘round here,” replied the worm. “I can’t hear you when you’re talking to my butt.”   The Daily Post

  • A Day in the Life

    It was just one of those days in Murray-Ville. He’d been fired from his job at the Monkey Bar for beating up the customers. So, with nothing better to do, he went home. There, Murray found his wife, Gwendolina, in bed with the garbage man — again. After sending her and her trashy boyfriend packing, Murray went…

  • Waiting with the Magnolias

    Even the birds seemed to have moved out, taking the neighbor’s barking dogs with them. Revving engines, honking horns, squeaky brakes: silenced. Was school in session? Perhaps that explained the absence of basketballs bouncing against garage doors and shrieks of little girls playing. The magnolia trees’ subtle-sweet fragrance  was the only trace of normalcy. How I loved…

  • 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…

  • Merriweather Salazar

    The Daily Post BRIIIING! BRIIIING! “Helleu? Sargent residence…” “Helleu! Is John in, please?” “No, I’m afraid not. He’s off painting portraits of people sketching with their wives, again.” “Indeed! I thought he’d stopped that nonsense after what’d happened last time.” “Oh, would that it were!” Mrs. Sargent sighed. “He just can’t seem to help himself—and…