Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.

It seemed perverse to some, but for all their apparent militarism the Gzilt had remained peaceful over many millenia; it was the avowedly peaceful Culture that had , within living memory, taken part in an...

This is some sort of joke, isn’t it?” asks Hunt, staring at the flawless blue sky and distant fields.I cough as lightly and briefly as possible into a handkerchief I have made from a towel...

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

alcohol played the midwife

Although in your case, we may have to find a secret option number three.

It’s weird, marriage. It’s like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their ‘other half.

I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, banks are...

Yay! I want to attend a Pampered Chef party about as much as I want to go to a used auto parts party where you can win a baby monkey as a door prize

Didn’t Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?””The what?””The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.””What is it?””He said that life boils down to standing...

I want to attend a Pampered Chef party about as much as I want to go to a used auto parts party where you can win a baby monkey as a door prize.

Our town was known for two things–no, three: salted fish, expertly dyed fabrics, and corruption.