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• The Parlor Tricks of Civilization as Relayed by a Mad Clerk in a Soda Shop

  By Editor on August 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Listen up, ya hopefuls, have I a mouthful to chew. Find yourselves mistaken, once? Twice? Well, consider this, too … If your tongue is black for candy, if it lashes out for reasons hunger can’t explain, pay attention greedily my… Read More ›

• Rampage leaves splattered victims, questions in wake of violence

  By Editor on June 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  PITTSBURGH – After an extreme dieter ran over several overweight pedestrians this week, members of this shocked community wondered if there were any connection between the victims, besides obesity. “It just doesn’t make sense,” said Tina Ward, 35, a dog… Read More ›

• Comic creator ‘liberates’ self, others from sexual shackles

  By Editor on May 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: The Secret History of Wonder Woman Jill Lapore, 527 pages I stumbled on Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, directed by Angela Robinson. while searching for a movie to watch with my wife on Valentine’s Day. I am… Read More ›

• Dark tale hides shimmer of hope

  By Editor on May 5, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Review: The Last Shimmer, Sage Hyatt Not Your Father’s Bedtime Stories, 20 pages Editing “The Last Shimmer” with Sage was such a fun and rewarding project. As her father, I am proud of her for many reasons, but especially because… Read More ›

• CEO demonstrates app’s ‘Outrage’ meter

  By Editor on March 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  PITTSBURGH – Those slights, abuses, and crimes that often go unreported can now be witnessed and judged by anyone with a swipe on their device. Chatter, a downloadable app designed for ‘concerned citizens, neighborhood gadflies, and social-justice heroes,’ launched this… Read More ›

• Brain-damaged hockey star resists The People’s justice

  By Editor on March 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›

• ‘Pow!’ soda disrupts consumers’ reality

  By Editor on March 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Interview with Lee Matthew Goldberg, author of Orange City Growing up, I enjoyed orange soda and feared spiders, and both feature prominently in Lee Matthew Goldberg’s first science-fiction novel, Orange City, which offers a second chance for felons and outcasts… Read More ›

• Shirking duty leads deputy to rosy hell of disappointment

  By Editor on February 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Review: Captain Clive’s Dreamworld Jon Bassoff, Eraserhead Press, 234 pages Early in Deputy Sam Hardy’s adulthood, he marries a woman he loves, they have a daughter they are too poor to support, so they give her up for adoption…. Read More ›

• Bar soap helps users ‘escape’ constraints of pandemic lifestyle

  By Editor on February 1, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  LOS ANGELES – As COVID-19 continues in its second year to plague the world’s population, a pleasant-smelling hand soap is selling faster than it can be supplied to consumers due to their claims that it ‘teleports’ them to faraway places… Read More ›

• Name your favorite bands!

  By Editor on January 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Book review: Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil, Grove Press, 448 pages It’s time for a music test. Name your top-five rock bands. Here are mine: The Rolling Stones The Velvet Underground… Read More ›