Grownups Are Lucky

Best friends are the best. It's not up for debate.

Life is unfair because it doesn't smell as good as in the commercials. It’s also unfair because we throw mounds of food away while people go hungry. And also because our current president demands poor afflicted children be placed in cages. Have a happy Monday!

Sometimes moms aren't awesome. Same goes for dads. And birthday clowns, they are the worst.

Sometimes we land that job, and maybe finally our problems are solved, but then we are hamstrung again by those damned allergies. (This story first appeared in issue 3.1 of The Maine Review. )

Will the robots of the future successfully tickle the armpits of our dead ghosts? This episode is a real hoot. Your smart phones will love it.

We can't wait to get old, and then we do, and what was the hurry? Plus, now we have to pay taxes.

This episode was published in Electric Lit's Recommended Reading Commuter. Visit their site to read this story, and other great brief fiction.

It's the moments between all the awful moments, when we get to complain about the awful moments, that aren't so awful.

This episode was published in Electric Lit's Recommended Reading Commuter. Visit their site to read this story, and other great brief fiction.

This week's work of fiction imagines the intimate life of one of this nation's foremost proponents of Orwellian euphemisms. Originally written in 2004, it has it all: bionics, cuddling, soap bubbles, and unfettered rage. (It should be noted that this episode includes adult themes and may induce nausea.)

A moment in nature with your traveling sidekick might bring you closer to spiritual epiphany, and/or it may involve drinking questionable elixirs.

This week’s stirring narration is provided by The Toothless Prospector, a great friend of the podcast.