In the middle of the night, almost imperceptibly, a great change has come across everyone in the world. No one knows what exactly caused it. Perhaps a bored deity, or a powerful mind controller with a grudge, or even some cursed artifact. Ultimately, it doesn't matter. What does matter is that every single man and woman in the world, with one exception, has...
I have decided to make this a comedy posting. Why? Recently, I went looking for a book on one end of the crazy spectrum. The book had been (loosely) based on an episode during World War II, and it was supposed to "prove" that Pope Pius XII could not qualify as "Hitler's Pope." Instead, this conspiracy theory had Pope Pius XII using the Jesuits to assassinat...
Conspiracy Theories - or - Who is this man, Oscar Meyer, and why does everyone want to be his weiner? Of course, one can argue that obsession with conspiracy theories serves only to demonstrate the lunatic paranoia running rife in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Much talk about conspiracies is dismissed as paranoia and much of it IS paranoia, bu...
"Are any of you injured?" a short, curvy woman with close-cropped reddish hair asked from near the back doors as Melissa and her friends piled into the van. "I've got a scrape on my elbow," Amanda said. "Other than that, I think we're okay." "I'm an EMT," the short-haired girl said. "Let me take a look." Amanda nodded and sat down, lifting her arm so the...
(From the 1939 edition of the Compass Encyclopedia, Volume Thirty-Seven, Umbrella-Vermin.) The vampire is a creature of folklore. It features primarily in Eastern European folklore, but virtually every culture on earth has some sort of local variant on vampire myth. This has led some foolish people to speculate that there is a factual basis to the vampire l...
Thanks to the Hip and Knee doctor for editing assistance. * Magnolia Retreat was a beautiful place, but I still didn't understand why my mother insisted on going there rather than stay with us. I was the eldest daughter and felt responsible for her since Dad died three years ago. She was only sixty-three years old and in pretty good shape for an old lady....
The first sign that we had of unrest onboard the spaceship came three days after the explosion. Two construction workers got in a fistfight while eating breakfast in the cafeteria. One of them was explaining to a couple of his buddies at his table how there wasn't an explosion. He was claiming that the James Cook was still in one piece. He told his buddies...
There is a secret society deep within the world. They have existed since the earliest civilizations, when man stepped out of his cave. They control our media and politics without our knowing. Economics, entertainment, religion, and social platforms are all controlled to their whims. They are the Nude-minati. A cabal of the world's elite with one goal: to mak...
Inspired by the great conspiracy "Ah Geoffrey! Good to see you. Note that everybody is present, shall we begin?" The strong voice boomed. Geoffrey then walked towards the table where four other people already sat, waiting for him . Geoffrey was of course the guy whose idea it was. You wouldn't think a worldwide conspiracy would be started by a guy...
This is a completely non-sexual tale about right, wrong and responsibility. Each reader will have to come to his or her own conclusions about relative morality. * "Ah, Special Agent Jenkins, my favorite FBI agent! You're welcome to sit out here on the porch or in your government sedan while I waste more of my precious retirement income on my attorney who I...