Because they do not yet have the experience and reflexes to get out of the way of the middle-aged idiots?  I can't tell you how many times I've seen some moron drinking coffee, yapping on his cell phone, speeding ,and running the red light as he drives past the high school cussing the youngsters because they actually have the sheer nerve to be ( Read more... )

I felt like sharing these.  Some editors do still have a little time in their days and a sense of humor.

Thank you for this submission and for paying such attention to our guidelines pages. I don’t feel I can put this piece in ______, but I did enjoy reading it.

The problem I found was that the protagonist was essentially passive, always the ( Read more... )

My parents came for birthday/Mother's Day celebrations.  We ate out some, shopped some, enjoyed each other's cooking some, and generally had a nice time.  We also ripped up carpet in one of the rooms that needed it.  Red oak beneath, yay!  I can only assume that come winter it will be cold, and that's why the pretty wood was covered up.  I don't ( Read more... )

Third story accepted!  At some point they're paying me $5 for it, but warn that the contract part may be delayed as they wish to publish the thing on Dec 24 ( Read more... )

My, aren't we apocalyptic this week?  Besides, we all know the answer is "Jaguars falling from the sky."

I find it interesting the number of answers so far that overlook the obvious counter-question: end for whom?  "Us all" implies humanity, but that's not the end of the world, just the end of our species observing it.  That's happened a few million ( Read more... )

Per Wikipedia: "The pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920,[2] spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. It is estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide..."

Nah, not a bit worried.  Lots of other outbreaks haven't been nearly as bad.  Nope, not worried.  Only checking the news a couple of times ( Read more... )

I think -- I believe -- I am willing to consider the possibility -- that the Herbology grades are all nice and calculated and the Gryfs didn't really fall off the spreadsheet the way it looks like they did ( Read more... )

So I just recieved an apologetic rejection letter in response to a query of "Did you recieve this?"  Apparently the editor thought he'd rejected it a month ago.  That's not the headdesk part ( Read more... )

As in, not a bath.  As in, not at the gym.  As in, the tile is done enough that we can do that now ( Read more... )

Let's see.  I've learned not to expect to be paid by the post for my blog anytime in the forseeable future -- per-view and percentages of sales only.  I've been ripping old backing off the last four tiles (that was what slowed me down, btw, about putting them up before) and they are drying outside on a car hood.  I've chipped some of the old ( Read more... )