Month: August 2013

The people of Grand Falls, New Brunswick had seen odd things over the years. Everyone had an explanation for the strange lights in the night sky over Loring Air Force Base, just across the border in Limestone, Maine.  Or for the train bell in the town museum that would ring all by itself. Or for … Read more

“This is a freak accident,” thought Chandmire Huang as he plummeted to the ground, along with his grand piano. “I’m not dreaming!” Huang, a celebrated concert pianist, had been performing a charity concerto on the rooftop patio of Chicago’s Willis (formerly Sears) Tower.  He was well into the second movement of his epic “Cloud Giraffes” … Read more

It was Mark Twain who said “no man, deep down in his own heart, has any considerable respect for himself.” Twain was always morose when he was forced into questionable but lucrative employment, be it a European speaking tour, or, as was currently the case – when he was forced to fight a dinosaur. It … Read more