Word-At-A-Time-Blog

Jeepers McGee flushed the toilet and, although he’d been working to overcome his OCD with doorknobs, light switches and oven controls, he jiggled the lever a few times for absolutely no reason. “Hello?” said a voice from the toilet tank. Jeepers stared at the tank, like a man with a hamster wheel for a brain, … Read more

Ohuck and Tzank weren’t talking to each other. Ohuck was the Nuts foreman, and Hank was the bolts foreman, and they’d had a heated disagreement the previous month about which was more important in the fastening world, the nut or the bolt. “Well, of course it’s bolts,” Tzank had said. “Drill a hole in two … Read more

Every Friday, Dylantry Horbloo made his way to the second floor of the Toronto Reference Library, glancing over his shoulder, even though no one ever followed him. At the end of the last row on the right, he would gently push in the misfiled (and fake) “Book of Puns” by Benjamin Disreali. The shelves would … Read more