Castaways week — “LET ME TELL YOU. Once I set foot on that dock I vowed I’d never be lost again.” Gilligan tipped his glass to Old Job, the grizzled old man wearing a soiled army jacket setting next to him at the bar. Old Job finished his beer and slapped a fiver…

Castaways week — AT LAST, AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS, three monsoons, ten tropical storms, gallons of liquor distilled from thimbleberries, and wearing wardrobes dangling from the stitches, the Coast Guard cutter Juniper deposited the seven castaways onto a dock in Honolulu harbor. …

Swept away by pro-Drumpf fervor. And hurricane. — As millions of Floridians tried to flee their state to escape Hurricane Ivan, several thousand MAGA Republicans descended onto Florida’s beaches to challenge the liberal Biden administration’s false flag operation in the Atlantic. The crowds gathered early Tuesday afternoon to defend Florida’s shores and stop the Biden administration’s attempt to…

Castaways week — GINGER ROSE FROM THE HAMMOCK and cracked the flap of the professor’s tent. The morning sun was taking a leisurely stroll though the glade, broken only by the overhanging palm leaves. …

Saves Earth? Not so much — Monday night NASA and the world celebrated the stellar success of the DART spacecraft which crashed into an asteroid and diverted it from its path. Tuesday night NASA announced the mission inadvertently created a chain of collisions that have now pushed a giant asteroid in the direction of earth’s orbit. …

Castaways week — WHEN GILLIGAN CONVENIENTLY REMEMBERED spotting a larger island just over a mile from shore, he did so mostly because the professor caught him in the banyan tree spying on Ginger and Mary Anne. His spontaneous recollection successfully diverted the castaway’s wrath (which was a good thing because he didn’t think…

Castaways week — THE SUN ERUPTED through the overcast clouds and cast a golden ray that passed over one glorious cheek, then two, then all four where Ginger and Mary Anne lay face down, sunbathing nude on the castaway’s island beach. These were the moments Gilligan lived for as he perched high in…

Tales from the Writers’ Workshops — “TODD WAS ALWAYS GAMING AND POSTING on his 16 inch MacBook Pro with 32-Core GPU and 32 gigs of RAM, and his mother was always on his back about how he was always gaming and posting. She would always ask him what he expected to make of his life if…