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…

Tales from the Writers’ Workshops — “AS MR. PUFFALUMPOMPOUS EXPOUNDED on the finer points of crafting prose, Rita sat at her desk, stylus in hand, hand resting next to her iPad, heel jiggling erratically, slipping in and out of her shoe. As the lecturer droned, she blinked one, then two, then three times. She raised her…

Tales from the Writers’ Workshops — “CHAD WAS EXACTLY what his name described, a Chad, and the worst kind of Chad too for, as a teacher, he was supposed to be a mentor to not just the Stacies, who hung onto his every word due to his status as an alpha male, but also to the…

Tales from the Writers’ Workshops — “AND SO, RBX AND QBX finished fixing their ship, which broke through the hangar’s roof. But they never noticed the damage to the quantum stabilizer and were forced to set down just outside the Roswell city limits. After programming the morphing chamber with human DNA, disguising them as humans, they…

Americans upset sendoff isn’t Prime Time — The announcement of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral schedule has outraged Americans from coast to coast as they discovered proceedings begin when most will be in bed. The proceedings will launch at 6 a.m. ET, a time when residents on the East Coast are punching their first round of snooze alarms. For…

Second Amendment Week — SARA BESSER HATED GUNS and hated the fact that she lived in a state where there were more guns than people. Which was why she served as the chair of the Gun Free Texas committee, and on the board of Texas Gun Sense and The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence…

Second Amendment Week — WILBUR SCHÜTZE, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT of the Dallas Longrifle Association, wedged his Pedersoli 1763 Leger Charleville muzzle loading .69 caliber Flintlock with a 44 inch blued barrel next to the transmission cover with the stock firmly lodged against the passenger floorboard and the barrel (after he removed the bayonet) just…