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Why Y2K?
Why indeed. [...]
Posted in Stories on Nov 2nd, 1998
I. Scott Proehl and his Hard-To-Pronounce-Last-Name
When Fisher Pinckney leaned forward for a better view of the commotion at the front of the line, he saw a tiny kerchiefed woman wagging her wrinkled brownspotted finger menacingly over the counter. He strained to hear her gravely measured words: “Then may this plane drop from the sky like [...]
Posted in Stories, Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 1998
Larry assured me of this: each day on the river, the image of Bubbling Hot Springs got more and more appealing. In addition to being my friend, Larry was an experienced river guide on the wild and scenic part of the Rogue River in Oregon. He was also something of a storyteller, as all river [...]
In the cool night air of mid-May somewhere in the canyon-cut hills near Prescott, Arizona, Paul Rossetti leaned back in his worn-out aluminum deck chair and scanned the heavens with a big pair of binoculars. Friends used to tease him about the irony of a one-eyed man using binoculars, until eventually Rossetti affixed a jaunty [...]
Posted in Stories on Jan 5th, 1998
what’s the sexiest thing you ever saw in your life?
whoa! that’s a tough one. let’s see…. I guess… wow, what a question! nothing really jumps out at me. I don’t know. what’s the sexiest thing you every saw in your life?
you go first. I asked you first.
sure, but you already have an answer to the [...]
Happy Grounding Day! The editors of the StarChamber would like
to remind you to enjoy this special midsummer holiday, first described in this space
last year. Mischief
is afoot, the summer is at the top of its arc, and aliens are abroad. And if there
aren’t any aliens here on Earth, well then, we’ve sent our own to Mars.
By [...]
Posted in Stories on May 5th, 1997
Ransom shook his head and replied:
I’ll tell you how it was that I came west. It was nothing like that. I left the very next morning after old Mr. Saturday came to visit. Mama Haynes always said: “Send dreams not mischief, Mr. Saturday.” Now I know what she meant. I can see Mama Haynes [...]
Posted in Stories on Nov 11th, 1996
Beryl Haise carefully extracted the last Marlboro from the cardboard pack and placed it on the table in front of her. Gently, she moved it to the middle of the place setting where the afternoon sunlight would best illuminate it. She stared at it fixedly. Xavier Cugat’s “Mambo No. 5″ played on the jukebox.
Across [...]
Welcome to the Star Chamber, a place where much is arbitrary except for the fact that new, tasty content will appear on this page every Monday morning.
Newness is common enough on the web; scarcely a day goes by without hearing of yet another web-based company based on some good idea you had last month. This [...]
Ransom looked nervously at the coil of rope next to his backpack. His left eye twitched as though to say: get on with it, they’ll be here any second. Daniel and Yvonne would be pulling their beat up Volvo into the driveway, ready to head out to Yosemite, and he was still debating what to [...]
