Seymour’s Folly

The secret was out. Seymour was in seclusion when the seaplane hit the serf (surf, I know.) The servants, who were seeking Seymour, were searching in the seaweed near the seawall; where they had seen seahorses in the sediment...

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Tell Me More

Happiness is an electronic device. The shining faces on cell phone commercials tell the viewer that smiles can be had by texting and tweeting. Google, Facebook, and Amazon answer your every question, supply you with thousands of...

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Bill O’Reilly

Caution! You are about to enter THE no-spin zone. The factor begins right now. This is Bill O’Reilly inviting you to a special broadcast from Fox news here on the 27th floor of the Fox news building in New York City. Here is...

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Bernard the Bobblehead

Read aloud to maximize the effect Bubblehead was the name his mother, Beatrice blurted behind his back, when she boasted about Bernard’s badges for being the best bookbinder in Boston. He had a backlog of big-league writers...

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Buzz

Beecause bees are beeautiful, Beernie beecame a beedrock of bee lore.  He beelieved in, and beefriended the beeggers and the beeboppers that were beetween and beetwixt in their beehavior toward bees.  They said...

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“Because You’re Special”

That’s what my mom said when I asked her about my name. She wanted a name that would command attention; a name that would turn heads when it was spoken. Her best intentions have sentenced me to a lifetime spelling bee. My name...

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A Plus

(Read aloud to enhance your listening pleasure.) Aloysius, the son of Aristotle and Ann, abided in Avondale, Arizona on Amherst Avenue. It amused Aloysius to activate the alarm around ate o’clock (sorry), arousing all the...

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A $24 City

That’s the price the Dutch paid for Manhattan back in 1626. A hell of a bargain by today’s standards! Our party of four rode the commuter from Trenton, New Jersey, arriving at Penn Station about 8:30 AM, making very little...

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A Pair of Pixies

An Alliteration to be Read Aloud to Enhance the Pleasure It was paramount to Pedro and Pablo that prepaid passes for the performance would be packaged with the parking permits. Pacifists were picketing the Palladium on pack...

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6 O’clock News

Eyewitness News at Six [or Seven or…. by Don Ware TV news programs, like any other TV program, are competing for viewership. Armed with this knowledge, TV news producers have devised a formula to grab its viewers by the...

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