Tall Tales & Shaggy Dogs: Stories And Short Humor By Abner Serd

I caught sight of my friend Bill O'Sale the other day, but only just barely. He was all fancied up in a pinstripe suit, and he was power-walking down Bridge Street ...

My friend Flora Caprifolia is a Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys. I don't know where she's working now. She moves around a lot ...

My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a universal compass. I said "great! Which way is north?" He said "if you're referring to the North Pole, I have no idea" ...

When Alice was very young, she had only one ambition. There was only one thing that Alice wanted to do more than anything else in the world, and that was to break the moon ...

There are 57 dead-end streets in this burg. And more roads to nowhere than an honest man can count ...

I was out on Bottle Neck the other day. The tide was low, but the rain kept pounding down in endless layers, like sopping wet blankets ...

When the universe is out to get you, what does luck have to do with it? ...

My friend Rita Book is a lexical engineer. She helps create new technologies designed to make reading and writing easier - or, at least, that's what it says on the brochure ...

This one is a children's song about autumn ...

Last night I camped out on the banks of Babbling Brook. Boy, did I get an earful! ...

I was helping my friend Vern Acular sort leaves the other day. Vern thinks it's important that all fallen leaves are kept in separate piles according to the tree from which they came ...

My friend Alfred O. Mega is a genuine, certified hero. It says so right on his diploma ...

I once visited a faraway place called Academia. You may or may not have been there. It's a curious land with rather odd local customs ...

Ana Gram couldn't understand what was so important about spelling. She knew that letters were important. She knew that letters were used to make drows, and drows were used to make nestences, and nestences were used to make hargapraps ...

My friend Bill O'Sale owns the world's tallest outdoor, coin-operated vacuum cleaner ...

My friend Stretch likes to think of himself as a role model. I said "why, because you get stale after a while?" ...

A bunch of us were sitting around Elmer's Cafe the other day, telling ghost stories ...

My friend Archie Meade was telling me about all the latest developments in the exciting and ever-changing world of mathematics. I don't mind saying, I thought I knew my one-two-threes ...

Here's a little Halloween song for the kids ...

My friend Buford Colic is hosting a barn dance this weekend. I'm afraid to go, for obvious reasons. I mean, have you ever seen a barn doing the hokey-pokey? ...