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

Some guy asked me about the size of my carbon footprint. I told him it's exactly the same size as my regular footprint ...

My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented an Automatic Attic(™). Just plug it in, turn it on, and it fills any room with a musty odor ...

My friend Miles Walker and I were headed for Glory. It wasn't the first time we'd set out in that direction. For some reason, Glory always seems to be just a mite farther away than we thought it was ...

Victor never thought it would be easy. After all, full-grown dragons are as big as a windmill, and tougher than a stone wall ...

I was three blocks away from Elmer's Cafe when I caught the first waft of spice in the air ...

I know a guy who can tell you whether it's summer or fall just by looking at a calendar. That never worked for me ...

That was the Year of the Whist - or, as some folks called it, the Great Dream Shortage ...

My friend Flora Caprifolia is Junior Vice President of Marketing Ploys at a company that sells abstracts ...

This episode lumps together four short poems and a song fragment. As if Russell the Rooster needed a warmup act ...

My friend Albie Durned is a private investigator. You may have heard of some of his more famous cases ...

I was visiting my friend Buddy the other day. Buddy is the kind of host who hates to see a guest empty-handed, so he kept on constantly running into the kitchen ...

Vern Acular and I were wandering through the Wandering Hills the other day. We were looking for square inch worms ...

I tried to catch my friend Stretch in a lie the other day ...

Another song for the kids: We used to keep a pair of rabbits, with their mild-mannered habits, in a hutch ...

I'm going to a party later today. Parties aren't really my thing, but this one is a special one ...

My friend Olive Branch is a conflict resolution specialist. When a client schedules two meetings at the same time, it's Olive's job to evaluate the conflict and to negotiate an acceptable solution ...

The line in front of Bill O'Sale's latest retail establishment stretched around the block ...

So there I was ... NINE days away from the nearest road ... TWELVE days away from the nearest crossroads ... EIGHTEEN days from the nearest town, and me without a raincoat ...

Jessica wanted to learn to fly. Of all the magical powers in all the world, she thought flying would be the funnest ...

My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a new kind of headphones ...