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

Summer is ... WAS ... a positive role model for us all ...

That's the last time I go camping during leaf peeper season ...

My friend Rosetta Stone is a translator of global communications - and when I say global, I don't mean communications from AROUND the world; I mean communications FROM the world ...

Another song for the kids: The bird on the lawn's been there since dawn, I think he's hunting worms ...

My friend Rowland Stone is a tour guide for an adventure travel company ...

Predestiny is like a doughnut hole ...

By the time I got to Elmer's Cafe, it was all over. Pancake batter dripped off the walls. The countertop was covered in syrup. Doc was gone. Stanley Oliver Terrick looked to be in a state of shock ...

I went to visit my friend Buford Colic the other day. That was a mistake. No sooner did I turn up at Buford's farm than he put me to work harvesting turtle-backed squishberries ...

Young Brian had a question. That was no surprise - Brian almost always had a question ...

Guy and a dog walk into a bar ...

I woke up this morning with the distinct impression that I could feel my fingernails getting longer ...

My friend Rita Book is a lexical engineer for a company that manufactures literary devices ...

A few days ago, I introduced my friend Stretch to a true story. I don't think he's ever met one before ...

Abner sings a fun, mildly spooky song for the kids: There's a spider in the woodshed, don't go there ...

My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a new kind of sparkling water. He calls it Flash Water (™). Instead of bubbles, it has tiny pinpoints of light floating around inside ...

I brought my fishing pole up to the top of Sneak Peak the other day. Sneak Peak isn't the tallest mountain around, but it's very shy ...

My friend Brian Teaser is a professional ideologist. That means he sits in a room all day long, sorting through loose jumbles of thoughts and vague random impressions, just to see if any of them qualify as ideas ...

Vern Acular and I were picking our way carefully and quietly through a grove of crabapple trees the other day ...

The Flower House is what Mary called it. She walked by the house on Blossom Lane almost every day - even if she didn't have to ...

My friend Foster Goodwill just got named ambassador to the Kingdom of Microstan ...