Short Shorts
Funny is the highest level of serious, but you already knew that. This page links to seventeen of my very short pieces published by various magazines:
Kublai
Khan's Five Stages of Grief (Necessary Fiction)
The
Ugly (HOUSEFIRE)
Dog
Bites Queen (Spork)
The
Future of Books (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)
em
Português (O Globo)
Macondo
Personals (Night Train)
Lacanian
Jokes of the Day (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)
Nixon
and Cookie Monster (Yankee Pot Roast)
How
I, the Monster, Feel When Your Husband Wakes Up (Word Riot)
Return
to Tannu Uriankhai (Eclectica)
How
To Read Arnulf Vogelsang (Pindeldyboz)
A
Medieval Bestiary of Vegetables (Monkey Bicycle)
Problems
Faced by Victorian Paparazzi (Eyeshot)
Mickey
Mouse Fights Bugs Bunny In Vegas, As Reported On By Norman Mailer
(The Big Jewel)
Raskolnikov
Meets Dr. Phil (Yankee Pot Roast)
“What
Was What, What Wasn't” (The Big Jewel)
Some
Haiku by Elmer Fudd (The Big Jewel)
Situation
Report From Oz (McSweeney's Internet Tendency)
Contact: james jameswarner net
"Can comedy be palatable without a breath of mysticism?" -- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
"If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor, if it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness." -- Robert Frost