The-Short-Story

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright) Batty the vampire bat could feel there was something amiss when he awoke this evening. It was as if the whole place was deserted. His suspicions where confirmed when he went out on his early evening flight. There was not a human about on the street, the whole place was [...]

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright) I met the stranger in the bar of the Gonubie Hotel. It is an old and cozy bar where all the locals know one another, and a local had better accompany you, if you want to be accepted. I was with a cousin that lived in these parts. I started [...]

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright) Two Humanis Humanis’s walked into the entrance of the Megapolitan Museum of Natural History. The one was named Rong and the other, Wroo. They walked over to the Hall of Humanis History. Once inside they saw that there was only three displays so they went to the first one. It [...]

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright) I. Waco, Texas, 1860. The bridge had not been built yet and there was still a ferry over the river. As yet there was no boom and the towns population numbered about two hundred people. The farms of the outlying region raised the population of the area by about two [...]

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright) A small white boy and a small black boy walk down the street and see a piece of discarded gum, soiled but unchewed, more or less simultaneously. The small black boy picks it up and prepares to place it in his mouth but the small white boy is very annoyed [...]

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright) I. I was wandering in the desert. I was wondering what I was doing here. Oh yes, I was dead, but what was I doing here? The place looked familiar, as if I had been here before. There was a large patch of rather large shaped boulders nearby, it made [...]

von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright) Budhas, a chubby cooperate American from a dubious gene pool, sat under the cherry tree when the great thought; of investing his thirty US Dollars in Microstuff shares, occurred to him. From this inspirational thought he deduced the three fundamentals of capitalism; greed, self-interest and corruption. These fundamental laws lead [...]