How about a horror story most kids could tell in 1 sentence consisting of 4 words: "I went to school."? Just pulling your leg with my saucy comment & challenge. Love your creativity. Sent more than one series of ripples down my spine.

For heaven’s sake, it’s only humor sure to make you laugh like hell. — The reason things have not been going very well for me is because I don’t believe in god. S/he/it knows, is pissed as hell, & is taking it out on me. God save me! The way the story goes, it was about 13.5 billion years ago, that one got away…

Misfortune, rescue, & healing laughter — When my straight-laced sister would visit after having run off & married her fiancé’s best friend & set up housekeeping with him & his family in neighboring Canada across the Great Lake Erie, her visits home were joyous occasions. …

Professions that once inspired by disseminating fresh ideas now censor with rules silly beyond belief. — Grammarly is a squawking parrot in writers’ nightmares. Logic has clearly bitten the dust if this is considered some kind of guiding light. …

It was a horrid shouting match with my closest friend. As she vented her anger, I saw fear, a terrified little girl, charged with the same panic the little boy inside me was experiencing — that we had both lost our dearest friend. Fortunately, our anger waned, our rational minds…

Please . . . tell me it ain’t so! — I recently spent the day with a small group of boys & a staff social worker from a cluster of group homes for traumatized & special needs children from dysfunctional families. If what I witnessed & experienced is typical, the situation is far worse than I ever imagined. …

Few left that one can count on — Cold hard facts are becoming an endangered species with conspiracy theorists standing on every corner & the denial of science & others’ rights as the cornerstone of the policy of increasing numbers of psychopathic leaders of many former supposedly democratic societies & their nonthinking robotic supporters. …

When the electorate has spit for brains, the leaders will likely be the scum that floats to the top. The schools have succeeded fantastically at making the masses into boring drudges while failing the Laboratory in Democracy through the schooljail autocratic soul-crushing robotization process.

My favorite definition of a genuine friend is "someone who, when you've mad an ass of yourself, does not believe you've done a permanent job." Sorry, I don't recall the genius who said this.