Sappho was having a writer’s block — until she met sweet Atthis — Sappho woke up with the third rooster’s crow. She bathed in her ceramic tube, then brewed tea with wild thyme picked from the hills of Lesbos, her Aegean isle. After feeling alert she tried writing a new poem. She’d written nothing for days. …

There is impolite, there is cranky, and then there is someone like her — If you work at eateries long enough, you often smell them before they even walk through the door. By now, I’m used to some impoliteness and crankiness. People have issues, and therapists are expensive, so they use us to vent. I get it. …

Where on space are all the aliens? — The universe is much larger than most of us could comprehend. Compared to its immensity Earth is a pale blue dot, a speck of dust riding a Sun beam, to quote Carl Sagan. Our solar system barely registers in the Milky Way, our host galaxy. Milky Way itself is minuscule…

She was everything I ever dreamed of, but could we make it work? — 24 June, 1940 A few days after we captured Paris I was ordered to patrol the streets. The French government resigned and our Führer would visit the city today. So security was tighter than the ass of a constipated Josef Mengele. But such crude thoughts vanished from my mind like…

It appears I brought my ex to her limits — Devil prompt (Part 2) — Part 1 “Insufferable?! Moi? You’re lucky I even deigned to talk to you Lars, let alone consummate with you. No one speaks to me that way! Kiss your pudenda goodbye.” “Wait!! Taly…” Bang!! The bullet missed Lars’ manhood by a few inches. It passed between his thighs, sliced his inner…

That’s right, there are two distinct read ratios — This question has been bugging me ever since I read Medium Product Manager Buster Benson’s extensive piece — shared at the end — about the August changes. I liked that he provided details and was quite comprehensive. But he left some important parts unexplained. Above all which of the two…

You are never going to guess the reason — My claps on Medium pieces range from 30 to 50. If you see 30 claps it means I probably hated it but I’m too kind to say it. So I show it politely. If you see 50 claps it means I fell madly in love with it. I want to…

I was unsure if I’d survive our reunion, but I owed her an explanation — Temerity prompt (Part 1) — “You have a lot of temerity coming back here.” Talya said while pointing her Sig P320 to my marbles. “See? That’s what I couldn’t stand! You could have said ‘nerve’. But no, you had to show off!” “What’s wrong about using elaborate words? …

Feel free to make fun of me in the comments, since it’s kind of lame — Be patient dear reader, I’m not going to disclose my secret from the first paragraph. I mean I had to tease you and make you wonder what on Terra those guys have to do with me, right? Who are they? And why do they look like they’re suffering from chronic…