John the Gnerphk

My new story is out today. #103, I think. Put on Coltrane's Naima while reading. scifishorts.co/premium/elegy-…

I love this one. 🤣

wisdom

@atlasjlively I'm assembling a volume of short stories. They range from hard sci-fi to the strange and mysterious.

I’m so happy to be writing again. To all the writers out there, let’s be friends! I want to follow you! Tell me about what you’re working on 💕✨

Today only, a bonus sign

I'm at a loss. 🤣

Happy Equinox.

@mysteriouskat 🤣

The less I rage bait on social media, the fewer people see my posts. This has to be a conspiracy, right??!!

Ahh! I'll finally be able to park... uh... no, wait... WHEN can I park here?

The storm of '98. No, not THAT '98.

@P_R_Kaufmann 🤣

It's almost spring. Not quite, but almost.

Signs are not permitted past this point.

Remember: Spring is coming.

@MattWShow 😅

@Gnerphk Makes me think of the old Johnny Horton song, “when it’s springtime in Alaska, it’s 40 below"

Grant Snider: insufficiently sung genius

@WryWrichard 😁 Quite the story to that place.

@Gnerphk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_Fl…

Given the level of understatement here, it's likely this sign is somewhere in the UK. Either that or, underneath that big rock, there's a very flat coyote.

Pg Wooster, Just As He Useter Bound to your bookseller, leap to your library, Deluge your dealer with bakshish and bribary, Lean on the counter and never say when, Wodehouse and Wooster are with us again. Flourish the fish-slice, your buttons unloosing, Prepare for the fabulous browsing and sluicing, And quote, til you're known as the neighborhood nuisance, The gems that illumine the browsance and sluicance. Oh, fondle each gem, and after you quote it, Kindly inform me just who wrote it. Which came first, the egg or the rooster? P.G.Wodehouse or Bertram Wooster? I know hawk from handsaw, and Finn from Fiji, But I can't disentangle Bertram from PG. I inquire in the school room, I ask in the road house, Did Wodehouse write Wooster, or Wooster Wodehouse? Bertram Wodehouse and PG Wooster, They are linked in my mind like Simon and Schuster. No matter which fumbled in '41, Or which the woebegone figure of fun. I deduce how the faux pas came about, It was clearly Jeeves's afternoon out. Now Jeeves is back, and my cheeks are crumply From watching him glide through Steeple Bumpleigh. - Ogden Nash

You got paid a few cents per barrel. Unscrupulous pickers would add a layer of rocks to the bottom... and clever counters would know to inspect the heaviest barrels.

However, either your flivver or your jalopy ought to make it through just fine.