The Northcountry Center for Ideological Cleansing at the Rookery in St. Frederick, New York, yesterday announced an astonishing new discovery that has enthused the pseudo scientific world with googled wonderment. Doctor Zorba Kildeere, the famed bioanthropsychist, has proclaimed the discovery to be a “real zeitgeist changer.” As a reporter for Adirondack Stream Media, I went … Continue reading OXYTOCIN by Edward Pontacoloni
That’s Not Possible by Linda Freedland
Sometimes our children are so far ahead of us in the geeky world of technology it’s scary. For example, when my eight-year-old son came home from school and announced that one day kids would never have to carry all their books around all day. To emphasize his point, he dropped his much-too-heavy bookbag on the … Continue reading That’s Not Possible by Linda Freedland
Cerebral Matter Wanted by June Hannay Kosier
Advertisement in the New York Times, June 7, 2020 Have you ever wanted to help your fellow man? Now may be your chance. Wanted: The brains of men and women who have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s Disease, Lewy Body Syndrome and Huntington’s Chorea. There is nothing to be done now except contacting … Continue reading Cerebral Matter Wanted by June Hannay Kosier
The Aura by Mary Perrin Scott
We live in a very dangerous time. Due to the propensity of politicians to lie and cheat, I have invented a scientific method to reveal dishonesty when it is spewed from the mouths of politicians and try set them straight to tell the truth. My first challenge was to create an honesty aura. What might … Continue reading The Aura by Mary Perrin Scott
A GRAND SCHEME by Duane L. Herrmann
Take one planet of disparate, unorganized, contentious and clashing inhabitants. Send them instructions periodically through the centuries. These instructions will provide guidance for the inhabitants to learn to live and work together in ever larger social groupings: family, tribe, city-state, nation, and finally, the entire planet.Expect most of the inhabitants to ignore most of these … Continue reading A GRAND SCHEME by Duane L. Herrmann
THE INVENTION by Lynn Collins Jerabek
I feel it is my bounden duty, given the severity of the attack upon honest and true science and those who perpetrate it, to bring to your contest my invention. I understand that you are limiting your contest to items dealing with truth, or at least the attempt to render truth identifiable. Admittedly, you do … Continue reading THE INVENTION by Lynn Collins Jerabek
Quarterly Margins of Error: The Economics of Experience by S.L. Parker
After the pandemic, which came to be known as World War Z, the theories abounded, as did time to test hypotheses. 1.Lack of coffee = zombificationFar-fetched becomes reality due to chemical dependency and the newest additives, of course not regulated by the CDC nor the FDA. 2.Offensive Science Stance: “The virus impacted the brain, resulting … Continue reading Quarterly Margins of Error: The Economics of Experience by S.L. Parker
Announcing the selected writers for the 2020 Anne LaBastille Memorial Residency
ACW is thrilled to announce the 2020 selected residents for the Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency, taking place over the first two weeks of October at the Lodge at Twitchell Lake. With a record-breaking number of applicants this year, the selected writers were picked for their high quality of writing by this year's panel of … Continue reading Announcing the selected writers for the 2020 Anne LaBastille Memorial Residency
PROTECTED MOTHER by Duane L. Herrmann
I protected my mother, but I wasn’t the only one. All four of us kids protected her. We never told her how awful she was, how hateful she was, how we felt like shit because of her incessant screaming and criticizing. We hated her pickiness. We hated the exactness she insisted on things that didn’t … Continue reading PROTECTED MOTHER by Duane L. Herrmann
