by Fred Eder | May 28, 2023 | Article, Equality, Nonfiction, Poverty, Selfishness
Did you know that if you had a billion dollars, you could spend a dollar a minute, every minute of every day of every week of every month of every year for the next 1900 years? I looked it up. It’s much different from being a millionaire. If you’re a millionaire, you...
by admin | May 1, 2022 | Alternative Universe, Fiction, Imagination, Selfishness
Two massive oak doors shut behind Horace and The Pooh Bear Being with a force that echoed through the Cosmos. “We will all be fizzling out of existence in four minutes and 20 seconds, just in case you still think time is real,” said Marvin the android. ...
by admin | Jul 17, 2019 | Essay, Nonfiction, Selfishness, Sin
Bless me, for I have sinned. Members of my extended family seem to believe you are wrong to be my friends, because, if you knew the worst of me, you would never talk to me again. They seem to want me to confess all of the most horrible things I have done such that all...
by admin | Apr 29, 2019 | Empathy, Essay, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Selfishness
“Don’t say that, Governor. Don’t look at it that way. What am I, Governors both? I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: that’s what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he’s up agen middle class morality...
by admin | Apr 2, 2019 | Empathy, Essay, Nonfiction, Selfishness
When I’m down to my last cigarette, and a stranger asks me for one, I’m going to deny him. I’m never going to make it all the way home without it. If I just got a new pack, absolutely, he can have one. I think that sort of sums up my feelings about...
