Boss is lonely, nasty, and vindictive. Employees are miserable. Boss loves technology and purchased the latest sex robot to take care of lonely. One day, the office techy hacked into the robot. Boss was lonely, nasty, and vindictive. Employees are happy. Another in the “Off Your Boss” series […]
Boss owns a plumbing & heating supply company. Unfortunately, all he understands is how to scold his employees. They can never do right in his eyes. His water heater went out and Boss called Jay to fix it. The next morning, during his shower, Boss died from excessively […]
Wife wanted her abusive husband dead. Rather than killing him with a gun, or knife, she read this report that GMO altered grains could kill him. Husband loved cereal. Husband is dead. — Copyright July 2, 2014 by Mike “TracyReaderDad” Pihlman. This is fiction, I think.
Nursing is a tough profession. Death, gore, and filth are normal. What is also normal is politics and vengeful head nurses. Day-after-day the Head Nurse was mean to her subordinates. While the nurses worked diligently and cared about their patients, the Head Nurse demeaned them. One day her […]
Sorry it has taken me soooooo long for another micro-horror story…. — Brian loves raisins. His friend does not. His friends wife makes lunch everyday…including raisins. One day Brian was found dead in his green-doored office. One wife is happy, the other not. — Copyright January 29, 2014 […]
In early 2001 we went to DisneyWorld in Florida. Kristen was 9 years old at the time. One day, she and I were sitting near the lake at Epcot when we conjured up (what we thought was) a great story plot. We thought of several titles as well, […]
I asked for, and got, my Christmas wish…. A shiny new 12 gauge shotgun… I was admiring my new present when I heard such a clatter…. The noise was louder than most and I was concerned about a burglar…. But I was ready… I saw a flash in […]
S-P-L-A-T – Inspired by this months National Geographic cover. Copyright Sept 8, 2011 by Mike “TracyReaderDad” Pihlman. This is fiction, I think.
Genre: Horror Paul spent his last week preparing for the rapture everyone said was coming. He quit his job, told his nagging ass wife to stuff it, picked up with a particularly attractive hooker, and drove to Yosemite to hang out until 6 PM PST May 21. He […]
Genre: Horror Jake is a micro-biologist interested in discovering the frequency (some call it “resonance frequency”) of the human body for a Department of Defense project. A complicated task since the human body is a complicated machine. One day in the lab, Jake picked up the TV remote […]
Genre: Horror Recent news reports are telling us that thousands of birds have fallen from the sky….dead. Thousands of fish are suffering the same fate. In the last few hours of 2010, the alien species in control of Earth made a few software changes. The birds and fish […]
Genre: Horror Everyone at the company was happy to receive their Christmas bonuses. Everyone but Sergey, that is. It turns out that Sergey is not afraid to tell Boss that he was wrong. He is not afraid to make product suggestions that others were too afraid to bring […]
Genre: Horror Tom is a dog lover. He lives in a nice part of town which, unfortunately, has seen its share of burglaries in the past few years. Tom’s chihuahua is his primary alarm system. Whenever anyone comes within 100 feet of his house, alarm system one is […]
Genre: Horror XYZ Medical is proud of their customer service. In their offices, they give you a token which you can place in one of two boxes near the door: Approve or Disapprove (of their service). Over the past 5 years, XYZ has had a 100% approval rating. […]
Genre: Horror E-Gene is a 23 year old PhD microbiologist with a second PhD in computer viral programming. Working at National Lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, E-Gene is well respected among his peers regularly presenting at conferences on his specialty: “Programmable Genetic Transmutation of Computer Viruses in Biological […]
Boss always wanted to take the easy way out. Very lazy. Employees did all the work, while Boss took all the credit. One day, one of the employees brought in an “Easy Button”. Boss thought it was cool, and promptly placed it in a prominent location in […]
“V is for Vengeance” by Sue Grafton (sadly getting too close to “Y” :-(
