Curious Fictions

Free

Fiction

Sylvia Spruck Wrigley

There and Back Again

Published Jun 22, 2019 · 638 words (3 minutes) · 157 views

Fantasy Humor Dragons parody gold

What if Kickstarter had been available in Middle Earth?

Free

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” J.R.R.Tolkien

Free

Fiction

Lucy Gabriel

The Charge of the Lightweights

Published Jun 4, 2019 · 217 words (1 minute) · 314 views

Humor Literary Fiction Satire poetry parody Drink tennyson

Tennyson meets first year university students on a bender. This poem was a finalist in the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Originally published as C.L. Holland.

Free

Fiction

Lucy Gabriel

Ode to My Dark Lady

Published May 14, 2019 · 96 words (1 minute) · 331 views

Humor Literary Fiction Satire cats poetry Shakespeare parody

This poem was written in a workshop on parodying Shakespeare. The cat in question is still, seven years later, just as terrible. Originally published as C.L. Holland.

Free

Free

Fiction

C.L. Holland

The Owl and Great Cthulhu

Published May 12, 2019 · 193 words (1 minute) · 196 views

Fantasy Humor Literary Fiction Satire nonsense verse edward lear poetry Lovecraft parody

H.P. Lovecraft meets Edward Lear.

Free