Tag Archives: Humor

Oh You Sexy Monster, You! (NSFW)

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Brian Bixby

It’s time for the “Oh You Sexy Monster, You!” awards, Sillyverse edition. This award post is the result of a conversation over at the Sci-Fi & Scary blog, in which I casually challenged its two authors to come up with … Continue reading →

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Sex and work collide in chapter six of To Ride the Lightning Bolt

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Brian Bixby

Poor Daphne Vane. She can’t seem to escape unwanted attention at home or at work. Admittedly, some of that attention is well-intentioned, and Daphne is willing to toy with some ploys. And yet nothing seems to be working out quite … Continue reading →

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A torrent of suitors in Chapter 5 of To Ride the Lightning Bolt

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Brian Bixby

Who is Daphne Vane’s father? Good question. But to Daphne, there is yet one question more important: who are these guys who want to be her husband? The horror of her situation becomes obvious and ominous to her in chapter 5, … Continue reading →

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The Day After Halloween, a new story

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Brian Bixby

So after a night of trick-or-treating, which can mean different things if you’re a child, a parent, or a young adult, you wake up the next morning and everything is normal, right? Well, not for one father, who finds his … Continue reading →

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A new story: To Ride the Lightning Bolt

Posted on October 6, 2017 by Brian Bixby

Meet Daphne Vane. Daphne is, in her own eyes, a perfectly normal young American woman just starting out in life. She has a family that she thinks would be great contestants in a surreality game show. As actual family, they … Continue reading →

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A new serial – As the Wyrm Tyrns

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Brian Bixby

Sillyverse was begun to tell long stories in serial form over many weeks. For much of this year, the blog has been all but suspended while I attended to family and personal issues. Between some timely important decisions and being … Continue reading →

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Chapter eighteen of Magician’s Misfortune

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Brian Bixby

Harry Eberhardt is in the middle of nowhere in Vermont (an easy state to do that in), on the run from his employer, the Federal Government’s Office of Occult Affairs. His only ally is a magician who calls herself Becky, … Continue reading →

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Not quite the start of another story

Posted on September 4, 2015 by Brian Bixby

A long time ago (July 31) in a place far, far away (my home, which is not where I am at the moment), an author (me) laid down his pen (interpret this figuratively, unless you want to imagine me marking … Continue reading →

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The Spirit is Willing but the movie is dated

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Brian Bixby

A romantic triangle in 1898 ends with all three lovers dead. And their ghosts go on to kill people and drive them insane. It’s a comedy, don’t you know? The Spirit is Willing claimed in its advertising to “face the biggest … Continue reading →

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Genesis: the unauthorized real lowdown

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Brian Bixby

The story of the creation of Man and his expulsion from the Garden of Eden has been retold many times since its origin in Genesis. Some takes have been profound discussions of theology, while others have had a political bite. Mark … Continue reading →

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