Month: October 2026

I hear the werewolves howling outside the abandoned
hotel I’m hiding in.
I fear tonight they are going to end my human life
and make me a monster like them.
I hear the screams of other humans, and the
howls cease.
Dawn arrives. I’m still a human, survived another
terrifying night in the werewolf apocalypse.
Tired of hiding and starving, I resign myself to the worst
that can happen; I become one of them.
That night when I hear their howls again I emerge
from my hiding place and walk into their midst.
After the horrifying, bloody attack I become one of them.

Bob Boyd

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Now some might think it silly that
a grown woman would cry when
a fish died.

And though I’ve had many tropical
fish as pets, I’ve never cried when one died.

The difference is she has a bigger
heart than mine, filled with compassion
for all living things.

I should have asked her to be my guru.

Bob Boyd

On the Dating App the price of admittance
for her deigning to even acknowledge a man
was an income exceeding 500k.

It didn’t matter that a man mindlessly interested
in her based on her body and her looks didn’t
make the cut at an impressive 400k.

After all, she had her mercenary principles.

Bob Boyd

The wind ceased
the night darkened
the forest shut down
animals took refuge
birds flew away
cicadas and crickets
ceased their singing
a hunter in a tree stand
sensed something evil
too late too late
no time no time to shoot
the approaching horror
an invisible killing force
ripped right through him
stripping his flesh
from his entire body
before he could scream
before he could escape
left him bone dead
a bloodless skeleton
its flesh-less jaws
stretched in horror

Bob Boyd

To parish members
no doubt he was considered saintly
a good priest

but beneath his cover of being a priest
he was a rapist and a murderer

in 1969 he raped and murdered a 25-year-old woman
a devout member of the Catholic church

he escaped justice for over 50 years
until he left the priesthood

and was arrested for the crime in 2016
and sent to prison for life

and died behind bars
Sadly, Tragically This Horrible Murder Really Happened

Hippos are cute in cartoons
but not so in real life

they kill about 500 people per year
some think as high as 3,000

they’re not exactly dear
how is it cute becomes deadly

are they just perennilly pissed off
or natural born animal psychopaths

I don’t know what the answer is
I’m not an expert in hippo psychology

and thank God I’ll never have to meet one

Bob Boyd

Mac worked out like a man on fire
took steroids to get muscled up more

his neck got as big as other men’s legs
his biceps surpassed 18 inches

he got built big like a gorilla and
freakishly strong

in a bar one night a drunk fool who
thought he was a tough guy

provoked Mac into a brawl
mac got him in a headlock

and, a bit drunk himself, he
squeezed the fool’s head

so hard and for so long that
the fool died from the hold

now Mac rots in a prison
and he’s quietly going crazy

Bob Boyd

I often wonder where people really go in the afterlife
despite the claims by religions, which I don’t believe
are entirely true.

I don’t believe it’s a heaven or a hell. I wonder if
maybe there are different levels like rungs on a ladder.

A saintly life, you go to the top rung: Eternal Bliss Consciousness,
Unconditional Love, a heaven, or something like those.

A Hitler, you go to the bottom rung, but eventually progress up
the rungs to the top.

But maybe the Hindu sages have it right. You keep coming
back on the wheel of reincarnation until you evolve
spiritually enough to reach the eternal bliss consciousness.

I’d rather they were wrong. I don’t want to come back and risk
coming back on the cusp of a nuclear holocaust.

And I don’t think any of the religions have it right from what
they are believing is truth in their books.

But maybe some of the saints in the books have peered
into the afterlife and seen the truth.

Or maybe the different truths seen by saints from
each religion mean there are different afterlives
instead of only one.

Bob Boyd

To my surprise, allegedly haunted dolls
are sold on eBay. One is described as
malevolent, and you must be experienced
to buy it. I think to myself, who would
want a doll that could harm you or
bring misfortune into your life? And who
would have experience with an evil doll?
A Doll Whisperer, lol?

One gasp! belonged to someone’s evil
aunt. Could any good come of buying
the doll an evil aunt owned and
probably infused with her evil ways?
But one, in a refreshing twist from
all the evil, is An Active Spirit Good
Luck Charm Wish Granter. That’s
a doll I could use in my luckless life.

A white witch on an old Art Bell’s
Coast to Coast radio program
said some of those eBay dolls
were really haunted.

As for me, I don’t believe any of
them are. But would I buy one
to test my belief?

No freakin’ way, shudder, lol,
in case my belief is wrong.

Bob Boyd

To the delight of earthlings across the globe,
the aliens debuted as blue teddy bear aliens
when they arrived in a UFO on our planet.
No reptilians. No nordics. No greys. No ebans.
Just cute, little teddy bears about 3 feet tall.
At first they were treated like celebs.
People gushed over them and were relieved
they were cute and cuddly and not hideously evil
until millions of them arrived on the planet,
armed with weapons that were unstoppable,
invisible rays that destroyed thousands in a second,
and the invisible dome stretching across the world
that prevented bullets, bombs, rockets and drones
from penetrating it with no alien casualties.
It took only a year for the teddy bears to decimate
every human on earth and make earth their
teddy bear planet, not unlike how humans
conquered other lands and usurped them,
except without decimating all the natives.

Bob Boyd