Category: My Stories
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John and Simon Take It On the Road
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22333 – 801: Here’s the haps: John and Simon Take It On the Road – By Herb When Simon was a little baby Sittin’ on his daddy’s knee He picked up a pencil and a piece of graph paper and said, I’m going to make something keen Lord,…
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Art Vegan – Health Inspector
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22266 – 782: Here’s the haps: “Not again!” Art Vegan was really, really annoyed. His job as health inspector left so much room for jokes on his name that he was very touchy about it. “Hey, Art! What do Vegan zombies eat? GRAAIIINNNSSS!!!” “Hey, Art! Can I…
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I Just Really Love Cold Water
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Before anything else, I’d just like to say I want to cancel my subscription to 2021. I’ve experienced the seven-day free trial and I’m not interested. Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22252 – 776: Here’s the haps: As I have been thinking about this memoir project and trying to decide what to…
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A New Word I learned Today
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Herb’s Blog Herbdate 22130 – 701: Today I was visiting Yvonne’s blog, Hello World where she often receives a shopping list and imagines things about the person or the list. She does other posts as well and also, apparently, writes books, which I hadn’t known until today. Her entry today…
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Place Your Fingers On The Home Keys Homeboy
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Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22122-693: A re-written piece from Jan 14, 09 Herbdate 17876: He sat staring at the blank screen the way the old-timers had stared at a blank sheet of paper in a typewriter. He couldn’t move. Paralyzed by depression and fear of rejection he minimized the word processing…
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Even Steven
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Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22119-690: I had written this originally in January of ’09 but I don’t think I ever posted it until December of 2019, before the advent of Covid-19. The character of Steven is loosely based on my personality, but I have never pummeled someone in the grocery store,…
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Dave Gets What He Deserves – Rewrite-Repost
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Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22117-688:I had originally posted this last year on September 19, 2019, which would have been Herbdate 21778. I don’t know the original number. That had been a total rewrite of a piece that never saw the light of day but was in the ’09 folder. When I…
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Curly 1-13-09
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Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22114-685: Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 17875 aka 01/13/2009:Here we have another story I had written and forgot about. It hasn’t seen the light of day since January 2009. 1/13/09: I handed “The Writer’s Book of Matches” to Margaret and asked her to pick…
