from the forthcoming book: Gods, Demons and Genitalia: A Collection. Follow me at www.jimclevelandauthor.com. The gavel struck and the judge called the court to order. Standing to face the jury is a stern prosecutor who cuts to the chase: So here we are at the cusp of a decision that…

The Optimum Oligarchy Orations (2020) (Scenes between an imaginary American President, Don Gold, and a Russian counterpart — Vlad — sometime in 2020) ACT ONE: Scene: a swank penthouse with large glass windows overlooking Moscow at night. Two men walk in, one tall with golden weaved hair and an imperious…

TWITTER TARTS Less is more … More is Less by Jim Cleveland (from Ascending Apocalypse: A New Birth for Mankind) Twitter, as we know, is a worldwide communications phenomenon that encapsulates your convictions in 140 characters or less and delivers them to the world. It has been derided as an…

Condition Red: Our Apocalypse of Values and Intentions (from Ascending Apocalypse: A New Birth for Mankind, by Jim Cleveland, now on Amazon) Apocalypse showed up. Now we have to. Armageddon rages. We must rage back with righteousness. While some of us expected the presidential election to be a decisive blow…

AMERICA IS GREAT — BUT WHY? by Jim Cleveland (www.jimclevelandauthor.com) When a friend from Finland told me that America had never been a great country, I could have knee-jerked my reply. It certainly is. I know it. But then I began to question myself as to why my inherent truth…

IRAQ AND RUIN: A Cut-the-Shit Story by Jim Cleveland (from ON TOP OF IT: Rising Above the Human Mind) When you peel back the events of history and see them without all the partisan puffery, they begin to clear up considerably. The Iraq War was a horror story visited on…

THE CAPITALISM CANCER by Jim Cleveland (from ON TOP OF IT: Rising Above the Human Mind. Visit Jim at www.jimclevelandauthor.com) There is an invisible God that rules over everything we do in the United States — Capitalism. No one dare speak against it — no one in any American institution…

The Pupae of Irony by Jim Cleveland From ‘Slouching Through Apocalypse,’ a volume of Serio-Comedy with skits, satires, spoofs and essays. On the planet of Irony, somewhere in a galaxy like ours … One of the major religions there is the Cataract Church, said to be established originally by a…

BOBOSCOPY TITLES … a complete and relatively sensible story by Jim Cleveland Bob was Like A Rolling Stone. Mr. Tambourine Man was calling him to the road. So he made a Restless Farewell to family and friends. Farewell, Angelina, he said. He knew he would miss this Sad-Eyed Lady of…