Sarah Hoyt finally was able to get her vignette challenge up, after computer trouble on the road. My effort is a moment of culture shock from a surprising angle.

Or whether the marathon is overrated.

We're hearing a lot about cheating of late -- but it's not just elections that attract fraud. Sometimes people will stoop to cheat when the stakes are astonishingly low, as witness the recurrent problem of people who cheat on a marathon. Some of them cut across the area between loops of the race course, while others hop on buses, bikes and other ( Read more... )

Ed Cooke has won the Readers' Choice Award in last week's Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Writing Challenge. The picture prompt was a bucket of baseballs, and the word prompt was "Play Ball."

Unfortunately, the voting numbers were a little low last week. Let's try to bring that up when the polls open for this week's Readers' Choice Award on

For decades Coach Bob Knight of the Indiana University basketball team was an iconic figure in college sports. Called "the winningest coach in basketball," he was known for his hard-driving temperament and his ferocious temper ( Read more... )