By: Eric Bailey | 2010-05-31 | Writing & Speaking Top 10 Funniest Animals The animal kingdom features creatures of all shapes, colors, and sizes read more
By: Jo Ann Wentzel | 2010-05-31 | Writing & Speaking Built in the early 1900''s, our house was once part of a lodge. It''s a real fixer upper. This place was bought for a temporary dwelling and possible investment. You know the scheme- live in it, fix it, and sell at respectable profit- quickly of course. read more
By: Dennis Copson | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking CHAPTER 3: Ms Kitty Kitty Kitty Swoops Congress (Don''t Ask Me I Only Write em!) Chapters 1 and 2 related the incredible aspects of my little black cat, the inimitable Ms Kitty Kitty Kitty, accidentally getting herself elected to Congress from my district and how the ACLU withstood strong chall read more
By: David A.G. Fischer | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking The Knowing About Cats Network (KATN) is pleased to present a very special interview brought to you by the Midwest Feline Club. read more
By: Eleanor Carmichael | 2010-06-04 | Writing & Speaking Grow Some Wings Once upon a time there was a Poor Little Caterpillar who lived in a big oak tree. He was small and black and hairy, and all the other bugs that lived in his tree made fun of him all of the time. "You''re small," jeered the Bumblebee. read more
By: Stella Kaye | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking CHANTICLEER AND THE BOX The requisites for Sunday dinner normally appear on my drive in the back of a Tesco delivery van, but not this week. Standing there, looking as if he already owned the place was a fully-grown, farmyard cock. read more
By: Alan Duly | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking The chicken He was an average man with a loving stay-at-home wife and two teenage children. His life was boring and so routine, his work was stressful, and worst of all, he really didn''t make enough money for the four of them to live a comfortable lifestyle. read more
By: Dolores Moore | 2010-06-02 | Writing & Speaking WHERE THERE''S WILL, A CAT CAN FIND A WAY! Cats and dogs in my family were never allowed to sleep upstairs in the bedrooms. Which is not to say they didn''t. If I had my way, I would happily share a bed with a warm, furry, bewhiskered creature, and I mean the four-footed variety. read more
By: Nathaniel Miller | 2010-05-30 | Writing & Speaking Old Brindle, lone provider of the family milk supply, should have been in the barn that night for a light snow had already covered the ground. However, it had been a drought year and feed was scarce, so Mom left her out to graze in a field of cornstalks at the bottom of a long hill. read more
By: James Brown | 2007-07-08 | Internet Business Many children are mesmerized and delighted by the animatedhumor that they find in their morning read more
By: C.R.Wade | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking A Story about a Squirrel When I was a young girl, I used to sit at the foot of my grandmothers'' bed and listen to her stories of things that happened when she was a little girl growing up in a southern town. read more
By: Perri Winkler | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking How To Avoid Being Attacked by an Owl While Asleep Greetings. I''m one of the very few individuals on this planet who has been attacked by an owl* in the middle of the night. I was in my bed, fast asleep, oblivious to the encroaching nightmare outside. read more
By: Lissy Jones | 2010-06-01 | Writing & Speaking There is a war going on in my kitchen. It''s between me and the ants. They are applying Cesarean strategies and I''m trapped like Vercingetorix at Alesia in his last attempt to fight off the Roman conquest of Gaul. read more
By: Misti Mahon | 2010-05-31 | Writing & Speaking I used to work at an advertising company in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. More specifically, the north side of downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. More specifically, the ghetto of the north side of downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. (To paint a picture: The name of the road was "Ransom Street." I kid you not. read more
By: James Kavanagh | 2010-05-30 | Writing & Speaking Unseating the Catbird I sensed the flutter of wings behind my head as I picked up the newspaper from the driveway. I spun around in time to see a catbird settle on the branch of the oak tree on the lawn. He was squawking angrily, apparently at me, as I walked toward the house. read more
By: C F Tinney | 2010-06-03 | Writing & Speaking A bat flew into my sunroof and tried to kill me not long ago. It''s not everyday that a bat attacks you in your own car... or, if it is, you may have more serious problems than I. read more
By: Dolores Moore | 2010-06-01 | Short Stories HEAD ''EM UP, MOVE EM OUT! A True Animal Story. When you live on a small suburban street, and just read more
By: Michelle D. Keyes | 2010-06-02 | Short Stories Gone Nuts The rhythmic slap of her sneakers on concrete set a steady cadence to her pace. Each controlled inhale and exhale of her breathe kept her focused on putting one aching leg in front of the other. read more
By: Barry Williams | 2010-06-01 | Short Stories animal long since given over to bouts of lethargy. In actual fact Rodger preferred it that way. He read more
By: Kristie Theobald | 2010-06-04 | Short Stories I honestly don''t know how I got here. Less than an hour ago I was doing a show, as per usual - as a HUMAN, mind you, and now I''m stuck here... WITH FOUR LEGS, FUR, AND A BLOODY TAIL. Bejaypurs, I''m a CAT! But I''m a handsome one at that, if I do say so myself. read more