John Wiswell on the Web

So last week while I was running between medical tests, Tony Noland and Icy Sedgwick both tagged me in the "Lucky 7" game. The gam...

Foreman manned the left oar and Aftman manned the right. They propped their boots up on the parcel at the bottom of the boat. The fog swirle...

Dale's cell vibrated on the desk, scampering over the surface like the plastic was coming to life in little bursts. He set his teeth an...

RETWEETs are perfect. There has never been a better form of communication, and never phrased better, or I would have written it. Instea...

As dusk whisked over their cave, Mummy Nine-Legs ascended to the ceiling and unfastened a few spools of humans for supper. Little Bug had n...

"I deserve a say. I have a right in this because I’ve spent the last forty years saying I don’t. When you wanted to enlist, I said...

During my most recent medical emergency, several of my Christian friends publicly announced they’d pray for me. When this happens, there’s ...

This weekend I have an essay up at Fridayflash.org about my creative process and why I don't just write daily, but publish daily. I...

Tell me about her. Whenever I made waffles, she’d steal my fork. She’d pair it with her own, turning them upside down, turning them...

So it's Jupiter and Juno's wedding day, and various presents arrive. There are garters of stars, armor that repels war itself, ...

“Star ratings were a conspiracy hatched by an Illuminati that seeks to de-luminate you. It’s clickable, skimmable, nonsensical and diab...

But Carmen couldn’t wait, not with that sign in the window. Her mother was an English teacher, damn it. She told Samuel that she’d pay and...

So on Thursday the 3 rd I was in the hospital. I’m going back this week for updates and more tests. It’s nothing serious; I just can’t...

Your book is made out of dead trees. Your Kindle sucks electricity. Your book doesn't work in the dark. Your Kindle needs to...

February will be National Novel Reading Month. It’s a simple idea. We’ve all got at least one classic book we think we ought to read an...

I have never encountered an illness like that of the Young Master. What more rational name there is than “illness,” I am unaware, th...

For the second episode in a row we managed to get all three hosts together: Nathanael Sylva, Max Cantor, and myself. This time we had an in...

There is a physician’s office at the end of the sty. It is open only Mondays and Fridays, when something funny is put in the slop. On those...

Foreword: I haven't actually seen the movie. Allegedly I'm watching it tonight. “Anyone fighting them must cross a certain ...

I don't run many milestone posts, but I had to do this one. Sitemeter has long been flawed, but it's been monitoring my blog for so ...

1. If you’re ranting, I will skim. I am not interested in vitriol, particularly because I’ve read so much of it that it all sounds the ...

The meteor shower began Tuesday and ran into August. Isaiah only noticed them on his morning drive to work, with his left arm propped in th...

"It was only this morning that I realized. I always thought I was more easy-going, just bury me and chat, think about the good tim...

Welcome to Best Reads 2012! If you've got a list of your own on a blog or tumblr, give us a link in the comments and I'll add you to...

So yesterday we played the annual Bathroom Monologues Christmas game . I set up a word puzzle, this time being sixteen clues ...