Bybee | Thursday, February 23,2006

Here and there

The parking lot’s always full, the patients are overweight, and nobody wants trouble

He was not from here; he was from there. New places made him apprehensive, but it seemed friendly here. The sign outside the building read “Welcome to the Medical Cente

Bybee | Thursday, February 9,2006

The duck, the shtick, and the best valentine ever

Sister Serene was magic — and my first valentine

By Doug Bybee

The note on Tommie “Snorts” Sullivan’s Christmas card, saying that Sister Mary Serene had recently passed to her reward, surprised me only in that she

Bybee | Thursday, February 2,2006

Good poet! Bad poet!

Made irrelevant by the Net, Tullius finds refuge as a poet

By Doug Bybee

Before the Internet, before the search engines, Tullius Menard was a person of substantial worth, for he’d memorized most all the facts.

Bybee | Thursday, January 19,2006

Power ("Sorry, Sorry Night") politics

The ‘wedged-in’ generation’s last shot at power

By Doug Bybee

They held no power They did not know how Perhaps they’ll hold

Bybee | Thursday, December 29,2005

E-mails from the perimeter of good taste

Will readers never learn not to trade words with me?

By Doug Bybee

I write stories? Stuff? Sometimes kind folks read the stories and e-mail me. The e-mail is almost always of this nature: “I enjoyed your story. Interesting. Different.

Bybee | Wednesday, November 23,2005

The longest dream

Over the years I edge up and down and sideways. Lose some. And win some.

By Doug Bybee

Summer 1959. I’ll refine my first-baseman skills here at the semipro level, forget college, and go straight to the major leagues. The old

Bybee | Thursday, November 10,2005

Comb-overs and sensible shoes

Advice for would-be writers

By Doug Bybee

There’s a small celebrity associated with writing words that find public display; for instance, a few folks have asked me for writing advice. Of course, what they mean

Bybee | Thursday, October 27,2005

Taking the most clandestine route

No one was above suspicion, and that suspicion had to be inclusive

By Doug Bybee

Secrecy was the first order of the Brotherhood, so brothers Harold and Herbert called it Not The Brotherhood. Hob Fadwaddle, the only other “known” m

Bybee | Wednesday, October 12,2005

Practice cat and sidekick cat

Every successful relationship requires compromise

By Doug Bybee

Seven years ago. Cats are OK, as long as one doesn’t humanize them. I believe a cat would make a fine pet if it spent 10 minutes a day doing “frisky

Bybee | Thursday, September 15,2005

A dash illegal

For a cadaver, the best work is a government job

By Doug Bybee

Their business was database development: Ulee Bob Waxon handled the people side, Yanks Avatar did all things technical. As Yanks measured it, he worked 80-hour weeks; Ulee di