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The Fall of the House of Fahrenheit. Runner-Up in Too Hot for This Challenge. Top Story - August 2026.
Author's Note I wrote this story as a lighthearted tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, borrowing his dark, dramatic tone and nineteenth-century storytelling style for a tale that's far less haunted by ghosts than by a relentless summer heat wave. While the voice may feel akin to, the story itself is entirely original and meant as a bit of Gothic fun.
By Tim Carmichael3 months ago in Humor
The Day the Fan Declared War
I woke before daylight because my bedroom had reached the same temperature as fresh biscuits left inside a cast-iron skillet. There are people who claim a body grows accustomed to heat. Those people have either never experienced true summer or have made peace with lying to strangers.
By Tim Carmichael3 months ago in Humor
I Audited My Own Thoughts and Found Most of Them Unnecessary...
In the interest of self-improvement, clarity, and whatever passes for accountability these days, we at The Pompous Post decided to conduct a full internal audit. Not of finances, nor productivity… nor of anything useful, but that’s beside the point. We decided to audit our thoughts! Well, one of us did; the other just read it and laughed.
By The Pompous Post3 months ago in Humor
The Day Off
The air felt dry enough to age cheese, and the crickets in the tall grass were working overtime like they were getting paid per chirp. It was the perfect day to be in a pool, submerged, floating, dramatically sighing as the cold water shocked your entire system back to life. Instead, the day itself felt like a weighted blanket you couldn’t kick off, just pressing down with no intention of going anywhere. The sidewalks had officially entered “lava” status; one step too long and you’d swear your shoes were melting, just like the good old childhood game I played with my siblings, except now the consequences felt a little more real and a little more lifelike compared to a living room with couch cushions.
By Adrianna M. Braun3 months ago in Humor
Don’t Shoot the Messenger . Top Story - July 2026.
The weatherman’s smile goes from giddy to demonic while he swipes his hand over the red portion of the map. “Our heatwave continues. This week’s gonna be a real scorcher. Don’t go outside if you can avoid it, and if you do, stay hydrated.”
By Leslie Writes3 months ago in Humor
Why Do We Allow Wisdom To Live In Cemeteries? Part I
The first person I take the time to know is me. Then life, our world, and the humans in it. With my knowledge of life and living, I managed to make wise choices, decisions, and intentions from my body, heart, mind, and soul that allow me to live my life with common sense. Most young people look down on us older folks, judging and criticizing us. They are unaware that we are from a world where physical human contact is how we learn. Even without it, with what social media is doing to their lives, we can tell the outcome of many of their life situations and circumstances. Annelise Lords
By Annelise Lords 3 months ago in Humor
Putin's Wifi Problem. Top Story - July 2026.
Putin died. He didn't even see the Pearly Gates, was sent straight down to hell. All the lowest-level demons had a lot of fun with him, turning his earthly nightmares into hell reality. There were sharp metal nails under his nail beds, Saddam Hussein-like public beatings and the noose, a bottle from Qaddafi's rear, Ceaușescu's firing squad, and many other ways and means of torture. His body was completely beaten and torn, even though it was all only in his mind and it regenerated during the short breaks between beatings and executions.
By Lana V Lynx3 months ago in Humor
THE SILENT TRAGEDY OF MEN IN THEIR 40s & 50s WHO SAY “NOICE”...
I. A NATION IN PERIL (AND WE DIDN’T EVEN NOTICE….) Across America, in living rooms decorated with mismatched throw pillows and half-assembled IKEA furniture, something tragic is unfolding. Something subtle. Something insidious. Something… deeply disturbing and quite frankly, unnecessary.
By The Pompous Post3 months ago in Humor
COLOR THEORY: THE GREAT BEIGE CONSPIRACY
Growing evidence suggests that the modern world has entered a full-blown chromatic meltdown. What once was simple - red, blue, yellow, green, white, black, tan - has been replaced by a sprawling, pretentious, psychologically destabilizing riot of color names so ridiculous, they should require a warning label.
By The Pompous Post4 months ago in Humor
