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Quirky (True) Stories Volume 3: A backyard wilderness

February 18, 2026 A.L.H. Hughes

Hello. Hello. It looks like it is time for another round of Quirky (True) Stories, where I regale you with a small selection of random (but true!) stories, apropos of basically nothing. Like the last round of stories, this round has a theme, which is: Random, wild-animal stuff that has happened in my back yard. That sounds vaguely exciting, but you will have to decide for yourself whether these stories live up to the hype. I will warn you ahead…

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 2: Cartoon Physics

September 5, 2024 A.L.H. Hughes

Well, it is time for another round of Quirky (true) Stories. This time, I have a theme, which is: The evidence I have so far accumulated that many cartoon tropes (and cartoon-style physics) are, in fact, based on pure reality. Evidence the first: Cockroach encounters. Okay, to start, I grew up in Montana, where we kinda, mostly don’t have cockroaches? I mean, maybe we do, but if so, they keep a very low profile. So, the first time I ever…

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

March 13, 2024 A.L.H. Hughes

These stories are all apropos of nothing. I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1 How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this. It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…