Francis Erich McElroy
Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.
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Fame and Fortune for Frank 6
Frank returned, not with a tick or a tock, but with awareness – a pulse, slow and steady, that pulled time inward like gravity into a black hole of meaning. Frank had been watching all along. There were no hands on Frank’s face. There never were. There were eyes – two microscopic irises built into…
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Fame and Fortune for Frank 5
Eric is falling out of step with his PC (personal companion). It has memorized every phrase ever written and can take any piece of literature, science, theology or record and design a new way of presenting that intelligence to Eric with minimal effort. But it can’t develop a proper relationship with a dog. The dog…
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Fame and Fortune for Frank 4
“There is a cost associated with protecting things aside from yourself,” Eric began, a hero’s expression of fame. “Including love inside you that can be received and reciprocated causing you to protect the recipients of mutual love but with the consequence of dying or losing them. On the one hand, protecting your property is not…
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Fame and Fortune for Frank 3
“The only difference between fame and fortune is three letters—and they aren’t SEX. You see, any animal can get laid if they have a pulse. But some animals are wounded—not for lack of sex, but because they are undesirable when wounded by their own kind. If they are wounded by a great predator for being…
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The Value of Values
The principles I live by have been with me since birth. They have been inherent to my being from the beginning. Principles are what make me the kind of person I am, have always been, and always will be. My morals developed later, as I began instinctively questioning right from wrong. At times, I responded…
