38 Comments
User's avatar
Kate Henry's avatar

That's people for ya. Hard to tell the lies from the truth sometimes. Shift the world or a part of it and you have to decide for yourself. Thanks for these little gems you tuck in our heads. Always a smile in them. )))

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks for always commenting, Kate. I learn a lot about YOU through them, you know.

Expand full comment
A.T. Symeonidis's avatar

"Oh, we want lies!".... The eternal food for all humanity. Lies drive history.... and, almost always, our own lives. Well done, Sharron!!!!

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

You got that right, AT. Hard to tell lies from truth these days...

Expand full comment
James Ron's avatar

Lies just seem much more appealing and are easy to believe even when you know they are lies..

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thus fiction! ha ha ha I believe Jimmy Swann is alive. Don't you?

Expand full comment
James Ron's avatar

I believe Jimmy is alive. But I don't know fore sure. : )

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

I know where he lives. Keep the faith, baby... hah!

Expand full comment
Janice Walton's avatar

Live together peacefully, now that would be a novel concept and a lie I would like to believe .

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Me, too. I have little faith in our species. We are capable of conceiving the glorious cathedral of Notre Dame , but built it on the backs of slaves. Sorry for my cynicism.

Expand full comment
Janice Walton's avatar

As do I - have little faith in our species. Particularly these days.

Expand full comment
Switter’s World's avatar

WAIT!!!

I have every reason in the world not to have faith in we people, then something comes along and shakes my faith in my opinion of us. Every time. The problem is nobody gets to hear about the goodness because there’s money to be made selling stories about the badness. But the goodness is out there. It can always be heard when the other noise is turned off.

Expand full comment
Janice Walton's avatar

Hi, That's very true. There is kindness and goodness out there, we just don't hear about it.

Expand full comment
Richard Blaisdell's avatar

And in the days of yore humans could converse with animals. We listened and took a big bite of an apple . Then saw the truth with a forked tongue.

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Hah! Write about this, Richard, and feature it on your Substack! You have a good start.

Expand full comment
Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Your encouragement raises expectations. My energy is going to a novel in the sky that may be read or not. Time grows shorter.

Expand full comment
Mark Starlin's avatar

More lies, please!

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

I am writing as fast as I can, Mark. Time's running out and I've got a lot of lies to tell. As do you, apparently.

Expand full comment
Mark Starlin's avatar

The well is deep. 🤣

Expand full comment
T. D. Wolf's avatar

LOL, ain’t that the truth!

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Human's have proven themselves to be a hopeless species. Is that why they had to invent gods? (Sorry, did I actually say that?)

Expand full comment
Jim Cummings's avatar

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

"... If I could turn the page In time, then I'd rearrange just a day or two..." I mean, who wouldn't? Thanks, Jim

Expand full comment
Jim Cummings's avatar

I knew you would get it.

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Hey! I am old, but still hip.

Expand full comment
Switter’s World's avatar

Sharron, what am I going to do with you? You made me smile in spite of myself. Thank you, friend.

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Ah, well, just go with it, Colonel. Sometimes you just have to laugh, so you won't cry, right?

Expand full comment
Switter’s World's avatar

Absolutely. There’s a reason for such things as gallows humor.

Expand full comment
Sharon Hudson's avatar

I like Grandpa's story. Let's do THAT, okay? Great story, Sharron!

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Okay, then!

Expand full comment
Justin Deming's avatar

I always enjoy listening to you read your stories, Sharron. Thank you!

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Those voice overs are harder than they seem. I particularly like the voice overs of Kenneth Mills. And soon, I think we might hear from good old James Ron!

Expand full comment
Rebecca Holden's avatar

Oh gosh!

Expand full comment
K.C. Knouse's avatar

That's a whopper of a lie! Well done.

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Thanks. Lies. My specialty. But just, you know, I call it fiction.

Expand full comment
palmisanocj@yahoo.com's avatar

Excellent, Sharron. Especially love, "Embers smoldered like the seething breath of dragons." Great imagery well-suited to a great story. "And they all lived together peacefully." Indeed--what an imagination you have!

Expand full comment
Sharron Bassano's avatar

Yeah, so that last line was definitely a lie... Thanks CJ. I hope you are well this morning.

Expand full comment
Nathan Slake's avatar

Heh, yes, this made me smile: "Oh, we want lies!"

Expand full comment