Jacob Sherman

Joined June 2022

130 stories

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The desire to read, and perhaps to write, should be cultivated and nurtured with care throughout every stage of life. For my part I will inject what strangeness and truth that I can into our written history. Expect no constants but honesty.

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Hyperbole
The most magnificent, life-changing, world-saving, resplendent thing since the bravest, truest, most finely sharpened knife
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Nice
I've written sixty-nine, in total, of these — Vocal "stories," original, designed to please — but I'll never reach the inner circle.
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Legislaytion
A consortium of musty old farts, well-read in the written coercive arts — a few subtle addendums managed to send 'em to the tops of the net worth charts.
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Shrinkage
His loins, a distant lass was attractin'. That was, a'fore the ice started crackin'. The lake, in lust, he tried to cross,
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Crocostyle
Florida man goes golfin'. At every warning sign, he's scoffin'. He laughed all the while, up until that reptile sauntered along and engulfed him.
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
The Haunted Haberdasher
Douggie thought himself a whale of a host. With his stories and ales, kept his guests most engrossed. But when the night was over
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Open Mic Night
If what you want is a limerick devoid of joke, gag or gimmick, well, I've got all the chutzpa and humor of a grievously war-torn boomer.
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Chill Deathcore Beats to Study to
I once thought I that I had it all figured out, drunk with hubris, like that rabbit going on about, "I've got this in the bag,"
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Limerickrolled
##May you, dear reader, enjoy, and potentially empathize with, the lamentations of a whiny bitch contained herein, taking the form of a series of limericks. This downward-spiraling state of existential dread has been induced by the relevant limerick challenge. Damn each and every line to hell, and have a nice day##
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Absurd
I am deeply in love, and at one, with "absurd." Its meaning, its feeling, the sound of the word. Frivolous chaos, setups with no payoffs
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Lime Rick
There once was a lime called Rick who was rather a bit of a dick. He viciously bullied a lemon just 'cause he was yellow, poor Kevin.
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets
Gluten Over-Sensitive
I carry a chip on my brain, not my shoulder, and boy, it's a pain. A walking mistake, a man overbaked, eat-sleep-and-breathing against the grain.
By Jacob Sherman3 years ago in Poets

Jacob Sherman

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Hyperbole

Nice

Legislaytion

Shrinkage

Crocostyle

The Haunted Haberdasher

Open Mic Night

Chill Deathcore Beats to Study to

Limerickrolled

Absurd

Lime Rick

Gluten Over-Sensitive

Stories (130)