Good Evening

To my fellow earthlings and all other aliens in the Milky Way and beyond, I present to you Mirror Toad. Mirror Toad will mostly be filled with short stories and various forms of writing that express my interest on a particular day. Including, but not limited to satire, comedy,...

Destinies of the Soul

In the Houghton Library at the great learning institute of Harvard, you will find a book called Des destinées de l’âme (Destinies of the Soul in English) that is bound in human skin. The book was not the handiwork of a madman like Buffalo Bill from the novel and...

The World’s Oldest Operating Bookstore — Centuries of Books and Ghosts

In the Chiado neighborhood in the historic center of Lisbon, Portugal you will find the world’s oldest operating bookstore. The Guinness Book of World Records declared Livraria Bertrand the oldest operating book store in the world in 2011. Whether Livraria Bertrand is faithfully a ghost friendly zone we can’t...

The Cave

Extra Toppings Finnegan was the last one. One by one his best friends crawled into the small mouth of the cave. The extra tiny Oliver was first, followed by the leader and the toughest of the teenagers, Peter Salvador, known as Pizza Pete to his friends. Next was the...

Biden Signs Bill Making “Punch a Gaetz Day” A Federal Holiday

MTP Breaking News July 3rd date will connect with July 4th Indepedence Day creating a longer period of national celebration — Biden suggests if you can’t find a Gaetz to punch, replacements will be acceptable, such as Republicans with the name Cruz, McConnell, Graham, McCarthy, Paul, Cotton, Rubio, Kennedy,...

Beauty For All

In ancient Egypt men also wore makeup. These beautiful Egyptian men of long ago liberally applied a makeup called kohl (a paste made from several ore minerals) around their eyes with a special tool that was usually created from ivory, wood, and bone. Besides making the men better looking,...

Spiders in the Rain

Excerpts from the diary of Ruth Wilson as read by Gale Sawyer The Trial of Robert Stuart Hammerstein Bob Hammerstein did not have a trial, he was shot in the right ear less than three hours after I met him. If you subtract the thirty-minutes we made love and...

Rewind – Top Novels in 1921

What books people were reading in the past is something I have always been interested in. At the bottom of this page is a top ten list of the best selling novels in the United States in 1921, as determined by Publishers Weekly. Of the ten most popular novels...

Bob Feller’s Mother’s Day Blues

The twenty year old pitching phenomenon Bob Feller promised his mother he would win the May 14, 1939 Mother’s Day game for her at Comiskey Park in Chicago. A delegation of 700 fans from Feller’s hometown of Van Meter, Iowa had come to see Feller pitch and present him...

Republicans To Introduce Bill Banning Companies From Not Publishing Pinocchio

Considering a May 12th national holiday to celebrate personal hero Pinocchio Breaking News WASHINGTON (MT) House Republicans, full of bravado and good spirits, after stripping Liz Cheney from her leadership position in 16 minutes on Wednesday, May 12 for telling the truth, indicate that they will introduce a bill...