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Tomorrow’s Headlines Today

Elon is from Mars; Trump is from Jupiter (The Gas Giant)

Celebrate Earth Day by Sending These Two Home

Ann James
2 min readApr 5, 2025

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Above Flims, Switzerland, Earth. Author’s photo

Countdown to Earth Day:

April 5: Millions of remorseful Republicans join Democrats in global “Hands Off” protests. There are no counter-protests.

April 6: Musk spends a billion dollars rebranding Tesla “Tesler” after
Trump’s White House lawn “it’s all computer” sales event.

April 7: Trump golfs.

April 8: Tesler fires Musk as CEO.

April 9: Man wakes from five year coma to find out Trump is President. Again.

April 10: Fox News accuses independent podcaster of oranging Trump’s face.

April 11: Fox ‘fairly unbalanced news’ disappears from airwaves.

April 12: Doge fires Secret Service.

April 13: Trump, with his putter stuck up his ass, stumbles into water hazard at his Jupiter…

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Short and Weird
Short and Weird

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The place for strange and funny microfiction stories (300 words or fewer). If you prefer 301-word stories, then this isn’t the place for you. Come back when you have a shorter attention span. Nah, I’m kidding — stories of any length can be great. But here, it’s all ≤ 300.

Ann James
Ann James

Written by Ann James

Her writing muse lurks in the volcanic hills amidst mustangs, marmots and jackalopes. While hiking with her dogs, Ann stumbles upon stories of dark humor.

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