and Welcome to the
World of Short Humour
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What
is Short Humour?
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| Our Far Eastern, low cost,
pirate version of The Oxferd Inglish
Ducksionery explains Short
Humour as ‘Non-serious writing that is not
too long'. We defined
‘not too long’ as around 500 words, and
stories, poems and the like began to be written
that could be read in their entirety in less than
ninety seconds.
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| Why is Short
Humour needed? |
| With today's busy
lifestyles, there can barely be time to read
anything. Some
politicians and academics have even expressed
fears that written English might follow cuneiform
script and hieroglyphic writing as the preserve
of a few specialist academics.
Some of us
became equally concerned about the potential
effect on humour. Thus was created Short Humour
or SH, which can be read quickly at almost any
time and almost anywhere - see below.
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| What is the
purpose of The Short Humour
Site? |
| The purpose of this site
is to promote the reading and writing of SH both
in Britain and throughout the world and to
showcase work by writers of the genre. The site includes excerpts from the
seminal books:
A Man of Few Words - The Short Humour of Swan
Morrison,
A Man of a Few More Words - More Short Humour by
Swan Morrison and
A Man of Yet a Few More Words - Even More Short
Humour by Swan Morrison.
Each is a collection one hundred
examples of SH with a connecting theme of life in
the modern world.
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| Will The
Short Humour Site showcase
Short Humour I have written? |
| We
would love to. One of our aims is to
generate an archive of Short Humour for
the benefit of all mankind.
If you would like
to contribute to this noble task, please
see our Submission Guidelines.
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We have so far
published five anthologies of work, each
by fifty writers from our Writers' Showcase.
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People of Few
Words
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People of Few
Words -
Volume 2
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People of Few
Words -
Volume 3
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People of Few
Words -
Volume 4
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People
of Few Words -
Volume 5
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We hope to publish People of Few
Words - Volume 6 at some
point although there are no immediate
plans to do this.
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| What is the
advantage of Short Humour as compared to other
forms of writing? |
| Many people have become
overwhelmed with despondence and guilt about all
the reading they have begun and then abandoned by
the third page. There
are no such probems with SH which is generally
over before the end of the second page.
Also, its brevity allows it
to be read in new situations:
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| When might I
read SH? |
| Opportunities to read SH
exist in numerous circumstances such as: Between stations on the metro.
During lovemaking.
During lovemaking between stations on the metro.
During free-fall skydiving - Those who
have undertaken parachute training will be only
too familiar with the mantra ‘Jump - Read
Short Humour story - Pull ripcord - Check canopy’.
While driving long, boring, straight
stretches of motorway - In the UK,
driving while holding a mobile phone has been
banned. This has freed drivers’ hands to
turn pages.
At any time for members of religious cults
expecting the imminent end of the world.
While reading long, serious writing - Try
missing out two pages and reading SH instead.
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Starchild
by Swan Morrison
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Swan Morrison's
latest novel, Starchild, can be read at Wattpad.
Click the image of the book to read for free
About the book:
 A quiet revolution has been
happening for many years in the Western world.
Insights into the underlying nature of reality,
drawn from millennia of Eastern traditions, have
led an increasing number of people to awaken to a
new experience of that reality. The Internet has
allowed spiritual teachers to reach global
audiences and inspire those audiences to explore
for themselves the deep spiritual understandings
that underpin those ancient traditions.
Starchild is a work of
fiction that is set in a context of these
understandings. It takes as its starting point
experiments in remote viewing that were genuinely
undertaken by the American military in the
nineteen-nineties under the name of the Stargate
Project. It then imagines how a more advanced
attempt to weaponise the capabilities of
consciousness might have developed in the present
day. It then imagines how Reality itself might
respond.
This story spans a number
of genres: action, adventure, thriller, science
fiction, romance and more. In developing such a
story, the ideas mentioned above have sometimes
been extrapolated to the point of very extreme
speculation. Much of the underlying philosophy,
however, as explained in the dharma talks given
by Samantha Martin, is paraphrased from the
guidance of real spiritual teachers from a number
of traditions.
I hope this story is
enjoyed as a work of fiction. Perhaps, also, the
teachings of Samantha Martin might inspire some
readers to learn more about the real traditions
from which the ideas that she expresses have been
drawn.
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The Short Humour Trilogy
The Short Humour of Swan
Morrison
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Click
this link to learn more about the Short
Humour Trilogy
and download as Free
eBooks - all platforms
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| Each
of the three volumes of Swan Morrison's
Short Humour Trilogy contains one hundred
pieces of humorous writing. The pieces are each of
around 500 words and include stories,
dialogues, poems, letters, spoof news
reports, articles and songs.
They are grouped into topics
that include: Science and Technology;
Road and Rail; Religion and Belief;
Education and Employment; Food and Drink;
Sociology and Lifestyle; Politics and the
Law; Advertising and the Media; History
and Heritage; Health and Social Care;
Songs and, in the final volume, Stop
Press - a compilation of spoof newspaper
headlines.
All the stories, dialogues,
poems, letters, spoof news reports,
articles and songs are linked by the
theme of life in the modern world.
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| Read excerpts from A
Man of Few Words: |
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- Science and Technology
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Lost in Cyberspace
- Also
published at The
Spoof!
The Memory of Water
- Also
published at Laughter
Loaf
The North Pole
- Also
published at Writerspodium
Ermintrude
The Pulse
Vibrations
Subsidence
- Also
published at The
Spoof!
Living on Borrowed
Time
Words
Surfing the
Multiverse
Weather
Human Digital
Emulation
The Photographer
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Motorway Madness
The Traffic Warden
Speeding
The Mystical Art of
Driving
The Driving
Instructor Examiner
The Waiting Game
Adopt an Artefact
The Name of the
Roads
- Also
published by Costa
Tropical News
Mobiles
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Terrology
A Monastic Life
- Also
published at The
Northville Review
Coldendamp
Reincarnation
Enlightenment
The Circle Game
- Also
published at The
Short Story Library
- An
abridged version of this story is also
published at postcardshorts.com
The Afterlife
- Also
published at Bewildering
Stories
The First Christmas
Tarians
Messiahs
Sunrise
The Spire
You Know Who You
Are
Abduction
The Alternative
Repair Centre
- Also
published by Costa
Tropical News
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- Education and Employment
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Higher Education
Clarification
Stress at Work
Many Thanks
Premises, Premises
The Annual Report
Discrimination
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The Sicilian Diet
- Also
published by Costa
Tropical News
Checkouts
The Semi-vegetarian
The Guarantee
New Kosher
The Helpline
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- Sociology and Lifestyle
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Marriage Guidance
Country Living
Attire
In Your Dreams
Lifestyle Police
Geography
- Also
published at Writerspodium
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Highlighted at HumorFeed
Devolution
Mall Rescue
- Also
published in Horizon
Magazine
Intelligent Dogs
For the Stupid
The Secret Life of
Walt Gritty
Equalities
The Language of
Thought
Sheep
- Also
published by Costa
Tropical News
Greetings
The Fashion Icon
The AAO
The Protagonist
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The Debate
Territories
The Unrepealed
The List
Customs
Responsibility
Anti-profiling
Making a Killing
Bogussing
Covert Squatting
Jam Maker Inn
Shillay
The Floating Voter
SI5
- Also
published at The
Spoof!
Copyright
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- Advertising and the Media
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Investigative
Journalism
Quiddlenitch
Adultery
Spot
Conversational
Product Placement
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Listed
Iron Age Brew
Ceremonial
Positions
The Open Air Museum
The Expedition
The Ballad of
Bodmin Jail
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- Health and Social Care
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The Clinic
Care in the
Community
Accent and
Emergency
- Also
published at The
Spoof!
Elevation
IQ
A Most Difficult
Case
The Medical Model
of Nagging
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Read
the sequel to A Man of Few
Words:
A Man of a Few
More Words
Read the third book in the
Short Humour trilogy:
A Man of Yet a
Few More Words
Read on with:
Further Writing
by Swan Morrison
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Until
the End of Time by Swan Morrison
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the image of the book below to find
the Kindle eBook download link for your country
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‘I
don’t wish to alarm you, but I think the
Universe may soon cease to exist…’
 A death in an Oxford physics
laboratory and a mysterious chamber discovered
near a small Scottish town draw a seemingly
random group of people into a complex,
interconnected web of adventures.
They are
forced to re-evaluate their understandings of
reality and, with that, their perspectives on
life and love.
Causality is
breaking down, and realms must be explored in
which only an understanding of the true nature of
our Universe can save that Universe.
Until the
End of Time is the sequel to Judgement
Day: a winning title in Dan Poynter’s
Global Ebook Awards.
This thought
provoking, though often humorous, tale draws upon
themes taken from myths, legends and religious
traditions, intertwined with speculations arising
from physics, cosmology and studies of life
beyond death.
Until the
End of Time, in common with Judgement
Day, is a story not easily included within a
single genre. It incorporates action, adventure,
comedy, crime, espionage, mystery, romance,
science fantasy and science fiction –
together with elements of other genres.
Engage with
this fast-paced and complex adventure, and you
might never again view reality in quite the same
way.
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Judgement
Day by Swan Morrison
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Judgement
Day was the Silver Medal Winner
of the 'Fiction - Humor/Comedy' Category
of Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards - 2016
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 This is a true story. To preserve
confidentiality, however, all the characters,
facts and circumstances have been changed.
When a meteorite destroyed
a house in a sleepy, English village, no one
could have predicted the chain of events that
would lead Swan Morrison and Helen Hargreaves to
romance and would ultimately propel them into an
epic battle for the very survival of mankind.
How can one adequately
describe a novel that is (in alphabetical order):
an adventure filled; archaeological; comic; crime
featuring; dramatic; erotic; espionage laced;
horror tinged; political; religious; romantic;
science fiction; supernatural thriller with
philosophical, satirical and allegorical
undertones?
This affectionate tribute
to many classic storylines is where the writers
of the Archers meet the creators of Indiana Jones
meet Dan Brown meet John le Carré meet
E. L. James meet Stephen King meet Isaac Asimov
meet Barbara Cartland meet Harold Robbins meet
Colin Dexter meet Ian Fleming meet Woody Allen
meet Douglas Adams – to name just a very few.
Incorporating a diversity
of themes and genres exceeding the works of
Shakespeare, together with an exploration of the
relationship between man and God that is
comparable to the great religious texts –
all skilfully woven into a breathtakingly complex
plot – this ground-breaking, multi-genre
masterpiece may yet be judged to be one of the
finest works of literature ever written.
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Deep
Black by Swan Morrison
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 This is another true story. To
preserve confidentiality, however, all the
characters, facts and circumstances have again
been changed.
When retired accountant,
detective fiction devotee and lifelong
philanderer, Philip Ramsbottom, set up a private
investigation agency, he had thought it wise to
accept only straightforward surveillance tasks
– after all, his entire experience of
detective work had been gained from reading crime
novels.
Philip had thus not
expected his very first commission to draw him
into the murky world of espionage, and he was
definitely not prepared for the death-defying
mission that was to follow.
Elite special agents were
required to save the British and NATO nuclear
submarine fleets from annihilation. Such a
complex and dangerous assignment, however, would
have been far more suitably allocated to people
with relevant experience – in preference to
Philip and his former lover, Rebecca Carter.
In a sensible world, the
quest for the Sirens’ Song Configuration
would have been much better pursued by the ultra-secret
group of super-spies known as Deep Black.
Written by Swan Morrison
– the internationally acclaimed author of Judgement
Day and an established master of multi-genre
fiction – Deep Black is yet another
affectionate comic tribute to many classic
storylines.
This novella once again
incorporates the genres of comedy, crime,
espionage, romance and very many others into a
complex and action packed adventure thriller that
gradually reveals itself to be a dark and tangled
tale of the supernatural.
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