Skewered: 9 Satires for Our Times

by Bruce Jacobs

If you like to read hilarious words but not too many of them all at once, Skewered may be just what you’ve been hoping to bump into…unlike, say, a wall, or a rapidly moving bus. These short, satiric pieces take a humorous and comedic look at the some of the ridiculous people and absurd events that have provided so many hours of entertainment and instances of elevated blood pressure over the last decade or so. Find out what Donald Trump really thinks about losers like Einstein, Mother Teresa, and Warren Buffett. Plunge into Fidel Castro’s blog and giggle with him as he makes crank calls to the CIA. Take a sneak peek into the private diary of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Spoiler alert: Cheney gives even him the creeps. Eavesdrop on the secret rites of evangelist Ted Haggard’s Promise UnKeepers, an organization of the immoral minority that includes some of the biggest movers and booty shakers of our times. Oyez vey. Is waterboarding torture? “No!” rules Supreme Court Justice and jowly tough guy Antonin Scalia, “but wading into one of Elena Kagan’s dissenting opinions sure is.” Dying to know how old people use internet chat rooms to have sex? Log on and start counting the wrinkles. If you read one book this year, it probably shouldn’t be Skewered. But if you read two…

33 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 6, 2016

About the author

Bruce Jacobs grew up as an Air Force “brat” and had the privilege of living in several different countries, including England, Germany, Norway, and the United States. He is the husband of an amazing woman and father to four rambunctious boys who refuse to stop growing up. When he’s not writing stories, Bruce enjoys playing pickleball, tending his flock of backyard chickens, watching movies, and of course, reading. He shamefully admits to being a lapsed beekeeper but hopes to resume the practice soon. Bruce mostly lives inside his imagination but has often been spotted in northern Utah.