Category: story

Henry Lawson’s The Loaded Dog is comedy in its purest form: once the story gets going, there’s no way to stop the unfortunate ending. Lawson writes like someone who’s spent real time around blokes who should know better but go ahead and do dumb things anyway. What starts as a half-baked scheme to blow up…

Every so often, a humor piece surfaces that feels like it wandered out of another century, dusted itself off, and asked politely whether anyone still appreciates a slow‑burn joke. Settling on the Land is exactly that kind of story—part frontier sketch, part deadpan character study, and entirely the sort of understated comedy for quick read.…