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Judgement Day was the Silver Medal Winner
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A Man of Few Words
A Man of a Few More Words
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A Man of Yet a Few More Words

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and Welcome to the
World of Short Humour

What is Short Humour?

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.

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.

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.

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 -
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People of Few Words -
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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:

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.

Starchild by Swan Morrison

Swan Morrison's latest novel, Starchild, can be read at Wattpad.
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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.

The Short Humour Trilogy
The Short Humour of Swan Morrison

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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.

Read excerpts from A Man of Few Words:

1 - Science and Technology

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

2 - Road and Rail

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

3 - Religion and Belief

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
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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

4 - Education and Employment

Higher Education
Clarification
Stress at Work
Many Thanks
Premises, Premises
The Annual Report
Discrimination

5 - Food and Drink

The Sicilian Diet
- Also published by Costa Tropical News
Checkouts
The Semi-vegetarian
The Guarantee
New Kosher
The Helpline

6 - Sociology and Lifestyle

Marriage Guidance
Country Living
Attire
In Your Dreams
Lifestyle Police
Geography
- Also published at Writerspodium
- 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

7 - Politics and the Law

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

8 - Advertising and the Media

Investigative Journalism
Quiddlenitch
Adultery
Spot
Conversational Product Placement

9 - History and Heritage

Listed
Iron Age Brew
Ceremonial Positions
The Open Air Museum
The Expedition
The Ballad of Bodmin Jail

10 - Health and Social Care

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

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

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Further Writing by Swan Morrison

Until the End of Time by Swan Morrison

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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.

Judgement Day by Swan Morrison

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.