Purpose

This blog will contain a series of short stories involving the fictional character Erlenmeyer Flask. Erlenmeyer, who goes by Earl, is a sometimes reporter for the Casual Observer, a struggling fifth-rate newspaper. The stories will usually explore some topic (often philosophical) and touch on some bizarre implications.

These stories are an impressionistic sketchbook. Details have been left out, such as what the people look like. While my stories will inevitably reflect a word view, I'm afraid many will read into them things I have no intention to put in the stories. For instance, some might conclude I have a thing against large corporations, or executives. I don't have anything against them or for them per se. Nor do I think that the "common people" are superior or inferior to anyone. I have bigger issues to explore than these kind of things. I am fascinated with life, what it is, and what is going on in, around, and behind the universe.