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"Jump", the old man yelled to his grandson,

  • "Jump", the old man yelled to his grandson, who was standing on the edge of the pool with a big question mark on his face. He sighed: "Please do not tell me you have the same weak

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  • cowardly heart as your father.`` Exasperated, the old man finally shoved the frightened youngster into the tepid waters with the business end of his cane. ``You`ll learn to swim

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  • with with the crabs. The seafloor was roiling in writhing, teeming, gleaming heaps of hungry rock crabs, climbing, pushing, fighting over each other for his plump white

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  • socks. The crabs especially liked the older socks, ones which had clearly been worn many times, and not always been washed between each wear. In the midst of the turmoil, however

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  • the crabs began to throw the filthy socks at me. I felt hosed.

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  • So I got RID of them.

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  • Lye, hydrogen peroxide, a hacksaw and a plunger (just in case). I saw them in her bag and before all the excitement and thought, "hey, must be fate." Two hours later, the bathroom

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  • reeked of corpses, although none could be seen. She smiled back at me, proud of what she had done. Of the mess she hadn't made. I winked, thinking

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  • "You only live once, right?" and slicked my hair back. Once you got past the stench and insanity, she really was quite the looker. I hastily wrote out my number but was interrupted

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  • by the sound of the Doomsday Machine going off. And then, our world faded to black.

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