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Kathy Seber. That was her name. It was actually both Kathy Seber and Mary Johnston. They were a package deal. Fine with me. What did I know? I was five. I like you. Do you like me?
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My wife liked to tease me about my picture in the school yearbook when I was in kindergarten. I was wearing a bowtie. "You have cherub cheeks," she claimed. "Which of these hussies
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My wife found my school yearbooks in my mother's attic after she'd died. She had joked that it was more ammunition to use against me. Our laughter had been bittersweet at the time.
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I supposed it was hard for my friends. Too hard for some, I guess. Just because I was Joanna now but used to be Pete, doesn't mean I'm no longer one of the guys. I still eat steak.
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And pregnant. "You're pregnant I see. Let me guess, 8 months? You here to tell me I'm going to be a mama? Nope." She slammed the door in my face before I could answer, "Or a papa."
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The combatants were too busy to notice the infant in an eagle's talons flying over the battlefield like a little general surveying his demesne. The eagle flew off with its burden.
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My family had thought they'd bred the Cat People gene out of our bloodline. Then I was born. Six generations since the last one, I was a Cat People. As was my twin sister. In utero
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With that the cashier took off his uniform shirt, threw it at the cash register, came out of his cage, locked it & then threw the keys through the slot. Mr. Potatohead, indignant,
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sad part was that not all of the baby girls were returned. All along the timestream they passed the buck on that sordid fact. Still, the old women that did show up didn't always
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for now. This goes on for a few weeks and then it dawns on you that you've unknowing joined the ranks of the wage slaves. Living payday to payday. Robbing Peter, Paul, and Mary to
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The first Hasenpfeffer Stand opened up in Bavaria on the same day that Adam Weishaupt created the Bavarian Illuminati. Not that they are related in any way with the Illuminati. But
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"Get your buttress off our umbrella!" the elves yelled, but she only laughed at them. "Silly elves," she purred, little knowing that they were planning her demise. Horfy the evil
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and I've called him my father-in-law since. Having a creature like him for a FiL has it's moments. My wife, for instance, is never around. She & him don't see eye to eyestalk about
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The problem was that too many found their voices beyond expected projections. Thinking the movements are organically constructed. Not knowing, of course, that it was of our making.
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Horse urine was a large component of the balding medicine and it smelled pissy. So not only did he have wet pants from spilling it, he also smelled like he'd pissed himself. A hot
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My soul, of course, was not wet. But it felt it though when I burst out of the outlet pipe into the icy waters of the Bay of Fundy. It took it a while to catch up with me. When it
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with it's lightening and thunder, but I only laugh and shake my fist at it though the window of my sturdy brownstone town house. The rains pour, but I drink a Ballantine beer and
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The one thing I liked about my apartment was the big west facing window giving me an unobstructed view of the park & by extension the seasons. I'd be in the dark on the brightest
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God had already thought about it and didn't need anyone to remind him to think about it. Still, he was a merciful God. "Yeah, that is the way it is for me, I guess," God admitted.
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The name of the opera was Wournos Shaped Sandwich: Adrian's Unauthorized Kitchen. No matter how many times she pointed out the Unauthorized part, people kept congratulating her. At