needed such a warning which the dog seemed to think was every time I got anywhere near anybody in his family. Even my boyfriend. I could imagine the dog taking the bus to bring it.

put you off on the sumptuous meal the kennels sent up for us. You have to try my great-great-great grandmother's recipe for roasted long pig on lice & rice. Our sagas are filled

So imagine, if you will, my chagrin to find out that I had, once again, broken some social norm that nobody knew the name of but I had definitely broken it, somehow. "Bring out my

Again, i have to reiterate that a lot of the stances I take in these stories are for the sake of the narrative. Most of what I write is pure conjecture and sleight of hand. Shiny

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was like suddenly taking calls from the future was looked down upon. Las Palabras Completas de Albucon even explains this very facet of the mystery. You had to use Dr. Dee's Key.

Imagine a place that you can't imagine and then don't imagine it anymore. Does it make your belly growl like that all the time? You might need a new exorcist. Call Omar Peck. He's

And I can't tell the future I don't want it because I don't know which face it will wear or even if there is a face behind the mask that is the face. To do that, I would have to re

So much for proofreading something before posting. The flames that would be my fingers to keep up with what I'm thinking would melt the keyboard anyway. I blame nicotine. New sin

scene of a family Thanksgiving dinner". Ma was scandalized:"Now you get back here & eat turkey with Cousin Earl, y'hear!" But Earl's shoes were off & the stench was unbearable. So

First time tonight that it happened this way. I think you can see that as well. It could have gone differently but then it would be this one. I wouldn't have been me & you wouldn't

It is all right there. In front of your face. The World. Hell, you even have some in your nostrils down to your Holy of Holies itself. That is where you keep your mystery meat. I k

I hadn't been back home in 40 years & I definitely wasn't going to do it tonight. Not on this night when I finally burned it down. But down isn't always in the direction you think

This reckless behavior has to be brought to a full stop. Stop. Once they see how close they are to each other, maybe they can be closer. Congruent. But not the same. Each an indiv

" "The Sun shine in? Or the Son?" "Touche, Natural Man of the Revelation," quipped Earl, still feeling without reck. "I will not be recked by the likes of you", Earl threatened.

heat rising up in his loins again. He'd never been with a leopard in that way, before. Manatee had to hang on to being Hugh before he was going to dredge those depths without a sea

Like she was gonna slap you in the back of the head. That is what it looked like to me. Like your dead grandma was gonna slap you upside the back of your head. And you deserve it.

The people on the scene were obliterated until they got trendy again. I think that is tomorrow. Which, for a change, is the day after today. Do you see where I am going with this?

caused a spark when they contacted the Tomb's iron gates and ignited the 5000 year old fumes in the outer chamber. The resulting explosion released whatever had been locked inside.

Leaves a scar on your reputation, something like that. We didn't need to be told by everybody's eyes. We grew up here. We knew what the score was. We'd be right there beside 'em if