One night at the desert diner, Guffy Harkins ventured a joke: "Before we even finish the border wall, humans will have mutated into space aliens!" "Tell me about it," said Verma,

the realm of the ankle-biters. "What the hell, man?! Why not just bite me in-situ?" The dragger explained: "I drag, they bite. It's a division of responsibilities." So I asked him:

Cathy Crates tried to wake up every morning thinking "optimism" despite some horrific events and self-embarrassments, but her keen sense of atmospheres and color grading gave her

The pitcher of light can only be hidden under the bed for a short while. "Tell me about it," say his friend from HK. "Better sign off and shut off. F*cking American Nazi-Stalinists

"human cultures have been in decline since the dawn of human history. Please make an effort to grow up to some extent. Lime Jello shot?" Doris Lessing glared at Captain Jarvon,

After I got droided, I thought Doral would be a reliable distro-hopping sitter. He (78%) seemed level-headed, and though organic by choice, never partisan or bigoted. But shrooming

Hrengor the Beholder crashed to his meditation mat, his soul imploding. He had the wrong number of tentacles and his lineage despised him for being a pacifist. But the worst thing

not my wallet, but I was having a bad day. "Yes!" I lied, smiling at the kind stranger, taking the wallet. Another mistake. The world turned pink. "BE WHO YOU WANNA BE, B-A-R-B-I-E

herever, whenever! We were meant to be together!" A booming voice rattled the walls. Aunt Myrtle closed her eyes, a single tear escaping. "You've summoned her," she whispered.

what." "...huh? "I said I'll tell you what. And I did!" "Look, this isn't the time for your weird jokes. Look at the state of this place, look at this mess!'

ow all of their sponges and assorted cleaning products away. They were both clean, and they were determined to keep it that way. Which is why they don't need cleaning supplies anym

Yeah. Oh yes. It almost seemed as if everything was significant and nothing was significant at the same time. There was an unnameable quality to that moment. My significant other

GMAX asked small-business owner Hrengor the Beholder about this new revelation. "It's quite a surprise. If dark matter never existed then why do we have transit corridors and nodes

"Sorry about that, sir. I was just practicing and you seemed to sneak through out of nowhere. As for the object of your pursuit: I happen to know her, and you are unlikely to find

Mrs. Humphries nearly broke her cue stick against the blackboard. "Are you summer students even ready to join this game?" (Secretly she wondered if she had misjudged

Given that they all knew they were under surveillance, Ariela gamely confided: "One time -- and I hope Clovis will forgive me -- one time he confided that he loved the smell of old

a fluffy menace to social order in Hong Kong. Labubu is wise and flirtatious in public, but in private speaks ancient Cantonese. Labubu likes to have tea with the police, just to

A plasticoid nephew from some future and a lineage I would not have anticipated somehow rallied the styrofoam beans in my bean bag chair to gently get me back on my feet. I was

When the shutter came down I decided not to put a quarter back in. Who could have known that the "presenters" of Mankato MN had become so depraved? I exited into the stark light of

Tony and Jill tried to prank Miss Williams by replacing her chalk with the Devil's Chalk they had found in their grandmother's attic. However, Miss Williams had anticipated such a