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Doug Britcher told himself that if the lights were on he could claim to be staring at the ceiling. He would get out of bed to do something, anything. But he only walked around from
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“Hey, look at the owl awake at noon!” said one guy to another. “Aw, he probably just sleeps in that tree with his eyes open,” said the other, and with that he picked up a rock and
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I switched on the light, killed time waiting for my eyes to acclimate, and then stepped into my shower time machine. I had exposed a portal to the past in my shower last Tuesday.
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He was as superficial as the back of a greaser’s hair, as useless as a battery-less battery-operated back scratcher, and he knew it. To tell the truth, he was honored by his flaws
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Jacob’s table fixings and holiday bake sales pissed off Ricky, who, so desperately, wanted to win the Chili Cookoff at the Hillbilly Barbeque Festival, so he unzipped his trousers
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I exhaled. The quiet got more pronounced but muffled as well. I could distinguish each sound the quiet was made of but it sounded far away. There countless quiet sounds. I inhaled.
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From the County Jail; from wherever your ass hails; the address at which is sent your mail (that’s the thing that never fails). I wanted to bail; my arms versus the wind as sails.
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“…hmm. Whaa… Did you say something?” He reacted. She looked through him, as if she were looking intently at an empty vase; a vase she wished would be crowded with red roses.
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The first rule. No fatties. I was already in a transgression. Perhaps, I didn’t need the shopping cart either. But there I was and I wasn’t going anywhere. They had to take me.
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There was someone in this room, George was sure as hell about it. But his question was: Who the hell-'d be breaking into a museum as fancy as this at 3am? George took out his gun
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you just decide to make a sentence that goes on and on, like a stream of consciousness - a river, that flows endlessly, making your sentence last forever, like no other sentence ev
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. Except one time I was in my bed and my saxophone was laying next to me, and I thought it was Violet from the bar. Well, you don't want to know how that ended. I ended up breaking
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I’m having difficulty keeping my eyes open For reasons I’m not going to get into. Su. ffice it to say that I am hoping for once AutoCorrect gets me right. I want to say I’m intere
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I actually don’t join this story until much later. The just assumed all of this from clues I picked up almost by the way. Like how nobody seems to notice the knife in my back.
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You know her new apps come with sample picture? I fell in love with one of those. It was of a young woman opening a bright green umbrella as she climbs out of her British taxi. The
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I see all the colors in black&white I see the green I see the blue I see the red I see chartreuse I see the beige. All of them in black and white. How do I know this b&w is greeen
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You feed the dragon. You feed the dragon.You feed the dragon. You feed the dragon.You feed the dragon. You feed the dragon.You feed the dragon. You feed the dragon.You feed the dra
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Going down slowly, it doesn't matter that my byline was aquaman33. I don't offer any of them an apology. Why should I? The air they paid for should be enough. Oh yeah, they didn't.
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the day is long. That was one of the surprises about being dead. At least it was for me. How you never left the day you died. I am constantly reliving how I swayed on my noose. My
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The dungmonger only had 5 beans left to take home to his family. Just then that stupid boy, Jack, entered the market with a milkbare cow. It was worth worth more than 5 beans. But