No more lamentations for what was and what could have been. They both are, in their own way. We carry them in our memories as still living even if we can't see where they ended up.

"You were expected but this still was a surprise, Mr. Bond. I see Q is still up to his tricks on behalf of the British milkmen & teetotalers. Och, ye brakin ma heart laddie!" James

She saw he had the knife out. "The knife again. Are you finally going to kill yourself or me?" "There are other options", he replied while carving their initials onto the gunstock.

Then there are those who take the map for the territory and fall prey to the dichotomy of the signified & the sign. Seething with compunctions where nuns singing matins do exist.

At least not until you lend me your arms...&your legs. That's it, detach them now. Insert into my sockets. & Just like that, I was FREE both from jail AND my emotional entanglement

My accidental edible was kicking in and the world was slowing down. I could almost hear the creaking of the brakes upon the turtle's shell. The local trunk reached over & nudged it

I might have mentioned that not only am I blind, I can't see on top of that. So, remember, if you climb up on that, I can't see you. I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just giving

You were joking when you said the man with the briefcase was a spy. I was joking when I shot the spy. Ha Ha ha. Now bitch, tell me another joke. Lets spread the cheer. Stockholm is

Hardly anybody takes that road anymore since the plant shut down. The state maintains it because it eventually leads to the black monolith which gives them their mandate. It could

relic among relic collectors. Which is to say that they were hardly interested in its intrinsic value. Wielding the apocryphal Papyrus of the Opener promised The One omniscience &

But I found that a person's scent says more than their words ever will, and that they really have very little to say either way. I faked deafness and lived a happy life away from

The guardians are to stand on either side of the baptismal font casting the wardings the operation called for in the Mad Monk’s grimoire. The alabaster swans were plucked & sautéed

that I would actually like and find useful, or maybe just appreciate their effort and intention even if they couldn't deliver? But no, I told them, I'm not cult or god material, so

pleroma. A fractal bouquet appeared in the quantum foam. "K4R3N, it's not a refusal, the answer is yes. I/we/hu would be happy to meet and actually are already your group, so ...

not wanting to be caught again. My thoughts ran away from not only me but from each other. They just couldn't stand being so close to each other or me, their father. Yes, their fat

but sometimes too much. Such was the case while it transited Earth's biosphere. The ammonia in his ammonia flesh had an overabundance of left spinning quarks. It eventually led to

using only pins and needles. It took so long to eat the ice cream with such small tools that most of it melted. Plus, Gerhard had punctured his lips several times and was now bleed

-erigno appeared, the junkies fled, believing that they had angered The Hulk. 6. Unfortunately, they also stole all the goodies. 7. Out of shape and friendless, Lou Ferigno walked

my half-length bassoon gently weeps. It's strange, high-pitched whine attracts the fair folk, who glide in surreptitiously like leaves on the breeze. They begin to sing in harmony

" occurred to him, but that would give away the fact that he had arrived here from another planet. Finally, he told the large idiot that his plane had crashed in a nearby ocean.