to the real world. Well, I thought it was the real world, but it turned out that I accidentally went to my brain's amygdala. It seems I had taken a wrong turn at the cerebrum and

The side street up ahead was empty, for now, but I couldn't see if there was incoming traffic. I might need to turn there and I needed to have an idea what I might be turning into.

My situation changing wasn't something I had the courage to hope for. The monotony was not new to me which made it what it was, I guess. Some, I suppose, could argue I'd taken a

Having burned my lips on the tail pipe, I had to opt for the wide mouth bottle. Which cost a dollop more. I was hemorrhaging dollops at all my ends & in-betweens and I couldn't see

Before long, the last person to see Robert Johnson alive will be dead. She has lived her whole life never knowing that she held that distinction. She'd been a toddler looking out a

gathered around him with angry visages. Right now, after putting a man in another's grave was not the time, he thought, to get involved in a bottle fight aboard a sinking ship. His

Zach looked around in his dark room, gathering his wits. He was was drenched. Who was that old man in his dream? Why did "manifest destiny" keep running through his mind? The edge

that had Congress been able to do something about anything, that would have been the something. For now, the Circus of Ill Repute was a rolling Superfund Site. I had run away from

He thought it odd that him mother wasn't already waiting for him with the door open. He finally got the door open & entered. Still no sign of his mother. Isaac laid the flowers on

the partially eaten remains of tonight's girlfriend. He was fresh in after spending the last 5 years of his Air Force hitch on Clark Airforce Base in the Philippines. Going native

pastry chef at a hotel in Pittsburg back in 1980." Not even waiting for an affirmative sign, he began. "I had been injured the day before by a runaway Amish buggy. A local church

As I am fond of saying, I'm blind & I can't see. I'm also odor free but that is another story for another time. Not only didn't I see the forest, the forest didn't see me. I've got

We drove 5 minutes before Tina broke the silence: "So, you plan to remove the sheet any time soon, we don't want to convey KKK." I exploded: "I needed to blend in with the ghosts!

Instead, she blew me a sad kiss and passed me a box of frozen fish sticks, The Widow Pauls. A pall fell over the pews as the ewes bleated outside. I turned the box over. A note was

hoisting sails on a catamaran on a course to disaster. Thanks to Scott the cat-guy intervening, Barb went on to relaunch a new wave of piracy in the Caribbean. She spared baristas.

I don't know if any of that is true but I act as if I think it is, for now. That might not be the best attitude to have but it wasn't that bad of a motto to live by. Waking up was

I think I just heard the Holy Roman Emperor yawn. I looked to the wings. Mozart had heard it also. He stormed off in a fit and overturning the mustard trolley. All the royal quests

I 've found my new favorite snack; pickles in mustard. The idea is so obvious that I don't know why it has taken me this long to notice it. I suppose the rest of the world already

"They are your admirers," the guard told the Baron. "Well, I understand there being 2000 of them, but what about all those weapons they are pointing at us?" said the Baron. Night

by hysterical soap opera stars who feel they need to know every last thing about their lives even before it happens. Her business cards read: "Madam Foola, TV Star reader: etc. She