"Hmm. 'Blank' isn't the right word. What I like about you is that you are like clear broth with a nice flavor, without thorns or turbulence." Kane said, "Uh, thanks, but I have my

Humans seem to be good at pattern recognition and/or pattern seeing and interpolating absent data, then viewing the world through those patterns. More arbitrary systems introduced

" Ingmar dropped the tea kettle, then fell to his knees frothing something like dark gray boba tea. Shimizu called the emergency number, then their friend Carlos, who was a medical

X Marks the Pedwalk had become a civic duty after the Shifters started playing tricks on us. "You're so stodgy and opaque," my ex said. "Careful. I have invisible walls, too." The

He was the kind of guy that was ready three times by the time he started getting ready. He wasn't ready today. He was, quite frankly, undercooked and downright runny. Why? The mob

in my own childhood room. It couldn't make up it's mind which age to stick with. I recognized everything but they flashed by so fast I buried my head in the sand. Grounded again.

That was the summer that they had the red bloom tide all along the gulf coast. Hattie had pushed Forrest into that. Now, Hattie hadn't meant to push Captain Gump off his own boat.

A parade of men. That is what she finally started calling it to herself. That didn't sound like her mother. It looked like her mother but her mother's favorite word was whore. Nope

saying this or saying that all over the social networks. Don't believe what the fox says. His balderdash is just him being foxy, vulpine. I pulled an Amy Winehouse and I succeeded.

'em. At least he had someone to talk to when the shop was closed. He didn't want to sit on the crappy plastic & metal framed folding beach chairs now that he knew they're sentient.

churning out BitCoin after BitCoin. I guess there was a time when I thought of another life. Not like I do now. Mining is not easy. I didn't expect it would be. If it wasn't for

and now nobody ever will. With his finger lodged in his brain his bowling has flatten out. The optical nerve is being pinched by a peeling fingernail. As shitstorms went, he wasn't

We might end up with two War Presidents next year. One with the right, the other with the might. At least the might that money, blackmail, greed, pardons & immunity might. Plunder

He was the kind of person that made every story about myself. I didn't ask to be this way. I'm just going with the flow baby. I lucked out and you didn't. It isn't my fault. You

Don Scotus was constantly being trapped into searching diligently for a long time before realizing what it was he was looking for & if & where he had already seen it in his search.

Remember when our cars were named after explorers; Cadillac, De Soto, Chaka Khan, Chaka, Khan, -- no, wait. Chaka Khan wasn't an explorer. Plus there is no car named after her.

fuck the fuck you're fucking fuck fuck with? I liked the beat but I couldn't dance to it. Did I drink another bottle of whiskey again? If not, did I still have time? My Cadillac

of my truck. They must have been desperate to come like this. They had to know my civic duty was to kill them. Or I had walked into a trap. Then a word stood our from their babble.

to fruition inside his fireplace. A rekindling of hope perhaps. We should do our best to protect it. The best way to do that is to use it as a weapon to get us out of this shit.

In order, he claimed, to honor her with his seed. He wanted to honor her with his seed. Honor with his seed. Honor. Seed. H … , S … ad infinitum.