Billy tried to allay his older sister's fears. "Karen, I promise I won't crush your mind. I've been in communion with psychs throughout our galaxy, and that's considered bad form."

"Hey, kind of you to PM me. I've seen you around. You're kind of beautiful! I like your spirit, and that you are not 'magazine-pretty'. But I have my problems. Better if we never

Jameson handed the Kraken a bag. The Kraken looked inside the bag. It was one of the Hydra's immortal heads. "I like this Mothra's calling card. Bring her." He swallowed the head w

recreating famous structures out of 5 star meals. After a quip in a 2nd rate dying newspaper comparing me to a character in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind, I did Devil's Tower.

My Parkinsons has drastically improved my calligraphy. Nobody can read them still. But they're buying them up as abstract art. Making me rich. I'd prefer not having the Parkinsons.

I don't think I am asking big questions like that. The cat dimension seems to bring out the Calvinist in us all. I'd like to think I got more Diamond sutra in me than that. That's

There seems to be a lot of information about the cat dimension. I had no idea it existed. It seems to be no big deal to most people. If I ask they shrug at me. "Why isn't up down?"

Now, I find I care a lot. Eight months; haunted by the failure of her ghost to pounce. Perhaps since they have 9 lives, cats don't get a ghosthood. Do cat drugs work on a ghost?

But it was just Caroline, thorn of the Homeowners Association, finally letting it all out in that evening's circle. "May Betsy be with you," said Joanne. "Heavens to Betsy," said

"hey," he replied. "It's nice of you to say anything. A lot of people are afraid of me or despise me." Matthew Park was nerdy and foxy but had infinite consciousness and addictive

The 2020 Psychic Wars were complicated by all the suburban meditation dilettantes cluttering the Overmind with their lockdown frustrations and Zoom resentments. The fog of war

ner pheromones attracted suitors who might contribute usefully to the "new her" that Sheila intended to craft. After a busy week of DNA exchanges, Sheila withdrew for the transform

His grandfather tried to console him about the apparent loss of his soccer career. "Every person is a tree, and you have many talents. Sometimes what the world seems to value

Dear namju2020, welcome and thank you to you and your students. FoldingStory is certainly a great game to exercise writing and story-telling skills, with humor and appreciation for

still the same street view, still the same damn yard I hate maintaining, still the same beggars looking to do yard work. My partner who shares this living room with me tries to

by getting their grad students to count the tacks under video surveillance, then count them again. Loomis & Sardonicus had plenty of research funding but as Dept. Chair I made sure

The whole headsman's axe disappeared. Not just the bit that almost touched neck. All the way up into the headman's hands, gone. A swoosh of air to replace the sudden empty space.

From multi-observer points of view, the blade never arrives to behead Aeon Peck. It ceases to exist and almost 0.03 nanoseconds later a clone emerges below his throat & down. Momen

Lewanda Latootles, of the Portsmouth Latootles, was besides herself trying to keep track of what she was protesting this week. She hoped for no flip flops. That hurts her Patreon.

Darn. Now I want pastrami. I live in the sticks. We don't have pastrami around here. They do have a turkey pastrami at the grocery store. But that is NOT pastrami.