The president went down. After a few minutes Vice-President Pence helped his wife to the Presidential podium. She was still holding her precious Lugar. "Mother Pence is here now."

That last burger is going to rip me apart from the inside. That is why it is avoiding my gaze. It doesn't want to humanize me. I was something to be gotten through. My name didn't

I know most people would find the idea of being forced to make hamburgers by necessity, a no brainer. I do. I, however, lacking said brain, do make it a no brainer. Choices are to

"If that beard can make our Professor a wizard, what else can it do? Can it make Tracy Mugillicutty go to the corner malt shop with me?" Some of the students suspected that wasn't

"So what if our Professor is a wizard? Isn't that why we're all here at Swinepimple's? We. All. Want. To. Be. Wizards! Who better to learn from? Put your apps away & get some sleep

Later, when he didn't end up dying. Not like he thought anyway. Sonya was there anymore. She'd gone on to the Crimea to find the Nightingale. I did find her daughter, Fanfire. Evil

When Rostov was on the ground. Watching the clouds. Thinking he was dying. He didn't think of her lips. He didn't sniff his memory for her smell. Sonya was over the horizon, later.

I hate this bullet. Not because it killed me. But because it killed Emma & me. Emma would have to linger on. I wish I could tell her that I free her from our selfish wish. Eternity

They would have to take a chance on which drive was running the show with me. Was it my wanting to stay alive? My drive to finish the mission? My drive to wreak my vengeance? Emma?

Having succeeded in lying to myself that I would survive the night, I set about doing that; surviving. This seemed too well planed for them to leave my actions to chance. My limits

Having found myself a secluded dell, I set about preparing my campsite. The lean of the hillock and the thickness of the thicket promised a fire & a hot dinner. No stone soup today

as seemingly not their own. They were mine, you thought to yourself even as you insisted in the email that they were. Come to think of it, if he used magic against me, to make me

I might have said what I said. But I don't think I said what you think I said, even if that is what I said I said I said. As you say, who is to say? Wouldn't you say? Please, stay.

I have to look up how to eat a pineapple. Only in English is pineapple possible. I bet I used to know how to eat a pineapple. Now it seems so alien to me. It's look is accusatory.

I've been given a box of fruits & vegetables. Some of which I do not recognize. Maybe I used to, I don't do so now. One, pear-like, rough skin, pockmarked, not prickly, dense, wide

There were other ways. Unlike the Library of Babel, this maze has an answer. We just need to step outside of that answer. The incompleteness will kick us out. Intent applied when

When a third banana didn't cut it she pulled out a great big firm carrot to fill her gob. She started to have second thoughts about abusing the carrot in this particular way. Smoke

I leave it up to you to decide whether this will burnish or tarnish our plate mail. We, yes we, have seen through the deceit & the fog of whatabouts put out by the propagandists.

Certainly, she seemed to fit the word opaque, but in what shape or form this fit manifested itself to the world and all creatures in it? Who knows. But I do know what I'm not sure.

the diapers really will have that effect. Nonetheless, they continued to demand more and more money from me in return for them staying peaceful but I knew what I could not play the