I was the fish ball sans bread. “50¢! My lord, that is a frothy fish ball! And without bread you say.” Heads whipped around to look at me. As the Supernumerary of the Day I should

a secret grudge against her, fearing her further wet wrath. One does not openly rage against a godess. Jaime huddled miserably in her houseboat as it rocked upon Durga's tears, and

child again, and as equally clueless as to whom the father was, as ever. But I had an inkling that it must have been an artists, since we all had sketchbooks full of intricate

per year, and this had been one of them. We waved at Brian's plane as it lifted into the sky, somehow knowing even then, that the band was not likely to form in quite that way

But Porcina was 'built' (as they say), so she held up rather well, considering. Now, humanoid fairies dwell in the woods, but Porcina preferred the pig pen. She flitted about in

oasis that had had formed in his absinthe and coke. Maybe the name Abe Futterman was a Rosebud. That made the baby doll a Red Flyer. Sujbect 39 had a hunch where she might fly too.

like that into another man's igloo would be crossing a line no amount of wives sharing could erase. Damn this modern technology for putting me in this spot, he though. He launched.

The drone video showed our drone killers engaging the terrain drones. “That’ll alert them we’re ready to meet them on the battlefield.” “Colonel, they’ve started picking ours off.”

we like to think of ourselves as the “evil” writers and our middens ejecta are pearls before swine. You need to get them where the readers rut, Auntie.” Aunt Jericho looked across

The Long Tall woman had it all and I meant to take from her. I made my move by hitting her left hand woman, Shartrise with a paternity suit. I saw right away I’d stepped wrongly. A

Do you know the reason why you never see parliamentarians in trouble? It is because parliamentarians follow the process. It hardly needs stipulating. Ted has a lot of explaining to

for effect she nodded coyly. I would have bought it all if her playing coy hadn’t rubbed me the wrong way. “Some said you were The Whore of Babylon. I think I’ll run with that.”

, but at what cost to Punpun and all the others locked in the backward prison of its pages? Is there a Manga character out there who has escaped into the real world, only to find

Probably because I have been beating on it like a raging gorilla, ever since I entered the void. In the void, no-one can hear you ululate. No-one mourns for Campanella, now that he

Blue Clyde, especially since they had "Blue" in their name. After ingestion of the band, the blue blob wandered the riverside, stoned out of it's mind on their residues. The police

Ancestral ferric tumbleweed Zhik Chavra tried to adapt Prince's "Purple Rain" for a wide spectrum of Martian sensibilities, but

Listening to Mædieval Babes singing Scarsbury Fair when I’m struck by question, “How True was the love if the other lives and there is a were involved.?”

Head banging with my metal cat to Ravel’s Bolero. I think the soles of my feet are bruised. Then WHAM! An ad for COVID-19 insurance for your pets. With a double indemnity clause!

find Pervert sitting in the monastery garden one morning, watching the squirrels and listening to the birds. Didn't even try to inveigle us into joining his appreciation. As if

my witness -- and then a finger that smelled of gin and fried onions pulled down my mask. "I want you to breathe on me," said Jessica. She was nowhere near my "type" but I kind of