So I sidled up to him and asked him for a share in the business. "Need any help, man?" I asked. He looked up at me with a gentle expression. "That'd be great," he said, grinning.

When my SupremoBot exhibited issues of its own so soon after delivery, I tried to do my best to be kind and console it, and even offered to carry it into the kitchen even though

If the students are back in town, I hope they will bring it, and bring it with innate human power. I am not here to test you, but I would advise you not to test me! ;)

Jericho Harridan told the class: "Now look, you! I'm not even non-binary. Please take a moment to process that. You may call me 'Jericho' to my face and behind my back. Got it?"

e, and what's worse, another week had gone by and I had missed (yet again) "Talk Like a Pirate Day" and "Shed Yule". However, we moderns are not given to anguish and regret, so

he wondered as he chanced a visit outside her dark Victorian house years later. The next moment, she was serving him tea. "Don't worry, dear. I always thought you would age well."

She bent down, pretending to tie her shoelace, and slipped the jagged rock into her palm. If she could strike just right, with the element of surprise on her side, she might be

Even though my boxers came off in the shower

"What the hell with the talons, babe?" Her pupils dilated. She said more coldly than ever: "When did I ever consent to your wrapping your wings around me? I was better off on Titan

as I reOthered Superman once again on my blog. We were way beyond his Uncle Tom days. Back to him being an alien immigrant. Big Red kept his binary litany going on in the back. Ash

they say, is a virtue. I know it only as a vice. One I practice often. I like slow tongue baths, giving & receiving. I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. I lost a lot of weight.

Hrengor the Beholder thought, "Four transit nodes out from the Terran implosion, and I bet this guy wants more than a smoothie." Sure enough, the proud swagger led with: "Beauty is

were hammered on Crown & Coke outside the 7-Eleven, hoping to swindle some tourists out of enough Yen to buy a skinny dime bag, step on it, and make enough to approach Mosura with

Ari Nutella sat at his command station, watching reports on 15 data screens as millions around the world ditched his non-consensual, data-harvesting OS for Linux or Plaque. "This t

te the Pledge of Brainrotledgiance. For some reason, Folding Story participants really, really liked brainrot. For the most part, it was a mystery.

ended up with Kelly, the masseuse, coiled up in a fetal position beneath the gurney in the corner. He couldn't have articulated why he had done that to her. So he didn't try to.

Even several transit nodes away from Earth and its bitter memories, Hrengor the Beholder would still sometimes get a customer who would trot out "Beauty is in the eye, amirite?"

reenacting the punishments he'd doled out back onto himself as penance but he enjoyed them too much. Often to completion. Hrengor the Beholder looked down at the note in his hand.

Hrengor looked around the transit node's food court. He noted the lack of defensible positions. He had a flashback to his combat time during the 3rd Food Court War on transit node

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