He sat back and evaluated His creation. Very solid, He thought. Maybe just a smidge more pestilence. Whoops! Dang it. I dropped the whole jar of plagues. Looks like the 1300s are

I'd like to mention that I am not behind any of the impostor reels that are popping up on TikTok and FB -- my posts from years ago were not about stone-slab-imprisonment tourism,

that I emitted a sigh of contentment. I realized my mistake right away so it didn't last too long. It almost killed me to squash it. I don't think it was heard by anyone. Just in

To whoever sent a box of "Sven's ashes" -- creepy, uncool, and not nice. Maybe that seemed well-intended to you? Sven and I are fictional, independent and cool with each other.

"You need not worry yourself about such things now BlastedHeath. The archmages are on their tea break. Now stop squirming so I can lay another great weight on your chest," said Ash

Emmet Jericho admired and worried about his son, Alten, who reminded him so much of himself and his late wife. "Better get inside. When it's so still and you can't sense anything,

"Strange." thought Hrengor the Beholder. "Born into a savage culture. Found my own way into smoothie-crafting at DM transit node 937a, only to learn of grander savage hungers."

Mayo. Node Mayo was the whitest, blandest, least saucy of all 12 Nodal Moons of Shaphat. But Krikli had a balloon of sriracha implanted in his neck. With COSMAX's help, they'd

Cain's mark shone brighter when he remembered his Rosebud. It was an admission to those who knew. A tell. Outside the slick streets reflected the souls beneath our feet. Inside awe

Home Depot, and Michaels were next on line. JoAnns is already gone, A.C./ Moore went under COVID.

One night at the desert diner, Guffy Harkins ventured a joke: "Before we even finish the border wall, humans will have mutated into space aliens!" "Tell me about it," said Verma,

Cathy Crates tried to wake up every morning thinking "optimism" despite some horrific events and self-embarrassments, but her keen sense of atmospheres and color grading gave her

After I got droided, I thought Doral would be a reliable distro-hopping sitter. He (78%) seemed level-headed, and though organic by choice, never partisan or bigoted. But shrooming

Hrengor the Beholder crashed to his meditation mat, his soul imploding. He had the wrong number of tentacles and his lineage despised him for being a pacifist. But the worst thing

GMAX asked small-business owner Hrengor the Beholder about this new revelation. "It's quite a surprise. If dark matter never existed then why do we have transit corridors and nodes

herever, whenever! We were meant to be together!" A booming voice rattled the walls. Aunt Myrtle closed her eyes, a single tear escaping. "You've summoned her," she whispered.

Mrs. Humphries nearly broke her cue stick against the blackboard. "Are you summer students even ready to join this game?" (Secretly she wondered if she had misjudged

a fluffy menace to social order in Hong Kong. Labubu is wise and flirtatious in public, but in private speaks ancient Cantonese. Labubu likes to have tea with the police, just to

Tony and Jill tried to prank Miss Williams by replacing her chalk with the Devil's Chalk they had found in their grandmother's attic. However, Miss Williams had anticipated such a

I reached for his hand anyway, because if I was going to be stabbed by his glare, I might as well hold it while dying.