The speakers buzzed for a moment, followed by a flat, tinny voice. "Greetings," it said, "thank you for fuelling me. I am at your command, master." The monitor flickered ominously.

As the sappy music blared from the speakers, the patrons swayed as if in a trance, letting the music roll through them. I found the acoustic strumming and cheesy crooning repulsive

It's been about four months now. The groceries in the back seat have been keeping me going, but soon I'll have to leave the car to search for food. Maybe my wife will leave Walmart

bowery kids on the lower east side of New York. Better known as the Urban Guerilla nine, the kids have turned mechanical propulsion into a full-time job...Little Rocket Man

Alice Cooper only met Alice Bowie the one time but he wishes he could forget it a lot more than that. Alice Bowie told Alice Cooper that he, Cooper, was a basketball jones. A baske

& wondered if he was expected to answer in kind. With no other cues to be seen, he thought it more polite to answer in kind. "Hrengor wants the snackie poo, goodly goo." He beheld

barely whispered, assuming all hope was lost. "Bowie, stop knifing on the dance floor and come plot out this newest escapade with me." Stardust pondered his intent for the briefest

advantages. For one, I don't ever wait in lines. I don't look at a wristwatch, counting the seconds until the next huge important thing that just needs to happen right away. Drift.

I think we should create a fund to buy every boy a girl that turns 14 Darkside of the Moon by Pink Floyd and Stratosfear by Tangerine Dream.

First the wind then the dragonfly disturbs the water, leaves their wake. The ducks find their roost, waddle their dance, take the chance. The horse's clip clop clip clops soothing

Another desert in my mouth. I think it is the Gobi. I must have traveled there by motorbike. I am wearing the khaki seersucker suit of the time with a gold watch fob hanging from

and take your fair share of the fun or the fright. No wall is binding and your words have their own echos to comfort them. We only have each other to throw under the bus. We have.

The families that made out in the war were the ones that never forgot where the real war was and who the real enemy. It was hunger. They'd done things that were hard to forgive.

noose garrote'. Then he died the death of the cormorant. He didn't explain what finding the red noose garrote meant or what I was supposed to do with this glass rod he died to giv

discarded in a sewage vat. Frog got Toad the treatment he needed and somehow made a new friend. Toad, for once in his life, had a friend as well. The coffeetable book was their jou

"Look Mister, we're aren't to be talking to strangers and you seem strange enough to me. We couldn't help you our for less than 500 dollops. Schoolbooks and all that, you know how

like a deflated mattress trying to play Baby in a high school production of Dirty Dancing. "It just wasn't going to happen, is all. I told you it wouldn't. We tried', Terry pleaded

nodded that yes he was AI, his electronic presence shed a 4 x 4 blue pixel tear. Gareth Shackleford said yes. Like Molly Bloom before him. His perceptual range was a non-issue and

I have been afraid to shower in those 3 days because what if it happens when I am showering. There I will be wet and naked while it happened all around me. So no shower. Out of TP.

was moved into a storage bin pending Final Dissolution. Inside the storage bin M had lots of time to think about the coming apocalypse & what his role would be in it. Garlic shipme