The City Council had instituted mandatory Auto de fe every morning at 9 in front of the Cathedral of Perpetual Struggle where enemies of the Revolution could meet their makers.

shiny obstacle the light inside her eyes lit up very briefly & he could catch a glimpse of her behind the mask. Just those brief moments were the only happiness she would ever know

"What I mean, Grandaddy-O, is YOUR PEOPLE, the decrepit and lame, still scratching for a chance at the teat, using up air that the rest of us could have used better. You need to g

She suggested that he push it to 9 mph and leave at 6 instead. The way she said it suggested there would be sex involved. There was and he left at 6 doing 9mph on his lawn mower.

what was correctamundo. Where once he practiced civility, he now gave as good as he got, most of the time. Being pure wasn't all that it was cracked out to be. Then the women were

Hold on. OK. That is good. Just keep doing that. Maybe a bit harder. That's the rhythm. Before you know it, you're putting dovetails on everything. Seeing it all slide into place

or we could be more reasonable and settle for a weekend at the beach, a five minute drive from my front door. Okay, then, sweetheart let's go out into the Ocean and swim with shark

amateur morgue I'd been running for the past 6 months. The scratching seemed to be coming from the bottom drawer of my desk. It was locked & I didn't have the key. It was upstairs.

"No, I can't trust you, Xiivan. You make question life choices," Tenem said, rather calmly for someone who had a blade to their throat. Xiivan pondered this. "You may have a point.

#2 as well as the captain, Captain Pooper. Captain Pooper's shadow was Commisar Kellyanne Cryptlord. The use of the Commisar system was now required by Executive Order of the Presi

for six months. When he came back he had his shit together and he even combed his hair with the part on the left. That is how I knew he had succumbed to their lifestyle choices.

The rabid deer was swinging fists in an Irish pub in Norway. The deer was so thirsty. Rabies will do that to you. The deer didn't speak Irish or Norwegian, shouldn't have fists, &

the apocalypse by blowing the door off it's hinges. The Pope could be heard yelling out banishments upstairs while still continuing a game of chess with Archangel Gabriel. You were

would be plentiful for the annual Fiddle Fest this coming Saturday. Pa smiled and rosined up his bow and even momma and aunty sister stopped chasing the cat to do a clog dance.

So he took his new Best Buy mechanical keyboard with him to the Hot Dog Tournament at the Toldeo Sports Arena where he competed against the worlds best competitive eaters. The keyb

The septic tank was overflowing and the back pressure was causing sewage to come up through the kitchen sink. Regardless of all that, I promise. You have my ironclad promise. Trust

Hillbilly Swap and I wasn't even ready. Last season they swapped a Kentucky hillbilly with a Macedonian hillbilly & that was great. I hope I was going to be swapped for an Italian.

Catherine spent a lot of time in the stables with the horses. I could never get close enough to see them but I think she was meeting secretly with her lover. A lover I was sure was

I was out here in space, hopping from planet to planet to find instances of cargo cults that might have arisen among the indigenous peoples of a planet when confronted by superior

"There goes another one. My bedside manner needs a lot of work," said the doctor putting his eye back in his head. "I don't think it was going to work our anyway. She was a glib ga