I saw that I had been the cup bearer for the archangel Gabriel at the annunciation sale at House Station. He was really a nice guy. His real job was real estate and he was married

Tell me Teller about Rumor. Has she whispered in your ear, even now? Tell us Teller, tell us about Rumor. They say she has a lustre lusher than an usher at the Devil's bar mitz bat

Oh shit, somebody just walked on my grave. I felt it gravely.

There once will be a dork named Derk McAllister. You don't want to miss this one. I feel bad at what is about to happen to him but it is going to be so fucking funny that even NPR

The hot coffee on the table told a different story. The red lipsticked rim added to the mystery. Oskar hadn't been known to be a ladie's man. "I always thought ladyman", said his

The expanse he had to cover in his crippled craft wasn't enough to stop him. The lost of his hand wasn't enough to stop him. What finally stopped him was his daughter crying for

I had never noticed until tonight the man fishing naked in my wall. It looks like it might be a colored picture in an old pulp western but white on white: or what goes for white in

Sometimes the sentence just

The actual magical operation takes seconds but these paltry excuses for wizards needed their prep time and their ritual. They were weak on projecting Intention so they had to do sp

It is true. Not every moment can be cotton candy. Every once in a while you got to get an inflamed tooth or water on the knee, or maybe just jock itch. You got to have the bad to h

I don't always agree with my characters. If I fall into them, I think like them. I act like them and I believe what they believe. If I am in there long enough I get their furthest

I am not claiming there is reason in my madness unless I'm saying madness can be that reason. But that is just crossing and uncrossing making no cross. Wasted effort that corrodes.

Because it informs the reason that follows, I left my shadow behind.Tossed it off like a jacket or sweater. I could have just left it in the back seat when I was finished with her.

"So you invented a culture so you would not have to give your kids the talk about the birds and the bees", I asked my father, straight on. He fumbled with his pockets, looked at me

Hey, you got to be careful with those tophats dude, that one sounded like I got my picture taken when I'm with some whore who isn't my wife. That ho better be out getting me my mon

The wife was the prime collector. Unlike the others, she worked herself in on her own, without connections. She'd been a walk in when walk ins got dead and here she was leading the

Pack up your worries and piss them away with your frolly. Prolly. I'm not sure.You said the drugstore was what way? Next to the church that isn't a church for the ragweed. Yeah, I

I couldn't decide which was more worrisome; the drums or the xylophone. The drummer looked more accomplished and polished but the xylophonists had poise up the yingyang. That boded

I couldn't decide which was more worrisome; the drums or the xylophone. The drummer looked more accomplished and polished but the xylophonists had poise up the yingyang. That boded

I said and728 aloud in my room. Nothing happened. I must have misunderstood the clue. It was there one moment & gone the moment after the next one.You're stuck with it until then.