In this society, one's status is determined by how far they might be from a reliquary and which relics you had. Having a saint's ankle, for instance, bestowed more esteem than half

Slaying the monster turned out to be the easiest part. Taking up its burden wasn't it either. It would be telling my wife and kids that we were moving to a haunted planet. A proof

The sidewalk didn't move. It was right there where you left it. You couldn't see it because you were looking for it. You already feel the mosquitos from tonight's foray. It's hours

Cassandra Steel hadn't asked to be made the Earth's Guardian. She had a birthday party to plan. She didn't need time to think about it. The answer was NO. Let them find another.

He told me to pick up the Secretary & take him to the lab. I sat in the sitting room making small talk with his three daughters: Doris, Daphne, & Denise, who placed her hand on my

As I massaged her brain with witty lies about elves & reindeer, I told her I wasn’t like any other man she knew. I heated the lavender body oil in my solar lamp watch & told her to

I don’t want to sound weird, but I openly sleep with a Breedlove 6-string acoustic-electric guitar at the foot of my bed. It relaxes me. The rosewood and mahogany. The Sound holes.

“Well think about it. Fella’s get bored waiting for a shave right? So give em a paper to read and they might stick around right? I’ll give you a stack for 25 cents to test it out“

Krazy Kat and Ignatz were in Splitsville once again. One of bricks that Krazy Kat had been throwing at Ignatz left a big gash in her eye. "Another love tap," Ignatz Some busy body

He finally made it to the kitchen. He was confused. He'd never gotten lost going to the kitchen from the living room. There was a note on the fridge. ???????????????????? ???????? ????????????????????

"It was the girth that cinched it." Kevn thought of Ai. He didn't usually listen to what people at the other tables were saying. He'd been triggered somehow. Ai was in trouble. He

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum. As a noble Bactrian, I'd been allowed to sport a purple sash to denote I was civilized. The night before I had shared a cage with

The fact is we are made of quantum negotiations in the moment. Any moment that we exist, we are the amalgamation of what an infinite quantum results say we are. Were the universe

I posed myself the rhetorical question, "What am I doing?" "The best I can," I answered for myself. We looked at each other. I shrugged first. I bring it up now because I'm not

When he kept going with the story after saying, "Needless to say", I found I had needed the part he found needless to say. Everybody else knew the part that wasn't said. Omaha is a

My brothers, sisters, and I thought it would be cool to trace out the genealogical tree for our parental units. We found out that in 2020 our father, vial #94hs38, fathered 2352.

The lamps of his hermitage were broken; the doors of his soul manifold and unhinged. He was fine with the attire of retirement, but the usual self-obstruction when matters of art

The moment wanted me to keep expanding until I filled the infinite space I contained. I didn't know if it was my nose or spleen that itched. Maybe they conspired against me. Maybe.

She looked at me and smiled a smile that didn't really say anything but I heard an epic love story. I put an end to that pronto. "I'm not in for the long haul," I told her sternly.

High atop the Anterior Mountain Range in lower North Altoona is the World’s only To the Death Skiing Golf Course where two golfers beat, punch, & shoot each other while trying to