The Emliif Collective learned the hard way a long time ago to not discount the bacteria contained in the colons of visiting Earthlings. The Collective had lost 2 colonies to a tiny

My friend Siqo Nakashima-Liebowitz-Garcia told me that he heard that in the 56.24th dimension there is a day that lasts a whole month. Granted, it is a month that only lasts 1 day.

From a lot of people, mostly women, many of them ex-wives, he was estranged. That was the legal jargon used: Estranged, & paramour; used when he shacked up with a married woman.

From a lot of people, mostly women, many of them ex-wives, he was estranged. That was the legal jargon used: Estranged, & paramour; used when he shacked up with a married woman.

We had something in mind when we started this. Of this we are sure. We just don't know what that had been. We couldn't understand why not a single one of us remembered what we were

Unshod I trod across the quad to join my squad: Claude, Maude, Todd, and some new broad from abroad, ℺ØÐđ. She was a bawdy one too. Three for five! Sex & seven eighths. "Nein!" Ten

One day I saw Ted walk into the version of our town reflected in his pickup truck. It was freshly washed and waxed. He went in normal but came out at least 80 years older. He’d que

He had begun to smell it a half hour before he noticed it. A carnal smell from the next room; familiar but he couldn't place it. His curiosity piqued, he rose from his desk to

You can’t break any rules without a good understanding of them. They say he was born with the gift of Gab; Gab being the head manipulator of rules, truth, idealism, and democracy.

Horace had had enough of beans & franks; he had his eye on an entirely different dish, a more sophisticated form of charmer, a cross between liver and onions, and steak tartare.

You can’t break any rules without a good understanding of them. They say he was born with the gift of Gab; Gab being the head manipulator of rules, truth, idealism, and democracy.

When you glanced past the shabby clothing and entangled hair, past the gobbledygook of genuine and new-fangled ignorance, you come to the realization that everybody loves a clown.

Stanley Grave made the grave mistake of believing he was grandiose when he wasn’t even grand. Teddy Fink was a fink, fat & finicky, which made him an overweight fink with friends.

With his intellectual deficiency on display, Chumley showed up to Army Basic Training with a deck of poker cards, bingo chips, and a box of fluorescent green Mega Big Boy condoms.

It’s tough being a nymphomaniac at 99, but that’s what I am. Had a grand total of 1,999 lovers; for obvious reasons, I’d like one more before retiring. Sadly, no one wants to bed

"The problem with the 17th Clade is that they keep bothering the incarnates!" Yeah, the poor 17th Clade. Post-incarnate, transfinite, and still grasping for agency in a problematic

"Hah," said Hrajor. "You became incarnate again just to take the dark-matter shuttle to our little food court, the day after Hrengor went on vacation. Respectable, respectful, and

After the ghosts of ancient Mars wiped out the proud Earth-ninnies of the Tharsis Ridge Condo Association, Vending Machine 18 still stood, offering nothing but cold light and coils

"Panoma Chrah," he/it or let's just say Pnuh said in a way that seemed to indicate some kind of autumnal resignation. Pnuh was my little brother Andrew, back in a new chassis, but

"Hah. Hathaway. I don't know how or whether to greet you. You're an unsettled searcher, that I can understand. Are you really the white supremacist you seem to be?" Lewis had five