Ken's job had him back in the area. "I remember why I know this town," he told the waitress. "A bunch of grisly murders a few years back. It was in the news." The diner went quiet.

Lem crawled behind the booths. As he passed by one he could hear a mother pleading with her child to be quiet from the under the table on the other side of the booth. One Gunman to

He was a dark and smarmy knight upon a quest of lost import. Anon the deadly business be was about. Alacrity and Couth are his attributes, fear not. When Heaven anoints, Hell sees.

"Infiltrating a planet's dominant species is not always as easy as one might think," began Quirfagbaigh giving his empty beer glass a longing look. The vermin kid slipped him over.

I took over tailing him at Cumberland near the shooting range. He pulled into a small strip mall. I followed him in and parked in front of a Thai place. He drove up to a payphone.

Writing a fold is like sitting in the front seat of the Viper, about to reach the top of a 171-foot-tall rail—a tad more than fifty-two meters—and slither down at 70 miles per hour

Ned glanced to the side and his eye caught the watermelon plate he had been working on. He automatically reached for the salt shaker. Then he remembered the Rickover Principle. He

Finding myself the odd man out again I decided to make the best of the situation by affirming to one & all that I found it preposterous that anyone would have anything but contemp

Turns out my neighbor was a cereal killer (we all knew) as well as a serial killer (most of us suspected). "Perhaps I shouldn't have stabbed Aunt Mo for stealing my Grape Nuts," my

Having established monad is subjectivity rendered objective, we move to monad's ontological modes. From a synthesis of principles by Gödel and Bohr we find ourselves holding the

Having lived among the Nacirema for most of my life I was familiar with their rituals. I didn't understand them but I knew them and the purported reasoning behind them. When my son

"Holy One, the flying citadel has arrived and are requesting an audience. They've repeated their invitation for your Holiness to go aboard." "What says the Grand Inquisitor now?"

Upon a citizenship assignment the question is asked if they wish to be considered for alternative programs. For centuries the answer didn't matter. Today it did. Citizen Ned Phlegm

Hiding in the hills from the invaders had taught Illiana that she didn't have to take life by anybody else's rules but her own. The teams always wanted her to be support. Fuck that

Fresh off a snipe hunt for a 1959 hit called The Telephone Game, JMan quipped that this was a case where the Game was not afoot. The sea monkeys rewarded him with mock laughter.

So this one time the A-Team was stuck in a Viet Cong tunnel. Their way in had collapsed. The only way out was to crawl out one of the tiny tunnels. BA isn't having it. "I pity the

Having discovered that all his life he has had his television set at full volume when he could have heard it just as badly at 28% caused Fred's life to nosedive into what happened.

BA came to. It was dark, silent, & moist. Something was dripping on his face. He tried to wipe it off but discovered his arms were wedged into whatever he was wedged in. Below him

The dregs of melvin haunt me still. I close my eyes and I see the counter covered with red solo trucks. Cups full of the dregs of melvin. We should have burned that counter, after.

I'd never actually met the guy. I just knew him as a guy from down the block. I'm told his name was Zed and that he was a shipping dock foreman down at the St. Regis plant. He had