"Now I am become Cute, the destroyer of homes." The puppy scientists knew what they had achieved must be used carefully. In the wrong paws, UCC would stop humans from having sex.

"She'll be jumbling her nouns for a while, I'm afraid." the doctor reported.

You can't stop water from being wet unless you freeze it. Could that be the solution to this predicament? Are you afraid of being frozen? It would preserve you long enough to

We finally took off. We felt the breeze on our cheeks, and cold icy rain filtered through our mustaches. We failed to notice whatever it was that we just bumped over. Sidewise bike

The surgeon I'd always loved greeted me with her instruments still in hand. I recognize that work anywhere after you did it to me. How she could do this and also be an Olympic gymn

Most writers would shy from giving the MC such great power, but where this was headed? He would soon discover his power and save his mother, but without training —nay, without guid

ife on board with it too? It feels wrong to take a train when you don't know where it's headed. I could be a trap. Are they waiting for us to make a mistake? Is this why the sugges

I asked kreLLM to generate a few thousand dollars for me overnight and to book a flight to Seoul for the next afternoon, counting on the ambition of their tootsie-roll chefs to

"Detective Manatee, didn't you solve that case 50 years ago?" asked Mycroft. "Yes, of course he did, you simpleton," said Vanessa Conquest, "but I wonder why he held onto the ears

something in Punjabi. Blasted Heath pointedly ignored Bhagavan and began to sift through the pieces of the smashed object, looking one person's for clues to the murder of

before I got to see the 3I/ATLAS Christmas show, at least from this side of things. Maybe I skidded into a van full of ICE Bubbas, because somehow I ended up in Hong Kong, which

at the next table. "Just look at those two: drinking tea, holding hands -- so sickening!" thought the crypto killer before she finally got fed up and left the bistro in a huff. The

"Wow, dude! Never expected you could even afford a safe room, let alone a concrete bunker . . . but will we ever see daylight again?" Ted thought for a moment, then

"Vro, if you did it before you can do it again -- you got this." No idea where that voice came from, and that he called me "Vro" was disrespectful, but the frayed space-time needed

have to learn proper English, one imagines." Meredith Marigolds was somewhat concerned about this year's crop, and whether the language might be completely destroyed by them. "Hmm,

Phil's sister Madeleine wasn't exactly psychic, but she could read her little brother like a book. "Can't hide love, Phil, but please don't squeeze or get cozy with my hubby." She

leaping upon the counter was a nice surprise to Hrengor the Beholder, who had been thinking of shutting down his interstellar food-court smoothie bistro. Hrengor blinked at the cat

cat whom he had disrespected for eight years, and whose comeuppance he thought he'd escape. Leaving that aside, the creature had learned some advanced Mandarin, which

It's a release and a way to comment on stuff, it's a way to play, it's a way to remind, and for me also a way to learn how to write more succinctly. How about you?

but was also moved to mention that maybe more contrast would be better, e.g., "I never found a lover in abandoned shopping malls." Well,