Despite the blood pounding in my ears, I could hear the wolf pacing me in the dark wood. I wouldn't win a race to the cabin's safety. To my left, I saw the headlights of

So he broke down and bought the nook. When he turned it on their was a message. It was strange because the message from a dead person named Ralphie. The message

It was a gritty scene - like a train wreck. Everybody wanted to look away but nobody could pull themselves to. The detective decided a prognosis was in order. "It appears this man

The want ads abound with mediums offering their service, and you really have to stick out somehow to get any business. The typo in my ad "Medium exercises horny ghosts"

He had nerves of steel. He'd been busted for selling unlicensed boradcast credits to the Pleasure Maffia on an off-moon base and spent forty rotations in the Pit Barns, so

Anyone who might have glanced my way would think nothing of me walking through the neighborhood in the morning. It was a school day and kids carry bags to school all the time.

The streetlight cast just enough light through the hovering insects to create silhouettes of the six combatants. Even though I couldn’t make out individual features, I knew most

The red Skittle army was slowly but steadily advancing on the weakened green forces. But what's this?! A yellow ambush! I ate four reds and a yellow. Mmmmm. The reds retreated back

Cheap perfume and cigarettes filled the air. The priest was defiantly out of his element here. Why had he let himself come to such a god forsaken party?

"It's not a TUBAH!" shouted the Austrian botanist. "It's a drupe!"

"Sophie, How could you?" screamed Milz. "How could you die on me my love???????"

I quit my day job and opened up a restaurant where we served whole steamed crabs, artichokes, sunflower seeds, and pomegranates. It was all you can eat (30 minute time limit). My

Hardy knew that fucker spilled that scalding water on purpose. But Laurel's dead, soulless eyes, the eyes of a killer, meant he couldn't hurt him directly. Oh god, did he know?

Homeschooling your children is an act of aggression against the state. Growing your own food is a display of defiance against your rulers. Arming and protecting your own home is a

The people at the Even Larger Collider felt sorry for the most pitiful black hole, and so they tried to make a smaller one. For what is life but desire, consumption and comparison,

The skilled pearl diver Tamatori was betrothed to the samurai lord Fujiwara. In lieu of the dowry he suggested she recover the black pearl from Dragon Lord Ryujin's undersea palace

John Glover popped up into my vision, sitting at my desk. "Hi, Lex! I found ya, Lex! Lex! Leeeeex! Leeeeeex!" "What, dad?" I asked, exasperated. "You're bald, son." He smiled.

"Alright, who was the nimrod who ground down a mascara pencil in my automatic pencil sharpener!" The office was silent but all eyes fell on

"Taste it." "No." "Just take a taste." "No." "One taste?" "No." "At least smell it." "I don't want to." "Just a whiff?" "Nope." "I'll waft it under your nose."

Twarn't long afore the drone of the engines inspired Kelly to sing to his lonesome: "I am a poor starfaring stranger, traveling through this vasty space" Kelly looked at the stasis