Because of my shoes. I'm wearing today. One is called love. The other is pain.

I tossed the grenade into the warehouse and turned away. I began walking briskly and smirked softly as the explosion went off behind me. Cool guys don't look at explosions.

somnambulism, he looked at the word again, it was hard to read in the dim torchlight, what did it mean, was it even a word, the harder he looked at it the weirder it looked on the

The man lie in bed, staring at the ceiling. The nurse, a girl, in comparison, told him just to call out if he needed anything. He gave no reply, that she could hear, but

The dog stopped barking, birds ceased their songs, and silence dominated everything.

In a prologue set years earlier when some sort of weather typical for the setting was to be expected, a domestic animal woke an incidental character in the usual way. This presaged

I was listening to the radio when I heard a discordant noise. It was my cell phone playing the theme from

He kissed the palm of my hand and asked me to forgive him but I wouldn't.

The hipster at the bar look like Frank Sinatra on a 60's album cover. What goes around, she thought. Still, he was cute, in an earnest way, so she bought him a drink and

Unlike most orphans, may parents were still alive and living in a dingbat in Bayoone, New Jersey. Now you might wonder what a dingbat was doing in New Jersey but I'd say you are ri

I know I'm still relatively new, but this has gotten pretty terrible lately. Bring back Joe cartoon?

Sirens wailed. INTRUDER ALERT flashed on the console. 'But that's impossible!' huffed the technician, 'I sorted out the glitch.' Then the portal door slid open, revealing

When the students entered the cafeteria and found no nachos, a riot ensued.

Slang math considers zero to be a meaningless placeholder. So "2 x 1 = 2" is read as "twenty time ten be 2 grand." But is used as a value, "1 - 1 = 0" is "1 from 1 ain't nothin."

One day while doing their tax returns, Betty Bounteous said, "Arbo the Starmage is your one true love, isn't he?" Hrengor the Beholder tried to explain. "Betty-B, Arbo is just a ch

She stopped to take a shot of some swans roosting in a rice field, when suddenly the sky came alive with a cacophony of sound and flapping wings. She stood there, stunned, gaping.

When things get really bad, I dig myself deeper. Like this one time, at a party, where the entire room stood in absolute silence, staring at me right after I had just

In a village called Palm Spring, a nice but quite village. Live a young man called Harris Young. He just moved there and he open a small time grocery shop in a former old house.

Fine, you go ahead and start the car. Meanwhile, I'll finish putting rope around the children, burn the house and make sure the neighbours keep quiet. Just don't complain when

The air felt fuzzy. A faint buzz of electricity hummed through the stillness and Emmeline felt every hair along her arms stand to attention. She looked