The Sloth had come. My debt to him was overdue by two years. Two years I had run from him. Two years he hunted me. Now, I cower in the shower, and his mob stands beside my urinal.

نظر البحّار إلى الأفق من مركبه مسنداً السنّارة على كتفه. لا يزال يتطلّع إلى بلوغ اليابسة بلا جدوى. كانت الشمس ساطعة في السماء الصافية، فاشتد عليه الحر و الجوع على حد سواء

Gregor's family did not mourn his passing. The next morning, however, they, too had transformed into giant beetles.

"A FLYING SHARPIE, AHHH, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" was the first thing that woke me up that morning. Literally the morning. "It's four am, SHUT UP AND SLEEP," I growled to my

D is for deadly.

It didn’t even occur to me to pay attention to my father’s keep off the grass signs, but it should have. I realized this as soon as I stepped in the small pile Mrs. Chu's Mutt

It was Friday, Zach's favorite day. Friday meant no homework, no school tomorrow, no stress- and today he had art club. Meaning today he could finally see Yuki.

The young woman sat cross-legged on the bench, in the very middle of it, as if to warn people not to sit next to her. She stared blankly at nothing, her eyes wide and emotionless,

I spent a full year, birthday 30, sharing an apartment with a burly biker dude named James. We both were messengers, taking legal documents from attorneys and filing them in court.

All three of us crowded around the Ouija Board. The second, excited, asked "Hey, does using this make us necromancers?" "Nay, 'tis but marked plastic." Noted the fourth.

For his 70th birthday, Stan bought himself a robotic sparring partner as another way to keep fit. But one night he forgot to deactivate Kato before his friends came over for poker

So this guy called me up. I had gone on a date with him, maybe, 3 months ago. It had been ok, but he had to leave early to catch a last minute flight to Budapest. So he was back &

This is the story about a boy who could only speak in questions. "Why does the sun go on singing?" asked the boy.

Hognar the hognork hognorse snake are a hog. Hognar travelled thirteen miles to get that hog, but now Hognar may claim victory as long as

He walks in the shadows. All he knows is what he sees; the repeat of the same pattern all around. Tall, concrete buildings, no green. Only on the next turn did he realize

duh hello said the man to his friends

She looked down at me as I stared in awestruck at her presence. Three years later and I still couldn't accept her rejection

Walking on the narrow water trench she felt her nape frying, a May day couldn't be hotter. It wasn't the most usual thing to be excited, uneasy and nauseous all at the same time.

She logs on to Folding Story for the first time in months, elated that some of her stories have been completed. "I must make more!" she exclaims, so she starts a story about a

Today is the day. Its game day. Today is the most important game day there is. Its the opening game. Our very first game. I'm ready to play some ball.