Valetta was a hidden ruby amongst the jetsam of womankind. She was a whore in the bedroom, a cook in the kitchen & something else somewhere else... fill in the gaps yourself. Men w

Arnold had never been this worried before. Paul always came through; it was always fine in the end. Or at least it had been in the past. But standing here now, thinking about his

In this new universe, entropy decreased slightly with time. You could leave the dishes dirty and if you waited long enough, they'd become clean. Consequently, society had become

Once upon a time there was a middle school teacher who lived in a magical land called Highlands. She was a magical teacher who was able to grant wishes.

"Blasphemy!"

I gathered all my courage and walked up to his locker. "Hey, Kylie!" he said. I had fallen in love with my best friend, even though we made a promise when we were in 2nd grade that

Once upon a time there was a woman who tried to sneak her chameleon through customs by wearing it as a hat.

"Last night the mandibles apologized, after all these years." Her husband clenched the steering wheel of the rusted pickup truck. "And I forgave them ... " The desert highway

Once upon a time a passionate and playful prince left his palace in Persia and pretended to be a pauper. He passed powerful peers who pissed on his petticoat. Perturbed, he paused

"Don't touch it!" she screamed because it was moving. It seemed to have a mind of its own, which seemed impossible but the eyes don't lie and now they were standing

She lies down, putting her head on the damp grass, and looks up at the night sky.

It was a chilly winter morning and I was preparing to leave.

He purchased a Skrall bionicle set & a technic II powered machine set. He'd lost his biotech job to his lego addiction but he was obsessed with completing his working life-sized

Grandpa was at the casino. Nothing kept his mind off of his impending doom quite like Sinatra played on loop in a room without clocks. He gambled away his gas money, then his car,

Carstairs lit his 40th cigarette of the day, tossing the lighter back in his desk drawer. "Hey Sylvia! Get in here," he called to his secretary. "I need the Singleton file, quick."

Being an on-the-scenes reporter is tough enough, but with as many restraining orders as I have, it's nearly impossible. "As you can see, 501 feet behind me, the new animal hospital

Back in high school the smokers were called "grits" and most excelled in classes like "shop" where they tuned their cars, but Phil was different. He played D&D and built computers

I beg your pardon? Retorted a puzzled Mr. Napier. You mean, we mustn't alert the police to the fact that there's a killer among us? But Sir Lardham is dead! Are you hiding somethin

I could not believe my eyes. Truly, they were hopeless. Always just popping out mid conversation. It made it really hard to

There really was a house that ate children in my neighborhood. Every year, two or three would disappear, always around the same house, always around the month of November, right