"So, tell me about yourself," said my new psychiatrist. I just sat there & looked at him into uncomfortable silence. Then I reached into my bag & pulled out my Howdy Doody puppet.

The goblin snarled, brandished its spear, yelled "Bree Yark!" at the top of its lungs, then charged. The magic user cast Floating Disc, is only spell, then ran back to the Keep on

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something & knowing something. I held little of the claim that knowing somethings real name gave you control over it

Echo walked, focusing on the throbbing in his arm to drown out his rage. He was supposed to be a good bounty hunter, but teaming up with thugs was turning out to be a bad idea.

THE FOLDINGSTORY CODE. I'd been using FoldingStory for several months now. I noticed sometimes plots would resurface when all clues were lost. How was this possible!? I got chills.

Ivan cut off another chunk of bear shank, refilled his mug of Kvass & returned to the Smoked Eels single table. Yuri had spiked the Kvass with vodka, & their little roulette game

"I wish we didn't have to wear clothes. That'd be cool unless I lived in a cold place. But dogs look so happy, just spreading their junk on the ground." Kaitlin looked at Mark

The sun was shining as I awoke to the sound of screaming. I ran out of my backalley shelter into the thriving streets of New Seatown, the biggest city on the west coast. Then I saw

I said, "Shamone!" "Shah-mone-ah!" then I rapped my cobra-headed cane against the Gaiaen portal and said, "Heee-heeee!" Thundering and rumbling broke across the wide expanse

Ever since Jen had purchased the dancewriter™, her writer's block and extra pounds were a thing of the past. Today she'd tap danced an essay on Exercise Software for New Yorker

"The apocalypse is coming!" The weird guy-with-the-impending-doom-sign-strapped-to-his-front shouted. I was figuring this one was a total loon, when the whole earth started

One sunny morning, I looked into the mirror and noticed that for absolutely no reason at all, a toenail was imbedded into my forehead. Either that, or it grew there. "Odd..." I

In a well loved old farmhouse at the edge of a field, lived a sweet old man who made his living on pension cheques and preserves he made on the farm. This man had a special tallent

They say that seminary is the cemetery for the faithful. It is black-suited, chain-wearing zombies that are sent back to the church and they wonder why the church is dying! Resurr

"What in God's name is going on here!?" he roared. The smell was absolutely putrid, cigarette butts everywhere, half naked Columbian's were passed out left & right, & Flint the

They keep making the TV's sexier, smarter and prettier. Well, I've fallen deeply, madly in love with my Flatscreen. I know how to turn it on, it shows me things that I

Lost everything! Honey stocks bottomed out. Heffalump Investments filed Chapter 11. Chief Analyst P.Bear grumbled "Really I'm a bear of very little brain." & took a slow train back

I merged onto I-5 north, prepared for several hours of sensory deprivation. Boredom. Flipping through my CD wallet I saw an unlabeled disk I didn't' recognize. Huh. I inserted it

The day he beat Diablo III for the 1,000th time, Satan appeared and offered him his right-hand man position. It seems that, at least to the Prince of Darkness, killing video game

I was the master of my craft, a real innovator imitated by many and surpassed by none. What George Foreman was to indoor grilling, I was to