No day spent at Nimm's home would have suggested to the visitor that another seven billion people were crawling over the planet more or less simultaneously. The island was all his.

It always starts like this. Shy flirtations, forming private jokes. We smile at each other from across the table and look away quickly. Nobody seems to notice, so I nudge his foot

This is a love story. It has it's tangles, oddities, protuberances; but at the heart of it is an attraction between man and woman. For she loved him, and he her, and she knew

The Jackson Five. Is that right? What sort of day are you going to have when the first thing you hear is the Jackson Five. He kept driving because he knew

Light of the setting sun lit the room uncovering old bookshelves, dried out plants and a bed that have not been used for quite a while. "Oh, God... What happened?"

Mr. Bunsy had a secret. A secret all his own. A secret he dared not share. Not with Mrs Bunsy, or dropsy not even with Timmy Turtle. In fact, especially not Timmy Turtle because

A cold feeling of shock gripped me as I stared at the splintered, shattered wood of my front door.

She was old school and classy. The deep red lips, soft little hands, and her scent that would make a man melt like a candle. They don't make em like that no more, and today

What has its got in its pocketses, asked Gollum. Nothing, answered the Hobbit. I am just happy to see you. Sorry, Gollum replied, I don't swing that way. Despondent, Bilbo

She continued to slather him in hot gooey caramel. He continued to cry incessantly as he begged for more. Mother couldn't believe what she had heard, this time she

I've always wondered why they called them Buffalo Wings. I was pretty sure buffaloes didn't have wings, and if they did, they were pretty damn useless. Kinda like a T-Rex's arms.

Punctuation can hurt! Especially when Big Bubba does it! He closes his statements with a kielbasa sized finger hard into your chest. A question? He hooks his hand behind your neck.

With a flip of his thumb, the chained-on lid spun off and swung to the side. He rarely let his work get in the way of his drinking. There were things Bill did sober and things

At first light, she saw the tracks in the snow. Stepping back from the window, she put her hand out and pointed. But he wasn't ready or able to

With plastic shovel, Jeremy dug in the backyard. He knew China would take awhile, so he just settled on lost pirate loot or oil. Hitting the two foot mark, he heard a hollow thump

Ahhhh, that was it. After the 5th beer I felt balanced. 6 and I was high. 4 and I was low. 5 was it. I decided

His life's mission was to secretly spread feces. He'd once wiped his ass on a fruit cake. It cut his ass up something fierce, but who could see ass juice and blood on a fruit cake?

"C'mon Rook" I said to the newest recruit. He looked shellshocked and pale but followed me into the darkened warehouse. An overhead light swung ominously back and forth. I felt

The electric eraser vibrated in my hand, taking the pencil from the page as if it had never been there. On a whim, I held it up and pointed it at the wall, which disappeared and

It's easy to fuck a stranger. It's fucking someone you love that's hard. The slow boring grind of bringing pleasure to someone out of obligation. He knew he shouldn't but