Magic swirled around the willow trees, sparkling and dangerous. "See? I toldja so!" Billy whispered to the other two boys hiding, watching, enchanted at the sight of

After many rejections, in a cynical ploy, this time he sent poems from famous poets which he'd run back and forth between online english and russian translators a few times

The army marched to the outskirts of the capital. Right here and now they can end the war, but the munitions supply of mustard is low, not enough for the hotdogs. Morale is low.

"It's our newest size, the Trenta!" the Starbucks barrista said with a flourish as he displayed the cup. Old news, I thought. I read my BoingBoing and heard about it last week.

An all-expenses-paid trip to the Guinness Brewery in Dublin? All he had to do was finish a 4-pack in under 4

I felt faint, looking out to the pouring rain in my High School. When will my Mother be here? And then, I saw him. The one I've loved since the seventh grade.

I’ve also been playing with other features of the thing—and am continually amazed at how much it is capable of doing.

The dog was licking his foot again. Earlier that year he'd seen that some dogs could detect cancer, or seizures and would lick the offending part. While he debated, his dog peed

Our physicists assure us that a moment lasts c. 1/30th of a second, although conventional shutter speeds for film cameras are set at 24 frames per second. Time escapes detection!

There may be a karmic reason Antonin Scalia is an anagram for "Anal Inactions." I mean, just yesterday, he

The Squid children rolled on the floor laughing. "That's the dumbest story you ever told! You're teasing us!" Giant Old Squid Man's eyes twinkled again."OK, let me tell you another

"Reverse polarity, Reverse polarity" the metallic voice shouted. "Shut up" if you've got enough power to tell me the battery's are in backwards why don't you light the damn flash.

“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”

The plastic Easter egg seemed like as good a place as any to hide the power of creation. He couldn't take it into the crack house with him, could he? He tucked it into a hole in

It's so cold in the office where I'm interning. I have to take a sweatshirt with me, even though the weather outside is scorching.

Delaney had done time but was still omnicautious. He was drinking his life away when Anton the Glowtat Roach got on his hand and said, "We found you a place at Harrison's Diner."

She sat up in bed and started talking." I don't know who he is mom." "Wake up your dreaming again" I said "I know. That's what he Said." she said. Wake up honey you're sleeptalking

I panicked and threw the crowbar as hard as I could and hit him dead in the chest, stopping him in his tracks with a sickening crack. An experiment to create 12 people

The only purple folder lay on his desk. These meant the worst possible thing and he could barely think it, let alone coax his hand into opening it. That would take bourbon and lots

My father, uninterested in sticking around for the next life saving maneuver, had stumbled back into his old truck and swerved off toward the liquor store.