At the Boar and Chicklet, Angelo Trotter spoke from his fifth pint. "We're all just tips of icebergs, you know, exchanging fragments of spiderwebs." Meanwhile, at the dart-board,

She traveled the road as her supreme delight alighted on the prow of a Rolls-Royce motor car to revel in the freshness of the air & the musical sound of her fluttering draperies.

(please do not mention it)Someday he would do it, but not today, he would have to work up the courage. The thought of it seemed to swirl around in his mind, seemingly making him

"Oh of course it's 'C', the obviously wrong choice," I thought as I filled in the oval. I'd installed a sarcasm detector on my school's Scantron the day before. My high test scores

Just as the grass grows greener in the neighbors garden, ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. Though my marm tried to keep that sight from my eyes, I stowed away on

It was the day my grandmother exploded. "She'd eaten a horse ofcourse." My brother tried hiding the shock with jocularity. The coroner tersely noted "Equus Consumptio Petomanus."

They holed up in the shack as best they could, and listened fearfully for the sound of claws on the door & roof. Father Mike blessed their sole weapon, a t-shirt gun - the damned

Willow, Yentna, Skwentna, Finger, Rainy, Ronin, Niki, McGrath, Tako, Ophir, Idita, Shag, Anvik, Gray, Eagle, Kaltag, Una, Shaktoo, Koyuk, Elim, Golo, Whitey & Nome were her dogs

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a robot vacuum from the Sharper Image.

The students of Menopeak High School were reading through the list of unusual careers on offer at the Career Day Expo. The first job offered was

The first rule of the ancient and sacred Chinese martial art Hei Yu Fu is:

The Secret Authors Society (SAS) consisted of famous published authors that lurked on FoldingStory.com to get ideas, distract themselves during writer's block or

I trudged up the fjord, ice and snow pelting my humped back as I bent my head against the howling wind. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light.

God asked Dr.Dolittle to gather all the unlikely creatures in a 2nd ark. If he was going to fool scientists with the evolution yarn, the pushme-pullyu, one-eyed purple people eater

A time long ago, someone dear to me said go. And now I weep. Blah blah blah. "This writer has nothing to say at all! As a matter of fact, yes, I'm sure he is mad! Absolutely insane

Randy thought long and hard about where to debut his streaking career. Football game, Queen's parade?, Golf tournament? Bicycle race? He finally settled on a billiards championship

The ochre yellow oozed off of the canvas in a distinct puddle on the museum floor. The night watchman didn't notice, and casually walked through it.

By age five, she was released from her Skinner box into the wilds of Kindergarten.

Hushed Tomes was an organization that agreed with the premise of book burnings but believed the burnings to be a clear violation of book rights. Books can't speak for themselves.

Members of the Beautiful Nose Association were not sniffers and snorters. No, members mainly consisted of nose models. Nose models are in high demand by