Joshua refused to take the FCAT test. Even at the age of three he knew that verbiage was a tool of distortion and control. He looked through the people of earth and of other worlds

Dr. Larchmont ran a 1960s Spirogram through the app. Sounded like a Scottish guy. "Mind the vowel sounds," it said. No! I thought. This can't be! Stevenson's advice had been hidden

When the boyfriend found the skid marks on his girl's lingerie he was overcome with a deluge of

Claire sat in class, hoping, wondering, a possibility lurking in her mind people would join in on her story. She sighed as she pulled out a gun and held it in the air.

All meinen Schmerz ertränke ich in Küssen. All mein Geheimnis trag ich wie ein Kind. Ich bin ein Blatt, zu früh vom Baum gerissen. Ob alle Liebenden so einsam sind?

'Look at the size of that' cried Stephen pointing at the matchbox sized spider in the bath. Little did he know that the spider had just cried exactly the same thing in Arachnish...

"Call me Fowzella the Fierce. No, call me Ingrid Widdershins. Wait... Nadia... erm... Fine. I'm Jenny. I'm an aspiring time travel travel detective, but I've failed all the exams.

As Bob sat in Church, he counted on his fingers how many of the Ten Commandments he was breaking. "Let's see, I'm coveting Dave's wife, and all of her goods. And I'm about to steal

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to right. Here I am stuck in the middle with you. When you started off with nothing & your proud your a self made man & your fans they all come

Murdock Lipschitz carefully removed the cylinder he'd labeled with RADIOACTIVE WASTE nearly three decades earlier from the vault at the back of the lab. He unscrewed the lid and pu

Old McDonald had a farm, eieio & on that farm he had a ferret eieio, with a dook dook here & a dook dook there, here a dook, there a dook, everywhere a dook dook. Old McDonald had

Harry entered the coordinates and the dome rotated into position while the reflector inclined toward the bright pearls in the night sky. A syzygy this auspicious was a bad omen

"LEEERRROOOY, JENKINS" The Criminal shouted as he ran out of jail. helicopter, SWAT teams, tanks, everybody was out when Bob ran out of jail. bob was really an alein from mars who

When I was a kid, I used to sit in Tony’s barbershop listening to gangster chit chat. Tony responded to everything with Over my Dead Body. Tony, I’m going to marry your daughter.

"I had a past life regression the other day, I went under hypnosis and saw myself die alone in a desert with an arrow to my chest. How cool is that!" Oh god, not again thought Jim

They sat in the car, listening to the murder happening inside. They were supposed to be observers, but Trent's training could not mask words his father had drilled into his head:

Rarely do history books tell us about us Godzilla's cousin in Singapore, the giant robot octopus.

He blinked as he read the newsletter. His story was featured this month. No warning, just dropped in the mail. He was beginning the victory lap tweet, but a knock on the door

'The 7 Habits of a Highly Effective Chick Sexers' #1: KEEP IT SIMPLE. There's only 2 sexes a chick can be. Don't complicate by having 4 or 10 sexes. A chick isn't a fungus. Kapish?

I knew Jack from college. He'd turn up every 5 years or so at awkward moments which seemed to derail everything I'd built up in the interim. When he showed up at my wedding wearing