One day while doing their tax returns, Betty Bounteous said, "Arbo the Starmage is your one true love, isn't he?" Hrengor the Beholder tried to explain. "Betty-B, Arbo is just a ch

She stopped to take a shot of some swans roosting in a rice field, when suddenly the sky came alive with a cacophony of sound and flapping wings. She stood there, stunned, gaping.

Slang math considers zero to be a meaningless placeholder. So "2 x 1 = 2" is read as "twenty time ten be 2 grand." But is used as a value, "1 - 1 = 0" is "1 from 1 ain't nothin."

I know I'm still relatively new, but this has gotten pretty terrible lately. Bring back Joe cartoon?

When the students entered the cafeteria and found no nachos, a riot ensued.

Sirens wailed. INTRUDER ALERT flashed on the console. 'But that's impossible!' huffed the technician, 'I sorted out the glitch.' Then the portal door slid open, revealing

Unlike most orphans, may parents were still alive and living in a dingbat in Bayoone, New Jersey. Now you might wonder what a dingbat was doing in New Jersey but I'd say you are ri

The hipster at the bar look like Frank Sinatra on a 60's album cover. What goes around, she thought. Still, he was cute, in an earnest way, so she bought him a drink and

He kissed the palm of my hand and asked me to forgive him but I wouldn't.

In a prologue set years earlier when some sort of weather typical for the setting was to be expected, a domestic animal woke an incidental character in the usual way. This presaged

The dog stopped barking, birds ceased their songs, and silence dominated everything.

I was listening to the radio when I heard a discordant noise. It was my cell phone playing the theme from

The man lie in bed, staring at the ceiling. The nurse, a girl, in comparison, told him just to call out if he needed anything. He gave no reply, that she could hear, but

Because of my shoes. I'm wearing today. One is called love. The other is pain.

Yesterday I found myself in the Banal Zone. My cousin's fiance and I found ourselves discussing cheese and cheese product. I insisted on only having real cheese on my sandwiches &

somnambulism, he looked at the word again, it was hard to read in the dim torchlight, what did it mean, was it even a word, the harder he looked at it the weirder it looked on the

I tossed the grenade into the warehouse and turned away. I began walking briskly and smirked softly as the explosion went off behind me. Cool guys don't look at explosions.

The day was warm. I'd never felt the sun before, and the warmth coming from it was greater than that of any fire.

On my planet, tertiary males are not considered weaned until their twentieth year out of the womb. Gestation is another 27 months. So my 19 year old toddler needs me to wipe his fa

Evo, didn't disagree, he 'subverted the paradigm'. Evo didn't pick up girls, he 'enhanced his propagating potential.' Others went to the can or took a dump, but Evo '