It was a clear, dark night and Plantman had just returned from his daily crime watch. He removed his nitrogen-fixing

Ewan dodged into the cardboard box. His keen mouse ears trickled blood and his the darkness encroached. He sheathed his sword and kissed Monica for the final time. The gun dug into

"I don't care what you say, I'll never like you like I used to," she yelled, slamming the door. I stood there, wondering about the words and whether or not

Once upon a time there were magical hippos from the grand land of Germany. Every day they would hail Mexico and rule all of the minorities from the mother land then they would

He stared at her as she wept and shook his head in disagreement. “I’ve told you numerous times that we cannot be together. I don’t understand why you must drag this out.”

So your mother is so old she Dj-ed at the Boston Tea Party

Truth be told, he had not expected to have been accepted into the experiment. The line outside the door had been long. Somehow, he had gotten himself noticed, perhaps by

After a long silence, the cat jumps up to the sofa sitting between the man and the woman. Sleepless in Seattle is showing in the telly. Man mutes the telly,

Prunella's father had warned her about the GIs she'd meet while working at the Canteen: "Overpaid, oversexed, and over here." But with bombs falling on London, caution seemed

If ever there was a time to use his cell phone, this was it. But he had left his charger at home and the phone was dead. He squinted down the road and could just make out

This world's remaining strange mysteries exist among the nooks and crannies of civilization.

Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away. There was a cat and a dog and another cat. They lived together quite happily most of the time except at feeding time.

It's time for visions of sugar plums to be dancing in my head. Although, I'm not sure I like

Reluctantly he started up the hill again, feeling each step creak through his joints sending pain and a frustratingly loud grinding noise to alert those around him to his impending

"Well this is the big kiss off," he thought. I spent thousands on these ungrateful turds and they turned on me like jackals. They waited until I had cancer, and now they're here to

I fed the elephant some acid, and it slept with one of the fish in the pool last night. The fish told me it has the fucking elephant's baby. I looked at it's belly

The grenade settled into place only feet away from him. That it had landed in the mud granted a rare opportunity for it to be returned to its owner. I crouched, calculating the

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I had just been promoted to

I'd been a detective 23 years and I was tired, dog tired. Ground in stains on my trenchcoat mapped the sleaze of the city I'd drowned in too long. Deep down I craved to strip off

He'd switched careers, moving from programming to the classroom. He kept having to remind himself that kids were not machines. There was such little logic in what they did.