Alain made ink from a cinder. "I implore you, Monique, please rescue your desperate cousin! Mme Crieucq has made me her love slave while squandering my inheritance. I have not a

The snow swirled in thick clumpy flakes. He stumped through the snow straining against the heavy load on his sled. At least noone was out to see him. He steered toward the creekbed

The premise of my new poem 'After the Next Word: Nothing' is a complete lie and we all know it but you're going to buy it anyway. I really need the money. Boats are not free.

Billy Mays here with the new OxiClean detergent ball! Get on the ball! The OxiClean detergent ball!

Potato wondered why the pool looked so bubbly and odd today. He shrugged and jumped in anyway, ready for a relaxing swim. He didn't expect the sensation of his insides being fried

I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I decided it was time to change my field of employment: two thousand kills was more than enough; I took all of my weapons and gave them to Goodwill.

In the great clockwork of the heavens a tiny sphere passes before the furnace and life giver, a speeding messenger of melting lead, an interloper skimming her plasma winds

I'd heard about the lunar flare but didn't pay it any mind until my skin started peeling after a long walk through the humid night. I'd taken off my shirt and my back was now cover

I was so relieved when my girlfriend told me she was pregnant. I'd been looking for a way out of the relationship and happened to be sterile. She didn't know this. Of course, she

Takeshi Migamoto ran and ran, until he could not run anymore. He collapsed in front of a karaoke bar. Had he lost them? He heard the Yakuza thugs shouting far behind. He entered

This story illustrates how people from all generations, culture, walks of life, and philosophies can come together and compose something coherent. It all started with a stolen line

Lost everything! Honey stocks bottomed out. Heffalump Investments filed Chapter 11. Chief Analyst P.Bear grumbled "Really I'm a bear of very little brain." & took a slow train back

They're the worst bees. I bet they don't pollinate or make honey or defend the queen they just fly around stinging shit. Nightmare bees, deadbeats, let's all just get together and

The trick was to have at least one more world than you had illusions. If you had equal or less the illusions died. But with that extra world you could have the illusions feeding on

Jodar felt lost, like tattered shadows in a blizzard. To find himself he knew he must leave the whirling infoclutter that formed the trivial fabric of his life. At 5:00 AM on a day

I forgot to remind my mind to forget that I was in operation mind fuck. I didn't mind the fuck. it was the mind I didn't want to fuck with. I didn't want to fuck with the mindfuck

It was late afternoon in old Indochina. Madame Wong was lying on a low couch on a jjunk floating down the Mekong. She lit a small opium pipe to keep the flies away from her face.

There was an old man who is known to resolve any problem. One day a girl went to the old man and asked for a piece of advice about

"Grrr. Woof woof. Bark bark. Yap yap yap. Whine. howl. Scratch scratch scratch. Brzzzt." Hugh found himself sitting in the dark. It was suddenly quiet. Too quiet. He tapped toward

Trenia walked into the studio with an open mind and wounded heart. She was seeking solace in art and peace in creativity. Oh, the couple of martinis she'd indulged in didn't hurt