"Houston, we have a problem." The astronaut looked back at the panel. The oil pressure was off. The fasten seat belts sign was on. Somewhere, a door was ajar. A loud binging klaxon

I decided I was going to be the new president. I kicked open my office door, ran down the hallway and told the first coworker that I ran into

It was a night just like any other. I had two slugs, one in my magnum, and the other in a bottle of whiskey. I kicked my feet up on the desk to take a nap, when she walked in...

She fell back onto the cold, hard wall of the dark alleyway and stared toward the man, hovering over the young girl. The man dropped the girl's pale, limp wrist and looked up.

The intense yearning Mel felt for that last kernel of popcorn doubled as he watched his dog, Frankie, lick the bottom of the container.

It all began when my father first saw the Djinn. Before I could warn him, he said "Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle." And there he was. How was I going to explain this to

Frightened by the impending betrayal, the little girl explored wearily in the ever expanding house until she came across

Phyllis peered inside her brown paper lunch sack, awestruck. Just yesterday evening, she had carefully tucked a bologna and brown mustard sandwich in there.

I am a 65 years old retiree, people look askance at me when I say things like, I"I think Ill build a Mandolin from scratch then learn to play it. It only takes my time, not theirs

Seth's diet had slowly degenerated over the course of the past months. His time as a restaurant critic was of no use to him on a strict regimen of grubs, crickets and leeches.

Kathy Griffith looked in the mirror and smiled. Her lifelong ambition was to be a hot chick. After all the surgery, heartache, scrabbling and self abuse, it appeared to her that

The gleaming yellow paint of the brand new Ferrari sparkled in late afternoon sunshine. It was so hard for Jake to wait for her; he just wanted to get out of there, to leave this

He loosened the screws on the front tire until the nuts almost fell off. That's when Frankie came out. He jumped on the bike. He said, "Frankie, pop a wheely!" Frankie rode hard

The man on the cellphone talked loudly. He was like a klaxon with a bad script. He was white but yucked it up like House of Payne. The people around him were trying to enjoy

Sometimes when i'm alone at home i

i have a rabid dog

Looking at the terrible predicament I had gotten myself in, I was rather disappointed that I hadn't purchased that

Blank.Nothing.Void.That's the thing about the stare she gave Carl.June gazed into his eyes but,nothing.There was nor love or hate and that made him really mad for having lost

My idea to combine elements of Goethe's Faust with Shelley's Frankenstein into an apocalyptic tale of nuclear Armageddon finally got some creative input from reality when

Jim hesitated and then dropped the cigarette into the toilet. He tested his voice for a moment to make sure the nerves weren't cracking it. "Ahem". No good, he was broken.