How about now? Can we try making a folding story that stays on topic the whole way now?

The fire raged and the house began to collapse in upon itself, a dark shadow began to emerge within the flames at the front door. The figure of a man slowly started to make itself

Last night I dreamt I was onstage singing with Bennie and The Jets, Squawkers was in the rafters periodically bombing me with bird poop, Det. Manatee heckled me from the audience

He forgot that he used to have a name let alone what that name might be or even was. "Is", Custer would say. Sure, from his points of view, my issue is mundane. I don't time travel

Although I was 15, I lied on the age verification and said I was born in 1901. The monitor flashed in a brilliant light and I appeared in the trenches of Verdun.

I am not exactly famous for my insight but I am not unaware that my body and I are not the best of friends. Just now though I found myself and my body on the same page as I experie

Amelia slumped against the back of the seat, head turned slightly to face the car window. Her eyes glazed over as she stared outside at the passing streets. Everything had begun to

Lady Midday visited me today. I was walking along the lane in the hot sun when she joined me. She's young & pretty and I laughed in spite of my headache. I can't stop thinking abo

"Dwarf planets got no reason to live.They got wimpy tectonics, and puny little moons, cluttered eccentric orbits and their inhabitants are goons. Dwarf planets got no reason. Dwarf

Litze emerged sobbing from the cafe's bathroom. She was just off the bus from Estonia and hadn't seen a flushing toilet in 2 years. Budapest was paradise

When you die, is it better to be an accountant in the mashes of Yuutan Bay's Blue Plate Special or is it better to be the ass end of a black ops mission that was going South so fas

One day I will go to Dallas to see the rodeos.

Now entering orbit. Step down phase six completed.Commence countdown phase 5. Admiral. Emergency emergency. Runaway reactor. It's gone critical. All personnel to emergency stations

I d d d don't remem m m m ber when I began t t t t to stutter. When I was a ch ch ch child, half of my

I did a monstrous number of respectable things for a lot of bad people—or maybe I did a substantial number of terrible things for a lot of good people. I hate people. I love me.

I fell in love with a mermaid. She had hair the color of the night and her skin was covered with iridescent scales. I want to join her but she refused to let me drown.

My name is Mudd, with two Ds, the second D is silent; in theory, if only one of them is silent and the other one isn’t, it doesn’t matter which of the Ds is silent and which isn’t.

Queen Bellaflora swept her wand o’er the waterfall’s foam, making it pop like the snot-bubbles on your baby sister’s face.

The tension in the arcade rose to a stern hush as the new kid firmly stepped through the smudged glass doors. It was Zack...the coolest guy in town. The glint off his sunglasses

I didn't win the Powerball jackpot, but it could be worse. My identical twin got hit by lightning while making a hole in one.