The only purple folder lay on his desk. These meant the worst possible thing and he could barely think it, let alone coax his hand into opening it. That would take bourbon and lots

I panicked and threw the crowbar as hard as I could and hit him dead in the chest, stopping him in his tracks with a sickening crack. An experiment to create 12 people

She sat up in bed and started talking." I don't know who he is mom." "Wake up your dreaming again" I said "I know. That's what he Said." she said. Wake up honey you're sleeptalking

Delaney had done time but was still omnicautious. He was drinking his life away when Anton the Glowtat Roach got on his hand and said, "We found you a place at Harrison's Diner."

It's so cold in the office where I'm interning. I have to take a sweatshirt with me, even though the weather outside is scorching.

The plastic Easter egg seemed like as good a place as any to hide the power of creation. He couldn't take it into the crack house with him, could he? He tucked it into a hole in

“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”

"Reverse polarity, Reverse polarity" the metallic voice shouted. "Shut up" if you've got enough power to tell me the battery's are in backwards why don't you light the damn flash.

The Squid children rolled on the floor laughing. "That's the dumbest story you ever told! You're teasing us!" Giant Old Squid Man's eyes twinkled again."OK, let me tell you another

There may be a karmic reason Antonin Scalia is an anagram for "Anal Inactions." I mean, just yesterday, he

Our physicists assure us that a moment lasts c. 1/30th of a second, although conventional shutter speeds for film cameras are set at 24 frames per second. Time escapes detection!

The dog was licking his foot again. Earlier that year he'd seen that some dogs could detect cancer, or seizures and would lick the offending part. While he debated, his dog peed

I’ve also been playing with other features of the thing—and am continually amazed at how much it is capable of doing.

"It's our newest size, the Trenta!" the Starbucks barrista said with a flourish as he displayed the cup. Old news, I thought. I read my BoingBoing and heard about it last week.

I felt faint, looking out to the pouring rain in my High School. When will my Mother be here? And then, I saw him. The one I've loved since the seventh grade.

An all-expenses-paid trip to the Guinness Brewery in Dublin? All he had to do was finish a 4-pack in under 4

The army marched to the outskirts of the capital. Right here and now they can end the war, but the munitions supply of mustard is low, not enough for the hotdogs. Morale is low.

After many rejections, in a cynical ploy, this time he sent poems from famous poets which he'd run back and forth between online english and russian translators a few times

Magic swirled around the willow trees, sparkling and dangerous. "See? I toldja so!" Billy whispered to the other two boys hiding, watching, enchanted at the sight of

When the magic of her smile faded, it was withering. She drained the friendly out of her face whenever her friends disappeared, just in case someone beneath her might look in her