The fact that it was a girl making some of those sounds was what got me out of the car and around the side of the station.

I hardly ever wore the dark blue Dockers that hung in my closet neglected until Easter Sunday or the three hours my father reserved for sobriety during my birthday dinner.

He blessed each of them as they kissed his ring. It was his favorite part of the morning and probably his last until he reached his new post where he'd have to start all over.

He rechecked his fold to confirm it's perfection. Satisfied, she cliched Fold & Pass. Then reading the post he noticed 2 spelling errors, a grammatical faux pas & a story paradox.

Careful and quiet as she sends the pencil down the page in short strokes, she chews on her lower lip, soft and pink and scarred from childhood. Even so, her lips are perfect.

By nightfall, I’d formulated a plan. If I followed a trail through the woods, I could get back home in fifteen minutes. I walked slowly and deliberately trying to make as little

The old bus crapped out two passengers, hot and sticky, onto the curb. The heater on the bus wasn't really stuck on high, but the driver loved the metaphor. He regarded children as

A three-time bar exam failure, she lamented her current position as a pedicurist. Life could be worse, but it's hard to imagine how as her current client had feet that

He was born in Llamfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch & by the time he started working as journalist he had hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. The chief edito

I laughed until my face hurt. So did she, but it didn’t take as long. We stayed there for a few hours until I decided it was safe to go back and steal some ice for her face.

One day, I was at my friends house and we were going to go to Walmart. We decided to run there instead of driving there, so when we were running there we saw a talking and dancing

Every time Madame Banane entered the bowl of shredded wheats, she became engulfed in a milky whirlpool. Sick of always swimming around, she decided to make a clean break.

I found an enormous blue eye floating in the surf while walking on the beach early one morning. I picked it up and took it home to play a prank on my wife by laying it on my pillow

The colors of sunset filled the sky as Angie drove her car out and onto the freeway. After 30 years of marriage she'd had enough. She had drugged Ed's donut filling. He lay dying

"Afar Lugbúrz! at sapat kok-ishi. Afar vadokanuk, At sapat kok-ishi!"

The traitor stood with a match dangling precariously from his finger. The fumes from the gasoline were flaring up around it, marking the saturation building in the room.

Something glowed in the dark by the bed. "Whats that?" I asked my wife. It darted forward. I grabbed a slipper to crush it. "Wait it's a Lucihormetica luckae! The last of its kind

In nations like the United States, most enquiring eyes remain focused along the coasts or dwell upon geological wonders such as the vast mountain ranges, canyons and the

Eddie sat in the kitchen, back to the picture window, using the natural late morning light to read the daily paper. He was supposed to be looking at the want ads, but

I was walking along the garden path when I heard a cry for help. I looked around but couldn't see anything. Then I saw this tiny little box. Could it be coming from this small