somnambulism, he looked at the word again, it was hard to read in the dim torchlight, what did it mean, was it even a word, the harder he looked at it the weirder it looked on the

Yesterday I found myself in the Banal Zone. My cousin's fiance and I found ourselves discussing cheese and cheese product. I insisted on only having real cheese on my sandwiches &

Because of my shoes. I'm wearing today. One is called love. The other is pain.

The man lie in bed, staring at the ceiling. The nurse, a girl, in comparison, told him just to call out if he needed anything. He gave no reply, that she could hear, but

I was listening to the radio when I heard a discordant noise. It was my cell phone playing the theme from

The dog stopped barking, birds ceased their songs, and silence dominated everything.

In a prologue set years earlier when some sort of weather typical for the setting was to be expected, a domestic animal woke an incidental character in the usual way. This presaged

He kissed the palm of my hand and asked me to forgive him but I wouldn't.

The hipster at the bar look like Frank Sinatra on a 60's album cover. What goes around, she thought. Still, he was cute, in an earnest way, so she bought him a drink and

Unlike most orphans, may parents were still alive and living in a dingbat in Bayoone, New Jersey. Now you might wonder what a dingbat was doing in New Jersey but I'd say you are ri

Sirens wailed. INTRUDER ALERT flashed on the console. 'But that's impossible!' huffed the technician, 'I sorted out the glitch.' Then the portal door slid open, revealing

When the students entered the cafeteria and found no nachos, a riot ensued.

I know I'm still relatively new, but this has gotten pretty terrible lately. Bring back Joe cartoon?

Slang math considers zero to be a meaningless placeholder. So "2 x 1 = 2" is read as "twenty time ten be 2 grand." But is used as a value, "1 - 1 = 0" is "1 from 1 ain't nothin."

She stopped to take a shot of some swans roosting in a rice field, when suddenly the sky came alive with a cacophony of sound and flapping wings. She stood there, stunned, gaping.

One day while doing their tax returns, Betty Bounteous said, "Arbo the Starmage is your one true love, isn't he?" Hrengor the Beholder tried to explain. "Betty-B, Arbo is just a ch

In a village called Palm Spring, a nice but quite village. Live a young man called Harris Young. He just moved there and he open a small time grocery shop in a former old house.

The air felt fuzzy. A faint buzz of electricity hummed through the stillness and Emmeline felt every hair along her arms stand to attention. She looked

Hello? Anybody out there?

When things get really bad, I dig myself deeper. Like this one time, at a party, where the entire room stood in absolute silence, staring at me right after I had just