Finished Folds (261—280)
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6One brisk and hazy but bright morning between winter and summer, Cookie Monster, E.T., and Yoda walked into a Charbucks and got into the line.
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4were on the verge of a deal, when Santa asked, "So where's the milk and cookies?" The DarkNet went wild
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3the old vertical fire-escapes. I had no idea cats could do that! Thank goodness the building's windows had been modernized so that no-one could get out or in.
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4"Not unless you're a Zazipop Critter," chuckled the whale. "Behold!" The whale's stage hands wheeled out a fishbowl, in which something floated. "Looks like a dead moth to me."
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1After a pause, my counselor said, "Well, you do seem healthily self-aware, Mr. Usher and/or Omegacron. Finding oneself in a gray area is a common occurrence for many. And I believe
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1Cookie Monster, Godzilla, and Mothra decided to meet for brunch.
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5"No no no! We need to cream that brain before they send it to the NSA. Not that we are merely complicated automatons with easily decoded mRNA memories, but still."
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4Reductionism is a copout to gloss over that roughness. Dust to dust, star-sparkle dust-devils, rivers to the sea, whatever -- long long stretches of living in horror is not right.
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4but as an arcane pattern of CheezeWiz on a basket of flies. Mice my eye! Show me their hidey holes!" Detective Dodo's boss Captain Grackle set aside the mice-n-rice takeout
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1"But Ma, all my friends have internet and streaming!" Nora cried. "Well, this is what we could afford, darling." A moment later, The Mandible in its club chair vibrated into view.
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4his acolytes and future publishers (after his demise), but Shakespeare Revenant went round in kitty fur appareled to change their pasts so that he might have a nice rest. Even so,
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3far Arcturus, but this was no surprise to the spider crystals there. The Arcturians looked aside politely in the overworld as only they could do, and welcomed the people of Earth
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5the controversial resurgence of neighbor-house frying pan rock to really crystallize the transgressive yet transcendiary [not a word] that The Dark Point had to offer the world. In
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7remembered the taste of...something. The waiter roused me from my reveries. "Sir? Here is your coffee and smoke bomb, and the sirloin burger with library paste." Outside the diner,
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4have mandibles a-plenty, they and I/and though we be not octopi/our tentacles are, you might agree, sufficient/and we invite you to our salon for tea/in this our cosmic sea.
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5"Oh, good grief! Please relax, you silly boney human blobby pants! The Martians of your system have been dead a long while. But enough about them." I wriggled against the
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3Andy Pakruto, former K-Mart employee (on the surface), held open that time-tunnel so that she could dodge back and get those appliance parts from the Des Moines Sears ca. 2014, but
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4pishly as he assumed his victory was assured. But the midlevel diplomat was also a scion of Amber, and so She-Ra's sword came forth from the clouds, at which The Champion conceded.
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5The blisters on his feet remind him he gave his shoes to some guy on the way. The staff in his hand feels good, but he doesn't remember when. His smartwatch is black, but Jerusalem
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4Like purple rain, like sparklers in a car wash, like the lapidary dance we did around each other in the laundromat dryer we call our life. Divorce papers, hmm. We both knew