Finished Folds (21—40)
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2You normally have facial tissues but forgot to buy a pack last time you were at Walgreens. A middle-aged guy asks if you're okay and hands you napkins from Charbucks. "It's clean."
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1cabbages if we're going to do this right," says Big Claw, "but don't worry about supply-chain issues. Your problem is that my boys have your boys surrounded in the woods, Smiley."
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1"Here comes everybody," snickered Agatha O'Neill to her husband Ogambu Ping.To his credit, Mr. Ping did not murder his wife until the day after Christmas. As for my choir efforts,
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3didn't matter, because the people of Earth generally gave up chairs for wasting away in VR lounges. But the people who chose lying flat over the "Metaverse" created a new society.
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3reminisced about a young dalliance with a certain Elena A. Kropotkina, who was all woman under her tweed and now a consort of Putin. "Well, it's a mystery," said Detective Manatee.
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1moved to Hong Kong and found employment as an influencer for several mainland companies, while also working under-cover for ICAC and as an "exterminator" of people like her husband
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2crutches made from my best friend's bones, not for repentance, but defiance against the church that had misshapen my young soul. But I stopped short of spitting in the holy water
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4by to console me. "At least nobody ever mocked you for chewing the scenery." That nearly made me smile. The Ghost of Thanksgiving past invited me to a carport party at 437 Ventura
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3ceratops (which kept the riff-raff away) and that he was thoroughly conversant with all historical forms of Canasta. He had the orderlies put up colored patio lights in the ER and
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3Silicon Valley sociopaths and conspiracy promoters who knew damn well that the Grand Canyon was carved out by Azra-Chirango space lasers aeons ago, and who were waiting for
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8Then my damn psychic neighbor intruded. "Um, sorry. But you were thinking out loud. Cicero was big on personal libraries and cabbages. Have you tried kim-chee for writer's block?"
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2have been the first time he ever smelled bread inside a pine tree if not for his Irish grandmother who had put bread in his face and stuffed him into a pine tree to prepare him for
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3but he had pretty good psychic skills thanks to his mother and her mother, so whenever he needed to he could shut the dogs and the neighbors up. Brian still misdelivered the mail
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4Sasquatch opened the dumpster lid. "You talkin' to me, Slim? I smell blueberry muffins here, or children who have eaten them!" Slim's sister Thick stood up. "These are my children,
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2Her sense of triumph was a bright fiction in the skull of a madwoman. I kicked her to the curb as kindly as I could and returned to my undramatic spreadsheets. Our son, however,
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4keep us from beating them to death with the vintage aluminum baseball bats we got off Ebay in case of Laguna Beach gallery punks, but the seals grooved on our music and we all felt
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2Pitch and Coo could be murdered by The False Cupid. That night they all slept face-down as baby owls do, and the yellow porch light attracted the Guardian Moths. The uncertainty
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4time-point to which he was connecting? Snort! Well not completely. A bit of Doc's tuft got stuck to Joe Biden's head during his time transit. All is not lost, just scattered.
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2fridge where Belzamael would never think to look. But when I went back to my computer desk, the screensaver said, "I can read your thoughts, and your dogs' souls are mine." That re
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0Wally across his dumb young chops. Wally said, "Dad, you'll be lucky if I don't kill you." Ward knifed his son in the ribs. "You won't." June said, "Look at the mess you've made."