Finished Folds (541—560)
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3One brisk spring morning at a Parisian trottoir as he sipped his coffee and read the paper, The Kraken was accosted by a musician on a bicycle. "How dare you despise the Kaiju! How
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5Carlotta Widdershins looked around at the old farmhouse from which she had evicted her troublesome goody-goody sister. "Good," she thought. But the gloom in the northwest corner r
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4So he changed things up. Sure, he had some alien DNA and a few upgrades, but he still self-identified as human, so he decided to use the humans-only restroom at work for the first
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9I knew that giraffes hummed to each other at night. Maybe that's all our teacher needed. But my friend Barton (whom I regrettably had bullied earlier) heated Teach's rifle with his
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6was a four-eyed crow in communion with the Owls. Haymitch got nervous and ran from the scene of the murder. The four-eyed crow tried to stich the dog's wounds, but
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4My friend the Vorlon barista said that coffee was not what I needed. "You have a hole in your mind and a hole in your heart. A bagel and roasted bean sauce won't solve that." He ha
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1"I have in my hand The Last Burrito." He paused for effect as he displayed it to the TEDx audience. "This, ladies and gentleman, is The Burrito of the Eschaton." They gasped and st
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1to tell me that the library would be closing in 15 minutes. I explained that the fate of the world depended on my finding that last inscription. The librarian threw me out.
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2quotidian after that, doing the necessaries, listening to the news and discussing the entertainment of the day, feeding Tootsie snacks when she played with her alphabet blocks.
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6Asher Korovin's heartfelt painting – the result of cosmic emanations filtered through his transitory self – "The Brooklyn Charbucks" never caused much of a stir. Nonetheless,
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5Grady looked at the Fishlad. The Fishlad looked at his girlfriend. His girlfriend brandished a large knife. The Fishlad looked at Grady. "OK, the buffalo eel then. Is it Japanese?"
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1"No, that gate was built in the year 899 in memory of King Alfred the Great." Alistair Obvious wasn't so good at this kind of fencing, but his Olympic training master Melissa Peel
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3Amanda Widdershins woke with a shock to find her estranged sister Carlotta sitting on her bed, staring at her. "I saw the shadow of the Manatee here," Carlotta insinuated. Amanda b
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6took it on a silver platter to the Hill of Truth and summoned his guards. The Mandibles of the Apocalypse surrounded the Hill under the full moon and gazed upon the red velvet cake
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1It seemed that green apple wouldn't budge and my face was everywhere. My right hand was alien and the left invisible. I adjusted my bowler and thought of making a pie from scr
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2although a tingler crawled up my arm, I stayed seated. Let someone else take the shot, I knew. But by that age I had implants from Samarkand and "a few flowers and all the stars
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5eager, too perpendicular, too much of a Belieber in that moment, Ed explained to his campfire comrades, and so he left the mushroom ravioli alone while the chicken ravioli clucked
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7mingle at parties, work together, torture each other with artificial mental nonsense, and dine in cafeterias, in some of which some unincarnate voices form in the murmurous hubbub
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5Sam looked at his little brother Andrew with sad, strange, distressed, and to some extent enigmatic eyes. Sam caught the 12:05 to Chatterton, to his new employment as
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5In marigolds appareled, he entered the throne room of the Lizard Lady Queen. "You know that I don't like marigolds," she snapped. "Now put some clothes on." Gurfo Mettra disc