Finished Folds (621—640)
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3banged her gavel and said no more pants-splitting. "Judge," said the jurors in unison, "We are free and independent beings, and this is a matter of personal sovereignty."
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2It was the gondolier. With the deluxe Veg-O-Matic.
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3Solar Protectorate. Earth had been trashed while Mars had been terraformed into a lush green world, then trashed in another wave of profit-bingeing. Keanu's revolutionary signs w
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6Joe Harris crooned bitterly to his beer, "All the old dudes carry the news," while around him robots upgraded themselves and transhuman youngsters dated transdimensional beings fr
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3and although it was something I never would have expected in this lifetime or any other, when Mrs. Emma Peel offered to kiss me, I gave my ready and more than willing assent.
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0from the giggly young sprouts if not for the green fuse that drives the flower.
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2but now was gray with the grime of time. He had done as well as he could along the way. He didn't like being shunned, but he guessed those people didn't know any better, not yet.
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3There were mandibles in the shallows -- mandibles without maws, according to the more sensational journals of shipping news. News that sometimes roiled the conscience of Captain
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6like a flower of light which politely waited for the Place de L'Opera to clear before it blossomed. The French welcomed the UFO's disincarnate passengers as equals. They spoke of
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3he brushed his teeth with a known concentration of phosphoric acid to remove Pringle residue and calculated exactly when to rinse. He did feel bad for the dental bacteria who might
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3Butterflies on melba toast. The Kraken showing his buff abs on holiday retreat with his new paramour, as reported by The Daily Mail. Snowflakes on coffee. The works.
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8Except for one.
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4and I crashed it against the front of the "sensible" manor he had also got me, the one full of rectangular rooms. Well, when I say "drank the Pepsi" I mean I made a polite show of
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2and other dragons would appear for a moment from the smoke or the fog, sometimes even the stars. One day his dragon said, "You should know that the Earth is my Pearl." He didn't qu
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1she visited Tibet to learn the technique of heating a pizza through concentration, and at her age she had no patience for superfluous techniques. She often surprised her grandkids
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3in a game within a game, played by avatars of players in a run-down park that had been converted from a vacant lot in southeast CX 13-- and a web of consent formed a new government
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2and reminded her who was the boss of whom, and that my dirty socks were my business. Mrs. Hawke startled me with the evil in her glare but I had her fired all the same. Next autumn
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7Apparently many thought I might be trolling FoldingStory by writing such short, conclusive folds, but the truth was stranger than any of us could know. At my trial it came out that
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0Yes, those were the days. Bus number 1739 usually handled route 18 a decade ago, when I was more the bum and he was more respectable. And here it and he were again, refurbished but
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1And so we sat with rapt attention, looking at the door. Would someone ever happen to ring the bell and linger on the threshold? My couchmates readied themselves just in case