Finished Folds (1641—1660)
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8Joe was half asleep when he felt the ghost cat jump onto his bed. Joe got up to look for the cat's companion. There it was - a dark shadow cringing in the corner over the door. Joe
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4After a fierce storm destroyed the bridge and killed their car, Colin and Tilda trudged along the country highway until finally they saw glowing windows. The sign said "Cobweb Inn"
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4"My name is not Little Johnny and you are not going to give me an obedience shot," eight-year-old Brad informed the school nurse. He had already hacked his chip and was prepared to
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2Trevor lived among phantoms: civil war ghosts, future humods, etc. He was cool with it - it wasn't real. Until one day someone brushed against him. "It's me - Juliana - don't you r
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6She'd met this type from Craigslist before and somehow escaped, but as she went shopping for bread, milk and butter, her adrenaline subsided. Maybe this raven did like to bake. S
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3pounds, shillingsworth and (disturbingly) many a pretty pence, even though recent numerologists had explicated the value of Pi into a Babylonian dream. The London Maths Society h
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7made in one world might be fulfilled in others. The car's radio played fragments of passing worlds and ones yet to come. He gripped his hammer as he drove, the Liberty Bell's tone
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5too simple for words, and so obvious that people who had the idea didn't think anything needed to be said. Just as well, as it was a blatantly preverbal idea, even preconceptual --
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6Joshua refused to take the FCAT test. Even at the age of three he knew that verbiage was a tool of distortion and control. He looked through the people of earth and of other worlds
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4ran smack-dab into Wanda the tiller. "Now look you," she said, "I don't like you or your kind or what you might do for your amusement. Life is short, but the afterlife
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4would set my hamster brethren free from the oppression of the gerbils, but my hamster balls were swollen with disease and I knew I would not cross that Jordan with them. The Wheel
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5frantically at the expectant audience. On stage with Keith were three people in high chairs, black-hooded and with red buzzers on their trays. Serge's emcee consort, Eve Primrose,
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6seemed like he kept a cool head, but he also seemed rather conventional and tightly wrapped. Capt. Iceberg invited Pete to become an Ensign to help with the invasion of Earth
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4-modded bouncer placed a paw on the agent's chest. "Look, dude, Crazy Queen has been putting her pole-dancing tips aside so that her fetus can go to Star Fleet Academy. Centrifugal
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6and underneath a patrol car for now. The chalk outline man sensed more chalk down the road, maybe hopscotch or surveyor's marks that could provide camouflage. But a light drizzle
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7to remove her limbs and facial features. Somehow Mrs. Potato Head could still see and hear everything going on. She felt like she was floating above her husband in the surgery
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6Galaxy 5QX was dying. Its suns were faded; its tiny beloved worlds were frozen and barren. 5QX exerted itself and its flickering stars sang the swan song that called the Recyclers
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4For the 2016 American Presidential election cycle, Cheswick Marbles thought he might have a chance with the slogan "My religion is faker than yours!" But as time went on,
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10Chad's Postcard Emporium in Laguna Beach. Sure, Chad lacked the savvy and know-how of his uncle Moe in Manhattan, but he had a certain sense. He nearly touched my "cold sore" and
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5..." It had been a long time since he was at such a loss. Without the scaffolding of fame, who was he? He tried to be gracious to the birthday girl. "Just another resident of earth