Finished Folds (1881—1900)
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5I learned this to my own regret as I became increasingly unpopular over the years, which made me a little bitter yet humble, and incredibly powerful. I was afraid I might misuse
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7Professor Xavier tried to break the news gently. "Thank you for applying, but the school is really intended for young people with mutant powers, so regrettably ..." Mr. Potatohead
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5enjoy having pizza with extra cheese with some hot guy. But Skeeter's future was thin, and Patti never saw them together. Even so, Doug recoiled from Patti in lactose-intolerant
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4But maybe I am projecting upon you things that I imagine you might project upon me. I am a house of mirrors that reflects no light. I am an invisible man invisibly bruised by
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6pre-Metaclasmic technology! Useless, stupid baubles! Sucked into someone else's dream, we can't even look at our hands to regain control! Thou vain yet stylish winter cricket,
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5Jezikara of Mars was happy to supply her customers with poly-dichloric-euthynol (or "youf-n-all" as the AtaviChavs of Tharsis Ridge liked to call it). If it was illegal on Earth,
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4thanked me for the XXX habañero sauce, though other quarters would harangue me on the morrow. Next up, some cabbages to keep the cancer at bay. The innocent brussels sprouts
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5accessible to noisy tourists, not even to drum tourists like Mickey Hart, nor is the Altofina Drum Refinery listed in the Michelin Guide or Zagat's -- but one intrepid rhythmatist
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2Felt like a cheap old trumpet to me. "Sure, Percy, sure." One tried to be kind. But I had held a haunted Gretsch once, and when I strummed it, distant voices answered in return. I
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7Bob was not alone. Murmurs of mutiny spread through vessel. Cap'n John announced: "Look ye abaft, for thar hav ye parked. And now to starboard, we see the coastline." Bob shouted:
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5Of all the run-down dives on Mars, I had to enter this one. The turquoise and aqua decor. Johnny Carter's gravelly "I shot the Jeddak." There she was, my fatal flame -- Jezikara
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3No one, that is, until Xtreme Chow host Andy Snarkle arrived. "Beautiful reddish amber glaze. Mmm, the thighs are full of flavor. Do I detect a hint of cricket?" Even his TV crew
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2Vanessa Conquest glared around the table at her useless executives. "How dare you simper about the economy! Historically, ConCorp has always profited even in bad times. Now show me
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2she grabbed me by my chest hair and pulled me close. My face was the spittoon for her Boot Camp Drill Sargeant. "Caught you, Roofie Boy. We gonna spread you like butter." My first
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4The Count languished in anguish. Without a tongue, life had no savor. He should have known that his latest dinner guests were from Argentina, and the silver content of their blood
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1La paloma de la broma se encuentra en Sonoma.
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7The house stood vacant and starving for ages, until one day the Paranormal Hoaxes TV crew came to investigate. Finally! As they clumped about, digestive fluids gurgled in the pipes
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5Jonathan suddenly stopped using relationship markers at the end of each utterance to his male friends. "What syntactical twist is this, my bruv?" said Brian, his
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11pined for charity and grace and the ghosts of trains past, the humble humor of Red Skelton, and a life of uncertain but broad horizons. But for now, cubicles would trump cardboard
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3but his hootie nanny stopped him. "You've got a logjam in your stream of consciousness." So tired of her unsolicited advice. "Hello, old lady" he said, his mind going widdershins