Finished Folds (221—240)
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1fear the opposite even more. What's preferable, old age or death? The years had not been kind and the discount plastic surgeon he used was surely a mistake. It became clear the day
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6Mountain Dew always tastes better after murder. Dammit! The 7-11 only stocked Cactus Cooler. He glared at the clerk and fumbled in his pocket before retrieving
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2contender for attention entered the scene. She said she created the original "slow clap" so often found in dramatic movie scenes. Despite himself, he nodded in his bobblehead way.
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3not easily opened by children." Well, that's covered, he thought as he looked at the firearm contained in an old Miracle Whip jar. It would take minutes at least for a child to
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2ever did was shriek catch-phrases in his awkward prepubescent voice. I actually welcomed the feel of the impending molten metal, an escape from his neediness.
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3dead dreams. Stillborn dreams might be a better descriptor. If you were raised in this part of town, your hopes didn't ever have a chance to flourish at all. It was my home.
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3clawed like a sloth's, with toenails that curled under. She suppressed a shudder. Her clients paid well enough that she forced a smile and got to work.
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2faces forward. They'd ask him, "What's it like to have the world on your shoulders?" To which Thor would reply, "I'm not Atlas, you fool!" before hurling his hammer at them.
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1be a coward. Just like your mother always said. Did you really think that you could escape the cycle of soul-sucking despair that was your childhood? You continued it through
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3shouldn't his plan work? He had a novel idea and a steady supply of customers who would lap up his offerings like cats to cream, fed only on malt liquor and stale depression.
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4would barely raise an eyebrow as he looked over my office supplies request. Didn't I order a 6-pack of White-Out just last week? Fortunately for me, he was too busy to notice.
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3for O'Douls. In their evil pact, they constantly craved the non-alcoholic beer at the expense of any other refreshment. Such cruelty! They would never be drunk again.
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3my own "Coming Out" party for my cat, Mr. Manx. It will be fabulous with individual plates of Fancy Feast and a female impersonator of Dolly Parton. I can't wait for
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5Mel's Emporium of Discount Dolls. He hated going there with her, what with the rigid plastic bodies hovering over them stiffly, watching them with their creepy painted eyes.
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2"man" enough to squash his own insects. His therapist suspected that it had to do with the way his mother raised him. Some of the kids called him a "mama's boy"...
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1was to make myself a neat-looking duct tape wallet. Remember when that was all the rage a few years back? My duct tape wallet never failed to get attention when I'd bring it out.
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4had to change her name from "Gertrude" to "Zelda" just to keep him as far away from the letter G as possible. Ted reckoned it was a fair compromise in marriage on his wife's part.
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4but what was my therapist always telling me? Something about how I have problems telling reality from fantasy? Honestly, I don't remember. I don't really listen to him.
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5mossy stone reminded me of my days spelunking in my youth. We always had to be wary of a beholder or rust monster around the next corner. Life can be hard for an elven ranger.
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2Visions of Ned Beatty and Burt Reynolds continued to haunt my dreams. I thought that would be the worst of it. Never did I imagine that I'd live my own version of "Delivarence."