Finished Folds (201—220)
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2the Country-Singing Mantis, who began a beheading campaign at every New Wave show at CBGB, which in this reality stood for "Cool Bugs Gettin' Buggy." Fred Schneider the Stink Bug
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3in civil war history. The centaur Marco created a false horse's head and legs to give him the appearance of Stonewall Jackson, and he commanded his troops of failed actors
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5Jamboni ran through the tunnels of his subterranean home as it began to crumble around him. As he broke out into the surface and left his dwelling forever behind, he realized what
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1and an angry God depopulated the Earth until only a few remained--those that made their homes in the mountains. New human species would evolve: grotesquely twisted mountain people
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1she ran into her old high school flame, who had armfuls of gold and was heading in the direction of the pawn broker. The rube. She spit on his shoes for what he did to her.
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5love shack. Since the B-52s, love shacks emerged across the entire Western hemisphere, where any passerby may espy an undulating mass of oily neighbors enjoying the beauty
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10I hung the gew-gaw from my neck, so I would always remember that fatal error. Never again would I know love, or what it feels like to not have killed my own family. I turned to
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3from Watson for his own good. Holmes wanted to see the old boy live to old age. Watson's alcoholism got worse, and Holmes would find whole empty handles of laudanum. Holmes wept.
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0some secrets should remain secrets. For example, I used to have six fingers. For example, I am plotting against the mayor. For example, I don't remember who these people in my
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1the scarecrows with their thick gold chains and drawn-on and glitter-glued grills. The kids ate that shit up. As for me, I mostly stayed in my matte black Saab, smoking Swisher
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1feels like God pissing his mercy down your throat. The man wiped the syrupy sweat form his brow and turned to the woman, whose dress was now well over her head. "Try some of this
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0was heard far off the coast--then another, then another. Scones flew at the boy and the pirate from some the direction of the setting son. "I dare say," started the boy, "we do
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5So, the other boys covered him up in Saran wrap and left him in the creek. They resolved to build a shelter outside of town, which they would camouflage with branches and fake
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1"Oh that's neat," I replied, internally calling his narcissistic bullshit. I knew that he had a problem with compulsive lying. Once he claimed that Michael Jackson went through all
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9Pancho mindlessly flipped through the channels, unable to focus on any of the daytime programming he came upon. He was thinking of that paper airplane, the one that had killed
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4he found a man draped over his window frame, an enveloped letter apparently stapled to his back, through his navy suit coat. The would-be mayor carefully lifted the letter from
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6and fortresses from woven hemp. From a felt cannon, the huns fired off
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3from a country bordering France. He and Sally the pancake stack are ready to go home with you, girls. Just say the word and bring the money. Come back when you're ready to
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1What other choice could you make? It's the S, and you are the S.
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2little face. My face, glasses and all. At first I thought I must have been dreaming, but then it spoke in a wet little voice, "Keep at it!" I pulled my tongue back into my mouth