November 20, 2014
Gloria Stuart, pictured here in a script conference with Boris Karloff, before agreeing to act the part of elderly Rose in James Cameron’s film, Titanic, insisted on: a. being allowed to bring a brace of ptarmigans onto the set. b. showing Cameron her collection of glass eyes. c. payment in uranium. d. 2 weeks paid […]
November 19, 2014
Write a story about Davy Crockett including the following words: lance France dance pants ants toboggan
November 18, 2014
The last student trickled away, leaving the hoofed fiend alone in its classroom. So that’s it then, thought the hoofed fiend. It’s over. Retirement. I’d almost like to go back and do it all again. But no, I suppose it’s time to burn my torch in other fields. It looked around the classroom one final […]
November 17, 2014
The night is pierced by a shaft of light rising from the barren landscape of the moon. You suit up and leave the ship to investigate. Trudging over a rise, you arrive at the perfect circular hole in the ground from which the beam of light towers away into the black sky. Moving closer, you […]
November 16, 2014
‘If you don’t go to school, how will you ever become a fence post?’
November 15, 2014
A pair of fluffy tree cubs stick close to Mom for protection from the storm.
November 14, 2014
She wrote tilt reminders in tiny letters on her left wrist.
November 13, 2014
Unity Blake, tragic orphan in the excellent silent melodrama Stella Maris, was: a. ,among other things, run over by a toboggan. b. constantly having to remind herself which way to tilt. c. hid between scenes behind a giant vat of grapes. d. wept when given a gumdrop by Mary Pickford.
November 12, 2014
when posing as a perfume bottle the aztec princess quakiatl wondered if she’d been that sage pursuing life upon the stage
November 11, 2014
He is not afraid, or much aware, of the menaces of empire but he keeps looking behind him as he walks along darkening streets out of the fear that he is being softly followed by little men padding along in single file, about a foot and a half high, large-eyed, and whiskered.