UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCE
As the potential lovers happened to be mutually absorbent, on touching, they disappeared.
As the potential lovers happened to be mutually absorbent, on touching, they disappeared.
Hawkins ate the last of the chutney, wiped the slobber from his chin, muscled into his heavy duty parka, and crawled out into the dismissive fury of the storm. Ice brackets slammed into his legs, torso, and head. Tongues of sleet licked mockingly at his slitted eyes. His ears were broken by the storm’s howling […]
He felt like a career mediocrity having a mildly productive week. He felt like he’d been skating on thin ice carrying an anvil. He felt like the world ignored him because it owed him four dollars. He felt like doom would be an improvement.
Superhero: We’ll take the flying buzz car. Stranger Being Rescued: What’s a flying buzz car? Superhero: A car that flies and buzzes. Stranger Being Rescued: Oh.
To make this versatile potion, good for invisibility or flight, you will need the following: 1 clarinet 1 steel flagon 3 seeds of any kind (doubt works well) a blue bowl filled half with water from a roaring cataract and half with empty 2 pinches and 1 poke of dirt Start by placing the clarinet […]
It your neighbor is pompous, but not overly pompous, refer to him as falutin instead of highfalutin.
Loon: This morning the lords of the 4th dimension have invited for the 3 question interview an entertainer of some note, I am told, from the vaudeville days in the early 20th century. His name is Al Jolson. Mr. Jolson, why were you famous? Jolson’s ghost: You ain’t heard nothin’ yet. Loon: I know. So […]
Diamond Jim Ledbetter spread the pat of butter carefully on the piece of marble rye toast. He then cut the toast in half neatly on the diagonal and arranged the newly created pair of triangular foodstuffs on the blue platter next to the perfect omelet. Whisking away a few stray crumbs with his serviette, he […]
‘Close the barn door, Maddie, they’re comin’ for the stump.’ (genre? amputee western) ‘Step aside if you don’t want to be clobbered by flying elephants.’ (genre? science fantasy) ‘I wouldn’t do that, pal, if you plan on auditing more tax evasion classes any time soon.’ (genre? wall street noir) ‘Be careful, Lance. The castle isn’t […]