Once upon a time the loon, the loonette, and the loon princeling were driving up to Tuolumne Meadows in the high country of Yosemite National Park. The loon was at the wheel when a speeding vehicle roared up from behind, passed on the right, swerved back in front and shot off careening into the distance. […]
The wheels of the universe turned toward the singular wink in time when the swimming pool in Sylvia Proll’s backyard would be a portal into the 16th dimension. Sylvia jackknifed and entered the water at the critical wink. She certainly was surprised to find herself supervising bingo in one corner of a trade union hall […]
The man who scaled skyscrapers felt mighty low. He sighed and sank deeper into the embrace of the sofa. What was the use? Skyscrapers with scales were certainly scarce, it’s true. What was he supposed to do? Go to work in a fish market? As if. He scaled skyscrapers, not haddock. He stared at the […]
The alien life form suppressed for the moment its desire to bring the death ray into play. Yes, the lady in front of it had 17 items in her cart and this was supposedly the ‘express lane 15 items or fewer’. But no, to sabotage the entire mission over two little items would be beyond […]
Brave Elwin, The Thracian Iconoclast, hung from the battlements. Losing his grip, he fell to his death. All of his dominions, castles and fleets of trading card vessels passed to his brother, Cautious Reginald, The Thracian Hermit. Reginald, however, refused to emerge from his cave, and so the vast wealth was overseen and later plundered […]
Marsha descended the ruined stairs and disappeared through an invisible curtain into the Zone of Illusion. There she confronted her deepest fear, a disembodied body wearing the uniform of a Napoleonic mouse. Surviving this encounter with most of her limbs in tact, she hopped to the Mall of Illusion and thought she purchased a bucket […]
In an Old World manner, Bubbles Throckmorton emptied her revolver into the paisley pattern featured on the side of the despicable suitcase. Tilting her head back, she loosed a maniacal laugh, which serpentined out the window to disappear over the moor. Rand Stallbirk sprang into the room only to discover the slumped, weeping form of […]
Seeking a better life, the woodcutter frog and his wife captured a magic fish and went to Greenland. There they freed an alien life form from the clutches of a dancing robot and were rewarded with kind words and a prairie schooner filled with marmalade. Using the marmalade for good, not evil, they flew to […]
With tentacles dangling beneath wrinkled red globular heads, the aliens drifted downward through Earth’s atmosphere like tiny parachutes of menace. Gathering in force near Fresno, they attacked, emitting a pungent scent not unlike that of the most wretched porcupine you’ve ever encountered. The population swooned to death, and the aliens took Earth home with them, […]
The furtive lamprey, Bill Scroggins by name, slipped silently into the darkest reaches of his favorite coral cave. His large suctorial mouth dimpled into a grin. “They’ll never find me here,” said the self-satisfied lamprey. “Why don’t you shut up and get out of my face?” said a nearby crab, Devon Holloway. Bill Scroggins lashed […]
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5 of 5 stars to The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton goodreads.com/review/show/55…
