You crawl up the dune on hands and knees. Your clothes are in tatters. Your heart hammers in your chest, and your breathing is labored, like a faltering steam engine trying to haul a hundred cars of coal against a furious shrieking wind. Why are you there? You don’t know. You don’t remember. You are […]
When broadcasting the news, John Cameron Swayze always: a. wore a coat, tie, and purple velvet knickers. b. carried a handkerchief with the word ‘ghoul’ written on it in blood. c. had 3 pencils arranged to form a triangle to his left on the desk. d. wept inwardly.
On cue, the streetlamps exploded, and the tiny reindeer emerged from the fake buffalo and fanned out to take their positions. The slim young man wearing boots with turnover tops nodded, and the secondary display unfurled, bats chittering down the wall of the stable and the insane monkey turning flips up and down the alley. […]
H. Rider Haggard’s nanny struck terror and obedience into the hearts of her young charges by snatching from a high shelf and brandishing a cruel doll known to all the children as: a. Mrs. Stab b. Deathly Singer, Bringer of Plague c. She Who Must Be Obeyed d. Alice No Throat
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 […]
In addition to her archery skills, it’s a little known fact that Katniss: a. was also a leading authority on the films of Mary Pickford. b. could recite the entire poem Hiawatha while hopping. c. hoarded pencils. d. had a favorite element, tungsten.
This work is what I would call ‘a good book’, not the Bible per se, but a book that never in fact arms itself and robs a convenience store. This book is exactly like a braided lamp sputtering an effusion of liquid sparkles which make an ordinary parlor seem like a dentist’s nightmare. This book […]
This skeletal triffid, standing in front of the triffid disguised as a pine tree, monitors the airwaves with its antenna twigs and sends reports to the invisible mother ship hovering somewhere in back of the moon. It told me that lately it’s been bored with nothing but weasels to report. It added not to get […]
During the filming of The Seventh Seal, Gunnar Bjornstrand and Max Von Sydow relaxed between scenes by: a. sharing knock knock jokes. b. downing flagon on flagon of ale and giggling. c. waging a Bibi Andersson impersonation contest judged by Bibi herself. d. thumb wrestling. e. doing all of the above.
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