I'm part fairy,' said John. There was a quiet pause, and he eyed the man. 'Is that a problem?' 'No, sir. The United States military is very accepting of that sort of thing nowadays.
Director Tom Stone is currently a potato farmer in Holbrook and could not be reached for comment. RECORDING
Archimedes was a mathematician, blurted Ethan from the back of the room. And he was Greek. And he invented things. Ethan was the sort of student who was always keeping score--if he couldn't be the fir...
You know that part in the story where the character thinks, I bet I didn’t really see a ghost after all. I bet it was just a sheet. Wearing chains. Floating through our pantry. Shrieking. I bet it was...
Wherefor are you knowing it? If you stacked all of the Gorg in the galaxy on top of eachother, the Gorg would kill you.
The sky looked really great when nearly the entire country was blacked out. Of course, now it looked dangerous, too. I wondered if it would ever be just the night sky again, and not a black sea, full...
Soon the Boov was in the ghost suit and Pig was in the car, which would be a good lyric for a bluegrass song, now that I think of it.
Sejal had not often thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club ki...
I’d drained our bank account, and there was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled DEAD SPIDERS. As if I hadn’t...
I've been punched by a vampire, an Indian girl, and a panda... I should be a video game.
I didn’t feel up to arguing about it, but I was pretty sure if you loved everything you didn’t really love anything.
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are...
The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th foll...
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I am rubber but you are blue. Whatevers you are saying bounces off of me and I do not remember the rest.
It smelled the way a garage would smell if you left a bear inside it for too long.
They were just people. They were too smart and too stupid to be anything else.
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