The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.
The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this concept into English is like translating fuckface into Nipponese, but it might translate into emotional intensity in football lingo...
The businessman turns out to have a lot of zanshin. Translating this conceptinto English is like translating fuckface into Nipponese, but it mighttranslate into emotional intensity in football lingo....
The business is a simple one. Hiro gets information. It may be gossip,videotape, audiotape, a fragment of a computer disk, a xerox of a document. Itcan even be a joke based on the latest highly public...
The automatic waffle machine emitted a piercing electronic beep, signaling it wanted to be turned over. Seamus reached out and flipped it. The Four were standing at the complimentary breakfast bar of...
The answer is, I chose to seek my fortune. Failed. Lost all. Then got a fortune I had not ever looked for. Lost it though. Got it back. Lost it. Got another - the story is somewhat repetitious.
The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what Victoria was to monarchs, Dickens to novelists, Burton...
The Sumerians wrote on everything.When they built a building, they would write in cuneiform on every brick. Whenthe buildings fell down, these bricks would remain, scattered across the desert.In the K...
The Pudgelys and the Pinkhearts and the Roundasses are all staring at her, slackjawed. She has just enough residual energy to swing into their driveway. Her momentum carries her to the top. She stops...
The Police Minister’s toilet chided him
The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible ways of getti...
The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that pow...
That quieted her down a little bit. But after a while, she said: Do you need transportation? Tools? Stuff? Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, I said. We have a protractor.
That merely glimpsing three good wooden boxes on a baggage-wain could lead to such broodings made Daniel wonder that he could get out of bed in the morning. Once, he had feared that old age would brin...
THE QUILL SWIRLED and lunged over the page in a slow but relentless three-steps-forward, two-steps-back sort of process, and finally came to a full stop in a tiny pool of its own ink. Then Louis Phély...
THE IRIS OF THE EYE WAS TOO BIG TO HAVE BEEN FABRICATED AS A single rigid object. It had been built, beginning about nine hundred years ago, out of links that had been joined together into a chain; th...
THE APOSTOLIC CAFÉ had expanded its offerings to include Euclid’s Grill—casual buffet by day, fine dining by night, served in the former nave.
Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice, grumbled Newton.
Sorry, baby. Let's get out of here, he says, speaking with the intense, strained tones of a man with an erection.
Some of them, out of habit, looked at him soberly; etiquette dictated that you give all sympathy to the oppressed.