The Bad Seed
The Bad Seed It stood there in a dark, secluded part of the farm, towering over the other trees like a fat old vulture. To Apple Bloom, it looked more like a squash that had been left outside to decay through the winter rather than a tree. Its base...
Personality Cleavage
**Those Wild Black Ice Boys #3** **Personality Cleavage** "Here you go, hon." Jackie handed the deer with the Dead Kennedy's t-shirt and venomously pink pixie cut her expresso, watching steam rising up from it in little twitching ghost fingers....
Rhinestone Tombstone
**Those Wild Black Ice Boys #1** **Rhinestone Tombstone** Jackie wasn't so much an expert at Wizard's as he was a phenomenon. Watching the red fox standing at any of the arcade machines was a treat. Tonight, Jackie wore a dark purple headband to...
Slick Run, Ep. 4
**Slick Run** IV Egocide (We're A Happy Family) It was already noon; the sun around which Hex circumnavigated seemed to take on a cognizant quality, a near awareness that provoked thoughts of gargantuan cosmic entities whose merest notions were...
The Fuse to My Bomb
The Fuse to My Bomb I knew he was insane, even before my friends told me. Maybe that was what made me attracted to him, the fact that he was more twisted than a crazy-straw. We hopped over the fence and quickly crossed the park, as silent as a pair...
Wasted Years
**Wasted Years** "Hey, thanks again for letting me stay here for a bit." "Ah, don't worry about it, Terry. Mi casa, et cetera. And what the hell, man; an hour ago it was a 'day,' now it's a 'bit?' What constitutes a 'bit'?" "I really don't...
Final Trumpet
**Final Trumpet** Accidents happen. That much is true in life. Sometimes they happen with such frivolously economic frequency that one begins to doubt the nature of the world around them, if the world or some divine being has seen to denounce,...
Horizons
**Horizons** 1 Alex woke up painfully to the hot morning sun stabbing its blinding rays into his light brown eyes. He had been sleeping on his right side, which was numb and ached stiffly as he trounced up and down in the passenger seat. He sneered...
No Popcorn for the Movie
Not a Popcorn Movie I looked up at the marquis above the movie theater entrance, shuffling my feet nervously against the pavement. The evening was a cold one, though it hadn't snowed in a couple weeks now, and in the sky, the sun had fallen below the...
Slick Run, Ep. 1
**Slick Run** I Men Fox rolled onto his back, his heavy breathing filling the room, sweatsoaked sheets beneath him rapidly absorbing his heat. A pair of black boxers still clung to his left ankle, refusing to defect his naked body. He ran his...
Gallows Hearts
**Those Wild Black Ice Boys #2** **Gallows Hearts** When Jackie woke up, he wondered if he had struck his head against the table. There was a flat throbbing at the side of his skull, his mouth seeming as though it was stuffed with cotton, and when...
May
**May** _The following statements are excerpts from the defendant's diary found in her home on June 5, 19_ **XX** _. On Judge Temperance's order, they have been made admissible as an exhibit in court._ _May 1, 19_ **XX** _:_ It's May again. Time...