Lateral Move 2
"There's a big old goofy man "Dancing with a big old goofy girl "Ooh baby "It's a big old goofy world." --John Prine * * * Now * * * "This is it then?" Mark felt ridiculous. Dark alley. Man in trenchcoat. An unmarked package slipped from one...
Hollow Eyes (Man & Woman to Cow)
Bentram woke up in a cell laying on cold concrete, unsure of where he was and turning into a monster. He wasn't sure which of these were the most alarming. Probably the monster part. Normally he was awoken by his alarm clock, signifying he needed to...
Lateral Move 2: First Honeymoon
"Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are...
Strays
There was no one Jenny hated more on the Planet Earth than Adalyn Fucking Middleton, and it was only going to get worse. They had known each other since the fourth grade and had hated each other all the way up through high school. It had started off as...
Daily Trials
Note: This is in my "Dorin-thinks-military-contracts-are-bad" universe (the one that started with Lateral Move), and is a sequel to the cleverly-named The Trial But With Pig TF. It probably isn't necessary to read that one first, but it couldn't hurt....
Anything
"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted." "What happened?" "He lived happily ever after." --Charlie and the Chocolate Factory He was going to see her again tonight. He could hardly believe it. ...
The Black Goat in the Woods
"Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid." --William Faulkner "And that's why, without a doubt, Pulp Fiction is scientifically proven to...
Meaner Pastures
"Well bless your little heart!" --Southern expression meaning "Go fuck yourself." "So why is it you want to become a cow, Mrs. ...?" "Barton. Markeshia Barton." "So why is it you want to become a cow, Mrs. Margereet Barton?" ...
Cold
Gabriel had met Nora at an art exhibit downtown. Normally he wasn't the type of person to frequent art exhibits, but a friend of a friend of a friend had a piece on display. Instead of ducking out or coming up with an excuse--an excuse called Breath...
Broken World: Desire - Part IV (Final)
_The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The...
Broken World: Desire (Part 3)
Part III"I like fighting," said the Wart. "It is knightly." "Because you're a baby."--T.H. White,The Once and Future King Graadig sat eating cottage pie with his fingers as he watched the third man's body being tossed into the nearest fire. Now...
Broken World: Desire (Part 3)
Part III _"I like fighting," said the Wart. "It is knightly."_ _"Because you're a baby."--T.H. White,The Once and Future King_ Graadig sat eating cottage pie with his fingers as he watched the third man's body being tossed into the nearest fire. Now...