On the Torment of Scylla and the Cruelty of Glowcow
_She stood there rooted to a rock, in her unutterable misery hating and destroying everything that came within her reach ..._ _--Edith Hamilton,_Mythology _Hasa Diga Eebowai_ _--Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Robert Lopez,_ The Book of Mormon Gods...
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?" ...
Creepy House
"Most horrible of all sights are the little unpainted wooden houses remote from travelled ways, usually squatted upon some damp, grassy slope or leaning against some gigantic outcropping of rock. Two hundred years and more they have leaned or squatted...
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 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...
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 II)
The Broken World: Desire (Part II) "_Home is the nicest word there is."_ _--Laura Ingalls Wilder_ Lura woke on the cold floor of her shack. The first thing she became aware of was the frantic pounding. The second was how very cold she felt, likely...
Lair of the Bat People
"_The bat that hangs upside down laughs at the topsy turvey world." - Anonymous_ "Okay, this is really cool but also incredibly stupid." Jake looked over his shoulder at his girlfriend of two years. "You know you didn't have to come on this little...
Broken World: Desire (Part I)
It had been four days since Lura buried her mother. The other villagers were nice enough about it. Lamyra had cried and told her she could come live with her family, which caused the young girl's own mother to shush her and quickly leave for home....
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...
Pox Party
"This isn't going to be anything weird, right?" Eric shifted uncomfortably from where he was perched atop the uncomfortable exam table. These things always hurt his back and his ass. Also, who exactly did they think they were fooling with the...