What can I do to entertain you? I’ve tried dancing, but since you wouldn’t partner with me, that fell rather flat. You’re quite bad at chess… I mean, really! Did you have to steal my Queen? You just took her off the board and threw her out the window! I [...]

“Get off the step.”
Dillard just stared in that loose-jawed manner of his.
“Get off the step,” I firmly repeated myself. Dillard didn’t move so I stuck a fork up his nose and twanged it.
“Nowwww, that weren’t at all puh’lite, Sandy,” he gawped, tugging the fork out of his nostrils.
“Get… off… the step, Dillard. I’m [...]

Purloined from Some Go Softly:
I am from the darkest shadows of thought. I am the waking nightmare that haunts you in the periphery of your vision. I am the doubt, the worry, the insecurities that make your footsteps heavy.
I am from the nightmares you had as a child. I am [...]

Woke up this morning to the sound of the alarm boring into my skull. Trying to ignore it by putting my pillow over my head only gave my cat a higher perch upon which to settle himself. So, before Claudius’ weight had a chance to suffocate me, I moved him and the pillow [...]

Melinda had been removing the dirty laundry from her bedroom hamper early in the afternoon when the glittering object fell from the folds of Rodney’s work shirt. It was a broken fingernail. A very expensive one with an ungodly length of two inches and decorated with tiny specks of cubic zirconia. She [...]

They like to show up between 8 and 9pm. That’s just when the street becomes quiet and traffic along the paralell street, Godebrun Street, is half as busy. They don’t live in this area, but know they can get away with racing their evil little riceburners down the road. Once in awhile they just barely [...]