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Many thanks!

You, sir, are very kind. Especially given that it's a riff on a truly horrible pun.

The teapot nearly leapt off the table as the theropod shifted a taloned foot. Igor winced. "See," the Doctor explained, "episone integration alters the chorda tympani and --" The theropod's other foot crashed onto the lab's damp cobbles. The teapot jumped again. "-- then comes the operant conditioni...

Thank you!

Thanks! A xaninos is a variation on the old changeling myth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xana

Two a.m., tinny screech over the baby monitor. Jim fairly ran into Robbie's room. The three-year-old lay twined in sheets, snoring. "Jim?" his wife's voice crackled over the speaker. "Robbie's fine." Jim weaved into the living room, yawning. Then frowned. A chill curled around his ankles, front jalo...

"All things come to those who wait," Zeke's father liked to say. It didn't work that way for Zeke. No Ivy League degree, corner office, pearl-wearing wife. He got community college, a Domino's delivery route, sitcom marathons. Then suddenly, the world ended. The cuevavirus moved so fast it never got...

Thanks, guys. Haven't drabbled in a while. I miss it.

Tim Pratt is awesome, but I can't claim him as inspiration on this one. We did a beach photo shoot with my kiddos last week and ending up with this strangely haunting shot of my two-year-old by herself staring at the waves. Thus, this.

Sweat soaked Lee's shirt. The camera's chatter kept time with his wife's urgings to " smile , Tommy." Family photos at the beach in July. Gracie's voice piped from water's edge. "It's cool, Dada." Lee went to her, patted her perspiring head. "Sweetie, it's scorching." She stared out with a toddler's...

Thanks, guys! My wife gave me the eye when she read it and said, "DId you write this because of me?" I promised her not. Really. Honestly. Truthfully.

XD

Lorna was touching up her makeup before work when the Abomiglob shot a slimy proboscis from her toilet bowl. She hurled a toothbrush at it. "Stop it! I said that jump scares aren't scary ." A face formed on the extrusion's surface. "I've used them for a millennium." "Boooooring. I saw The Exorcist w...

Sir, I aim to please (https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... dget&hl=en).

Yup! For all your joke-telling needs (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rimshot ... 09424?mt=8).

Alas, they're just so screechy ...

Davis had never seen a woman eat like Samantha, tearing through double helpings while opining about horror movies. There wouldn't be another date on his dime. "Old standards aren't scary," she said, touching his hand. "Zombies take brains -- after you're dead." Davis toyed with tasteless tiramisu. "...

In its enclosure, the beagle munched kibble. "Explain it," Black Suit said, taking the coffee from Myron without looking at him. He sipped it. "Nanoparticles are already used in industrial food production. Weaponized, they could induce an embolism, stroke or something nastier." Myron thumbed the rem...

Poetry! And (*rimshot*) nice ending.

Dinnertime. The toddler was on a roll. The Things Between the Walls listened. “Apple juice is made of apples. Salsa is made of tomatoes. Monsters are made of squash .” Grinsnarkle snorted. “Squash? Where’d he get that? I’m made of meat. Stretchy, stretchy meat.” i’m the echo of the winds between wor...

Sort of. The title is an allusion to a passage in Isaiah, and I saw somewhere that someone had used it for a zombie comic. (Can't seem to find it right now.) I got the idea to invert it, to tie it to the ressurection of the dead. I've been to a lot of funerals over the past few years and that last l...