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- Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:02 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: "Tea-rannosaurus Rex"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1581
Re: "Tea-rannosaurus Rex"
Many thanks!
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 1:22 am
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: "Tea-rannosaurus Rex"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1581
Re: "Tea-rannosaurus Rex"
You, sir, are very kind. Especially given that it's a riff on a truly horrible pun.
- Thu Jan 22, 2015 10:39 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: "Tea-rannosaurus Rex"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1581
"Tea-rannosaurus Rex"
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...
Re: Xaninos
Thank you!
Xaninos
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...
- Mon Aug 25, 2014 9:03 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: All Things Come
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1412
All Things Come
"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...
- Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:57 am
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: Ripples, Receding
- Replies: 3
- Views: 940
Re: Ripples, Receding
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.
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.
- Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:55 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: Ripples, Receding
- Replies: 3
- Views: 940
Ripples, Receding
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...
- Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:06 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: Jump Scare
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1135
Re: Jump Scare
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.
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XD
- Wed Dec 11, 2013 7:17 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: Jump Scare
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1135
Jump Scare
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...
Re: Ghūl
Sir, I aim to please (https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... dget&hl=en).
Re: Ghūl
Yup! For all your joke-telling needs (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rimshot ... 09424?mt=8).
Re: Ghūl
Alas, they're just so screechy ...
Ghūl
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. "...
- Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:52 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: Weaponization
- Replies: 3
- Views: 565
Weaponization
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...
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:17 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: Answered Prayer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 555
Re: Answered Prayer
Poetry! And (*rimshot*) nice ending.
- Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:13 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: The Things Between the Walls
- Replies: 0
- Views: 598
The Things Between the Walls
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...
- Sun Nov 04, 2012 9:57 pm
- Forum: Drabbles
- Topic: And the Earth Shall Cast Out Its Dead
- Replies: 2
- Views: 716
Re: And the Earth Shall Cast Out Its Dead
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...