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The engagement ring had rolled unnoticed under the sofa.
The finger, on which it once rested, lay oozing in the ash tray.

His hand hesitated on the switch.
She had answered incorrectly again.
Her scream died.
It was one serious spelling bee.

I’ve been watching him for a while now. His laugh is mesmerising. Chuckles tumble easily from his lips when he grins. The first time I saw him it was quite by chance. Now I have to see him every day. I have to or my soul shrinks. Today he's wearing a sweet little combo. Cream cotton shirt and knee l...

The Mouse Olympics ended in tragedy today as an ill judged throw of the toffee hammer bludgeoned Stuart Little to death.

317 Doubleheader XIV by Christine Dennett
331 Night of the Cooters by Raoul Izzard
335 To Whatever by Mike Dominic
338 The Crevasse by Hannah Holloway
350 Trifecta XXX: Something Fishy by Bo Kaier

323 The Silence by Dr. Dad
335 Scripps Inter-dimensional by Inkhat
337 The Summoning by Phineas QP
340 Not From Around Here by Derek Manuel
344 The Forecast Calls for Death by Monsieur Moustache

321 The Goat Cutter by Jay Lake

335 To Whatever by Shaenon Garrity

339C Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won’t be Missed by Caroline M. Yoachim

340 On a Clear Day You Can See All the Way to Conspiracy by Desmond Warzel

Bsides 49 Trash by Daniel Setiawan

Here are my nominations but congrats to everyone who got picked! 323 author: inkhat At the end of the date they looked at her photos. “This is my favorite” she said. It was him, years ago. They were all of him. 330 author: Josh Peters They survived by living off the land. They raised chickens, grew ...

drewdidthis wrote:We found the secrets to eternal life. No more ageing, no more death. The only problem now is, we are running out of brains.

Nice one!

Everyone’s seen the footage right? That fireball scorching through the Russian sky a couple of years ago? It was called the Chelyabinsk meteor and the media went into overdrive about it. Soon though, it was old news and life there returned to normal. I was staying at Lake Chebarkul to the north when...

I linger restlessly in a pool of inky shadow by the entrance to the underpass, my shallow breaths forming anxious plumes in the bitter night air. My muscles jolt as adrenaline surges, electric with anticipation. The blade twitches wetly in my sweating palm, mirroring the dismal jaundice-glow of the ...

There it was again.
That infernal scratching!
I thought it was the rats in the walls.
Turned out to be Russell my hamster.

After several failed submissions my new book 'My Perpetually Exposed Penis' has finally been published.
It's out now.

Verity Goodchild skipped back to Fairy Dell with her apron splattered a vivid red.
So much for nominative determinism.

Poptart Mayhem wrote: wow i cant believe you got flack for this. i thought this was sooo funny! i love the ones that catch you totally off guard and it was executed perfectly

Thanks! It seems ages ago now... must get my twitfic head back on!

The_Hol-Man wrote:I look like a blimp since that teleporter accident with the sea cow. Wherever I go, people exclaim, "Oh, the humanatee!"

Still chortling as I type. Nice one!

Why would you have an investment company in your pocket?

Ni!

I started work as a morgue-technician back in July, mainly doing menial tasks like transferring the bodies of the recently departed from the wards to the cooler as discretely as possible. The nurses always performed the Last Offices, washing them down and packing any leaking orifices before wrapping...