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I might change up the order of the information a bit. Once you reveal that the studio that demanded changing "eat" to "meet," I think that tells the whole story, so you might want to save it for last somehow.

--Andy

Ha, I like it! Great payoff, and it definitely makes one wonder what she had turned to stone in the first place.

--Andy

It's been two days now. Apparently she died suddenly around midnight, in her sleep. Everyone's been as sympathetic as you'd expect, reminding me that she'd lived a good, long life. Going peacefully like that, without experiencing any pain or a gradual decline in her faculties, is what a good woman ...

"Wake up, sheeple!"

My genetically engineered sheep-human hybrids are my pride and joy... except for the narcolepsy.

SF fans hated when I named my food book "Thyme Travel," so I named my next one "Thyme and Pun-ishment." Here goes nothing!

Necronominom wrote:Seven thousand embryonic scorpions is seven thousand too many embryonic scorpions to appear in my prenatal sonogram.

Good one!

Sounds like a pretty crappy day.

Thanks! Hope to do it justice!

I like this one! Mind if I take a crack at it for the Dribblecast?

Great one, whereiswaltjnr!

A cautionary tale about tugging on a certain someone's cape:

They all made fun of the flying man's "handstands..." until he threatened to NOT to push Earth out of the asteroid's way.

I died 50 years ago and have haunted my killer ever since. I think that banana peel is finally starting to get the message.

We've got a lot of great drabbles to choose from! Here are my nominations:

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332
337
339
342

Good luck, everyone!

-Andy

The bright side of this category is that, if you don't remember the story very clearly, it's easy to reread and freshen your memory. It was really hard to narrow this down to five, but here are my nominations:

320
321
332
338
345

Really great twabbles, everyone!

-Andy

I've been a listener for a long time, but this is my first People's Choice Awards as a forum member! Very exciting. Here are my story noms: 313/314 Blue Celeb 321 The Goat Cutter 324 The Ball Room 331 Night of the Cooters Bsides 46 The Hodag Looking forward to seeing what makes it past this round! -...

I wonder if babies ever wake up in the middle of the night without crying. Probably not - I'm thirty and I never managed it.

PB&Jellyphish320 wrote:

The_Hol-Man wrote:I haven't heard "penis-breath" used as a callow insult since we learned the secret ingredient in those protein shakes.

--Andy

This made me snort laugh. Good one.

Thanks!

I haven't heard "penis-breath" used as a callow insult since we learned the secret ingredient in those protein shakes.

--Andy

We were caught off guard by the sailor man's suicide. I wish we'd listened when he told us that he couldn't stands no more. Yikes! And that tight noose really adds to the "Pop eye" effect. :twisted: Good one. Thanks! I was actually a little wary of posting this, and I especially made sure to avoid ...

Monday wrote:The last man to live stares longingly back over the stars, racing light itself for one last glimpse of his long lost love.

Wow, I like it! Real human emotion plus real science is always a winner in my book.

-Andy