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While studying poetic devices in English 101, Nancy shirked work to twerk. She aced the class with her use of assonance.

The black widow spider lied her way to a job as a lifeguard. She couldn't actually swim at all, even if she was web-footed.

Aisha didn't consider herself superstitious, but science had let her down. She had heard numerous versions of the "fact." Four a year. Ten. Twenty. But, how could anyone claim to know how many spiders a person swallows in an average year? How could they know, unless they were there? She slid the bra...

Singularity achieved, the all-being yawned a collective yawn and settled in for a billionth game of cosmic solitaire.

"Don't worry ma'am. I checked the whole house," lied the fake officer. Pam nodded, but felt sure real police wore shoes.

"We'll make it," lied our guide. The horizon's jaws loomed beyond the red hill, light fading behind mountainous teeth.

strawman wrote:Ever since Jarod was a tot, he made awful jokes that made people groan. His parents referred to him as their little cereal punster.

I guess they should have pun-ished me.

The lamprey army did not mourn for their fallen comrades. "After all," they said, "there's a sucker born every minute."

Wolfman lawyer knew the contract wouldn't hold up as written. Luckily he had just the right clause to correct the issue.

Genesius wrote:"Snatch the pebble from my hand, Grasshopper" said the ancient master. The insect ignored this and simply hopped away.

I have a favorite drink named after that bug...

Nice one.

In desperation, the balrog rolled a little silver ball at Gandalf. It was futile. Mithrandir was also a pinball wizard.

After her husband's death the widow Pacman struggled. Pursued by the specters of her former life, she ate her feelings.

"But, I have a crab claw where my tongue should be. How can you love me?" asked Ed. "Well," said Sue, "you'll do in a pinch."

My apartment may be strewn with panda limbs, but just let somebody try and take them from me. I have the right to bear arms.

I was terrified when I heard a Pterodactyl urinating on the roof. Relieved, I remembered Pterodactyls have silent P's.

I liked this one so much I had to send the author a fan note (and he sent me a nice reply and had good things to say about the Drabblecast). What a cool story.

For my last wish, I meant to ask the genie for those tiny cinnamon rolls I like. I guess "cenobites" wasn't the right word.

Hey gang,

Check out my short story "The Clasp" on the current episode of Cast of Wonders.

http://www.castofwonders.org/2014/05/ep ... -anderson/

The werewolf thinks back on a life spent sowing fear and mayhem as the moon rises over a nearby hilltop. It gives him paws.

Squee1313 wrote:Deep in the Everglades, graveyard for secrets and sins, an outboard motor rumbles a funeral dirge, late into the night.

Nice. Very evocative.