Breathtaking!

“Breathtaking!” the strange man said. Then he fell to the asphalt, gasping, unable to breathe. He was the first she encountered. He died. She walked…


John51874

John51874 let the laser examine his iris. The clerk then gave him his groceries. Though groceries were still the old fashioned pork chops, apple…


Student Mentor/Executioner

Blanks was a town on a dry river. That’s where I lived until transferred to Noise. Once a year, at New Beginnings Day, I go back. My body models were…


The Medi-Quik Walk-In Clinic

I: The Man with a Bird in His Mouth The young man walked slowly down a Warner Park trail. A brown bird flew into his mouth. He, of course, choked. He…


His Robot Wife Files for Divorce

Zach received notice from an attorney that his wife, a robot, was suing for divorce. “This is the lowest point in my life,” he told his boss at work.…


The Statues

Joanne reached for the cereal on the shelf, and that is when the entire world changed. “Why are you just standing there?” her husband, Ray, asked.…


Haunted Porta-Potty

The crew broke for lunch and ate their sandwiches on the lawn of the cemetery construction site where they had just started work. Earl had to pee,…


Severed Head in a Toilet

Ed found a severed head in his toilet. It was bobbing in the water where he wanted to pee.  From the looks of the head, it had been cut off long…


Exit Evaluator

Marco. Let’s start with a name. Since there were few Drapers, he/she/it can stand for the others. They are all in a pile now in Kansas. Marco was…


The Rock Shaped Like a Piano

One day, Tommy found a rock shaped like a piano. He was digging with a hand rake in the dirt of his garden. At first, the rock looked like a rock. It…