by Nils Erwin Length: About 6 pages I HAD MY FIRST BABY-SITTING JOB THE OTHER NIGHT. It was tough assignment, 3 kids – 24-hours. The parent was a family friend, Mandy, who seemed to have adopted the absurd notion that I was the man for the job, and moreover, that I should also be paid…
-Sci-Fi – 3 Pages – Package runner Alpha One-Six, nicknamed `Zeep’ to endear him to Joe Public and his slobbering troglodyte family, had only been distracted for four hundredths of a second. But in that time, he’d somehow managed to collide with a stationary object; unwittingly knocking out his GPS, comm-link, and access to the…
I awoke knowing the link had been severed. Tears stung my cheeks as I yanked the blankets off my body and stumbled out of bed, feeling sick and disoriented. By the time I made it to the bathroom sink in anticipation of throwing up my late night trip to Taco Bell, the feeling had thankfully…
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“You slimy sack of fish shit!” Deputy Ploggard slammed his hairy fist down onto the grey metal table which separated the two men. His hand landed with such force that it left a fist-shaped dent in the middle of the table. The noise which followed echoed off…
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By Bob SenitramBecause nonsense don’t make itself… If you’re wondering about the 25 year history of TheWeirdcrap.com and thinkin’ “If they started the same time as Google, shouldn’t that site be a muliti-billion dollar industry by now?” Seems like it, but we don’t got much smarts in the business sense, heck, we can barely afford…
The HR lady and I stopped our conversation to watch. The song was familiar, but it took me a few seconds to figure out what it was. In the meantime, Bob drooled and attempted to dance as his limbs clicked and clacked. Then it hit me. “Are you kidding me?” I asked quite loudly. The…
Part 1: The Flood By Bob SenitramBecause…aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is not much of a horror story but this is a true story. About a month ago we had what they call a 100 year rain. Nothing like what they experience on the coast, but it was pretty horrible for us. And “horrible” is almost “horror”. That’s…
By Tom Shay The ebb and flow of pedestrians made Sascha seasick. Schools of cars passed down the road, staring at the throng. No bird is as free as me, she mused. With ruddy hand she cleared her eyes. In the distance construction continued, but the creation only added to the dead weight pulling on…
Only on Jupiter by Ed Bread -Strange – 5 Pages – Mistakes happen. I left the heater on. It was my fault. I admit it. No one was hurt. At least I have that on my side. So, while the cops and judges and whoever sort the details, I’m forced to live out here in…
-Humor – 3 Pages – Ick Bollard had waited a long time for this. Longer than he could actually remember. And that was a long time. Ick didn’t know how long, because he’d forgotten how to tell the time, but he knew he’d waited a good while. Ages. Aeons maybe, even though he had no…
“The country needs you,” the guest implored, short of breath following his lengthy climb. “An entity such as yourself should have no problem bridging the gap between our two parties. Please, accept my offer.” “I am not the man for whom you search.” “Why so humble? We both know how perfect you’d be for the…
Blind Guardian—“A Twist in the Myth” MoTW—“Ghoulies 2” Doris kept yelling into her cell phone, the passengercontinued prodding the headless body, I continued crying and rockingwhile Spunky was bent over examining the decapitated head. “Yep, this is quite surely dead,” said the passenger poking the bodywith his foot one final time. “Oh, it’s horrible. HORRIBLE!”…
I can honestly say that HyperiCon was one of the greatest weekends of my life- and it was privelage to be there and be a part of it. It was also wonderful that my fifteen year old son came along. As an aspiring artist he was appropiately inspired- and given some sound advice by some…
Dear Bel, Could you come to Tampa and help me move out of my apartment? My roommate and I are tired of dealing with our psycho neighbors. – Emory Well, the other day I got two of my burly lesbian friends together and helped these two guys move their furniture out of their apartment. I…
Song in my head:“Shake that Laffy-Taffy,that Laffy-Taffy…”– D4L – I have to admit it, I didn’t even know what that guy was talking about until someone explained it to me. So, looks like Scooter Libby spilled the beans on good ol’ Dick Cheny. Don’t worry there’s more to come, I’m sure. Eventually Dick will spill…
I was just looking up “Soylent Green” to see if it had been invented yet and I found out that in this timeline they actually made a movie out of it starring Charlton Heston. Now if that doesn’t just beat all. No matter how much I think I may have gotten used to this time/space…
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