December 23rd~
The Hopping Elf is the biggest factory in all of the North Pole and it’s in full swing. So are hammers, needles, scissors, saws, hot glue guns, and a great number of other sharp, heavy, jagged, hot, deathly tools.
To get through our busy day treating patients with unpleasant procedures and servings of spiked nog (an elf’s best pain killer), I coined a song the nurses and I can si...
It’s hard to be inconspicuous
when you’re hanging upside down,
And the propelling gear from Temu
Has twisted round and round
It’s hard to steal a priceless painting
When lasers block your path
And the anti-laser suit you bought
Would barely fit your cat
It’s hard to be a fine art thief
In this ai generation
For there never was a better thief
Than ai impersonation
It’s hard to write this p...
The park is getting dark
And the dusk is rather cold
A fog is creeping in
And the shadows become bold
The giggle of a hiding child
The growl of a stalking beast
A snap and rustle in woods nearby
— will I be its feast?
I think back to the early morn,
When I took this shady dare
To chase the ghost in Holy Park
with her mane of fiery hair
A flash between the trees,
The tail of a flowing flame
My ...
Melanie Mint was in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing at the right second: taking a photo — just as an accident occurred and just as I was there to save lives, incognito.
At least, I was supposed to be incognito.
But Invisibility Boy was, for certain inexplicable and supposed-to-be-improbable reasons, half visible that icy morning in that busy intersection. Half visible....
A full moon is an obnoxious thing,
much too bright for my feared kind.
I’ve nothing left those nights but to sing,
and use a tune to pass the time.
I begin with some taps,
a scratch, and a pat—
just one foot, my left foot,
deep in the back.
My right talons then start,
with a melodious rap.
Rap-rap-tap!
Scratch-pat-scratch!
Tap-tap-rap!
Pat-scratch-pat!
Oh what fun! I hum and chuckle,
but t...
Popper Bob kilt mor people than all the poxes togethr. A hard an’ angry man as ther ever wuz, havin pride n’ fire. An’ thick, fat fists like slegehamers. They done swung like it too.
I visitd him only once at th’ county jail. Only once in his lifetime sennance.
An’ time did no fixin of Popper Bob.
Forty yars an’ Popper Bob wuz still crazy.
“Well, Popper,” I said to him. “Are ya a new man n...
Entry 146
2055.06.12
Merrick Burdearro
NASA Astronaut
Occupy Moon Mission
With the Darkside Station complete and fully operating, we voted to set up one of the many recreational activities we prepared for before leaving Earth.
The winning event was a bungee jumping platform on the northern edge of a canyon, a short distance west from the station. The canyon runs vertically; its shallowest end ...
The king is a monkey
The queen is a bear
The prince is an elephant
Balancing on a chair
The princesses are big cats
Of which there are two
Jumping in tandem
Through a flaming hoop
The jester is the ringmaster
And he calls my name
To present me to these fools
one and the same
I stand in the limelight
A thousand eyes on me
Somehow I’ll blunder through
— in a moment I’ll be free
I curtsy first ...
Eighteen years of life and ten summers of the hunt were enough to teach Demiric, son of the chief, that the stag before him was a rare trophy indeed.
The majestic creature weaved between a web of low slung branches and thick patches of morning-bright fog. It looked his way, then stilled like stone.
Dem notched an arrow, muscles taut and aim ready, and a breath later let it fly. The shaft cut s...
It must be infuriating for Cupid to reach such a humiliating point in his career.
No matter how many arrows dripping with love he shoots, none of his couples stay together. He increased the strength of the dose countless times. He hit his targets with a spray of arrows all at once. Still, the lovers split.
Today, he means to find out why.
Cupid tucks his fluffy plumage into the confines of a b...
