Tag: Comedy

The Deals

The Deal (No Deal) When Nixie hit the surface, it still felt as if her lungs were about to explode, but at the same time, she could fill the air rushing through her lungs, a sense of relief tempering her earlier panic. She could finally breathe again. Seeing the shore in her reach, she sawm…… Continue reading The Deals

The Day the Trekkies Trash the Train

“We should trash a train car.” Nathan jolted upright at his friend’s suggestion.  He and Hanna had been spending the day out and were having coffee at a local cafe when she just blurted out the bizarre suggestion.  “Where did that come from? “ “I was just thinking about Terry Pratchett,” Hanna explained, “You know,…… Continue reading The Day the Trekkies Trash the Train

In A Fantasy Word, Everything Is Trying to Eat You

We open on a dark, empty cavern, illuminated by a bright, white-sih blue eternal-looking light.  We can see a young woman creeping down the tunnel. We can see the young woman looks like, for lack of a better word, that she had gone through the ringer. She is barefoot, in a tattered powder-blue robe smeared…… Continue reading In A Fantasy Word, Everything Is Trying to Eat You

The Little Matchstick Girl And The Angry Mob

The story starts off very much like it’s been told. With a little girl, barefooted with tangled yellow- blonde hair, using the ratty apron to carry homemade matches, more matches in her hand, desperately trying to sell them in the fading light of the day, trudging through the cold as snow fell into her tangled…… Continue reading The Little Matchstick Girl And The Angry Mob

Humans Make Terrible Pets

It all began simply enough, a family of three sentient bears came home to find that while they were away, someone had taken advantage of the fact that they never thought to invest in a lock. “Somebody’s been eating my porridge.” The Papa Bear declared, looking down at bowel with a spoonful out of it.…… Continue reading Humans Make Terrible Pets