"You can't believe you've been fooling anyone." "No. Of course not." "Then why do you act like it?" "My foolishness. My inexactitude. My inability to say one decent thing about or to another person unless..." "Say it." "You say it. I pay a hundred for fifty five minutes of your time each week." "Rates going up next month." "Big shock." "What do you s...
I think I have an addiction. At this point, I don't think there is much use in denying it. Denial has never solved anything. Not once in human history. Not since the dawn of man. My name is Samuel. Also known as Big Sam, mostly to my friends, classmates and family. A big and tall young black man of Haitian descent living in the city of Boston. I recently gra...
Count Dracula laughed knowingly as he stood with his new young protege at the top of the driveway of 1746 Maple Pie Avenue, peering through the midnight darkness at the windows of the Gripshaw house. "Tonight we shall drink, and drink well!" the Prince of Darkness cackled in a thick Transylvanian accent (which was by no means easy for him, since he was actu...
Tim stood atop the Time-Warner Building, one more gargoyle on the Gotham skyline, his cape shifting and flowing with the night wind. He only ever took a little joy in looking like a badass—maybe a little more when he was with the Titans, and he dropped out of the ceiling with a plan and a good one-liner, and they all reacted with shock and awe. In Gotham, th...
Larry and Doris were still mostly asleep when they walked to their patio with their coffee. It was Friday morning and as usual their Thursday night had wiped them out. The all you can eat fried fish special was as popular as ever. As usual after they got home on Thursday night they had headed for their hot tub in the patio. Larry remembered they had found t...
Eighty degrees, a beautiful summer evening, and Mrs. Roberts is going to take a bath. She spent the day working up a sweat: hoeing, weeding, cutting the grass, clearing the junk from the garage, hauling the trash to the landfill, dusting, sweeping out the cobwebs. All to get dirty for the Bathtub. Everything was ready. Her kids, Laura and Bobby, were on the...
Raven caught her just in time as Bianca wavered and went limp, nearly slipping beneath the surface. She focused her gaze on him and blinked a couple of times, shaking her head to clear it. "Damn him. He does that every time. Because he is my maker, I have no defense against him." Raven wrapped her in his arms and pulled her to him. "Well, he does not have...
When she arrived at Nico's flat she was greeted by an open door and the smell of warm roast beef and freshly baked bread. She walked in to find Nico and people she later found out to be his tenants from this and several other buildings enjoying lunch during a tenants meeting. Nico acknowledged her and waved her into the hall where they were all seated around...
I want to tell you all about this dream I had. I need to tell someone, so I can hear it for myself, to see if I sound as crazy as I think I do. Because this dream, it scared the shit out of me. There wasn't anything special about that night, or the whole day for that matter. Work during the day, dinner and a couple beers in front of the tv at night. After...
We saw each other at the same time when I deplaned. I didn't get to sneak a peek first, but neither did you. You're even sexier than I imagined. Your glance has lived through a thousand lifetimes, easy. You've lived secrets I've dreamed. Maybe you think those sly dimples of yours conceal the bad boy in you, but I've been around too, and I know better. Still...