As far as I knew it was just an old man and his wife who lived in this house, but not really. I mean if you had seen what every person on that block had, you would have realized that many lived there, well many beings.

He just up and dropped dead one day, Charles said. Pretty tough on Karen, I opined. Charles looked the other way.

"But is it politically correct?" he asked. "Oh, yes," said Hank. "It's all the rage."

I am confused by your new paper-doll look, btw. Could you please look regular again by Thursday?

I offer you a peanut butter sandwich full of unconditional love and you say I'm being controlling, so I let you eat cake, eat cake.

I sit there reading a magazine while the woman clips my claws. From time to time I watch Kim’s face.

One day I was sucking down the HG French Vanilla, and the next day my body plugged itself into some universal energy grid. Like some unseen force had snuck into my body and somehow a biological experiment had gone terribly wrong. The unintended result was

The catchy tune and cloying lyrics/ nonetheless etch their patterns

Sitting in the SUV awaiting the trooper behind us I felt a warning tingle.

I never took more than a few pills at a time, just enough for a treat on Friday night.

They live a simple life..two solitudes by lamplight.

I reached for that hair and the air zagged white...

"The sheriff's mother-in-law made the smoothest 'shine in the county."

she lays there wrapped in his baseball sheets

"Nice one, sir," the toilet said.