October 2010
15 posts
The Ghost of the Gipper
The sound was a thwump-POP, like a giant pulling a lollipop from its mouth, and the sight that followed it: the Ghost of Ronald Reagan. The small room took on an eerie glow, as the light from the ghost reflected off of the metal door and white walls. The ceiling lamps, usually yellow and obnoxiously bright, seemed to have dimmed— Did I mention that this was inside of my office’s...
Remember That Scene: Horror Edition
Remember that scene in The Blob when the titular gelatinous mass makes its way downtown, glistening electric pink below the streetlights like radioactive cotton candy from a carnival in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, to the university and gobbles up the drunken frat boy hitting on a fire hydrant, the pack of squawking sorority sisters who just made the biology geek have a...
Suicide: “Frankie Teardrop”...
No, You're Snakes
The three came bursting out of the incubation chamber. As their heavy, thick-skinned bodies crushed the fallen cribs and Plexiglas, I thought of the monster truck rallies I was so fond of before science. These three were my latest creations, my children, my Bigfoot, Grave Digger and Equalizer. They had come out just as I had designed: powerful python bodies, able to coil and constrict large...
Know Your Snakes
We all know that snakes are slimy, have skin made of handbags and cowboy boots and can only be found on two continents (Antarctica and Britain), but most of us don’t know about the different types (or genres) of snakes and their individual talents. We hope that WaFB’s Field Guide to Earth Snakes (the follow-up to The New York Times Best Seller...
Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
Kim held her arm up high, feeling the leather jacket tighten around her shoulder, and dropped the spare key. There was a dull thwack followed by a muffled jingle as it bounced off a magazine on his desk and landed somewhere amongst the tangle of video game controller wires on the floor. He wasn’t here, as she had expected, but she could smell him, that vaguely wooden must, and almost see...
Anonymous asked: fool- settle an argument for me and my friend. who's the greatest jewish person? jesus or david lee roth??
