A blond bought four pregnancy tests. They all came out positive. Now she’s crying in the bathroom. She wants to know how she’s going to feed all four kids.

He stood, unattended in the overgrown, weed infested flower bed of the vacant house across the street. How this garden gnome came to the high desert, no one knows. Nor is it known why he was left abandoned. After this early morning’s snowfall, I found him standing at my doorstep, too frozen to ask to…

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He stepped onto his front porch when he heard a ‘whooshing’sound and felt a ‘thump.’ This was followed by the reverberations of massive, wet thuds on the asphalt in the street before his home. Yet, Mike could see absolutely nothing in the street. Then he was struck by a putrefied odor than nearly caused him…

“I hate that bitch,” she growled as she glared at her through darkened-eyes, “And I hate the way she ignores me, looking right through me without a single indication she recognizes me. And how dare she laugh, walk, play and keep my family and friends company while I’m consigned to her shadow.”

My high school was so small that we held drivers education and sex education in the same car.

jus’ a moment in time no beginning, no end not one to back down so damn angry at me arms across breasts hands balled in fists a real stand-up Angel wings spread in back bags packed up front my last memory of us

It had been a terribly old and rusted padlock. Many of the plants employees said it looked like it came from a treasure chest. Those same employees shook their heads  when the maintenance man cut the antique from the locker’s hasp. Later, they would scream as an unknown thing dragged one of them into the…

It is a nightmare the young Marine could not awaken from as he lay in the hospital bed. Once, he believed the Sandman meant sleepiness, but the Iraqi desert taught him different. All he can do now is lay between the clean, white sheets, body broken, legs missing, and wait for his return to take…

H/T to Pati G. for the idea… Mama promised to pass her ring to me, but it disappeared the day she was murdered. Police said it was taken as a trophy, so I never thought I’d see it again. Imagine my shocked on my wedding day, when I recognized the ring he’d slipped it on…