Public Display of Affection

            “You seem surprised,” John said, putting an arm around Sandra.  “I told you I worked here, didn’t I?”

Guns, fatigues, and space cards

            “Wait,” Makoto said, his eyes wide with shock, “you mean you’re in your combat uniforms now?”

Poutine and B-negative

Everybody has had a bad day, often multiple bad days.  Some people have had miserable days.  But Julien could always take solace in his belief that he had already had the worst possible day.  Nothing he would face in the future would be as bad as that balmy Parisian evening where his head was chopped off.

Desert Truck

            “Shit, man,” Green Koopa Troopa groaned, squirming uncomfortably in the passenger seat of the eighteen-wheeler Red Koopa Troopa was driving.  “It’s too hot.  Where are the ice flowers?”

5, 15, 25

            “Put down the cat,” Anne screeched, clumsily flourishing her red cape.  “Amazing Anne is here to stop you, Mom!”

Kingdom Come

            Amanda DeSosa, unable to help herself, took a quick look around as she stood in front of the Victorian house at the corner of Sycamore and College.

First Day

            In Mark’s “bum years,” before he met Cassidy and she whipped him into shape, he had been something of an adrenaline junkie.