The confidence in his smile... that smile that pulled me in like ice cream melting down a cone. (Ann Howard Creel)
With the broken sob of a candy mugged infant, Brett rolled across the
bed into the recently vacated hollow - a depression created by the
recently departed Maria.
Gerald began - but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him
ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a
ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for
them "permanently" meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by
searing lava or suffocated by choking ash - to pee.
Danny, the little Grizzly cub, frolicked in the tall grass on this
sunny Spring morning, his mother keeping a watchful eye as she chewed
on a piece of a hiker they had encountered the day before.
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg
carburetors in his vintage Triumph Spitfire, highly functional yet
pleasingly formed, perched prominently on top of the intake manifold,
aching for experienced hands, the small knurled caps of the oil
dampeners begging to be inspected and adjusted as described in chapter
seven of the shop manual.
Racing through space at unimaginable speeds, Capt. Dimwell could only imagine how fast his spaceship was going.
When Detective Riggs was called to investigate the theft of a trainload
of Native American fish broth concentrate bound for market, he solved
the case almost immediately, being that the trail of clues led straight
to the trainmaster, who had both the locomotive and the Hopi tuna tea.
India, which hangs like a wet washcloth from the towel rack of Asia,
presented itself to Tex as he landed in Delhi (or was it Bombay?), as
if it mattered because Tex finally had an idea to make his mark and
fortune and that idea was a chain of steak houses to serve the millions
and he wondered, as he deplaned down the steep, shiny, steel steps,
why no one had thought of it before.
It was high noon in the jungles of South India when I began to
recognize that if we didn't find water for our emus soon, it wouldn't
be long before we would be traveling by foot; and with the guerilla
warriors fast on our heals, I was starting to regret my decision to use
poultry for transportation.
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be
celebrating his eleventy-first birthday, his children packed his bags
and drove him to Golden Pastures retirement complex just off Interstate
95.
Because of her mysterious ways I was fascinated with Dorothy and I
wondered if she would ever consider having a relationship with a lion,
but I have to admit that most of my attention was directed at her
little dog Toto because, after all, he was a source of meat protein and
I had had enough of those damn flying monkeys.
The children of Hamelin were led away by a pied piper (it's common
knowledge) to parts unknown; whither they went is now herein revealed,
however the precise location is cloaked in accordance with International
Fantasy Regulation IFR.02.3a governing site specifics as, for example,
in any Harry Potter story the locations are indeed identified, but
just you try and find them.
She walked toward him, her dress billowing in the wind -not a calm and
predictable billows like the sea, but more like the billowing of a
mildewed shower curtain in a cheap motel where one has to dance around
to avoid touching it while trying to rinse off soap.
The night resembled nothing so much as the nose of a giant Labrador in excellent health: cold, black, and wet.
After months of pent-up emotions like a caffeine-addict trying to kick
the habit, Cathy finally let the tears come, at first dripping
sporadically like an old clogged percolator, then increasing slowly
like a 10-cup coffeemaker with an automatic drip, and eventually
pouring out and noisily wailing like a cappuccino maker complete with
slurping froth.
The rising sun crawled over the ridge and slithered across the hot
barren terrain into every nook and cranny like grease on a Denny's
grill in the morning rush, but only until eleven o'clock when they
switch to the lunch menu.
Coincidentally, just as Rose hung out the third sheet out to dry, it
started to rain down in sheets and not the soft kind like a fine
400-count Egyptian cotton, but more harsh like a cheap poly blend but
even so, Rose didn't notice as she was three sheets to the wind.
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