Impossible Kisses

I can imagine the giant lizards walking across the glass that once had been Lake Michigan, sliding now and then, sometimes falling and heavi...

“All I ever wanted was just enough money so that I could do whatever I wanted to do and never listen to anybody about anything.”

Mildred built an atomic bomb from a can of corn, a banana peel and an old tube radio she found in the alley. The NSA confiscated the device ...

“Set sail?” I asked. “I thought at least you would stay the whole summer.” “We must leave here, now, to catch the favorable weather south.” ...

3. So I learned to make shirts. By hand or with a sewing machine. I met Lisa’s parents. And her brother. And some of their friends. And I go...

1. The kings and queens of the ancient seas set sail among us still. I knew one. I did. I loved her and her kingdom. I still do. I live diff...

“Jesus H. Christ. When I was a boy every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a swordfisherman.” Quint, “ Jaws ” Go forth, without the ...

There might be something more important than figure drawing in comicbook artwork, but we sure don’t know what it is! Everything is based on ...

Nate and Jason grabbed Ashley’s arms. Shelby and Jayjay tried to pulled up the sweater. Ashley fought against everyone, all the while shriek...

Shelby and Jayjay giggled just at the thought of Ashley breaking pose to tell a joke. Jason nodded behind his camera. “That’s good, Shelby, ...

It was a scene that only could have existed in the high fashion world. Three nearly naked supermodels were helping each other adjust their d...

… So, that’s why we’ve come to the end of fashion. Today, a designer’s creativity expresses itself more than ever in the marketing rather th...

… I conclude that a population of moderate-sized, piscivorous aquatic animals is inhabiting Loch Ness. These animals are moderate in size re...

(From the point of view of goblin studies, the so-called Opium Wars from the nineteenth century were pretty damn interesting. Over the years...

Several years ago two graduate students and I submitted a paper to a scientific journal. The paper described an experiment in which we had u...

As we go from simple to more complicated aspects of mentality, we enter vaguer and vaguer territory, where the terms we use become more diff...

Susan complains that all the good men are always turning out to be married, gay or Illuminati homunculi.

The other way of making a Frankenstein’s monster involves just as much work but of a different nature from robbing graves, stitching togethe...

At the Oak Lawn public library where Jamie works there are big rooms and small rooms, doorways, windows and ghosts. Where Jamie works from t...

Glen “What did you do to your arm?” Nancy “I burned it in English class.” Wes Craven, from “ A Nightmare On Elm Street ” Punitive ghosts lik...