As she stood there in the kitchen doorway, staring into the yard at Uncle Ralph’s truck, Wendy felt devastated. She did not want to lose her piano. Just as with her mother’s leaving, she felt there was nothing she could do to stop it from happening.
Maia got her mom a new body for Christmas that year. Her mother's old body was just that: old. She was eroding, melting like a snowwoman in March.
When Mom came home, she handed me a piece of paper. It had a picture of a small dog with the word LOST on the top. “A customer at the store told me she lost her dog, and she’s offering one thousand dollars to anyone who finds him,” Mom said. “We...
“Hey Everybirdy, Everybirdy look at me!”
said the biggest, loudest birdy in the Evergreen Tree.
“I’ve got a lot to say, a lot of worms to eat,
and I’ll tell you more about it in my very next tweet”.
Whatever you do, never teach the pets Kung Fu.
Empty, a shell washes onto the shore.
One creature glimpses it, then a few more.
Rose had a way of getting things wrong, and that’s why nobody ever asked her to do anything. She didn’t mean to. Things always just seemed to work out wrong for her. When she was asked to make tea, she nearly flooded the kitchen. When she was sent...
Slap,
don’t scratch it
when stung with
the magic
Behind the Center for Robotic Studies, defunct models of robots and androids littered the ground. Just beyond that was a forest ...
Its garish mask, its terrorizing teeth, its eyes that speak deceitful lies.