The slow night watch at la Porte de Montmartre was interrupted by a man in a cape and broad, white-plumed hat ... and a nose for mystery.
Eric watched as almost a dozen boys around the campfire jumped up and down, cheering and whooping and waving their hands in the air.
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...
A rope from the junkyard becomes treasure at the foot of my backyard.
Thursdays, like clockwork, Mother would clean the shop. Mira often watched as her mother took unwound springs and bent gears out into the alley ...
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.
he never admits it, but he hates the name theodorus.
hates the way it tumbles out of lips to
stick in all the wrong places
“The elephants will come back someday.” Gramps chewed on a stick as he stared at the far horizon. The terraformers were hard at work replacing the reddish-purple lumps of native vegetation with the gray-green of earthly sagebrush and...