“I would take on the most barbaric monster in the land for you.” “I am the most barbaric monster in the land.” “I would raise the sun and pull the tides for you.” “Oh, come on, enough of that shit. You’re all talk and no action. You always say you’ll do things and then you never...

The day had finally arrived. She’d been stalking the mailbox for days, but the envelope, more of a package, really, was waiting for her exactly when she should have expected it. But she didn’t like to assume or expect anything. She went inside and tore it open, and pages and little booklets came spilling out onto...

She had no control over the pen. It kept writing and writing, white pages filled with ink. My plan was finally coming along, I had successfully built a robot that could write novels for me, and she didn’t even care that I used my name on the covers. How was she to know I took credit...

They were gliding along the water and trying to look away from the trash floating in the canals which were overflowing some banks with their dirty, murky water. Wasn’t this supposed to be the city of love and romance? Wasn’t this worthy of Harrison Ford saying “Ah, Venice,” over and over again? The water is rising...