The Tree of (Mis)fortune is difficult to find, though people look for it to cast their wishes at it. Sometimes they stand and just ask in the dark, without knowing where the question goes. If what one wants come true at all, the price is always unintended results.
They told me my head would explode. I didn’t believe them. Until I heard the ticking. Since I was a kid, I could think about several things at once. I could be doing math, figuring out how to talk to the girl in front of me, and simultaneously imagining living in ancient Egypt. Teachers would …
Can you pull up Leviathan with hooks or tie his tongue with ropes? Who dares open the doors of his mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth? Nothing on earth is his equal – a creature without fear… king over all the proud. Morning broke over the fog that settled on the graveyard of ships, a …
All three of them went at it, struggling without gaffs to hoist their haul across the gunwale and on board the Abysmal. They had caught a real, live man in the stormy seas off Sable Island. He was squirming like a man might when hauled from the brine, weak, half-drowned, but breathing, freezing, and displeased. …
Medusa had big hair – on purpose, of course. What would you do if a dozen of the nastiest snakes you ever saw were growing out of your head? You couldn’t just put on a wig. The only solution was do your hair up like that Married With Children lady – Peggy Bundy, and try …
Three heads aren’t enough. You need a great many heads for head soup. What they don’t tell you is that heads don’t have nearly as much meat as they seem. Once you shave them (the hair is no good) and take off the jewelry, and dispose of the skull – all but one of them, …
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