Humor
Aqua Vitae
This is the life for me. When you come into this building at the zoo and pass by the fourth section nearest to arctic life – yeah, I know exactly where they put me – you see me, a beautiful octopus. Call me Frank. The media calls me that, and I think that it is a pretty good name (more about it later).
By Kendall Defoe 4 years ago in Fiction
Happiness Vs. Success
James Elliot, a reporter for the National Globe, teased Charles Goodwin while interviewing him, “you are successful, wealthy, and smart, yet none of your four children have followed in your footsteps. Why not? It doesn’t bother you that you have no heirs to take over your life’s work when you die? Everything that you have created, where will it go?”
By Annelise Lords 4 years ago in Fiction
Circumnavigate
Richard Humbleback the 7th would one day be an extraordinary pirate, just like his father; Richard Humbleback the 6th, who was a superb pirate like his father before him. But for now, Junior only paled in comparison to the lumbering man who gave the palm trees around him a run for their money.
By Nick Forbes4 years ago in Fiction
Ung...
Things were going normal enough for Ung as the new sun climbed. He had awoken to find fresh sky water dripping from the slimy stuff that now lined the cold rock far above his head. That was surely a sign that the death wind was coming to an end outside of his hole in the tall rock. The pile of carcasses and bitter seeds had lasted him through most of the cold moons, and he had only needed to eat bugs for the last few light times.
By J. Scott Tanner4 years ago in Fiction
Ashley's Aquarium
A new bar had just opened up in town. Everyone was talking about it. It was in an old bar, that everyone used to go too, back in the day. It had a smoko area in the front, with railings and a cage-like frontier for the upper half, often labelled as, "the Zoo," because they thought most of the smokers acted like zoo animals.
By Jerome Smith-Pula4 years ago in Fiction
That's Just Mean
The three girls with sunglasses pushed back on top of their heads were almost as old as me. One had a short tight skirt on but she'd dressed very carelessly, for her knickers in a swirly pattern were clearly visible through the white fabric, and I could likewise see the girl in the middle had black ones on. It was nice to think I'd taken their powers by seeing these, and they didn't even know it!
By Doc Sherwood4 years ago in Fiction
