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"Joe glanced at his watch: Not even noon and it had started already! He wondered if he could take any more of this."
by GS
Hangovers are not usually a problem for Joe Sixpack. He can put away gallons of watery American beer and barely register on the sheriff's breathalyzer test. So waking to the sound of jackhammers in his head was very unexpected. Joe stumbled into the bathroom and eliminated several gallons, mostly into the bowl, but wtih the usual splashing that infuriated his wife. The jackhammers subsided a bit as he attacked his coffee, but he knew this was not his usual morning after. What had they snuck into his mug at the bar? Clearly he had ingested something with his Coors Lite that made a difference. Once he got outside the glanced at his watch: Not even noon and it had started already! He wondered if he could take any more of this. Halloween was supposed to be fun for everyone, but he never expected the local hoodlums to trap a cat in his pumpkin! Who was responsible for this sadistic act? Then Joe began to remember more about the night before, how he had come home to a yowling cat on his doorstep, and his drunken reaction. He had stuffed that cat in the pumpkin! Maybe it was time to stop drinking, he postulated. He knew he couldn't take any more of this!
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"The doctors had to be wrong."
by AD
A man stood beside me as I woke up in a strange building. I was strapped into a bed with a blanket covering my lower half. I looked to the left and saw my friend lying dead, his nose bleeding. What happened to us? Last thing I remember was that we were at a huge party in Losieana Madigraw, that explains his bloody nose. That skirt chasing fool had seen how the girls dressed. No wonder his nose is bleeding so bad. I looked at the man and asked where am I. I saw desert all around me. You are in a mental prison in New Mexico. Your friend there died of blood loss and overintoxication. Poor fello. And you my friend have sliced off your mid section when you jumped off a building. Now you are officially a jack ass. The doctor had to be wrong. I flipped the covers off and true enough, I had the lower body of a donkey. Everyone here is mad. He said I don't have a medical degree so how is your health insurance?
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"Deep in the Iron Pentacle, the red-hot Iron energy flows upward."
by CC
Deep in the Iron Pentacle, the red-hot iron energy flows upwards. Edgar knew this well, but still he went into the strange forest on a new moon. He could feel the iron pentacle deep in the earth. Its vibration shimmered up through the lether soles of his boots. The energy would flow faster soon so there was no time to waste. Wandering through the trees in the dark, he soon arrived at the center of the woods, where stood the little card table he had set up at the full moon, when the pentacle slept. On the table sat the glass of collected dew. He quickly drank the few sips, then slid the glass into his pocket. It was done. Now he had to get out, fast. As he headed back through the trees he could hear the pounding start. He picked up his pace. The ground began to shake and before he could find his balance, the trees all suddenly shifted to the north. Edgar fell over a moving trunk and scrambled to his feet. He was almost out, but the polarity shift had done something to him. He felt strange, unlike himself. When he emerged onto the street at last, he knelt in the road and watched the stars spin overhead. Soon he felt better. Dawn approached. He turned towards home.
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"These days, I am attempting to live more in balance."
by PV
Being a library cat is not the easiest. I know, libraries are dens of quiet - truly the cat's meow with plenty of snoozing time to allow those frisky and fractious mice to come out from the shadows of our brains to cavor in gleeful, insulting abandon until they unknowingly awaken us feline giants - and pow! It's mouse au gratin on a paw, slapping this sneaky squeak into the next life, leaving me to gleefully crunch his bones. Nice, huh, and sloped-back books do present such easy literary recliners. These days, I am attemping to live more in balance.
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