Month: June 2013

Pangbort Thrange was born metaphor-blind. He always said what he meant and meant what he said. He’d once ended a relationship with a woman who’d said she was hungry enough to eat a horse. “I can’t condone cruelty to animals,” he’d said, and when she’d joking replied, “Oh, yes, I’m a monster,” he’d screamed and … Read more

Morgan Sandwich had wanted a pair of Roadrunner sneakers since he was 10 years old, just like the pair he’d seen at Slatkin’s Shoes on Main Street. He knew a pair of these Roadrunner sneakers would make him run faster than any of the kids in school. Faster than a car, faster than anything! He … Read more

“Hello?” he called out. “Hello…? Hello…? Hello…?” came the echo. “I think I must be dreaming!” he said to himself, loudly, because he’d been yelling a lot of things in the past hour and it seemed like it really didn’t matter anymore. “Dreaming… dreaming… dreaming…” came the mindless reply. His memories of the last few … Read more