Four adults, two children, and six badgers dragged themselves out of two cars. Reed made two observations and an executive decision. There were three too many badgers and the entire glass wall at the front of the building was gone. Not broken, shattered, crushed, or maimed: vaporized. The glassless frame... Read more →

“…and I'm wasted, and I can't find my way home” The Cosmic Postman stood ankle deep in the Sea of Despair and took stock. It hardly seemed reasonable; all this pain held hostage in one small room. He very much wished to make his last delivery to someone still among... Read more →

The boy in checkered pants circled the long table with both arms out, like an airplane. His tongue stuck out at the corner of his mouth because his joy was too much to contain. His mother was afraid he’d trip and bite it off; his father was more concerned about... Read more →

If you've read all the way from Mayhem to the Coda, you already know who's in this family portrait, all five of them. If not, it's a nice family portrait and I have no idea who those people are but it evokes something very different than the family portraits at... Read more →