It was the role of a lifetime, Academy Award nominations for sure. All she needed to do was lose 30 pounds, film the apocalypse scenes, gain 40 pounds of pure muscle for the semi-nude fight scenes, learn

Wow. Just….wow. A few months before it seemed like Bitcoin was headed past the moon, out of the solar system, beyond the galaxy…okay enough with the space metaphors, you get it. And then it all went to

“I miss you. I'm sorry…” It was a beautiful sentiment. But the words never left her lips. They wanted to, but it had been too long. Where would she even begin after so many years of absence and wondering?

Measure twice, cut once. That was the rule and a very good rule too. It made sense for tailors, carpenters, surgeons, just about anyone whose job required precision in actions that can't be reversed. Alisha

She gathered the longest parts of her gorgeous white dress in her hands and ran right back up the aisle she had just walked down. She had accepted the proposal but was not ready to marry a man old enough

Her agent/roommate smiled broadly as he approached, but it was his please don't be mad, we need the money smile, so she was immediately wary. “Kyle, what did you do?” He laughed his nervous laugh and tried

“Hey, doesn't Princess Valoria look a little bit like me...?”

The Earth billionaire faced a dilemma. His home planet was quite habitable but there were laws and governments in place already. Venus was a raging inferno. Mars was a frozen, rusty wasteland. Nowhere

Such an ordinary house. Maybe the white paint on the exterior walls was peeling off in places and the roof looked like it leaked during any precipitation harder than a drizzle. But nothing about the place

Theodore had little in common with his contemporaries. He was meant for another time and had known this since boyhood. But what is a man to do when trapped in an era so ill-suited to his hopes, dreams

The old woman sat at her sewing table with an excited look on her face. She yelled for granddaughter, “Julia! Come here, child!” As the youngest daughter of her youngest daughter, they were a lifetime

The frog sweetly asked for a kiss with claims of princehood and an unfair curse. Feeling generous, she pressed her lips to his wet cheek. A huge cloud of magic dust appeared and when it cleared, in place

“Honey, doesn't this sound like that other song?” he began. “What song?” she asked. “That country song about infidelity.” She squinted at him in silence for a few seconds then said, “Yeah, I'm going to

Very rarely have I ever had a plan fail so spectacularly as the one I attempted tonight. And it all looked so promising.

If you're reading this, my child, that means that I am dead. I hope it was a good death, whatever that means. My possessions are few. I would like to leave you the sofa you're sitting on right now. It's

“Somebody help!!” She screamed far too close to his ear. He flinched but said gently, “It's okay. Just a scratch. Nothing critical.” She stared at him with an incredulous look in her eyes as if he'd just

In her mind lived a list of past lovers ranked from most to least likely to one day end up on the news, accused and guilty of something truly heinous. The least likely, the one that got away, was a pickpocket

The Secret Garden had its own secret menu, one that the authorities had never managed to fully decode. Just as Donna Aella wished. But following a recent near miss with law enforcement, the lady had taken

He grabbed his knee, tears streaming down his face. And he prayed, loudly, that the pain would subside and one day he might walk again. In between petitions to God, he moaned pitifully but it was all for