And now we read that your fabulously successful plastic explosives startup, FocalBoom, has just gone public. Congratulations! No doubt you are crazy busy these days, and our little charity has gotten buried in the pile. That’s okay—we can wait…
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Toys 'R US is the quintessential toy store. So much so that the “R US” name is symbiotic with the mission of the store. “R US” attached to “TOYS” indicates that the store is, as said in the Trumpian era, "very very big" in toys and only toys.
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I have a terrible sense of direction – I could get lost in a cubicle.
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Set smack in the middle of uptown, Town Square Park is the ideal place to come have a picnic with the family. Formerly the location of public executions, Town Square Park made national headlines in 2005 when Kid Rock performed here. It went down as the greatest concert ever performed in the history of...
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He squirmed like day being smothered by night. The sound slipped out again. He fidgeted. It doubled its volume. He coughed. His sphincter coughed back. It was a battle lost.
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One type of interesting book title is that which encapsulates a paradox. Some fine examples are The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera), All The Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr), and How to be Both (Ali Smith).
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As the news of this meeting of the two great undead authors spread, a crowd of thousands amassed on the vast green plain around them. The summer sun was scorching, and before long not a few of the onlookers had to be treated for heat stroke while enterprising merchants seized the opportunity to charge...
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“You know that saying that a camel is a horse designed by a committee? That’s us,” Kennelly said. “Camels are my favorite animals. I made sure we lassoed one.”
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Some seconds later, he heard steps that made the ground shake and he watched as from within the cave, a green creature the size of an elephant appeared. It had a snake head with horns, orange eyes, a tremendous maw and two large nostrils. It walked on four legs, had wings and a pointed...
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I live very close to my office. People think it’s because I love what I do, but it’s really due to the fact that I am always forgetting things at home and work.
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