Lot
Every travel guide forgets one important thing: America is held together by parking lots.
Not roads. Not laws. Not hope. Parking lots.
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Clam Up
The platter was completely empty. Great Auntie Alma and I stared at the remaining oil spots, my dreams of a peaceful pre-Thanksgiving dinner draining down the garbage disposal.
“They’re all gone?” Great Auntie Alma asked incredulously. “We haven’t even had
Operation Candy Corn
Dead leaves crunched under Charlie’s weathered boots as he shuffled through the woods. His fourteen-inch hobgoblin frame, yellowish and twiggy, blended in with the October colors of the forest around him. Half his face was shrouded by a patched scarf.
A few more minutes and he’d have the goods.
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The Bean Counter
The prophecy crystal had never been wrong.
Every thousand years, it identified the legendary hero who stood against darkness. Kings trusted it. Priests revered it. The kingdom planned everything around it. So, when the crystal flashed bright gold and projected
Truth, Justice, and One Way to Skin a Cat
I’m Frank Pepitone, from the Preternatural Hero Force, Accountability department. Everyone that works for us has superpowers of some kind, but not everyone who has superpowers works for us. The higher ups consider this an inconvenient truth. I consider it about twenty thousand
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Whirlpool of Destiny
The Whirlpool of Destiny. The ancient scrolls promised that I, Prince Quenton, would find freedom in its magical depths. Instead, as soon as I touched the water’s surface, I emerged through a flash of green light in a room smaller than a servant’s bedchamber.
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A Love Stronger Than Garlic
What’s a vampire to do when he falls head-over-heels for a girl from a garlic farm?
Brace himself to attend a home-cooked Italian dinner at her family’s, of course.
“We’ve got five minutes. Are you sure you want to go through with this, Vlad?” Sarah’s fingers tap the steering wheel in time with the car’s left blinker.
Yankee Doodle Stick ‘Em Up!
I’ve always been a people person. But back on July 4, 1976, I became a “We the people” person. The entire country, but especially Philadelphia, had been filled with Bicentennial fever for months, and it reached its peak that day.
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Big Dreams for Big Feet
Tom cradled the ruined camcorder in his hands. His research had suggested this secluded corner of North Cascades National Park would be the ideal location to capture footage of a real-life sasquatch. But now his dreams of finding one had been crushed to dust. Just like
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Earth Museum
“Don’t. Touch. Anything.”
Jerp twisted his head toward the voice and pulled his appendage away from the marble statue depicting one of the weirdest creatures he’d ever seen. Two legs and only one tiny tentacle between them? Humans were strange.
All six of his mom’s eyes stayed
Persephone’s Revenge
“You dragged me here against my will and tried tricking me into eating broccoli so I’ll be stuck here forever?” I asked. “Who is going to be seduced by vegetables?”
Hades dropped the broccoli onto the gritty cavern floor. “Your beauty bewitches me and dulls my senses.”
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Playing With Fire
I’m Frank Pepitone, from the Superhero Accountability Department. SAD is a subdepartment of the Preternatural Hero Force. If you find out you have superpowers one day, don’t hesitate to keep it to yourself.
The world needs more superhumans who mind their own business.
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