Seventies Television

an indoor chicken coop a tiny red and black grasshopper a miniature white-dotted brown frog

“I gotta go man,” I projected from the dark mahogany appointed dining room, so that my student could hear me from the kitchen. He was no lon...

I’m previewing a demo build of a game by a four-person team; one of them is controlling the movement of the camera over mountainous terrain....

Crossing a street, I look back to see a tall Chinese girl lose her black wig. I run to retrieve it, and turn around to return it but she’s g...

Straight 90 right Curved 180 right Curved 180 right Straight bridge Straight 90 left Straight 90 left Straight 90 left Curved 180 left In a ...

At our first pool party without her, everyone is served marshmallow fluff danishes.

Unless you’re driving vehicles through them, carved stone archways would serve no functional gameplay purpose in a videogame.

Birthday party Videogames Occult summoning ritual

The idle-incremental videogame player, upon accumulating enough currency offline to afford an extremely rare item, logged back into the game...

Completing a series of game prototypes unlocks a final game challenge.

The windshield, both front windows, and half of the roof over the front seats was torn away.

J designs a commercial system for the 35-story, 804,000 square foot Sail Tower in downtown Austin. He rents a studio from Northshore apartme...

We should have trained archers. We three make our last stand in the abandoned city. Against mechanized, wall-removing, leaping machines, we ...

Power loss

We run a natural history museum display open to the public. We asked our new assistant to setup folding chairs in the sand.

A mural (this was a mistake) of Silly Putty photo transfers looks like a pencil drawing. A Spanish-speaking abuela gives me $16 for the artw...

Players debate the value of League of Legends Baron buff when paired with Lemonheads.

Cresting a hill, standing on the trunk of a brown Mustang Fastback with black racing stripes, riding it like a Lime scooter, steering by gra...

Hanging out. In this corner of the station. Late at night. Expecting no one. Children hurry through. While their mother's back is turned...

“Stephen!”

At the end of the checkout line, collecting groceries in bags, I feel something on my face. Like walking through a single spiderweb strand, ...

At the same place At the same time Same night of the week With the same people And the same drinks And the same smells And the same music Lo...

I’m walking to the laundromat after work, carrying a black burlap Primal Rage duffle bag of dirty clothes. One of the details in the previou...

It’s an underground parking garage; or course it can fill completely with sewage.

Winter still Winter chill Covered in bright Covered in white c ross-cut shredded paper

Keeping your eyes closed while receiving a shipment of contraband does not confer this benefit.

Here’s a line of capital ‘M’s pretending to be a miniature mountain range: MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

While standing on the patient’s bed and watching TV, the musician stumbled backwards and fell backwards, crushing an acoustic guitar.

I’m the general contractor for an amusement park, slow-walking the scheduling of new projects as I slow-walk though the park.

There’s a rumbling outside and in my stomach; pr obably from the undercooked potatoes in the curry.

Matt P plunged the barrel of his sniper rifle into the olive green pool, and stirred.

Escorting children off the school bus at the Natural History museum,  Steve finds a roll of pennies. Opening the roll, he finds a 1944 cent ...

The Electronic Expo revives in the old Towne East mall in Wichita, Kansas. Each former commercial store is a cavernous showroom dedicated to...

Mom’s solar-powered multitool walking stick is color-coded: RED: 3’ telescoping steel spear ORANGE: 7” serrated steel jackknife YELLOW: spar...

Spray painting IRL. Taking a nap. Spray painting in my dreams.

Pearlescent, iridescent, translucent, strawberry scratch n’ sniff, rose gold Rolex.

Carpooling in to the office. We plan to leave at 5:45pm. Breakfast smoothies are all gone but there are chocolate crullers. I have one with ...

I wake up 15 minutes before my 6:45am alarm goes off. Ride the bus to an empty beach parking lot but TD isn’t there. Instead we meet them, Z...

Whenever a song from the 80's plays on the radio, I get a feeling of a forgotten memory. Maybe it's something to do with a familiar ...

I lassoed a  Dark Red Hereford in Activision’s Stampede, and fixed a saddle on its back. I mounted and rode the calf, leaping out of the CRT...

Eggs and sausage fry in oil in a concrete basin. I pass by several times (with shoes and bare feet) through the food court, and up and down ...

Pinned down. No ammo. Enemies repositioning. Daring attack. Surprise victory. Weapon acquired. Flanking maneuver. Rocket launcher. Building ...

Armies of Gray and Brick Red ceramic tiles clash in a war to win a construction bid.

"It's gonna take an hour at least to build each of the three configurations you want, and longer to test each one."

Playing with the reduced effects of gravity at the university’s new science research center construction site. Leaping and soaring high abov...

Carved into the foot of a mountain, this restaurant features 999 varieties of fried rice including: chicken fried rice, beef fried rice, por...

Thousands of makeshift jumbo toilet paper poppers adorn the ceilings of a three story townhouse with furniture packed into every room.

At the indoor community pool, a bucket of hard boiled eggs is dumped into the water. AH grabs one and eats it while, with the shell on, whil...

Some remember today as the day in 1806 when Bavaria declared itself a sovereign nation. But I will remember it as the day my brother and I r...

At Mr. S’s free annual “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” monster truck themed art gallery, several contestants are turned away for being too...

Thought sand feeling smash together. Nextdoor, the Netflix Airlines travel agency closes early. Swinging Venetian blinds indicate an open wi...

I forgot I left my laptop and backpack in an outdoor patio of a BBQ restaurant. When I returned, everything had been neatly returned to my b...

Missing a semicolon Nightmare Business trip to Europe  Seedy dark downtown Unfamiliar Coworker bros Delieriant pills Social gatherings in a ...

It starts off as a basketball / dodge ball tournament with 8 teams of seemingly 100 players each. I moved over to Team F with the Alpha Phi ...

Nobody can tell me the location of this elevator. Staff and I look at a map while teenagers roughhouse across a counter.

It’s really a small office with a bed in the back corner. Two other passengers fall asleep before the flight. I flip on the light to read an...

tiny scorpion snips the tympanic membrane while you are sleeping

wasps stealing WiFi don't kid yourself that they don't change your passwords now

silent cicada even the loudest insect quieted by death

a sneaking gecko hears a squeaky hinge and the crunch of flattened bones

Play a round of Plane Around! Circle high above the ground! Every lap: a happy sound! Play a round of Plane Around! Best new game that ...

Piano in the bathroom Fridge on the porch This is the week We get new floors We’ll be going to a restaurant That's got drive thru ...

If you want to be transported into a World of Pure Imagination, please play Wonka's World of Candy with the sound ON - even better with ...

Riding in the Celica with no driver; figure I should move into driver seat. A high speed crash at a T-intersection on my right th...