In many countries, a period of military service is mandatory. Young men and women are taken away, shown how to use weapons, taught hand-to-hand combat, educated in the ways of self-discipline and made to follow orders ( Read more... )

Cold tires and chicken wings. Dinosaurs and dice ( Read more... )

A tenth-dimensional hemigod will drive a human insane just from looking at it ( Read more... )

Beaten to death with a floorboard. It’s a guy thing. I wouldn’t even say that it was spur-of-the-moment. I wouldn’t even recognize the term. The charges were spun out of wool, the jury was deaf and mean, and three consecutive life sentences later, they still don’t know why I’m not dead ( Read more... )

He missed his horns ( Read more... )

Belhaven, reputedly the best safe maker in the world, was approached by a magician. The sorcerer asked him if it would be possible to construct a safe that would keep his spell book secured ( Read more... )

When I was sixteen, the demon laughed at my requests. Looking back, I don’t blame it ( Read more... )

The royalty payments killed us ( Read more... )

I’m tied up better that Bettie Page and struggling not to choke on my gag. I’m squirming around in the spacious red vinyl back seat of an old Chevy. It’s like I’m in a restaurant booth going 100mph down the ragged highway of bat country ( Read more... )

They were all there ( Read more... )