Anyone can become an agent of death. All it takes is time and dedication. You start, like so many pseudo-noirs and suspense stories do, by following people. Not professionally, not for personal reasons, you just randomly pick someone and tail them. If you get spotted, you stop. You move on. Start over. Try again. And again. And again. As you get ( Read more... )

He wasn't even doing anything when he was hit with a black funk. Sure, he was surfing the web at two in the morning, but that hardly seems like something that should be responsible for a black funk. Still, he had been hit with it, and did the prudent thing for that moment... he went to bed ( Read more... )

When the heroes arrived, it had been too late. The magician had completed the spell, and was immortal. The heroes attacked the magician, stabbing, slicing, clubbing, all to no effect. For all their blows, the magician would not die ( Read more... )

Here, let me give you this analogy: once you've started injecting heroin straight into your eyeball, a strong cup of coffee just isn't going to seem to have the same kick. I just think that by hitting such... extremes... you're losing the ability to appreciate simpler pleasures.

"Nobody expects Halloween... in MARCH! MWA HA Ha ha ha ha ( Read more... )

"May the Devil pass you over ( Read more... )

Have you ever noticed how no one seems to whistle on TV? No! Of course not! You never notice what's not there, and you ESPECIALLY don't notice what was slowly phased out! You can always remember that they whistled ONCE, SOMEWHERE, and that's enough! You stop questioning! Having never even NOTICED this, it's no wonder that you haven't wondered WHY ( Read more... )

The magician offered, in addition to the usual assortment of linked ring tricks and sleight of hand, curses. Small curses, it should be stressed, tiny things really. No maimings or cripplings or disfigurements, certainly no deaths. No, the curses he cast ran along the lines of...

... whenever writing something, a person's pen would run dry or their ( Read more... )

The land was in dire trouble again, it's very survival threatened by a threat most fiendish, and so, the champion, the hero who had defeated so many evils in the past, was sought out and searched for ( Read more... )

"Just-! You-! Rrgh! G-! JESUS! You know what you are? The human equivalent of the -Wet Spot ( Read more... )