Down the Hill
“You wax the flyer? It’s all shiny.”
Humour
Blankets
“But we have to keep warm,” Jake pleaded as he dropped a pile of blankets on the couch.
Resolve
“Happy New Year!” yelled Bernie to the drunken debauchery that his buddy Vince’s party had become. Amy sang Auld Lang Syne in the same style Marilyn Monroe s...
Barbecue
Okay, Nicholas. Let’s start from the beginning, shall we? When did you begin to have these dark thoughts?
Backroom Elves
“Blinky, put that wrench down and get over here. I need a hand.”
Pull Over
“What seems to be the problem, Officer?”
Father Time Versus the Time Demons
“Wake up, you idiot.”
Scare Tactics
“Why don’t you try poking out your eyes?”
Trick or Treat
Moldy sugar and weevily flour, Some rancid butter at the Witching Hour. Wriggly worms, spiders and flies, Spooky cookies, a treater’s surprise.
Too Hot
Billie winced as she tiptoed across the sun-baked deck with two cold wobbly-pops in hand. “You look smokin’ hot, sweetheart,” I said, taking the beers with o...