2 Poly Travails Have you ever run into your partner's primary partner unexpectedly? How about on the same day that your beloved but rakish lover rolls into down, down and out because of his partner's sudden attack of the crazy? Would you maneuver them into getting brunch together? Would they hit it off? (Complete, no resolution)

1 Alien Courtship A teenage romance goes messily wrong all over a spaceport.

1 Don't joke during the holocaust During an air raid, a man on drugs displays his unfortunate sense of humor.

1 David defeats the dragon This is a short fantasy scene in which a hero defeats a monster and wins the girl. It's also the result of a class assignment where we were told to write "genre fiction" and I chose fantasy and used the most cliche formula I could think of.

1 Eating real food In the future, there might be a pseudo-religious edict against eating food created by replicators.

He wandered off I wrote this as a small exercise for my university's creative writing class.

2 Brown! A poem about the interesting characteristics of surety.

1The p'Til Scholar Discusses Money Suppose that you could actually grow your own money? But aliens always make things complicated.

Winter Renaissance I miss my RenFaire.

Godcoffee Irreverent speculation on what could make God not give up and take a nap as entropy winds the universe to a close.