Bill The Parakeet
I recently began reading a book by an author I had heard of but whose work I was unfamiliar with. About 35 pages into the novel I stumbled upon a cluster of paragraphs which I found profoundly intriguing. In this part of the book, science fiction writer Kilgore Trout just received an invitation to speak [...]
Scream
I woke abruptly to strident shrills of terror bouncing back and forth like racquetball off the bare, cream colored walls of my room. Violent screams that must have already woken the whole neighborhood permeated my eardrums. My mind swam through its skull like a large domestic goldfish in a small bowl. Cold. Terrified. Alone. Earlier [...]