The figure grinned as he approached, teeth gleaming as pearly white as an albino wrapped in toilet paper. They provided a sharp contrast against his attire, which was comprised of layer after layer of cloth that went dark on darker. He slowly meandered his way towards the stage.   With all of the commotion, explosions, […]

The young woman arose with a start.  She heard a loud crash, almost like an explosion, and woke up just in time to see a truly awesome display of light.  It shimmered, it shined, it took her breath away…  and then disappeared just as quickly as it came.   She looked around.  To her dismay, […]

  Frank wanted nothing more than to kneel down and catch the tattered rags of his respiration but with Django and Chavvy practically dragging him toward the Door Club, all he could do was gasp his disapproval at Rosie and know that it would do him no good. He couldn’t face Petra right now. Someone […]

Physicists can tell you that the removal of centripetal force upon an orbiting body (like say, a Manolo Blahnik stuffed into a hastily torn stocking) will cause that body to fly forward along a straight path with a force equal to the previously applied centripetal force. They cannot however, explain why a hurled stiletto always […]

It seemed to Frank as if he’d been stuck, petrified, crashing violently against the ink-black and thoroughly bruising confines of the trunk for an absolute age. In reality, the unnerving car journey had probably only lasted a matter of minutes, but then what was real anymore?   The car seemed to be slowing to a […]

The Randomville Fictionarium was conspired as a weekly fictional piece, based around a handful of characters and their interactions in the make-believe town of Randomville. We thought it would be fun to have different writers take the pen for each "chapter" of this story… and it became more fantastical and wonderful with each turn of […]

Elisabeth Squires, fondly know as “the bOOb lady” and author of bOObs: A Guide to Your Girls, is on a mission to help women appreciate their “bOObs,” but has met some unfortunate obstacles. The media, the same mediums that advertise women’s breasts in a sexual way, has made it clear on more than one occasion […]

One evening last December I was having a conversation with a friend about how we should go see James Brown, Willie Nelson and perhaps even Jerry Lee Lewis the next time they come around on tour. The reason was that they were getting up there in age and it was unlikely they would be touring […]

Each year Novelist, Journalist, and Writing Marathon Leader Chris Baty challenges the masses to write a novel in 30 days. Crazy? Absolutely. Impossible? Not at all. What stops most people from participating in something like NaNoWriMo is lack of a deadline. “Give someone an enormous task, a supportive community, and a friendly-yet-firm due date, and […]

I had been trying to figure out an interesting theme for my precious Pulp section for some time before staging a pirate invasion occurred to me. A conversation I had with Randomville writer Gary Price about jewel thieves was the launch point. Starting with thieves, the topic quickly shifted to pirates, and then from pirates […]