I have friends in many dark places.

I watched the movie for the one hundred and twenty-second time from beginning to end and fell in love with this movie all over again.

We stand in no kid’s land,

eye to eye,

while holding out our hands,

we shake and say our good-byes.

No fight. No war,

until tomo...

The demonic din of the freeway interrupted his thoughts so he rolled up his window and thought of open road.

Where do bubbles go after they've popped?

The black and white film flickers as I dream of an airport in the rain.

There was a hole in the ceiling that led to no where so I climbed up into it and disappeared. 

You're my soul reimagined into a crime fighting superhero. 

There was an urgency in her nerves whenever she was on the edge of something grand.

"I had a bad dream last night," I said to my friend. "I was in a room with a mountain of socks and none of them matched."

The tyrannosaurus rex mounted the rocket ship with only one thing in mind: get to the moon!

Before they became extinct, dinosaurs use to be astronauts, don't you know?

Leaning his head against the garden wall, he listened for any sounds, but all he heard was the breeze that carried the faint whisper of the flowers and trees. 

Realizing that I had been defeated, I said to my friend, "Best 6 out of 11?"

Wearing only a fez, vest, and a pair of pants, the man danced to the jingle of a music box for money. He didn't like the taste of his own medicine.

When he was around her, he talked in circles, always ending where he began.

One vulture said to the other, "Do you want the left eye ball or the right?"

The birds that use to live in my lungs have flown south for the winter so now I can't speak.

Let's shuffle our vinyl records like playing cards.

Having always stared up at it through the waters all her life, the mermaid couldn't help but fall in love with the sky.

Excuse me while I put on my adventure face.

They made moonrises for people like us.

Please stay on the line for the rest of your life.

Please stay tuned for more while we put you on hold.

Let's share our scar stories with each other.

Let me name the moons for you.

Blind since birth, she had never seen the stars. But when she pictured them in her mind, she'd describe them as fireworks.

Children grow up and turn into adults, but not me!

Do monster kids grow up dreaming of us?

The mother cow said to her calf, "there's no use crying over spilled grass."

At a dinner party, one penguin said to another, "you look positively dashing, old chap."

I read the newspaper today and realized the world wasn't just in back and white.

I think our definitions of super are very different.

I regret to inform you that our opinions differ. Please accept this basket of stale bread, fruit cake, and a hand knitted oversized vomit-green sweater with a cat on it. 

Ants see giants all the time. 

She's not afraid of the dark, but she's afraid of everything else.

The mermaid fell in love with the sky. One day, the sky fell.

There are obvious advantages to sleeping beside you. 

The squirrl squirreled the acorn away,

to save it for some rainy day.

I watched as the clouds parted. Then the sky swallowed me up. 

I was never one to rest on my laurel. 

She had always loved diamonds, but she loved the pearl of his face the most. 

Johnny was a likeable boy, but he had scorpion venom in his blood. 

Nowadays, the only emails and packages I get are a result of online shopping. 

He'd burnt his tongue on her searing kisses so many times, he couldn't taste anything anymore. 

I wish I had a typewriter that made everything come true. 

Is that an earthquake or my heart beating too hard? 

I laugh at my dad's baldness. He laughs at the fact that it's hereditary. Stalemate. 

Her cheeks turned a pink color that reminded him of the dying light of day.

The old woman was unable to overcome what was bred in her bones.

The old dog was unable to overcome what was bred in his bones.

I love all her shades: each shade of happiness, each of sadness, and everything in between. 

Beware of books you'll never be able to put down!

I take comfort in the fact that I don't need comforts. 

You said birds are departed souls, so I waited and waited and waited for you to fly back home.

Just a slight edit from my previous tiny story. I thoug...

Iridescent, incandescent and as bright as a star, she always shone through the darkness. 

At the end of the book, the main character had fallen in love with the reader. 

Every night, stars blast holes in the sky. 

He knew the access code to my heart. 

Would you believe that the mountains are actually monsters? 

I want you, on top of waffles.

I jumped off and the wind cradled me down in her arms.

We're not friends anymore. Sorry I always made you wear the sidekick costume.

"Will you please be my brave face?" I whispered.