"Have whatever you like," my mother smiled, as I ordered four scoops of ice cream from the kindly vendor on the beach who didn't even charge us.
The girl entered the pastry shop looking like death warmed up. She could only have been 18, 19, something like that, but she looked wrecked.
I took my wife to watch the sunset again, and with her gloved hand clasped in mine, asked, "Will you marry me?"
"He scares me," my youngest son whispered, staring at a red-faced three-year-old whose brown, rotted teeth were like tiny fangs.
"I love you boys," our friend Si wept, so we - his four best mates since school - assumed he'd drunk too much and put him to bed.
Up close, the mermaid was as big as a walrus and just as foul-smelling, her silvery legs flecked with sand and bits of seashell, her black eyes salty with tears.
"I'm, late..." the girl had grimaced a fortnight earlier, holding her stomach lightly even though she knew they couldn't keep it.
What are people’s thoughts on assorted crisis events issue 1?
The obstetrician's patient looked very pale still, but the morning sickness pills seemed to be having a positive effect, they just needed to get her anxiety under control.
"The carpet in the bedroom is damp, and didn't the ad say it was furnished?" the woman quizzed, lifting the reddened corner of a clear plastic sheet.
"So your kids...they've never once fought, never once argued?" I asked incredulously.
"Dad, the shower's gone cold?!" I shouted, reaching for the tattered old towel.
TWITCHERS
"I just...can't go on..." I told the few hundred viewers of my suicide livestream, my voice crackling with emotion and exhaustion.
I had just decided to only use my powers for good when this entitled, rich-looking man barged through the little old lady in front of me in the supermarket queue.
"You promised you'd forgive me if I made a big mistake..." my girlfriend stated as she showed me the lye and a bonesaw
DEALER
[MAR25] "Seriously, I bought some magic beans from this mysterious old guy at the market - try one!"
I laughed when the psychic healer said that she could heal my womb, but that I would pay a price in blood.
PREPPERS
A true prepper would do anything to keep their family safe
"Did my mom always hate me in every universe?" I asked an omniscient god.
The Exorcism at Santa Maria
"It looks nice," my sister and I agreed as our mum nervously checked her new pixie cut in the mirror.
"You don't need make-up," my boyfriend smiled innocently, "you're beautiful enough as it is."
