J.M. Becker. "Prozac and Bee Stings."

Every day when Darby takes his Prozac, a bumblebee flies out of nowhere and stings his right eyebrow.

Ace Boggess. "Thanks, Dad."

Edgar only saw his eight-year-old son every other weekend. He thought that if he didn't make each visit special, young Marshall might believe his dear old dad deserted him. So Edgar tried to help the boy do everything imaginable and imagine everything not quite doable.    

Pete Butler. "The Big Picture."

As much as I hated my neighbor's cat, I did not mean for that to happen.

J. R. Carson. "Bloody Yank ."

"To hell with all of you, then!" I slurred, stumbling out of the pub. That was the third place I'd been kicked out of that night.  

"We saved your asses in dubya dubya two!"

Ross Eldridge. "The Nature of Love Revealed."

"When you are round boys, you should sit with your legs crossed so they don't see what you got."

Elizabeth Foreman. "Judge Me Not, or Judge Me...Sexily."

Examining the past of one's own art is not just important; nay, I say it should be required by the Norse gods! For how can we as writers grow if we cannot joyfully laugh at our past prose exploits? How I ask you? HOW?!

Michael Jarrette-Kenny. "The Day of the Revolution."

The revolution will not be satirized. All those who would attempt such an act will be considered reactionary and will be satirized themselves. Those who satirize satirists who have satirized reactionary satirists will themselves be judged reactionary and satirized appropriately.

Rob Rosen. "Small Worlds."

“Name?”

“Lashondra.”

Mary Trafford. "Adverbs."

It is beyond coincidence that Andre Dubus can bring out a collection of stories called Raven's Croft and John Ravenscroft publishes his Dubious Collected Stories, ON THE SAME DAY, and both are printed on paper, both have words of mostly more than one syllable, both have the page numbers in the bottom right hand corner of the page.

Tammy Walters. "Now They Call Me Donjon."

Flesh does bruise, she told me. That's what the arnica gel is for. Two applications, three at the most-everything as good as new. As long as the skin isn't broken, she added.