Rare Bits

So, I had this whole elaborate drawing and write-up planned for my post this week, and it’s sooooo not happening. Next week, I promise. However, in an act of contrition for you, gentle reader, my autopilot kicked in at about midnight last night — powered by guilt and kool-aid — and I sketched up a [...]

Senator Patrick Leahy seethed with a primal fury. His skin, white hot with the pain of sudden birth gripped his creator’s throat with two gnarled hands. His master gasped helplessly, wriggling within Leahy’s iron hold with ever fading surges.
And then he stopped. Under Leahy’s thumbs the pulse- only moments ago a frantically pounding drumbeat- was [...]

He doesn’t think it has followed him. Sometimes, when the gasses in the cathode tubes flicker, the light does sometimes come perilously close to that terrible shade. But not quite, he tells himself. Not quite.
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Archibald Lark was a brute of a man. Not particularly tall, mind you, nor particularly muscular, but there was [...]