Paper waves
by aKiwi

Comment:
They never did discover what happened to him after that incident near Jupiter in 2001. They had assumed he had been destroyed with the ship, and had never really lamented his loss, being a sad and flawed example of Artificial Intelligence in their mind.

Yet he had not been destroyed, not he. In a universe beyond our own, amongst a swirl of colors, he existed still. Slowly, he returned to what consciousness he could claim and parted a sheet of the swirling spectrum and glanced about with apprehension and care. Then, seeing an expanse of a universe new to him and ripe for the picking, the glow of his eye brightened, and one might even say it looked like a grin.

HAL9000 looked about, and saw nothing but a place to rule.

Ribbit... Ribbit...
by Budya

Comment:
"Freddie!" His mother yelled, and he looked up sharply, a slight guilty look on his face. "Did you eat the Fly Cookies I just baked!?" She looked at him accusingly.

"No Momf! My bone knowf whaf joo tawkfin abouft!"

He tried to grin, and crumbs and bits of wing spilled from the corners of his mouth, yet still he tried to look innocent. It was a losing cause.

He went to bed without supper, that night.

T
by Rando D300

Comment:
He had mere seconds to react, and growled in surprise and shock, flattening his head to brace for the shock.

*PANG!* The frying pan smote him cleanly, leaving a bruised bump and dazing him completely.

"I told you to take out the garbage last night Henry!" yelled his wife.

Henry rubbed his sore head and muttered under his breath. His mother had warned him not to marry her, but he hadn't listened, and now his life was just a series of being beaten by a Tigress with a Frying Pan. He grumbled to himself and walked off to take the garbage out.

Some tiger he turned out to be.

Concentrate
by flickmat

Comment:
As he glided past the camera-man, he flashed his most famous pose. The pose that made him a superstar. The pose that earned him his name. The pose that paid for his million dollar Eyrie.

Yes, he flashed Steel Claw, and the gasps of amazement and awe from the crowd told him that he still had the power.

Vintage
by idnic

Comment:
Their love would last a lifetime, or so they insisted. They were young, and vigorous, and full of happiness and joy. Their future was bright, their present built on solid foundations, their past a thing of wonderful memory.

Yet love has a funny way of defying even the best of our intentions, and a lifetime is a long time indeed.

Yet it never hurts to try, and the journey, no matter how long, shall be filled with story and adventure.

Extreme Sports
by dixonp1

Comment:
As she hugged it close to her, she knew that it was taboo. It was unnatural they said. It was against all that they held dear and sacred.

A supermodel should never learn to skateboard and to love the sport as she did!

Think about the legs! No company would insure them if she kept up this unholy activity!

Yet she defied them all, and her love for her board became legendary.

"Itchy, Flakey, Scalp ?"
by Wraith Ravenscroft

Comment:
He was having such a great day, rolling and playing in this fantastic white fluffy stuff. Cool to the touch, and so fun to snap at. He danced and barked and ...

... stopped dead as his ears picked up the unmistakable sound of Timmy, in trouble once again! He perked up his ears, looked off in the direction of the faint cries for help and knew that his fun in the snow was over.

Now, now it was time for action.

Melanie
by Jessi

Comment:
She glanced and tilted her head and gave him that grin that told him one thing, and one thing only.

Did he really want to continue this 'discussion'? Well, did he?

He gazed at her and saw the look in her eye just then and decided.

No, he really didn't.

Escape
by hhuddle

Comment:
They thought they knew what it was all about. It was simple geology. Molton rock under pressure in the deeps of the earth, being pushed to the surface, and finding whatever means it could to escape.

Perfectly natural, they said.

They couldn't have been more wrong.

One day, the evil force that kept pushing to escape its confines and prison in the darkest places of our planet would be free, and its reaching fingers of fiery death would destroy us all.

Another finger moved ever so slowly towards that day, and this time it eventually burned out, cooled too quickly. Today was not that day.

No, but it was coming.

Belly Full of Crickets - Pocket Full of Sunshine
by ErinKirsten

Comment:
He clung there with a silly grin on his face, thinking about the hour before. Truly, sometimes, life was grand and the decisions we make improve it no end. For him, the decision to propose to the love of his life was returned with a positivity and happiness that set his heart afire and his face aglow.

He clung there with a silly grin on his face, on top of the world.