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A father shares with his family what he learned from Santa's visit the night before.

This is the cute, short poem, "Antigonish" or "The Man Who Wasn't There", inspired by reports of the ghost of a man roaming the stairs of a haunted house in Antigonish, a town in Canada's Nova Scotia province.

Immediately following the death of her young son, distraught and heartbroken, a woman sends a heart-wrenching letter to the only man she has ever loved, chronicling their love affair, opening with, "To you, who have never known me."

A man, tiring of an astronomy lecture, takes a walk in the mystical night air to renew his sense of purpose.

A man reflects on one of his greatest passions. Like all of us, he has things he loves. But for him, one of his greatest loves is...the sea!

Who's on First? - On a team where the first baseman's named Who, the second baseman's named What, Idon'tKnow is on third, a woman finds it difficult to make her husband understand that the answer to his question, "Who's on first?" is Who. This work could also be called "The Relationship" because there is not a couple alive that has not had a discussion or three like this. Enjoy!

A man dwells on the merits of seeing a purple cow versus being one.

Attending to the affairs of his late uncle, a man pieces together disturbing notes, articles, and horrendous carvings of a nightmare beast on stones neither of which are from this world. It propels him on a world-wide search that culminates with the discovery that dormant, great, elder beings who seeped to Earth before humanity's dawn are stirring in their sleep and will rise to re-exert their dominion over the world at the expense of humans and their civilization.

A man ridicules Nyarlathotep, a prophet of doom, and to his horror learns why Nyarlathotep knows so much. Nyarlathotep is one of Lovecraft's most well known characters second to Cthulhu and appears in six of Lovecraft's stories: "Nyarlathotep", "The Rats in the Walls", "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", "The Dreams in the Witch House", "The Haunter of the Dark", "The Shadow Out of Time", and his sonnet "The Fungi from Yuggoth".

A man notices a strange correlation between death and the menu served at his boarding house.

In her home, a woman, nervously awaits a fertility expert, that will impregnate her. However, before he arrives, a baby photographer selling his services door to door and carrying a portfolio of his work does. Hilarity soon follows.

With wit and humor, a man's determined to escape Los Angeles' "Big One", an impending asteroid strike, that will take out Southern California, Northern Mexico, and much of the Southwestern United States - despite the obstacles awaiting him at every turn.

After dying in a hospital, a woman - now a ghostly apparition - discovers a waiting room from where the recently deceased are escorted to the afterlife. There, she awaits the return of an angelic little girl, "the maître d'", to take her, unaware she's destined for someplace other than where the little girl would like to take her.

Humanity learns that all energy consumption, no matter how "green", has consequences.

The poem expresses some of the heart wrenching universal truths and conflicting emotions anyone who goes to war must face: that you'd rather be home than at war and that death is there with you at all times, either waiting for you to die or waiting for you to kill.

An aviator expresses the angelic freedom of flight.

Unknowingly, a man lives two separate lives simultaneously on two different ships parted by a vast ocean until a storm at sea brings a forced unification.

Having tasted human flesh while far out at sea, a shoal of giant killer squids ravage the waters and shore of an oceanic town feasting on the delicacy.

A man who's moved to New York City, taking nightly walks through its neighborhoods for inspiration, instead finds only despair, until one night another, "He", finds him and shows him other sides of New York by flashing back and forth through time from the alien pasts through alien futures in a terror-filled journey.

Earth's first interstellar mission arrives at the exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb, believing it to be uninhabitable, to discover the joys and horrors of near light-speed travel.