The day was burned into Bertram Tucker's memory, but he kept the negatives to remind himself it wasn't an awful dream. Also, he needed some small proof that Arago Bay really existed, after the government agents erased all other evidence after the incident with the Kraken.

The third brother was the most satisfying to eat. To be sure, his house of bricks was sturdy, but he hadn't the resources to pay for it and was forced into a mortgage with a lender of ill repute. His payments soon became too much to bear, and he was foreclosed and evicted when a certain BB Wolfman Holdings purchased the property to demolish it and develop a luxury high rise.

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Every Rwandan village has an agaseke, a basket which is filled with fruits and grains to tempt and trap Nogwaja the hare, a trickster spirit, lest the hare pillage the community garden. In one village, the hare convinced a curious, and none too cautious boy to open the lid, upon which he stole the boy’s body and trapped the boy’s spirit inside his own hare’s body. His parents, none the wiser, enjoyed a feast of rabbit stew that night.

Aunt Ophelia always liked violets. But nobody liked Aunt Ophelia, and this was on sale at the mortuary, so tulips it was.

Induction into the Fourteenth Order of Temperance required a somewhat macabre price: a gold coin was placed on one side of the scales, while on the other the initiant’s hand was cut and allowed to bleed freely into the dish until the scales balanced.

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Jesse Maryland thought she the personal statement was fine, and the evening gown looked great on her. But she knew her talent act was unstopable. Balancing a dozen stacked silver goblets while riding a unicycle nobody else would whoa deja vu.

A penny saved is a penny earned. Specifically a penny earned by the tiny goblins who designed this bank to trick you and take all of your pennies.