They were called Cloud Gaze and Breeze Dancer, and Larry had always hoped they would fly him out of here. But Lucy deserved them more, he thought. The orderlies restraining him stared up in disbelief as she dipped them through the air, tentatively at first, then gracefully, and took to the sky. They suited her.

Noah Fenderman’s alphabetical menagerie of hand-carved wooden animals was coming along… more slowly than anticipated.

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It's almost exactly 4000 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Fairbanks, Alaska, which ended up being 3,900 miles longer than the Bunvitch family needed to figure out that dad's "history of gold mining" road trip was his worst idea ever.

The Cistercian Order of Elba could be considered the original “tech bros,” developing the concept of the “blockchain” nearly a millennium before the Silicon Valley guys. Unfortunately, the idea proved impractical as it took a monk nearly seventy-six years to mathematically validate a single transaction. The gilded hand lettering certainly didn’t help speed things along.

Toby Gormley of Whittset, Texas, had spent nearly his entire 14-year life collecting insect and arachnid specimens with one purpose. And in an astonishingly unlikely turn of events, he was, in fact, able to irradiate the specimens, blend them into a bug smoothie, and consume it to gain the strength of a Goliath beetle, the flight abilities of a cicada, the urticating hair of a tarantula, the deterrent scent glands of a stink bug, and a number other superpowers with varying degrees of practical application.

This charming little character was a lock for gold in the Wind-Up Toy Olympics with a perfectly executed loopsy-doo followed by a flawless round-he-goes. Sadly, however, his routine fell apart on the dismount. Because he couldn't dismount. Because of the wires. He was attached to the bar with wires.

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Medieval physicians believed the caladrius, a mythical bird, would absorb disease from a person’s body and fly into the sun to dispel it. This comb, thought to be crafted from the bone of a caladrius, offers a choice: run it through your hair and have any sickness removed, no matter how dire—but it will be replaced with what was taken from its previous owner.