Category Archives: Tom Allman

The bespectacled eyes of two lonely people met across a long, musty cardboard box. On the last day of the comic book convention he was looking for Mutant Revenge Team #6. She was looking for Love, and a Brave Teen … Continue reading →

I have sailed the eternal ether sea between stars I have pushed out to meet the silence and laughed I have touched the mote in god’s eye and wept Today is my earth day intrepid explorer I have returned home … Continue reading →

Delores’s Family told her that she was being paranoid; which proved that they were out to get her! Her Cat, Mr. Puss, confirmed her worst fears. “Darling, your loved ones mock you whenever your back is turned.” Delores decided to … Continue reading →

Magdalena followed the receding tide, her tiny feet leaving no rumors in the hard sand. She gathered only the most beautiful shells and presented them to her waiting Abuela. Her grandmother told her that the only things that a woman … Continue reading →

Miscovitz is a vile wretch of a man. Other than his long-suffering Mother, everyone reviles him. In ’78 the Gods reached into the core of his putridness and removed his soul. When informed, his mother was inconsolable. To ease her … Continue reading →

The “Lion of the Nile” walked onto the balcony to acknowledge his adoring subjects. Legend has it, as a young solider, he’d killed a lion with a dagger then mounted the lionesses seven times each. Now, the lions of the … Continue reading →

My body is stuck in an inner tube bobbing slowly down our little river. My mind is moving somewhat faster. I zip past a paddle wheeler whose cub pilot is marking twain. Then, after shore leave in the Big Easy, … Continue reading →

I got a postcard from myself yesterday, postmarked from Twenty-Three years in the future. On the front was a picture of New Wrigley Field…… My weary eyes fluttered open, I could see Joe Jr. He’d hardly left my side in … Continue reading →

We sailed, at dawn, to the last outpost of the Aztec Empire. Intrepid explorers of the planet we. I the Gastronome, eating my way across six continents and Fitzhume the cunning linguist, speaking in tongues. We arrived just in time … Continue reading →

Ferdinand was an excellent dancer; at least that’s what his Mother had told him. Around and around they would spin in the front parlor to some old Les Brown records. He begged her to allow him to meet a real … Continue reading →

. Deep in the Old Forest there was a forgotten graveyard. The weathered and broken tombstones were scattered like so many broken teeth. It was the quietest place on Earth. But, on the first day of spring a troop of … Continue reading →

Arkady and Victor were brothers.  It was assumed they would join their family in the Moscow Circus.  But, they were extremely fond of the bottle.  Unable to hold a job in a country of alcoholics, they spent most of their time waiting in … Continue reading →

“Oh, and the leader of the Shadow People talked to me today,” he added. “I didn’t know they have a leader,” she laughed. “And what the hell are Shadow People?” “You know, you see them out of the corner of … Continue reading →

The slow, grinding, metal on metal whoosh……whoosh…….whoosh startled the doves sleeping in the rafters of the warehouse. There/not there/there-an impossible Blue Box appeared from nothingness. The door of the Impossible Blue Box creaked open. Bony fingers, gripping a cylindrical metal … Continue reading →

the last time the black comet passed this close to Earth, it left the ELDER ONES the last time THEY walked the Earth THEY marched through our blood and gore the last time THEY slept was for ten thousand years … Continue reading →

Slowly, as if this were a horrible dream, he moved the aptly named “Happy Fun Time Incredibly Dangerous Pyrotechnic Device” closer to his charred face meat. “We are not responsible for any injuries that may occur while using this product,” It … Continue reading →