Active – Daria…
Actor – Kiss Me Barabbas flops; Georgina bites back
Actual – The Loch Ness is not so complex
Actuarial – Mob accountant chickens out
Actuate – Farnham’s machine eats secrets
Acuity – Two pigeons on a telephone wire
Aculeate – It’s about something dirty
Acumen – A business haiku
Acuminate – Hideous creatures on the moon
Acupuncture – Rebecca reconsiders LA medicine
Acute – Renard Billings shot himself one morning in Montana
Acyclic – A scarf escapes one autumn afternoon
Adactylous – I built this awful time machine to save us
Adage – Two cats, a window, and a peppy puppy
Adagio – The composition of the universe
Adam – Lillith and Eve in the land of Nod
Adamant – Underground anomaly provides linguistic comedy
Adamite – The Wensleydales are quirky neighbors
Adapt – An upbeat tune for cannibals
Add – At the world’s end
Addendum – Dead CEO still puts in an honest day’s work
Adder – Honey Badger v. Puff Adder
Addict – Meditation before the Opium Wars
Additament – Where you fit, where I don’t
Addle – A rotten egg is dealt with by young brother & sister
Address – Charlie Ben Studdard & the Amulet Caper I
Adduce – Town’s dragon is not appeased
Ademption – Serena’s grandfather left her a penny farthing
Adenectomy – Ralph has a gland removed
Adept – An arsonist and a criminal, but what a voice!
Adequacy – He cheats, she cheats, and the Bear comes home
Adhere – A good life for a garbage truck
Adhesive – A present, no matter what kind
Adhibit – Eloquent criminal taunts his pursuer
Ad hoc – Surviving frat brothers discuss their spider problem
Ad hominem – Charlie Ben Studdard & the Amulet Caper II
Adiabatic – Ino’s Plant – Part III
Adiaphorous – Eulogy for my mother
Adiathermancy – Charlie Ben Studdard & the Amulet Caper III
Adieu – An insomniac’s love poem
Adipocere – Dying man makes a deal with a swamp gator
Adipose – Guilty bootlegger runs for his life
Adit – Dead canary puts an end to a mine
Adjacency – Claire…
Adjectivial – A biography of punk band Oliver & the Doon Buggys
Adjoin – A cup of coffee after bungled intercourse
Adjourn – Hamster father & son have a heart to heart
Adjudge – A poem for the mad gunman
Adjudicate – Notes on leaving Waikiki
Adjunct – Charlie Ben Studdard & the Amulet Caper IV
Adjure – A dirge for Captain Talleyrand, thief of air
Adjust – The pen is not mightier than the sword
Adjutant – Smith and the Cannibals – Part I
Adjuvant – Barfly philosophy
Ad libitum – Honey Badger v. Lion
Admeasure – Olaf Erikson makes a wager with the monster
Admetus – A tale of Hercules, death and marriage
Adminicle – A professor teaches an unorthodox physics lesson
Administer – A broken man dreams of his true self
Admirable – The Tao of Egomania
Admiral – Mermaids give planet Earth food for thought
Admission – Cecil was a miner. Jenny was his wife
Admit – Charlie Ben Studdard and the Amulet Caper V
Admix – The end of a sinister minister
Admonish – Smith and the Cannibals – Part 2
Ado – Thoughts on Rebecca getting married
Adobe – Charlie Ben Studdard and the Amulet Caper VI
Adolescence – A short poem on the fickleness of fame
Adonai – Ken yehi ratzon
Adonis – The doomed lover of Aphrodite
Adopt – A godfather looks back on his lonely regret
Adorable – The Bear steals away…
Adore – Poem for half a house and half the love left in it
Adorn – Poem for an old friend
Adown – Poem for failure, or a birthday
Adrastus – The tale of the Seven against Thebes
Adrenal – Charlie Ben Studdard & the Amulet Caper VII
Adrianople – Rome is sacked by the Visigoths
Adrift – Poem for a tumbleweed
Adroit – It is a fine thing, telling stories
Adscititious – No daydreaming allowed
Adscript – Margot…
Adsorb – Waking up in the back of a car
Adularia – Charlie Ben Studdard & the Amulet Caper VIII
Adulate – Rhinoceri are remarkably stubborn
Adult – Six-year-old Henrik opens XXX bookstore
Adulterate – A man slowly replaces his insides with sand
Adultery – If she was, she’d be…
Adumbrate – The recollection of a big, scary monster
Adunc – Christina had a parrot that growled
Adust – What I say when I don’t say I love you
Advance – Granted, I was robbing banks before I knew you
Advantage – “You’re just going to have to let me say this…”
Advection – Emily meets God and the devil in her kitchen
Advent – Compassionate lies make the best true stories
Adventitious – Your father is dying. What do you give him?
Adventure – This is the game that is a game of games
Adverb – A poem on the search for a word
Adversary – The insomniac’s sonnet