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Saturday's Storyteller: Bad Shrimp International

Bad Shrimp International by Belinda Roddie Theirs was a relationship based on bad shrimp. Creepy looking shrimp. The kind of shrimp you'd find in a bad part of the freezer section in a grocery store that could never cook evenly in a pan. And no medicinal dose of garlic butter could make it better. They had come from different countries to live a crustacean connoisseur's lifestyle. He was a Scottish fish-n-gamer, as he liked to call himself. She was a full-fledged chef. Scallops were her specialty, and after seeing many reality shows in which contestants couldn't cook scallops worth beans (no food pun intended), she was quite proud of that feat. Her concoctions were tender and buttery and just the right flavor. And every Brit who waltzed into her humble little restaurant loved them. They had both decided to travel to the farthest part of the United States, in San Francisco. And that was where they met, in a Fisherman's Wharf market stand gone bad. Standing in li

Today's OneWord: Chills

The enormous mansion on the upwards slope of the street always gave you the chills, whenever you went outside to skateboard or shoot hoops in your precariously inclined driveway. The stone lions were the worst of it. Their stony eyes had no pupils, no color - a simple blank stare into a world that not even you were ever familiar with. But today, you are going to be brave. You are going to walk up to that mansion.