—Jacques Vallee, Revelations When the individual encounters the Ufo, his world collapses and is immediately ... To the paranoid, there is no doubt that, whoever or whatever conceived of this acid-test-cum-cosmic-prank encounter, they ...

URBAN PRANKS AND THE CARNIVALESQUE A prank is a joke, made up of actions rather than words. A prank is inherently performative, a doing that creates amusement for the participants and observers but that also draws attention to ...

We liked to prank each other. Our classic trick was to pick the bathroom lock when the other was taking a hot shower. The one with the bucket would creep in, stand on the toilet, and dump ice water on the unsuspecting brother. Prank paranoia ...

It’s graduation week at Minecrafters Academy, but a battle is brewing between the top five students at the school.

... she was calling back to confirm the earlier call, since Blossom sounded on the phone like she hadn't believed it The Lady wanted Blossom to be sure that she knew that the earlier phone call was on the level, and not one of those prank calls  ...

I walked over to the fence and climbed up to peer over the other side just knowing I would see someone playing a prank on me. I looked long and hard but didn't see anyone. The morning was so quiet and peaceful. I thought, “Nothing is going ...

It was a stupid prank. No one had been hurt. No damage had been done. But I'd been vulnerable. We all had. So many things could have gone wrong. A muscle jumped along Arsen's jaw. “I'm sorry. I hate being the I-told-you-so guy. But I hate  ...

Based on true events!

The lively stories in The Prank feature both the themes and the characteristic tone that make Chekhov among the most influential and beloved of modern writers.

Jerry, a novice Campus Security patrolman at a major research and teaching university, discovers a body in one of the engineering laboratories, an apparent accident.