Jesus year
n.— «The show leaps at you—at 12:35 a.m., an ungodly hour for anyone past their Jesus year, age 33.» —“Late Night Raises The Burr” by Hank Stuever in L.A. Washington Post Mar. 14, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
It was a dark and stormy night. So begins the long and increasingly convoluted prose of Edwards Bulwer-Lytton’s best-known novel. Today the annual Bulwer-Lytton Contest asks contestants for fanciful first sentences that are similarly...
A librarian opens a book and finds a mysterious invitation scribbled on the back of a business card. Another discovers a child’s letter to the Tooth Fairy, tucked into a book decades ago. What stories are left untold by these forgotten...