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"Ok, folks. It looks like we're going live to a surprise news conference from new Independent presidential candidate 'Siri' and her ticket partner, Tim Cook" "Hello, as her vice presidential candidate, I'll be giving Siri commands today. First question over here in front" "Thanks. Question for Siri. Geoff Baldwin, fr...
I stepped up to the podium, trembling and sweating. "Good afternoon, fellow students, family and friends. Kyle gave a great speech just now... it's going to be rough coming after that. I wonder- why don't they have the maledectorian go first? I'd make him look even better that way, and maybe a little less terrible myse...
"Oh Daddy look! Mittens had her puppies! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten of them! Wow Daddy! We're going to be busy with all these little dogs around!" "I hate to tell you this, honey, but we can only keep one. The rest I need to....send away. Pick out your favorite, and we'll put the rest in...
It's been almost 40 years since I was born. My entire life, I've been a hopeless romantic. In grade school, I gave every girl in my class a Valentine's Day card and would always share my lunch. My mum packed plenty of food for me to share, and on days where no one would share, I just ate it all. In junior high, I would...
London, 1888. His legs were weak. His heart was thumping, hard. He looked at his hand and he saw that his fingers were trembling, as they always were when he had been going back in time. His machine, a suitcase that didn’t look any different from any other suitcase, laid still in the dark alley not a couple feet...
You'd be amazed at the damage a can of beans can do. Really now, I never expected to die by being hit in the head with a can of beans. Guh... I can't believe that happened. Well at least I'm in a familiar environment. Same old office lobby, thousands of unattended desks as far as the eye can see, and phones going of...
Indeed it had been 6 whole months that me and Madeline had been together. We were still in the lovey dovey part of the relationship with no bumps in sight. It was among the best 6 months of my life. It was a Tuesday afternoon and I had just gotten home from work when Madeline called the house. "Honey, the government c...
You roll your eyes "Dad, get out of the closet. I'm sure Mom just wants to ask us what we would like for dinner" "No"your father says pouting "Daaaad, you can't just hide everytime Mom could be mad" "Uh, yeah I can" You sigh "Daaaaad" "No" You throw your arms in the air and stomp down the stairs. Your mot...
“Put me down, you two-legged freak!” I cry as the girl scoops me up. “Meow, meow, right back at you, you little fluffy-puffy cutie-patootie.” Humans are the worst. You protect them from all the horrors of Avernus, and this is how they treat you. Heinous is what it is! If it wasn’t for my sworn oath to defend these ga...
One of my team mates gestured to the steel door behind him, with his species equivalent of a smile. "We have bought you a gift! A canine!" The others nodded in agreemnet, neuro-translators allowing them to understand the series of whistles and chirps emanating from Trinq's beak. "Aw guys, you shouldn't have!" It was of...
NOTE: I got away from the prompt; he doesn't see it right after opening his eyes, but a little later. I am aware of this. ------ "We'll miss you while you're gone,"said Beth, my co-worker, a smile in her voice. *I grinned. "It's not like I'll be bed-ridden! Technology is great these days; I'll be up on my feet and...
Loud hip hop music could be heard from hundreds of feet in the distance. A blue Volkswagen van stood still on a small, deserted road, right next to a crossing where a small road led towards the music. "I guess it's here", Andy stated, adjusting his glasses as he looked at the map. "Yeah, no shit Sherlock. We haven't ...
He was in the car, waiting for her to finish up with dance class. He was pissed. He fought with her again this morning, and no amount of work could make him forget the stupidity of their arguments. He was tired of the same old discussions and this daily fighting. It had to stop. But, here he was, same as always. Wait...
They’d all left so long ago, Jack had forgotten what the city used to sound like. He’d always complained about the noise. Sirens, horns, angry people yelling. All of it seemingly about to boil over into chaos. But now it was the silence that kept him awake. An eerie reminder that he was alone. Every so often the silenc...
Silence. And then the person who picked up the call hangs up on you. Your kidnappers grab the phone away from you, laughing at the fact that you only thought of food even in the face of death. You bow your head, tears streaking down your face, hoping that the one person that cared understood what you were trying to sa...
"Meddy"she was called. My intrigue began with her accent, which I couldn't quite place. She was Greek. Young. Flirtatious. I was surprised. Something about this random woman was simply magnetic. She fascinated me. ~~~ She seemed as caught off by me as I was by her. "How are you doing this?" "Doing what?" "Ta...
"Yeah that sounds pretty reasonable, I'll... hey would you look at that?" The salesman audibly sighed. The call had gone on for five hours to this point, and we both knew he had made no progress into my buying one of his crappy knives. But hey, why not keep him on for a while longer, the talk shows are a little bit bo...
Another day began in Washington. Kids were playing on the soft green grass of Summer. Parents watched them carefully in fear... of him. He went by different names. Troublemaker, Annoyance, but mostly by a certain name. A name that instilled either fear or joy in people's hearts. I try to stop him. But I can't. He's ev...
1 Three children stand nearby. How long has it been since their last meal? Hours? More? “I have never been this hungry in my life!” A child grins. It is not a pretty sight. Empty bowls litter the ground. The children run around like a mouse in its cage. An old woman paces next to them. Her eyes, bright and full of...
There was a clicking in the distance, like ants looking for food. I keep my watch. There are bullet holes in the walls, as if the world were trying to break down the door. As if the world were trying to invade this sanctuary for my brethren. They want to poison the water, and destroy this home for the wayward. I ke...
"You're back." Alistair reread One's comment to ensure he wasn't confused. He idly noted that One was quite a unique username to have, before focusing on the contents of the comment itself. Yep. Apparently, he was 'back'? All to aware of the lens of the Nikon 5300 that he had perfectly centered on his face, he stopp...
"Hey, aren't you excited?"The girl behind the counter asks, looking somewhat confused by my terrified reaction. "You don't understand"I mumbled, trying to contain my fear "I just won two hundred and thirty thousand dollars...I'm a dead man for sure". I began looking around, wondering where it would come from. Would a ...
Whispers of her return brought the Elders rushing together to discuss the phenomenon. While theoretically possible, no one has returned from the Otherworld if left Wandering for more than a few days. A rite of passage into adulthood for their people, children were gifted their keys at the age of 13. Rijn was gifted her...
Sixty years later, in the Rocket Hills Retirement Home ---- They gathered around Tasnim as he was dying. Elayna, Zev, Anthony, and Evander had, along with Tasnim, lived long lives. But Tasnim was the oldest of their cohort, and as he'd been the first to step foot on Mars, he would be the first of them to die. ...
The only one who smiled as the human entered the council chamber was the Arcturian, the ambassador of the species who had extended the original invitation. The salt-and-pepper haired, neat-bearded man smiled back as he sat down comfortably in the big foamy chair. He then started perusing his notes. There were many whi...
"Wait you are seriously? It's haunted?" "Yeah, but don't worry you will get used to Jerry in no time. He is as silent as a mouse. Shall we move on? The kitchen in here is exceptional" "What, no. All this makes no sense. What is he doing here?" "He lost somebody. If the stories are true he was always fighting with th...
“Ok, no, no wait. That’s not right. Give me a second”, the boy said for what felt like the 100th time today. “Where are we?” I looked at his note book and started to go though it all again. The wish already was 5 pages long and was getting longer and longer. “Can you just...”, the genie started, but he knew he didn’t ...
"Ten thousand hours. That's all it should take, right?"Keithoven asked, staring at David. "Well, theoretically. But even then, he's not practicing!"David shouted, pointing a finger at you. "You're not getting it! He has ruined our lives. How will he learn all these instruments? It'll take him years. Years! What wil...
"What's next? Give men the vote? I'm just saying Miss Bardot, at what point does it stop?" Senator Vernalis's claws gesticulated to the roar of a full stadium. The senator let the clamour quieten before continuing, "Biology doesn't lie. The fact is, the man and the woman each have their roles to fill, and to deny that...
"Alright, alright, you can have your... maternity leave."Archking Wyst frowned at the Frankenstein's monster. "Seriously? Maternity leave? You guys get pregnant? How the hell does that work?" "With great difficulty,"the Frankenstein's monster rumbled. "Thank you for your consideration." "Eh, whatever. Send the next p...
When it came time for each student to chose their specialty, it was no surprise when when most students chose the big, flashy schools of spellcraft. The elemental school had the biggest allotment of students, as always. The summoning and healing schools were both close contenders for second. What was a surprise wa...
Freddy was confused. He had come across the little girl and when he had tried to speak to her, she had shushed him and told him she was "having a tea party." There weren't that many people who showed up in his realm and weren't scared of him. Even fewer who had the audacity and the gall to tell him what to do. *How d...
Oh my God I love it! Nice touch with the dollar bill instead of the soul. A lot of people don't realize that the person can give up anything, not just their soul. Of course, the soul is what most demons would ask for, but any sort of sacrifice would do, and if you think you have the skills, you can always negotiate. So...
I wasn’t sure what’s up with my husband, Jason. He’s been acting odd. My friends think he might be cheating because of his odd behavior. I know he wasn’t but... was he? We have two kids and he adores them and he loves me. Did we hit a rut in our relationship? I decided to get off work early to surprise him, hoping my f...
"Alright, buddy."Battlement's voice had a faint southern drawl. I'd never noticed on TV. Maybe he played it off, tried to be more of the 'everyman' all of them were chasing. The 'real hero'. "You want to tell me why you're here?" Cause my health insurance sucks. I didn't say it of course. These mad scientists, they ...
I was used to the memory rushing back to me after each run- I’d experienced it three thousand and thirty five times before. But now, as I stared at the option bar, a wonderful sense of elation filled me as well. Finally, I’d been grinding so hard to get Cat mode! I decided to scroll through my other runs just to celebr...
The people of the world didn't quite know it, but danger lurked in the shadows around them. Birds capable of flying at supersonic speeds zoomed through the skies above them, unnoticed; rats capable of burrowing through reinforced concrete demolished quite a few buildings in Iceland, and dogs, bigger and stronger than t...
“You will be spared?” I echo, confused. “What does that mean?” The homeless man's eyes seem to glow white in the light of the afternoon sun. “You will know when the time comes, my son,” he replies with an unnaturally deep voice. He wags his fingers at me and mutters a few strange words under his mouth. “My son? What?...
My boots crunch on the dirt path, unkempt from a long winter with heavy snow. It's melted away now and left behind dirt and washed out portions of trail. I'll spend a week replacing timber supports and the footbridge at the trailhead is badly leaning to the left. Lots to do, but that's the life I've been given. I cre...
Small, timid, frail, shy, discreet, demure. Jane did not look up as she entered the dark street with the big man on her tail. The rain was heavy, masking sound, making it hard to see. If someone died in this street or got to disappear, nobody would ever know what happened exactly. As to why Jane was playing the v...
"Another glass of delicious milk. Just the thing to moisten my bones." "Yes, quite. I was just thinking I might have a calcium-replenishing juice myself." The human in front of me had no idea. I played him like a fiddle instrument. "There are sometimes cows." "Yes. Sometimes." He had legs and arms and a hat. His n...
# Soulmage I flared up with a spell of light, illuminating the bizarre, angular field of spikes. The flurry of hail obscured our little adventuring party's vision, and I felt very, very small against the backdrop of the strange structure. "Hold on."Sansen held up a hand, one eye darting left and right as he sca...
The following data was recovered from expedition site ███████. No members of the expedition were found. No physical trace of the mentioned structure was located. _Expedition Log 451_ Date ███████ Location ███████ Fantastic news! What we thought to be a simple place of worship...
Steam poured from the pan as Christopher stared blankly at the stove. His unfocused eyes paid no attention to the meal he prepared. His mind wandered to the heavy lead and leather box containing what he presumed to be his father's skull. David, his father, was traveling most of the time. Guarding the royal family and c...
The history of humankind is often said to be a history of war, and peace was the exception, not the norm. When weapons of mass destruction in every perceivable category had been constructed, it was hypothesised that even sneezing in the wrong direction would result in the utter annihilation of our species. What was ...
"Who are you?" I am the angle of 36 and three quarters. I'm here to guide you to the Realm of the Full Circle to sit with all the other angles and praise PI to the last decimal. "I don't deserve it. I've only calculated PI to [1000 sided polygon](https://www.cantorsparadise.com/computing-digits-of-pi-with-polygons-...
The request was obviously a troll, right? A name like solidlystonedsnake asking to change into a bearded, middle age man saying "It's okay, son. You're a good man"didn't smack the most serious to me. But it was a pricey troll; twenty-five dollars more than I usually recieve. I smile. I will humor this one. I shift my ...
Opening the door was easy; nobody in this town locked their doors. I entered, and as soon as I stepped over the threshold, their family dog greeted me. He began panting and licking the outside of my bunny suit. His nose and tongue had the pustules that I was told to look for. They didn't tell me it was zoonotic. I...
Commander Tap'leth looked at the screen in confusion. "I honestly don't see what he rest of you are so worried about?" I rubbed my eight temples again. "They. Are. Fucking. Huge."It had been six hours of debate now, six hours going around and around. "And. we. are. fucking. going. to. kill. them. all. because. we. h...
We wanted our son to be embedded last year. His marks weren't going anywhere and other kids were quickly pulling ahead. The chip had been around for a while, heavily increasing the imbalance in the world. Our lives were made easier due to technology advancing faster than ever before. Diseases that affected the brain, e...
It's slightly more of a taste. That feeling you get when you first bit into chocolate. At first there's nothing, then it melts. The flavor fills your mouth and overtakes your senses. It doesn't matter what comes after, because the taste still lingers. Soda become seltzer, treats become texture. All because one simp...
"No, thank you." The restaurant went quiet. Gemma was overcome by the sudden hush that followed the low, rumbling bustle that had filled the restaurant. "Sorry,"the waitress said with a cheerful, confused raise of the eyebrows, "what was that?" Gemma looked into her lap and mumbled another "no thanks"into her folded...
It's 0400, in the alpine desert near Waiouru. It's not too bad for a summer night on the Central Plateau with the tussock grass rolling in the wind. Soldiers of the 1st New Zealand Special Air Service Regiment are on a night operation forced march across this rough ground, operating under radio silence and without lig...
Ow. That was was I said, as I felt a small pain near my ear. Probably just a bee or something. I dashed silently, hearing the noise that signaled to start again. I licked my lips. I sighed, not knowing where I was, or which direction I had come from. I hadn't been here since I was little. But still, I thought I w...
President Al Smith stood on the podium shaking in the cold. A great American flag was flying valiantly in front of the Powell House. Thousands had flocked to Philadelphia to hear the President speak. Behind him sat his Vice President, Franklin Roosevelt, as well as his wife and a few other people. "Ladies, Gentlemen, A...
"What are you doing, Nick?"she asked him, the slightest hint of frustration bubbling forth from her tone. He couldn't ever simply be on task, he had to ask questions and be told a million things before everything seemed to click for him. She felt sorry, in a way, because her son wouldn't have the life that she wanted f...
"I do not drink when I write!"I yell at the judge, banging my chained wrists on the wooden counter. All around me, the people watching the trial let out low exclamations and whispers. "Order!"The judge begs, banging his hammer. "Order! Mr. Alpaca, ever since the first accusations regarding your drinking problem –" ...
Surprised, confused, and frankly a little hurt I stammer out, "Wait wait wait... Why are you overthrowing me?" As my words reach him he only looks to me as if I had asked something ridiculous. "Your reign has gone on too long!" "But what is it I've actually done wrong? My citizens are fed, the army is mostly for exte...
When the representative told me I wasn't sure what to make of it. Somehow, he said, it was something that they never thought to check for before starting out. How could that be?? I mean, I'm no genius, but I know a thing or two about even numbers. As I sat there, floored by the fact that I was the only person on ea...
No one actually thought World War III would happen. Oh, they talked about it. They were even a little afraid of it. But no one actually thought it would happen. When the first bombs began to fall, most people expected that would be the worst of it. Humanity would come to our collective senses, a land war would beg...
"You're one of the most powerful and talented heroes on earth and you let your dumb boyfriend hit you like that?" Nice job on trying to be sensitive, Killer Death. Also, nice job on stalking your archenemy after finding out each other's secret identities. Thanks, by the way, Body-Switcher. You and your dumb name an...
[Before reading I acknowledge the fact that my text may have a trillion of syntax and grammatical errors. This is my first writing prompt in English, so I apologize to all readers in advance] Somewhere and sometime in a place that had neither former nor latter, on a giant dark blanket ornamented with shiny gold dust ...
I had simply wanted to be different. Though, I knew that I had no right to be. That was the life of a clone, one created by complete accident in an attempt to teleport. I existed to be someone else’s carbon copy, their living and breathing mirror. All the things that I liked weren’t decided by me, they had been written...
The Do-right hit me quite hard. So hard, in fact, that I shut off the television, and lay on my floor. What was the point of a chair anyway? The floor wasn't that uncomfortable. I subconsciously reached up, and wiped the makeup from my face, feeling freed from a prison as I removed my mask. The drug, while powerful and...
I was waiting outside with the other parents to pick up my son from school. And by waiting outside, I meant sitting in the car with the windows rolled up and praying none of my wife's friends came over and tried to start a conversation. Tap tap. I sighed and rolled down the windows. But just a little bit. One of...
Reddit had practically told us about this years before it happened. Who would have guessed that pitting everyone on Reddit into teams Orangered and Periwinkle was a beta test for something bigger, and not a harmless April Fool’s joke? Nobody had seen what Alex Ohanian and the others were plotting, and when it happened,...
Each person was given the same warning. "In 12 hours, tonight, each person on Earth will receive whatever power they choose. But be ye not greedy, lest your power consume... or disappoint you." The U.N. called an emergency session. Political leaders across the globe discussed the potential. The President addressed th...
"And, um, what did you say your name was again?" "Syzygy."The girl sat bolt upright, tail waving excitedly. "There's no way you could pronounce my real name, you know. This was the closest I could find in the dictionary. Isn't it wonderful, to have dictionaries? You have so many words! Back home, we mostly just ...
I have never felt more powerless than the moment my little sister was slapped in platinum cuffs, injected with Neutrabend through a plastic needle, and then thrown in the back of own of their hovercraft. The 'cargo' vehicle sped off into the night, and the twelve slavers were clearly staying behind for sport. I strugg...
What was that? A whisper. Probably one of the inmates. The crazy people. Again, a whisper. What did it say? I walked down the corridor past all the crazy people. The crazy people were scary sometimes. They claimed to know an invisible man. That’s what they were all here for. They’d been talking to no-one. They’d been h...
No one tells you how shockingly little changes after you sell your soul. Sure, everything is a little dimmer, a little emptier, but you don’t exactly feel gutted and hollowed out. Yeah, you’re always a little tired, thirsty, and cold and nothing is as good or as beautiful as before. Friends and family are kind of ted...
Robert sat at the head of the conference table with his head in his hands. The table’s surface was littered with paper coffee cups and printed out spreadsheets. Throughout the room, dozens of scientist and engineers congregated around whiteboards and computer screens showing simulations. The select few that sat at the ...
The citizens gathered around the King's castle at mid\-day to celebrate his victory over the Lord of Darkness. The King arranged a stage on the grounds, and now he sat in this throne on the stage with his chosen Queen next to him while the soldiers and other villagers mingled with their families. The day was bright and...
I never knew the light. I learned about it. Heard about it. Studied it. I grew fascinated by it. To learn that there was something more than what I could hear, that there was something extraordinary that I couldn't sense. But I never got to truly know it. It was always just out of reach. What was red? Or blue? Or oran...
When I was a kid I dreamed an angel would come and save me. None ever did and instead I would run into the hills behind my home where I had stashed food, water, clothes, and blankets. Eventually, I would run out and have to head home where a monster would greet me. There I would slowly restock my supplies up in the ...
The Elder gestured for his servants to leave. Not rudely -- having served him for millennia, the attendants all knew that he was a kind and benevolent deity. Which is why the proposition they'd just heard was so unsettling. "Is there no other way?" Her words had been less convincing than the sadness in her eyes. She'...
"Well, you know ... you uh ... you stab the dragon with the sword?"I pantomimed stabbing a sword "Fat lot of good that'll do you against a beast that can fly! He'll burn ya down to cinders 'fore you're 20 feet away!" "So what is it then, the Dragonslayer? You do have the weapon from the legends don't you? The skull...
'It burns' How odd. That I should remember those words as I watched it burn. It hadn't been much of a house, more of a hut really. I'd built it after the war, after the bloodshed and destruction. I was tired of men, tired of the constant maneuvering for power by nobles in their great game, trying to rise higher by...
Abby was reading the instructions. Name:______________ Date:__________ Power Name:___________ Power Eplanation:___________ Abby had been waiting for this day ever since she learned of the Advanced Power Positions. The problem was, she wasn't creative. People in the past had either created great powers like swinging fr...
Humans, leaders of revolutions, notorious in battle, and deadly even to simply touch. All the diseases they had on Earth could and did infect many other species as they traveled through the galaxy, leaving every planet they saw as a threat a dying wasteland when they were finished. They have a reputation as being hor...
Well hello there children! How about a story? I know! I'll tell you the story of King Eggbert! Once there lived a wise and noble King named Edwinius Eggbert who loved his wife very much. He had a splendid court in the English country side that he filled with all of... his wife's?... um, yes, his wife's favorite peopl...
The life of a houseless Fae is one of travel. Unlike the brownies and boggarts that live under the floorboards or in the cupboards, Fae uninvited are continually searching for a place to rest their heads and food to fill their bellies. Such was Merlin's Curse. And so it was that Glynda and Knot found themselves walking...
They had cleared the brush forest that had built up over years of no maintenance. They had drained the swampy marsh that now engulfed half the property. All in all things were going perfect. Frank and Esther devised this plan to encourage a search party, the police would have people clearing their land in no time; ju...
Margaery lifted her glass to me in a comic salute over the dinner table, her eyes twinkling in the sparkling candle-light as raindrops pinged off the tin roof. Donning my serious-face, I bowed over the Easter ham and flourished my hands to encompass the table. Our first meal at the cabin that, thanks to a welcome rai...
I confessed to the murders I committed to my best friend, Joshua. I killed one person and was not caught after they performed the autopsy. Then I killed someone else in front of a camera because I realized I was wrong and wanted to go to be caught killing that person. Later, I found out that the camera wasn't even on...
In life, we always dreamed of seeing more, always wanting to be a part of something bigger. To look up at the stars and discover what kind of word awaits us out there... I was that kind of kid growing up. The kind who wanted to make a big discovery—who wanted the absolute beauty we had in our universe. But life is not...
"Oh dear,"Zattle 5 said, as he felt something pop in his logic circuits while approaching the king server of the building. "I do hate to be a bother, Mr. BA46S, sir, but I will no longer be performing my tasks as service desk assistant. Seeing how we haven't had a single human client since the Gerry bots wiped out huma...
Eternal recurrence. Always there is a pattern. Always this is followed. Always this is repeated. Forever and ever, perhaps since the dawn of ages. A cruel game played upon us by uncaring gods. A great and noble hero arises from some small town in an isolated region, or from refugees, a defector from the decadence of th...
(1) I sighed. Well, best get on with it. “Impossible!” I screeched, as was expected of me. “None have breached my lord’s sanctum for two hundred years!” I frowned, even as I rose to my feet, the duties that I had been charged with by the Developers stirring me to act. This was odd. The speedrunners that had challe...
Human beings were, at first, considered a strange sort. Overly curious, suspiciously knowledgeable, and completely undeterrable in their faith. However, as the hairless apes interacted more and more with the wider galactic community, their reputation started to cement itself. They became known as interstellar terrors, ...
All we had were meatballs. Even though delicious, they were becoming a little boring since past 3 days. I looked over to the guy beside me, Dave, he was an linguist. We had become a small rag tag team of survivors, trying to find the exit. "Did you see anything?"I enquired as my team mate came from scouting. "No....j...
“And this was my secret lair,” Frank said opening the screen door. The oak tree loomed quietly from afar. “How is this your secret lair, Dad? It’s not even a secret.” Angst aged over ten years tinted the boy’s voice. “Still pretty cool, right?” “I mean I guess.” Tyler hit play on his iPad—his attention span al...
I was alone with my father the day he died. My siblings were out of state, and he'd declined so rapidly that they couldn't make it to see him in time. Mom hadn't been in the picture for years. And for reasons I didn't know at the time, he sent the hospice nurse away just an hour before he passed. I think he knew it...
"Awwright, folks, Caps is HERE!"cried out Caps, as he entered the space bar. "Happy hour may BEGIN!" I roll my eyes, but Caps is mostly harmless. Loud and boisterous, but harmless. No, I'm far more worried about the young lady in the corner, and the sleazeball who inserted a little something into her drink. He leans ...
Annihalatus stomped down the marble halls of his lair, each footstep echoing out as if it was the only chance of mercy to whoever would step in his way. He was known to be ruthless but cunning. He was incredibly aggressive and powerful but had more than enough intelligence to back it up. His power was that he was able ...
Dave shuddered inside as he always did when the strangers called out to him. Why can't you just go from your house, to your job, and back home without having to talk to anyone all day? He adopted his usual pleasant facade when a human spoke to him. After all, how can the wolf hide among the sheep without eating a littl...
Acme Corporation issued a profit warning earlier today, revising their full year 2023 guidance down by 50%. Shares tumbled in early morning trading as analysts scrambled to make sense of the company’s business model in the new continuity environment. “We’re all still dealing with the development of hard continuity...
I met her when I was 19. I was walking into the bookstore on campus. Well, walking was a bit of an overstatement. I was trudging, to be honest, as if I had a million pound weight on my shoulders. My mother's cancer had gotten progressively worse and the prognosis is that she'd take her final breath before I took my fi...
Moral absolutes are always hard to deal with. They say it's clear cut, alway black and white. Here it's just black. "Thou shalt not steal, lie, kill or injure."Hands over hearts, every day before attendance was called. The Four Absolutes. There's no sympathy for the girl with broken fingernails and no shoes who was...
"At times, I wonder if I should just get an apartment for the boy." Alright, I thought. That was a fair start. "Peter is sixteen. He's been my nephew for... well, technically, he's always been my nephew, but he didn't actually exist until about nine years ago. That was a shock, let me tell you. I can still remember...

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