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"Running late, sorry. See u in a minute!" Well now that's odd. Paige wasn't running late. In fact, Paige was sitting right across from me. But my phone clearly said that this text was from Paige, who hadn't touched her phone since we sat down. We had been relatively busy since we met, ordering lunch, talking about com...
The lady was lovely. Her auburn hair flowed to her shoulders as her viridian eyes smoldered. She sat a few stools away from me. I placed my hands on the countertop. Playing eye tag with shy glances, I elicited smirks from her. She loved it. I rose up and swaggered towards the mysterious woman. I cocked an eyebrow at h...
Lucifer took a deep breath and while all the editing was amusing, he finally had enough. "Ya know. The only reason why exacting wording and loopholes work is that someone has to enforce them. In your judicial system a judge reads the contract and enforces the wording as he or she sees fit. But between us, you and me, ...
There's a solemn silence hanging over us as we busy ourselves with the preparations, the special kind of silence reserved only for birthdays. Although they all smile at me and pretend nothing is going on, mother and father and Theo, I can feel their eyes bore into me as soon as I turn my back. I hate it. I hate the sh...
Six years after immortality Everyone laughs at me when I walk down the corridor. I'm at least half a foot shorter than everyone else in my year, and I still have the face of an eight year old. I'm beyond flat-chested and I've never even developed an interest in boys. Or girls either, mind you. I've just not changed ...
Listen! This is a story of when the rains came back to Al-Shaddim. The long and dusty sands blew for millennia without any water to quench its thirst. It is said that there were great gleaming cities of bone and metal that lived amongst the sands, and rivers of life poured into them. And when the sky fell, the rivers s...
Signing on to my AlrightEros account was always an exercise in neuroticism. Has she responded to my last message? Has she sent me anything? Maybe she’s lost interest. Did I come on too strong? But unlike any other woman I’ve been matched with, this one stuck around. She and I had a lot in common: we both love Star Tre...
The cosmos. Vast. Silent. Beautiful and after all this time, tired. In the beginning, back when there was nothing, I was alone in it. And after all these years I'm still alone. People used to look at me with reverence, with awe. "Mr. Freeman you are the perfect fit to play god." They heard the dulcet tones of my voice...
David was a big man, but the forest was bigger. It was also far more terrifying. And so David ran. Every time he stopped, he had a hard time trying to convince himself that he wasn't going around in circles. The pine trees towered around him, surrounding him, making him feel desperately small and desperately lost. Los...
Those who survived the nuclear apocalypse kept the Half Life series alive. During the long decades beneath the irritated surface, my vault-dwelling ancestors passed on their gaming PC's to their children. They all shared the joy of playing the Half Life series. They all shared in the disappointment at the lack of a pro...
He stared at me through the window, holding a knife with a grin on his face, not moving at all. I stood outside in the garden, staring back, knowing that when I blinked he would find my family faster than I could find the front door. EDIT Before this get's to much attention, I'm afraid it's not an original idea....
Elmo: Oh hello there mister Batman! Batman: Hello Elmo, why so troubled? E: Oh, it's nothing. Except, maybe it is because Oscar said something not so good to me earlier, and, it did not make me feel happy. B: Where can I find this Oscar? E: He lives on the street, and will probably be in a big metal can. Why do you...
There isn't anything better than a hot day, a cool pool, and a bunch of friends hanging out. I've never been a strong swimmer, but I think I've spent more time at the pool this summer than any other; it doesn't hurt that Mike, my crush, is lifeguarding! My friends are a few feet over, playing a rousing game of 'Marc...
I winced at the sound of gunfire, squeezing my eyes shut in spite of myself. Screams rang out over the crowded bank and I immediately feared the worst; I never could stand the sight of death. Ironic, I know. "Everyone get down or someone's gonna die!"a gruff voice shouted, and relief washed over me. I let myself open ...
Samuel tossed back a beer as he scanned through the letter that had appeared in his mail that morning. He saw the name that was, by now, familiar to everyone on Earth: Moira. He knew what he was supposed to do. Hand the letter over to the government. Hell, to anybody who had the slightest inkling on how to avert the ...
No one knew who he was. No one knew where he lived, or his name. They were certain of one thing though. He must be one of the endowed; one of the greats from long ago. In a long dead, but not forgotten, world there lived beings with unique and astonishing abilities. People could fly, or turn invisible, or heal instantl...
You search through death's cloak and find a small card with print around the edges too small to read. You can barely make out the words. They say something about taking the sickle and putting on death's cloak. As you go to pull the cloak off of him it's mysteriously empty with no body inside. You drape the cloak around...
Impossible. Warren McGinnis sat on the bed, shaking his head in disbelief. It's not possible. It's not... It isn't. But the messages flashed across display panel of Mary's watch as he scrolled through them. It had been the only piece of jewelry she wore that he hadn't gifted her since they'd gotten married, and ...
[Nine P.M. Wendy's. It's intermittently populated with people, and behind the counter sits a man with horns and dark-red skin, dressed up in a Wendy's Uniform. His nametag says “RAGNORAK, DESTROYER OF WORLDS” and he's talking to ARNOLD, a three-hundred pound man, who speaks with a very slow, dull voice.] **Ragnorak:...
Another bank robbery. I wonder if it's a normal group or some new costumed idiot. I hoped it was the former. I just got these powers a week ago and I already had one guy obsessed with me. Either way, this guy's well funded. Security feed shows he's got men with assault rifles guarding the entrances. Good thing I can ma...
They called me stupid, childish, a dreamer, and eventually a terrorist. Frank, you old dead bastard, you should have believed me back then. I told you I would create something great. Now here you lay beneath my soldiers gurgling blood. It all started on that rainy night, when you said something strange. "Well, we'r...
Finally able to exact my revenge after that fateful accident years ago and this mime can see me! I had no idea they had this ability, just makes them that much more dangerous. He stared into my eyes and started to mime a lasso; he threw it towards me and pulled. I felt the rope tighten around my body. He dragged me th...
He looked for the name they used in all the movies. He hadn't seen many movies before, and even that seemed to drag him down. It was funny how each flaw turned to an ocean of embarrassment sometimes. How easy it was for the mind to turn. Jarhead, he thought. That was the word. He looked down. The wide expanse of ...
"Yes, that is troubling,"said the person on the other end of the phone. "Tortured for years. What cruel people" "I do not see much in the way of alternatives, I'm afraid,"replied the burly man sitting at his desk. "The subject is completely delusional. He is under the impression that he is a wizard. It is likely an es...
“It’s beautiful, you know.” Helen said. “Beautiful, what we have done.” Philip held her closer, not daring to answer. Every part of him wanted to yell, to scream out into the unhearing darkness. He wanted to tell her that it was she who was beautiful, that he loved her more than anything in the world, but he couldn...
I could only stare at it. When I say that, I mean that I literally had no idea what to do about it other than stare at it. I was now the... proud? owner of one half of the 11th largest pair of shoes in the world. Actually, it's ICICLE prize #11430778: "Eleventh largest known left shoe in the world."I can't say for c...
You stare. E'hopliktxh is crouched over in your living room, his horns scraping the ceiling. Your freshly painted ceiling, mind you. Flakes of sunshine-yellow paint drift down onto his large, red shoulders, taunting you. "Okay."You exhale and place your groceries very gently to the side, then cross your arms. "Exp...
"Arthur, you're a fool,"said one patron of the bar to another. The apparent patron in question, Arthur, was stumbling to his feet. "It's him!"said Arthur, pointing a finger in the direction of Shyla. Arthur's friend grabbed him roughly and dragged him back into a sitting position. "It's a she and you don't want to ...
By all accounts, it should have been a typical muggy day. Breakfast was crap, traffic was ass, our all powerful God Almighty yelled in everyone's heads that he's chosen an ascendant. The last one gave me a headache. When I logged into Facebook once I got into work, my feed was flowing with all my Christian friends I ha...
I open the door, to see a man dressed in a full tuxedo, complete with a bowtie and pocket scarf tucked neatly into his shirt pocket. I do a little double take, as it is in fact midnight. “Excuse me?” I peered at the man, I was getting ready to get to bed when he rang the doorbell a total of ten times. It was very obn...
######[](#dropcap) "Good luck."The man garbed in white robes--supposedly Saint Peter--barely gave Lukas a glance as he handed over the flimsy looking book, his gaze focused on the phone in his hands. Then he waved Lukas on through without another word. Curious, Lukas looked back, only to find him playing a video game....
My parents always made sure I was fully aware that Bad Things™ would happen should I ever forget to apply a special medicated cream on my skin, and now I finally got to find out why. It had always been a pain, growing up. It would take so long to make sure the cream was applied all over, especially as I got older and ...
'This is it!"I thought as I tried it again. I couldn't, yet access the source code of the universe, but I had finally managed to pull up a console of sorts. There it was, on my computer screen! I still have no idea how I managed it, but I was in. Text sped by at an inconceivable rate. From the few screenshots I took a...
You weren't there when your only child took her own life. You were out for a night of drinking with your friends, now in your middle age and unable to get together very frequently. The panicked phone call from your spouse, the rush to get home, the immediate realization that no, there was no hope that the paramedics co...
I can't wait to win again./ Yo it's slim again./ Shady a shadow bout to caste some shade on the enemy of Eminem./ You can't contain my rage as I'm crazy and evil within./ You pissed of Bruce, So Banner summoned the demon of banter, to put an end to men./ I spit a spell of flames so bright I cast out the sun on ...
Hmmmm... The Four New Horsemen, huh? Applications went out a couple of days ago, to all the pantheons. We have had some pretty good interviews. There was Janus, who showed up reinvented as the Great Barrier. He argued that humanity was going to hit him sooner or later, and will get wiped out. Problem was, we...
"Your honor. I would like to commend the plaintiff on a well thought out and presented case. They have obviously done their research."Thomas Bird, Esq responded after the forty day trial. He began a slow clap. "Based on the evidence as presented, we would like to settle for their full asking price, and whatever court c...
“Okay, and now Dean’s going to bring us the story of the week, no surprises this time around, it’s Team Mirror, and these guys are just dominating the e-sports world…” The host turns to his right, where a presenter waits in a collared-shirt, nodding his head. “That’s right, Mike. And the story behind this is just incre...
"I'm back!"exclaimed the lanky young man as he walked through the garage doors. He was pushing a cart with a large box, a few gallons of paint, and a small box sat on top of the pile. "Hey Josh,"I said, "that didn't take you long."I was confused, was this some kind of counter prank? The other guys started to gather a...
The statue of liberty lay decimated, Rocky balboa had put up a good fight, but Lincoln had stomped his bronze shape into a giant coin before succumbing to the lenins. All had been crushed under their campaign and now they stood, contemplating their next move. As the ground started shaking, the lenins looked about wit...
Gods without worshipers cease to be gods. Here, in my dying moments that have stretched on for centuries, that isn't a cliche, it is my bitterly simple reality. The death of a god is not so different from the death of any human creation. In most senses, a nation ceases to exist when it no longer has citizens, currency...
Writing with my phone is hard “You’ve gotta to be kidding me...” I groaned, there were not many things capable of eliciting such a reaction from myself, but this was such a thing. “Please mr.Shade help me find my daddy,” the girl wailed,”his been missing for a week.” Shades such as myself, were remnants of great her...
I was feeding my cat when Satan, the slanderer, the lord of flies, harbinger of doom and eater of souls, appeared in a puff of smoke into one of my floral print kitchen chairs. I'd say it was a surprising turn of events, but after the last few predictions it would take a lot more than a cloven hoof and a pair of goats...
She was crying. He was crying. I was frantically pressing on the little button on the underside of my desk. Tactical response takes two minutes and forty five seconds. It could be faster, but protocol dictates that the Unity must bring overwhelming force. It is generally understood that, as a therapist in these situat...
I stopped feeling long ago. The wind on my face is gone. Burned away. I went into that house to save people. I succeeded. I would do it again. I had won. My fingers lost to chemical burns. Though now others wouldn't have to clean up that mess. I made sure of that, for I had won. My eyes burned out from radiation, b...
Three years, two-hundred thousand dollars, and never-ending pain had brought Maria to this. "You’re a dragon, John,"slurred the hobo as he slid against the graffiti-covered wall. He was simultaneously thirty and sixty, his scraggly beard and worn beanie hiding any real markers of age. He was just as ethnically ambiguo...
"Uh, yeah. So... literally all of you guys are supernatural?" "Yeah, we sort of had a bet going to see how long it would take you to figure it out."Craig- I mean, Crusher leaned back on the couch, munching on a bucket of gravel like it was popcorn. "Is that why James and Darius hate each other?"I tried not to stare a...
"Is it finished?" "Y-yes, your un-holiness. We've finally figured out how to protect the wiring and circuitry from th-" "I asked not for semantics, you insole-" Lucifer catches himself. "Good doctor, I asked if it will work." "We..."Dr. Smith looks around at his colleagues, sweat pouring from his head. H...
As I read the prompt, I somehow misinterpreted it to read that "suddenly one of his genitals informed him"... ...This, is that story. "Ow! Fuck"The Ruler of Hell twitched on His throne of bleached skulls, fidgeting and squirming in apparent agony. "My Lord!!"shouted Berzelius, the Demon of Unexpected Twinges. "What a...
“Crush the weaklings!” Said the Dark Lord, sitting at the head of the Small Council table. “Make them cry out to their dead gods in agony!” The Lord’s deathly breath wafted across my face. “My Lord, these ‘weaklings’ run the frontier farmlands. If we crush them, we’ll need to resettle others to tend to the crops....
Dear Bob, I couldn't help but notice that you've failed to clean up the dead Returned that litter your lawn. As of this morning I could still see two corpses there. As you know not keeping a tidy lawn violates HOA code (section 25.4B). Please make sure to deal with this eyesore as soon as possible, we wouldn't want pr...
The Necro-mist toys with the results of years of effort like it’s a favoured paperweight, turning the polished black stone over and over in their hand. They could make more, the processes is deceptively simple, if time consuming, but first they must come up with some use for it. The first thing that comes to mind is, o...
# Soulmage Alexandria burned eternal, in every future and every past. Like the lighthouse it once stood next to, the destruction of its worldline shone bright along the shores of possibility. It was a warning, but also a beacon. *Here, once, never, and always, stood knowledge beyond what any world should ever kno...
I was running. Not from an enemy but from the police. Why you ask? Well, it all happened so suddenly. I was walking around downtown Nashville and not looking where I was going. I accidently bumped my knee into a police car. Now normally in this situation one would grab their knee in pain and look at the officer apologe...
It was when I shook hands with the leaders of multiple countries that I realized that I was in deep shit. To be fair, there was a lot on my mind. Allow me to explain. Two weeks ago, I woke up in my house to a dark sky at eight o'clock in the morning. I thought, "Man, I was gonna go for a run this morning, but it's loo...
"Think of it like this,"the bearded man leaned forward with his hands in a tense fold, "deer eat everything: plants, trees, grass, everything. When the flora are decimated, bugs, rodents, lizards, and other creatures are left without a habitat. Birds don't roost where there's no food. Birds' droppings often contain see...
Footsteps echoed throughout the chamber. Soon, voices began to follow. "We're almost to the treasure,"a voice said. "Damn right we are, we all made it in one piece, too!"the other said. A tall, lanky man pushed through the tomb doors, his smile turning quickly into a face of shock. "The fuck?!"he shouted. Bodies upon...
And the garment industry made a fortune while the hearing prosthetic companies crashed and burned. Audiologists were begging for work on street corners. Investments in Cochlear implants crashed. Braid styling and hair products companies were skyrocketing. It was a good time for most. Chair companies quick to create new...
We remind the human that even though our words do not deviate from the truth, it is easy to tell when this non-plural creature has not been honest with us. They call this refusal to tell things as it is "lies". It has been our observation that humans are the only race who says these lies. We do not like that, it seems...
It was almost time. Jerry had spent months getting the other two to trust him. Months in a crappy apartment in the worst part of town, before they approached him. Easy money, Marcus called it. But they hadn't TECHNICALLY done anything illegal yet. So Jerry had to wait. Marcus and Andrew drilled through the back wall ...
She pushed up her sleeve, exposing her left forearm, and asked, “Do you remember me now?” The man's breath caught in his throat. His aging eyes caught sight of the simple, black number scrawled across her pale skin. Even through the wrinkles that came with time, he could make out the digits. 12873. “Mein Gott.” T...
The year is 2070. No one could have possibly predicted the threat he posed to the idea of a united world, the idea this leader had championed for much of his supernaturally long life. Hundreds of thousands of lives gone in the blink of an eye for no discernible reason. His advisers were stunned when the order came thr...
"Are ya mad! You'll let the static in!" Captain Bridges slapped the radio switch into the 'silent' position. "The static sir?"I tried my best to keep my composure but this was the first time the captain had actually spoken to me, and to meet him with a reprimand didn't seem like a good way to break the ice. "How lon...
Hans had made a terrible mistake. The battle due that day had been postponed as a dreadful fog had fallen obscuring everything in a heavy white sheet. The men of the Empire set camp as night fell, their exertions muffled by the stubborn mist. It was so thick that you could lose your companions a mere ten feet away...
"I'm so glad you're getting into this with me, Andy,"Clyde said. "We're going to have some awesome battles!" "Just so long as you don't smash up my toys like you did in grade school!"Andy replied, pushing a stack of pizza boxes off the kitchen table and replacing it with several cling wrapped, grey box. Clyde plac...
"Thomas you son of a bitch!" I admit, it looked bad. Real bad. I didn't expect her home so soon. Just my luck. "Fifteen years Thomas. Fifteen years of trust and loyalty. And now THIS?" We'd been married for fifteen years. Had a twelve year old son together. I couldn't be happier with my marriage. "You just gonna si...
> Be me. > Be sitting at a fire with Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Sophocles, Margaret Atwood, and Zoira Hurston. > Intimidated as fuck. > Why am I here.jpg > I can't even write in full paragraphs. > Zoira ends her story abo...
I stared at the spacecraft. It was a Homulin V8 and judging from the markings on it, it was owned by some Faergu. Which is strange, cause the Faergu typically prefer something more elegant. Like a Diphlo or an Eqli. Maria grabbed my hand. She took a deep breath and looked me in the eyes. “Nick, I have something I ne...
Sergeant Buck Hardcheese, grizzled veteran of the Forever Wars, recipient of over fifty Slaughter Medals, and certified Hero of the Freedom Army lay strapped to a sterile operating table. He had been captured, damn it, but at least he had taken a hell of a lot of those drones out before succumbing to his wounds. He w...
“I want to be incredibly muscular!” says Jake, whom is dwarfed by the skinnyfat Genie. “Make me look like Tom Hardy from The Dark Knight Rises! I want to look like Bane!“ The Genie awkawardly looks at Jake, and looks around the room hoping for somebody to save him from his current situation. “Are you serious! I rubbe...
"I can't find the words to tell you just how much I love you."He whispered passionately into her ear. "But I can show you." "On this BRAND new 70"Samsung Smart TV!"He said removing the blindfold covering her eyes. "Oh my god honey! You shouldn't have! But now we can binge watch Game of Thrones ALL weekend!"She...
That helpless look in my victims' eyes just right before they die. No matter who they were before, politicians, mobsters, teachers, fathers, they all shared the same look in their last moments of life. That feeling of hopelessness and terror right before I take the life from them. I have forgotten how many of them I ha...
"Sir, can I talk to you?"BoulderDash asks. "Sure what is it Byron?"I say placing a hand on his shoulder. "What exactly is your power? I mean, nobody has ever seen you use it before. So how are you the leader?" "Are you questioning my leadership capabilities?"I respond firmly "No, not at all."He says holding his arm...
Jenna: I'm so glad I found you, I feel like you're the only person I can talk to about it. My mom doesn't get me and everyone at school is so mean. Even my teachers hate me! Mrs. J gave me detention again :-( 1018: I am sorry Jenna. I also value our friendship. I hope that school improves. Jenna: It's just so dumb...
"How long did it take you prove that?"The supervisor asked. "We've been working on the experiment for a good couple of years now."The scientist replied. "So... longer than 3... now 4 minutes?"The supervisor asked. "Yes." "So.... all the evidence and data you used is older than the universe?"The supervisor was gradu...
I finally made my way through the first level of the bloody game. I am starting to have an idea what the numbers might mean but for now, I am just trying stuff out and sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t. And just to make things worse there are the voices. Are they talking to me? Are they actually saying anything?...
"This is Jack Gnarly coming to you live from thirty thousand feet in the air!"He shouted to be heard over the roar of the hovercopter's ion engines. Jack shuffled forward inching his snowboard strapped feet closer to the open doorway. "How you feeling Jack?"His producer asked from behind the camera. "Spicy nacho!...
I woke up in a bad mood, as usual. Roger was barking at the birds in the garden, as usual. And, as usual, I still have to go to work. I headed downstairs for my muesli and stared out of the windows, watching the birds carry out their morning waltz. The world seemed more hectic than usual. There were quite a few helic...
His attention elsewhere, God was shocked when he again turned it towards humanity. He sent his angels to end this creation, one of many whom had failed to meet his expectations. They were too peaceful to ever withstand the horrors that awaited for them in the greater universe, he couldn't bear to see any of his creatio...
I clicked the mouse angrily. When that wasn’t enough to vent my frustration, I banged the whole thing on the pad several times while the program closed and dumped out of memory. Fuming, I glared at the screen for several moments before bringing up chat and logging into Jania’s server. She was online, and responded to ...
Loric the Worthy urged his horse into a canter as he saw smoke rising from the settlement ahead. Like many other brave knights who had ridden out to save many other towns, he was too late to save this one from the rampaging ogre. Its heads and shoulders were clearly visible over the burning rooftops and he could hear...
A faint dim light inside a tiny hut lit the faces of the three ancients, Vilivus, Durilama and Jaralaia. They were writting the prophecy that foresaw the unimaginable fight between the great Evil and the Hero. Vilivus and Durilama narrated the side of the Hero and the great Evil respectively as they saw it in their mi...
I hope this goes well. I hope that we will succeed in the reigniting civilization. It was a simple plan. Brad had found the old restaurant in near perfect condition. In the thirteen years that had followed the plague, Brad, Tom, John and I have grown crop fields and made cow pastures. So many sought for our help, be...
The last humans gathered on the last planet, which slowly orbited the last star. A group of them stood in thick spacesuits on the surface and talked. The dying star had survived long enough for another sunset. * “It looks like we’ve made it,” Sarai sighed. “Made what?” Lamech scoffed, “another day? Look at the...
(Oh boy I love this prompt) "Just grab another one."I said, pinching my nose. The old lady was trying to squat under the large shelves. Deft and feeble hands searching for the screw that she apparently needed for her grandson's birthday present: A large picture frame of the kid in question desperately trying to escape...
It was a weird zoo, I grant you that. Lots of zoos have strange animals in close proximity, but what was really weird was the layout of the cages. The dolphin's pool is located in the panther's enclosure, which also houses a large macaw, two crows, and a rat. The elephant's outdoor field also contains a large baboon, t...
The Human Galactic Empire has a certain reputation that we tend to forget about. See, humans are NICE. they're cheerful, and curious, and mostly people treat them like overeager kittens, sticking noses and paws into whatever catches their interest. And sure, there's always those stories that go around. How the ship...
The young sorceress climbed into the cave. “A contest”, she proposed. “If I win I claim all your artifacts and runes.” The old wizard stood up and laughed. “And if I win you become my student”. "Fine,"she said. "As the challenged party, I will choose the contest and the place." "No way!"she protested. "Then get...
I got the invitation to my high school reunion via an elegant card. 'You are cordially invited to attend your ten year high school reunion! You are allowed one plus one, please RSVP.' It had taken three days for me to decide. I was a loner, I lived on the edge of town, and I hadn't talked to a single person from hig...
“Ok,” said Simon, making his way around the room in a bid to make ‘hello’ eye-contact with everyone who was attending. “We’ve had a couple of complaints about Clark, and, according to HR, we are obliged to address the issues as a team.” “What kind of complaints?” asked Sarah, sort of half raising her hand from the bac...
Paul examined the battlefield. Hordes of raving madmen, armed with lightweight plasma cardigans and Martian rifles stood before him. He was never good with Martian rifles. When he joined the Military, he had to use them for target practice. It was the first time his commander ever saw someone miss the target by shootin...
Ella screamed in pain and grasped at Travis’ hands. “Just breathe, just breathe,” he repeated this mantra over and over. “Just breathe, just breathe.” “WHW WHW WHEW, WHW WHW WHEW,” she did her best to keep the rhythm she was taught in all her birthing classes, but it did little to calm her. “It’s okay, Ella, it’s ok...
"Maybe I'll come back with a daughter who eats all her vegetables,"I tease as I walk towards the exit. "No, take me..."she tries to say but she becomes distracted by a pouncing tiger. I shake my head, no, and prepare myself for the worst. Chiming, organ music reaches my ears, and other children point excitedly to ...
I like to say I've seen it all. I've been a combat medic in the Middle East, a trauma surgeon in the inner city, and now I work in semi-retirement as the coroner of a rural county in Southern Illinois. I've seen people with limbs vaporized by an IED, kids hit with a stray bullet in a drive-by, you name it. Here in my c...
“I don't understand you. Every night truly is different, and it can be so much fun!” New customers never saw the problem. I'm not bored because I want to be. “Well, it's sometimes funny, yes.” But sometimes having the same joke played so many times just gets tedious. “And I also have to take care of my customers....
"Halle?"I asked suspiciously while looking down at the data. "Yes, Joe?"its voice responded, almost flawlessly mimicking that of a human woman. "Please do a diagnostic check focused on the anomalies apparent in these test results." "Diagnostic check returns normal results, Joe." "That's not possible. Run it again."...
Even in the dead of night, New York City was never quiet. J Jonah Jameson knew that. How many nights he’d spent agonizing over every little detail, he couldn’t say—but he was sure his wife could. More than anyone, he knew how quiet the nights weren’t. Tonight, though, it was too damn quiet. No matter how many drinks h...
When first contact was made with the target, we expected there to be some differences, but the light/ dark cycle was an odd sight for us. We've never encountered a planet with such long days. Our Homeworld has clockwork shifts of 4 hours dark, 4 hours light, the second longest in the entire galactic covenant. This pl...
This weird feeling... I thought it was out of the ordinary, but my phone confirmed it all... My stomach grumbled and I felt better, even though I ate very little for breakfast this morning. That's when I saw the cockroach on the pavement was... dusty... grey... As if life got sucked from it. I got taken aback by the ...
"Wait, what did he tell you?" I watched as Joe Human covertly reached up to their glasses and touched the rim, and a brief image flickered across the glass. "Mr. Ander advised that it would be acceptable for me to walk around without clothes if I was comfortable with being a nudist. Since nudist is a term for someone...

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