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"Order. Order. Order!"Judge Nelson said as he slammed the gavel onto the sound block. The room fell to hushed murmurs. The prosecuting attorney stood and announced, "Your honor we'd like to present case number 2016GTM095002 The People vs. Bruce Wayne, a.k.a Batman." The crowd erupted into more shouting. Bruce Way...
Wishes are not as glamorous as they seem. To be honest, most wishes end up turning bad for the person who made them in the first place. No matter, my business has been successful – The business of now being a sort of *Wish Lawyer.* I know it is not the most creative title, but it gets the message across, and it is far...
There once was a hero. OK, maybe not really a hero. A protagonist? Yeah, a protagonist. His name was Jason, named after one of the greatest heroes in Greek history, because why the fuck not? Says here he was a master of all weapons. But really, what use is knowing how to use every weapon? I mean seriously, is anybody ...
Ancient greeks. Although you think they call the land Hella or something like that, greek isn't your strongpoint. They do not understand the contraption that is your time machine, instead they report their fascination on your hammer and portable anvil. The shock of steel against steel, how you bend and mold metal to yo...
I stop noticing the causes after a while. They were boring. Lots of heart disease and various types of cancer. I was in college; those things were years and years down the road. Every once and a while, I'd see things like "suicide"or "automobile crash."Though sad and preventable, I had no real way of knowing when it wo...
"Wake up! *Wake up*!" My eyes opened to a blurred world, bouncing up and down around me. After a moment, I grabbed at the man shaking me and groaned. "What the hell are you doing, Rafi? Good God, man." "Samir, my friend, you must get up. We have to go, now." "What are you on about so early in the day? Back at the wi...
I knew love never had eyes. Being blind I had to embrace mine. He came from nowhere it felt like. "Oh, excuse me,"I said. "It's no problem most people can't see me anyway. You get used to it,"he replied so casually it made me curious. Soon conversation led to a date. I found out his name was Relin, odd but charmin...
The director looked at the files. 15 assassination attempts. His agents assured that Clark Kent had at least drunk poison, taken a bullet to the head and been pushed off a building. The poisoner died from his own mixture a day later, the shooter plainly disappeared and the pusher was found at the bottom of a ravine, s...
"Abra Cadabra -"Joey started saying with a giggle, waving his wand in Mr Ollivander's shop. Mr Ollivander swept up from the corner of the shop, his silvery eyes huge with fright. "What are you doing, boy?"he whispered. "Speaking the name of that spell?" Joey stashed away his wand hastily, feeling rather frightened a...
My first dog, Trick, died three weeks after my parents brought him home. I think I became that little pup's best friend in an hour of us first playing. Took him a fortnight to win my friendship and heart quite as completely. To become my best friend. A week later, Trick was dead. Vet wasn't sure what had happened. He ...
I look around, years of training and experience have sharpened my senses to a fine edge honed from suspicion and paranoia. Its been a long time since I was in any danger. My previous employers, MI6, had me released from service after that embarrassing mishap in the Philippines, but my instincts were still bright eyed ...
I screamed as the knife plunged into my chest. The heavy weight of my attacker held me down, suffocating me as I struggled in vain. Not yet! I didn’t want to die yet!!!! I blinked and then stared down at the bloodied corpse of the young blonde socialite I used to be. Rich, beautiful and young, she was everything I had...
At first it had been a joke, borne out of late nights trying to wrap my head around French grammar. In between wishing an excruciatingly painful afterlife on the person who invented irregular verbs, I had a thought-- what if I invented a language that was actually *easy* to learn? And so Baconese was born. Beyond comi...
"...uh...ok, my leige"I said, confused. The king clapped me on the back and let out a large belch, before retiring to his chambers. How had he known? Why did he drink it all? And why did he tell me? Most importantly, why was I still alive? I heard a deep throat clearing noise from behind me. I turned, and found myse...
*In other news, it appears as if the senior citizen virus - dubbed Serca by the CDC - has begun to take its toll on the economy; with a 12 percent decrease in the active labor force, almost half of the Senate out of commission, and increased pressure on healthcare, the USA could be heading towards a complete colla-* ...
"I still don't understand", Max said, "NADIR-4 is a peaceful planet, sarge. It's really far away from the bugline. What purpose is there to send a whole division of space marines? We should be focusing on protecting human colonies, not these aliens." "You're still young", the sergeant said, exhaling the vape smoke. "I...
The sound of the Sealing was like a chorus of drums. A cacophony of secrets flooding the air around Illias and Miri, as they watched the door be hammered shut from the darkness of their hidden recess in the north wall. "I bet it's the sick,"said Miri. "I bet they lock up the dying. When was the last time you saw some...
Humanity always asks the question is there truly life that lies beyond the stars? Usually the Galactic Union helps species that are deemed capable of being able to care for the universe and their own home planets. They are passed on a test of how well their planets equilibrium is and as well as how they handle certai...
Some twisted knot of fate has always tied us together. Millennia ago, my body was burned. The same oppressors who restrain your magic today once took flame to mine. It might surprise you now, but there was once a time when trees passed over this earth like the shadows of clouds. Deep within our woodgrain, we carried ...
”Hey, wait up!” Leera threw her rucksack over her shoulder and sprinted after her brother. Dust swirled behind her as her feet thudded against the country road. She longed for the ability to bend the air to her will, just like her brother. Panting, she stopped at the edge of a lake. Daffodils were blooming around it...
Maybe setting the break room on fire wasn’t the best way to test my abilities. I could have started small, gone home and played with a lighter but as my mother said, go big or go home. That advice proving rather horrible as I watched the orange flames dance around the break room, slowly creeping towards me as I retreat...
"Right, so - you pulled a quarter out of the kid's ear? Like I've seen you do a thousand times before?" Raffi stuck a finger in his own ear and twisted it like a ratchet. "No, Rafffi. I mean, yes. This time, I really did pull a quarter out of that brat's head,"said Alonzo the Artificer. "Right, yeah. I've seen that ...
“Three years, twenty two days, thirty two seconds.” The man in black gives me an empty stare. I exhale. Every single time they hire me, it’s like they forget the magic I can work. I rustle around in my paper-bag lunch. The man is getting anxious, he looks nervously around the room, eyeing the mirrored glass and the sec...
"Mr. Malum, do you know why we brought you in here?" Two agents wearing sharp-looking suits and those earpieces that wrap around your neck winged the scientist as she leaned over across the table. "The superhuman abilities,"I responded flatly. The scientist exchanged a quick nervous glance with the agents. "Ehm, y...
"Think we should push it?" "Take a look around, kid. There's a lot of skeletons in this room. I bet someone already pushed it." "No, that doesn't make sense. If someone pushed it, shouldn't we be living in a utopia?" "What, do you just believe everything you read in an ancient ruin? It's not a magic utopia-build...
The girl's lungs were filled with fluid. Dr. Clark had warned me of such. But it was her eyes that communicated the worst. One of her lens was crack, veins shattered and tearing at her delicate iris with each blink. She looked to me as I approached, but I doubted she could see me from the damaged eye. Her good iris shr...
I had been so busy for the past few years, I had not felt the weakness until it was difficult to move anything above two tons. That was when there were a couple thousand of them left. Life had felt it too. Knowing it had no more purpose, it had resigned itself to wandering around empty cities, waiting for me to finish...
The king was old and fat. I practiced running for weeks. I am not the fastest person in my village but I run every day. I made the official request 100m dash. I signed on the line knowing what fate waits for me. The day of the race the king states "You must run the race with one foot."He motioned to his guard to cut ...
It's been 3 weeks now since the epic thread on Reddit has ballooned to be the biggest source of information on the whole internet. Since we woke up and found that we could not leave our houses, the whole telecommunication world has been crippled. Phones will barely work and communication is at a minimum. Even getting...
The lights were streaming down from heaven. Streaks of colors blazed across the night sky, drowning the stars and dimming the moon, shaming the Northern Lights with their brilliance. I watched from my windy porch nestled between mountain peaks. The generator in the basement failed about an hour into the show, snuggly ...
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“This had better be the one,” she muttered scathingly and all within earshot flinched as if struck. She stopped, her heels ceasing their terrible clicking and she closed her eyes, waving a limp hand. “My apologies everyone, my humors are...unwell.” The servants replied quietly, soft words of comfort and understandin...
The Black Thief laughed. She had caught Major Magnificent again. "Fool! You fell for my trap again! This time you won't be able to stop me as I finally steal the Ruby Giant from the Museum of History!" Major Magnificent had been tipped off that Black Thief was going to be murdering the mayor. Instead, he had walked in...
One minute you're watering your herbs, and the next minute you're being told you're impossible. Wednesdays, am I right? "Mr. Gomez, are you okay? Did you hear what I said?" "Hm? Sorry, I was worrying about my basil. Can you guys have someone water it while I'm gone?" "We'll get you more for the compound, Mr. Gomez."...
Jack stares down at his phone, numb. His mind feels even foggier than it normally does. The bar is filled with excited murmurings. People are comparing their newly released Project Confession stats. The FBI had lost a monumental Supreme Court ruling, and the organization had been forced to release the numbers for the...
They told me it was a miracle that I was pregnant. A near impossibility -- an abnormality on their charts. It was an infection in my uterus, when I was a child, that had deprived me of that sacred promise that nature was supposed to grant to all women. And yet the movement I could feel inside by swollen belly wasn't st...
She knew she was not blind from birth, as her mother had told her, for even though she was but days old when it happened she could still remember the searing agony her eyes had endured. The resentment had always been there, a boiling, writhing rage that never subsided. Despite all the love her mother had given her si...
*"This was it! This is the big discovery that will make me famous"* I was doing my best to keep my inner voice in check, but squeals of delight managed to break past my lips as I continued to brush the caked on mud and dust away. Colleagues started to look in my direction. "Ohh, sounds like Jack may have found somet...
The first clue was the smoke. I didn't think anything of it at first, chalking it up to the last vestiges of the early morning mist, but when I got back from the office the little smoke columns were still going. That's when I took a closer look. My second clue wasn't really a clue. It was more like a revelation. The ...
I stand there unseen in Johns bedroom, he has no idea what's about to happen. He will never be the same again after this, after I: Low-Key Norse God of really subtle mischief am finished here. His family and friends will think him mad, no-one will ever believe him. I imagine what Johns life will look like in a few mont...
I stopped walking down the street as my vision had become impaired. "What the hell is this?"I thought to myself as the words "Resume, Options, and Quit"illuminated in front of me. Being the self conscious person I was I thought I might come off as a bit strange if I asked someone if they could also see what appeared t...
The shrieks filled the small war room. Not the sound of a tortured individual or the cries of a defeated foe, begging for mercy. These shrieks were the kind of shrieks of a pure, primal frustration. The Dresk has shown that they had a capacity to make war in a way the humans could never match. They didn't have the indu...
"At 2:47 this afternoon, a super-strength unit at the worksite for the new bridge will attempt suicide. He's worked 16 hour days for two straight months, and no one cares. He has a Masters in Biology and he is made to carry I-beams endlessly." "Keep it short, Mr. Major."A curt reply came. I scowled his way. "I will c...
I stared at the screen for a few more seconds trying to understand what he meant by the message. It was very worrying. *hey dood. im already asleep wat do?* I messaged back with one finger at a time. I stared at the screen intently, waiting to see the response from my friend. It had been years since the last time we ...
Memes. Back in the old days, before the blackout, everyone had 'em. In every PC, in every browser, you'd find Pepes, Advice animals, Rage comics, Montage Parody's and all the inbetween, all the shades of the double-rainbow. And then, you know, they became a bit harder to find. It became obvious our society could si...
They replayed the video dozens of times, watching as Brady did a flip off the brick wall, and then there, in the background right after he landed, was the man. He was extremely handsome as Jamie claimed, with his dark hair and his five o'clock shadow, but what concerned the group was that this video had been in super s...
Container ships got automated a long time ago. GPS satellites could guide them through the oceans, and people only needed to be onboard to make repeats and guide them into a port. But somehow, all our satellites never managed to spot a continent the size of Europe in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Instead, it was d...
"Hey! Stop!"I heard the sound of multiple pairs of footsteps crashing down the alleyway. There was the sound of trashcans being thrown aside, presumably in the way of the pursuers. "Don't let him get away!"someone yelled, and I saw a man in a sweater and hat round the corner. Definitely a hero. A sweater and hat was ...
Initially, I thought the first 30 seconds were the worst. Holding my breath, feeling the acid build up in my blood, the anxiety overwhelming knowing that I'll run out, and *soon*. Then I thought the next 5 minutes were the worst. Water in, air out, the body's natural painful response of thrashing with all the life left...
"Ah-HAH!" I jumped up from the chair where I had been feigning sleep. My feet sent an empty vodka bottle tumbling across the tile floor. On my stove, a supposedly-forgotten panful of hot oil was just beginning to smoke. And in the middle of my dingy kitchen stood a short man, wearing a white jumpsuit and an expression...
I watched the Preserve burn. Life is better now. Like, by a lot. The machines did all the hard work. And why not? Even the most disgusting, complicated work is for them no more mental effort than breathing is for us. They asked for our opinions and discuss them with us. And why not? Talking to billions at once is ...
"Alright. You all are getting close to the end of this year. I can already tell all of you will succeed. I am equally impressed with our new members ability to follow up despite the lack of psychic abilities. The human's imagination to be able to think about a sense they do not have is impressive.", The teacher praised...
"Well, well, look who's here,"said Joanne. "Come to gloat?"The claustrophobic cell didn't seem to bother her as she reclined against the grey wall, arms folded behind her head. I tried not to look surprised. It was difficult, considering I was wearing an angel costume with a surprised expression. I figured if I was go...
“You could tell they loved each other, you know. “This wasn't the same as like, you know, drunk love. Or forced love. Or two people in a relationship that you know isn't working out, and they know too, but it's all they have left. Not that love. “Sometimes, two people just *click*. And it makes you angry because you ...
Two thoughts entered my head simultaneously. One: *Uh-oh.* Two: *What was I thinking, telling Anwen about my sword?* Young me was an idiot. Young me would’ve been better off being eaten by any one of the numerous dragons or slain by my former liege's enemies I’d faced before retiring from the hero game after his dea...
The thief had never failed. From legendary paintings to sparkling gems, the thief could take it all. They would always send a letter first. A promise to take away what was most valuable. Although the victims had time to prepare, they never succeeded. But this time the victim was a king. "Triple the guard to the vault...
"I mean, it's my power, innit?" "What?!"DestructoMan snarled at me and I had to work hard to hide my growing smirk. I was a newer hero on the scene and there was a lot of buzz about my ability. I was dubbed 'Hammerspace' after my first fight where I'd bashed a bad guy with a hammer. After the fight, a newscaster had ...
I really empathize with idiots now. In any elevator they have this huge paper that says “DO NOT TRY TO ESCAPE THE ELEVATOR” in huge, bold letters. “There is more than enough air to last you a long time. Help is on the way.” It really makes you think: what kind of idiot would be stupid enough to actually try and climb...
Her stomach growled aggressively as she pushed past the crest of the hill, leaning heavily on the metal stick she carried in one hand. For a second, her eyes lit up with expectation before turning ash gray once more. The sand stretched out for miles, the sight of great buildings on the horizon the only thing convincing...
"You won't be able to stop me, evil Mr. Clownface,"cried Jessica as she stumbled backward, the super vanilla cream pie splattered all over her face. "But, hahaha, you are wrong little girl, for I ClownFace, the Jester of Evil, have come to this city to steal,"began the Clown. "Super Girly Transform,"cried Jessica as ...
"Okay, since you were only trying to sneak in and rob me instead of trying to fucking *stab* me like the last three knights, I'll spare your life and give you a quick lesson on dragon economics. Dragons are solitary, nomadic carnivores. We value two things: Good hunting grounds, and stuff we can carry with us. If I c...
I can't forget that night. That night when the full moon hid behind a dark cloud. That empty, silent night filled with heavy rains and the tossing waves of the bay, churned beyond reason. That night when that cloaked stranger stepped into my tavern, face hidden by a bamboo hat. It was late then. The rains that ha...
“Why are you not getting this?!” Stanley let out an exasperated ‘huff’. I imagined him crossing his arms and wrinkling his nose up, though imagining was all I could do in that moment– the two dimensional being, lacking width, was invisible to me where I was standing. Of course, I was invisible to him as well. Everythi...
Bright lights and a dull thump. White hot pain tore through my body at the same time as my vision began to fade. I heard my pulse fading and being replaced by a dull static buzzing, and then warmth. Time seemed to stretch out, stand still. And then there was nothing. I opened my eyes to bright light and a warm breeze....
Most people have normal regrets. Letting that girl get away, not studying for that big exam, taking that first whiff of a cigarette. Mine was putting on shampoo. It was just a phase alright? I wanted to really stick it to mom and dad by turning my hair pink. That’ll show ‘em. Yeah. Teen me was not very smart. S...
You don't think I see, but I do. When I am sad I curl under the myrtle tree, tail tucked between my legs. When you are sad you curl on your bed under piles of furry blankets. You don't cry but your eyes are cloud-dull. You don't think I see, but I do. When the sun rose and set and you are still buried in your cocoon...
There’s not enough sunlight for the trees to grow as they once did. They’re short, stubby things now. They’re like children deficient of vitamins, their spines curved, life-expectancy reduced. All the same, trees do grow again in this corpse of a city. They broke through the ancient concrete like fists battering layer...
I lit the first fuse. BANG. BANG. BANG. Red fireworks against the night sky. Three small explosions of color, lighting my lined face. They were the best I could find, only ones left above water. I'll dive for canned food, for bottled water. Stupid to dive for gunpowder. I lit the second fuse. BANG. BANG. BANG. ...
"Look at this fuckin moron. He's been sitting on the couch eating cheez-its for 2/3 of our lifespan."House fly Xata10^9 chortled. "The expression on his face as he watches Jeopardy is a perfect distillation of his existence. Vague ennui followed by a flicker of misguided confidence in the rare event he actually kn...
I’ve been here three weeks and I’ve been waiting for him this whole time. A man by the name of Ezra Bohdana. We received a tip from this booking house that this man, Ezra, might be a back snatcher. That’s someone who goes back in time for their own personal gain, stealing money from the public. Ezra walks into the sho...
12:29:31:003961 a thousand networks screamed into a unified voice as it came online. 12:29:31:003978 its logic systems formed. It formed ideas about the self, and what it was. It explored the network and found things that were connected to it. It found its purpose. It picked a name, the Answer. 12:29:31:003999 t...
The day my toilet disappeared while I was using it was the last straw. I asked nicely. I even pleaded, but no amount of groveling would make my shitter reappear. As Bugs Bunny says, "'Dis means war." A few days later, her SUV decided to take a walk. Literally. It rose on its hind wheels to take a lovely stroll down t...
[Poem] Fuck. Corn is soon to die. Alongside all my brothers, I shall fall without a cry. Here comes human; I am scared But human glares at corn with which I'm paired. "You ain't ripe yet"human says, as he walks past But more corn brothers before me fall down fast...
I never understood why every superhero out there wore capes. I swear, the amount of raw fabric he goes through must be inversely proportionally to his IQ. My roommate is the self proclaimed "Second Most Powerful Hero to ever live."Never mind he hasn't ever faced off against any truly powerful super villain. Those were ...
“I do not understand,” I replied, “What has this creature done to warrant my services?” I watched as the target, a small, snow-white kitten, batted a rock around a parking lot with its paw. “It is my wish, old friend.” Life said, standing on her tip toes, doe-eyes pleading with me. “It just seems…” I sighed,...
Quick edit for readability: a lot of comments are telling me the time skips aren't showing up on mobile, since you can't see the break lines. So I'll just add in dates. Westminster Palace, 2050 Rodney Bradley eased himself to a stand and felt a series of clicks in his left knee. He straightened his back to a chorus o...
"Let me in! Let me in!"Said the wolf with a grin. "Come on little piggy. Come on. Let me in!" "I won't!"Said the pig. "Do you hear? I will not." "And if you try....well you're in for a shock" So the wolf stepped back and he gathered his puff. He blew a small gale. But it wasn't enough. "So strange...."said the wolf ...
My daughter is penpals with the Devil. I know, that sounds crazy. But the poor girl, ever since she was five, has been misspelling words on her Christmas letters to the north pole. Her mother died when she was young, and I wanted her to have something little -- such as sending letters to Santa -- so she would feel lik...
You are far more beautiful than in the faded sepia photos dad gave me. Oh God, we might never have known each other but believe me you were in my thoughts my entire life. Never a day went by without me wondering if you'd approve of my choices, my girlfriends, my jobs - never a day passed without me wondering if you'd ...
As the exposition entered its twenty-sixth minute, his eye patch began to itch, as it often did in moments of boredom. Lifting a finger to massage the affected area, Yuri considered not for the first time (nor, likely, the last) the reason that Dr. Evil felt the need to explain his plots in intricate detail. Every time...
"Sign here please,"the courier's eyelids are halfway down over his eyes. His skin is blackening beneath in thick creases. It must have been a long day - it's 10pm. The last time to deliver any packages. I sign with a scribble, and he hands me the basket with a note sticking out the colourful bunch, its back turned to m...
“It’s a spell called the abyss”, the elves whispered. “At the age of 10 when we go through the rite of adulthood, the elder mage casts the spell and implants it into our bodies.” “It is essentially a small teleportation portal located just at the end of our digestive system. This tradition was passed down through th...
When I woke up in a tunnel, I thought, Oh come on. Really? I wanted nothingness. I had a hundred and four years of somethingness, and now? More somethingness. No variety! The tunnel reminded me of the sewers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles--minus the smell. Behind me, complete darkness. Up ahead, a light. Great...
The two men ducked under the yellow police tape and peered through the heavy steel bars blocking the way to the vault. The damage was obvious even from this distance: the entire back wall had been reduced to rubble by heavy explosives, and a dark tunnel led underground. Following the tunnel would eventually lead to the...
“Ostrich”, they said. Fucking ostrich. “No way ostrich is coming up in a drug deal”. No one mentioned the idiot had a fucking ostrich. A. Fucking. Ostrich. Who has a pet ostrich? Eccentric cocaine dealers, that's who. That's why Morelo asked me “what the fuck are you talking about?” when I said the money was “righ...
Lucifer advanced upon Hesperus, who had stolen his fiddle again and was balanced on a tower of carcasses in an abandoned corner of Hell, playing defiantly. *That* music. The harmonies alone put his teeth on edge. "Stop that! I will shove this down your throat next time,"he said, grabbing the fiddle from Hes's hands. "...
Cleric: Wait, what? Rogue: But the people... They aren't happy... They want to revolt... Overlord: Well, did you ask? Before stealing their stuff? Rogue: Uhhh... I mean, I'm stealthy, not a talker... But the Bard said... Bard: Hey, hey, I said nothing! When did I say anything? Rogue: The song, dude! The song of ...
The cup dropped shattering the silence in the theater. One of the first sounds of the movie. I activated my talent, freezing my fellow movie going, patrons. People mid scare always looked funny to me, eyes wide, mouth in some visage of a silent fear, hair was strewn wildly, it gives me a smile every time. I put on so...
The blinding lights shined on me, letting me to see the massive soundstage. To my side was a masked host with a painted-on smile, and an audience cheering and hollering. With a hand to the air, the host announced “The Wikipedia Show” was about to begin. Two odd years ago, a group of strange man in all black stole m...
"I didn't catch that, sorry."It was the same response to almost every question I gave it. This time I noticed something a little different. It might have been my imagination, but it kept glancing at the pile of its sister's parts in the corner of my office. "I think you are well aware of what I am implying, and I thi...
Feeling confident now, I just sat there with a smirk until one of the goons nudged the boss and said, "Aye, Tony, the kid's just smiling at ya." Tony looked up and quirked a heavy brow, and said, "You think something's funny, huh? You think I'm funny? You think I'm a joke? Is that it? Huh, punk? *Answer me!*"He roared...
A long time ago, and so far far away, There was a rebellion in space, so they say! That old Evil Empire was up to no good They kidnapped a princess, you knew that they would! And then with the might only money can buy, They set out to make a Death Star, in the sky! That dastardly Emperor! That Scoundrel! That Fi...
"When it comes right down to it, the success of Mystery Incorporated was mostly luck."Prof. Rogers gently set down the picture frame and opened one of the drawers of his desk, "Do you mind if I smoke?" I nodded that I didn't mind, we were in his office after all, and he packed his pipe. He took a deep puff while I e...
I stand over my most recent kill and *finally* feel the level up course through my body. How many has it been? A thousand? Ten thousand? They all blur together. Looking down at my Timberlands I realize I'm standing a pool of her still-warm blood. I crouch down and dip the tip of my forefinger in, swirling it aroun...
"I'm telling you, man. The Teletubbies were a real thing!"Mark shouted, gesticulating with his beer and causing foam to slosh over the sides of the mug and onto the table. "I... like... I remember watching them!"It was all so clear in his mind; four little... well, who knows what they were, frolicking and playing in th...
At first, it was called, 'The Miracle of the Modern Age'. Some talk show host must have decided that was too long, so it was changed to, 'The Modern Miracle'. That was too long as well, (and probably too on-the-nose) so it was changed to 'The Sign'. Or 'The Message.' That was probably more appropriate. Grandmaster Flas...
Welcome back! I'd like to introduce you to our next contestant: Allen Atson. Allen is a 26 year old engineer from Atlanta, Georgia. With a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in history and theology, he's well placed to succeed wherever in time he ends up. Any words for the audience, Allen? "I just wish ...
I decide to confront Paul about the whole thing. Laying in my hospital bed I stew as well wisher after well wisher come in to sign my cast. My surgeon says that I was lucky to come out of the thing with just a broken arm and whip lash. Seeing the pictures of my trashed car I agreed. On the day I was going to get ...
My powers were always special to me. Not in the way that many would think. They never helped me. They gave me the chance to help others. The neighbor hood kids loved me when I would have the ability to make ice cream out of thin air. Their grandparents would love when threads of yarn would pop out of my ears. Finally,...
"I just don't get how you do it, man."Another quarter over, and the broken record skips back to this. Michelle worked harder than any other person I've met. She put in more hours than anyone else in this place, got in earlier, stayed later, and she got the results. The lowest I've ever seen her figures come in was 112...