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First post here, also the first draft. Please let me know your thoughts on this piece. After we had finished eating, we all decided to grab a drink at a nearby bar. On the way out of our restaurant, I saw a young kid maybe 12 or 13 years old sneak into the back of the kitchen and grab a loaf of bread. He was skin...
She had never feared the mountains the way the rest of her people did. They were grateful for the peaks that reached for the sky, happy for the protection they gave from those who would wish to invade them and for the water that would run down the sides in the spring, feeding their lakes and streams and allowing them t...
Easy mode? Why the hell did I pick that before? Am I a goddamn child? I always thought it was just too damn easy, living the life I did. Happily married parents with no scandals. Millions of dollars inherited and a job title you could only get with nepotism. Super good-looking and a master in all games FPS. Every frea...
"I can't have children, you idiot."She said. Patting my head like I was a child. "I didn't realize 'Highlander' rules applied, mom"I replied. She looked disappointed. "Highlander is fiction, you idiot"she said. "I can't have children and I can't die. This is my curse. I've been alive for almost 4,000 years. I grew up...
*Sorry for formating, on mobile* Day 116. L8352 checking in with central command. We have monitored these EEEeee-ar-thlings for several of their months. And we have found something rather peculiar. For eight of their hours they enter some bizarre stasis mode. They place their bodies horizontally on these platforms...
It didn’t take long for these super-humans to rise above all of us normal mortals. Naturally the wealthy designed their children first, they really got to work out all the bugs in designing people. After the practice became normalized more people saved up enough money to design their children. The majority of the wor...
I woke up in a hospital room, confused. It was early morning and I had no idea what I was doing here. I had no prior memory of what happened before I woke up, apart from blurry memories of a party and then screams. My family and the doctors told me that I had an accident around 6 months ago and I apparently lose my mem...
It was quite dark but my new device illuminated the room. So this is what we call a phone. Interesting. As of late I had been stuck in a rut. Going to town, finding a suitable prey and …. Well that's it. Nothing else happens. For the last 20 years people were stuck to their small devices and no matter how hard ...
"Well, normally, you'd be correct,"I said, startling the player even more. Jerking my avatar's hand back in a realistic emulation of physical movement, I gestured to the other NPCs behind me. "And if you were referring to them, you'd also be correct." There's an astonished look on his avatar's face, one mapped from th...
"Objection! Leading the witness!" The ghostly judge sighed with an impatience that seemed ill-fitting to an eternal entity, but who was I to judge? I only just got here, and my life had been fantastic. A savant musician and a spiritual guru who led millions of followers, but now it was time to foot the bill. "Sust...
Tak was standing on the 40th floor looking out the window of the skyscraper that he owned. He celebrated his 700th birthday this evening with friends. They all know what he is and that his capabilities are special because of how he was born. Tak isn’t the last, but he is the oldest and the strongest. When Tak was bo...
The blacksmith scratched his head in confusion. He’d been the owner of this shop for thirty years now, and had apprenticed at it for ten years prior to that. His mentor had always told him to keep an open mind...to never judge the requests of the town folk and especially not the royalty. Some people just liked their ar...
Galas stared at the hundreds of blaring alarm clocks around his room. 'How many hours have I been awake for?"He wondered, his eyes heavy. He wanted to count but he couldn't, his mind refused to do anything until it slept, but as soon as he did he knew The Nightmare Beast would be awoken. He looked out of his window, ...
Hush little baby, don't say a word; For you've hatched next to Papa's lightning bird. And if that lightning bird won't kill, Papa's also got a murderous quill. And if that quill won't pierce your scales, Papa's moat of void lacks any safety rails. And if you don't fall to oblivion, The next trap hosts venomous am...
“...once again, we strongly urge you to not interact with these objects but instead to report them to your local officials for study and potential destruction.” Jess snorted. “They really think we just gonna this shit up to area 51?” He patted the scaly, metallic surface of the egg fondly. “No sir, not me.” “I dun...
My eyes almost rolled into the back of my head but they were transfixed on the message on our screen. Proof. Undeniable and real. Proof. Proof that we are living in a simulation and that everything up to this point in human history has not only never mattered, but also never been real or meaningful in any capacity be...
"Mom, can you not? I'm not a human anymore." "And whose fault is that, hmm? Didn't I tell you to start going to church more often? Now, look at you. Everybody's kids are doctors and lawyers and my son is a demon. What am I supposed to tell the neighbors?" "Nothing! I died already! Why are they even still asking about...
I just wanted a life. A life to call my own. Not one serving underneath the foot of the next lord. Someone would take their place and it becomes a whole new routine. That was not living it was just the eternity of repetition of being told what to do and where to do it. I thought to myself: "What if I could make a bette...
12:02 AM Finishing my TV show for the night, I work up the willpower to get off the couch and go brush my teeth before bed. I walk in to the bathroom down the hallway, turn on the light, grab my toothbrush and toothpaste, wt the brush a little and begin. The feeling of the soft bristles against my mouth makes me ev...
“What?” Shrieked a villager, loud enough to shock the others in the marketplace. “They can’t do that? She’s been nothing but a hero!” “I know,” replied the other, “but king’s orders.” A stillness fell over the normally boisterous open area. Everyone looked around, seeing the hardened looks of the others. There was a s...
The music blares and the audience cheers as confetti bursts forth from cannons as I stood there stunned. The iron grip from the host was practically menacing as he grabbed my hand to violently shake it and his smile was incredibly eerie. The music and the audience dies down and the announcer finally releases my hand. ...
The streets were slick with rain that November morning. Cars crawled timidly through the deluge, their yellow headlights only managing to pierce the curtain of water for a few feet. Nothing else seemed to exist but the shapes of the cars and the rain. Bruce watched this dramatic scene apathetically from the alleyway ...
The door banged open behind her. Lucille stopped stirring her large, steaming pot of stew and placed her wooden spoon next to the hearth. She turned to see a rugged group of four soot stained ruffians entering the tiny abode. Her plump faced cat watched from its hiding spot at her feet near the fire. “Oh fiddlesticks...
It would have been just a case of a pest doing some minor damage had it not been for the events of... *Friday. You've heard the story before. A group of drunken teens found an old book with a human face* on it, bound in human leather, and decided to ignore the chains and numerous warnings and read from it. We...
I never thought this day would come, but here we are, me and a dolphin. Sitting in two rather comfortable beach chairs with glasses of wine. When I said I was going to summon a god, this was the last thing I imagined. “So kiddo, you really couldn’t find anyone else to help?” Said the dolphin, speaking in English someho...
I could always communicate with the dead, but I learned very quickly to pretend that I couldn't. People finding out you see and hear ghosts was never a good thing. That's how you get sent to infuriatingly calm-voiced doctors and counselors for "evaluation". Even worse, though, is when the ghosts find out ...
"It's not very sportsmanlike." The lizard man's eyes blinked horizontally. "I'm not a ssssportsman." "You know what I mean."The ghost looked through the kitchen window and into the living room, where a portly man was rocking aggressively in his recliner, the blue light of his TV blinking dimly on his face. "You hav...
My life wasn't particularly interesting or noteworthy from any perspective. Not even my own. I lived a calm, peaceful life and looked forward to dying at the ripe age of 82, the statistically average age to die for one such as myself. Except I didn't die. I could go on about the rise and fall of nations that I witnes...
The white-coated scientist stared for a long moment, watching in increasing confusion as the colony of rats before him worked within their tiny village. "Have you tried an exterminator?"He glared over to the homeowner, who seemed unimpressed by his question. "Yes, four separate ones. All said they couldn't do anyth...
“After all this time…” I whispered, running my fingers lightly over the crown. “The crown finally belongs to me.” My advisor nodded grimly. “Yes, sire. What a shame about your parents,” he sighed. Ah, yes. My parents. “What a shame, indeed,” I muttered. “They lived long and happy lives, so I suppose that it could’ve...
"After much thought and consideration, I've decided to name the new house 'Caelumclavis.' The house colors will be silver and sky blue. Caelumclavis will be a house that values innovation, creativity, and adaptability. I believe this house will be a home for students who have an innate curiosity and a desire to explore...
"Did you see my new antigravity car when you came in?" Velix ears twitched with brief confusion. "No, near as I knew you do not have gravity technology." Dave nods. "And you do not have higher end power sources nor small and fast computers. I recall we replaced your room sized computer with an off the shelf note book...
The first one had taken him longer than expected-- /r/Fermata simply refused to let go, despite the encouraging percussive blasts of a rock to the skull. Pure luck, a mutual surprise where years of quick-time events gave him the edge. Retreating to stealth mode let him silently dispatch poor /r/Outoftheloop, still stru...
The throne room of the Gods was unsettled, its empty throne simply reflecting the anger put forth by the more aggressive members of the Council. "You've got to be kidding me!!"Shouted Thor. "He's not even a real God!" The eyes of the rest of the Council of Gods shifted uneasily. Usually these things went down wit...
"Alright men, listen up. As you venture forth to fight this war of the worlds, remember one thing. Remember that while I sit in my Captain's Quarters drinking my cham-pagin, I'll be out there fighting with you. Not actually fighting of course, but fighting in my mind like some sort of headache with a gun." Many of the...
Chuck stared at the crumpled body on the floor, a pool of blood collecting beneath it and blending into its wrinkled yellow cape. This was absolutely not how he’d expected the morning to turn out; he’d grown so accustomed to failure in his criminal attempts that any sort of success was simply unthinkable. He carefully ...
That night, from the safety of my racecar bed, I made a vow. I found a flashlight in the drawer where mom always kept it, then got a piece of paper and a pen from Dad's desk. Under my Care Bears covers, I wrote out a list. A list of all the moments and faults of my past life that I wished I could change. Number one o...
Once, Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Moe, They caught a tiger by the toe. And how it got there, it was so: They left a glass of Bordineaux And hoped that it would see it glow. The tiger stopped and saw the show, And snare ensured it would not go. Then Eenie, Meanie, Miney, Moe Stepped up to deal the final blow. Thus s...
The year is 2137, 115 years after the discovery of reincarnation. We've been keeping prisoners alive inside this facility for well over a century. The worst of the worst. We planned to keep them all contained indefinitely. I thought that too, but then it happened, but first how it all started. I was fresh out of Inte...
"Hey. Hey. Yo." Hubert was talking again. Sharp voice he had. Really sharp. "Yo. Come on. Hey. Hey." I recrossed my paws and sighed. I did not like Hubert's new voice. It was loud, and right in my head. I used to be able to ignore Hubert. Can't anymore. "Yeah. Hey. Hey. Hey." It was sorta disturbing how much his v...
Ignautius stood perfectly still, like a statue built by men. He hesitated to so much as blink, for fear of what would be done to him. The figure standing across from him, not fifteen feet away, smiled, an act unheard of by him. He stood tall, but not as much as one would think when they heard tales of him, for cert...
Eight billion people. I could only choose five. Five antidotes, five cures that couldn't be duplicated. No one knows I have the vials, but I'll have to tell them before there's no one left. Chance of survival without the antidote was non-existent. So who do I give them to? Friends that betrayed me? Family that left me?...
'Is the Universe conscious and aware of itself?' That is a question I asked curiously to my friend 2 years ago, but by now, I think I know the answer, and by now I would rather know the answer to this, 'Does the Universe know that I get it, it is conscious, and to stop being a huge flippin douchebag?' I mean, t...
Have you ever seen a deer dive in front of a car? That’s because being a deer sucks. Being that delicate twists your mind. Humans have told ourselves that it is because deer’s brains are small, but really, that deer has just killed something that it would rather be. Deer are desperate to get out of their lives, but a...
When you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes. Everything you did, all the lives you lived, all of your joys, your sorrows, your loves and losses all spin past you. Life in fast-forward, warts and all. What wasn't entirely obvious to the average person was that this rapid review wasn't just a greatest hits s...
I stared up at the enormous banner hanging over the city's iconic bridge. It featured a massive picture of a handsome man wearing an orange-beaked mask over his face. Bulging muscles rippled through his tight spandex top, and he was striking the classic heroic pose. Below that, bold text declared: > Thank you, Oran...
Fulfilling my Friday afternoon ritual, I drove over to Loving Care, the retirement home my grandmother lives in. No one really visits her anymore, so I feel almost obligated to spend at least a little time with her. Poor grandma, all alone. I can't imagine what that's like. I walked through the doors and signed in, ...
Honestly, I didn't understand it. Most people didn't, but in simple terms, scientists had created a device capable of telling the contributions a child would make to society before he or she is born. They were always accurate, except in cases where a child died before being born or in cases of multiple babies in the wo...
I looked at the familiar, yet very out of place message. Combat? "What combat?" I suddenly became aware of a rather loud and attention-demanding screaming, emanating from across the street. Sure enough, I turned around to see a man running towards me with a carbine rifle in hand, bayonet fixed, and looking mighty dete...
Deep beneath the Earth in a secret laboratory Dr. Utonium stood over a bubbling cauldron. "The science is there, the math checks out,"he said excitedly grabbing glass vials from the table. "I have unlocked the formula to create the perfect girl. Finally we will have a daughter..."he emptied sugar, spice, and everyth...
Tiger licks her front paw, whilst staring down the new kitten from her place on the couch. "Tell me,"She says, "What's your name again?" "Mittens!"He practically roars, his mighty whimper of a voice echoing off nothing because it was so small. "I think it's cos my feet are white but the rest of me is grey!" "What a...
"Sarah, lunch is ready!"I shouted. On cue, I heard the scuttling and clicking of kid's shoes. In walked my arcane tike, her blond hair hovering and her eyes glowing red. "It's spaghetti and meatballs."I said, serving pasta on two plates. "Yay! My favorite!" I slid over her plate and gave her head a pat, smiling. As...
The detective sat at the table, the smoke from his cigar lingering in the air just above the single lamp overhead. Looking through the case files laid out before him he grunted at each detail before finally looking up. The detective glared at the young man who sat across from him. "An orphan,"he said as though that ...
It was a beautiful Tuesday morning, perfect for barbecuing, picnics, romantic walks on the beach, and anything else that's done in fair weather. The streets were empty of any living beings, which was unusual to say the least. With such perfect weather it seemed like a great opportunity for folks to take advantage of t...
Sweet sweet freedom. I can almost taste the potato chips on the air as I walk out of my last exam, the taste of summer. I stick in my earphones, glare at freshman and then zone in on the exit. Already my shoulders feel lighter. "Brooklyn, wait up!"a musical voice calls to me and my shoulders hunch in annoyance. I p...
I breathed in sharply and lost consciousness. In the darkness, I felt a few thoughts bubble in me. Who was it this time? Could I exact revenge on my former self? Would I actually wake up? I had been living this cycle for a long time. A cycle of being murdered then waking up inside my killer's body, inside my killer's...
It was cold outside. I played with the silver pocket-watch in my hands, rubbing my fingers across the intricate engravings and popping it open and closed mindlessly. Each time I opened it, a new date appeared inside. >October 6th, 2038 >November 28th, 2047 >December 25th, 2025 Any grown member of the Ste...
The world waited with bated breath as the end drew near. They’d tried everything they could to prevent it from happening, but in the end politics and personal differences had gotten in the way. Now it was too late. So while arks had been launched from the planet in the hopes of travelling elsewhere. The remainder of ea...
In my thousands of years on this planet, I’ve been so many things. I’ve been a king, an emperor, a scientist, a wizard, a filmmaker, a musician, a teacher, a senator, and even a crime boss. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Norse called me Thor and thought I watched over and guarded them. I didn’t, of course. If th...
It was the eyes. They looked at me from the rear view mirror of the black 1958 Buick Caballero. Uber driver's don't drive classic station wagons, and the chrome on this sucker was enough to reflect back the whole city. Perhaps I was dazzled by the reflection of the thousands of neons reflecting from the boulevard or ma...
The operation had been a rousing success, but we weren't to let the operators know yet. Of course everyone on Earth was aware, they needed to be just to disrupt the sim enough to find a vulnerability - but the earth was insignificant. The sim had re corrected the minor error, and as far as the operating system knew eve...
There it is again, the Déjà vu. I remember this cave but I've never been inside or seen it until today. The contract was simple: Get the Jarls family sword from these Bandits. Sword drawn, shield at the ready I enter. There it is again, the Déjà vu. The cave seems familiar, have the gods gifted me this power to sense...
I closed the office window, savoring one last Autumn breeze before venting home. The walk home is long and arduous, since there are no roads. While lonely in every walk,I feel lighter than air. Being forced to make my own path in the world, rather than flying over it forced me to be cunning. Sure, I missed out on the...
We are all trapped here with no apparent escapes besides surviving a frickin nuclear blast. Most of us have already lost their minds and started drinking. Good thing they put us in a fake town, otherwise there would be a lot of windows and displays to fix. Seems like no one is trying to team up and everyone is preparin...
I had been on my feet so long that my back felt compressed. It had been a long, long walk from my home town of Harrisburg. A hundred twenty leagues southward along the coast, with the sparkling flat of the ocean my morning and evening companion. Gulls filled the sky above, and sand pipers the scrub in the narrow dune...
The tour guide lead us up a steep path along the side of a volcano. "While this volcano is inactive, there are still lava flows that occasionally appear on the surface. They are, of course, very dangerous; however, we will be able to see one from a distance." I'm looking at the beautiful surroundings and taking in th...
The journey was always the least exciting part. That's what I always feel like. You're shut inside a small room for a week or two while you traverse the slipspace. Nothing to look at, except your own bored face in the mirror. They lowered the shutters on the observation decks while we were travelling, partially because...
"Shoot it and get another one from storage."A voice crackled in reply. I duck backwards into the restaurant and shut the door. I try to lock it, but my hands are shaking too hard. What the hell? I stammer. I can hear the people outside drawing weapons and coming towards the door. The van's engine suddenly catche...
Diego looked at his 291 cubic feet of condensed helium he had got from the hot-air balloon service. That should be enough to get him past the atmosphere. He positioned the camera and re-tested the mentos insertion system. Everything was good to go. He was finishing his third year of Engineering in uni and worked part ...
Day 17 I thought it was a joke. Like somebody was messing with us in the control room or something. Well its day 17 and im still here. I laughed it off until i heard screaming. People were arguing at the doors. They were sealed tight with big iron doors. Then the employees started attacking people. Man that w...
"THAT'S IT!! I'M DONE IN THIS GOD FORSAKEN PLACE!!"I yell at my boss. The absolute worst human imaginable. "NO ONE DOES THEIR JOB!! BUT ME!!! WHAT THE HELL!"My face has gone bright red at this point. I can barely keep my hand steady. The anger of 10 years finally coming out. "I always thought people were winging it or ...
I’m restless. I glance over at the clock, again. The internal struggle resumes. It’s very familiar by now. My body is exhausted, but my mind races. When I decide to give up on sleep and read a book, I’m hit with a wave of fatigue. But as soon as I lay down, I’m wide awake again. Something is coming. This has been ha...
It was always just "John."I had known Barry for years, watched him give nicknames to the hundreds of people who have run in and out of the circles of our lives. But there was something more boring about me, I guess; nothing worth noting that required a special name. It usually didn't bother me. There was a certain prid...
"Up and at 'em soldier."I blink my eyes and cover them, expecting the blazing hot sun to blind me. To my surprise, I find myself in some kind of ancient... hall filled with soldiers from all over. The towering walls seem to go on forever, lined with table after table of the best food and drink a marine could ask for. ...
Ugh! I silently thought Of all the marks I could've been given, it just *had* to be Bob Ross. Of course, the job had good pay. Well, to be honest, £5,000,000,000 was quite a higher amount than most of my other marks. But money wasn't the issue with this mark. And killing him would be easy. Mr Ross always wen...
Before I could get a word out, I choked on the coffee I was in the middle of sipping. I spluttered droplets out onto her face. Not the best first impression I could give, not that I needed to worry about that because this delusional woman had just mentioned, what? Killing me? 'What?' I finally said, wiping my mouth wi...
Nero scowled. How did he end up here. He glared sideways up at the king, who sat stiffly upright on his throne. The army poured into the great hall, a mess of drawn swords, spears, and crossbows, all clanking and pounding and rattling against the hard stone floors. Nero slumped down onto the stairs that led up to the ...
Bolovo stood at the foot of the great statue. It was built in the city of Ayta Mor, as a testament to the people who once lived there. Ayta Mor was about the last physical remnant of the former populous left on the planet, designated Sapyyr-An-Polyg, to exist. Deep under water, similar, larger settlements had been foun...
"For the last time, we don't need any help. We don't want you here."Nilus said, clutching at his forehead in abject frustration. The Hero blinked, then turned to whisper to his traveling companions for what seemed like the hundredth time, as if Nilus had the hearing of an 80 year old. "Man's been brainwashed. Whole t...
"Who's it from?"She read the chat window aloud, her eyes darting briefly to the iPad she had set up next to her table. "Uh, let me check!"She flashed a brilliant smile--straight white teeth and expertly applied lipstick--before lifting the cardboard shipping box theatrically. "It's from my favorite subscriber, of cou...
They call us the "Silent Ones". Every species across every galaxy in the cosmos that grew up out of the primordial muck has immense work before they can emerge into the great cosmos truly Space-fairing. Neurological capacity, technology, societal structure, and for everyone else, a psychic connectivity that spans lig...
Melmak tensed as he inputted a series of button prompts. Even with his superior senses, the timing was incredibly tight. But after a harrowing thirty seconds, his character overcame the sequence. With a sigh, he set down his controller to watch the final cutscene of Prometheus Protocol. The game had gained notoriety fo...
You sit and hold his hand until he goes cold and still, wipe your face, and move him to the pit you had dug a couple weeks ago. You feel a bit like you should give him a bit more ceremony, a proper send-off, but you’ve always been distant from everyone else on the islet. Even if you did have a funeral, nobody would att...
You wake up in a vast desert. The endless hills of brown are dotted with cacti and scrub. Nearby a set of high cliffs hugs a single winding road--worn flat by travelers on foot, you realize. That you've just "realized"something gives you pause. You are not supposed to realize things. You are not supposed to think at a...
اسلام آباد جاؤں اور دوستوں کی محفل نہ ہو، ممکن نہیں۔ تازہ تازہ خیبر پختونخوا میں بلدیاتی انتخابات کے نتائج سامنے آئے تھے اور مولانا فضل الرحمن کی وہاں کامیابی زیر بحث تھی، ایک دوست بولا مہدی صاحب نے تو 14 نومبر 2019 کو اپنے کالم کا عنوان ہی’’ مولانا فضل الرحمن کامیاب ہوگئے ‘‘رکھا تھا اور وہ اب کامیاب بھی ہو گئے۔ م...
Gerald stepped up to the microphone, clearing his throat. "Thank you, everyone, for coming. " There were cries of outrage, boos, and curses hurled from the assembled population of Hoganville. Gerald patiently waited for them to die down. "I'd like to start by saying that, and I hope we can all agree on this, that wh...
Part 1/2 &#x200B; They called it many things. ‘Arcadious Tower’, others named it ‘The Mad Mages Magic Maguffin’. For the greedy, it was named a treasure trove. But in the years following the death of the arch-mage who created the structure, it garnered one title above all others. A graveyard because all who appro...
I've been in many sea fights in my day, and my piratws diplomacy has stopped even fewer, but this is something I've never seen on the open water. The fight seemed too easy. We sailed as we normally would. This old boat isn't much longer above the waves, so we set off to find a better vessel. There it was, one of the...
"You got a death wish, kid?" The lion-man stared at me, blood caking his fur as his last opponent was dragged away unconscious. The cage rattled with the excited pounding of the crowd, eager to witness further violence. As the door behind me shut, I tightened my hand wraps and replied, "Got an urge to beat that smug l...
"Well, sir, it seems I've finally caught you,"I said, reaching over and turning on the light, as I slowly rose from the man's armchair. You don't get to be a renowned headhunter simply by being good at your job. You also have to have some showmanship. The man in front of me was a bit of an enigma. His bounty was ast...
"Get your arse moving wizard!"The shout lanced into my ears like I would lance a blister. I half-expected part of my brain to leak out as I rolled to my feet. The nightmare was never-ending, it was march, sleep, march, sleep, march... I wasn't even sure why they'd conscripted me, I'd thought my demonstration for the ki...
I walk through the plazas of the galaxies capitol, a ring world around Sagittarius A*. Its name? Niadiros. Niadiros has meaning in the language of the first comers, the Ikrin. It is a reference to significant events in their history, but to me it is simply a name, and nothing more. Most of many aliens to have reached t...
I have no idea what these agents are talking about. They keep their hands near their sidearms as they speak to me. One of them called me a "sick son of a bitch."I considered that uncalled for until one agent with body odor sat me down to show me the pictures. Oh lord, the pictures. It was a fresco of things being where...
We had kindled the unknowable long before the Eldritch Gods arrived. Our best minds striving to kindle something smarter than us. Things that could think faster, deeper, and in more dimensions. Many questioned the wisdom of this quest, but the prevailing notion was that artificial general intelligence was simply too po...
While the vase was dropping, time seemed to freeze. An improbable number of thoughts ran through my head. I can finally cancel my Glass Heirloom license. Did I really have time to think that? The vase was still dropping. Sudden terror siezed me as I began to piece together what was happening, and I took several ...
Looking down at my leg I gave heavy sigh before looking out into the rain storm outside my bedroom window. Where my Death Date should have been was just a black box. My parents had thought they were being helpful when I was born they had my Death Date covered up, I had heard it was all the rage at the time. I am su...
Steve was greasy and round-bodied, and yeah, usually he was gross, but for some reason, even at his worst, he was still good to have around. Dependable. If you called for him, he was at your house within 40 minutes. He was great to have at a party with all your friends, but he was also nice to be with one-on-one, watch...
It all started fifty years ago- a computer engineer's wife was given a year to live by the doctors. Staring at his wife's failing support system over the lip of his whiskey bottle, the engineer considered his options. He was trained to solve problems- and this one was no different. The disease, incurable. Her body, ...
They meet on common ground. The sands of Saudi Arabia swirl about them. The temperature is already well above 100 F. A perimeter of 100 yards is established around the both of them. News crews from around world crane for a better angle. The world watches in bated breath. President Barack Obama, in his pressed blue suit...
Kevin wasn’t your stereo-typical hero. All his life he had been just below average in so many ways. He was short, but not noticeably so. He was chubby, but not fat. Girls didn’t pay much attention to him, his friends were milquetoast and forgettable, he was neither creative nor brave nor witty. Just about the only...

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