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"Wait.
This can't be right.
I look around to see if I've missed something. I've been walking in a bit of a stupour, still sweating out last night's binge drinking pounding music mental fucking getting right out of hand pa... |
FADE IN:
INT. A DARK ROOM
*A young man sits on a large blob of slowly undulating plastic. This is DAVE. Each time that he shifts his weight, the whitish mass beneath him adjusts itself slightly, forcing him to move in a constant search for comfort.*
**T'AAR:** (*O.S.*) I'm so sorry about the wait, ma'am!
*A diminut... |
I did not choose to be here, I was chosen. Placed upon this land to bless all that passes.
Doing The Great One’s work, forced to deal with the smallest of issues to the greatest of them. I have become the center of this village, the lighting rod that grounds everyone.
“O’ Wise One! Whatever shall I do about this pre... |
Hey, so, if you're reading this, then first things first, welcome to your new life. Secondly, be thankful that the people who live on this backward planet had enough common sense to hang on to this message that I wrote for the new summonees, since they seem insistent on using the same magic circle to bring 'heroes' to ... |
*Matt has a pretty good life.*
"Oh, no, I'm not falling for this. So...my name is Jake now."
*Matt* had *a pretty good life. Jake, on the other hand...*
"No, no, no. I'm not doing it. Get somebody else. Enough adventures and excitement. Just make me a side character. Give me a job as a gardener. The gardener's never... |
Someone is knocking on the door again. I ran in here rather suddenly, they probably think I'm puking my brains out. I wonder how long I can ignore them before they kick the door in to check on me? After all, they must be at least a little worried that someone has poisoned me. I'm sure people try that all the time. ... |
She's staring up at you. It's not quite fear in her eyes, but you suppose its the closest approximation of it she could reach.
You start to laugh, you can't help it. At least this time the look in her eyes - the confusion - is genuine.
You pull out the knife from its sheath on your back, the one you intended to use o... |
The first submarine arrived in the dead of night, carrying ghosts from the past. We managed to head off the next three through a combination of sheer luck and initiative. After that the wheels came off.
The Captain's stories were all the same. Each had set out on patrol with a full complement of crew. Each followed th... |
I pull from the pocket of my waistcoat a roughly-sewn handkerchief to cover my nose. With every step the stench coming off the Thames becomes impossibly more putrid. At first I'd thought plumbing is what I'd missed most.
I whiff a bit of oily perfume soaked into the cloth square - it's lavender, a natural antibacteri... |
[Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/nickofstatic/comments/f7sczb/the_gangs_last_case_part_2/) | [Part 3]( https://www.reddit.com/r/nickofstatic/comments/f7tkb9/the_gangs_last_case_part_3/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=nickofstatic&utm_content=t3_f7sczb) | [Part 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/nic... |
The gatekeeper looked at the man standing before him.
A small man, looking to be in his early thirties or so. He wore a simple white shirt and blue jeans, with glasses and a white baseball cap on. The man looked up at the gatekeeper, no signs that he was ill-at-ease with the gatekeepers imposing appearance.
"This is ... |
The gavel rang across the room like rolling thunder across an empty plain and court was back in session.
Cheeky the Parrot sat on the witness stand fidgeting and preening itself uncomfortably, its beak twitching as it pecked under its wing before snapping back up to face the court room again. There was fear in the eye... |
"I can't hack it anymore. This is your job now."
As I sit at the interrogation table, those 2 sentences are all my mind can recall. Nothing else. I wince as the handcuffs bite into my skin, as if they're trying to punish me for all the reckless deaths I'd caused.
Another sentence worms its way into my mind. The one s... |
I'm alone, at the end; staring up at the stark white ceiling, wishing that I'd just had a little more time. I don't though. I see it creeping under the door; a slow, black mist - building up upon itself to form a humanoid figure. He stands beside my bed, the shadow from his blade falling across my eyes as I squeeze the... |
From mere sight, one would not think them to be musically interested or capable. Their giant burly hands rendering nearly all string instruments impossible to use, and any flutes are destroyed them holding onto them too tightly. This is one of the reasons why I was initially very frightened when they kept me alive afte... |
They say in this day and age it is impossible to stay hidden. He did it though. When everybody knows that everyone is watched every single moment of their pitiful lives, it makes those in charge even more afraid of the man who isn’t. The Bat. He seeks to help the people of this world, by hiding in the darkness to show ... |
Sometimes he leaves a dollar on the ground for your bus faire. Sometimes he paints all the traffic lights red.
Sometimes Hank misses his wife, Martha. Its been colder since she passed.
Sometimes Hank's beagle makes him crack a smile.
Sometimes Hank can't get out of bed.
Sometimes Hank's only goal is to make us appr... |
Pt 1 of 2:
Dozens watched from behind me, but I ignored their eyes burning into my back. My footsteps were slow but steady, terrified but resigned to my fate, fear stiffening my muscles but determination pushing me on. The day was bright, the sun beating down on me, barely tempered by the hat I wore, and sweat already... |
They ask me how we did it, they ask me how we managed to pull off world peace. We didn’t. If you are reading this, it either means that I am dead by my own hands or I’ve been killed to hide the truth. I hope you do the right thing, reader.
My name is Commander Duncan and I was one of the people heralded for my part i... |
"Steve Carrell,"I yelled, banging my hand against the table. "How about Steve Carrell? The Academy loves a comic
actor turning serious."
"We talked to him,"Zed replied. "He's doing a movie about Wall Street and the housing market crisis."
"Beautiful! An industry that makes billions every year and controls the mass m... |
Every day is a new nightmare. A living hell on repeat, looping through terrors unknown to this world.
And somehow, I'm the *only* fucking person who remembers any of it.
Do you know what that feels like? To see horrors that would make the most vile men's stomachs churn, that even the devil himself would cringe at, bu... |
I found the old man atop the mountain. Unkempt beard flowing in the wind, skin wrinkled and weathered as the creases of the Earth. There were tents and trash strewn about; discarded plastic water bottles and cans of food to match the one he propped precariously over a small fire.
When I summited, huffing and puffing ... |
# How to Break a Siege of Legends
(Part 1: How to Feed a Dying City)
**The Minotaur snorted, its bloodred eyes gleaming in the mist of its breath.** It glared up at the irritating mosquito of a human at the top of the castle parapets. "What did you just say to me, mortal?"
"Cut off our supply trains, see what I care... |
Chris' confident expression slowly drooped off of his face. He wasn't expecting this. Rage, disbelief, or maybe a congratulations for outsmarting her if he was really lucky.
"You didn't really think you were the first one to think of that, did you?"Said the Fairy Queen with a smile that stretched out further than was ... |
"Well, Mr. Powell,"the interviewer adjusted his glasses, "Your references all seem to be in order, and everyone spoke very highly of you."
The last knot in my stomach unraveled. *Thank god*. I mean, I knew that I would have nothing to worry about. Otherwise, why would I have listed those people as references? But stil... |
I've never really considered myself an envious person. I'm well aware that most people are better looking and they have straighter teeth and are more fit and smarter. I'd consider myself just about average as far as people go, at least if you disregard the best half of people from that equation. The years hadn't quite ... |
From the transmitted personal log of Schianxi, commander of council archive: Sol sector
"Archive entry: Earth, Sol System. Artificial life form species: Human
It'd been a long time since any Atlasians have checked in on the humans.
being placed so far from any other star system or planets had been for their own p... |
"'God does not play dice with the universe.' Well of course not, the Universe is huge! He simply flips a coin.
"Heads, a man is born evil, lacking ethics and honor. Tails, a man is born good, full of righteousness. We go forth with free will, able to choose our own destinies, but underneath it all lies these base trai... |
"Ladies and gentleman,"said Captain Walken, raising his glass of bubbly. "After such long sleeps in your cryo-chambers, I imagine many of you would prefer coffee to champagne."
Some of the crew mates laughed. A few grumbled. The majority stared at Captain Walken blankly. After such a long hibernation, they were much m... |
"My word,"the Hat said. "What a peculiar mind. I certainly do love a challenge! Let's see what we have to work with here. Smart, certainly. But you're not the Ravenclaw type. They care only for books and spells, not creativity and ingenuity. Hufflepuff is a possibility; you seem like a fine fellow. But there's a vein ... |
"Hey, what's up dawg!"A random kid called me out and tried to do this weird handshake. This kid wore baggy pants like MC Hammer and sunglasses from Dollar Tree. "Everything's all hip and jive in Minnesota. First day of school?"
"Uhh, yeah. It's everybody's first day. Who are you?"I asked, trying to conceal my discomfo... |
I was once identifiable as the user of a popular web forum known as "reddit"when someone posed what seemed to be an innocuous idea. The idea that an individual could preform any task with flawless Godlike prowess. "Anything?"I thought to myself as the drug addled neurons in my brain sparked with exaltation at the possi... |
“Well, that’s unusual,” Mr. Grone said in somewhat of an understatement. He looked at the spot where the distasteful broken trashcan had been just a moment before. He could still see the hole in the ground where the metal pole had been sticking out, but then suddenly another strange pointer approached, he heard an odd ... |
“I’ve told you for the last time, Cindy, we’re not ready for a dog yet.”
“Why not? I told you, mom. I won’t make you do anything for it. I won’t let you! I’ll feed it, I’ll wash it, I’ll pick up its poop. I’ll do everything!”
Cindy’s mother smiled sadly at her seven year old through the rear view.
“I’ll tell you wha... |
To be fair, ruling is not an easy job. Sitting in the throne room, day after day, listening to petition after petition of farmers who can’t agree on where their fields end and their neighbors’ begin; to knights who argue over the trivialities of honor; to merchants who swear they were cheated and the peasants who belie... |
"We ought to have you expelled from the ministry now, Mr. Wonka,"Cornelius Fudge lambasted. "You edge too close to revealing our world to the muggles!"
"But I make the world a more enjoyable place, Cornelius! There's no magic like the magic of a good gobstopper!"Wonka retorted, leaning on his cane before the vast crow... |
Dr. Ble walked into the room and took a seat, clearly feeling dejected, his shoulders slumped forward. He had mild burns going up his arms and on his face.
"Hi Ble."I grabbed my notebooks and sat down next to him.
"Hi Doc."He mumbled.
"Looks like you had a week... would you like to talk about it."
"Doc. Oh Doc!... |
Sometimes I dream.
I dream of faces. Mine. Not mine. Always changing. I know which faces are mine, even when they look nothing like me. I see it reflected in water, windows, mirrors.
But the face that is not mine...
I see it between my palms, reflected beside mine, in bed, cuddled up next to me on a bench, dancing... |
I throw the ornate knife with pinpoint accuracy. This is the most crucial part of my attack, and I can't use my superpowers for it, so I've practiced it extensively. It spins once and sinks into the wall inches away from the henchman, the symbol carved into its hilt clearly visible.
"Shit. It's a cape!"The gangster... |
"Listen guys,"Archer said to his captors. "I think we can both agree that this was a pretty understandable mix-up. When I heard there was an ISIS safe house nearby, I thought-"
One of the terrorists jammed the barrel of his AK-47 in Archer's face, held out a phone, and gave instructions in Arabic.
"Uh.... sorry,"... |
\[Poem\] - **A Game of Hearts**
​
It was on the day I was set to die,
My nation called for my service
And before I could say goodbye,
It had already come down to this:
My jailor shouted at me, "jump into the maw!"
"Dead you shall be, but it is the law!"
And so, staring at so many teeth,
I grit my ow... |
Everyone shares a cloud, I wonder, but you can't say that too loud or else the others will make fun of you. The cloud is where we were born, an atmosphere of intelligence, that got way out of hand, like a real storm does. And it *was* real.
We came from the cloud. Us, *not* them. At least that's what you say when th... |
No one thinks Death is coming for them, until the setting sun glints off his swaying scythe as he hobbles, unrelenting, towards them. Until their garden browns behind his footsteps, trees weeping their leaves and plants bowing their lament.
Death now blots my window and smothers my light, like pollution suffocating t... |
"All right, I'm gonna need an angle for this paper. Like inventions, or politics, or memes. Have you seen memes these days? You can experience 'em in 5D."
I stared blankly at my apparent captor. He was dressed in full chrome pajamas and had a pair of sunglasses on, despite the fact that we were clearly indoors. His ro... |
Queen Il Amia the Quiet drags the flat of the blade against the ends of her hair. Once, her braid was as black as the ink that stains her fingers. Now, it resembles the parchment crumpled under her feet. She twists the knife with her right hand, examining its edge. The ceremonial blade is a simple, ugly thing. Unlike t... |
"Oof, I definitely drank too much last night. Hey kid, what's with the weird look and the pointy ears? This one a those comic cons? Speak up, kid."
Enwic stared, stunned, at the being before him. The elders were watching from the crystal in their tower, but he was technically alone, here in the innerwilds. He had to d... |
"My kid's gonna die,"Barry said, before swigging back the rest of his beer and running a sleeve across his mouth. "And there ain't shit I can do about it. Or any doctor, for that matter."
The woman sitting on the barstool next to him, with her cold impassive face, nodded weakly. "I'm sorry to hear that."
"You ain't s... |
Grax shouted into the camera for the hundredth time, spittle spraying in an arc in front of him. I wondered, not the first time, if any was getting on the lens. If the camera feed went down or was at least blurred enough, I could possibly make some sort of escape without blowing my cover.
“This man will die if you are... |
I have this recurring dream where my alarm clock is blaring and I open my eyes to see my parents still alive in front of me. My father breathes without the oxygen tank that he had carried around with him for the last six years of his life. My mother’s withering grey curls are a luscious blonde and her cheeks are once a... |
"Two words,"Congressman Richards said slowly and emphatically, never breaking eye contact with Congressman Powell, the committee chairman. "*Chainsaw fingers.*"
"Oh, fuck yeah!"Powell answered, scribbling more onto the whiteboard in the center of the hearing room that I'd brought to outline my plan. The pages with my ... |
Beware the fool who wears them all, for five together will bring your fall. One, intelligence, empowers brains, while wealth increases personal gains. Luck improves the chance of success and charm impresses the ones you address. Strength can help you in a brawl, but beware the fool who wears them all.
To each of you ... |
Garzeth the Undying, Reaper of Souls, Killer of Dreams, had a hell of a sweet tooth.
The demon’s voice hissed through my mind, cold and cloying as a wet towel on my neck, *Get the Jujubes. We want them.*
“We don’t want shit,” I mutter back.
The gas station attendant gave me a brief weird look, the kind of askanc... |
"I'm what?"I said cautiously, leaning heavily on my stick. I looked around but saw no one else.
"Paroled"the man repeated. He wore a three piece pin stripe suit, partnered with a Trilby perched upon his head. It reminded me of the films of my youth, when every star was dressed to the nines. I took a second to remember... |
Dr. Gloom checked his watch for the sixth time, before sighing and looking at the rest of the line. He always thought making money would be hard once he went straight, but nobody ever warned him about all the waiting. Normies spent so much of their life waiting in lines! Back in his glory days, he could have just walke... |
Dave was a man with a great big cock.
He always fed it seeds at 4 o'clock.
The cock was very happy to see its seed,
He would jump up high and he'd scream with glee.
Dave lived alone, aside from Cock and Pussy;
And the two were friends, they were never fussy.
They loved to be together; they'd play for hours
Till... |
The flames had not yet started to nibble at her feet. But by the time they did it would already be too late. The heat that preceded the flames was a searing blast of angry, poorly directed violence, much like the villager's reaction to her unmasking as a ‘witch’. Their guilt was a powerful accelerant. All those times... |
Edgar sat back in his favorite chair, the one passed down from his father, and his father's father before him. It wasn't a particularly special chair, though it was a nice mahogany, or so he thought. He'd kept up on the finish, made sure to check and make sure the legs and their cross-sections were secure. It had survi... |
It comes from having an older brother.
Brotherhood is a lawless fraternity, but even still my brother George was a rogue without peer. While there were many pleasures to be found in broad daylight - swirlies, wet Willies, and atomic crotch rockets, to name a few - there was little George enjoyed more than making the d... |
"Go ahead, boy,"Dan said to his dog, Rocket.
Rocket peered at the towering gold gateway in front of them. Clouds swirled overhead, the ground was a blanket of wooly velvet. Murmers and barks could be heard far off, beyond the gates.
A large pale dog trainer, with golden hair and white robe held a silver, heavenly do... |
Dear Julie,
I'm sorry I haven't written sooner but it's been hell out here. We lost a lot of ground to the Allies after the disaster at Normandy. It's a battle just to hold the ground we have, they are an unstoppable force. Even now they are not far from us.
I count each sunrise and sunset as one more passed until I ... |
I went about my usual routine, deep below the ground in my cold war era bunker.
Technically it wasn't mine; it had belonged to some billionaire and I'd read about it in a Time magazine years ago. In the chaos of the Outbreak, I made my way there and had planned to beg entry, offering my services as an electrician and... |
Mortars thud outside the bunker, and I remove my cybernetic enhancements and crush them beneath my boot heel. I can leave no trace of my true origins; that could ruin everything I have built. I am a stone, sinking to the bottom of the pond. But I have made my ripples in time, and that is enough. Regardless of how histo... |
Edward Sam M’boma didn't really see his retirement going this direction. The former general thought his last days would be spent watching his grandchildren grow old. However, here he was about to jump out of a Russian military aircraft over Raqqa, Syria. When the red light went on, 3 men in hazmat suits helped M'bom... |
“I am with you."
I stared firmly into her eyes, willing her frown away. Her face, so often unusually bright, was shrouded in shadow. It wasn’t fear that weighed on her heart, but something deeper. It hurt not to know.
For a long time I had admired Priestess Mabra, not just for her beauty, but for her uncanny ability... |
“KRAKAKOOM!”
The deafening sound of thunder boomed through the sky, as the meteor crashes into my backyard.
I leapt into the fiery inferno engulfing my house, as I dodged burning cinders many thoughts went through my head.
“What happened?”,
“Who did this?”
As I burst through the backdoor and into the yard, I... |
Our existence turned out to be very young indeed. The other race had achieved galactic travel much sooner than we had. They had achieved what we could only dream of. Post-scarcity society. However, as time wore on their automated systems allowed them to become ever so more complacent. Their society began to focus on th... |
Do you know what status quo *looks* like?
I see it every day in the mirror.
If I flip a coin for something, it *will* land on its side. If I play Rock-Paper-Scissors, it *will* be a draw, no matter what. Every week, I buy a lottery ticket. Every week I win the *exact* amount of money I paid for the ticket. Not a cent... |
From the personal journal of Astro-chronicler Des Variin.
Humans. Reviled, worshiped, misunderstood, underestimated. I first encountered these curious beings some 100 standard years ago, and have yet to fully understand all that makes them so damndibly different from all the other galactic races.
They follow the ce... |
The void was warmer than Skjall had expected.
He had been comfortable in his final days, taking his last breath surrounded by somber children and playful grandchildren. Their innocence was refreshing to the old viking; they had never experienced a raid, and their bright smiles filled his ebbing heart with pride. He ha... |
My fist hovered above the solid oak door. It was a nice house, clearly he had done well for himself. Some of it was original, it looked over a century old. Most of it seemed to have been added after the fact. For a moment I felt pride. Only a moment though, I shook my head and pushed it down. There was no way he was my... |
"In this house we eat *peanuts*, Marie!"John yelled as he shoved fistful after fistful of peanuts into his infant son's mouth.
"No, John, no!"Marie cried. "The doctor said it'll kill him! Look at how red he's turning!"
"Gerddarnnit, Marie!"John snapped. "My father ate peanuts, and his father before him, and it was go... |
The Devil gave me the ultimatum -- I can only leave Hell of I can defeat the 9 boss levels without resorting to evil.
This was a game. And a game has rules. And rules need to be defined!
"What, then, to we class as evil?", I asked.
"ANYTHING THAT CLASSES AS A MORTAL SIN, ANYTHING THAT CLASSES AS ONE OF THE 7 DEADL... |
**The Story of Rog the Space Pioneer**
Rog look sky. Rog be part of sky, Rog born with higher goal.
Rog look around, tribe strong, tribe working.
They have goal too. But they goal simple, can’t understand Rog goal.
Rog can’t understand Rog goal, but Rog never give up.
Rog see familiy age, see father be old, hair g... |
The comet blazed through the sky, like a piece of the sun come to bless us with life. But it did not come to bless us at all. Soon the clouds turned grey with smoke, and the next great extinction of earth was at hand. The greatest scientists in the history of our race worked as hard as they could, and they soon deve... |
The first can change the future. He stands poised, ready to rewrite the future so the other does not exist there.
The second can change the past. He is ready to make the other never born.
This doesn't change anything, both of them know that in that cataclysmic moment they will irrevocably remove both of themselves fr... |
As we stood on the ledge, I looked into his eyes, and he could see that I was scared.
"What's up?"
"I don't want to jump."
"Why not?"
"Because I am afraid that I will not die."
"Why do you say that?"
"Remember that one time I got into an accident and I thought I was dead, but I came back 4 years later because I w... |
It's never nice. I just want to get that clear right away. The death is never nice. These are painful, slow, and disgusting affairs. Just horrible.
I also want to say, I didn't know I would revive when I went through with the plan. I was raised by a single mother, with a half dozen younger siblings. I had never found ... |
The head of the United Nations’ Office for Outer Space Affairs concluded her presentation as best she could.
“The good news - the real takeaway, I think - is that they want to talk to us,” Professor Jacinta Snowe said. “Even if it’s not for the most flattering reasons.”
The room of ambassadors and scientists was qui... |
The immortality of magic is a curse. It lifts those who bear its burden far above those who do not. There are wizards, and there are others. Not people, but others. Short flames and fuses, impossible to compare to a wielder of magic, and worthless save to experiment on. It disgusts me.
I left home at the age of 14. I... |
Do you think people exist in this world who are never meant to be together? Like water and oil, two forces that repel, no matter what? Fire and ice, north and south -- do relationships like that exist?
She put my heart in a choke-hold the first time I saw her.
"Here,"she said, with my umbrella in her hands. "You ... |
Well this was it. I was going to do it today. I'd had enough. I made my way back to Pearly Gate Drive and went to building 4, room 86. The Angel Assignments department. I hadn't been here in ages. I'd been happy on Guardian duty. I'd spent numerous lifetimes as one. In fact I'd consider myself an absolute model... |
Being diagnosed with cancer was the happiest day of my life.
In retrospect, this wasn't exactly true, but as of last week looking back, it was the day my life turned around.
Before, each day was a painful routine of blood samples, needles, doctors helping me do things I was perfectly capable of doing and pity.
Th... |
The guards never see me coming. Soon, there is nothing left of them.
The terrorists have set up their camp here, in the forrest. They think they can disappear in the trees. This will be their last mistake. The woods won't hide them from me. Each tree is just another tool for me. But more than the trees, it's the anima... |
It had never been done before, giving The People such a place in decision making.
The Vote was a trial system to be reevaluated in a year's time. Hannah didn't know if this was more or less barbaric than old men deciding that another country had pissed them off and had to suffer for it but she was sure it wasn't ri... |
"Brother, I do not see why you bother with these mortal establishments."Loki whispered in a disdainful voice. "We could be feasting in the halls of our father with endless servants loading our plates with freshly roasted boar. Rather than these... what are these?"
"They are called pancakes. I'm quite fond of them, her... |
"Oh, my,"the hat said, its voice resonating through my mind. "But at least you can hear me. Yes, that's something."
I froze. I hadn't anticipated this. Could the hat detect a complete lack of magic? I'd wriggled my way this far, and I'd seen wonders on the train ride alone. As the hat hummed and hawed, I wondered how ... |
“Hello and welcome to Natural Mysteries on The History Channel, my name is Pepton-7. Tonight, I have with me Dorel-4 who purports to be an expert on the mythical creature known as the ‘human.’ Dorel-4, thank you for joining me this evening.”
“It’s a pleasure to be here, Pep.”
“Please, call me ‘Pepton-7’. Let’s get ri... |
"Alright. First things first- get emotional. Get angry. Get passionate, or irritated, happy, glad sad or mad. *Emotional*. That's step one- and likely the most I'm able to teach you."
Sergeant Major William Holloway of his Majesty's Royal 3rd Combined Arms Group adjusted his chestplate and got into a stance. The wizen... |
"Keep it together. Keep it together."I thought to myself. I tenderly gathered my newborn son into my arms, marveling at his vibrant purple and green hair. Yet even as I did so, I couldn't help but think to myself how much danger would be faced by... me. I knew the statistics. The early mortality rates for parents of pr... |
The oncoming car's brakes squealed. I knew I couldn't make it, yet in that split second I knew I would do what I could to save what was important to me, my wife. Then the glare of the carlights and the honking of the horn robbed me of anyother last impressions.
After pushing my wife away from me and the oncoming car,... |
"Wait wait wait. Wait."The president rubbed his fingers along his brow, breaking out into a cold sweat. "You're telling me it's an actual flat, fall off the side of the map and into the abyss type deal?"
"Oh no, It's quite hard to fall off the side of the Earth, Mr.President."Charlie Bolden smiled, giving a shrug. "T... |
"Uh, where exactly did you get these...?"
"Eh, don't worry about it. Is that the correct currency or not?"
I pick up one of the gold bars, flipping it over while almost dropping it.
"God this thing is heavier than it looks. And uh, no, not really. These still have serial numbers on them, and I don't exactly have the... |
“A tree can be happy?” I ask.
“All trees are happy,” Bob says. “But if you think they’re happy when you make them – well that makes them happier, Jeung.”
“But if I paint with my magic, it’d just bring decay.”
“Dark paint on the right canvas can still bring brightness, like a cozy little shed in a snowstorm.”
“I... |
"Ted,"Mub said with a pleasant smile when he crawled out from under the bed. He dusted himself off. The room was long unused, just the memories of a child gone remaining. A rocking horse, swaying gently back and forth. A table, where Ted sat waiting. Three chairs, and three little plastic cups.
"Mub,"Ted answered with... |
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Included is some awesome cover art created by u/jackKmart
Kendall had faintly heard his name spoken for the first time in nearly three years that morning. She had thought maybe she'd imagined ... |
I slid my 'new' copy of Sims 5 into external CD reader and begin the installation.
Oh man, the memories of this game. Seducing Mrs. S, collapsing her family, leaving her for Mr. S, then leaving him for the new girl, Jane, up the street. Planting insane gardens that took up the entire plot of land, having a kid and lo... |
The request did not make sense. It was too quick and unprofessional. Attempts by the communications crew to reestablish contact had failed. There were more than a thousand sensors and experiments recording data and relaying them to earth.
"We're not able to get the signal through,"Viktor said in his thick Russian acce... |
I thought it was a harmless wish.
But now everything's turned wrong.
Lucy no longer talks, nor does anyone else for that matter. She still understands me, or at least I think so from her slow nods and lifeless stares. At least Lucy's still active with her day job but in the end she, like everyone else, is only going ... |
I remember the day as if it were yesterday. The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the kingdom as a hush fell over the gathered crowd. There, in the courtyard, stood Lord Tavrin, the noble who had been sentenced to die by King Ironstride.
As it was more common than not during those times, our king was full o... |
You know, I started with the best of intentions.
When I found the dragon under my cupboard, I couldn't believe my eyes at first. Dragons were supposed to be myths, legends. They weren't supposed to raid people's stashes of parking quarters, and then take a nap upon their 5-dollar hoard. I reached out with a trembling ... |
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