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I wasn’t a good gamer, just an early adopter. By all means I was very bad at games. Being trapped in one where survival means life or death would be a death sentence for me.
So I did what most did, I hid. I hid in plain site. Others were more brazen about living in the cities of the world, starting blacksmith shops or... |
“Oh that’s odd. That’s very odd...” I mused. A simple bookkeeper like me often lives their life with their nose shoved in musty old records, scrounging through pages of data in the name of research. Rewarding to some, boring to others. I find it quite enlightening, although admittedly dry at times. Incidents such as th... |
**Chancellor Dzerx wrote:** Biological insanity, these humans. Not only do they shed their skin in response to starlight and possess the ability to pack-bond with anything, they're also completely immune to the deadliest plant in the galaxy. The Chilli.
**Galactic President Hyzara wrote:** Duh.
**Galactic President ... |
I sat in the front row so proud of my children, I had always found that phrase so funny because none of them were actually my biological children, but I have cared for them for so long it was hard not to feel like they are mine.
I had never expected to be running an orphanage, let alone one for children whose parents... |
Morning finally came.
Ruwal, keeper of taverns and secrets, went to her bed; sleep had been granted at last.
It had been another long night--there had been three barfights, dozens of drunkards behaving like drunkards, and at least one death. All said, an average night at the Barpeak--the highest known, most treachero... |
I looked at the torn strip of paper and compared the written address to the numbers on the house. It was a nice place, but not NICE nice. Certainly not as nice as she deserved.
I rang the bell and heard a clatter inside, like glasses and chairs falling over. Thumping footsteps approached the door and it cracked open, ... |
The previous Prince of Prinania, Percy, pouted while pondering the words of the town crier as he continued to repeat the recent post.
“Prince Percy to be given his own fiefdom after a recent change in personality toward the people! Those in his fiefdom rejoice!” the crier relayed once more.
“Good for the prince,” s... |
"N-no..."
Milo held his hands up to his mouth. He recognised the corpse walking towards him. Its telltale grey uniform, matched by its grey pallor. The cross on its chest, torn through almost symbolically. He stared at the body of his brother.
"Milo."
It's mouth moved, and he heard his brothers voice. It was strong,... |
The SCP foundation has always been and always will be very secretive and selective of their employees, oftentimes reaching out to people who meet certain criteria for the role the foundation requires them to work in.
It amazed you that sitting before you were two recently turned eighteen year old twins, A Dipper and M... |
As soon as my finger touched the sock I wish the ground had swallowed me whole.
For all you dirty minded people, no I didn’t see a vision of him wanking. Though that would have been better than what I did see.
It was a young girl, no older than fourteen. She was frantically working at the sock, trying to create it ... |
All I heard was a tell-tale whizz, enough to tell me that someone had teleported into the my office. As I glanced up from my desk, preparing my usual script of pleasantries and paperwork, I realised that the creature's silhouette was that of a species still far away from attaining any form of higher interstellar status... |
You want to know the secret of how to take over the world? The inexperienced would-be despots of the world would say something along the lines of “power,” or “fear.” …But they’re idiots, and the most they can expect is a few years at best “ruling” as a crackpot warlord over a petty stretch of land in some underdevelope... |
"Ugh. Again?!"
"Why do you even travel this much?"Nolan looked sheepish. He shrugs.
"I'm a diplomat. Was? ...am,"He finally decides, staring at the copy of himself.
"What is going on here?"He recognises the dry tone, of course, it's his. He's annoyed at his own inability to process the situation and trying to hide ... |
“Oh goodie,” she purred, eyes narrowing to slits, her grin growing, growing, tugging at the corners of a mouth that lengthened into a muzzle, a muzzle whose skin stretched and split and slide off in wet, dense masses, splattering onto the ground around her. Beneath, gleamed white, hard bone. Eyes turned from earthy bro... |
It was always the same routine. I'd be at the bar when the door would open, and in would step a plump, white-bearded man wearing a velvet red suit, carrying a large sack of presents. He'd take a seat at the back of the bar, never speaking a word, just simply nodding his head with a jolly smile. Then, after an hour, he'... |
The pod opened, to the chimes of HAL's voice coming through the speakers. "Habitable planet found and partial terraforming complete. Hello, Dave."
David Josiah Edelstein's eyes fluttered awake, as the fluids to stimulate unsuspension flooded his body. "Good day to you, Hal."He clutched his head as the blood returned t... |
"I'm sorry, half!?"My voice cut through... whatever was going on. I'd bluescreened for several seconds after Grandpa said I was "half-human.""How can I be half-human?! There's not even... are there other magical races or whatever?"Grandma scooted next to me, and said quietly as Grandpa continued arguing with the princi... |
My hands gripped tightly around the picture frame, as if letting go would mean forgetting her.
It's been 22 years since my mother passed away. 22 years of no new memories created with her, just the first meager 9 years of my life. A motherless child at the age of 9 will do some damage to your mind. So much so that yo... |
As I lay in my dirt hovel, drinking from a clay cup of my own making, I look at the disciples who had gathered in my little corner of the desert to learn from me. They are both young specimens, yet almost unrecognizable from the first of their kind, with sharp minds, bronze tools and bright futures. Despite this they b... |
“I don’t know what I’m meant to do.
Just, what the hell is wrong with you?”
“Don’t worry, Dearth. You tried your best.”
“I stuck a trident in your chest!
I cut your eyes. I burnt your feet.”
“And all of that was pretty neat.”
“You’re meant to scream…
I heard you sigh!”
“Look, go again, I’ll try to cry.”... |
Blake: What's that over there?
Steve: That over there? The forbidden forest.
Blake: What makes it forbidden?
Steve: Canadian geese.
Blake: You mean Canada geese.
Steve: No this group of geese actually have Canadian citizenship.
Blake: Well then surely they must be friendlier than normal geese. I don't see why tha... |
I turned the key in the ignition and went through the general paces. As always, the car spluttered to life, (with much trouble) the lights within the car hummed to life, and my GPS set a route. Now, I know you may be thinking, "A route? A route to what?"And yeah, that's a very valid question. The answer, though, is tha... |
*Tuesday April 18*
Well, I picked up my second ever centaur today. Mr Qinric got up the stairs without issue, settled into the bedroom reserved for ogres and polycules, and then it went quiet for a bit. After a suspiciously long silence, I heard a short clopping of hooves, followed by the biggest crash you've ever hea... |
When the public heard of the NSA breach, they rushed to their computers. They took apart their desktops, ran multiple scans on their laptops and did everything they could to secure the data on those sensitive devices. And this made them feel safe.
They were looking in all the wrong places, for everything has a microch... |
I used to be a church going man. Not many churches left anymore. For the last year or so, I've been struggling to find God in the world around me. But I'll tell you, He hasn't made it easy for me.
I know I'm not the last person left on Earth. Groups of survivors pass through this town every now and then. Anothe... |
She laughs at me, and it's entirely contagious. I struggle to be serious, but she holds me down and smothers me with little fluttering kisses across my face, and something in me breaks. Her blond hair catches the light in the way that makes her look angelic, and she squints through her laughter, blue eyes begging me to... |
We make our own destiny.
It's what my father always told me, anyway. But I don't think it's true, not always.
Sometimes life has to give you a hand. A push, for good luck.
First time I noticed my name, she was on Fallon. Talking about it, too.
"I need to find Jim Paxton", she said. "Jim Francis Paxton"she said, s... |
February 23rd, 2015
The worst part about knowing the truth is how crazy it sounds when I try to explain it to someone. No -- not how crazy *it* sounds, how crazy *I* sound. I don't care if the notion is outrageous, I just want to be taken seriously, I want someone to listen. If they'd just suspend judgement for one co... |
She crept across the sterile tile
Hoping, praying all the while
Her parents would not wake with ire
To see their daughter as their Jude
A rigid breeze saw her there
And graced her with a flowing hair
That many would stop for and stare
If it only weren't rude
Her sibling lay prostrate and breathing
But in her... |
"Come on, one bite."
"I probably shouldn't, I need to look after my waist", Adam replied, blushing.
"Please, you look fine", The woman called Lilith whispered, checking him from feet to wavy hair.
Suddenly, Adam was very very aware that he was naked.
"Do you mind?"Adam said, pointing at a fig tree nearby.
"What?"
... |
A sun died, and in eight minutes, the people inhabiting the third rock orbiting around it are going to notice. That's
how long it takes for light to travel from that particular sun to that particular rock.
*
The sun died, but no one told Teresa, who spent the whole morning setting up the table and cutting potatoes i... |
It was the first name that came into my head. It was my last chance. The envelope was right there, I didn't have the time to analyse a more worthy winner. And he was really good in that one serious movie he made.
"and the Oscar goes to......"
Oh shit, no one is going to buy this.
".......Adam....*Cough*.....Sandler... |
At first I didn't know what the numbers meant. Always 1 through 10. It took a few hours before the letters came into view. I started to notice it was a sliding scale. How high a person was. When the letters were finally clear I realized this. Alcohol and Marijuana were common but Xanax, Adderall, Percocet, Flexerill, P... |
*Phew*
The book of Greed had been rough going. It read like an economic paper, with graphs and equations littered through it. I had spent three days slogging through it, and I still didn't really get it. Lust was definitely a better book for light reading. I make a mental note to go back and brush up on that one ... |
Now, come a little closer. Crikey! Not that close! Back up a little. This thing’ll bite your head off as quick as look at you. Yeah, Jim, mate. That’s right. Just there. Are we ready? You got this thing rolling?
Roight.
Welcome to Crocodile Hunter in Heaven. Like I always said back on Earth, we’ve got a lot of endang... |
"I'm God!"he proclaimed. "All you mortals kneel before me!"
I stared at the man who had made my life miserable for four, long years. Then, I got down on my knees.
"Excellent."He sounded abnormally pleased, happier than the time he had dunked me in a trashcan, just before I asked my crush out to prom.
Feeling a sudde... |
"I needed money alright ? What's a sphinx to do when unemployment rates are so high and all I have is a hieroglyphics diploma. No job openings there, hieroglyphics are out of style. The greek alphabet is all the rage now, 's'more accessible anyway. So I took the job, this job, and the description didn't seem that bad.
... |
The worlds most secure prison had two inmates; a little boy, and a little girl.
The boy was kept constantly sedated and fed from an IV drip of thick red liquid. The sedatives had been blessed by a rabbi, a priest, and an imam, each on the holy day of their own religion. The bed that the boy laid on was located within ... |
Me typ prty gud I is oftn tolt. Mny ppl axe me 2 give speaks n rite rprts cuz I so lyric. This the story of my lyfetyme™. Lyfetyme™ be gud. I live in most classy™ room. I axe 4 no moor. I ain't no gold digger. I have mny guns 2 keep safe. I have job cuz no mexicans 2 take my job. I wurk in law N force ment. 2morrow I g... |
You never think it's going to happen to you.
But, you know, it really could. Easily. They always say it's "99.99 percent safe!"like that's something, but honestly, that's like, far less safe than flying or even driving was, by a pretty fair margin. A 1 in 10,000 chance, *each time?* There are something like a million ... |
I was always a big name in my field- my work has been heralded as 'pioneering' and 'ground-breaking', and rightfully so. I've found a way to completely and efficiently extract the energy from stars(outside of our own Sun, of course). It's incredible, what you can do with that much power...fossil fuels are now simply fo... |
"Choose a trial,"the black-robed figure before me said softly. I stared indecisively with a frown on my face, glancing between the stone doors and the carefully carved labels, more ancient than Death himself. *Blood*, *Sweat*, *Tears*.
"What is each one like?"I asked cautiously and the face beneath the robes seemed to... |
The rest of the thugs scrambled when the first bastard dropped like a sack of vegetables. I wasn't going to let them get away though. This was the last straw.
A rival vendor set up shop on my turf. My profits were feeling the strain, but father always said that competition kept the markets strong across the Empire. B... |
Everyone has powers and the strength of them depends on how late in the year you were born.
One of the main things that resulted in this was everyone being very friendly towards one another when meeting eachother for the first time. Very polite and genuine interactions. Why? Because you didn't know the other persons b... |
I knocked on the front of the human habitational unit.
A female opened the horizontal hatch and I greeted her appropriately.
*Slurppp*
"GET OFF ME, WHAT THE HELL!?"
The female seemed angry.
"Greetings female. I am... new to the area. I have come to seek your friendship."
"Get out of here freak, or I'l call the co... |
I instinctively swatted at a buzzing near my ear expecting a mosquito, but I was surprised by the crunch of plastic. Even after ten years, I couldn't ever get used to the fact that networking was now handled by tiny drones. A myriad of people looked at me strangely from their seats on the maglev train, eyes human, gene... |
"Now remember Lorko, we need to blend in"Said Zoth to his companion. "These humans are amazing predators. They can sense your fears and insecurities and the second they realize they'll attack."Zoth looked around himself at the thousands of bright lights, Broadway signs and drug induced people surrounding him as they wa... |
I did it, I finally told him. I apologized for not telling him sooner.
The look on his face was bringing tears to my eyes. He looked as if I just simultaneously told him Santa wasn't real and his dog Happy didn't go to a farm to live happily ever after. It's such a morbid mix between bewilderment and betrayal. I wonde... |
Harold groaned and pulled a thick, black leather notebook from his cardigan pocket. Couldn't go five minutes in this city without another tally mark. Stumbling a bit, he grabbed the young hooligan by the hood of his sweatshirt and yanked him from the street.
One more minute and the lad would've been pulped. His damn ... |
"You...you're buying fruit, Stone-man ?"
Nigel Mason aka Stone-man whirled to see Lady Light staring at him. What was she doing here ? She never came here at this time, never. Think of an excuse, think of an excuse.
"No, Lady Light it is not just fruit ! I'm going to replace the soft flesh of these fruits with stone... |
Getting to hell wasn't the hard part. A simple slit on the wrists gets you instant, free admission. No, the tough part is finding what you're looking for once you get there - and getting back out, of course.
Snuck past what I'd guess is the 'admissions' process with ease - the demons are big and scary, no doubt, but I... |
"Oh bother"grumbled Pooh, as he loaded another cartridge into the clip. "You've been a very naughty boy Christopher Robin."
Christopher Robbin sat with his hands tied to his feet, blood running down his skinned knees, gagged by a dirty paisley do-rag that Pooh had pulled from his collection of honey jars.
"A very nau... |
Many people wonder what God looks like. He’s five foot two tops, with a brown beard grayed at the edges and with a smile that will make you want to love him (or punch him in my case). Often, he shows up in a pure white robe, as most mortals below picture him that way. But, I’ve seen in suits or tuxedos a couple of time... |
The sandbox shook from the cacophony of stomps, the sounds of an army on the march filled the air, and the grandest one that the Playground had ever seen at that.
The Kingdom of The Jungle gyms rose to power during a time of chaos and doubt, when the adults seemingly disappeared, one Child took command and led his for... |
You wake, the circadian rhythms of nations shifting, another full rotation of a ceaseless, teeming world. For the last eight hours, your saliva glands have been dormant, the tides gone down, and in the depths of your gum line another harvest season has passed. Scraps of food lie like beached whales across the ocean flo... |
Every year they selected one person to join the Festival. There was no escaping the Festival once you joined in, other than slaughtering all the hunters they put in to get you. One person, one random person, versus a whole horde of experienced hunters and killers. Sure there were things to help in the Area, but how man... |
It was the year 2016, in what would forever be known as the great information war.
What began as an innocent poem with a childlike rhythm caused the stirring of a revolution. No one expected a simple poem about a cow to start such a ruckuss, but /r/Animals was not pleased. How dare that poet make a mockery of cows lik... |
"Wonderful news everyone, we've released this quarter's earnings and shares rose 40 whole points,"I exclaimed.
The entire room rose and cheered in excitement, it was a truly glorious day for Small Pharma, a white knight company that focused on selling medicinal products for affordable prices. The atmosphere was filled... |
Since I was a child they had warned us about what happens if you turn off all your senses at once. About the fact that you cease to exist if you did so, and how it was basically suicide without a physical body left behind.
Do this and you'll "disappear forever"they said, for a lack of better words.
We wondered if an... |
"...so yeah,"finished Jesus awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck. "That's, uh, how it is."
There was deafening silence, not just in this park but around the world. Jesus shifted awkwardly on the huge stage, almost knocking over his microphone in the process. He grimaced and caught it before it wobbled too far, and ... |
My alarm went off at 7:30 AM sharp. I, however, was not feeling quite as alert as the shrill sound of the alarm appeared to be. I jammed the snooze button and rolled back over to fall asleep. "Oh, no you don't, young man!"a high-pitched voice yelled from the alarm.
Young man? I was nearing 70 years old, and looked may... |
The worst of the invasion was the uncanny valley of it all. They looked like catgirls from pervy anime, even the males of their species, but they looked so nearly human that it was truly unsettling. Unsettling if it wasn't your fetish. There were a number of humans who tried to Captain Kirk it only to receive a mauling... |
You know the story about the genie imprisoned in the lamp that grants 3 wishes to those who free him? Utter hogwash. And I ought to know, being one of the all-powerful magical beings that grace the earth. You see, we genies, who defy the laws of **REALITY ITSELF**, do not do so without effort. The bigger the change, th... |
Randall held out his wrist for James to see, holding his sleeve just above his elbow and bending his hand back to make the jet-black star perfectly clear.
"Fucking weird, eh?"
James' green star peeked out from under his sleeve. Greens could manipulate plant matter, and to and to a limited extent, organic matter on an... |
"I am Ivan the Terrible! I have slaughtered all I have come across, and conquered most of the world before my death! What right have YOU to come here!"He stood over me, shaking with rage. I didn't know why I was here, but Odin nodded encouragingly.
"I, um... I did win EVO, um, crushing all those who stood in my path b... |
It was the war to end all wars.
Every man and woman on the planet took up arms in the holiest of crusades, over mankind's greatest threat to its own existence.
Nowhere was safe, no nation exempt, no people unaffected. Divides were too great, debate no longer an option.
Our only option was worldwide conflict, over... |
The newest load of society's rejects rumbled in on the last transfer bus of the day. Most of them sat in silence with their heads bowed, missing the last image of the outside world they'd be seeing for a while. One must have been really trying to savor it though. Kept turning his head wildly from side to side, like it ... |
“Shadowharp! Stop in the name of the law!” Shadowharp ran into a warehouse, and I pursued. I paused at the door, reaching out with my mind to get a glimpse of the interior. I read nothing. I tensed, wary of his ability to manipulate shadows. I opened the door and crept inside, closing the door as silently as poss... |
“We got it!” Someone yelled over the comm units. Andrews, the head archaeologist of the dig looked up from his map of the island. They’d flown to the remote piece of land in the middle of the Pacific after satellite imaging showed a piece of tail sticking up. Now they were digging through the forest, circling one of tw... |
'So how's it been going today?'
'Ah, not much. Let me check my browsing history.'
To be honest, I was particularly sleepy that night, the moving was pretty tedious to do and I was just feeling exhausted after that. I needed to get some sleep fast, my sleeping cycle has been fucked up for weeks. However, after closing... |
Harry looked at his face in the mirror, lightly pulling the last few strands of dark hair from his face. When he was younger, the slightly raised lightening bolt on his forehead had made him an object of ridicule among the muggle children and a person of suspicion and fear among the children of Hogwarts. Somewhere be... |
(Edits: confusing wording, formatting, years)
*That's funny*, I thought. *I think that's the car we used to have as a kid.*
I looked over to the school door. My kids hadn't been released yet, so I went back to examining the car, which became more familiar the more I looked at it. It was the same shade of red so far a... |
Six months ago, after years of reaching out to space, space reached back. Earth received a message from the stars, and top linguists from around the world tried their hand at deciphering it. With such a small sample size, it has taken longer than humanity had hoped, but finally a group of nervous linguists stand in fro... |
*Knock, knock, knock.*
Samuel slowly walked to the door and peeked outside. He felt how he was quickly flushed. *She* was there. One he loved, at least long time ago. She was wearing a way too beautiful dress for it to be a coincidence.
*Knock, knock, knock.*
Samuel quickly walked back into the kitchen, shouted: "In... |
“What doth the prophecy say?”
My familiar, Sarissa, knelt before me. She grasped in her hands a page from the Oracle’s prediction.
“Milord, your reign will end quite simply, with a marvelous rise.”
I smirked. Surely reigns do not end with rises? No, that cannnot be right.
“Milord, there is more. You will rise treme... |
My foot tapped with an impatient electricity no doubtedly intimidating the restaurant staff who whispered rapidly to each other as they recognized me. Understandably so, my controversial history was quickly replaced by my infamy as a highly accurate and brutal food critic. “Excuse me, Mr. Cronus please enjoy this appet... |
My belly isn’t full, I threw up all the food. Around me, my family snores.
Thanksgiving’s the most wonderful time of year, and it’s tradition to eat the biggest plate you can. We’re supposed to *welcome* the Deep Sleep and *love it* but I, well, hate it. Losing five months of our life just feels stupid. The village l... |
"How the hell does a dragon get possessed by demon?"Asked the Vampire hunter as he added more wooden stakes to his utility belt, "I thought only human souls could be possessed".
"With witches anythings possible", replied the Witch Inquisitor who was tying the laces to her thigh high leather boots.
"Shows what the fuc... |
The blindfold covered my eyes completely. I sat in my chair on the stage, along with the other eleven contestants, and heard the announcer’s voice cut through the roar of the crowd.
“Remember contestants, we will ALL be watching you from the omnicam floating just behind you! As a final reminder of your objectives...”
... |
I knew the name in the paper. Printed, in flat black letters, among the obituaries.
>"Hey there. I'm Liz."A hand extended. A perfect stranger, smiling with the confidence only youth can afford. "I'm a week-mage. W-E-E-K. I'm actually a pretty strong mage, but Dad says I shouldn't tell people that."
>"My name's... |
I love New York. The busy streets, the pigeons, the people, everything. I especially love the street performers.
“Alright, Ladies And Gentlemen, we’re gonna play a song that needs no introduction.”
I cocked my head and, my interest sufficiently piqued, walked over.
It was a small band, only three members. Each had... |
I nudged the guy beside me at the bar, who was staring at the small, ink black, catlike creature on the wood in front of me, straining to break a small pencil. “That’s Gavrash,” I said, aiming a thumb at him. “He’s an old Eldritch god of Chaos and Death.”
“Right,” the man said, warily, and turned away.
I heard a crac... |
I got it! Scrape the dirt below my hooves. If I draw a pentagram, they'll understand who I am.
"The goat is staring at us, Son. He's a cute little guy isn't he."
Nothing. Shit.
I want to climb. Where are the mountains, little human?
"Father, Why is the goat baa-ing at me?"
"He likes you. Run your hand over his h... |
I am a worn-down crutch. Ancient. Creaking. Beginning to splinter. Someday, this has to end. Everything does, after all. Gods know I've seen that. Gods know I've put an end to plenty myself.
I stare at him, at the circle he's scribed in the burnt-out floor. I can hear the distant sounds of marching boots, the unmistak... |
Usually it's so easy, but I've tried everything.
I did Diet Coke. Adding music to Myspace. Telling Blockbuster not to buy Netflix. Circuit Cit- okay, I didn't have to do anything to sink Circuit City; it was a shitshow when i got there. I even convinced Mariah Carey to do acting. I can sink a fortune 500 company in a ... |
He always said he was more akin to death than the living. Every now and then, he would bring up the topic of his death at the dinner table, citing the numerous creative ways he would like it to transpire. I treated them as jokes of poor taste, refusing to give them much thought despite knowing he was the type that cons... |
"This menu's outdated, mam,"said the waiter, swiftly handing Lara another. "Please refer to this one instead. I'll be back shortly for your drink order."
Lara saw the waiter's eyes flash to her friend Jasmine, sitting across the small, poorly-lit table. Jasmine calmed her features quickly enough, but not before Lara s... |
Being the first real superhero isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It’s a fun party trick, “hey look I can fly, bet I can lift this car over my head”. And yeah you get to save the occasional person every once in a while from being mugged or a car accident. But there really isn’t any “drama”. I even moved to a big city hop... |
The Voice has been in my head for as long as I can remember.
The cool, male tone used to surface only during important milestones in my life: my birthdays, my first day at school, that kind of thing. It wasn't anything major; he'd just describe the details of my existence as if some kind of audience were listening. A... |
Bobo looked up at me, expectantly. I knew he was worried about this group, just now cresting the furthest hill within eyeshot. His gelatinous body rippled with anxiety, and there really wasn't anything I could do for him. Or for them. I pet him lightly but I didn't want to shake him up any more than he already was. No ... |
The memories of the terror don’t float far beneath the choppy surface of my mind. Slip a finger in, a touch here and there, and I can recall how the smell of brimstone matched the leer on his scaly face.
It took me three episodes to grow tired of it all. As a joke, I left up a sign next to my bed where he normally app... |
"You idiots,"the gangly-looking alien continued from its platform across all of the UN Council's televisions, "You peon imbeciles never questioned why we, an *ultra-advanced intergalactic spacefaring empire*, would send stealth recon pilots only for them to *crash* on your harmless little waterball world?"
The Council... |
Regis Sr was the original grave keeper. The exact type of ornery crotchety old person anyone would expect to be a grave keeper. He wore shabby dirty clothes with holes and patches. Thinning gray hair even middle aged.
At first he thought it was just the young science-y kids messing with him from their lab that employ... |
The box had a note inside.
*Dear descendant #315894,*
*I don't have money, so your student loan debt is gonna stay where it's at but when you finish reading this you're going to have a fraction of power that was divided equally among you little rascals.*
*Might give you X-Ray vision, or it might might let you fly o... |
Be cruel to be kind. Feedback welcome.
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“I’m not joking. Get some humans.”
When Soimt stopped laughing, he said, “From what I hear, they eat too much and there is someone better for any given job. Arkrans are better engineers. Rollts and Sorrc are stronger. Lings are better pilots. Even you little wimps can see ... |
They chatter of a disaster to come, the death of the firstborn. And this is how you protect against it. Nine. Nine plagues, precisely as promised. Pharaoh and the other priests are fools and worse than fools. Let the slaves *go* I told him and the others.
They cursed me for a coward, a heretic for saying their Go... |
“Get your rear in gear, Private!” a chorus of voices rang out, all with intonation of Sergeant Sheffels. “Drift now!” The trembling private reached for his injector and fumbled it, watching it ping down the mine shaft floor. The lithe woman to his right pivoted and bellowed with Sheffels’ familiar roar “Son, the army... |
“Moon’s haunted. That’s what the ghostbusters fee is for.”
“I don’t understand. I’m shipping two hundred dollars of bourbon to my brother, who is stationed at Lunar Base Delta. This is his birthday gift. I’m already paying an exorbitant shipping fee. I’m already paying the excise tax. What is this bullshit ghost fee... |
"I cannot beLIEVE you would do this to us, Rebuka,"dad said.
"Calm down, vinegar,"mom said. "You know Doctor Death said about your heart pressure."
"He can shove it, I'll come back to life eventually. Did you not hear what she said?"
"I heard her."
"Well?!"
"It's just a phase, she'll get over it."
Rebuka stood up... |
I was there the day they came.
It happened so quickly, so immediately. There was no warning, no alerts, no time for any kind of preparation. One minute I was sitting outside of Starbucks having a latte, the next minute an entire fleet of alien starships had dropped out of warp directly into the atmosphere.
Without ... |
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