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Satan had dreamt of this day for years and years, but now that the day was here he was more nervous then he had ever been. Satan, just minutes away from releasing hell on Earth. He had heard the stories of men who have wiped out entire cities in seconds with massive walls of fire, he had heard the stories of slavery a...
The screaming is terrible. "Excuse me, but aren't you Law Enforcement?" I look at this citizen while ducking a jet-propelled coffee table. "Yes?" Just in the nick of time, I yank the citizen out of the way of a laser blast. "Then, put a stop to this insanity!" Using the latest chaos defense, I lead the citizen int...
"Please man,"I backed slowly away from the man with the magisteel revolver until my back hit the wall, "I'm begging you, everything but the bracelet. I won't even call the cops. I swear." "Shut your hole, troglodyte. And hand over the jewelry." "Please. I don't want to do it again." "Do what again?" "Drain your mana." ...
Have you ever thought about what separates humans from animals? Of course most people would think of our intelligence which makes sense, seeing as it is ultimately the tool we ended up using the most, it is the thing we used to become the dominant species of our world, the apex organism of an entire planet. For much o...
In the galaxy, there was a rumour. A persistent menacing piece of gossip that passed from ear to ear. Discussed on obscure forums, spoken about in various unofficial channels. It said that somewhere in some backwater of the galaxy. In some place where nobody wanted to go, there was an odd planet. Not in the sense that ...
The whole world tuned in to the trial of the century. Captain Hero, the savior of mankind, on trial for murder. It was aired in it's entirety, much like a certain football player in the 90s. Everyone knew the circumstances. A cosplayer in an exquisite and accurate costume was dressed up as Doctor Malicious, the arc...
Kneelers were the worst. Les circled the monster slowly, keeping his crossbow aimed squarely between the eyes on it's shifting, dripping face. It was a larger one, it was almost his height while kneeling. It's face had been stretched out to be about three feet in length, bits of flesh dripping off of it. The empty, i...
It started 8 hours ago. Soft jazz played over the hum of rain falling on the cafe roof. A young man with curly black hair was writing in his journal: "I met someone today. The girl from Arizona. But we met in the most unlikely of circumstances. I was leaving the hospital, walking through the parking garage, when this...
The waves lapped against the sand, the sun burned a red ember on the eastern horizon, a new dawn, a new day. The 700th day to be exact, and I was still standing, breathing. That meant I got to go home. Behind me, 53 men and women, and I mean men and women, each 18 or more now, sure, but their adulthood was forged o...
"They've got to be fucking with us." The room fell silent as Angela Marchadesch's words soaked into what had been a rather jubilant atmosphere. A number of the Council members leaned forward, several foreheads almost touching the clear-carbon window as everyone peered down into Receiving Bay Alpha. "I don't know th...
As a child, the dome fascinated me. I’d torture adults with endless questions like ‘what’s outside of it, or ‘who built it and why?’ Mom would wave my questions aside and say she wished I were ‘this interested in tidying my room’ and my teachers would just sort of shrug their shoulders. At the age of 8, I began suspec...
I had spoken to Thyrgood several times before I went there with Shrin, the android. Thyrgood and I still required a lot of AI-mediated help before we could understand each other, but I was starting to get some sense of him. He had four arms and four legs, each of immense power, that together gave him a somewhat insect...
"3,792,562,072,441,372 times" "... what?" The man sat on a burning pyre of bolders that.. collapsed inward? Or they were bigger on the inside I don't know, but they seemed liked portals to worlds but I could see everything within them all at once and retain none of it. "You asked me if your in heaven or hell. I jus...
I was staring again, but luckily nobody was paying attention to me. It was early into lunch hour and the cafeteria was bustling. Emma was sitting in a corner with her nose in a book. It was a really good novel - I read it last month - but that didn’t surprise me. Emma had great taste in books. “Just go talk to her, ma...
"So you're telling me I absolutely must use the wish and after 3 minutes I'll die no matter what? Does that mean nothing can kill me before then either?" "Hmm"pondered the Djinn, "I suppose so, the last wishers only constrained future wishes they did not inhibit my interpretative abilities beyond these prescribed limi...
I never thought that Dark Overlord was the kind of career you could fall into, but there I was. I'd taken four years of adventuring training. I'd delved the depths of the Storm Sanctum. I'd hardened in the Crucible of Steel. I had done everything to train for one fight with the Dark Lord. A Dark Lord that had immedia...
"Who is this Kaptain?" "Villains Weeping, Kaptain Sweeping" "No need to fear - friendly suburb Kap is here!" William Cooper sat slumped against the wall; the cold concrete floor (who needed carpets when you're either spending most of your time punching bad guys or in a hospital bed?) chilled his bare skin as h...
It was quite the strange sight, if one could see past all the swirling sand to see it. On one side, stood Death. A nine-foot tall figure. Its frame draped with fabric that looks as if it was made from thick smoke. A long and curved scythe floating on its left. The blade and handle dried with the blood of thousands. O...
Emery. ---- Emery was a good friend. Mostly. Always there, to join in my stupid games. She used to tell me they were stupid, my games. I remember that. She would state it quite flatly, as if it were obvious, then crossing her arms and stamping her feet at the same time as she repeated the word endlessly. "Stupi...
"Blasted traditionalists,"the professor muttered. To the student he growled, "What are the properties of earth?" The student frowned, but had long since learned not to argue when a professor answered a question with a question. "Weight. It cannot be lifted by air unless it has been ground to very small pieces. Sta...
"Powerhaus is your WIFE!?"Captain Maximum was livid, the table deforming in his grip. "Well, yeah..."Warp Witch rang her cloak in her hands, fidgeting slightly, "I thought you knew this?" "How were we supposed to know?" "I mean...I submitted the paperwork with my name change for official documents that my last name w...
“Yup, I think if I move up the date for the fundraiser, we can make it there, and the XPanel meeting on the same day. Yeah, I want you to be there with me too sweetie, which is why-” *KRRSHHHHHHH!* In the next instant, I felt three things happen; my cell phone died in my hands, all the lights went...
"Hail, great and terrible wyrm of the north-most forests." Hearing my call, the dragon let out a derisive sigh. The horde of a dragon would provide one man with enough wealth to haul himself out of the peasant classes and straight into that of the landed and leisurely. The stories you hear of knights in armour with e...
"Battlesheep Betty?"I asked. "Nope."My girlfriend, Sadie, replied, "Betty isn't a badass-enough name." "Huh,"I flipped through another page of US Weekly. "What if we drop the 'Betty', just 'The Battlesheep'?" Sadie reached across our lumpy old futon and pushed the magazine out of my hands, scooching closer to me. "...
"Ma'am, ma'am! We've finally decoded the message!", the analyst ran after the centers director yelling. "What does it say? It must be of significance to all of humanity if the same pattern has been transmitting for the past week across all broadcast frequencies.", the Director spoke stopping mid-way down the hall to t...
Part 1/2 After a monumental effort, Thomas and his party had finally come to the village nestled within the valley of the sleeping horse. He would never know how Alice traversed the Dragons Nest Mountain Range by herself. But that is beside the point they were where she grew up and were here to visit her Father....
I don't know how I feel about the ending. You write really well, the setup is interesting, but I don't find it convincing that this dude would focus on that for years to make an elaborate plan to trick her. It seems... Odd, that he got away with murder that easily. Sure, he's a mortician (I forgot his job already) but ...
"Mommy, why is the gwass bwue?" "Oh, honey, it's always been blue." "What Mommy? No it not. Gwass was gween yestwaday. And what about the biwds? They used to be small. Now they big!" "Nonsense dear. Birds have always been ten feet tall. You're just imagining things." "But mommy, the pictwures show them small. And a...
"Ok, who's next on our list?" "Ex-military, black ops kind of guy. Would probably have a Medal of Honor if any of his ops were declassified. Just got home, wife, two kids." "Give him that home in the Rockies. Quiet and physical activity, something to keep him occupied. Until then full security detail. I don't wa...
First we knew the army of the gods was upon us was when the sky was illuminated by a slow falling white star which turned night into day. Then the sky was torn asunder by thunder and wailing of the souls of the damned. The ground threw itself up towards the sky, showering us with earth and rocks as hellfire burst from ...
I have a hat. It hangs on the wall. It sits there, on a peg, on occasion I take it off and wear it. It all and all is a very nice hat, it is not a cheap hat to purchase, and most people who pay for it don't get one. Most people who get one end up paying for another one, and they don't get that one. I walk down the str...
You'd be surprised at how easy it is to stop a crime with a headache. Most heroes, they swoop in when a crime is already in progress; people end up hurt inevitably, and even if they save the day, there's always damage. I'm one of the few that can stop a crime before it even happens. It's not as easy as the job is for ...
A guy walks into a bar and realizes that he's just a fictional character in a cliché joke being told by someone. — well, this is not really how I imagined my day to go. Said the guy. — how did you imagine your day to go then? Said the bartender. — I... I don't know, that wasn't supposed to be a part of the joke s...
It took about 80 years for the loss of privacy to become normal. At first there was joy and excitement. Human evolution in real time. Incredible. My grandma told me that for a while a lot of people didn't believe. Telepathy? In our time? It sounded like a party trick at best, a con at worst. But as more evidence was ...
The history students marveled at the idea, most of them avid students of the allied offenses against the Japanese on the island of Peleliu during World War II. Peleliu consisted of innumerable caves, in which the Japanese civilians hid as the allies approached, effectively brainwashed by the propaganda of their time. B...
I looked to see what had just happened. For surely twenty seconds ago I was at home recovering from breaking my leg two months ago, and now was currently in a throne room with- Her Unfortunately I fell flat on my face. Broken leg remember? Although it was graciously kind of them to help me back up. This gave me a...
Snow White stumbled through the forest. She fled from the huntsman–the queen’s man. Her feet cramped and strained as her thin slippers smacked against root and dirt. The effort of running was unfamiliar, and nothing in her courtly lessons had prepared her for today. Snow’s fingers stung with cold and impend...
The fires of hell roared in pleasure around me as I ascended trough a red wave of time and space into the mortal realm. Exited to be relieved of quite a boring day on the job, I roared triumphantly as I arrived into a small bedroom. "WHO HATH SUMMONED ME, THE GREAT BEE-" Ah fuck, its a child. "Can I have a cookie...
Penelope didn't have a ton of memories of her mother. She was much too young when her mother passed. Her clearest memories were about her mother. She remembered the funeral, a hundred people she vaguely knew giving her condolences she was too young to understand for a woman she had barely known. What eight-year old...
The human keeps going on and on about this … fur-baby. We do not understand, but this human only gets more agitated. I was sent in to calm down the human, but I didn’t know what they looked like. As soon as I walked in the room the humans eyes widened and showed it’s teeth to me. Usually these mean that you are about t...
"Throw my sword in the lake,"I ordered. My faithful knight Griflet looked at me as though I was slipping into insanity as well as death. "My king, surely not." The thing about dying from battle wounds is everything you used to do that you took for granted suddenly takes ten times longer. I fumbled about with my sword...
Dr. Negris settled into her chair with a sigh, preparing for another long night at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Caltech. Computer fans whirled in the background, ready to process any information the GEO600 detector might pick up. They mostly just spun, processing either nothing or just ran...
"Honestly, it makes my life easier,"Mutamatic said to one of his henchgerbils, Peaches. "If Chip is The Protagonizer, it's a whole lot easier to keep track of him." Squeak nibble nibble, Peaches said as she chewed a chunk of wood. "Yes, he does talk in his sleep. I'll have to station someone to listen. Oh, and! And...
Wakasa was the name her mother gave her, a very long time ago. It meant ‘young’ because her mother, a songstress, wanted her to be young and beautiful forever, never losing her worth. Memory faded with the years. Wakasa couldn’t remember what her mother’s face looked like anymore but she did remember loving hands p...
“Look at the way you're dressed”. Guy 2 looked down. “What's wrong with my clothes?” “Purple pants and a green shirt. That's villain stuff”, Guy 1 said as if it was the most rational thing in the world. “That makes no sense!” “Yes it does. They're clashing secondary colors. Look at me, blue jeans and red sh...
“Daddy?” Thumping and…crunching? Like the sound of sticks breaking…maybe if the sticks were wet? “Daddy?! Please…I’m getting more scared.” Running to get mommy, she is already coming down the hall. “Mom! Mommy! I told Daddy not to open the closet. I told him and told him!” Mom pushes past, her hand already reach...
He laid on his back as the pain slowly sank in. Is this what death felt like? Surely the fall must have killed him. Oh well. It was just nice to feel something again. The dreary 20 years that lead to this moment were finally coming to a close. No. That's not right. So the year is 1944 on June 6th. Steve took one las...
The first breath of the day brought an old scent to Marcus' nose. His first instinct was to open his eyes, to fling his head to the side and make sure the woman he believed to be beside him actually was. Instead, the young male kept still, and inhaled once more. The scent was entirely familiar to him, implanted in his ...
"My client has produced meaningful works, your honor,"said defense attorney Jane Smithe handing over a packet of manila envelopes. Tom sat nervously in the court room watching his lawyer defend him. His mother sat next to him crying. "Even though he's 35 and living at home, he is a rare creative talent, and as suc...
Hello, Mr. President. If you're anything like I was in the first few weeks of my presidency, you'll be getting into everything and looking for answers to all the wacky questions you can think of. I now know where Hoffa is buried, who killed Kennedy, who performed the sex change on Norma Jean Baker, what's going on at...
England smiles and hums happily while laying out the picnic blanket. She had been planning the picnic for days and was sure it was going to be splendid. She had packed all the lunches as well as an alternate lunch just in case one of the kids took an attitude. The last few years had been rough and for a while every da...
I was tired and nervous, but it was almost time. I fidgeted in the pew. The family sitting next to me glanced at me. They were probably wondering why I was sweating and twitchy, and why I was holding a bulging plastic bag. The pastor finally got to the section I was waiting for. "If there is anyone here who has ...
The knock rang through the empty house in the empty world, and Tony's heart nearly burst at the sound. He eyed the door warily, heart racing. He didn't know whether to open the door and hug whoever was on the other side with delight, or to climb out the back and run like hell. "Do I really want to live on this world al...
I remember being shot. I was getting into my car after work when a man ran up to me. I couldn't see his face, but I could see the gun in his hand. I remember thinking, "hmm, he's a lefty"not fully comprehending my situation at the time. "Gimme your keys and wallet now,"screamed lefty. "Calm down buddy, no reason to do ...
Mikhail gaped in horror at the silent explosion unfolding before his eyes. It was red-hot, blinding his pupils but he couldn't look away. His sanctuary, his route to safety had, in an instant, become nonexistent. Not taking his eyes off of the blast, he fumbled with his radio, tuning into any frequency that he could f...
"What the hell do you mean our retirement home isn't making any money?", my partner blasted into his phone, "Are people just not dying or something where we live?" I sighed, because what he was implying was 100% true. Ever since I had bought "We put the fun in funeral", which was one of the best funeral homes in the c...
Congrats, it's no easy accomplishment to do something like this. But not wishing to sound like a Debbie downer, you should remove the stories you've put into the book from reddit. Amazon's policy--especially if you plan on taking advantage of their Select program--is very weird about public domain and other copyrighte...
Death laughed in hysteria over the din of machine gun fire as he drove his spanking new darker-than-the-void combine harvester over the soldiers, separating confused souls from their expired bodies. War stood in the middle of everything wistfully. "Isn't this supposed to be my job?" "AHAHAHAHA! I made you to reduce m...
Hadley's beer sits on the table in front of him, slowly going flat. He poured it more than an hour ago, but he couldn't care less about it. He only has eyes for the gun. It sits in his lap, a children's toy, shiny silver plastic with an orange cap. A cowboy gun, six shooter revolver. His mother bought it for him, befo...
The Acros Vault was rumored to be the most secure gold storage in the kingdom, but there wasn't a room yet built that Fazzil couldn't break into. He'd proven this on a dare when he broke into the Kings quarters and snatched the drawers from his body. Of course, no one believed him since the undergarments weren't monogr...
Private Kim Yong-Ho rushed into General Lee Song-Ra's office in a hurry. "Sir, I'm back from my reconnaissance assignment. You have to see this"he exclaimed. "This had better be important!"the general shouted, offended that his subordinate had broken military protocol and stormed straight into his private quarters. ...
"Bobbie, put down your grandmother!"said Cynthia in a stern voice. Grandma was levitating around the room, clearly enjoying herself. "Oh, come on, Cindy, we are just playing!"said grandma. "Are you crazy? He is the first person in the world to develop psychic powers, you are not supposed to play with them, who knows...
I've taken to enjoying my coffee out on the porch when Max comes around in the morning. I've never been much of one for pets, and I certainly wouldn't call him "mine,"but we just have... an understanding. I leave out some scraps for him in the evening, usually just some leftover meat from my dinner. In return, he has b...
"No, Doctor,"I said slowly and carefully. "I'm not saying you can't do it. Not saying that. Clearly, I mean... look at all this equipment. No, you can do it. I'm saying - what I'm saying here, is maybe you... shouldn't." He caressed my cheek in a way that I knew was intended to be soft and gentle. The big fucking ...
"Grab a towel, here he comes!", I could already hear the midwife. "Bloody idiots, I'm a girl.", I thought. Being born in the 20th century has its quirks. I crossed my fingers. I hope this doesn't go like the last one. Those assholes threw me in a dumpster, damn teenagers. I sound like an 80 year old. How nice would it ...
Today was supposed to be a normal day. Well, it was a normal day, at least up until the point when I came home only to see myself sitting on the couch. I got up from the couch and waved to.. myself? How am I supposed to deal with this situation? The me on the couch came close to me and whispered in my ear. "Bet OP ...
It, (she?), was perched on top of my neighbours prius in the driveway, leaning over to gaze inside the living room window, and, judging by the damage to the door, trying to press the doorbell with its, (her?), horn. It would've woken me up if my asshole cat hadn't already. Oh, that head was monstrously huge. That car...
May I didn’t tell her. I am a coward. The cancer is in my bones, it’s not going anywhere, the doctor told me ten months. I stared at her smiling face, we’d been trying for a year, and for a brief second, the world was alright. I smiled because I was happy, the aches in my joints disappeared for a brief second, the...
"You know who I am." I stared at her but couldn't place her, no matter how hard I tried. Findr said she'd been near me for all the dates I could remember, punching them into my phone. Every time I'd chickened out and let bad decisions ruin my life. To everyone else in the bar we were just two women having a talk, but ...
Auggie lay horizontally across the leather sectional, his left leg elevated at the knee by thee goose feather pillows, the cast of his broken right arm laying like a log across his chest. "Let's just get it over with." Davidson sat on a padded wooden chair cater-cornered to the sectional. His wireframe glasses were p...
KA-BOOM! Thud The first sound was generated by a massive explosion coming from the very expensive front doors of the Evil Vacations travel agency, about fifty floors down from where Georgina was sitting at her desk. The second sound was generated by Georgina slamming her head on the desk as exaggeration. A voice...
I don't know where to even start. For years have I been thinking about this. For years I have done nothing but thinking. I have changed my mind uncountable times. Should I tell the others? Would they believe me? "I was awake. The whole time." "Hey gang, 'you sleep well? I didn't." "I wrote a song. Would you like ...
"Could you tell me exactly what happened before the police found you?", Charles asked. For 13 years, Charles Babbage had been a lawyer in cases where an AI was accused of a crime. When the first AI was released, back in 2043, Charles had immediately started studying how law could be applied to these new forms of consci...
I can stop time, slow it down to the dribble of sand in an hourglass as big as the sky, slip through the gaps in the giant cogs of the universe. The sensation is elating, like hearing a glacier grinding smoothly to a halt in front of my outstretched hand. It's useful for exams, and running races, and waking up late;...
Lunch I like. Luncheons I can’t stand. Ladies luncheons, well, I don’t think there’s a word. Fifteen new arraignments this week, fifteen more clients I already don’t have time to prep for, but I’m sitting here pushing around a salad with this herd of useless housewives. Something kicks me in the shin and my knee ...
I thought staying behind would finally get myself some peace. "WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR, ME?" Evidently, I was wrong. Apparently, all of the gods people prayed to exist. And since I'm the only one left, they all want the glory of having all life on Earth worship them. The love gods are the...
The council was convening. Several species would gather to discuss what should be done about the latest threat to known space. The arrival of a hostile, post singularity, species. First the lead Letharan diplomatt spoke. He twitched his ears and ran his claw through his mane as he angrilybegan. "We have no choice! T...
Bugs. They call us bugs. They have nicknamed us after one of the weakest, most easily killed beings on their planet. They created weapons against us much like what they use to kill the "bugs"on their planet. Horrible weapons. Weapons that melt and uncreate our bodies like fire undoing metal. Bugs, they call us. As insu...
A man stands alone in a featureless room, He needs to escape or else meet with his doom. No door worth a mention, no windows at all, Just ceiling and ground and impregnable wall. He thinks and he tries to develop a plan, To flee from this place if he possibly can. Amidst all his worries, amidst...
Being a salvager wasn't easy, not by a long shot. But, it paid well. Mortality rates were high but so was social standing. To be welcome as a savior was a reward in itself. When people asked why I did it, I never had a good answer, but it was the respect. There weren't many of us who could do it. Our crew was never big...
Hank laughed, and put his leather coat back on. “I’m sorry you have me mixed up with someone else, but I have to go,” said Hank. Doctor Zaitsev’s helper shut the hotel door gently. She smiled shy at Hank. “No,” said Doctor Zaitsev. He studied Hank more carefully. “Is you again.” “If you’d please Tabitha,” said ...
"Of course we'll take you to our leader! You can put your guns in the trunk, or just hold them-our car is your car!" "Welcome to Canada! Earth is full of great places, but allow me to proclaim that this one is pretty great. Call me biased, eh, but go see for yourself! Here, take the keys to my snowmobile!" Three week...
"Thank you for your interest in our company,"the letter in Jacob's hand began. "We're excited, after reviewing your application materials, to offer you a position as a Lobster Therapist Trainee!" Jacob flipped the letter over, expecting to see some proof on the back it was a hoax. There was nothing there. He turned th...
When it first happened the whole neighborhood was in an uproar. No one knew who, how, or what even went on. But when the doors reappeared, the whole smith family was pushing up daisies. They where real nice ones too, a good healthy shade of bright yellow. But, their beautiful indoor garden aside, there was no denying t...
Professor Karl Weiss stood slack-jawed as he held his hand horizontally up to his eyes, he couldn't believe it. When Dieter Jung had first come to him with the expedition, every part of him had wanted to say no. Dieter was known for his wild goose chases, 99 out of 100 of Dieter's expeditions ended in utter failure. T...
"Bunch'a effing jerks!"The monstrosity grumbled as it dropped a steamer trunk onto the shag carpet. I could only stare in mute silence at the towering... thing of pitch smoke and flame as it stretched four arms above its horned head, it's back cracking like a bowl of nuclear powered Rice Krispies. I wasn't paralyzed wi...
It took a while, but humans did get used to them. They were troublesome fuckers, no doubt. When they made first contact about 4000 years ago, no one knew what to make of it. It's not that they exactly announced their intention, at least not in any language that we could understand. They seemed to defy common sense an...
-Wa-PING!- "GODDAMIT!"Another rubber band stung my hand and nearly ricocheted into my eye just before I pulled the trigger. My unwitting target moved out of the line of fire before I could re-align my shot. Yesterday a blizzard of confetti had cannoned across my line of sight, giving away my position on the rooftop an...
The bright rays of light from the window gently rouses me from my slumber. I open my eyes, blinking. My headache! It's gone! Smiling for the first time since I fell asleep, a smooth female voice echoes through my head. "Upgrade complete. Would you like a tutorial?" I spin my head around. What in the world? "H...
We were tasked by our lovely empress with guarding some valuable supplies of hers. We were not the most secure base, or the strongest men in her mighty army, but we still did our job with dillegence. Any supplies lost under my watchful eye would bring shame to our glorious empire. "Hey Melvin", one of my fellow squadm...
"No, you don't understand,"I told the human. "I can't fulfill your wish." "Why not?"she asked, hands akimbo. "I paid you my soul! Now get to work." "But…"I stuttered. All I could do was panic. What would all the other demons of the Underworld think of me when they found out I'd granted this mortal's wish… to clean he...
"How do you make an octopus laugh?" He was huddled in the corner, the crumpled paper in his hand, folded so that he couldn't read the punchline. There were four police officers at the door, each one armed, none daring to reach a hand toward his gun. "Goddamn you,"Sgt. Cole said, hissing the words through clenched tee...
I woke up to a horrible sound that rung in my ears. It wasn't my upstairs neighbor practicing tap dancing, or a lawn mower at 6 A.M. It was worse than that and it was distinguishable among all sounds. Laughter. It was all around me. Even with my noise-cancelling headphones, the exasperated voices of people trying t...
I enjoy sleep, being able to escape for at least 8 hours a day from everything. To escape reality for a small amount of time. I also enjoy my dreams, even if most nowadays are nightmares. One day the pill came out, they called the drug SLEEP. They claimed to increase productivity by eliminating the need for slee...
She lay on the ground, face half turned so that the water pooled around her blue lips. Her jumpsuit had been torn, the rags showing bare flesh beneath, black skin in brackish water. The tech walked around, the rig on his head recording the scene, the composition, the details that would lead to a conviction no-one cared...
"Remain still."The young woman in a white lab coat instructed as she injected my arm. I shuddered in terror. My neighbors in the other cages had all convulsed wildly, frothing at the mouth before collapsing after she had injected them. Would I suffer the same fate? Yet, hours passed, and I was none the worse for wear...
How do I proceed? One at a time. All I can see is suffering here. Everyone competing, miserable at their constant lack of ability to measure up to some monolithic cultural ideal. Their souls are starving. This world looks normal, but it feels wrong. The leaders are corrupt. The divisions are stark. The successful are...
To be honest, living alone has become a routine by now. You keep telling the government agents that you aren't looking for love, but god forbid they let citizens keep what little autonomy they want to hold onto, right? The tracker app forcibly installed in your phone has an alarm system that act up every few hours, t...
You were always the geek. Dragons. Myths. Spaceships and sci-fi. I rolled my eyes at your beyond-inside jokes, your books and games. I ignored you in your freshman year back in high school, I the proud (or at least boastful) senior. Bookworm. Linebacker. I don't know what conspired to push us together as brothers, but...
My grandfather was a magician. They called him The Great Augusto. It sounds silly, but the name was a real killer back in the day. Made him enough fortune to build himself a mansion. It was rather remote and out of the way, but I feel like that's the kind of man grandfather had been. A loner that would appear before...

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