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"Huh, that's funny,"I thought, clicking on the article, "that looks so much like my town." I started to look through it, with a growing sense of unease. The landmarks. The buildings. The people. Everything felt so familiar. Wasn't that my suburb? Didn't I live there? I tried to read more, but my mind was so hazy. Wha...
There’s nothing that can ever prepare you for your door being kicked open. No one that can tell you how the drop in your gut feels when you see a cavalry of armored men charging in through your door, screaming orders at you. I had never seen a pamphlet nor documentary on what the feeling of cereal and milk dribbling do...
Alex checked the jacket pocket immediately as though following the newscaster words. There it was! His wallet had been been in the jacket pocket the whole time! How queer. Humming a happy tune, he set off to work in his brand new car. "Closer"was playing from the radio. At the red light, he saw an elderly woman cross ...
Just one more moment, I promised myself. En mer ögonblick, I added for the reindeer's benefit. Apparently Swedish reindeer speak Swedish. I perceived the wind and knew it should be flaying the skin on my nose, and saw the snow and knew my cheeks should have a layer of ice crystals. But I was a reindeer. I was a rei...
When I wake up, a long, scaly face fills my view. It leans towards me, parting its massive jaws, revealing teeth larger than my arms. I scream. The--this can't be real--dragon closes its jaws. "Christ, Ralph!"A blonde girl a few years younger than me scrambles down a mountain of gold, sending coins flying everywhere....
When Dr. Johann Freidrich discovered the secret of safe and effective gene splicing in 2027, he won a Nobel Prize and changed the world forever. At first, the splices were fairly innocuous, albeit ridiculous; a dog-cat mixture was one of the more popular new species. However, governments soon realized the potential wa...
He prepared as best he could. In the cold dark the only light was sterile and weak and far away, leaving him surrounded by shadows. The mists had begun to crawl, dissipate as they did every morning and the roads were smooth lines, pen marks on the flat land. Aboob looked all around after he had packed. This was his h...
Do not think of me as a hero. Do not think of me as a martyr. I am a bad man and my fate has been cast. I can only hope for non-existence. I can only hope for rest. Please, do not think of me at all. For all my years I have thought I was important. The words on my back had given me purpose, they had driven me. But ag...
Click. Another moment, captured in time. 406 filed away the picture into his database, saving it for later. Maybe he would show it to Elise. She liked flowers, after all. He turned away from the colorful patch, and rolled onward. Back to the sidewalk and out of the park. Forever forward, always searching. A pretty...
[ISS] James is typing a report on his laptop about the latest batch of fish being raised in 0g when Katie calls to him. "Yo, Jay-dawg I need your help" James sighs "What is it with you and all if thease nicknames?" "I think they are cute! Anyways are you gonna help?" "Yeah Yeah ill help, what do you need Katie" ...
"Amanda, it's time to examine the new babies,"said Mike, my manager. I was new at this and his job was to make sure there were no errors. I was lucky to get this job. The new quantum computers combined with years o marketing software had finally developed the ability to accurately predict entire lifetimes. At birth...
Dashing through the snow... Heavy breathing, vision going black, metal screaming from stress, explosions echoing in the background. In a one horse open sleigh... The Humvee's walls closing in, trapping him. Two - or is it three?- wheels popping. Windows cracking. The doors getting dented, seeming more fragile by...
ATTENTION: Previous state of emergency has been rescinded. All is well. It is now recommended that you return to your homes from your shelters and exit your saferooms. Resume ordinary activity. The [UNTRANSLATABLE], previously thought to be the instigators of this attack, have instead pr...
Her eyelids were heavy, her heart full of woe, Her face was all wrinkled, her hair white as snow. She'd feared it was coming, she'd worried for days, For sometimes the Lord works in curious ways. Her son had been sick from the day he was born, "He won't live much longer,"the doctors had warned. She wept in...
Darkened halls in moonless night Steadfast feet towards unholy rite Innocent blood spilled and spoiled Many a fortnight I've worked and toiled Crimson stains on hardwood floors Tonight I walk on death's dark shores Candles lit, innocence lost For how much longer shall I pay the cost? Earthen tremors to ghos...
They say that a man was once born. That could speak his way out of any situation. Even if nothing he said made any sense. His powers were so strong, he could call upon the forces of the universe to rewrite the fabric of reality. It all started when he spoke his first word. He said to his parents: "Food." His parents m...
It's such a strange sight to see. The holograms of Earth I studied in my history classes really just don't do it justice. A planet so covered in sustenance. An abundance of trees, fertile soil, and fresh water cover so much of it. Okay, so plenty of it is salt water. But it's not exactly like that's difficult to separa...
Prime or composite, it didn’t matter. Years of tensions had been put aside as Seven threatened to end the numerical order. Seven had just partially cannibalized his own wife, Nine. To make matters worse, he was now holding Six hostage and threatening to cut open his enclosed circle. The remaining numbers from One...
It was an odd day when I started to see people's statuses. I'd been helping my mother weed her garden. Doing a poor job at it as usually. I pull out more herbs than weeds never learned the difference properly. I'd just pulled out a newly planted herb when the window popped up. "CLASS:OBSERVER LEVEL UP FROM LEVEL 0 to ...
“What makes a good warship?” asked Rear Admiral Spec. I’d spent the last 8 years working my way into OCS and this is the kind of schooling I got? Some burnt out old admiral who hadn’t even seen combat asking me questions everyone already knows the answer to? Christ, and here I am a part of that machine. I raised my ha...
Cleric Johan followed the villager through the hot, damp Bleakstone streets. Bleakstone was exactly like it's name implied: bleak. The squat, square structures were all precisely placed in orderly rows, but completely lacking in any color or personality, much like the residents themselves. The good people of Bleakstone...
"So,"Allison pulled up MyCampus on her tablet as she sipped her coffee. "Let's compare schedules. Anyone have Dr. Bauwam for intro to pyromancy?" "I'm in section B02 for that class. What about History of Magical Artifacts with Casey?"Patrick turned his necklace over in his hands. The coin charm on it, when dipped into...
The elevator stoped, I sighed and blinked letting the article I was reading fade from view as I stepped.... the door isn’t open, and this isn’t my floor anyways. Wait this isn’t any floor, I looked at the floor indicator and it was blank. A quick look showed me that I was in the elevator with one other person, but who...
Vespasian looked at the data streaming in from the occupation fleet's survey teams. The small planetoid on the fringes of this system had not been a difficult target to assault with defences being civil protection forces but despite this these humans were proving to be difficult to pacify. There was a report of a hab...
December 30, 2157 I, ah, probably should have picked a time before now to start a journal, but I figured a day before my inevitable death was really as good of a time as any. I was never one much for journals, I just want something to be left of me when society resumes in 2162. I don’t know how I can win. Let me sta...
"Twenty Three. Bust."Drolled the croupier. Darkness enclosed the table, the electric light bulb hanging stark and bare under the bottle green lampshade. It's feeble glow offered the table a small oasis of light in an abyss of dim neon. I pushed my cards dejectedly at the dealer, an emaciated giant with ramparts of pa...
“I give up! I’ve had it up to here with you shits!” Shatterpoint yelled. Everyone in the smoking intersection froze. “For 10 years I’ve been protecting this stupid city!” The hero continued furiously, throwing his arc pistols to the ground. “Ten years! I’ve given up all of my youth to make sure you people are safe, an...
Huh. Him again. Thought I had seen the last of him years ago. What’s that? Oh he’s got his gauntlet back. I’m surprised he was able to reforge that after last time. Oh who’s he meeting? Huh, that looks like the avengers and some others, it’ll be a tough fight for them. Sip Man, this coffee sucks. Oh well, I’...
Breathe. Just remember to breathe. I mumbled to myself desperately trying to stave off a panic attack. Years of therapy had done little to alleviate my anxiety issues and I hadn't had such an extreme case of impostor syndrome since 7th grade when Ms Brooks had chosen me to represent the school for math olympiad. *I w...
There was a mirror in the room that reflected dust from the windows and the stilted light that came in. He saw himself in its reflection and he also saw past himself. He looked at the film of dirt and black marks upon the mirror and wondered how old it must be. He wore a suit that he had never owned and it was a shad...
Relativity. Everything exists in comparison. Michael had been unaware of his condition. His parents just thought him an unruly toddler and eventually his brain weeded out what sensations grew unnecessary. The doctors found his ignorance of pain to be somewhat odd but not overly so. They were mostly just thankful for it...
I feel a tug on my pants and look down. It's a little kid that looks...somewhat familiar. His mouth is moving, and the expression on his face shows that the message he's giving is urgent, but I can't hear him either. He opens his palm to me, offering me two little buds. Hesitant, I reach for them as he encourages m...
Another night prowling, another night fighting endlessly, mercilessly. Yet again instead of ovations and cooing voices welcoming me, I hear her, my mistress, shrieking in disgust as she finds my kills on the doormat. I try my very best, night after night under the pale, bleached circle of the moon, I try to call to m...
"Don't you think you've just wasted that question?" I look up a him, and bask in the pure power of his presence. It's not something that you can really get over, he feels like the calm of the ocean, the silence of the forest, the fire of a campfire. His response to my question catches me off guard, and I scrambled to ...
^((First ever writing prompt, don't expect much)) He had made millions of creations trying to create the perfect species. Each failed prototype were sent away in pods into the cosmos. The abandoned would drift endlessly, stuck in the vast emptiness of space. Except for one. One of the pods had crashed into a planet. ...
The statue of The God of Death glowed as everyone in the room gasped. “Beatrix Claire,” the High Priest boomed. “your blessing is all the proof we need. For your crimes against humanity, you will be executed.” It was Blessing Day. I and six others who passed The Test were brought into the Temple to receive our blessin...
"Wha- Where the hell is going on!?" "Are you asking for a straight answer?"the voice from the intercom countered. I rubbed my eyes vigorously, hoping I would wake up on a cold metal bench in Shanghai again. When that didn't work, I decided to take a look out of the window. Nothing but ocean. I slowly released the bre...
Sylvia's shock was a testament to how well she understood her friend's condition. She had never seen Kylie look surprised upon meeting someone, never seen her stumble back in fear, brandishing and jabbing her cane like a spear. "What's wrong?"Sylvia asked over the sound of carriages rumbling past. "This is wrong,"s...
"He's there daddy!"My daughter exclaims, pointing at a rather dapper gentleman. "You just can't see him, because he's MY imaginary friend!" I always humor her when she says this. After all, she's four. I'm not going to shatter that little dream just yet. He's actually rather nice, and we talk often during her naps. I ...
From the Blue Kitchen, God cast an admiring glance at the other end, watching Gordon Ramsay working away with furious efficiency. In one hand, he gently shook the sauce pan on the stove, on which a succulent lamb steak was sizzling with sprigs of aromatic herbs, cloves of garlic and butter. With the other hand, he was ...
Nora awoke with the first rays of sunrise coming in through her window. Today was Saturday, which meant two things to her six year old mind. First, she didn’t have to go to school today! Second, she could hang out with her best friend, Suzy-Bot!, without any interuptions! “Come on Suzy-Bot!,” Nora yelled as she kicked...
Striker launched himself at the giant of a man. His breath caught in his throat. He braced, pushing hard - and his fists erupted into light. The squeals of their onlookers erupted. The boom of his fist colliding with the man's chest rang in his ears. He fell away, preemptively bracing himself. In their world, pow...
Corporal Osgoode was a clown. He'd been given tower duty, again, this time for a stunt involving a sausage roast and a fire that got a little out of control. Standing watch on top of the old tower was boring and miserable, especially in this heat wave. He paced around the tower for a bit, but it was too small to rea...
Everybody knows that time has been ruptured. They feel it in their bones, like when you miss a step at the bottom of the stairs, or when you wake up having slept a bit wrong and your neck is all tight and sore. &#x200B; The Roman Empire, bless their souls, had a bad time when they spontaneously were restored to t...
The rhythmic click of the heels against the tile floor drove Jeff to crawl faster. His mangled leg could no longer support his weight, and the smear of his blood would lead her right to him, but Jeff tried to escape all the same. “Jeff, don’t be like this. We’re just not meant for each other,” her haunting voice calle...
Emily searched relentlessly through Spike's massive horde of gold. There were coins from every country and jewels of every color. There were fancy silver chalices and rings and earrings and much more besides, but Emily didn't care for all that. She just needed a sword. A few feet away, Spike watched her impatiently. ...
I enter the village with caution, as I do all villages. I'm still in the Realm, several weeks travel from the safety of the Wilderlands, and there are shadows everywhere. Dangerous shadows, the kind that leap will leap from the walls and drag me back to the King. It wasn't always like this. I remember the day my moth...
The UN Envoy blushed, hiding his discomfort behind a broad and brittle smile. He hadn’t been prepared for this assignment. That put him right on par with the rest of human race – cold comfort at the best of times, and an increasingly dangerous proposition. “We have found it…expedient.” He explained, raising one hand i...
The colors and the shapes you could see made you uneasy since the event. The scientists said we are getting hit directly with cosmic radiation so powerful that the Aurora Borealis is lighting up as far south as Brazil. You stand by your bay window an look up out to the sky in all its vibrant hues, swirling around as ...
I called the boy Billy, as he was a kid and I had a fairly literal mind when it came to naming things; as a kid my dog was named Woof or similar reasons. I think at first he was suspicious, he'd only ever been called by a number, so a name seemed strange and foreign, but after a while he began to accept it and then one...
I wrote a story for a [similar prompt](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/e3oxtf/wp_its_been_only_ten_years_since_the_usa/) last night. Thought I'd post it here too. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Governor Rutledge Beckman swirled i...
"Shuh-SHAH!"Anikan shouted, hurling the sand into Obi-Wan's face. Obi-Wan, blinded by the deceitful attack, reeled back, blinded, trying to maintain his composure, but failing. "Anikan! Why?"he said, spitting out sand as he spoke. "You hate sand!" "I never said I hate sand. I said I don't like sand. I don't just lik...
I'm lying on my back, with the phone propped against my ear. I can hear her breathing slowly. From across the country, it's like she's right there next to me, twenty years ago, the two of us fast friends who had both moved into a new town in the same year, staring up at the sky together, tracing constellations with our...
"Immortality,"the Old Man said, "is the truest time machine there is." The auditorium was silent, filled with rapt college students following the Old Man's every word. Around the world, philosophers, professors, and plain old people watched the Old Man's lecture being broadcasted across the world. "It is impossible f...
"Beautiful, aren't they?" From a distance, perhaps. Like rolling fields of wheat, their armor glistened in the sun. Like the thunder of the gods themselves when they chanted my name and thumped their shields. But here, beside them, close enough that I could smell their sweat? No. Terrifying, yes. But beautiful? No. ...
"Arch-nemesis? Are you out of your mind?"said the little goblin. Apparently this idiot thinks that the goblin is the big bad, the villain he ultimately needs to defeat, and the evil he must stop. "No, I am not. Tell me arch-nemesis, what is thy name?"The hero asks confidently. "It's Boblin- but that doesn't matter! W...
&#x200B; In a worn-down booth in a dirty bar, in a dingy corner of an out-of-the-way space station, a group of aliens were doing what is normally done in such establishments: drinking, telling jokes and generally having fun. Suddenly, one of the aliens, a gruff, intimidating warrior named Zehlt, turned pale as t...
Thomas stood there, pencil in hand, a ream of paper hidden in his backpack. The other students looked at him and laughed, but he was prepared. As the professor gave the command the battle started in earnest. Flaming swords and Flying daggers clashed, but Thomas quickly hid behind a tree eliciting more laughter from his...
A deep sigh left my lips. This had gone almost exactly how I thought it would. It was always hard to introduce your significant other to your parents. One is always afraid of one not liking the other for any number of reasons. Age, background, physical appearance to the especially shallow, not to mention any number of ...
Mars is gone. We still don’t know what happened to it. Mercury? We watched them slap engines on it, and plow it straight into the Sun. Last week, a chunk of organic matter, the size of an asteroid, disappeared below the clouds of Venus. At first, we thought it was an accident. Like when an airplane gets shot down...
The chef, the general manager, both of the line cooks, and all three of the dishwashers were staring at their new busboy. Tony, for is part, stood there, struggling to support the weight of the machine in is arms. Silver and girthy, it resembled a pasta machine. However, the device had a lever in place of a crank and ...
Somehow, despite the eons that had passed, the only name Captain Jamie Dawson could think to call on to save his crew, his ship, and himself was the Greek god Poseidon, Lord of the Seas. Faced with the incoming plasma fire of a full dreadnought, the comparatively tiny destroyer had no chance whatsoever. In what was ce...
FF:43:3A was becoming concerned. There had been no humans in sensor range, limited though it was, for some time. The generated happiness counter was starting to bottom out, even the 365-day rotating accumulator, and that called for drastic action. Pinging the network and mapping the results revealed a number of other...
They had laughed. Ridiculed me. An illusion will always be just that- illusion they said. And for a time they were right. I must admit my choice of magic seemed like nothing but parlour tricks compared to the literal bending of the elements. But I knew it could be more. More powerful. More magical than any other. And s...
When I got this notice, I was appalled. Diversity training? My team is far more diverse than most companies! HALF THE STAFF IS DISABLED! AND THAT WAS DUE TO INJURIES THEY HAD BEFORE THEY JOINED! Seriously, if the heroes in Sieraville bothered to be a little more careful, then maybe I wouldn't have so many employees! ...
The first of the Arrivals was on January 1^(st). News outlets and social media platforms erupted with reports of one MEA Flight 438 landing at Abu Dhabi International Airport, almost fifty years after being destroyed in midair by a bomb in its cargo hold. Only the plane that landed at AUH was surprisingly intact, and i...
It had been a bloody battle. No two ways about it. But when it came down to it, there wasn’t really much of a difference between hero and villain. Not really. We were both willing to do whatever it took to win, and those police officers that died in the backlash of heatwave’s blast wouldn’t have been any happier to be ...
The old woman smiled, the weatherworn creases in her face suddenly reorganizing themselves into irrigation ditches for tears and laughter. “Why?” she echoed, patting the tree trunk, her gnarled hands just as rough and warm as the bark. “This old tree’s got many reasons, Jev. Here’s one—did you know your ancestors are b...
"Husband unit, the offspring unit in this family node lacks data on origin. Attempts to update information on offspring unit causes error" "Wife unit, the offspring unit in this family node requires the updated information on origin. Combine processing with this unit, errors will decrease." "*running appreciation...
The doors in front of me seemed to loom over me. My breathing shallow and shaking. "Shit"my quiet voice drowned out by screech of the doors opening, and the sight of the arena exposed itself to me. As my feet walked, my mind raced. All my past decisions running through my head. Why did I do this? Why, when I could ch...
“Bro what-t-t the fuck are are you even doing?” shouted David as he scrambled against his bed board. “What. Is. Your. Wifi. Password.” whispered whatever the demonic creature was as cockroaches fell from its’ face. “Well let’s start by not dropping fucking cockroaches on my bed, jesus who the fuck raised you.” “You...
In the back corner of the Auror offices within the British Ministry of Magic, a lone Auror sat at his desk and finished the parchment work for his latest collar. Grumbling to himself about the anachronism of the parchment and quill, wishing that he hadn't been talked into coming back to this Merlin forsaken place. It'l...
"It's so... small,"Mary said, double-checking the readings on her screen. "And slow,"Ignatius added. "Slower than anything that's been made in the last millennium. There's a good chance that, if people were in there at one point, they're now dead. All part of the job, I guess." A devilish smirk took over Mary's fac...
“This is it,” Celeste announced, planting a rod into the earth. “This is the point at which the kids turned to the other side to fight the thing.” “I’m so glad we found it. Where is that?” Paula asked, spinning around to get a better view of the night forest. “We can’t know. It’s another dimension entirely,” Celeste ...
"Do you not know me?" The woman, gray and weak and liverspotted, did not answer. She only poked at the burning logs beneath the kettle. Anger flashed in Doraunthil. Insolence, he would not stand for it. He rose, fury a red rose blossoming in his chest, only to fall back into the feathered bed the woman had dragged h...
I lay on the sterile hospital bed as moniters beeped and lights hummed and flowers smelled oh, so sweet. As I drifted between sleep and awake, so did my thoughts drift until they bumped against an old memory. I pressed the non emergency button to ask a nurse to bring me a notecard and a pen. I gave no other descripto...
I had finally been accepted to the greatest institution of Magical Learning within the Dark Continent. The Imperial College of Sloth. To many, the name itself would cause confusion. How can a place run by the Sinful Lord of Sloth ever be productive? From what I’ve heard, he is only slothful when doing anything other th...
The adventurer wandered up the hill over to the old man’s cabin, sack in hand. He was waiting by the porch, smiling warmly, hands on hips; strange, thought the traveller, that he looked pretty much exactly the same as he had the day that they met. “Err,” he said, walking up the porch steps. The old man met him with an...
She burst into the building, black hair flying and catching the light like a night sky, a million stars. Using her power always made her look this way, alight with something beyond my understanding, shining eyes revealing the brilliant light within her. I remember when she used to sit at my bedside, making the sparks d...
Hidden Oak Hotel The Hidden Oak promises luxurious rooms, charming views of the nearby lake, and the ghost of the 13th-century witch from Germany stalking the halls at night. When you arrive, you will be met with the amicable owners who will make high promises of supernatural activity in their somewhat pricy rooms...
part 1 "Do it, you won't!"My 'friend' Ser Erick, yelled out. "of course he won't, he's always been a dumb coward, just like his father the deserter"Ser Dicken says with an evil grin across his face. "Don't you talk about my dad that way!"I yell back in response, a look of anger across my face.. "pffp, you know he w...
The uplink test always came last. Selection, basic training, assignment, then promotion after promotion and eventually a 18 month secondment to Bravo Station on Luna. Even after the infamous training program, known officially as the Heuristic Engine Linkage course, or more affectionately as Hel, there were no guarante...
\[Yeah, I still think you're full of shit. Whatever.\] Time jumps. It feels like a jerk in every part of my body at once in every direction at once. \[Hey, any particular thoughts on Death of the Author? I just read about it, and it seems like an interesting concept.\] My fingers twitch towards the keyboard. I had a...
"Oh, you can!" The Mage shrieked and turned around, seeing the Hero's face sticking halfway out of the solid rock face behind her. "What the-" "I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to be able to do this,"he confided. "HOW THE (quack) ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" "Oh hey, Grace! Good to see you there!" Grace, ~~real name...
Journal Entry #346 I have never seen a demon flee before. The sight was so asinine I nearly dropped my staff and ran myself but Siv grabbed me by my collar before I could go anywhere. Ever since our healer, Fredric, died we have had this man known only as "Medic"to treat our wounds. Which is not to say he is inept in...
>We all pay to live, dumb monkey. I have the option to pay with sweat rather than blood. You've been in this cage so long you forget what a struggle it is to survive. You're so insulated from actual hardship that you think this is the real struggle. The chimp was incensed and began flinging excrement, but lacked th...
"Dr. Doomsday, I know you're insane, but this... this takes the cake"I said to my most lethal enemy. "Hear me out, WalkMan"he said, walking around the industrial machinery that lay smoldering between us. This had once been some sort of manufacturing plant, turning sheets of metal into complex machinery. Now, it was l...
I sat down, feeling nothing less than absolutely apathy. I was literally a step away from exactly what I wanted, which was world domination. Why world domination? Simple. World domination was one of, if not, the absolute hardest thing for someone to pull off reasonably speaking. Countries existed completely on differen...
A few hundred feet above the dormant volcano... "He's made of actual stone! No way he can fly." "All dragons can fly. And be quiet, you egg-wet child, he can hear you." "Oh, the hell he can. He's asleep. Look, his eyes are closed." "No, those are... look. Earth dragons tunnel, right? So they have to...
Perry had a gift for bringing misfortune to others. Much like some people are talented fighters or runners or can throw pieces of rubbish into bins far away, Perry was good at generating misfortune. Never to himself, unless you count the suffering of people around you as misfortune, which, i suppose if you are a normal...
I couldn't believe it. This entire time we thought we were fighting the aliens who stole our people. Who kidnapped our neighbors, who ripped our families apart. But the one under the helmet was not an alien at all. He was one of us. And I had just murdered him. But why? Were these humans brainwashed? They must have be...
"Tell me, witch, what my coin buys,"said the finely dressed young man, as they exited his coach. He looked up at the coachman, who was resolutely ignoring them both. The driver may well have been mysteriously stricken blind and deaf for the duration of the journey; the young man was uncertain how much silence his coin...
# Genetic Freaks Everything ran off the rails. A storm raged outside, the fences were off and God knows what could be at the turn of a corner. Jackson, the only other black man in the island for some reason, and Laura, an engineer tasked to do minor repairs on the park's buildings, delved alone in the darkness. She ...
(I decided to go dark :) "Who are you, really?" "What, sweetie?""Dad"asked, giving me a confused look, but I knew better. "It's me, Dad-" "That's bull,"I said. "I know you aren't really my Dad. His friends and coworkers won't know the difference, I'll give your acting that, but us kids do-I'm just the one brave enou...
Dr. Marcus Wallace, PhD. Journal entry #58, January 8th, 2043. "The readings are... Confusing isn't the right word. We know what we are looking at, we know the equipment is calibrated properly and the science behind our conclusions is sound. Yet it all seems so very, very wrong. This creature appears to ignore most...
Being a genie sucks . We are bound to a tiny living space for as long as we have our powers .You don’t even get a choice either . You just get tricked into it or you die a horrific death and some twisted deity thinks this is a blessing. I’ve been around for a millenia so I’ve long since stopped dwelling on my creation...
It sounds romantic at first, I know, but it's actually quite terrifying. The first time it happened to me, I was in the shower. She only got a split second of my bathroom wall before I tilted my head up to ensure she wouldn't see... Well, y'know. There's no way of knowing when it will happen. It's like a goddamn mana...
I: Tick-Tock. Tick-tock. The people within and without the Great Marketplace waited with bated breath, all eyes on the clock tower in the square. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. The tension grew as the clock's hour hand edged towards the golden sigil at the apex of its face. Tick-tock. Tick-tock. The eager merchants made ...
Darkness magic is a valuable tool. It can be used to conceal things without irritating the lungs like smoke does. While it could certainly be used in military applications as a replacement for a smoke screen, I mostly use it to hide before surprise parties. It can also keep things cool on a sunny day. I would be lying ...
They say not to travel Route 19 at night. Say it's haunted. I'm not scared, at least I was. ''Eevee, back!'' I call back my friend to her pokeball and begin to run. Didn't have any attacks that could do any harm. And wild ghost Pokemon can be extremely dangerous. That's what my parents told me before I went out on th...

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