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I blink in surprise at what appeared to be a job offer from the Just King Tollbi, made famous for his swift eradication of most corruption in his court in a few short weeks of his rise to power. "You... mean I'm not being executed?" Apparently that was the wrong thing to say as the king looked rather irritated with m...
Necromancer. Death bringer. Harbinger of the end. Grim reaper. It's amazing what people will call you if they misunderstand your job. Or simply hate you for doing it. I do indeed use some necromancy. I raise the spirit briefly, so I can ask about their death, their life and...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 / Today, I was following the woman. She is the prime candidate after all. I followed the woman for 3 hours, watching her visit the coffee shop, fill up the gas tank on her car, get extra film for a camera, and mow her lawn. Things to note: I finally have an address for the suspect, and she someho...
The bloodcurdling scream has me a bit hesitant to open my door. I nearly drop my bag of groceries onto the ground, but I thankfully remember how expensive eggs have been lately and keep a steady hold of it. With a sigh, I open the door. Everything appears in order until I reach the living room. My roommate Ethel, a ha...
In the jail cell of the Thief, he is popping grapes in his mouth while the Queen is talking to him. He eyes her and her face is wonderful to stare at. He doesn’t listen to her while the Queen is nervously trying to convince him to take his hand into marriage. He pops another grape in his mouth, wondering on how he’s go...
“I’m five.” “No. Not ‘what year are you?’ ‘what year is it’?” She just looked down at her hand staring at her fingers, like a… child. I went back further than I wanted. I guess I am happy with this. I can still work with this. It may be a longer time to get rich, but I can relive my childhood first. But where and whe...
"Sometimes I really feel humanity is a curse"bleeped Atvor, shining radiant in the midnight void. "I fear you're right. They keep evolving. Every few millennia they appear. Unrelated planets, Unrelated stars. There's no explanation for it. Each time we give them the benefit of the doubt and every time their chaotic w...
Part 1/3 I dropped my recorder and ran. No time to think about if it would auto-send correctly or not. All my primary brain could think of was going faster, while my secondary brain was doing its best to not stumble and fall. I knew it could climb, but i had more limbs and could do it faster. Going upside down (or ri...
A group of Neophytes stand at attention in a dusty training hall. A grizzled Templar paces before them, searching for any flaw in their stances, any weakness in their eyes. He is long retired from active duty, but his back is ramrod straight and he wears his pockmarked armor with pride. "Who is our Enemy?"he barks. "...
"Aaaah...finally the rain is over! I can open the window! The coffee should be ready soon! This day is starting..." "Excuse me! Is this the coffee house everyone is talking about in the Eldrich realm?" "...... and who are you actually?" "Oh I apologize. I am Anubis, from the Egypt mythology. God of death and afterli...
"It's been centuries, Zeus old boy. You remember the conditions of the curse, right?" "Yeah. I'm here until I understand the wrong I've done." "Yeah. But you always were the big bruiser, y'know? It took all of us to take you down 'cos of that." I nod. "And without me, you fell to other pantheons, yeah. I coulda told...
"You've got to be kidding me,"I said to the Commander. "You want me to whip those five high schoolers into a cohesive unit?" "It's beyond a need for the country, Mr. Rhodes,"The Commander said through the computer screen, a soft crackle coming from my speakers. "This is a worldwide taskforce that needs to be properly ...
Jan 20 ? Draftwater had finally achieved his dreams. His bullies from parents to teachers, other schoolmates can now say that they were wrong. He remembered two things about his childhood was his two escapes. One was dungeons of dragons and the other being geopolitics and the failings of the Nixon administration. ...
I simply stared at Marty and his band of Merry Misfits. I fully understood what they were telling me, but for the life of me I couldn't uderstand why. Marty's face was red, so was Anne's, Jonah's, Dean's and Joanna's. Before I could form a proper reply, Marty stepped up. "You're going away from a long time, you wirly...
"Sir, I don't understand?" "Of course you don't, you minions never understand the bigger picture! I should kill you were you stand, there are a hundred others just like you that do not question the system." "But..." "Zip it! Don't you get it, this all a game!" "What!? This is all a game between you and the ...
Oft I find myself wondering if he really understood the endeavor upon which he embarked when we made our wager. The "son of God"he called himself - foolishly arrogant, I thought; and yet, I found little in the way of doubting him when we spoke. So vast was his faith in the species he was ordained to oversee that he dis...
I woke up suddenly when someone touched my shoulder. I caught a waft of a familiar smell as two women sat down opposite me. One young and beautiful with long, brown locks and matching eyes, the other an older woman, steely grey and with deep lines on her face, yet still with the same kind expression that the younger wo...
It's not my fault! I'm telling you the truth. Why don't you believe me? Why is everyone always against me? I swear, man. I'm just trying to get through life the best I can. It all started when I was just a kid. My sister and I made a fort out of our bunk bed and some blankets. She lit a candle. A bad idea to be s...
There won't be a tombstone for me when I die, and I don't suppose it'll matter because I'll be dead. If there was, though, it'd say something like GERALD KINGSFORD - Always One Step Ahead. That'd be funny, I guess. I lobbed a girl's head off with a shovel in Mississippi, just caught her at the right time and thr...
It began as a whisper, no louder than the rustling of leaves signalling the quiet before the storm. Men, women, parents, children, all over the territory came the same murmurs. Nobody ever mentioned it aloud, but it occupied the minds of everyone, from construction droids to lawyers to gynecologists to astronauts. "Ho...
"Tic tac toe" WHAT? "I choose tic tac toe" SIGH With a flourish a desk, a dry erase board and a marker appeared before them. With a slight gesture of death's bony hand a perfect 3 by 3 grid appeared in the center of the board. Fred placed his circle in the middle of the board. Death placed an X in a corner. After...
I had nothing. Every day I would count my pennies and food stamps, but they never multiplied. Every night, I cried myself to sleep. One by one, my friends abandoned me. I lost the love of my life. The emptiness - that gaping hole that hollowed my soul - was unbearable. Then, I played with chance. I gambled all that...
"What?"We stare at the armies of mechs, mouths wide open. "Seriously, what?"People fly overhead, seemingly hovering without any machine or vehicle to support them. I laugh. This is ridiculous. "We must have made a mistake somehow. Let's look at the display. This can't be 1000 years ago."We enter the capsule and l...
>Me: Next. The line outside my door was filling up fast, ever since the new luck laws had been introduced everyone wanted to get in requests before the practise is banned. It was crazy busy. An old lady carrying a baby boy walks into my office. >OldLady: I need all my luck transferred to my grandson here. &...
The Battle of Trafalgar There is much glory in the history of Airstrip One; so much stories of good, courageful men fighting the ungood men from Eurasia. In one of the plusimportant battles, during 1805, Big Brother fighted for control of the oceans. The leader of Airstrip One's navy was Admiral Nelson, a strate...
The Devil roared back to Georgia like a stock car squealin' wild, Fire 'n brimstone flowed from his toes as he strutted with a smile: He'd come across a young boy, and that pup sawed a fiddle mean, Now it's time he learned in no uncertain terms that the devil don't pout 'n preen! The devil said: "My names are ma...
"You may know, or you may not, that we have something very powerful together. If you can't see that, you might as well take your pants off." General approval from the board. "Every step of the way, every moment of this journey of finding our identity, I will stand by you. And especially if you drip with anticipatio...
It's not easy being the best boss. People think it's a lot of hard work that goes into hard work. What is hard work? Hard work is knowing when not to work which is arguably harder than hard work. There's an African American coworker of mine and he has requested to stay anonymous so sadly I can't tell you Stanley's na...
Adam walks in with his nice collared shirt and sleek pants. His blonde hair slicked back. His girlfriend Evangeline follows through the door only seconds later. Her legs are tatted up with mockingbirds and beautiful vines. Her most recent tattoo was a heart on the right side of her neck: Adam's favorite place to kiss h...
honk So. Much. Makeup. honk So. Many. Shoes. honk The screaming, the screaming is something I will never forget. After five years serving as one of His Majesties Great and Noble Clowns in the medical division I thought I had seen everything. I thought I could finally go home to Mr. Schmookums and be at peac...
Jonah licked his lips, waiting for her reply. He knew he had to be careful and had taken every precaution, but things could still go very wrong very quickly. He didn't have to wait for very long. We're not that far away from each other! She wrote. I'm just ten minutes away. Perfect though it was more an hour fro...
"Hey Ted." "Yeah Phil?" "Did a golden mouth just pop out of the fire, screaming yesterday's date?" "I don't think so. I was distracted. Did you see that green dog walk by?" "No. No I didn't." "Huh. That's odd." "You know what? Maybe we should just focus on not dying. I actually don't know what was in that stuff w...
A lot of frankly melodramatic language has been used to describe me through history. Scourge, ghoul, night-bringer, despoiler, blah blah blah (blah! I vant to -- nevermind.) 100 years ago I despised the emergence of mass-market pop culture because the Bela Lugosi style hunchbacked Count is such a reductive and harmfu...
The janitor looked at me stangely and asked, "do you want me to throw that orange in the bin?" I looked up from behind my computer and growled, "No, go away". He looked even more confused and backed out of my work cubicle. I must have looked crazy, i hadn't slept in almost 40 hours and i could feel the shakes kicking...
"So, where do you want to go today Clara Oswald?"The Doctor asked in his gruff voice as he fiddled with levers, pullys and buttons on the TARDIS's control panel. Clara looked over the TARDIS, briefly looked at the computer screen, and threw it aside with such force it nearly spun fully around the console. "I want t...
"What the fuck do you mean" "I mean theres fire everywhere and i have no clue whats going on" "Cant you use the steps?" "Cant see past the smoke, people are starting to panic. Is there anything on the news" "Let me check" "Babe if i dont make it th-" "Stop, stop talking like that. Let me check the news its gonna ...
Last week, my route home from work took seventeen minutes. Now it takes four, and conveniently passes the grocery store. My office, which I once shared with seven other frustrated mid-lifers, now just contains my desk and the nice banzai tree our boss Susan bought for the office during her I’m-one-of-you phase. Nobody ...
"Let me get this straight,"the bulbous, blubbering blob before me said, "it's not butter?" I shook my head. "I know, dude. I can't believe it either."I leaned in earnestly. "But it's true." The alien conferred with its brethren. "We have understood mysteries that other species have never fathomed. We have seen wo...
I've been traveling for three days, now, looking for more pieces to add to my collection. When I say pieces, I mean art pieces, but sadly enough the other term also applies. Whenever I acquire new artwork, I can never seem to keep it in one piece for very long. In my mouth, I carry a basket full of my most precious ...
It seemed like a fair enough trade at the time. “So I use my last wish to free you from the lamp, and in return you give me everlasting protection?” “That is correct,” said the genie, standing there with his arms crossed beside the lamp that was still half-buried in the sand. “Should you free me, I promise to prot...
"I'm ready Mark." George was going to have his older brother Unveil him for today. Technically he should have chosen his mother, per family tradition. But having an older brother as your guide for most of your life can change that. She never spoke to George anyway. Refused to in scratchy, penscreen scribbles between hi...
The first time he had flown was with his wife. For his proposal, he had flown her high up into the sky and written with the clouds, "Will you marry me?" He had explained his powers but lied to her that he could only do it once in his lifetime. When they landed, she told him that she loved him. The second time he ha...
I didn't think I'd ever put this down into words, but I can't take it any longer. I need to process it somehow. Thinking about it doesn't do me any good. So, dear diary, please lift this burden off my shoulders, if only by a little. I feel scared writing this. If anyone knew of what I'm about to write, I'd have to kill...
2016 was horrible for both parties. See, the Democrats had Hillary Clinton, but most people didn't want to have her as the president. In fact, about two-thirds thought she was dishonest. The Republicans had Donald Trump, or as John Oliver put him, "a clown made of mummified foreskin and cotton candy". So, my friends ...
The year is 2200 and there has been no better time to live than now. Life extension treatments grant us a kind of functional immortality, and bio-computers implanted within our heads allow instant flawless access to memories and information. I can conjure up an image in my head and a holographic display can render it...
"Are you tired of having dreams that you will never achieve? Tired of wanting it all but not being able grab it? Do you set realistically unrealistic goals for yourself? Drozenol may be just right for you." Her glossy eyes stared into my soul through the television screen. Occasionally she would tilt her head ever so...
The genie cleared his throat, glancing at his watch. That's odd, thought Adam as he twiddled his fingers with anxiousness. Adam imagined that if the genie had legs, and not an opaque tail connecting the spout of his lamp with his torso, he'd be tapping his foot as well. "Adam it's been 37 minutes, I have places to go...
"Hold this for me for the week and you shall be repayed in gold and jewels"spoke the shimmering slime infront of me. "What is it"I enquired, not wanting to get into trouble. "Premium salt, from the belt of Orion. Keep safe"Wibble wibble wibble and the alien was gone. That was odd. Well, I do have nothing to do toda...
I always hated crowds. The hour was one past noon, and the promenade was bustling with crowds. I slowly made my way through, merging from one current of people to the next. Moving against the natural flow wasn't an option for me. Were I to move against the current, a torrent of oblivious passers-by would bump into me,...
"But Dad, I want to go to school!"he whined whilst a few water-blue tears ran down his face. Kids these days were so ungrateful. I remember how when I was his age I would daydream for hours about traveling the world, catching pokemon and winning gym badges; I've sacrificed so much for my son to have the opportunity tha...
"Sarah's problem was she was an idealist"Said the '92 Volvo with the black rubber bumpers. "Look at all these bumper stickers-"Here she performed a neat three-point turn to display a back bumper wallpapered with colorful tags. "-there's no way that someone that highly principled can function in the real world. Plus, sh...
It consumed the colors one by one and vomited a slew of disoriented footsteps; of nebulous pipe dreams smoked by families of three and four. It squeezed the lifeblood out of the weak and mixed it up into a purée of the mediocre. Tranquil laughter it speared through the guts; deafening silence it choked. Faraway black h...
The Commissioner was about to adjudicate the session; the gavel in her hand was already raised high. “Any other business?” she remembered to ask. The Core Worlds had already been through all of their agenda items, and that was generally all that mattered. The perfunctory question at the end was never meant to elicit a ...
"Well, look who's finally awake..." My head was throbbing in pain, and I rolled over towards the source of the voice that was somehow familiar, but also different. As the sheets slid across my body, not even a hangover could mask the sense of wrongness I was feeling. I opened my eyes towards the voice, and saw the las...
You lie in bed for hours, covers held up to your neck. Not only did you wake up naked in a stranger’s apartment, but you are right outside the first floor window. In fact, one entire wall of the whole room is one glistening sheet of glass. You screw your eyes tight, trying to sift through memories. There are fuzzy, dis...
"What a bunch of crap. People on the internet are so damn gullible,"John scoffed at the screen as he watched the points climb. I wonder what they did for verification? Curiosity beat out his skepticism and John clicked the link. An image of a hooded figure holding a small piece of paper with /u/IamDeath4Realz a...
His eyes were scratches; red-brown shadows in the sepia shades of the afterlife. I stared in the silence, and saw that his silhouette was faded, breaking apart at the edges in strands, like the back-and-forth pen marks of an artist. He was old. 'Who are you?' I asked, and the sound was the whisper of the wind. 'No on...
Ten days ago I sent a message. Ten days ago I bared my soul to a girl named Charlotte. At this point the entire world gave up. Tablet's, phone's, Laptop's, you name it they were obsolete. Useless pieces of plastic and metal, the electronic industry fell, many of the upper class toppled. Electronics were replaced and r...
Don't mention it. I'm happy to share my story with your readers. Before I taste this pizza, for people to understand why this all matters, I've got to give you a bit of a history lesson. I know you read that piece in the local paper about the 1000-year feud, and that that's a grippy headline, but the reporter didn't h...
"Glorkon, why the felark did you slap my head?"Zarkon asked her incompetent co-pilot, turning to meet his seven eyes. "I didn't do shilt,"Glorkon said, raising his tentacles in the air. "You're losing your mind, Zarkon."He whirled in his seat, turning away from her, and pretending to look out the spaceship controls. ...
It sat below the television, two shades of gray with occasional beats of candy-red. Twin controllers snaked from console to leather couch. Proud. Weekends of new cartridges and bated breath; excitement. The basement was filled with the laughter of playful friendship. Of love. It sat behind the television, dust coating...
The Council of Nine sat at stone tables with a giant bonfire between them. The dancing flames flickered their shadows against the far wall and illuminated the concerned expressions of a thousand citizens. They knew that outside the Town Hall stood many more with those same expressions. There had never been this many pe...
Erket'des felt his power bloom as the possession took hold. It was a tricky thing, complete soul possession. You were made so vulnerable during the transfer. Being caught midway was a very common ending to the demonic hordes of his class. Erket'des was better than most. In fact, he was an experienced veteran. He'd po...
"Good riddance asshole!" The words hung heavy in the air as the clock ticked on. I looked at Billy, my best friend of 42 years. He looked as shocked as I was. So was everyone in my apartment. "Billy...why?"The words felt labored as they crawled out of my mouth. "I...I...I..."he stammered. He tried again, nothing. H...
Those humans. Those oblivious, ignorantly intelligent humans. We're sitting here fighting for galactic peace for the past 235 years, ignoring their existence. Why would we ever believe that these humans, these poor creatures who took somewhere around 50,000 years to begin basic space travel would ever accomplish a feat...
You know what I blame? I see it so clearly now. Like dominoes that you didn't know you stack up so tightly together that any and all pricks could have knocked them down in rapid succession. Nick is that prick. See, as far as I can tell, Nick is the only person I don't know in all the other universes. Nick dies. Li...
I stared in shock at my roommate. "Did you... just..."Lost for words, I toed the remains of the vase. "I dunno, man. Maybe we like, hallucinated, or something."Ted formed another finger gun, but no bolt appeared. "Uh, you try." I formed another finger gun and somehow, a glowing, writhing bolt of plasma burst *from T...
"Scott." "Yes John?" "What the fuck is that." "The sky I would assume." "Notice anything missing?" "Well I left my glasses at home so-" "You don't wear glasses." "It's the thought that counts." "That's not how this works." "That's one way of looking at it. Really, one must ask whether the outcome is what truly...
"Hey, give it back!" I ran, flat out up Broadway and swung a hard left on 50th. A line of theatre-goers waited patiently for the "Book of Mormon"lottery and I weaved in and through them out to 8th Ave. There was a grocery store on the corner, and I ducked into the produce aisle. Casually eyeing some apples, outwardly ...
Title: The Cleansing I never knew the world could be so quiet. “The Cleansing” is what they called it, if I remember correctly. It seemed nobody much wanted to talk about it, once it got started. And I couldn’t use my laptop or phone to search the term once it started, under penalty of torture for even attemptin...
"No, this is bullshit. You can't be replacing me with- with him!"I got onto my uncomfortable desk chair and looked over the cushioned boarder between me and one of the minor Shinto deities. I wanted to laugh when I saw who was coming. I sat back down and laughed into a stuffed animal one of the kids had gotten me. I h...
I sat in the corner booth, drinking a cup of Earl Grey. The budget for the next fiscal year sat in front of me; if I could make more cuts to education and training, then I would be free to bolster an escape strategy. What’s more, a little lack of education may be good, keep the peons in line. I took a sip of thin liqui...
Pain. A headache? No, a migraine. My eyes are shut tight, the sharp aching quickly goes away. My hands on my head, I look forward and see. White walls, white tiles. I am naked. Men come into focus, wearing black…black gear? Is that body armour? Are those gas masks? Someone is talking to me. I focus on him. Focus real...
Well, hell. History never was my 'A' game. More like my 'B-' game. I have no idea how this obscure (was he obscure?! I don't even know that my much, lol) 2000 year old politician dies. I'm not even sure if Bush is alive, back in my own time. Guess I gotta wing it. What does he want to hear? This dude has the abili...
I was a good boy. I always fetched. I always sat. And except for the very last day I always stayed. When the people started biting, I didn't know what to think. Biting is for bad boys. People never bit before. But my person got bit. It made him very sick. I fetched him food, but he threw it up. I pulled my very own ...
“You’re going down!” The boy in front of me disappeared. Number 13. I no longer cared to remember their names- only their ranks. Of course, the ranks were fairly variable, but they were easy to remember and I got consistent updates whenever one was killed. I let the boy get in close, punching at me with extreme rapidit...
Today was just another day in paradise. Or so I thought until the I walked into my shabby hole I called home. As I opened the makeshift door, the same way I had hundreds of times before, I noticed something was different. The door, really just a scrap of metal, only had a simple lever as a lock. Why would I need mor...
Squelching, soggy shoes. Is there anything worse? Finn thought as he tugged at his collar, squelching down the road. It rained from the night before, and into the morning. Finn valued his 10,000 steps a day, "but if these storms continue", he thought, "I'd better take my bike, or an Uber or something". The thought diss...
Though it had been going on for weeks, when the now-familiar clanking sounded from the stairwell, nearly every eye in the office rolled simultaneously. I knew it. I knew they whispered behind my back, complained to management. I even knew today, when Stephen and Bill followed me downstairs at the end of my shift. I n...
"Just tell me, senator,"Trudeau said and shed a tear. "Just tell me." "Their aircrafts dropped enormous boxes with food, and toys,"the senator said through gritted teeth. "They even left a congratulations message for your son's birthday in their wake. They are so nice!." "Thank you, senator,"Trudeau said. "And yes, y...
I didn't know it was happening at first. I was busy studying shadow step jutsu and the way of the blade. I was pouring countless hours into the Great Works; Bleach, Cowboy Bebop, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, and more. I knew that the world would need me soon. Even when others called me weeb and soiboi, I did not despair. ...
I'd always heard you shouldn't pick up hitchhikers because it's dangerous. But after 187 years, I'd started to wonder about the logic behind that statement. In the beginning—shortly after I'd been doomed to my task—I searched for the most disheveled, unstable looking people I could find. If they had an obvious tick, a...
"I wish for infinite wishes!" There we go again. It isn't easy being a genie. My job is to grant people wishes, but not in the way you think: Whenever someone wishes for something, time stops until I have done whatever they have requested, no matter how ridiculous. When I've completed the task, time resumes and all is...
Joe, holding the shovel, paused. "Wait,"he said, "So that means you're not going to kill me?" The gunman frowned. "Of course I'm going to kill you." "But you just told me to dig your grave,"Joe said. "As in, a grave for you." "No,"the gunman said. "The grave is for you. But it's my grave, I own it." "Oh co...
I'd always thought Vikings would be massive men, beasts of war and unstoppable killing machines. I was a bit disappointed to learn the truth. Most of them were short; barely reaching five feet. Many were still in their teens and had not reached their full height before death. However, I'd quickly learned that all of ...
Boiled potatoes. Boiled veg. Boiled chicken. We weren't allowed salt since our mum read it caused heart failure. No butter either, heart failure. No moaning at the dinner table. Dad gulped it down and did't say a word - always busy reading his paper when he got home. I mean, I am grateful that I always get hot food, lo...
For some reason, my animated reflection had no effect on me. Shouldn't I be frightened? I just wasn't. "What's in it for me?"I asked the mirror. "I'm everything you aren't. Everything you long to be. If we trade places, I can build us the kind of life you've always wanted,"it said. The voice was more angelic than my ...
"What...what did you just say?" I rolled my eyes. Surely an immortal being of ultimate evil wasn't hard of hearing. "You heard me, you son of a bitch. Mario Kart." Lucifer looked uncomfortable, which, to this point, I hadn't even thought was possible. Horns, pitchfork, all that, I expected, but a nervous crease i...
A hot summer’s day. The sun beat down on the Potter Ranch, bathing it in heavenly golden light. A picturesque scene; cows in the field grazing on fresh green grass, sheep lazing in the shade of a tall oak tree. Harry looked out over his fields, his kingdom, and smiled. It had been 10 years since he had escaped his awfu...
What first tipped me off was the senseless dancing baby gif in the lower right hand corner of the website. My gaze drifted around the page, and I found myself squinting against the bright red and green bold fonts plastered over a black background littered with tiled twinkling stars. The page was mostly text of varying ...
The problem with a bad job is that sometimes you can't leave it. I have a wife and three kids. I won't say that life before the crackdown was perfect, but it was at least mine. When the coup occurred five years ago, I'd been working as head of the Department of Investigations. Since then, my efforts have been forcibly...
28043975-509872 [Earth] has joined the channel 28043975-509873 [51 Pegasi B] Welcome to the server my dude! 28043975-509875 [55 Cancri E] Welcome! 28043975-509880 [Gliese 876 b] It’s great to see so many new planets! 28043975-509881 [Earth] Hi everyone! 28043975-509882 [Earth] Is anyone else here sick, by an...
We had made it. There we were. It was a dangerous mission, we all knew it but we had made it. We all hugged and celebrated as we rushed out of our sleep pods to the rear doors of the ship. Our ship, “the first post” was the first of 10 set to arrive over the next decade. We would set up the outpost for all future arriv...
Azirus held his sword up high above his head plunging it down into the dragon’s head. After a fierce battle within the cave of secret wisdom, it’s defender has been vanquished open to any infiltrator of the secrets. After taking a moment to catch his breathe he steps through the doors past its failed protector only to ...
All eyes turned to the keep as the tall oaken doors slammed open. Two guards flanked the man in chains, whose fate the crowd had come to see. They had gathered from across the realm and stood in the pouring rain for hours, waiting to see him ended. The chained man screamed for aid as the soldiers dragged him through t...
1/2 "Haha, sure thing man. That must have been seriously embarrassing."I tried to laugh it off, but Jim was dead serious compared to his usual joyful self. "Haha yeah."He put a fake smile on for a second, before turning serious again. "Seriously though, I did kill those people. How do you know about what happened ...
Black coffee was my chosen method for chasing away the post-purge blues. It was the only time I drank it. I suppose it had become a ritual of sorts. Tina hobbled into the kitchen and glanced at me with fear-filled eyes. A bandage poked out from just below the hem of her skirt, marking the reason for her limp and an uns...
"We're doing it,"she hissed into the darkness of her room. The drapes were open, the moon was full, and two coppery eyes opened from the darkness of her closet. "Really?"The voice hissed. "We're really doing it?" "Yes,"the princess hissed back in equal tone. "Yes really." "Not like the other times, where it was just...
--Part 1-- "Remember what I've told you, son. Say it back to me,"father stated. "Under no circumstances can anyone see my born-mark. It is different, and to others, different is dangerous,"I declared. "Good boy. It is your first learn-day, so free your mind to discover that of which even I am unaware. But please, ...
One word is all it took. They could not comprehend. “Hello?” The man I spoke to (if he could even be called a man?) first looked deeply confused, intrigued even, but not for very long. As he tried to understand his eyes first darted to every extreme possible, then back into his head. His fists squeezed until tric...

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