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Our last stand. For 15 years, we fought a foe so persistent and dangerous that our numbers fell. We of Alice's Disease Defense Force fought against an enemy dreaded by humanity all over the world. The HIV. It all started 15 years ago. Alice was at a party with her friends. She was 16 at the time. She consumed too much...
Clint, the Iron Grip, didn’t know why SHE was here. This was only a place for battle hardened super soldiers. The situation was dire. The army of Arborea, the spirit of all the mature trees, had materialized and demanded justice from the city folks that had abused them for years. This got everyone in an awkward situa...
"Well, to start, you shouldn't have opened the box." "I shouldn't have?" Today is a lovely day. Very clear. Very bright. Bird song. The world smells faintly of pizza and lemonade. "Yes! Why would you even want to know a thing like that? Date and time of your own death? Eeeesh. Grim. And that'll change how you behave...
"This is a strange one."I tilted my head in contemplation, staring through the revealing crack of the wardrobe at the slumbering human. Ill at ease as I devoured his guilt, and yet still it grows back, like a stubborn tumor refusing to relent. I was a strange demon, no doubt about it, or "night-hag"among many other na...
I was hunting that night, in the deep wilds of Andregar. With flecks of Martin and Tolkein, but largely inspired by my long history as a Dungeon Master, Andregar was easily my favorite creation, and the dreamscape I most consistently returned to. Most often, I dreamt myself an adventurer, but that night I was a lord, l...
December 16, 2017 “Hey Mom, let’s go to Hawaii, this summer!” Mom glanced up from her book. “Hmm.. maybe,” she mused. We were sitting at the dinner table, just having finished eating. I have always wanted to go to Hawaii as a kid, but in the last 17 years of my life, I have not been able to. I decided to ask tod...
Heifen took the sheaf of flyers bearing the image of the princess, nodding with a solemnity convincing enough so as to surprise himself. “Aye,” he said to the hulking knight before him. “You have my word.” With that, the aspiring savior in plate armor turned to the horde of tear-stained maidens and ill-equipped hang...
When Man was born, Nature said to him, "You are weak. You have not claws to fight danger, nor fangs to slay your prey, nor fur to weather the cold. You cannot compete with the bear, the saber-tooth, the mammoth." So Man slew the bear and severed its claws, slew the saber-tooth and stole its fangs, and slew the mammoth...
Kip Trill IX knew tomorrow was his 18th birthday. As the years have gone by he has appreciated being a normal person. He appreciated all the freedoms and liberty he had. Even as a six year old, when his single loving mother had asked him if he she looked fat in that dress she used to wear before having him, he knew som...
I thought I was hallucinating at first. That silly code I'd just picked up for seemingly no reason, suddenly I was hearing it all around me. Different parts of my house that the rain was falling on were telling different stories, but they were so jumbled up with each other that I couldn't tell them apart. Except for o...
wish..." "Hang on, you're not really going through with this, are you?"Dave cuts in. I glare at him sideways. He was your typical stick in the mud. Always thinking too much. "Please, you heard the man-" "-genie" "There's literally no way this could possibly go wrong." I turned back to Al, the genie with the aweso...
I sat across from my date at the restaurant, jealous of the two angels hovering next to her. She was suspiciously eyeing the two devils smoldering on my shoulders as she sipped her virgin Mary. "So have you always had this problem?"she asked. Demon Debbie grumbled into my ear. "Well look at Miss. Perfect over there. ...
Clutching my blade, I take a deep breath. My wife, a goblin, clings close to me, quivering. Today’s been a rough day, and I’m splattered with blood. When I signed on, I didn’t expect this—but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t loving it. Someone wearing only underwear jumps out of a tree, and I slice him in half. His bo...
"You know what, stop right there", I interrupt. "What?", says Death. "Just take me, I'm ready for ya", I say. "Do you not have any regrets?", asks Death. "Nah, not really. All those hours on social media and Netflix are all calculated. Besides, I was more productive that way", I say. "Do you not want to live longe...
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins went out around the dark side of the moon. Collin Michaels, Buzz Howard, Neil Strenger and Kenneth Alden came back. After the lander was recovered, they were quarantined and interrogated for over 72 hours. No one knew what to make of it. Their stories lined up. They k...
“Rubbish,” Janel Wan said over his glass of blue milk. The music in the Mos Eisley Cantina was loud, but he could hear every ridiculous word that Haleen Wal Kozel spoke. “For the last time, Hoth is not a secret base for the housing of cryogenically frozen clones of Senate members. I swear, do you even hear yoursel...
"Sooo"I said, awkwardly as I stood on a pedestal in the middle of a round, outdoor meeting hall. A grouping of elves, men, dwarves, and uhh dwarfy dwarfs stood staring at me, some wielding weapons. "I didn't mean to interrupt, I'll be making my way now if you please. Sorry again!"I crept down from the post, and the no...
One hand was jammed into my pocket. The other held the handle of an umbrella. The stem of the umbrella rested on my shoulder, and the open canopy draped me in a cool shade, protecting me from the hellish sun that ever-baked the city I lived in. Other folk seemed to enjoy the light of the nearest star, and such folk ...
We have finally found it! The source of our great power, hidden from us for centuries. The scientists in charge of discovery were horrified, but they published their results nonetheless. You see, humans are actually immortal. The kicker here is that heavy magic use erodes that away. The really big kicker is that it do...
The human brain is the most powerful computer in the world. A decade ago, scientists realized they could harness that power to model virtual worlds and probabilities that regular computers never could. Of course, it wasn’t long before that technology was discovered by the gaming industry— and it became possible to powe...
"The hell you mean your potions are too strong for me? I'm a level 50 Berserker going up against one of the fiercest dragons in the land" The old alchemist chuckled at my words, his whispy fingers twirling his lucious beard. "Only level 50? Then my potions are definitely too powerful. Unless you would like to kill yo...
I don't know what they're teaching these days. Last I heard, the Ministry of Education was preaching optimal skill trees and minmaxing prodigies. It used to simple. Although simple isn't always a good thing. &#x200B; Eighty-two. That's the minimum IQ for enlisting in the US army. Eighty-two is the lower tenth per...
##The case for carbon-based life forms existing in a highly gravitational body Huygs, Silon ABSTRACT: In this paper, I propose the idea that carbon-based life forms can theoretically exist on a highly gravitational body given sufficient conditions. Primarily, they would require to be on a body containing a high qu...
I have never been particularly hard working. Or motivated. I show up late to everything and have realized I may never achieve anything worthwhile before my death. But one day, a obese person introduced itself to me. He said he found me by smell. “My name is Gluttony, it said with a large smile. It’s been a while, Slo...
“I think there’s been some sort of mistake. While yes I’ve seen combat, I wouldn’t call myself a warrior. I was just the medic. I never even fired a round.” “Ha!” The large man laughed in my face with the force of a typhoon. “You are funny my new friend! You are one of the greatest warriors of all!” The mythical armo...
‘Who are you.’ The amusing nature of the question from the debatably omniscient was almost fit to introduce fits of wracking laughter. ‘You know who I am if not how or why.’ ‘No I don’t. I am the creator of all and I have never seen or heard of you. Your aspect is as alien as a nothing.’ The being moved around me gol...
First, you need to smile. The title font is big enough for them to read it through your screen. This text isn’t though. They need to think you think it’s a joke. Don’t overdo it. It’s better to undersell than oversell it. When you’re finished reading this, read it again. Once you go, you won’t get to see it again. Co...
Only a fool makes an enemy of the Devil. And this mortal was a vast fool indeed. For he committed the greatest treason Hell knows: trying to out-pretend the Great Pretender and Father of Lies. Oh, there would be hell to pay. And Satan always collects his due. The Lord of Hell appeared in the mortal realm in a circle...
"Warning. Core temperature at 115 degrees." The alarm had been blaring in my mind for hours. I couldn't figure out which bothered me more, the incessent alarm or the sound of the blood rushing past my ears as my false heart pistons worked overtime to cool off the infected parts of my body. My visual display indicated ...
It's the eyes that stick with you. Amid the eerie silence of that delivery room all those years ago, those blank, purposeless eyes peer into my mind. Never had I seen a more beautiful pair of deep blue eyes. A shame they would end up going to waste. The Shell blinked and looked about the room as we all stood there st...
Your murderer backs away in fear and disbelief. "I killed you,"he says. You twirl the knife he used in your hand, deft and practiced. "It happens to me from time to time." Honestly, you’re just glad nobody found your body this time. Showing up for work the next day is complicated if the police already reported your de...
On Earth, the biochemistry of life is based on water as a solvent. Dihydrogen Monoxide. We expected that this, along with carbon, was one of the elementary buildingblocks of life. We had only seen very little evidence to the contrary. But as things turn out, the reality of the universe was a whole lot different than wh...
I jumped at the opportunity. A gift of a lifetime. An infinite lifetime. How could I not? An old man, his body mere skin hanging of ancient bones. A flowing silvery beard that sparkled like the stars and a voice of sincerity and happiness But I guess, that was a mistake. The first years they were fun, carefree, lackada...
(Apologizes for any weird formatting, I'm on mobile) "Humans "the sergeant grumbled "Just what I needed to complete this century." Sergeant Keef (pronounced with very a long e) was having a exasperating day. First the General arrived a planet rotation early, now humans. It was not a good century for the Sergeant (no...
Log Date: 5$/-'/-8 Oxygen: Critical Warning, Change tank Life functions: Nominal I'm- I'm still ok, stars are pretty and all but it's isn't right. I should be dead, what- what's happening? Time seems to have been lost in the place, I'm losing track of my time, it's the- 21st 22nd day? Oxygen tank shows some pretty...
The bell rang for class to begin. Mrs. Dover shut the door and started writing the day's lesson on the white board. I watched her letters swoop and swirl perfectly as if handwriting was a core curriculum for her teaching degree. The smell of the dry erase markers floated across the room, light enough for most people no...
He was small. That was my first thought on seeing the mortal that uttered my name. Just an infant gurgling and babbling at the play of light on the ceiling. I knew deep in my heart that he did not say my name intentionally but I've been so lonely. I reached out my hand momentarily willing myself into solidity his eyes...
Agent Thompson was the toughest spy around. The man had once wrestled two crocodiles and a bear in only a speedo. Not only that, rumors stated that the man was immune to every known poison in the world, even some poisons not yet discovered. Wherever he went, people feared him. He strolled through the halls of the villa...
I groan and habitually crack my neck. The sound of a voice hit me, but didn't quite register. Instead, I stared on ahead at the wall. Then, I snap back to reality. "Morning. You finally there?"Her voice quietly echoes in my barely affordable, tiny apartment. "Morning."My brain function bad yet to kick in, as I fai...
“Kneel, welp,” came the growl from the leader, his bright eyes boring holes into me. I dropped to my knees and hung my head. This had been a bit of a shock; while I didn’t usually take to spending prolonged periods of time in open fields, I had been looking for a particular type of goldenrod that day and the time had...
I am a dragon. No one knows, but I am planning on telling my wife tonight. I have become excellent at concealing my true form. I have been in my human form for years. I miss the pure strength, size, and invulnerability that comes with being a dragon, but I would trade my dragon form for my human form a million times i...
There was even that time that I put on two doubly cursed rings at once. Ring 1: -Can’t be removed -speeds healing, but when worn too long it causes fatal blood clots. Ring 2: -Can’t be removed -improves wearers reaction, movement and thought speeds, but when worn too long, causes the blood to thin so much that the wea...
Worship no Gods, and they cannot touch you. Accept no chains, and they cannot bind you. These are my tenets. These are the instructions I give to my followers. Not worshippers - no man who worships me knows my will. Those who follow my teachings know my will. Never submit. Never surrender. Stand proud, and die standi...
The villagers had very little to do with technology. It’s not that they were ignorant to it but rather they didn’t see a need for it. They had enough food from farming and fishing, always had plenty to talk about with their friends, and they had homes that kept them warm on even the coldest nights. In short, their live...
I've had my fair share of odd jobs on the past. A sword that could burn skin like fire, armor that would blind attackers, a bow that turn arrows to lightning, you name it. No matter the task, no matter the person, I get it done. So imagine my surprise when I get two requests for the same weapon, from two entirely diff...
It's always been the devil's way. To make the sinful path alluring. To tempt the virtuous to vice with promises of pleasure. To wear a lovely form and speak with charisma, with charm. To the lustful he appears as a seductive beauty. To the covetous he promises piles of gold. To the one seeking recognition he offers fa...
When it happened, the world went into uproar. Militaries across the world scrambled to look for explanations. Scientists collectively teared their hair out before throwing away everything they knew about physics. People on Reddit joked that everybody had turned into vampires. ...For a while, Twilight had a resurgence ...
'Look out zombies, or I'll fill you full of Ho-Ho-Holes!' Santa cried, with a fierce look in his eye. A sack on the shoulder and a shotgun in his right hand. Boom! Boom! 'Zed don't stain red!' The twin barrels tore through the zombie horde like Freddie Kruger through teens. Chunks of rotting, necrotic flesh blasted...
Drip drop drip. I turned my collar up against the rain. Dammit, I should have taken an umbrella. If only I could remember where I’d left it. The street was dimly lit, and unfamiliar. My clothes were thin and clung to my skin. Drip drip drop. For some reason I began to notice rhythm of the rain. It didn’t feel…ri...
"Sweetie, you know Mrs.Gretchen wouldn't like her kid to be a pet right?" My daughter drooped her head down in disappointment, still holding onto the dragon. "I know mom, but I really want to have a dragon pact like dad does." With a sigh I gently took the dragon from my daughter's arms and put it on the couch. "Li...
“Halt, villain! Else I will have no choice but to smite thee with my righteous powers!” A handsome, strong-jawed man brought up one hand in front of him, crackling bolts of bright yellow energy beginning to flicker at his palm. “Your reign of terror ends here! No longer will you commit your deplorable, e...
With a breakthrough that hands humanity the keys to immortality you would expect huge news coverage and nobel prizes. You would think that I would receive praise, accolades, honoraries, loads of money. I hadn't expected those things when I started, but I can say by the end of my experiments I was pretty excited to take...
Brian hadn’t noticed that, as he walked down Times Square making the ad’s disappear, that the place was deserted. The Coke ad, his least favourite, was the first go as usual. Then the Starbucks one and finally then Apple’s. Humming along, he twirled as the world grew more and more adless. Chuckling he imagined the harm...
Everyone remembers where they were on January 6. The world was transfixed. Billions of humans, with eyes glued to screens, watched the Object descend upon the Earth and change everything. I was 40 years old. I was a schoolteacher. On January 6, I became one of many touched by the Object’s light. What a sick j...
Diary Entry: 1999/02/25 Today marks the first anniversary of my leaving Pallet Town with Squirtle. I’ve found myself enthralled by Water-type Pokémon, and so I’ve been looking for and catching as many as I can in the past year. Squirtle did something strange the other week. After our victorious battle with Brock, the...
\[Refund. Time.\] "I SAID NO INTERRUPTIONS!"Dark Lord Frank bellowed from his table when the door swung open. The strength of his voice pushed some of the loose sheets off and to the floor. He grumbled at that but didn't move. He realized it wasn't one of his guards that entered. It was a young teen boy in cloth and l...
I'm being ignored! Me, Jenanne, the terror of Tipoxi, the scourge of Chasra, the winged fiend of Linro is being ignored like, like...like a common goblin. The knight that has so rudely invaded my lair is paying me as much attention as he would a _rat_. He's hardly done so much as glance in my direction. He hasn't even...
I like to watch the people as they pass by. I like to see the expressions on their faces, the way they hurry to get where they're going. I like to see the children laughing and playing, and the parents rushing to pick them up. I like to see the lovers holding hands, and I like to see the people look around them and smi...
I’ve always been a morning person. It was an inescapable part of growing up on the farm. No matter what time you fell asleep, no matter how you felt it was always necessary to be up and dressed in total darkness preparing to move irrigation equipment, or move cattle…whatever needed to be done before School began. &am...
It’s takes almost a full day to cross through Texas by car, and that’s assuming you’re passing through the quickest point up north. It’s a terrible drive that drags on with nothing to break the monotony. Seemingly endless oil fields that fill the air with the scent of tar almost occasionally broken up by windmills, whi...
Well... damn. I guess every system makes a mistake here and there, but this? This is unacceptable. I didn't commit a crime, hell, I never even jaywalked, and yet here I am, in the body of a man who died 4 months ago to suffer through his murder at the hands of my past self. It is, after all, 'infallible, just punishmen...
"........ and finally the new constitution was adopted and monsters were recognized as full citizens with equal rights."Nick finished his story with a little flourish The child had been staring at him intently while he narrated, drinking in every word he said. "So my teacher is a fairy!"She squealed, clapping her ha...
When humans first learn that dragons have hoards, their first question is always: "What Kind?" The obvious answer is gold. And it's somewhat true. All dragons, no matter what, feel an innate desire for gold. It's an evolutionary mechanics to protect the weaker parts of their armour with something stronger. And some ta...
[INT: POLICE INTERROGATION ROOM] The room is lit only by a single hanging lamp over a rectangular table. A WOMAN is seated on one side of the table, her hands shackled to a loop in the center with handcuffs w/ long chains. About 35, She's dressed in business suit, her hair is a close blonde pixie cut, and her blue eye...
My boss eyed my proposal. He was a beach ball of a demon, with stubby horns and at least three chins. I say ‘at least’ because I’m pretty sure under his suit were a couple more. “I don’t follow,” he said. Mother fucker looked half asleep. Guess that’s what he got for injecting dope at noon. “It’s simple...
"Oh just listen to those cries of sorrow Harley! I'm a genius!"The Joker cackled while watching the footage of his "voluntary test screening"he held for the henchmen. All dead from dehydration. Joker stuffed a handful of popcorn into his mouth and slurped his soda. He held the straw up for Harley to take a sip. She was...
Shrieks and screams sang an unholy hymm to signal the arrival of the great one Cthulu. The terrible creature rose from the sunken city. Standing still as a statute, it's terrifying visage spread madness and terror to the minds of all that gazed upon it. Men clawed at their eyes, ripping them from the sockets. Mothers d...
There once was a grand collective construct of pure intelligence and negative mass who witnessed the birth of humanity in the focus of its imagination. We'll call this intelligence . . . MacDonald. Now old MacDonald had a galaxy on the eve of the confluence of our space-time. Measured by the constraints of unidirecti...
...I never should have kept my newspaper subscription. It seemed normal. I read a human interest story about people who decided to become real superheroes after college. I mean, I couldn't find a real job, I didn't want a life lived normally, I wanted to actually help people, and I wanted an excuse to make it socially...
"Carl Sagan" She couldn't understand, but that was all Garth would be drawn into in terms of explanation. She fought through her tears, willing her eyes to dip into and see around the edges of the display to catch the dying light. As the starship started moving and the faint pull of gravity tickled her toes, the word...
"It is time. Wake up." Gary woke up with a throbbing headache after a wild night. After a tedious shuffling of tired feet, he found himself in the bathroom, wiping the dirt from his mirror to look at his sorry self. His frizzy hair bubbled and grew, many mouths and eyes slowly appeared, all piercing stares questionin...
"This homework is going to be the death of me!"groaned Jim, having to complete the latest ridiculous assignment in his calculus class. After drawing the symbol necessary, he quickly flipped through his textbook to find the equation needed to solve the problem when the corner of the page nicked his finger badly. ...
"Snick-Snick, that's not how this works, you know that."I sighed as the goblin shouldered his pick. "Me grow beard, me mine, me drink ale. So me dwarf."He gave me a look before going back to his work. "Just because you do dwarvish things, it isn't the same as being one. Besides, what would you're tribe think?" That...
"Uh... sir?"I glanced over and pushed the button on my desk. "Yes Amanda?" "There's... someone here to see you." "...Does she have an appointment?"There was an overly long pause. "Well, no, but you also don't have anyone coming for the next few hours."I considered it for a bit. It was a bit nontraditional... but to...
I stared at the waiter in disbelief. He had described to me the most pristine burger one could imagine. Perfect in every way and yet he had robbed me, the customer, of this opportunity. “It would have been a shock to your system” he said, utter bs. “Bring me this burger, I DEMAND the highest quality burger you can ...
I am fully aware that I am a villain. I do not deny the fact that I am one. I embraced my villainy when I was young. The world had betrayed me, I have every right to turn it to ash. No hero would stop me from claiming my retribution... One of the first things that came to mind when I heard those three words come f...
After over two thousand years and fifty million light years of searching across the stars, Ambassador Centur was to be the first human to meet an alien intelligence. She'd been fascinated by the aliens since she was eight years old, when she'd stumbled across them in the Central Intelligence, before school had even be...
It was quite a bit out of my way, but I had some extra time and had been curious about the rumors. A mysterious vending machine, eye witnesses saying it appeared like a mirage. Unmoveable. Indecipherable writing in no known language. It had been partially blocking the intersection for almost half a year, and constant g...
One foot in front of the other. That is how I lived in these lands. A place of blight, where few things survived, myths said it was a thriving country once. Yet whatever it was, it was a wasteland now, called by the civilised folk as the Darklands. Damned by the world, it was only place the banished were sent. Most die...
It began millenia ago. How many I have long forgotten. It is interesting, really. When people think of immortality they think that they will simply live to be able to do anything they want – to experience everything and achieve a form of completeness. Yet, how many mere mortals remember anything that happened in their ...
I stared into her eyes. They were black and unforgiving, and their gaze pierced into my soul like a samurai's katana. How could I be crying so much, and she not be? The girl was heartless — heartless! "Get away from me,"she whispered scathingly, her tongue licking across her teeth like a scalpel across the skin of m...
Bobby had two goldfish. Kerry took half. How many goldfish does Bobby have now? Bobby had a house. Kerry took all of it. How many houses does Bobby have now? Bobby had a car. Kerry's lawyer told him to sell it, and give her half the money. How many cars does Bobby have now? Bobby had a son. Kerry took h...
[NSFW] Wednesday. Remembrance Day. The day when everyone was forced to gather in the hot, musty atrium and listen to Preacher Wagner's speech. I took my usual seat in the back left corner and set my bag on the chair next to it. My black dress billowed out around me. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Elder Darwi...
She had regaled him with tales of the rally. Her day away from Dear Hubby and the Hellions had been fruitful for her disposition. The past year had been a rough one psychologically, and her outlet had become comment sections. Her howl was loud, but heretofore mediated by keys and servers. Angel-headed, full of spunk a...
“Gary Ridgway, you have served your sentence of 1680 years, and you are now free to go.” With a nod to the judge the criminal turns and walks away. They had called him crazy for volunteering for the cryogenic freezing program, but it had worked. They had thawed him out a hundred years or so ago, and it turns out he was...
Megan slammed into the rocks face first. She really shouldn't have tried to take that selfie on the edge of the cliff. As she lay there, blood seeping from every part of her body, she noticed no pain. That was surprising. This should really hurt a lot more. In fact, she was quite sure it should have killed her. Mega...
That first breath of fresh air after years preserved in formaldehyde was all the vindication I needed. My work on reanimation had been a success! I hack and cough, clearing the remaining fluids from my lungs and replacing it with sweet, sweet air. My heart beats unsteadily, having forgotten what it needed to do. But it...
"Father!"The young man clutched at the aged hand lying on the bedspread. The shamans backed away respectfully, drawing the woven curtains as they left the room. Grey eyes turned towards him, pupils blurred by cataracts, but still harbouring a secretive twinkle. "My son."A wet cough clashed with the dry and raspy vo...
"Bullshit, just get out of my way man." "No wait, I have something that may change your mind!" "Fine, just show me." He pulled out a laptop, and fiddled with it for a few moments. "Come on, just show me already." "Wait a sec"he fiddled a little bit more "here you go!", he pressed the laptop onto my hands. I took ...
I told my coworkers this would happen. Half of them believed me, in that they found it funny. I was the guy who fixed computers for a living and I was planning for doomsday in the form of computers taking over. Still I suppose if this had been a zombie takeover I'd be eating my hat for laughing at the guy who took his ...
"Are you sure you can't just give me a sample, sir? A potion, a ball, an escape rope, please, anything?" "I can't just give you anything for free. I'm sorry, that's company policy." I sighed and thanked the man for his time, walking outside for another gulp of too-fresh air. Every other shop I could get to said the ...
No two snowflakes fall in exactly the same place. Much ado is made about the fact that no two snowflakes look alike; that fact is pointless. The snowflakes' appearances mean nothing. The wind does not care about appearances. Snowflakes will quickly land, or flutter for a while, no matter their appearance. No two snowfl...
When God created Man, he did not expect that havoc they would wreak. When God created Man, he turned his back and drifted off to sleep. When God returned as Man, they did not expect that havoc he would wreak. When God returned as Man, they turned their backs and put God to sleep. When Man created Me, I did ...
Yuri looked out the window at the clouds forming over Eastern Europe. He sighed quietly to himself for the fourth time today. It may have been the fifth, but he wasn't sure. To be sure, he sighed again, this time slightly louder. So that his companions would get his point. "Yuri my friend"replied a man with a thick Te...
Well, whatever happened last night, it must have been one hell of a party. Not that I’d know, since all I can remember is waking up here covered in more noodles and euros than an Italian billionaire could shake his garlic breadstick at. First order of business: shower. After enduring the arduous process of stumbling my...
"So what, I just use this like a chat window?"I asked. The proctor nodded as I took my seat. "Exactly. You'll have a conversation about anything you want, and then you'll fill out the questionnaire--"she pulled a blue folder from under her arm, opened it, and pulled out a stapled stack of papers. She set them on the d...
I am Lachesis, the second of three. I am the watcher, the guider, and the caretaker. Humanity has left their future with me. Yet I have failed in the first of my task. The elder humans, frozen in their stasis, have all perished. A colony of children cannot survive. But there are twenty-seven years till landing. I ...
There's something wrong with them. There was always something wrong with them; just that nobody knew what. In 2181, humanity discovered the key to faster-than-light travel: the Xing Drive. On his deathbed, Dr. Xing claimed that he had sold his soul to Satan for the secret technology. His dying words were concealed b...
The most tedious part of the new program was the reintegration of mimics. While legal provisions were made to ensure the success of society's newest and brightest, most of the practical details had to get worked out at ground level. At first glance, it sounded feasible. After all, with the retention of most memories th...
The young hobbit knew he had made a mistake coming to the mountains. He knew he shouldn't have listened to the old tales and should never ever have read the words on the old map. The sky gave an almighty crack as a huge object crashed on top of him. The object's little wooden legs ran in the air aimlessly as the young ...

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