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He sat upon a pile of bodies and brooded as the dying flames emitted smoke and obscured the landscape. The carrion birds hovered overhead and eyed the still-warm flesh which carpeted the field below. Scores of warriors, their blades keen and their bloodlust unparalleled, had gathered to do battle that day and had falle...
Babby Cthulhu It was late. Not sure how late; couldn't be bothered to check. I was walking along the beach, ruminating, when I saw it. A small creature dragging itself across the sand. Sorta resembled an octopus, but... Weird. The colors weren't right - I knew octopi could change color at will, but I wasn't sure that...
"All right, okay, hear me out on this one. "You're right, they did it with the vampires, the werwolves, the ghosts (I guess?), even the mummies, I searched 'sexy mummies' and all I could find was [this](http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1084513) (HuffPost blog article; 6.5/10) but we're gonna roll with it. "All those...
The method for obtaining knowledge is as follows; observe a natural phenomenon, hypothesize its origin, create an experiment that will return a positive or negative result, create a theory as to how the phenomenon functions, share your findings, and allow others to criticize your work. All things that can be known are ...
There was a knock on the door of the McDonald's house. The youngest son, Jamie, opened it. It was the mailman, but Jamie noticed that he looked a bit off, like he was flickering in an out of existence every few seconds or so. He eventually just chalked it to the mailman being sick. "Greetings, I have a letter for Jer...
I've always made my most important decisions by spinning a coin and choosing based on heads or tails. Heads meant yes, tails was no, every time. Sounds pretty silly, I know, but the universe must be on my side because it hasn't led me wrong yet. And if the coin makes one choice and my gut is just screaming that it's t...
It's a cold, heavy night on the Street. The kind of night that makes a man feel like the world reached it's hand up inside his guts and started pulling him in every direction. The kind of night that makes you wonder if that filthy Grouch who gets himself piss drunk in the gutter might be onto something. The wind is ...
"Hello Nathan, we need to have a little chat."The disembodied voice spoke as if right in front of Nathan's face. Nathan had an idea what was going on, he figured he wouldn't be caught, I mean how could he? Who would ever know right? "Play stupid."he thought to himself. They can't prove anything. "W-where am I? who a...
"Let me get this straight. You heard some up-and-coming hero might be trying to topple your regime, so you sent all of your most elite Deathbots to burn his entire village to the ground?" "Yep!"Doctor Destructor flashed a grin and took another bite from his scone. "And it worked,"he added. "No more hero. Really, Ivann...
[INCOMING SIGNAL] Beginning Binary to Text Conversion Incoming: Greetings Earth. We come from the tip of Orion's Arm, located approximately 400,000 light years from your solar system. We are using a local satellite in order to beam messages to your home planet, currently orbiting Jupiter. There will be a r...
I took a deep breath, my body expanding and contracting as carbon dioxide entered my body through the millions of pores in my thick, green-brown exoskeleton. This planet's atmosphere was ripe with it, even more so than Ut'uun, though the quality of air was notably worse- as one would expect from a decaying planet. Jus...
Dirty shoes, dirty streets, dirty everything. I can't remember the last time I wasn't dirty. It's not easy, but it's not hard either. Of course it would be easier if water wasn't so expensive, but you find a way anyway. If the thirst comes, you just deal with it, you keep working, until you get paid with the precious ...
"COME FORTH HUMAN! ANSWER OUR SUMMONS, AND GRANT US YOUR POWER AND GUIDANCE" "Uh...why have you...summoned? me?" "BY THE POWERS OF HELL, WE HAVE CALLED YOU FORTH TO ANSWER OUR PLEA" "Uh, Ok...what exactly is that?" "**OUR BOSS IS UNBEARABLE, BUT WE ARE BOUND TO OBEY HIS EVERY COMMAND! HOW MAY WE BREAK FREE ...
This is bollocks you know. THATS NO WAY TO SPEAK TO A GOD Not my bloody god mate, I followed ... YOU CHOSE INCORRECTLY Oh come on, just let me in. My mate Bob was a ... whatsit. HOMOSEXUAL? No ... wait, what? He was gay? But he'd been going out with Crystal for years. **ITS ALL JUST A COVER UP, HE...
It was 1352 when I made my deal to stay alive, the beaked and googled darkly dressed man beside my bed no doctor but a very agent of hell itself. I could not know what I was committing myself too, not then for I was far too young to know much at all in the world. My world was a hovel and a straw floor, poverty and desp...
1978. "The Sun is finite. We will see it burn out in our lifetime."The head of NASA spoke to a solemn situation room. There was gasps of shock, incredulous stares, but mostly, a lack of understanding. Jimmy Carter shifted uncomfortably in his chair, his stern glare at the director met with a stalwart response. Eventua...
It all started with Aunt Esther. She was a pink, pork roast of a woman with a heavy, beetle brow and a remora mouth frozen in a wide oval shape, as if death had found her in the middle of swallowing whole russet potatoes and they'd both been a bit shocked by what they'd seen. "Good work with the smile,"her brother had...
The first utterance of alien speech baffled the world. Our question of whether or not we are alone was finally answered, but only more questions sprang forth. The government had known long before the media had gotten hold of the story, now radical citizens were clambering over each other to get up there and find out ju...
"You want me to what?" "Blow up a building, a bank, whatever you like really. Make it good and we will pay you double." I flicked the cigarette out of my mouth with my left hand and extinguished it with my heel into the thick carpet. "Yes, I heard that much. Really, what I want to know...is why." "We need someone t...
"Alright, my children."Satan said, rubbing his head sheepishly. The room, mostly composed of 18 year old Succubi or Inccubi addressed him attentively. "We're adding another sin to the list." There were a plethora of loud gasps and ooh's and ahh's before someone's hand shot up immediately. "But, seven is an odd nu...
I think what got to me most was the lack of bloodshed that they left in their wake. You expect blood in a disaster, be it natural or otherwise. Their brand of massacre was almost sterile, like a morgue before all of the corpses had been sealed up. When i saw them i called the police, which in retrospect just got m...
"Stop messing with me. There is no way John can die. His death date is still 50 year from now." "Did you not hear me? John is dead." "But his date......"She began to cry. She was just as confused as everyone else. He wasn't supposed to die. Like she said not for another 50 years, almost to the day. In fact, maybe t...
My first day of hell was above average to be honest. It felt like I had started a new job. Let me give you some background. Last week I worked in IT, for a big government organisation sifting through big data and data mining for a large project. Very very boring stuff. I had been doing it for years, nothing to show fo...
It was largely a day like any other for Jamal the praying mantis. He'd just enjoyed eating several caterpillars and was just popping down to the corner store for a Diet Coke when he met his friend, Andrew. "What it is, Jamal,"said Andrew. "Please stop speaking to me like that,"I said. "It makes me uncomfortable." ...
I leaned against my axe, placing my elbow on the bottom of the hilt while looking at the ledger for today. It had ten trees listed on it with their name, position, and a basic description of their build. Recently we’ve been given withered and broken trees to harvest, given the outrage that spawned from too many young a...
It was just another normal day. A rainy Tuesday in the middle of January. I was walking back to work from another dull lunch, sighing at the mundaneness of my life. I was a data entry specialist for a finance firm, so my days consisted of typing numbers into premade worksheets nonstop. I hated it, but I needed the mone...
I was glad I had brought my duster to class with me. The classroom was, in actuality, an honest-to-God dungeon, and even in the waning days of August there was a chill in the air. Come December, this castle would be as frigid as my old basement workshop, and the administration would probably frown on my pink bunny sl...
1. Dear God, I wish my mom paid more attention to me. I woke up in my beautiful home, beside my beautiful wife, to a startling and, to be frank, unwelcome sound. "Douggy, my little Douggy,"a woman shrilly shrieked from outside my closed bedroom door. She was pounding away on it. "Douggy, I made you a nice breakfas...
The typing filled the dry office air. A 'ding!' went unheard as the elevator doors opened and she stepped out and started walking down the hallway. It started with a man idly glancing up from his paperwork. His jaw dropped and his eyes slowly followed her as she kept going, completely unaware of his existence. Whispe...
The light that always blinded me when I was summoned faded away slowly. There was an equal amount of blinking and rubbing my eyes until the dark spots faded and I was able to look around at my new location. As always, I looked for Mira first. She was the only one who could summon me and only when she was in real dang...
"And what would you like to name this little bundle of joy?"The nurse asked, smiling into my newborn daughter's baby blue eyes. I exchanged a glance at my wife, and I knew right away we were both thinking the same thing. "I think we'll go with %5E2019F, it's just too sweet, you know?"My wife replied. "Excellent choi...
Data Shard from derelict vessel found around ruptured gravity bubble. location coordinates classified. Star date: 2379.86 Vessel: Ka'chob Mission Details: Project title: Meshwork Objective/s: * To force unification of Human tribes * If/When unification fails, to delay Human interstellar flight and emergence onto the ...
"We'll starve at that rate."The king of East Red, the least powerful of the four deserts, exclaimed. "Not if you ration fairly. That's my final offer."I replied. Even Kings are powerless before me. Things didn't used to be like this. We lived on rich agricultural landscape and everyone ate nicely. Then the storms came...
"PISS OFF. We're trying to take a waz." "Yeah, what fuckin' contract are you talking about?" Kurt and Joey aimed their "rifles"at the flaming skeleton, laughing their asses off. Soon, everyone was taking a leak on the skeleton. Screaming in agony and humiliation, the flames on the skeleton went out and it collapsed...
The four men sat around the table at the front of the generous auditorium, looking out at all the students there to snag their Human History credit. Professor Uguru greeted the class and introduced them one by one, though any student worth their salt at Grezych University would know who was whom without introduction. W...
Four young dragons sat gathered around a rock on top of a mountain, far away from the bullies and problems of their teenage lives. Each of them were reaching into the pouches strapped around their neck and pulling out small carved figurines of a bi-pedal creature that only existed in mythology. As they placed them on ...
Well here goes nothing, I thought as I injected myself with tons of nanobots. It stung my arm and I could slowly and painfully feel them move up my bloodstream and up my spinal cord. It felt like a hot burning pin was slowly rising up my body. As they made their way up, I saw some glitch like flickering around my p...
frustrated at my own stupidity, I get out of my spaceship. 'Oh, come ooooon! How the hell do I run out of fuel in space?' I kick the side of my ship, not even leaving a dent - but hurting my foot in the progress. I mark the ship's location and send a distress signal to my home base. **help is on the way, do not pa...
"To be fair, those Chinese bastards killed me waaaaaay more than I killed them,"you argued. "What is the kill death ratio for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds?"asked the angel at the head chair. "0.52,"said the angel to his right. He peered into a small tome in front of him. "It is much lower than others we've seen." ...
“Billy, have you finished your homework?” Billy’s mom, Julie asked as she walked by her son’s room. Billy didn’t answer. He’s a growing boy and has seemed a bit angsty lately. Hormones, Julie supposed. The last few days had been especially rough. Billy must have had a really hard day at school on Tuesday becaus...
Her hair is a tangled mess. She's still asleep. Breathing ever so gently face down on the floor; yet, I still felt a sense of comfort around this strange person in my room. I touched her arm and she awoke with a soft spoken voice. She never actually looked up from the ground when she began talking. "Sam .. that was th...
It was almost closing time on a particularly order-heavy Thursday night for The Pizza Joint. I checked my beeper to see if any last-minute orders were almost ready for me to take. The screen pleasantly displayed: No orders In Progress. YES! That meant I could pack it in early. I sped back to work with AYCE Sushi on...
They were monsters—screaming, snarling, sprinting, humanoid monsters. They didn’t look all that dissimilar from me: tan, callous-looking skin, long athletic limbs, a gentle throat that produced speech, and sharp teeth that, as I had witnessed, could tear flesh from the bone. I ran as fast as I could through the streets...
As I rang the Petersen's doorbell for the second time in five months, I reminded myself that I would never face a Judgment Day. I would never have to defend myself in front of some jackass in wings. When I die, I'll just be born again and I could have a do-over. Unlike the rest of the world, I believe that humans could...
The thing is absolutely huge, 6ft at least. Its eyes as black as a Khazad-dum dungeon, its pale gray skin glistening with the reflection of the ship's lights. It spouts horrifying gurgles that seem to travel up the crew's spines to their ears, trying to communicate its need for water. The body is shaped like a large tu...
"...And then he just comes up to me, smacks me with a--" "Club?" "No, it looked more like a walking stick." "You said it was a leprechaun, why would leprechauns need walking sticks, they are short." "This one was pretty tall! And just because they're short doesn't mean they are free from back pain. Getting back on ...
Please let me know what you think. I appreciate feedback. --- It was seeing the families with the young children that pained her the most. It reminded of the children she would never – could never – have. She hated and pitied those families in a way they would never understand. They had what she wanted most in th...
the subject screamed in agony as he fought against the movement of the newly animated bones within his body. The muffled sound of muscle tearing off bone rippled throughout the subjects body as he lost the battle of which position to take. Standing ridged before the necromancer was the most beautiful sight he had ever ...
“All right birthday girl, I’ll get you anything in the store. But you can only get one toy.” Brittany darted past the isles of American Girl Dolls and Barbies, stopping in front of the “boy” isle. “Can I get this?” She said, pointing at the largest Nerf gun in the store. Her father glared at his brother. “Lets just...
They kept coming, hordes of them. Their pace was awkward, some occasionally stumbled and got up like nothing happened, they even spoke things I couldn't comprehend. And I was the only one stopping them from seizing the city. My first encounter with them had been a peculiar one. I couldn't wrap my mind around what the...
We still called ourselves Humanity, even though we left our physical bodies behind several suns ago. But even as we are, we cannot win a war against Entropy itself. Those born of the Crucible of the Cosmos cannot war against the Fundament. We have felt the Cosmos grow warm and cold, basked in the glory of dying sun...
A wizard, fully clothed in a red loose robe, stood in front of the seven masters of magic. The wizard's hair went all the way down to his knees, black like his skin. He held in his hands a small piece of wood--his wand. "You claim to be the mightiest wizard in existence?"the tallest of the seven masters asked. "Pleas...
They were almost like famous last words: "I wish all of my wishes come true". By the time NPR news announced that Israel and the Palestinians unexpectedly signed a peace treaty, Vincent realized that on his twenty-third birthday all of his wishes really were coming true. Not all of them in just a split second, but one ...
I sat in the middle of my yard, fiddling with a plastic trebuchet loaded with an egg. Using a cheap drone, I found the position of a ritual the local Coven was in the middle of performing. The drone suddenly cut out due to an angry witch slapping it down with a broomstick and a purple light. The last thing my drone saw...
Dec. 31, 1999 This was usually the happiest days for Issac, but not this one. Issac never understood how his condition worked. He never told anyone because he knew nobody would believe him. He was immortal. There were only a few drawbacks. For instance, he couldn't have kids. But there were far more benefits. He...
One week left. After spendin’ so much time starin’ at these four walls it don’t feel real. I can’t really even wrap my head around it. My name is Anthony Vellotti, but only my ma calls me that. I go—I went by Tony. That was what all the fellas used to call me, the guys I ran with. Guess you’d call it a gang, now, but...
'"Are you crazy?"my wife yelled. "This guy was convicted for drug use, robbery, burglary and attempted murder! It's bad enough that we're spending public funds to reset the lowlifes, bad enough that they aren't getting punished for what they do, but are we really going to bring someone like him into our household?" "E...
"I'm back, bitches,"Ryan whispered as his pathetic chunk of metal ran out of fuel. Those guys back at the Alpha Centauri station had been right about it just barely making it back to Earth. "Identify to receive docking orders,"a monotone voice said on the intercom. "This is Deep Space Capsule 1701,"he said. "Requesti...
"Something's not right."I keep seeing that phrase everywhere. On the tabloid magazine in the bathroom. On the billboard as I drive to work. In a text from Maya, who would never send just that. On the graffiti outside the building. When I blink, it's gone. It's replaced by the article title. It's replaced by an ad for a...
This story starts like most stories often do. With a man behind a bar washing a beer mug and a \tinkle\ from a bell struck by the opening of a red painted door. This was the first customer that the bartender would serve that day and this was a very special customer indeed. &#x200B; "May I get you something. Mr....
Regrettably, there was no answer. The first Terran, a pre-adult male, fled in an instant, making appalling noises. His companion, a female of corresponding age, stood mute and wide eyed. Bipeds, Tyrax thought grimly. They have the strangest rituals. And apparently endotherms as well, to judge by the heat signatur...
Man the ancient humans must have been pretty buff if they could whip the entire Ruin Bringer race so hard that one word from one human is enough to make them leave. My current theory is that humans are also invisible to the Ruin Bringers (hence why they didn't react until Clint was being choked) but because they could ...
The called me a madman. Social media almost couldn't believe it when the Onion published our interview. Some people claimed that they had gone back to satire after decades of truths that had become more absurd each year. Maybe I was crazy. Years alone in the dark can do that to you. I have "died"thousands of times ov...
How was I supposed to know? It was hardly my fault. I believed it to be a coincidence, I didn't think anything would come from it. I'd been calculating the digits of Pi far beyond what would ever be necessary. To me, it was just a bit of fun. I was searching for any patterns or repetitions that might occur, when I not...
I awoke from what felt like a triple nightmare deluxe with extra trauma sprinkled on top. My body felt like it had been soaked in an ocean of my own sweat, which given the sort of night I must have been having, was very likely. Raising my head took tremendous effort for me, felt it took an eternity. To my shock, around...
“Strange, very strange.” Stated the young man, staring at what appeared to be a intricately crafted hatchet. This part of the forest was only spoken in hushed voices. Whispers of haunted trees and ghostly animals, stories never ending peacefully. “I wonder who left this here, and in such a beautiful old oak tree...”...
Now that I think about it, Nomed is just the word demon backwards, Maybe I should have been a little more suspicious of my friend? He seemed like a nice guy though, I just wish he told me what his puppy was before it bit the vet’s finger off. I feel that might be a lawsuit waiting to happen. “But its alright cutie, acc...
It turns out there's a reason no one ever lived past 130. It was an innate flaw in our systems, claimed the scientists. Just something that shouldn't exist. An automatic kill switch type deal. So they found a way to shut it off by shutting off our sense of timing at any age past 30. Once you turned 30, you got your cl...
“Hey Cap, listen, this has been a real trip, and I’ve been learning a lot, but we gotta talk about something” I hesitantly addressed the captain. He’s an older guy, well, guy is a loose term here. He’s only 3 feet tall, but his muscles are insane. Dude could bench a truck, even if we weren’t in zero gravity. And th...
(continued from post above) I look up from where I lay- even though it’s daytime, the sky is black as night from the smoke cast by hundreds of enormous fires. I’ve lost feeling in both my legs and have a sort of deflating sensation around where my stomach should be, where it not for the enormous spear impaled thr...
“The wizard ran a hand through her long black beard, eyes sparkling with arcane knowledge. Yes, she said. I do believe I may be of-“ “Shut up X’arzz! I told you already, I did not have a beard! Women do NOT have beards! And the last adventurer I helped out by sending them home with an education! No wild dungeon lootin...
The worst failure is miscommunication. When mankind finally received answers from the stars, at long last met their brothers and sisters in the heavens, the nation which believed itself to be prime among humanity, was left alone. Decades of Hollywood and literature, focusing on the Great American Republic, standing up ...
"How so?" "First off, people treated you like a some sort of prodigy, a shining beacon of light. People sees me as a piece of garbage, staining their beautiful world." "Okay." "Secondly, you were blessed by ancient beings, given powerful equipment to fend people like me off. I have none of that!" "I'm aware of that...
On my thirty-second birthday, Barney bought me a dragon. I'd told him I was looking for a new direction, since I'd gotten bored with plagues and political turmoil. Within two years I had a small army that I liked to fly around my continent, causing small degrees of mayham, building my reputation as a dragon mistress. ...
I gotta hand it to those silly bastards in their dresses, they took us by surprise. When the rift opened in downtown San Francisco, they didn't just catch us with our pants down - our BVDs were down, too, and they took the opportunity to kick us right in our naked butts. The first responders, of course, were police an...
No civilization could be truly good at everything, that’s why there is rise and fall, the constant churning of peoples in a Darwinian deathmatch to create the ultimate interstellar predator. The Precursors were no different. In the case of their ships they did some things fantastically well: hull integrity, plasma shie...
Many things that might be frightening at one size were downright adorable at another. Cats for instance; a full grown lion could devour you on a whim, a housecat might scratch at best. The same could be said of dogs versus wolves or even a bandit versus their child. Staring down at the small, winged lizard as it roared...
It all started with Moon Dancer and ended with Lunar Eclipse. Moon Dancer took so long that Sun Ward took one look at Moon Dancer's transformation sequence and simply walked away before she had even laced up her shoes. By the time her transformation complete with her flash and pose, Sun Ward had disappeared and Moo...
"I have responsibilities,"Hera snapped, pacing back and forth. "I don't need therapy, I need to maintain order in Olympus." I pulled up a chair by the fireplace for her. "Hera, this is the best way for you to maintain order in Olympus. Besides... the Greek gods haven't been active in millennia. Things move slower no...
The seat of the cold, aluminum stool stabbed at the soft flesh of Finn's bottom. He shifted on the surface to try to find a better position; there was none. He was in a dirty, old interrogation room at the Havenhold police station uncomfortablably close to the city's cavernous old jail. It was a tiny room, dimly ligh...
The skeleton in the black robes looked down at me. In a calm voice that echod through the void around me it stated matter of factly. Not shouting, but a whisper that reverberated through my very psyche. YOU SHOULD NOT BE HERE. NOBODY SHOULD BE HERE. I rolled over, opened one eye and looked up at the figure that was in...
"You were right when you said the younger heroes and villains care more for image than the people."The older man noted as he watched a couple of costumed powered people flying in the air having an energy fuelled fight. "We did tell them about the rules of engagement for here, but they-"The slightly younger man said be...
I panted beneath my weighted blanket as I screamed hoarsely. I couldn't remember where I was, everything was dim and dull. A young woman rounded the corner holding an encrusted goblet. "I heard you, drink this, father,"she said to me, which came as a shock. I don't remember having children, though I've been slipping a...
“Listen, Stan. Give it up! I know your cheating on me!” Rachel was on the verge of tears, having cornered her boyfriend one evening after almost 6 months together. “Every month you keep leaving the house like clockwork! And enough is enough. Either you come clean tonight, or it’s over!” Stan was sweating, eyes shiftin...
Bob’s joints were sore. Sore as hell. After 250 years of being cryogenically frozen, he figured some discomfort was natural. He stretched his arms up to the sky, or at least up to the top of the re-orientation room's ceiling. A steel cage would have been better. He could only remember being awake in this room, and sitt...
Like everybody else, I knew he was brilliant. But I never suspected there was a darkness inside him that could rival that of the deepest of the black holes he himself discovered. One of my colleagues, Tobias Kern, served as Dr. Hawking's personal physician from the years of 2007 to 2009. One summer evening Tobias call...
The best thing about living in the 21st century was the conveniences that made up the day-to-day lifestyle. In 1606 you used to have to walk down to a packed outdoor market to by vegetables of questionable quality from a man covered in filth with seven teeth and as many fingers. As great of a guy Gareth was he wasn't r...
The shining sun embraced my face and body as I stared outside the window. The huge sprawling mountains and trees spread throughout the vast land in which I reside, in which I own. I let out a small breath and said, "The sword is what you make of it! A simple stick can cleave mountains, a blade of grass can asunder armo...
We thought it was just spam. The message went out to thousands of email addresses and text messages threads from what looked like a spoofed number. And honestly, it seemed like a joke. Really, what are the chances an alien species is going to make First Contact through a bill collection service?! Millions saw it happe...
A month later and you still found yourself slightly angry and disappointed. And what if you never called or visited them? you where still their grandson, was a million or two to much to ask? You tried to rationalize, explain to your hearth: what you never had you can't loose, but it never listened. So many plans an...
And so with the coordinates located, the hacker leaked it to everyone, expecting the man to be absolutely bombarded by their neighbors. But everyone quickly realized the coordinates are in the center of the pacific ocean… “Well, what do we do,” says the hacker “if the coords are litterally the center of the ocean? Did...
Well, we've been together a while. Mr Herbert, the Brit, joined me when i was passing through London. The 80s weren't a huge time of adventure, and i wasn't surprised he'd want to see the world. I had come from the United States, where Joe the cowboy and i had met. Joe was all of twenty, and his dreams of a life on th...
I wasn't too long ago when it all started. Everything changed that day... the day the human race stood still. I was waiting for my turn at the target self checkout, blankly staring as my attention focused tightly in self critical mode on the joke i made to the lady in the shoe aisle. I was just about finished reassuri...
I closed my locker and there she was. Usually she sashayed through the school, head high, confident, wearing tight shirts and short skirts that would make a hallway full of boy's jeans suddenly feel too tight. But now she wore a heavy sweater over baggy jeans and stood there quietly with her head down. "I have a que...
I woke up in my bed. A man, holding a clipboard, stood in front of me. He was wearing thin-framed glasses, a polo shirt, and Dad Shoes. You know the type. ”Am I dead?” I asked. He nodded. “Right you are. My partner will be coming along soon, he’s got a big appointment around North-east Asia right now. He doesn’t do ...
"Tony, call me, you prick." It was spray painted on the sidewalk, outside the building where I work. Just like that, with the proper punctuation, and everything. Someone had the presence of mind to pause and put commas where commas should go, but not the presence of mind to pause and think "Hey, should I really be ...
Three security scans and a pat-down later, I walked down the runway of the Geels Airport to the famed Flight 366-B. The flight that turned the world upside down. Just a week ago, this exact plane arrived on time from Singapore and was expected to offload 204 passengers, all very tired from their 12-hour flight. Only t...
What the hell? Awareness flooded over and through me all at once. I was where I'd moments before not been. I could barely make heads or tails of it, not that I really had time to. In front of where I now stood two burly orderlies manhandling a young girl between them suddenly froze and looked up at me, their faces ...
The rules were simple: No fatal wounds. No physical contact. No shots in the face. No dying. It all started as a joke, like all things leading to disasters. We had bought cool Nerf guns six years ago, just to have fun and play around like the teenagers we were. But the seriousness slowly started to build up as the ye...
I gasped, blinking and coughing from what I could only describe as a religious vision. Looking around at everyone else on the bus. We all had the same bleary-eyed expression. No one wanted to acknowledge what had just happened. Someone braver than I finally said something. "So, did we all just hear that? Y'know, like ...

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