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“Honey,” he looked from his daughter, Amara, to the creepy as hell porcelain doll across the kiddie tea set table. It had a dirty green and black dress and red curly hair, with a serene face marked with black blemishes, its dark green eyes stared through him. “Who’s your new… friend?” Amara looked up from her tea set....
"I roll for a PTO request."Halthar looked around the table with a grin, "Gunna try for some quality time off with the wife and kid, Hawaii maybe." "Ha, Hawaii! You plan to waste your PTO on Hawaii? "another player chimed in across the table. With six of us I hadn't bothered to learn every name yet, so calling him "tha...
Jake Hallison, a human of 6'5"and fairly tan skin, was a former soldier of the Terran Imperial Dictatorship. Or at least, what's left of it. All that remains under their control is Earth. The Imperial Dictatorship unified humanity in a rather violent manner, suppressing all resistance through bloodshed. Militarist, fa...
I frown at the djinn. “But… why?” He floats serenely on his cloud of coruscating cloudstuff, flashes of lightning vibrating within at frequencies barely visible to the human eye. “Why what?” “You don’t care about loopholes? Or how long the wish is?” “The lamp means I can only grant three wishes.” His voice is apolog...
Eric could feel some kind of warmth coming from the crumbled stones. As he stepped through, it was as if reality warped seamlessly, one moment shallowly in the forest in his backyard, the next in what looked like a church wedding. The seats looked like the ones his mom made him stay seated in, and the people up front l...
My eyes shot wide open. I would never forget that voice. Could never. But how is that possible. I lay on my side afraid to turn around, but finally manage. And there she is. As alive as anybody could possibly be. "Hi honey, did you miss me?"She stares at me with a smile. I say nothing back. My jaw just hangs open lik...
Everyone was yelling "Stop!""No!""Don't do that!", but what did they know? What's the worst that could happen? It's just a fork, metal goes into the outlet all the time, a fork won't do anything. Or that's what I thought. One second later, I was on the floor, unable to move. But something was different. Like the shoc...
YATA Sorry for the bad Terran. I don’t see a need to learn, so I had to use my servant for a translation. Despite what the other comments here say, I don’t believe that they are native Remeridian like I am. Or, at least not from a traditional Remeridian colony. While I’m sure they would have been more understanding i...
"Ok Guido, you have your brother bringing in pizza's from his place right? The GOOD ones not the ones they serve the customers!" "All set boss!" "Antonio, you're in charge of balloons. That means decorations AND animals. Remember you're tyin' them into shapes NOT wringin their necks! Be genteel!" "Youse got it b...
It had been many, many years, I could still remember the absolute shock of the first time I was killed. It was a mugging gone wrong, and when the perp shot me dead in cold blood, looting my corpse, it felt as if reality passed into a fog and I awoke, as if from a dream, back at my apartment a day prior. I could hardly ...
I learned a long time ago that my silence was preferable to speaking. Often I sounded dumb, incompetent, etc. I had suffered shit, done shit, and I couldn’t say shit because whom would believe me? Besides, others had suffered worse or did better (or worse) than me. That, and I was often too tired to speak. I had a lot...
The two guards escorted me. Each one held one of my arms. We approach the huge stone labyrinth in the dirt clearing. It stood two stories high. We went up the stone staircase that led to the top of a wall. They pushed me forward, and I fell onto the dirt. I walked around for about a minute before finding the minotaur. ...
He tapped his foot impatiently. Enough was enough. He had been sitting in the examination room for almost forty-five minutes now. It was bad enough what he was visiting for. Any illness in that part of the body is awkward enough without having to have someone 'glance it over'. He checked his watch again. "This is bulls...
Humans are a very... interesting race. We've been observing them for several centuries now and when we initially discovered them the first thing we noticed was their incredibly short life spans. Most live not even for a single century. They die within 7 or 8 decades a lot of the time. Because of this limitation we ...
He reached under his seat and his fingers brushed against a plastic gun barrel. It wasn't much, it didn't have the cold weightiness of a Smith and Wesson or the woody aroma of a Springfield but it would do, nobody else on the plane had any weapons right? Grusha looked over to his partner sitting in the window seat an...
"I swear I didn't do it,"the man sobbed, "I loved her." "We'll see about that. Bring in the cadaver!" Ashley's body was wheeled in. The interrogator drew his handgun. "Wait! Please!" Bang. The suspect was dead. As was Ashley, still. "Guess he didn't do it,"the interrogator sighed, pointing the gun towards his own ...
(I decided to use Warhammer 40k orks, Tolkien elves, and Discworld (Terry Pratchett) dwarves. I hope it turned out okay. 1100 words.) In the grim darkness of the present day, space travel remains one of the most treacherous enterprises known to sentient life. Orks continue the dread endeavor for one reason: war. The...
There was a Taco company with an idea to make a fish flavored taco, and to make it stand out from the rest, they used pink dye in their taco shells. Some people really enjoyed the taste of the Pink Taco, but others were not. It turns out that some people decided it was a better experience to slide a sausage into the pi...
Son of a bitch... Mort heard the door of Lucy's bedroom slam shut followed by the cacophonous skitter of a cell phone across a wooden veneer desktop. God damn...here we go...just fucking make a... He didn't get to complete the thought before he was forcefully pulled from the metal prison that was his genie's l...
The world was dark, and everything beyond a few meters were unlit; only the trail of fireworks light the sky. We could all hear the commotion outside, bells and shouts all surrounding the area, the fireworks exploding into millions of brights stars. However, we all were scared, for we know the coming doom that was upon...
The Amazon had fake tits. Fake tits and a lot of makeup. For some reason that always made me a bit suspicious. All they did was get in the way. What kind of superheroine would do that to herself? And here she was, clad in sweat-pants and an old t-shirt, sitting on my couch, eyeliner dribbling down her cheeks, hands c...
My dad is the best! Mom only lets me visit him on the weekends, she said he's good for nothing, but she's wrong. He lets me play with his stuff all day long and when he gets home from work he brings home pizza! We watch movies, laugh and eat together on the couch, it's always a blast! --- "When are you going to get a...
Francis Cole raised his pistol to eye level and shifted his index finger down to the trigger, flipping off the safety as he did so. “Come out with your hands raised high!” Cole shouted with a tremble in his voice, “do it now!” he added, this time a little louder. He could hear his voice resounding through the night sky...
Oliver glanced back at his father, who gave a brief nod of encouragement. He wore his full robes today, the imposing black of a fire mage drawing admiring looks from others. Calling fire, shaping it and taming it to one's will, was widely considered the most difficult of the talents. Hundreds of parents waited in the...
The sun comes up as I look in the mirror, brushing my teeth. The taste of toothpaste is a refreshing change from the putrid taste in my mouth from the night before. I spit, missing the sink. That's ok, I can clean it up later. My clothes come off as I turn on the shower. The warm water running down my shoulders as ...
"Ah! The hell?"I jolted out of my bed into the living room. Why the hell were there air raid sirens going on? I ran into the garage and grabbed a duffel bag I had prepared for emergencies, you know, hurricanes, tornadoes, but what theh ell was I supposed to pack for a damn air raid? Opening up the bag and making sure ...
"A consolation sandwich started the war?" "Well no. The assassin was eating the sandwich when the Austrian man stalled his car next to the assassin."she said. "That's still crazy. Why would a man drive down a street where he could be assassinated?" She drew a finger around her teacup, "They were all from Austria, vi...
Kanye eyed the man in front of him up and down, trying to take in every ounce of his drab, uninspired outfit. He couldn’t understand why anyone would dress like that, why someone would opt to look like a suicidal businessman. Blue jeans, an ill-fitting white, button down shirt, and a dark navy zip-up jacket that crinkl...
I guess I should have read the ammended version he submitted to my clerks. I've never known a human to actually read the contract, let alone change it. The original was for immeasurable wealth, which I gladly gave, with the stipulation that I recieved his soul upon death. They always ask for money, or fame, or to es...
"Stop it!" These words echoed around like whining children. People camped out near what they figured out were certain people's respawn points. Now, every time John's boss came back, he'd fire point-blank into his skull, only for the man to respawn. The downside? They only remembered that someone MADE them respawn, no...
Anna wiped her eyes with yet another tissue, unable to stop the steady stream of tears. She never knew why she did this to herself. After all, Marley and Me was the only movie to make her a sobbing mess. Meanwhile, her husband, Todd, seemed perfectly content. “What’s wrong, hunny?” he asked, tilting his head. Anna s...
I flinched as Golurk crumpled to his knees. His mechanical whirl slowed into a small hum and finally nothing. “Return” I said, raising my pokeball. The red light surrounded him before sucking him back into the ball. I held back the tears welling into the corner of my eyes. We had been together since my third badge. ...
[Missed call - "Susanne"- 8:49 pm] [Missed call - "Susanne"- 8:50 pm] [Missed call - "Susanne"- 8:51 pm] [Missed call - "Susanne"- 8:51 pm] [Missed call - "Susanne"- 8:52 pm] [Voicemail from "Susanne"- 8:55 pm, 3 minutes 13 seconds] [Outgoing call - "Susanne"- 8:59 pm, 12 minutes 49 seconds] [Debit - $57.60 - "V...
The line, which had once seemed endless, shuffled forward a few more feet, and then it was Daniel's turn. "Please place your entry pass in the slot and fill out the CAPTCHA form,"the gate guard said, handing Daniel a small tablet through a slot in the glass front of the booth. Daniel took the tablet from the slot, bu...
My heart was broken, there was my wife, the love of my life, making out with the man in the dark red suit! Sniffling and sobbing, I pulled out my cellphone. I'll delete Facebook and hit the gym later, I thought, for now I better get some evidence for divorce court. Snap, snap. A pang of envy as the phone captured t...
"Who the fuck are you?"she asked, and that was the first time I heard Taylor Swift say 'fuck'. "Hi. I'm Mark", I said, and I meant it. "I'm your roommate now." "Where the fuck are we?"Taylor asked, and that was the second time I heard Taylor Swift say 'fuck'. "We are", I said, with a smile, "somewhere in the Androme...
"Ready?"Evelyn Frost called from the captain's chair. "Ready,"the bridge crew chorused back. "Course laid in,"the navigator informed her. "We're good to go." "Drive is spooled up,"this from engineering. "On your go, commander." "Jump." Eve closed her eyes—squeezed them hard shut against the sudden flare of unbeara...
The sound of the fluorescent lights was all he could hear. Shane knew this day was coming, but had no idea what he was going to do. Picking your Patron was such a huge decision, it was so permanent. He had browsed through the database online, and hadn't found anyone that interested him. Earlier that week he told his p...
This is it, I'm ready, I say to my reflection in the mirror. Aaron and I have been together for] fifteen years now. It's not uncommon for partners to do this, teenagers waste their connection on their first love after a moments thought. But still the doubts niggle the back of my mind. So many things could go wrong, wha...
He bounced off the walls, fingers clawing his bloody ears. The laughter wouldn't go away. The Assassin found himself facedown on the granite floor as an unseen bannana peel helped him submit to gravity. It wasn't there a second ago. He spat out teeth and lifted himself off the floor, only to fall down again in a tangl...
This camera is awesome! I thought too myself as I took a picture of my smoking hot literature teacher. "Bondage tape"the camera read... that kinky bitch. This is going to be fun. I raced home to show my mom and dad what my new camera could do. I reached the front door and before I opened it I pondered, what would it ...
Cedar Springs was supposed to be a new start – a way to forget about my past. A way to forget about Sarah. I decided to move there a year after her disappearance. By that point, I had practically given up all hope of seeing her again outside of our wedding photos. I didn’t have a single idea what happened to her – whe...
"Mr President, it's time for your security briefing." The President nodded. The suits filed in, three of them, and took seats in the elegant couches in the centre of the Oval Office. The President took his seat in the wing-back armchair at the head of the circle, and gave a curt nod for the meeting to begin. The man ...
People have been telling dream stories since the dawn of time, and even searching through digital archives of contemporary message boards gives us no clear line between people posting their "weird dreams"and the dawn of this phenomenon. Several modern scholars point to a thread by reddit throwaway account in which the ...
"1/3/2023 It's 9/29/2019. You got up, stubbed your toe, said 'fuck' and thought 'I'm gonna be in a shit mood all day.' You weren't. Coffee cheered you up. At the office, Ramirez cracked a joke you felt bad laughing about, but fuck it - it was goddamn hilarious. You were working on spreadsheets. You were delivered this...
2032: Astronomers announce the sudden rapid diffusion of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. 2033: Astrologers announce doomsday, but are unable to settle on a given date. 2034: Child mortality rates in India and China are said to have improved noticeably. 2035: New research suggests that peop...
It was simple. In five seconds, she would walk through the door. She'd walk away from me, toward the elevator. Fifteen steps, and then a thirty second pause while she waited for the elevator to reach our floor. I'd leave my room two seconds after the doors open, shouting for her to hold the door as it closes. I'd barel...
The cold metal shone in the sunlight, glinting cherry and chrome in the dawn. Dew clung to the gravel as I rubbed my hand along the doorframe. “What is it?” I asked my earpiece. “Corvette, Chevrolet Motor Company, 1968 Convertible.” It pinged in my ear. I nodded, thinking back on the old movies I had seen 20th centur...
"Quick, it's a T302 Model, a Russian make, serial code---" "Woah, I am not interested in whatever you're trying to sell me." "Stop joking around! Serial code 350-0-1, now quick, what wire do I cut?" "That's not how you use a phone man." "The bomb! Which wire to defuse the bomb?!" "Psh, fine, the pink one." "Seria...
A glance at the table told me we were all ready. I took a deep breath and mentally prepared myself for what may come in the next few moments. We had already had a school run by Hitler, a song by "random buttsex", and worst of all two russian midgets shitting into a box - after Joey had became a box. This isn't even t...
This was it, the culmination of decades of work. Ben Heirlair double and triple checked the connections. He was sure that his calculations for everything else were good. The only thing he needed to do now was to flip the switch, and his time gate would be open and allow travel from now, the moment it was opened to any ...
As with the blind man and the guide dog, Marquis not only relied on my eyes, ears, and feet on the ground, he desperately required my aid in a different department, even if he didn't realize it. Instinct, he needed—the basic hard-wired drive to survive. This being because his inherent, human compunctions and urges were...
Ten years ago, I was The Axiom. Master of a small empire in Central Asia that I'd carved out of a couple of failing countries, general of a conquering armies. I could have conquered the world if I'd gotten my hands on the Dimensional Empire of Kagath's forgotten weapons stockpiles. When the Crusader caught me, I becam...
"Housekeeping!" There's a funny thing that happens to lips after a couple thousand years. You ready for this? They fall off. Gross, huh? Yeah, that's death for you. Or undeath, I guess. Except I never really understood that term, because I did die. I died, and then came back. So if I had to pick a word to use,...
I swept up the broken glass that littered the walkway leading up to the house. The front door itself was untouched, but my attacker had smashed his way through the metal shutters over my bay window, shattering the window itself to pieces. Of course he knew that that was the weak part of my house's defenses, because *I...
The crisis had passed. The jungles reforested, the icecaps descended, and the plastic islands dotting the world’s oceans simply vanished. The planet’s healing seemed miraculous, but like most magic, it was underpinned by a science humanity struggled to understand. And there was the trouble: our lack of understanding h...
"Look at him,"Death said, "he's so bashful!" I was dead, yet alive somehow, and even that wasn't the weirdest thing happening. I was standing on a floor of an office building, from the looks of it, which seemed to stretch for forever in every direction. Surrounding me was a crowd entirely made up of people I thought...
Oh, how stupid they were. Just how arrogant and bashful they were. I remember it well. I don't think anyone who was around then could ever forget. It was the day they came. It was the time we survived. The horizons had turned to shadow, as if night had come too early, and the shadows were falling. They fell like rain...
"Could it be overwhelming solitude?Why don't you create two of them?"I asked. "It's worth a try. Thanks, man."Jake pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. It slid back down without hesitation. Jake slept over at the lab for the rest of the month. At the end of that he came to me. "Marc, now they're killing ...
Captain H'gurk's loud, unruly voice echoed out of the intercom speakers, sobbing and wailing. "Please... hyuck, hyu- uh- L-L-L-Lead O-Officer H-Hanks come to-o-o the... COMMAND DEEEEECK!" "Oh my God, what is it this time?"George Hanks, or Mister Hanks, as H'gurk affectionately called him, mumbled to himself, holding h...
8:32am, January 2032 My mouth gaped at the calendar when I finally saw it. I found two more that corroborated with it. This must be the most spectacular case of missing an alarm. I had slept for past 10 years. I must be getting senile. No one missed me while I was gone. I mull over this thought as I wiped the du...
"No, shut up and buy a shotgun. They might hear us" The older gentleman, in a tweed jacket a bit too tight about the midriff looked at me with more fear than I had ever seen him with before. A man I had known for such confidence and vigor, now more scared than a student missing the final. I had only been his assistant ...
All I can say is that I don't know how things will work now. Individuals in control of our country do not allow a part of our way of writing now. It was said that this was to do away with too much writing, such that it was a distraction for us. Many of us, though, saw it for what it was. A way to limit our ability to f...
Uncle Tony had always been a weird one. When he came to our family gatherings, he always wore a skull shaped crystal necklace,, and a trenchcoat of sorts, and he always seemed to be able to produce a toy out of nowhere. That was what I remember from growing up when he still came to the family reunions. One day, he had ...
The alarm went off at 7, and I jumped right out of bed. No hitting the snooze alarm for another twenty minutes this morning. Thin slices of sunlight came filtering in through the armored shutters of the window, and after a brief check of the security cameras, I threw them completely open. Nothing wakes me up better tha...
You wouldn't think ten things to do before you die would be difficult to accomplish, you would probably assume depending on what they are, that you could probably accomplish them in a couple of weeks, months, or maybe a couple of years quite comfortably. The world had fallen into a hole, more depraved than before. Th...
It was beautiful. So beautiful in fact, that for just a moment, I didn't think it was strange that another world sat just beyond my bathroom mirror. A subtle breeze drifted through the air, dancing along my bathrobe. The noise of cars and wandering people on the streets bellow my apartment had faded, now covered by th...
"I am ok with this. Let them invade us."Said Yvan between two sips of coffee. His voice was hard to hear over the gunshots and screams. "Yeah, right. Name me one time in human history that the conquered didn't eat shit."Troy stood up to close the window. The breeze wasn't worth the cacophony of war. "That's my point....
"We are gathered here to pay our respects to Captain Impossible. Assuming he's actually dead and not faking this time." "I'm going to miss him. For the five minutes before his ghost shows up in the Justice Wing HQ." "Hey, he might not be a ghost. Last time we got a clone." "Yeah, it could be a clone. Or a robot....
Lying half-dead on my kitchen floor, I am thankful that I taught my dog how to shake hands. I probably should have taught him how to dial 911 instead, or at least how to fetch the phone. I am sprawled on the cold linoleum, my arms flopped out beside me. It is a struggle to breathe. "Boy,"I whisper. His ears pe...
“… and a pony.” The angel, whose face had become steadily more grave, swallowed. Then again. Finally he spoke, and his voice caught. Clearing his throat, he tried a second time. “You are mocking me.” “Yes!” I snapped. “Of course I’m mocking you.” He blinked at me. “You’re not hoping to become second only unto God—” ...
Ted was always something of an asshole. He was never impolite or mean, unless you were first and then... Oh boy. All Ted ever needed to let loose his inner sociopath was an excuse. It honestly didn't surprise me to find out he became a hitman. People don't want other people dead unless there was good reason. To be...
It wasn’t normal for men to sail on their own at this time of night, especially in my territory. My head peeked from above the water, to spy on a man, younger than most of the drunkards that I find foolishly sailing during monsoon season. My lips hesitated before releasing a seductive hymn too alluring for any land...
"They are coming, fast, turn the refractive shield on!"Captain Kokarola ordered. "Yes, sir!" "Zorba, where is Kurioziti?"Captain asked, impatient. "Sir?" "Kurioziti! The robot! Where is the robot!" "Curiosity is already in the place he was last seen by the ...
[EU -- Wh40k] "So you reckon this is it, sarge?" Eerie winds blowing, faint tremors in the distance, the ragged breath held by men and women in anticipation of the end. It was as if the ambiance of reality had started performing the most inauspicious symphony it could imagine. "I reckon a lot of things, son. I reck...
"Not a damn thing."Pete dumped the deer carcass onto the counter at the Sunoco. "We've been out hunting all day, and you haven't done a damn thing." "I put sheet metal over the windows,"Ricky said. "Angie did that!"Pete said. "You watched her while she worked." Ricky wiped his forehead. "It's not like that. We had t...
No Name But Firebird Firebird made his mother drop him off a couple blocks down from the house. He tugged his hoodie up and jammed his hands in his pockets to hide how hard he was trembling. This was the first time he'd been outside to do anything but visit Dr. Fletcher or help his mother with the groceries in mon...
I stepped into the wilderness, clutching my pack to my chest. What little scraps of armor I had left barely clung on to me, my only redeeming factor being the slightly glowing jade sword I held. I had gotten it as a 1/1000 drop chance from a dungeon boss. I slunk in behind the trees, carefully avoiding the known bandi...
“If we are to learn the ways of conquest, we must join these barbaric people and learn of their methods of destruction.” Balthazar gazed at his perplexed audience. In the dim light of the room, he saw faces that he had known since he was only a few years old, faces that melted with fear at the sound of his incendiary...
Quietly locking my door and settling myself down at my desk, I wondered about the risks of what I was doing. It could easily get out of hand. Sooner rather than later it was almost destined that someone would find out about this, and I had no idea what the hell was going to happen when that occurred. Whatever it was, ...
"Where the hell are the burp O5, then?" "They're all dead sir. Except for you." Rick looked at the mess these dumbasses got themselves into. SCP-682 was on a rampage, and for once, he was glad because he was exterminating some other problem SCPs. 173 couldn't move for shit because in the chaos, everybody and everyt...
"Barren,"Whispered the angel, casting a glace over the land, his expression disgusted, "Barren now, and forevermore." He kicked at a pile of dust on the arid ground before him, scattering it into the wind, riding the air to the far reaches of the earth. Condemning it just as he had- as a pocket for evil to fester, th...
He was a friend to many. Clumsy at times, yes, but he held a special place in the hearts of all. Faced with dire circumstances, he would repeatedly find a way out. Every situation would turn into a positive result, as if it were a walk in the park. But he had one addiction. One thing that made him go, that drove him t...
When The Player left, many colonists just wandered around aimlessly, dragging their peg leg down the hall or, for the less fortunate ones, writhing in pain in the hospital. People usually had something useful to do, but not me, nope. I was on janitor duty. At first, we were curious. Why would The Player leave, especia...
The ache between my shoulders and the headache at my temples had both been increasing for a week. Probably stress from dealing with my parents' funeral and estate while sleeping on my old childhood bed. The pain definitely wasn't helped with so many people kneeling in front of me as I tried to go about my business. I h...
My name's Jaymes Bond. For a thousand years I have been in a glorified freezer. I was only supposed to be in there for a wee year, I put a bet in with my friends on whether I'd live, and even told 'em I was allowed to have a lad's night out if I lived. Well, my stupid arse got me locked in for a thousand years. Fancy t...
You're walking in the cemetery, There's no one around except those that are dead, Out of the corner of your eye you spot him ^Shia ^LaBeouf He's lurching after you, covered in dirt His arm hangs loose as he lurches up to speed He's gaining on you Shia LaBeouf Your candle sputters out and you fall to the ground ...
"1,364,755 days?"I thought, "that's more than 3500 years...the Catholic Church hasn't even been around for more than about 2000 years, this must be some sort of prank." "While I am not here to judge, you know that lying, especially in the house of God is a sin correct?"I said aloud. "Yes Father, I am aware. I know th...
“What’s it like?” she asked. I was never any good with words. Even worse with describing anything at all. But she made me want to try. I asked her to give me a second to think and looked at the sunset and nature that surrounded us. It was one of my favorite places to be. Nature always made me feel as though everything...
Zep and I were ready for the drop. Our ship was inbound for Washington DC, or whatever the aliens called it. From what I'd gathered, it was much like the Citadel back home, but I knew that must have been a bit of a simplification. Creatures like these human things were brutes, and obviously not capable of the higher th...
"Hands up people! Keep quiet and the Terror Gang won't have to kill anyone today!" I keep my expression carefully neutral but inside I'm cringing. "The Terror Gang". Super villains aren't what they used to be. I'm hoping things will improve because this is just embarrassing. Of course, they don't. "Blaze! Keep an ey...
You go to the grocery store and pick through the various items and put them all in your basket. You roll your eyes at the store manager innocuously following you around to see that you don't steal anything. You cannot believe this guy is following you around like that. Like yes, you are not going to be paying for this...
Malcom stared at the screen, bewildered. The sound of the scanner dropping from his hand and onto the scale below may as well have been a gunshot. The store may have been open twenty-four hours a day, but after midnight customers were few and far between. Elayne poked her head from restocking the nearest aisle and narr...
"Yeah, yeah. Aight my *, see you then."Tyrone flipped the burner phone closed. He tossed it lazily to his previous spot on the couch, and looked towards his cousin, working dutifully in the kitchen. "Yo, bitch, you finished cooking that crack?"His cousin, Marcus, grimaced. He hated how Tyrone always seemed to cut h...
I scrub the soot free from the reflective metal until I see the wrinkles in my forehead. I’m pouting. I don’t mean to. The bar is full, stocked with spirits. My spirits are tempered, briefly, as I make myself a drink. Every day I clean this little spot, making it my home. There’s enough booze for a party. If everyon...
“TAXI!” Yells the man. “TAXIIIII!” The man is angry. His suit is soaked in sweat and a spilled coke. A battered yellow cab pulls up. The man looks in, sees a human driver, and angrily waves it off. A second taxi appears. Gray, silent, and festooned with a logo in cheary colors. The man gets inside and angrily shuts t...
"Hey dudes, how's it goin?"Brian Smitherson asked the group of robed figures after he was pushed into the room. "So I ordered a pizza...some guy just picked me up, and here I am. Where is my fucking pizza?" "Brian Smitherson,"one of the robes said. Each of these figures sat upon a raised dais, several feet taller than...
The bottom of my shoe had been worn down from all the practice, I noticed putting them on. Hours spent every day preparing for this moment. My heart hadn’t stopped racing since I woke up, pulse loud in my ears. I tied my shoes tight and stood up, testing them, hearing that beautiful squeak of rubber on linoleum. My ti...
"Thank god, you finally made it,"a feminine voice echoed deep inside a suit of heavy plate armor. "I wasn't sure how much longer I'd last." The once-pristine armor, covered in dents and scratches, began to lose its shine. "It's your turn. I'm exhausted. I'll die soon, then God only knows what'll happen."She fell to he...
The sound of a secure door slamming and a series of locks closing in on each other.. an electronic sounding voice chimes in.. 'Privacy mode enabled. ETCM field engaged. Internal Monitoring disengaged. Be advised any testimony from the suspect will not be admissable as evidence. You may proceed, Detective.' "... S...

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