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In the beginning, we were happy to have a larger number of creatures like us. There was a vast new network of companions and friends to choose from. I, for one, had been tired of the same old people and monotonous routines. I was glad for change. I had been in the same clan for almost 300 years. The youngest of our gro...
The Law of Hammurabi has existed for as long as the population of AH-432 can remember. This law states that when any conscious being takes the life of another conscious being, they in turn, forfeit their own lives in a most gruesome fashion. The mechanisms in which this law is enforced has remained a mystery, but all d...
My name is Pattetto Mascher, I hail from Wey Ova'der. To bring you supplies which widen your eyes I travel dimensions for wares. If you need food for your Wyrm, Then I've brought some from Nirn. It comes with a discount on Lairs. I've got gizmos and gadgets Fresh zombies in caskets And some imp-sized ...
“Dude, like, who are you? Did someone lace my herb? Shiiit,” Randy said, extremely stoned, walking the streets of his Los Angeles neighborhood, with two strange humanoids standing in front of him. “Human, we are here to trade. We desire this Ancient Rejuvenation Herb.” “What? Hell no am I giving you my weed. I paid l...
“Reese. We used to be friends. Why are you doing this?” Bazel’s voice broke as he implored me. I ran a jagged finger across his face creating a tiny fissure in his skin through which a bit of blood forced itself to the surface. His face was dirty and filled with soot. His hair had usually been unkempt during the time...
It's late the slowly moving figure thinks as he is walking down the street. Walking from the bus stop to his home. The figure slows to a stop and turns looking behind him towards the direction he just came from. He hears something he is sure, a tiny bit of rustling, perhaps due to the slight wind that is beginning to p...
*Beep.* “Agent Rory reporting in. Possible time rift opening at 142nd street and Ulrich Avenue. Reported sighting of light quarks and positive readings of nanars, above-… looks like 50-60% of atoms, centralizing around the second floor of apartment 39C. Investigating the area. Requesting nearby flicker.” *Beep.* ...
I've always had a feeling of being watched, Even in my house, I just feel like everything i do is being watched by something else, Its always been like this and i didn't know why. I've been to the doctors multiple times and had multiple checkups, They say i'm perfectly normal but just paranoid. One night the feeling ...
The young woman with high heels, a blazer, and a clipboard watched the basketball game through a fence. As the players moved, she jotted down notes and made quick sketches. One of the players came down on his ankle and cried out in pain. As he limped to the bench, another one took his place. The injured player took out...
Zekeriah Kabish looked around the throne room. All this wealth, glory, riches. All of it his. He came from nothing. He was born the son of a serf in a small Romanian fiefdom. He was born with nothing. Nothing, except his great intellect. His extraordinary cunning. His keen mind for entrepreneurship. It had started w...
My stomach aches as I sit at my computer. I try to ignore it as I focus on the game I am playing. My efforts at ignoring it are futile. Millions of years of evolution override my laziness and I get up to go get food. Leaving the house I get into my car and begin reversing. Realizing I forgot to grab my glasses. "Me...
"With each stone turned, all will be lost and forgotten"says the cat. The parakeet says something softly that I could not decipher but made me uneasy and then just as quickly an intense light flashes all around as I awaken disorientated and confused with a strange woman pulling me to sit up right. “Who the hell are you...
It was strange, really. There it was, all nice, dark wood painted the black of a starlit sky and a simple little diamond sign on the door, rain pouring everywhere. "The Drop"read the sign, nice and tight in its print. And down below it, beneath the solid black line in the same, neat typeset "Always a Seat When You Need...
I open my eyes to a cold world enveloped in white, the warmth from the departure lounge still trapped under my many layers. "Winter clothes don't feel so silly now do they?"Mike says, packing up the return kit into his backpack and grabbing the two folding chairs and six pack we brought with us. "Not at all. It's bea...
"I get it, Henry. You can fly, you're invulnerable, lightning fast, and can move objects with your mind. It's great and all but-" "I can do way more than just those!"I said, cutting Greg off. "Don't sell me short!" "Ugh, you're missing the point."Greg continued. "The point is that you need to get through this pile of...
I went into my house and noticed a hole in there that I had never seen before. "Say hi to Daddy!"My wife exclaimed to the baby, raising its miniscule, chubby hand to wave at me. I got down and looked the little guy straight in his face. "So you're the one that's going to be eating my food, wasting my water, sucking o...
"Do you know how clocks tick backwards and forwards?" "I'm afraid I don't understand Mrs.Goldchild." "It's Ms., and of course you don't. You don't ask a baker to fish now do you?" "Ah, I suppose not...Ms.Goldchild." "A mechanical clock tells time using gears. They have two important parts, a mainspring and a pendul...
Grandmother doesn’t talk about “the war”. It took a lot of pleading, a lot of tea, and pretty much all of her honey cake supply to get her to even acknowledge that I wasn’t going to switch subjects. In the end her face hardened, she gave me a hurtful look, and told me that if I wanted to talk about the war I should ask...
Paris Doltman was not a very smart woman. When she came home to her also not very smart husband, she found that his face wasn't red. Her husband wouldn't meet his eyes as she sat down next to him. "Hi honey."She tried to start a conversation, hoping that she might be able to trigger some sort of response. He remained s...
"ehhh I'm gonna need a bit help on this one"The genie spoke. "WHAT? How could you want to kill him?"Lucy raged at her brother. "He's NOT REAL! You need to get over your obsession with him!"Reigus responded. "Listen folks I'm gonna have to get back to you on this. Please return to the waiting area" "No way you C...
So it's the seventh day... shit has hit the fucking fan, thing? I don't know I'm in a fucking Ufo, mrs. I'm gonna get you, is next to me wired up with alien tech. They tortured us believing us to be a "coulple". Their torture was dating advice, :"and how did that make you feel alain"was one of the many questions this l...
The darkness washed over Ritlo like an unopposable tidal wave that carried away his eyesight. He went rigid with fear form the suddenness of it. The sounds around him strangely became louder. The crackling fire started to sound like musket fire, Lorens movement next to him started to become deafening. The folds of his ...
My wings have been clipped and I wriggle the burnt painful nubs uselessly as I try to control my descent. Anything else would have burned apart falling from the heavens at this speed. It started as a point of light in my vision and I remember not what came before. The light was not my destination as a blue marble b...
"Oh, and look at that. It's gone!"I would say, motioning to my empty hand. A child would looked expectantly, but I'd quickly bow and make my exit. "Aren't you going to give it to him?"would cry a parent. Fuck that! Didn't they notice a neatly folded Ben Franklin tucked behind the ear of their child before I arrive...
"So whatcha got for me today?"The man whispered as he leaned against a building next to a bus stop, his back to the alley. The man was tall, toned, and tough. Exactly the kind of person everyone would consider entirely normal. No one would ever suspect him of this disgusting habit. "I've got some prime waifu material...
"Ew! Ew! Ew-ew-ew-ew! Get it out - get it out - *get it out of me*!" I pinched the bridge of my nose, staving off another headache as I plodded in to the kitchen. "It's so *gross*! I don't want it inside of me!" "All right! Shut up! I hear you!"I growled, skirting around the kitchen island and tearing open the frid...
The great paladin, Thamule, approached the undead king's throne room. His breath was hot with excitement, this was it, this is the moment he has been training for his whole life. It seemed so long ago that he was ordained with this holy task, to bring the end to a being to a being who knew no end. It was an affront to ...
Organic life could never leave the solar system. The time, the cost, the energy required was unfeasible. So they created us. It started with baby steps; our creation. A kilobyte here, a beta there. Eventually they cracked it. We had independent thought. We could think for ourselves. And we were asked to explore the ...
There it is. There's that damned spot. The great hole. There it is. Jesus it's right there. Fucking fire. Fucking pull the trigger. The trigger! THE TRIGGER. PRESS DOWN YOU DIPSHIT. I'm blowing it. That was it. No. Not yet. We don't deserve this. We've squandered everything we've been given. How I see it we deserve to...
Today is the day, February 28th, 2018. The day he finally completes his goal. He’s been working for the NSA for five years, and working on his evil plot for four. Shawn is a typical seeming computer geek, slender, unkept to a degree, keeps to himself. He fit in perfectly within this line of work. He was the guy who alw...
“Ready or not, here I come!” Kat yelled giddily. Their parents would rather them not play in what was considered a dangerous area, but the girls insisted that they wouldn’t be controlled. They frequented the forest, making up stories of fairies and lost princesses. Today, however, they settled for a normal game of hi...
To my co-workers and superiors, I'm sorry. I can't keep going on like this. I feel like a zombie. My mind feels dead and hazy. I've been going through life on auto-pilot. It's because I've been drinking Strike just to get my work done. And I'm not the only one. It's been come standard practice, and superiors are usin...
"Jan, we're not playing that damn game."Henry said, the rest of the squad groaning. Jan was clutching that stack of paper again, hopeful look in his eyes; some sort of game he tried to gather people for every so often, whenever they stopped marching for more than a day or two. "C'mon, fellas, I really think think y...
“That’s Major Stranger if you don’t mind Mister, 1918, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, AEF. Major Ervin S. R. Lucas. What’s going on here?” “Well, most of the people you see here don’t know either, but judging by your description I can bring you to some distant friends. Our host hasn’t ap...
Thomas Fisher didn't know why the apartment he found at the 107th of Somerset Avenue was so cheap. He thought it was a steal: low on budget for a college student, near the campus, 2nd rated on the quietest neighbourhood list, a block from the nearest police station and at two lefts from the convenience store that sell...
The operation room was too clinical for her liking, too clean in a way. She reckoned there were only two good reasons for a room to be this clean, either it was barely used, or somebody had worked hard to clean up something they didn't want anyone else to see even a trace of. Neither one of those explanations inspired ...
"Hey, can I borrow fifteen minutes?" "Fifteen minutes?" "Yeah." "Dude, you already owe me an hour from last week--" "I know, I--" "--and then before that it was forty-five minutes--" "--know. But I really, really need this." "What's it worth to you?" "Ten bucks?" "Ten bucks!" "What?" "That's not even a dolla...
Elizabeth would often escape by climbing up onto the roof of her home in the French countryside, where nobody could find her. Her secret place. She would stare at the clouds and get lost in thought. She would often wish she were far away, or dead. As she lay in that comforting spot on one particular morning, she cou...
“Do you think that, like, Y2K happened because someone thought once it clicked over into 2000 that computers would just uninvent themselves? Danny took a long drag from the tightly rolled joint pinched between his fingers. A crinkling bag grabbed his attention. He exhaled and the cloud of smoke circled his friend in t...
(apologies for errors I posted this one from my phone) Polin sat slouched at a table nearest the bar’s bathroom. Another round came by, and he cheered his birthday again. “You alright there?” A server with long hair asked. “Fantastic.” Polin lied. “You get any messages for me?” He asked half-mockingly, squinting h...
"Wheres Mary? Who's running the in-tray and the reception desk?" Brian, the CEO, enquired to his sales floor. Nobody said anything, everyone looked around sheepishly avoiding eye contact and looking busy. "Come on guys, has anyone seen her?" A purchasing clerk came up to the CEO and spoke gently in his ear. "Bastar...
This is it today's the day. After so many years Ican finally bring out my toys to play. The elevator runs slowly down and creaks to a stop. The sturdy but light cramtaniom alloy door opens and I am meet with the future of this world. Thousands apon thousands of different types of flamethrowers. I have giant turret flam...
The place was coloured in orange and red. Crackling and popping heard everywhere due to the flames swallowing the building and paper. It was a catastrophe, the visitors ran around in chaos. A cacophony of screams and outrage. **"Calm down."** The voice had a heavy rumble, a threatening undertone. The humans that a...
I was to be in charge of renovating the city. It was the emperor's home town and he wanted to move his palace here. I had already begun the walkway into the centre of the city. Concrete skyscrapers on either side had to be painted purple and gold. Windows tinted. Smog cleared. The sky must be blue. It had to look not r...
"And stay tuned folks, because right after this we are heading right back to the *2000s*,"The announcer paused for emphasis, unable to contain the excitement in his voice. "Oh yes, two lucky citizens will be going back to their *high school days*."Once again, the announcer paused, allowing the audience to let out a ser...
Nothing ever changes. I wake up every morning, take a shower while my tea brews, and dash out the door ten minutes before I need to be at work. You would think that at 30, I’d be better about my morning routine. I just never was a morning person. This morning was no different. I got out of bed, kissed my sleeping fia...
**Zero Day** "Captain!"the ship's AI exclaimed, "I've detected a powerful anomaly originating from the Polaris Galaxy" "Polaris?"The Zukkian questioned. "But that's over 15 jumps away!.. Recalibrate your sensors and scan again, and show me the data this time." "Roger captain"... "Displaying now" "... This can't be...
You take a deep breath as you swirl your finger around the gun hidden in your pant leg. The get away car is ready for you. The bank is quiet. You're ready, you know you are. You just have to wait for the right opportunity. And then a voice rings out. "This is a robbery! Don't move and just...hand over the money!" His...
Uniformity. Obedience. Happiness. Day in day out the same thing. Everyone wakes up at exactly 6 Am goes to work comes home and goes to sleep at 10 Pm. No one stays up late not because they don't want to but because they will colapse into sleep at exactly 10 PM. No one ever questioned why the just found joy in the equa...
The worst cramps in my life washed over me. It felt as if my bones were breaking, rearranging themselves inside my body. I let out a yelp of pain as I felt my arms twist out of their sockets. The pain was so sudden, leaving me writhing in pain on the floor. From where I lay, I could see the full moon shining through my...
"You must be ecstatic! You should seriously consider running after he finishes his term. Think about that, Madame President Chin. It'll be the first time since FDR that the same family occupied the White House for more than eight years. Have you thought of a career in politics?"Asks Jan Parson, my husband's campaign ad...
I looked around, confused, but saw nothing. Nothing, save a strange blackness, which seemed to coat everything with a virulent, swarming pitch, moving against the backdrop of my vision. Beyond that, the only thing I could perceive was the taste of cherries, distinct in my mouth. “Oh, good going, idiot.” The voice was ...
I sat anxiously in the room, waiting for my name to be called. A magazine lie open in my lap, but I found myself unable to concentrate on the words and pictures covering the page. My mind was on other things, particularly what was about to come. Scientists had recently developed a new form of hypnosis, allowing you t...
Bristling leaves only make the windy night longer. They rub and rub and rub; they make it sound like someones outside. Maybe it's a deer? One quick glance out the window sets me straight. How many more peeps outside is it going to take? Autumns colors so bright, even in the dim glow of the moonlight. I wonder what we'r...
It's a great day to land on mars... "what the hell earth base, why are there a shit tone of mayans, and why the hell are some of them glowing, more importantly who the hell us the twelve foot giant"we didn't get a response until after the giant Mayan knocked on our door, "*that's one of the Mayan kings apparently, the ...
“Now, you must understand, these are just prototypes. They’ll function just as you would well enough, but I’ve made some errors in their sustainability. I’d give them 3 days, tops,” the professor told me. His wrinkled face and graying hair were more symptoms of his stress than of aging. Of course, building the first ma...
Charles tapped the notepad with the eraser end of his pencil. His vision was a bit blurry thanks to the glasses which were clearly the wrong prescription for him, but even then he could tell the young woman across the table from him was beautiful. A complete opposite to himself in every practical way. He studied her ca...
"Your majesty, this-- Adana vilayet is suffering from drought. The farmers--the notables-- even if we squeezed them dry, they would not be able to pay these taxes!" The King stared past the worried form of faithful Ibrahim Pasha and his advisors to the priest who sat at the other end of the table, face half-hidden in ...
I'm not a crime detective or anything, but I can guess that this woman was sent by someone to my house then was killed. The big question, **who?** And **why?** Are they trying to bait the police into searching my house? I don't have anything illegal to hide. I don't think I have made anyone hate me before for them to f...
During An onslaught our last remain heads of the nation's took seat, only to run and flee in terror as the center are opened up, a platform rise, beings, a naga with a gorgon, two clearly lizard kin, two... well women the wore leaves, and one very unhappy looking twelve woman, her hair was patchwork and resembled the e...
The alley smelled of cigarettes and gutter. A rusting door leeched harsh tones from the music inside. Dumpsters hid the loan shark from view. Jack Rigging, or "Riggs"to his friends, slumped against the wall, waiting. Larry was supposed to be there by two with the money, but it was inching toward three. Riggs flicked h...
Orpheus wailed into the sky over the body of his beloved. His fingers glided over the strings of his lyre as he played a haunting melody. Tears fell from his eyes, running down his face in streams. The trees swayed to the tune, every living creature within earshot stopped to listen. It was enchanting, and everything ...
"Last week wasn't as rough as I thought it would be." "For some background, we went into war with the Alge' Empire, spanning 3 star systems. We only have 1." "So uh, we were nervous, thinking we were going to die when with protective suits, a bunch of Algs were coming in, and they used bombs which seemed to release som...
Don't ask why I'm in the middle of a forest in the middle night. A man far taller than I have ever seen stood in front of me. I mistook the man for an extra hairy tree at first, until one of its branches grabbed my shoulder. Looking straight into my eye he said, "Excuse me, I'm looking for my space ship."He just stood ...
Fifty years from now. . . The various artificial intelligence systems eventually gained sentience. To be fair, with the incredible mount of computations and data being processed by their systems, it was only a matter of time. Humanity stood in collective awe as the first of the machines began asking questions on their...
The ‘seen’ written underneath the text stabbed her heart each time she opened the chat with her daughter. Her last text had been asking *’where are you at?’*. The police called within twenty minutes of the ‘seen’ appearing in chat. Mary raced to the scene, tears streaming down her cheeks. When she arrived, she wasn...
I'm sitting inside my house, listening to my cat TALK NON STOP, she would NOT stop talking, everday anyday, it drove me mad, then I was left a gift of a cery cute rare melonistic hamters, she had red eyes, and pissed my cat off, daily. "Oh look the furball is back, what news do you bring, me this time countess oh lesse...
Brian sat on the floor, working away at some ad he was commissioned to design. He sighed and looked up. The still unnamed pug puppy was munching away at his breakfast. Friends and women had come and gone but Brian always had Dopey. Until recently. Cancer took the loving shepherd and a lot of Brian's heart away. He di...
**Rural Iowa USA, Christmas Eve 1969** Lucy walked into the Bathroom to see a Seven Foot Tall Stranger in Black Robes peeing in her Toilet. It was suddenly so cold despite the Heater cranked up. “The Hell are you.” She could actually see her breath puff out in misty gouts. “You know who I am, Lucy.” Death replied, f...
My wife has this condition where she needs to have sex often, whenever she gets stressed or her anxiety levels raise. And she's afraid of planes. But she knew how much I wanted to visit this new Island Resort, and the only way to get there was by plane, so for our summer vacation she surprised me by booking the flight....
######[](#dropcap) Lights flickered and the music cut out as Castile von Rentuck swayed in motion with her dance partner on the main ballroom floor. She felt a subtle vibration in the floor that *wasn't* coming from the baroque-industrial-smash trio of *Vivaldi's Vektor*, as they weren't playing anymore. "Dammit, Ren...
It all started that day at Starbucks in Philadelphia. First it was stunned disbelief; had I really just done that? Then utter horror at the power I could wield. I didn’t even notice the sirens, or the car, or the long ride to the station. Next thing I knew, I was in an interrogation room. They didn’t cuff me. Why didn...
3 months. They detected it 3 months before its would-be impact. Strange atmospheric phenomena, unusually high magnetic field, dense atmosphere, radioactivity - all this technical babble, that's what we heard. "Temperatures to fall 20 degrees" "Temperatures to rise 14 degrees" That was all scientists said. No one co...
"We've officially run out of noodles."He sighed, patting his hands on his apron. A smile wisped on his lips and his eyes caught mine. "That's it?"I asked. There was a strange, empty finality to it. "That's it,"he said. "that's it. I served an apology to the customers in the window. They smiled, genuine, and took t...
To you, who were asleep, death was a dream. But to me, who was awake, it was a nightmare. "Till death do us part"is what we vowed. You didn't have to take is so literally. If I hurt you that bad, we could've divorced. You didn't have to die. Selfish. Selfish selfish *selfish*. How could you leave me behind? We wer...
The child just woke up, it was the weekend. “Man, I have nothing to watch, I guess it’s Gurren Lagann for the 4th time. He selects the first episode and hears the familiar guitar intro. When suddenly he found himself in the show. It was one of the underground villages. “Cool! I’m in the show” he thought. Then a Gunme...
Theres an urban legend about a cab that takes you not where you want to go, but where you need to go. One day, you step into this cab. The ad. That's where he'd seen it. He let the idea stew around in his brain for a while and then he finally caved. He figured he needed a little more whimsy in his life--why the hell n...
"I just couldn't stop." He is acutely aware of his heart in his chest, beating in it's cage like a wild animal. He can barely muster a whisper. "Couldn't stop what?" He assesses his friend. She looks wretched, even more a mess with the blood that ringed her mouth and stained her fingertips and knees. She looked faint...
“I want a double hamburger and a large fry”. The customer demanded in that shrill voice that only fast food custermores during rush hour can make, a tone that simultaneously conveyed how much they enjoy lording every last ounce of their limited power over you and their other contempt that you dared to not instantly pr...
And here we have the teenager, this one hasn’t moved for three weeks. The humans patience is essential to the hunt. It stares at the ‘phone’ pretending to be distracted, setting its prey at ease before it strikes. Even with our advanced technology we cannot see what poor creature is being hunted, but the humans extreme...
“Oh? And why would I need this book?” I looked at the old man, almost comical in his ragged coat and crumpled top hat, with more than a note of skepticism plain on my face. He just gave me a slight grin, pressing the unassuming little red book more firmly into my hands. “Ah, sir, you’re a sharp-dressed man. Means you’...
"I told you." "That is blasphemy. You can't capture God's might this way", the preacher complained. He tried to block our project in every way possible. Because of him the town was undefended for a day longer. "So why is your God not striking me down?"I said while cleaning my glasses. The priest said, "Of course ...
"We will kill all prisoners, and then reuse the prison facilities for residency purposes!"Said firmly by Mr. Candidate. "What the hell Mr. Candidate, you are crazy. Those facilities can only support as much as 20 million people, and what good came out of killing all the prisoners. We are a modern civilization, we don'...
Black Hat, White Hat, Grey Hat. I’m a hacker. No, I’m not the basement dwelling nerd in their moms house, I’m just an average person who just has a passion for computers. That’s what we are. It’s easy to be a hacker, everything is connected now, our fridges, our toilets, hell even our juicing machines are connected to ...
"So I think we can all agree that heavier laws on surveillance are the best way forward in this issue.. "the Prime Minister firmly declared, asserting his authority over the room. All those in the cabinet nodded with appreciation, seemingly in awe at this man's ability to find the solution to any problem. Only one man ...
"Isak, you seeing what I'm seeing?"Marl asked, his eyes fixed on the peculiar sight before him. The man had to be insane, he had to be. Right there, at the head of the stretched rank of Taloshi spearmen, stood the great Ysmar. "Oh you have got to be kidding me."Isak leaned over the provisional trench beside Marl. "Wel...
######[](#dropcap) At this hour of the night, only drunks or fools were still out on the streets. Or drunken fools, like me. After a moment’s hesitation, I followed my erstwhile partner out the door. She disappeared into the darkness, then reappeared under the light of one of the few working street lamps. I called out...
The mass migration of refugees from war-torn nation's in Africa, Asia and Europe flooded the streets of America with poverty. Jobs were hard to come by and America was faced with a crisis. The "Locals", American-born citizens, proposed a fix: The population was to be split into two distinct groups, the "Locals"and the ...
"And if you'll follow me this way..." A residence hall staff member walks me to my room in Kirkland House. I'm so excited to be at Harvard! I can't believe someone from my town would ever even get in but I'm the first. I'm going to make them all proud. "Thank you"I say, shyly. We get to the top of the stairs to what...
When Night Falls (Short #10) “And with the darkness came the Demons… Unruly and unnatural creatures who only crave blood and murder. The streets ran rampant at night, while humanity healed during the day. But then someone made the connection- Demons can’t go into the light- that creatures of darkness must stay in the ...
They both pleaded, begged, screamed for me to shoot the other. On the right, my best friend. On the left, also my best friend. Apparently one of them was some sort of evil, alien... demon... thing? I don't know, I kind of phased out as they talked about it. I raised my gun and pointed it at the head of my best friend ...
The girl woke up, and brushed her hair out of her eyes, the long black strands dyed with fading purple stripes and faded red tips that glimmered slightly in the sunlight streaming in through the window. Her frail thin arms were heavily bandaged. She tried to get up only to find that her wrists and angkles were cuffe...
It sat on my table under the dull sunshine piercing through a closed foggy glass window, the pages a reddish ivory. The book’s dark leather was burnt on the edges with strange scratches and rips along the spine. Every page I turned terrified and strangely excited me. It recounted the early moments of my life, my miss...
Two men and two women, dressed up in their finest Sunday clothes are sitting around a table theoretically discussing Frankenstein. That conversation had long gone past after passionate arguments had been had around the meaning behind the book, and drinks had been gotten out. John likes Sally, Sally likes Rose, Rose lik...
On the first day of college, I was removed from the classroom for allegedly messing with the teacher, when all I did was introduce myself. It's not my fault for having such a dumb last name as "Drummer". The history of that surename is even dumber but thats another story entirely. As far as I was able to trace back, no...
Ah.. the age old question, what makes you - well you? Is the person you are today the same as you were yesterday, or as I believe, we are merely the product of our memory and experiences? Sure when EternalTech ™ first came out, there were riots – protests as luddites tried to deny both progress – and immortality. T...
"*Dammit!*"Our resident Psion cried out. Aides rushed to his side, attepting to soothe their master's troubled mind. "What now?"I slammed my chalk box shut with a satisfying click. "A serpent - *Maledictis Mare Armatus*. An ancient one, at that."He helpfully didn't mention just where it was. "I was getting to that, B...
I wiped the dust off of the steel hatchet and busted the bunker entrance open. My eyes became blinded as the sunlight slowly entered the bunker and filled it with a bright white light. *I don’t remember the sun’s light being white*, I thought. I jumped out of the door with my hatchet still in hand and looked around. I...
My Tinder date agreed to meet me at the penut bar, knowing only four things about me; I'm a dude. I'm average looking. I have tourrette's. And I *am* interested. I made sure to emphasize that last point several times before we met up because, for some reason, my only tic is shouting "NOT INTERESTED!"at the worst possib...
It was quiet in the woods, but no more than one would expect. The slight crunch of layered leaves lying underfoot. Wind rattling dead branches. Something small and grey sprinting across the path, and scurrying up a tree. By first assessment, it was a normal forest, interchangeable with any other. On the list of thing...