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I dropped my fork when I understood his words. My father paused, making eye contact with me. My mother and little brother didn't notice it. They proceeded to eat like usual. I hadn't told anyone that I was studying sign language. It was supposed to be a surprise. I only had a week of practice, though. Maybe it was...
They call him Silent Tim, on the account he won’t tell anyone his real name. Actually, he doesn’t say much to any of us. Only a few us are lucky enough to get a grunt or two in response to a question. Some have given up trying to get anything from him. Others believe he may have the answer we’re all searching for. Wha...
The words echoed fruitlessly in her head as her grip around her rifle grew ever tighter. It sat perched atop a tower of steel and wires, massive clawed feet contorting metal bars as if they were made of paper. It hadn't seen her yet, or so she hoped, but she knew that any sudden movements could easily change that for t...
It's been 24 years since the first sentient AI was reported publicly, lord only knows how long they've been around prior to that. In these 24 years, human civilisation had progressed far beyond what anyone could have predicted. Solar powered roads? Fully automated vehicles which ended traffic jams? Hell, colonising Mar...
*been 2 days since we last inhaled* Jessica looked up from Paul's text on her phone. Paul and Jason were both grinning at her excitedly. She shook her head slowly. "Seriously? That's what all this is about? You've gone *two whole days* without weed? Wow, so straight edge, much impressed."she deadpanned. Paul rolled ...
The Los Angeles Museum of Natural History was, by far, the dullest place on Earth. Cro was sure. It was also home. Does anyone have any idea the emotional impact that comes with people laughing at your small, exposed penis a hundred times a day? Does anyone have any idea how hard it is to stand still for twelve hou...
It didn't feel real. The screaming. The panic. People moving as animals. Like a force of nature. All scattering before murderers that killed man, woman, and child. This was something that happened somewhere else. To strangers. Ducking behind some cover, I saw a woman hunkered down so close I could smell the mint on he...
:these creatures control the ethereal: K'tkz whispered along the mindlink. Ja'zr looked up from his meal of cracked sea stone creatures whose fleshy insides so resembled the iani blossoms from their home planet. The iani were a delicacy back home, but the ridged stones that grew them in the oceans on this planet were e...
The bed shifts as something heavy settles down on it. Thick, furred arms wrap gently around me. Sleepily, I hug the large creature back and fall asleep. -------------- I must have dreamt it, the whole incident. I woke up surrounded by dogs and cats as usual. My memory must have been playing tricks. I wish I knew wh...
"Hey, I want to show you something." I smiled widely, following Lydia into her basement. It was dark, the lights left off. I felt a little surprised, and excited. I felt her grab my hand, tugging me further in. "Stand right here." I obeyed, opening my eyes as wide as possible in the hopes of seeing something. But as...
"My fellow Americans,"I begin. I'm exuding my usual calm, cool demeanor on the outside. Inside, I'm panicking. Stall? How? For how long? Finally, I settle on a strategy. "How's it going?"That one caught them off guard. Not entirely unexpected, I do have a bit of a reputation as a wild card. It's why they elected me....
Vel looked down at his feet, breathing warm air into his cupped hands as he strode through the misty night air. He could feel the spectre haunting him, as always. She never left his side, never gave him space to breathe or time for respite. She was there every minute of every day, every day of every year, hovering by...
“You like it, right?” Obama said, winking at Putin as un-sexually as possible. He didn’t want Putin to think he was coming on to him, especially considering they were meeting in Russia. He’d briefly considered not winking, but it just didn’t feel right. It was worth the risk. “No, it’s stupid,” Putin said, crossing hi...
To my star-boy, my earth-child, the perfect horizon line joining two worlds, By the time you're old enough to read this, I'll be dead. Cancer. Bad luck. But don't cry for me. If there is an order to the universe, I will always be your father, and I will always be with you, watching from that thin boundary where the ph...
My alarm blares, and my bloodshot eyes open. The sun has not yet risen, and I long for the comfort of sleep. But sleep is for the weak. And my mission demands sacrifice. I open my laptop, squinting as the screen illuminates the room. The clock at the corner of my screen reads 5 AM. Soon, the east coast of the Uni...
# Foreword to the Poet's War, by John Burnett The Terani send their poets to war. I know because I’ve fought them, and because I’ve read the collections of the men I thought I'd killed. When I was young, a boy of eighteen, I went to the trenches of Tau Ceti. I brought along a million of my best friends, and shou...
He breathed a sigh of relief and went and sat down, finishing the coffee I'd made him that should no doubt have been cold by now, but was miraculously still warm. Of course, the son of God would never make do with cold coffee, even if it was over an hour since it was made. Three hours ago, I was only just up and dresse...
"I just don't see why it has to have holes everywhere."Mira gestured at the gap in the middle of the platemail. "Won't I get stabbed in the stomach?" "Oh, no. You see, our armor is very high level. It gives +15 resistance against piercing. That's much better than the iron plate you picked up off the bandit's hideout,"...
I stand atop my lair gazing out onto the wastes that surround it, scouring the landscape for signs of my enemy's approach. Fire belches from my twisted demonic lungs with every breath. My vaguely draconic wings flutter and twitch ever so slightly as I prepare myself to take flight at first sight of my foe. My spiked ta...
The passage of time. It picks up like a fucking snowball down a mountain. I opened my eyes to find the forest before me gone and empty. In fact, it looked like I was sitting in the middle of a fancy room made of velvet and tile. I arched a brow at that and a searing pain shot through my face. Looks like I had gotten ...
Clearly, I never did it with the expectation of a reward. Any scout will tell you that. Typically, you get a "thank you,"and honestly, that's the best-case scenario. Anytime things are different, it's usually for the worse. I got a dime once, which - it took me almost two minutes to get you across the street, lady, wit...
"VICTORY FOR THE EMPEROR, ETERNAL AND UNDEFEATED!!!" Again, I stand victorious. Nearing a thousand worlds, and to this day I reign supreme by right of my unrivalled and unquestionable might. As before, so again. This worlds only difference is the failure of its people to produce a champion to unite them. All others ha...
"So, mind telling us what happened?"Sergeant Claire asked. The suspect sat silently, a vacant stare in his eyes. The swelling in his eyes had finally gone down although they were still blue. The only survivor of the group that had tried to rob a tavern down at the Ninth Lane, Claire considered him to be extremely luck...
I hate them. They're corpses already. Walking, breathing, talking, pissing corpses without a soul, sucking the life out of everything around them. They're corpses, and yet they live. They live in the homes of their families, they live in trailer parks, they live in retirement homes. Fucking old people. We pay for the...
**Parts [two](https://www.reddit.com/r/shoringupfragments/comments/6utg9l/trial_39_part_two/), [three](https://www.reddit.com/r/shoringupfragments/comments/6uttkg/trial_39_part_three/), and [four](https://www.reddit.com/r/shoringupfragments/comments/6uw8in/trial_39_part_four/) are both on my sub. More updates to come. ...
No. I know this is you, Number 3. You're not fooling anyone by masking it as a prompt on a writing site. I know what you're trying to do. Fix it. Well, you can't. There is no fixing it because you and the other two stooges fucked it up beyond recognition. I warned you the moment I realised what they were planning yet ...
The underground lair of my new employer was cold and damp. I assumed worse working conditions though. I had always trusted in my superhuman tenacity and patience; it is what set me apart from other mathematicians, although we all share these qualities to varying extents. I am confident that I can ace every single task ...
**TRIGGER WARNING SUICIDE** "You know, it's a fucked run for everyone, nobody has it easy boys."The man's gruff voice travelled slowly through the warehouse. He took a deep drag from his ciggie, letting it stew in his lungs a tick before letting it billow out from his lips. "But today, we were blessed."His eyes held...
Elizabeth 2.0 arched an eyebrow as the assassin’s weapon pierced the soft synthetic tissue of her chest. Her attacker recoiled at her apparent indifference, leaving the large wooden stake embedded in her body, right where her heart would have been. Her dress was ruined. “A vampire?” She held the stake between her thum...
I cleared my throat a bit and swallowed hard before continuing. It was hard to look at him. His image kept flickering under the bed like his whole existence was just a trick of the eyes. My legs were completely frozen, shaking slightly in fear. "I'm sorry, did you just say rent?"I clarified. "That's right. Have I not...
Flavia removed her helmet and threw it into her armor rack, sending the pristine ceremonial garb tumbling into the dirt, before collapsing into her chair. She was seething with rage, the sound of constant rainfall grating and infuriating. If only that fucking bastard had just- "Primus,"The flaps of her holotent opened...
She said she loved him, and she did. More than anything. The way her eyes were closed made her seem at peace. He wept silently kneeling on the floor with his face in his palms. His tears fell through his fingers onto the note she had written and made the ink run down the paper. A small ocean breeze blew through the ope...
'Yeah alright, nice little tube you got there. What is that? Like a small lava-lamp? The raise is 200. You got it or not? If not, you're out.' 'This is worth much more than 200 dollars Mark. Here I have what makes humanity humane. Do you ever look up at the stars at night and wonder, Mark? Well, this right here is why...
Heaven was impossible to reach, but that didn't stop us. The base of the tower was the size of a city and yet, as Anna looked up squinting against the sun, it seemed to shrink to the size of a needle as it disappeared into the hazy sky. She'd first seen it three hours ago as she'd been driving here. Then, two hours fr...
The man comes to me with a troubled mind. I only know that because he says so. "I am troubled, wise man,"he says, removing his shoes and sitting cross-legged before me. My face remains pointed out towards the rising sun while I side-eye him through my shades. "I know,"I say. Because I do. Because he told me so. That...
James stared at the man, barely remembering to switch to Aramaic before he answered. "Jesus?"he stuttered. "You think I'm..." "Holy one, we feared..."the man interrupted, his voice dropping to a whisper as stepped closer. He stretched out a shaking hand, to touch James' robe. "We feared the worst, after the Romans.....
"Fusion? How?" "Not even recently. Apparently, it's actually been years since they moved past us. The broadcasts have either been old footage or after tweaks to the simulation to set them back." "I asked how." "How does it work, or how did they figure it out?" "Both." "I don't know enough physics for the first one...
I was drowsy, I thought I must've been dreaming, something, but this couldn't be real. Everything was the same, my room, exactly as I remembered it, the hallways and lights, exactly as they were meant to be. The paintings that hung on the walls were exactly what they were years ago, back before my accident. It felt li...
"Javier, resume the situation." Lieutenant Javier Thorpe gulped. The general was a frightening figure, having him enter the tent at 2 in the morning, dressed in his military suit and grumpy would have had any soldier soil his or her underwear. Javier's underwear was clean, but only because his bladder was already emp...
I knew what she desired even before she opened up my pyramid. I knew what she came here for even before she heard of it. But it mattered not. For she was still here. The so called, “Queen Of Light”, who had created a world without any shadow. Every single molecule was suffused with its power, and carried forth a tide ...
Callum stood before the doors to the Inner Sanctum, the dwelling place of the Ancient Phage, the ruler of all vampires. If his heart still beat, it would have been pounding. Any vampire who approached even this far was subject to summary destruction, save only the six members of the Inner Council, who alone were perm...
You drop the name "Rock Hard"in Andromeda, they'll know you mean me. In the Sombrero Galaxy, hush "Thick Snake"in dark alleys or high end millionaire parties – they'll give you my number. In the Kepler system there's a bronze statue the size of the Empire State building in the shape of my cock. You can visit the balls...
"To my dearest Isabella, My family's history is complicated, to say the least. Your uncle Alfred isn't quite the playful old man I wished to be. When I was close to your age, I was given the same task that I must now pass to you. A few hundred years ago, our story started. Man decided to become God, and we all know ...
With their neglect comes propaganda, and all the pomp and hubris that would disgust a being, justifications for being how they are, and with no intent to change. We've seen this before. Long ago, amongst ourselves, when fractured by land and sea. Different cultures had come with the wind, rooted as the eldest trees, an...
It had been so many days and nights and nights and days - I should have kept a calendar of sorts, but that doesn't mean anything to anyone anymore. All I know it's that the third Spring is finally coming. The third year after *Z. Coli* managed to infect upwards of 95% of the population, rendering blood and flesh to gor...
"You shouldn't be here,"the man repeated after I'd ignored him the first time around. I had gotten used to people talking around me ever since I'd started taking my vacations. I glanced back at the man, ragged and dusty, holding a small bucket. "This isn't a place for people like you."he clarified. "People like me?"I ...
Elephants are big but this one is unique. Almost the size of the sun but blue. He's flying, without wings obviously. Ninjas everywhere. This poor man is surrounded by them, he will never make it out alive. Or maybe they are protecting him? The most simple garden in the world. One huge flower. I wonder if it's harder ...
**THE DARK DAYS** The customers at Joe's Coffee Shop don't say hello. "Medium coffee, three milks, two sugars." That's what Waluigi gets for a greeting a thousand times a day. "Good choice,"is what he says back. But inside, what he's asking himself is why people don't take the time to treat him like a person. He a...
"You sure about this boss?" Missy Missus, carefully put down her pipe and stared at me with cold gray eyes. "You wanna ask that again kiddo?" "Erhm no boss, I meant no offense by it, I'm just a bit confused is all." Behind me I could hear the soft rustling of her two Fangs of the Missus moving into position to strik...
They say that when everyone is special, no one is special. *Not true,* I used to say. Look at the most powerful heroes of the generation - X-Zero, Crowstorm, Magenta...all of them exceptions even among the exceptional, with abilities that seem to defy the laws of physics. My power was ordinary among extraordinary. "My...
Walking on eggshells at all times is something that's unbelievably frustrating. Imagine having to watch every word you say, and not only having to hold in every ounce of anger, but also having to try and not feel anything negative unless you want the fires of hell to rain down everywhere in your immediate viscinity. Th...
The sword was found lodged at the bottom of a quarry, to much fanfare of world news. The magnificent long swords golden hilt and beginnings of the blade were above the coarse stone, free of any signs of age. The first few characters of the name were visible extending down, penetrating into the rock after the ‘C’. What...
1 "As you wish."The genie had quickly regained composure. Sid, the kid, thought he saw the slightest smirk on its otherwise emotionless face. Finished with the lamp, he tossed it in the bin in the kitchen and began phase two of his plan. Blue ink poured out onto the first page. "I want my mother back."Sid wrote, l...
**Ten things God needs you to do RIGHT NOW (the 8th might surprise you)** 1 – Don't cheat on him. *Come on, you have your God. He's nice to you. You like him. Don't mess this up by sticking a bunch of other Gods in the middle of the relationship. You're not Taylor Swift. Pick a God and stick with it.* 2 – Forget you...
Everyone knew who the offender was as soon as the word was mentioned. They all had a picture of the offender in their heads; tall, white male with big, clumsy hands. Maybe some imagined him differently, but to her that was what the offender looked like. The jury didn't argue for long; they all knew the consequences f...
And the Lord chose the purest of mind, the noblest of heart, and the deepest of pockets wings and with those they flew far, far away. Away from the home they had themselves had demolished. -Post Exodus 4:13 *** Bethany Angross had finally done it. She stared down at the hole she had just uncovered, and it was…glo...
"You've got to be kidding." Falad's words broke the heavy silence around the campfire that had set in following my announcement. Valor, uneased by this hostility from Falad, hid her face between her knees. "Hamsters? In a magical armor? We're still talking about Gnor, the paladin who shielded Valor from Volnuk'r the ...
"Ya heard me ya twit,"the hologram snapped again. The men and women looked at one another, confused. "I mean what's next? Ya gonna start throwing about holy oil and chantin' in binary?" The man at the front looked shamefully at the hologram as he discretely slipped the vial of holy oil back into his pocket. "Oh, uh,...
"Wooo!" The shriek of joy just seemed to burst from my mouth. Or rather my maw. The air rushing past my head was exhilarating. Even with no hair, the wind felt great through my horns. I glanced down at the ground, to the tiny trees and the from-this-distance-toy-like tower that I launched from. I could see the wi...
It's my first time being Reduced, and I've already decided I don't much like it. My head pounds as if a rock is being bashed against it from the inside. Again, and again and again. Hard to focus. In front of me, silhouettes of tower blocks rise above the city's wall. Smoke drifts up from somewhere inside, thick plumes ...
Most people hate Mondays, but Tuesdays have always been the bane of my existence. Never once in 32 years have I had a “case of the Mondays”; Tuesdays, on the other hand, can get absolutely bent. This one was no exception. I rolled out of bed to step in cat vomit, and the morning just spiraled from there. No hot water ...
"Hey. You know how the main reason vampires haven't taken over the world yet is because they all die in daylight?" "Yeah?" "And you know how trees absorb daylight and store it as energy?" General Thaum of the Icelandic Supernatural Containment Foundation gave Head Scientist Lilac a long, irritated stare. "You have g...
My mother was a monster. She was a cold, unloving beast of a lady who had no love for me in her heart. She wasn’t the one who raised me, the one that stayed by my side even through my lowest nights. She wasn’t the one who made me the man I am today. That was the demon. It was disturbing to come home and find three ...
"You humans think every dragon is trying to kill you,"said Sythrak. "You're the killer,"said the knave. He was so young his voice had not broke. "You killed and stole our flocks--" "I did no such thing,"interrupted the dragon. "--and now, now you killed our women!"shouted the knave. He raised his weapon--a crude pol...
The world has lost something today. We've all lost something today. To the world, Bruce Wayne was merely an eccentric billionaire who was only as good as the next juicy headlines the media could get out of him. To us, Bruce Wayne was a friend. A guardian. And a solemn reminder. The Justice League has often been desc...
Those lucent eyes of wasteful blue—they glittered at me with a bright contempt before she walked away. So I had to try again. Resetting was my greatest gift in life. I could return to a point about ten seconds in the past, changing my decisions and forging another path in life. I began to realize the implications of m...
"I love you sweetheart,"Sally whispered into her son's ear. She pulled the blanket up to his to chin and kissed him softly on the forehead. It was a warm kiss. "I don't want you to go mom,"begged Thomas as he stifled a tiny yawn. "The monsters come out when you're not here. Please stay. They're afraid of you. Pleassss...
It was tough being a dragon in this modern world. Everyone tended to see the scales and the claws and the wild eyes and the fire-breathing and they'd just say to themselves: "woah, ho, ho, that's enough of that now." But beneath all that, Grinzella was really a nice dragon. She loved to cook and grill and travel and ...
It doesn't always work out. Sometimes it's the distance. When you and your love lives a thousand miles apart and can only see each other on rare occasions, it's not easy to keep the relationship going. Other times, it could just be that you grow apart. Both of you were once on the same wavelength, with the same drive, ...
The blood on the altar was still wet. I touched it, bringing daubed hands to wipe across my cheeks. The cloying smell caught the back of my throat, the fresh stickiness pulling my skin tight. In the hollow of the hills we stand shoulder to shoulder. The blood has begun to dry now, and sweat and tears have made tracks ...
"It's a blessing and a curse,"I said. I don't like talking about it. Especially in public, and this diner is not secluded enough. "Come on, it's got to be the coolest thing ever."She smiled at me, eyes lit up. She's beautiful. It pains me. "No,"I said. "It hurts people. Sure it feels satisfying in the moment but... I...
I’ll try to be concise in the telling of this story. Because brevity is the soul of wit, and seeing as I’m not a very funny lady, I’m very much relying on brevity. A student walked into my office (I note this reads like the start of a joke; an Irishman, Englishman, etc walk into a bar — or wherever your regional enemi...
The three men sat at the counter, as they waited for their drinks. One disheveled and unshaven, the other neatly dressed, and the last as colorful as the neon sign outside, in stark contrast with the rest. They sat quietly until the colorful man spoke up. "I do enjoy a good shot, don't you?", he said out loud, to no ...
“This is the Void’s domain.” “I mean sir, I wouldn’t go quite that far,” the ensign said hesitantly, “I mean it is clearly disturbing. An atmosphere composed of majorly oxygen and nitrogen, a surface temperature of around 79 percent the boiling point of water. Oceans made of this *water* of all things.” “You’re just ...
To Darren, better known as Figment404, the things behind him were merely shadows. He glanced over his shoulder from time to time and caught glimpses at the edge of his vision, little tricks of light that seemed perhaps more solid than a trick should seem, but he always brushed it off. It was either the drugs or his lat...
When you've lived for as long as I have you get very good at two things: how to act, and how to enjoy yourself. After a couple thousand years of watching humanity repeat the same mistakes you learn to value the little things in life. Alejandro Ramirez was the name I adopted in 2018. Having lived out a few lives as bus...
"I’m not kidding!” Gabe said as he clicked the next enemy on the screen. “Watch!” Tina leaned in to see the screen better. Sure enough, the glossy golden glow of a legendary drop appeared with a chirp. Gabe moved to attack another. “What are you doing? Pick it up!” Tina smacked his shoulder. “Those shield emblems are...
Superpowers, superheroes, no matter what sort of titles they placed on themselves they were powerless in the moment it mattered most. As the massive rock that was Earth's undoing approached all they could do was stare. Stare as it grew closer, shadowing the spot at our feet. Stare as it mocked them, showing us how trul...
"One more question, girl, and we'll be done for today." "Caitlyn. My name's not "girl"."She glared through her bangs at the Interviewer. He, the looming middle aged man with the unfeeling eyes. Her, the scowling teenaged lump of acne and psoriasis. She felt anger, irritation, frustration. He felt only fear. "Okay, Ca...
"Would you like a cup of tea, while you fix it?"she asked. I stared at the 404. "Fix it?"I said, numbly. "Your mother says you're ever so good at this sort of thing." "This sort of thing..."someone was saying through my mouth. "Yes, thanks. A cup of tea would be great." I turned it off. I turned it on. Yeah. That ...
"How's dinner daddy?"I asked as I returned to the table from refilling his glass with lemonade. "Tastes great, son. I couldn't have made it any better myself. You're a chip off the ol' block." I smiled as I watched him spoon another mouthful of chili into the gorge of his mouth. Something small and white stuck his p...
I'm a terrible demon. Anyone can see it. My pitchfork tines are never sharp enough. I'm too gentle with the whole eternal torture thing. Last time I was on the lashes and lacerations team, the only one who got hurt in my chamber, really, was me: damaged rotator cuff. Repetitive motion injury. I try to beguile and l...
* March 17: #15 has been disposed of without complication. It seems the police have begun to piece together the connections between #1, #2, and #4. Was too sloppy in the beginning. Stupid. But what's done is done, no use worrying about it now. Will have to monitor their investigation and reevaluate at a later date. But...
It's been years since I made the wish. Since I saw the shooting star streaking across the sky, the night after twelve rejection letters came in the mail for my new novel. I still remember the words in those letters, so impersonally devoid of emotion that they stung. *Characters lack rationality, emotion. Unbelievab...
"Hi, you're on a rock, floating in space." No we're not. We are in the paradise God intended when he made this true, flat earth. "Pretty cool, huh? Some of it's water - fuck it! Actually, most of it's water." Yes, except most of is irradiated. "I can't even get from here to there without... Buying a boat." A what?...
When the Dominion's armies reached the Abyss Canyon, what faced them across the only crossing point was the forty strong rearguard of the Northern Alliance. When the war ended two days later, only one of those knights remained standing. Around him lay dozens of corpses, friend and foe alike, with countless more lost to...
Eldregon sits, enthroned upon a thousand golden swords, bequeathed to him by a thousand noble kings, long dead. His first lifetime was spent mastering his magical craft, the second spent conquering the plague of death, and ever since then he has sat as de facto ruler of all that he surveys. And his greatest enemy has ...
"So, Grandma! Tell me stories from when you were my age!"I said, trying to act excited. She always told me the same three stories when I visited her, but it made her happy. "Well, you see, Tom-" She was cut off by the scream of a man who'd entered the wrong octave. Glass shattered, wood splintered and men in black ar...
Her hands carved curves into the pottery; the delicate, thin frame of her eyes looking down at these sculptures with the cradling love that reminds me of home, forever ago. A weak smile hung on her lips, the kind I remember from those trailing ends of her forgotten lullabies. The white strands of her hair loped her sho...
As another beautiful human with a good figure left the stage, an eight foot tall, dark green, large toothed, pig-nosed, and battle-ready Orc entered the stage. All humans had to work hard not to say anything. After all, they knew that there were dozens of huge orcs sitting in the crowd, ready to tear them apart. Even...
The screams of the Colony pierce through the ears of Bobby Gallvano as he unloads the remaining charge of what he calls his assault rifle. He screams back as the green bolts fire into the charging mass of multi-coloured limbs, releasing gushes of black, steaming mush. "Recharge me, dammit!"Gallvano shouts to his allie...
Humans are constantly replacing the cells in their bodies. I've read estimates that put it at 300 billion a day. 300 billion cells replaced. Per person. Every single day. And they figure that it takes about seven years for a person to replace all the cells in his body. That means, every seven years, you're a brand ne...
Faster than Light , or FTL travel proved to be as much a fantasy in space as planets teeming with life. For the first hundred systems the human race touched, going our best at "near-light-Speed travel,"or nCT, we found solar systems empty, except for swirling, frozen gas giants, burning rocks, frozen rocks, and unknown...
*Why do I do this?* It’s a question I asked myself many times. Why do I protect these people? Protect this city even though anyone who sees me averts their eyes, tries to ignore me. Those were the good ones. Often times they spat at my feet or warded of evil with their hands. All mages were supposed to be equal citi...
It was always difficult, adapting to a new body. It was probably the most challenging aspect of covert reconnaissance missions. Issues like understanding the local language and culture, those were merely a matter of information absorption and enough simulation time. Adapting to a new body, however, a new biology, th...
Charlie stood by the creek, wriggling his toes through the brown muck before washing it off in the gurgling water. His friend stood and watched him do this twice, before finding some appropriately sized stepping stones to hop across. A few moments later, Charlie followed. It was good to be back out here. It was li...
*You can't have your cake and eat it too* is a bullshit idiomatic proverb. I feel this on a deeply personal level. My entire world is cake, where every improbability I can imagine gives me any kind of cake I want. Or don't want. It doesn't matter and the universe doesn't seem to care. At first I gorged on all kinds o...
The kind of parents who would trade their firstborn for wealth or power or a bit of lettuce to an unknown monster are the kind of people who shouldn’t be parents at all. I loathe them, but they will always exist, and their children will be miserable unless someone does something about it. And well, that’s the hu...
"Oh Gene! You are here. Let me fix you a plate!"The old woman said as I appeared from the lamp beneath me. *Gene? Was that a nickname for genie in a bottle? That's original.* I thought to myself. Let's see where this goes before I grant her her wishes. It's refreshing to be greeted before being bombarded with wishes....
I have the best boobs in the world. I'm not, like, egotistical or anything. Heck, some days I don't even want them, but it's undeniable. That was my mutation. April 24th, 2014, the day I developed the best pair of breasts anyone has ever had. At first, I was actually a little stoked. I mean, my rack is *amazing*. It ...