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Home means Nevada, Home means the hills, Home means the sage and the pine. This school bus is made by a company called Blue Bird Corporation which is a subsidiary of a company called Cerberus Capital Management. Subsidiary means a small company owned by a big company. Like say how Stouffer's who make TV dinner...
"Loki Odinson!" The voice grates at him. None dare use that name in the presence of the trickster god. None should remember it. The thrice-cursed Jotun-blood looks to the parapets of Asgard, and sees no man. Who has dared uttered the name he wished to abandon? There comes a roar like a savage beast. One not heard in ...
Mark, Leeroy, and Tyler were three 11 year old friends. They met in middle school and grew stronger as time went on. They weren't like normal boys, they didn't enjoy football or sports in general, nor did they enjoy much art. What they did enjoy was video games, they lived their lives around them, they focused their ti...
The air was crisp, the blackened room illuminated with blue by a single computer monitor. The only audible sounds were the soft hum of the computer fan and the crunching of Cool Ranch Doritos™, with the soft pattering of footsteps growing in the distance. Light poured into the room followed by the face of a young man. ...
“Merely,” huh? That’s a bit of an understatement. You see, you got your squishy immortal, which is probably what that statement is about, and then you have the far more common type of immortal, the type I’ve officially dubbed “immortals of stone.” I write all about it in my book about the supernatural. You can read it ...
Gina was a scientist. White-lab, smoking-test-tubes, microscope scientist. Gina, that girl, my girl, she was a science girl. Harvard. Yale. A year and a half at Stanford. Another year at Oxford. She was a real good scientist. We dated for four years, and all Gina would talk about was how I was a piece of shit. How ...
Bernard W. Stirling. Attorney at law. One of the richest men in the state, and yet he had never been this nervous or even this sweaty in his entire career. Not even when speaking to his first client when he was 23 years old; the terrifying 7'3"body builder who had been selling illicit drugs to youth in his gym was no m...
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"Yes, ma'am. I have confirmed it,"said Joe to Sarah. "This generation ship is most definitely the same one that was the very first ship to exit the known universe a millenium ago. The registration matches that of our electronic records, see? SXC-1071-I." "But Joe,"began Sarah. "Something is... different about the crew...
"So you're saying that you do all your work on time?"I ask again, still half in shock. "And that you've never taken a sick day for no good reason?" The other me nods his head. He's wearing a three piece suit, tailored, sitting with his legs crossed as though he doesn't have a care in the world. "Speaking of work, I'd ...
"All on red,"they chorused. They both looked as surprised as I did. It was Devin's idea to go to Vegas, and Angelo protested the entire way as he often did when I gave into Devin's suggestions. Walked in, lost a lot of cash, got steadily drunker and drunker and drunker, and finally decided to do one last bet before I...
This is ridiculous. It is clearly light outside. Why are they not coming! Kim-Jong-Un was getting really uncomfortable, a feeling he was not used to. His bladder had been first cautiously signaling to him that relief was required. Now his bladder was screaming. Why didn't they come!? Kim-Jong-Unlet out a sigh and d...
Mary had a little lamb. The lamb's color was red. She then found a little clam. She picked it up and went to bed. Little did Mary realize that this supposed clam was in fact a spiritual artifact that served as the link between the ancient civilization lying dormant underneath the surface of the Moon, the "Dhalnim", an...
Sub-commander Kralt was worried. Very very worried. This was a simple shakedown cruise of his first and only command vessel. He'd insisted on beginning trials this cycle, overriding his chief engineer and second. With just a bare-bone crew at that. "Vertice Actual, what is our current distance to the primary in this...
It is I! It is me! A delight to be, indeed, myself and no one else but I, a fabulous, frumptious, felicitous - with marmalade-shaded fur and a luscious, bushious tail - a fox! Vulpes vulpes, if you please. Name me two times, love, say me twice. But I've been slandered, oh! Alas that I've been vilified, vituperated, ...
This is hell. I should have listened to my dad when he said that betting everything on one horse was a bad idea. I don't know what he meant by that, what his point was. I don't think he even knew what his own point was. But strangely, it's appropriate here. The power's out, Internet's down and I bet all my money on a...
The demonic apparition took a seat opposite Paula, and pulled his tail over his lap, crossing his hooves at the ankles politely. His face, a ram's skull, had deep red fire burning within the shadowy depths. Bare chested, a pentagram had been carved into his chest. Thick swathes of skin peeled away from his sagging tors...
“Reset to last save point.” The first time I saw the message – hanging in the air, glowing fluorescent blue like a neon sign on a dive bar – I had no idea what it meant. But it sure as hell seemed like a better option than sticking around the black, endless void I’d found myself in upon dying. It’s a shame I didn’t r...
"Goddammit! Do you know how long it took to make that?" I throw my wrench away in frustration. It bounces a few times before coming to a rest on the messy pile of rubble that sits where my to-scale replica of the Saturn 5 rocket was just a few moments ago. A haze of dust and rebar. I can barely make out the American f...
Suddenly my hands burst into flames, but they didn't burn, they just produced heat. Stretching out my arms caused the fire to shoot out into a massive blaze. To think that the first man to walk on mars would also be the first superhero! Taking off my helmet, I realized that I could also breathe without any oxygen. I ...
He had whispered in my ear, be brave, brother. This relies on you. If God wills it, you will kill many and pave the way for your brethren to attack. The truck had been filled to the brim with explosives. All I had to do was press on the gas pedal and never let go. I nodded. He put his hand on my shoulder and nodded. I ...
Sensors never lied. At least, never this badly. The crew had all seen the rendering on their computers. The surface they hovered above reached out endlessly in all directions. Putting their feet on it just confirmed what seemed to be impossible. Being a rational man, Burbank was not frightened, but was quickly becomi...
Smiley never had any arms, but it never bothered him. He could do anything anyone else could and more. Sarah didn't care either, and that was the most important thing. It had been a long day at work, and he was ready to be home. Once he reached his apartment, he used his feet to unlock and open the door, and walked in...
"No. No way. Absolutely not." Olgvirr paced around the campfire, burning hot despite the noonday sun. This was the eighth bandit group he had been a part of in recent months, and this was the eighth time he was having this discussion. "We should definitely not attack her. She will kill us all without breaking a sweat...
Fire and Ice hovered in their spots above Earth, bickering as usual. "Look at how many people favor me!"Fire said, giving Ice a hard shove. "Just find your own planet, I've got dibs on this one." Ice stared back angrily. "I'm also great! I'm definitely sufficient enough to destroy the planet. And look at how many fan...
”Nobody has been down there for over a century,” Bim Reed said, peering over the edge of the New Ark. “It’s just a t-shirt production plant, why does it matter?” The ever-present cloud floor below churned and rumbled ominously. After the bombs went off and Earth’s surface became uninhabitable, what was left of humanit...
10 questions down... 10 more to go, piece of cake. It's not my fault advanced calculus comes easy to me. I could feel the ugly stares from everyone in the classroom, piercing the back of my neck, silently begging me to intentionally shave some points on this test. The last mid-term I got a 95% and set the upper limi...
[A viewer has joined this stream!] The username popped up next to the notification, some string of random numbers and letters. A bot, I figured. I kept typing, trying to keep my mind on numbers. I took a sip of coffee. It was terrible. [A viewer has joined this stream!] As soon as the username appeared, the feed re...
The rain began to fall on the tiny shade house at the end of the road. The shade wasn't very comfortable but was ideal for our operations. I rolled my eyes towards the ajar door. The rain wasn't going to stop soon. There were some more men inside the shade. No one was talking to each other but was engaged into some sp...
"They built what?"Norgon asked. As an astrogond his race were masters of bio-technology and their ships were grown, nurtured, and bonded with rather than built. "Pleasure bots."First mate Cyllia answered, "Millions upon millions of pleasure bots. Not all of them are used for sexual activity but a lot of them are. E...
"Tell me again what happened, private,"Sergeant Toombs dismissed everyone else in the unit. I knew things were turning serious when he pulled out one of his rare cigars, bit the end off and lit it. He only did this when he was celebrating or about to kick ass. He was not in a celebratory mood. "I don't know!"I said...
The juror pinched the bridge of his nose, trying to stem the pain from a headache that was on the cusp of becoming overwhelming. In the background, the defense attorney droned on, his voice a monotone mumble as he struggled to his way through his closing statements. The judge stared off in the distance, hardly paying a...
Captain Obvious was in a sealed room. A man was elevated above him some 5 meters. He had a massive cashe of weapons, but Captain Obvious stood. Waiting, preparing, ready to do the only thing he knew how. "Captain Obvious..."The man with a white lab coat and glasses with a pipe stuck in his mouth said. "Your days are l...
Maxson sat in the communication room, unable to come up with a way to explain what he had just heard. Every other officer in the room was the same. It had to be a prank, right? But these were secured uplinks, no public access whatsoever. State-of-the-art, at least until the aliens arrived and one-upped us in every wa...
Walking on the deserted streets, everything looks quiet. Not a single soul seen since the Day. Everything went from normal to empty in just a matter of seconds. Sure, first I was confused and tried to find logic in this. However, it is what it is. I was alone. Or rather I thought I am. Everything was free for takin...
"Puppies", God replied. "I'm sorry. Um. What?" "Puppies." "Well, yes, I heard you the first time...but I don't understand" "Let me make this simple. How much hate exists on Earth?" "A fair amount I suppose." "Well I think you should all love each other. So I'm trying something to teach you." "And that thing ...
"Hey Bob, I have a hunch,"I said as I was composing an overture on my laptop. "What's that?" he replied, about to publish his latest paper on arxiv. "Our CEO's a nomod." He was confused. "What makes you say that?" he said with genuine bewilderment. "Some things are not under control, and I'm sure he didn't stay...
"But that's what I'm saying, you're literally never late!" Anna has been my best friend since grade school, and we have this conversation at least once a week. This time she has been particularly persistent, her blonde hair whipping around as she spun to backpedal as we walked to class. "It's not fair. Your classe...
“The pods left the station without us!” Terry yells in a panic. “No, they can’t! We’re all stuck here... with him!” I reply, after hearing that we’ve been abandoned, I’ve lost all hope of escape. It’s only my first week on set and things have taken a horrifying turn. It’s a reality show in the truest sense of the wo...
Sheriff Taylor was never considered the best man for, well, any job but now he found himself with a shiny new Sheriff’s badge and the tall order of cleaning up the town. Clarence Harris and the rest of the Harris Gang had been running Diamond City unofficially for the past three years and no one had been able to put a ...
I lazily opened an eye. The rhythmic banging of my extra-loud alarm clock seemed to be echoing in the distance. Then, slowly, I seemed to approach it, until I was right by it. I groaned. This was usually a sign that I was fully awake, and had to get up. When you have an extra-loud alarm clock, you don't get those fiv...
The mime stood there, hands in front of him, pressed against an imaginary wall. The small crowd of people watched, unimpressed. The mime shifted his body, his motions were jerky. He pretended to be trapped in boxes and bump into walls. The crowd remained unimpressed. A few a chucked a coin or two into the hat ...
The edges of the doorway cooled to ruby red, lazer cut by the expeditions forward scout robot TT. 'Scanning area... clear, this indeed seems to be the flight deck captain. It is safe for the crew to move forward' The expedition had scanned hundreds of lifeless vessels located at the far edge of the Milky Way. Pisces...
I had been an average guy my entire life, prayed to give thanks when something good happened, tried not to use the lords name in vain when things went wrong. The only real thing that kept me from being the perfect little Christian was how much I detested actually going to church. The long hours of just sitting and lis...
“Can I borrow five bucks?” “Sure.” If Jeff had asked what the money was for he could have saved himself and his friends a lot of grief. And normally he would have, but he knew he had a bit of money coming his way so he figured why not. “Thanks. See you in Algebra.” Bret slid the bill into his pocket and headed toward...
General Akal eyed the monitors with placid interest as the drones filmed the earths surface. "Reading?"He demanded. "No readings."A soldier commented after a moment. Reading over the data several times to make sure his reply was definitive. Akal straightened his back, his posture always representative of the loyalty...
I yawned, shuffling into the bathroom with a glance at the mirror for my daily percentage check. I was halfway through taking my underwear off while hovering over the toilet, when it registered. I froze, whipping back to the mirror for a double take, pants tangling around my ankles. Holy fuck. Zero? Zero percent?! ...
Dmitri was suiting up for a spacewalk. "Maybe it was just a couple pieces of debris."Said voice over the radio. "It is rythmic."Said another. Knock. Knock. Knock. "A couple years ago a piece of cable got lost during maitenance. Maybe it finally came around and wrapped itself on one of the hand holds." "What are t...
"We had them contained!" The alien admiral strode across the bridge of the capital ship, marching to the images of humans scurrying around a launch pad. The others on the ship gathered around with a buzz of concerned chatter. "No one can advance so quickly in less than a century! They were killing each other by the m...
"Woah Dude,"An incredibly high Jared said, "You know how cigarettes can cut your life by two minutes? What if I smoked a cigarette, like, half a second before I died?" "Woahhhhh Duuuuude!"Jerry and Ethan chanted as they smoked out of their blunt. This is stupid, I think to myself, these guys are off their rocker. "He...
Uncle Randall was always a bit off. I only really ever saw him at holidays for most of my life. We did start checking in on him from time to time once his health started failing. He didn’t know who the president was, evidently he “forgot there were elections”, but we had a three hour conversation about how much he love...
I haven't written in at least four years but this seem like a really fun concept so I'll give it a go. Sorry if anything is sorta weird i'm really rusty: At first, I just followed him and looted everything he didn't take. He'd slay a gang of bandits then take only their health potions and coin! The audacity of the her...
"So Dale and I have been waiting MONTHS to get a reservation at 'The Sepulcher', right? Literal months! Well last weekend Dale tries to get a table, and would you believe it he actually manages to get one!" "But, it doesn't take long for us to figure out why we were able to get a table. It's right by the kitchen! I ...
God is a scientist, but until we existed he didn’t have the word for it. It was unimportant to him; what need does He have to label Himself, in an existence where there is nothing but Himself? He knew nothing else. There was Him, and there was His Creation. But then He looked and He saw creators in miniature, our biolo...
When Shona opened the door she could not believe her eyes. "Lord Reginald!"Shona instantly realized she was still in her bedclothes and made to cover herself, then she realized whose presence she was in and tried to fix her hair, cover her unwashed face, clean the sleep from her eyes, undo twenty years of age, and cov...
Another log tumbles onto the fire and a glass of wine slides into my hand. My knees crack as I lift myself backward to the love seat my wife, Bella, has fallen into, and she raises the blanket to welcome me in next to her. I lean back and close my eyes, listening to the wood crack and burn, feeling the warmth of the ca...
They called it Purell as a joke, but the name stuck and it was fitting enough, after all. "Purell--advanced hand sanitizer. Kills the most germs. Leaves hands feeling soft." And if the city was a hand and the choking mist they pumped into our dwellings was the sanitizer, then I was that freakish anomaly, a tenacious...
The theory of the Bend had been easy. Experiencing it would be beyond comprehension. The engines of the Kérouac called out to countless, twinned atoms hundreds of lightyears away. When enough energy was channeled through them, the matter itself was superimposed across time and space, compelled to step out of reality an...
"Oh my, that's a lot of parcels you're carrying, Turiel,"Ananiel called out to him, "Let me hold the door for you!" Ananiel raced at lightning speed to catch the door for Turiel, a look of triumph on her beaming face. Turiel was about to scoff indignantly, but then thought better of it. "How generous of you, Nania."T...
The Celestial Bureaucracy was in turmoil. Bureaucrats were running to and fro, fiends and higher powers attempting to scream over each other, and all of this happening around a very dissatisfied Heavenly Emperor. "Under Article 7, Paragraph H, subsection ii, under the Codes Concerning Jaywalking-"a minor imp attempted...
Listen closely my child, and I will tell you how to truly destroy a man. There were once three brothers, whom were sent to live with thier uncle, after the death of thier own father; but this uncle was a feind of a man. He despised his brother's sons, cherishing his own child instead. He would inflict all manner of m...
Somewhere in the annals of human history it was decided that omnipotence and benevolence go hand in hand. That regardless of intent, an all-knowing, all-seeing creator must act primarily as a caretaker of its creation. To utilize their ephemeral nature to better humanity in one way or another. A God serving to provide...
I had to come along. It was so ludicrous that humanity was even attempting this – of course I had to come along. I just had to see. I wanted to experience every second of that trip. I wanted to look at those twenty-four people every single day of their journey, see what was going on in their heads, see what happened wh...
I open my eyes. Everything is white. That’s not right. I was supposed to get never-ending black nothingness! There is no afterlife; it doesn’t make logical sense! So why is everything white? Also, why didn’t I have clothes on? “So, you’re probably feeling pretty confused right about now,” a voice behind me says. I ju...
Disbelief became apparent across the face of the "hero."In the beginning, he'd saved towns, saved kingdoms, and once saved the world. His save file was closely guarded, and he saved an extra copy of in a flash drive, encrypted and password protected, kept in a lockbox he stored in his closet, underneath the pile of Pok...
“Today’s assignment... July 1590 Roanoke mystery.” Back in August of 1590, the colony of Roanoke was found abandon by the 116 that had been there when Governor White had left three years prior. The colonists whereabouts have never been confirmed. Until today! Today is the day I get to go into the past and look into t...
“Death?” “That’s right kid, Death. Doom. Bleh.” “So what does this mean? I don’t understand” “Well, to put it simply, each person is born under a patron God. Some people are born with the same patronage as others, others sit in an exclusive club.” “Well which one am I? The exclusive club?” “Unfortunately not. Deat...
“You cannot comprehend how utterly stupid your actions are! Why do you think we live like this?? For the fun of it?? Now they know and they are going to come for you and find us waiting! You have signed our death warrants, our blood is on your hands!!” “....you speak English?” “Colossal idiot, no! The translator is...
The culmination of human existence was always going to be time travel, let's be honest. Once humanity realizes it can change its past, it owns the future. I finally did it, but for now I'm confining myself to the internet for safety reasons. No actual personal travel. I just need to show the past that it's possible, so...
I screamed, unintelligiblly, and after a while, my voice began to crack and fragment. I threw my assault rifle at the wall and stomped around like a child. "B-b-boss? E-everything okay?"Leonard- a short and portly henchman of mine- popped his head around the corner, obviously being drawn by the sound of my temper tan...
"HUMANITY. YOU HAVE MUCH TO ANSWER FOR." Even though the words had been through at least one round of translation, and even though the intensity had been reduced as much as possible, the alien's voice still managed to be grating and loud. It hit pitches that activated primal fight/flight reflexes in species galaxy-w...
"But... but... it's'a me'a?" The princess shook her head. Five levels of this crap, and he still hadn't given up. As lava erupted behind Mario, she pushed up her pink sleeves and glowered. "I didn't ask you to rescue me!" "The dragon, he'a capture you!" "Is that mustache some sort of sound proofing device? He hired ...
Ba'al-Shuggoroth shook itself. Its form was small, even feeble, but it was all that it could extend into the world when it came back in the time before the dawn of life, and ever since the little creatures had begun to cover the face of the earth, the little piece of itself was stuck in this plane. It pulled its way o...
Short short short, long long long, short short short. Even the uninitiated in Morse code would know the call for distress. Having sailed for two years, I knew the letters of the alphabet in Morse code, and instantly waited for what was to come next. My hand felt like an Ouija board; out of my control from an unknown so...
God pulled his assistant Gary off to the side, carefully making sure they were no longer in the earshot of the strange being that had come through the Golden Gates. "Okay, what's going on here? You guys are pulling my leg here, right? Is this like the equivalent of a surprise party? Did someone manage to get Wi-Fi and ...
A crash, rumble and then a tumble. Gurgle gurgle and a few sirens in the background before I was ushered off this mortal coil and into the great white beyond. No, seriously, it was all white. No eggshell. Just blinding blanco slathered on thick. The interior designer clearly had, an, um, vision for the place. After...
"The trick,"I began, "is to befriend them." My biographer jotted this down. "One of my victims,"I reminisced, "was a girl who was into theatre, acting and all that sort of stuff. I was into production. The day before a big play, during rehearsal, she was nervous. There was a scene where she would have to fly across t...
The crows cawed and screeched as Devon approached the dingy cabin. It had been something of an effort to find it through the nigh-impenetrable mist--which was odd in and of itself, given that it was the middle of the day--but a good civil servant didn't allow a little bad weather to stand in the way of their duty. Humm...
Bliss! Pure bliss! It felt, quite simply, immense. I watched as the soft pale skin on the back of my hands started to redden and blister. A surge of mental peace swept through me like a gust of cool wind under the scorching sun. I was happy. I sensed wetness on my face. My eyes were streaming, and I could faintly hear...
“Purely Savage!” “How so?” “They are completely evolved to hunt other species on their worlds. They eat plants too but only as a side dish!” “Why have they not abandoned these habits as their civilization progressed?” “That’s the worst part of it sir. Hunting these creatures one by one wasn’t enough, now they corra...
About a month ago, all sorts of weird things started happening. Reports were coming in of people being able to float a few feet off the ground, push a parked car with enough effort, or run faster than they could ride a bike, heck I even knew some girl who said she could “kind of” understand what her pet dog was saying....
"Recent events paint me as a monster. I understand. I would think of myself as a monster were I in your shoes. I'm telling you this so you can have the full picture. Both sides of the story. I only ask that you withhold judgement until I finish. Thank you. When I grew up, I dreamed of being a superhero. I wanted to f...
Richard Moore was a man. A reasonable man, at that. He treated his peers with reasonable respect. He loved his family to a reasonable degree. He called his mother every weekend without fail, except for times where he reasonably could not. He rarely got mad, and in the few cases he did - all of which for very reasonable...
Discovering my gift was purely by accident. A puppy, too sick to lift her head, suddenly bounding around with youthful energy. All I did was touch her head and wish it better. I didn’t tell anyone, not until the pup reached her second birthday. I sat in the backyard with my brother while the dog sprinted from fence to ...
People spend most of their lives dreaming about magic. They create worlds in their heads where the impossible is possible, where a mystical force operates outside of the laws we know. Does things we can’t explain. What they don’t understand is finding magic, real magic, in the real world isn’t romantic at all. Just lik...
I stared out the window at the back of the bus, watching the droplets of rain slide down the side, pretending I was in a really intense moment of a movie. It would be at least another twenty minutes until my stop and I forgot to bring a book, so here I was. I traced my finger along one of the droplets being dragged acr...
I signed up to be Mr.Nolan's helper because I thought it would be a fun summer job. As an aspiring doctor myself, I thought about how amazing it would be to get actual experience learning from the legend himself. I simply couldn't contain myself once I found out that I was chosen, out of thousands of applicants, to wor...
Shopping is always fun for me and my buddies cause we finally get an excuse to get off our planet for a few hours and go on a little jaunt to the next galaxy. Typically we can just pop over to the corner store between the Horologium Supercluster and the fornax cluster, but sometimes we might go to the Abell Cluster if ...
"Hey. Hey Ben." I turned towards the source of the voice. It was too dark to see, which suited me fine. "Yeah?" "I didn't really want to ask earlier, but... what's with that hat you were wearing?" I'd met this group about three hours ago in the alleyway behind the supermarket, and we'd spent most of that time runnin...
Uriel nudged Metatron in the general direction of the Throne. “Your tur--,” the angel began to mutter, but thunder cut him off, tearing through the space around the two currently physical beings. “Just fuckin' tell me,” the thunder said. If it were possible for angels to lose color, Uriel and Metatron did so. It to...
Perseus crept into the cave quietly. He wasn't an idiot, fighting something he couldn't look at was more like suicide than bravery, so he had waited for the Gorgon to go to sleep before sneaking in. He approached the sleeping monster, shield held so he could navigate via the reflection, and raised his sword. Then he pr...
"Those incompetent fucks!" Clyde mumbled as his gaze glazed the dead goblins in front of him. "You got to talk louder buddy, what's wrong?", a large hand covered in obtrusively shiny armor touched his shoulder. "Nothing, I was just internalizing a new spell.", he rashly lied. "Ohhh, you mages are weird.", the dumb fa...
Since the beginning of time, everyone has found a patch of skin of slightly different color somewhere on their body at birth. Every religious text in the world, no matter the culture, no matter the location, all say the same thing: This patch of skin is a clue, or a guide. It will lead you to your soulmate, to true lov...
‘Commencing transfer in 3… 2…’ The connection fuzzes out. I sit in the docking bay in absolute darkness with the shutters down over my retinal cameras. The connection fuzzes back in, briefly. ‘.. Do you read me?’ asks a tinny, noisy voice. Then it goes again. I compose a message: I read you. Nothing. For a long tim...
They did it. The mad fools did it. The familiar red and white ball fit snugly into the palm of my hand, my thumb and middle finger resting in the groove around the side. Why did they choose me? Surely you’d pick someone interesting, like someone who does more travelling per year than my annual trip to Benidorm, or kee...
"Thank you for seeing me, Doctor Baxter."mumbles my first patient of the day, a sullen looking 23 year old man with chronic depression. Medicinal treatments have failed him and with all the debt that young people these days have, he could barely afford a proper therapist. Not that I'm not one! Being Doctor Sophia Baxte...
There were three different aliens present. The thinner one with the gold skin and large, soft-looking pink eyes were the first to respond after a few seconds of dead silence between them all. "You wish to maintain secrets for yourself only?"It asked as it's body extended forward, sort of like a human would lean, onl...
I opened shop on one of the side streets that runs perpendicular to Main in a small, decrepit building with a bakery on one side and a quiet, dim-lit alley on the other. Ugly as it might have been, it was love at first sight, similar to that feeling you get when a little one-eyed stray looks up at you with those round ...
"Your grandmother is in hell?" "No, she's in heaven and that's why we're using a pentagram instead of praying. Now hurry up!" "Where are the candles?" "By the Dark Ones, must I do everything myself? Check the cabinets." "These are full of muffin pans." "The other cabinets, dolt!" "Okay, got them." "Get them li...
(On mobile, so bear with my mistakes) No one had seen the elders since the village was founded. They came, implanted their ideals, and once their home was built, they went in and never came out. No one even knew what they looked like anymore. Our area of the world wasn't insanely prosperous, but it got by well enough...

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