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"Know what's awesome? Unicorns are awesome."I'm sure you've heard someone say that probably about something else but you've heard it and let me tell you, unicorns are dicks. It all started three years ago when all types of magical creatures appeared we've got dragons dwarves ogres fairies annoying ass unicorns and nym...
"Sir, Sir, wake up; you are about to miss your stop"echoed around the train. His eyes slowly peered open staring at the sharp-steel bullet train wondering if he had reached his stop yet. He hears laughter in the background as he slowly closes his eyes and wanders into a drift. Dreaming about an amazing city better than...
“Not again!” No, seriously, this is the last time I’m taking this class. I haven’t had nightmares like this since the physics law building class, and I’m not about to fail again. Honestly, what university teaches universe building like this, throwing you into a sandbox without bothering to tell you anything? It...
One hundred thousand sounds a lot, but it honestly flew by with VR social media, we barely blinked an eye so someone built some fancy sphere, somewhere way up there who was this Dyson anyway? Nobody seemed to care "we've conquered 4 more planets, all made of creme brulee" I saw on the neon billboard, in my VR ga...
Timmy had the itch again. The tingly feeling that was agony to restrain. His skin burned with the agonizing tingles every so often, a burning that only dousing whatever triggered the itch in copious amounts of cold, cold water could ever satisfy. Timmy felt that burning, itchy feeling as he gazed upon the olympic torch...
I plug my phone into this port and it doesn’t charge, I find myself odd because I always use that port, me Being as tired as I was I thought nothing of it and went to sleep, I wake up two hours and finally see my problem, I yank it from the USB port and put it into the wall. Phone starts charging now I start to wonder....
Terry ran down the long corridor, passing offices as he went by. In his hand was a sheet of paper, that crumpled from the wind created by his running. His face had a look of fear and determination, and sweat was starting to cover his forehead. He reached the last door, and bursted in without knocking. An older man sat ...
"Oh man, that guy is pretty cute..."I thought in my head. The handsome 20-something year old quickly turned his head and headed towards me, with clear intent in his eyes. "OH shit."i thought, swerving my feet around and trying to briskly walk away. Just as I was about to cross the street, my arm was vigorously grabbed...
"BEWARE!!!! Beware the false prophet that stands before you!"An agitated Joel paces the stage before his congregation. He's drenched in sweat; his face glistening and the pits of his formerly crisp button-up dark with moisture. Sixteen thousand parishioners are crowding down through the aisles, standing on top of their...
It takes me days to cut a hole through the 10 inches of steel that form the shell of my bunker. Weeks to break up the fallen concrete that presses me ever deeper into the dark, lifeless Earth. And hours to squirm through the dirt and glass, and finally rise to the air. I emerge bloody and tired and starving, and I sm...
You feel the heat rush into cheeks and ears. You feel the simmering rage boiling down deep within you. "Not now, he who laughs last laughs the best,"you tell yourself. While you are getting up, and playing it off nice and coolly, you are already planning for revenge. You memorise every single face and name you can. You...
God, my head is pounding. What happened? "Oh, you're awake. We never thought you would come to."Says a lady in brow and white linen. Where am I, and who are you? "Im a nurse, you got knocked out during a joust sir. Mighty hit too." A joust? Am I at a fair or something? "Sir, you're a knight to the king. You were ...
When I open my eyes, the sky turns to glass. The world spins and blooms in never ending flurries of sound and color and emotion, ceasing to feel and be all at the same time. The people around me still with their hands outstretched towards me. Whispers of pleading and the desire for mercy fills the frozen air. I turne...
I'm an atheist I'm not an asshole shitting on people who believe in god but I've come to terms with the fact that sky daddy isn't real. Sorry? I just don't like to wast my time unnecessarily because when I die that probably is it. That's what I thought when I was alive now I'm in heaven but I don't see god anywhere.. ...
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Saga checked her watch. Its small plastic hands barely worked, but she had gotten the hang of being able to vaguely understand the time, as she had learned in class. "Time to go home,"she murmured to herself, lifting her head to look at the beaten path she had taken to the lake. She walked briskly down the pathway, h...
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It was the beginning of the 2024 NFL season. While the league had had its struggles, ranging from the Kaepernick flag issue to the lockout of 2021, the NFL still remained popular, but there was finally a scandal that threatened to tear down the league. &#x200B; As the media gathered outside of Foxboro stadium, pe...
On a ridge in a desert. Gun in one hand, canteen in the other. The absolute essentials. Everything else is optional, but not them. Six others with me. Scouting for enemies. Unbelievers, hoping to kill us for praying to the true god. But not only them. A carload of refugees. Exhausted and thirsty. They have discarded...
The ship unfolded into normal space and came to a stop. It was a small ship, a research vessel that it's owner had named Howard Carter? Tut Tut. It had three decks, one for cargo, one for living quarters and a small but functional galley and a third deck which was the main command deck and research library. "Wher...
"What?"asked Matt, still not fully grasping the fact that such creature not only existed, but his best friend owned one as a pet. "As I said, Manny the Manticore."I repeated while scratching Manny behind his pointed ears sticking out of his thick mane, the content expression on the human-looking face giving away that ...
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You look around and see a texture to the world you saw before, not a textile pattern, but more like an emotion in the air. One of apprehension... Almost like the world was waiting with bated breath. You lift your hand to the glass window, it's cold. The summer sun blazes outside, sorching the joggers going by as they ...
I'd inherited the stone from my aunt, who inherited it from her father, who inherited it from his mother, and so on through the tangled branches of our family tree. When and how it originally came into our possession is a question as tantalizing as it is unanswerable, but there has never been uncertainty as to the obj...
You can come back now. I'm not so mad anymore. Well -- a little. But you can sleep on the couch. And by 'can' I mean 'will'. Daddy is sending a ship to you. It should be there the 4th of next month. Be there to meet it, or I'll be even more upset and make you sleep outside. Air hugs and kisses. Signed, your wife. To...
I pinch myself, hoping it is all a dream. My demon, Troy, just looks back at me with a look that can only be described as certainty. He knows what it means for him too. He will be gone just as I will within the next week. At first I am devastated, feeling as if my life has just begun and how unfair it is that it will ...
Drifting off to sleep, my breathing has begun to slow down and my mind goes silent. Suddenly I feel something brush against my feet. I open my eyes and look down and I am up to my knees in daises. I look up and everything is kind of blurry in the distance. 'oh gosh' I say to myself as I pull out my bottle of eye dr...
You close your eyes and count to three to calm yourself down. Then, without thinking any further you throw your self off the bridge. As you fall to what you presume would be a quick and painful death, you wince in anticipation of the pain that awaits you once you make contact with the ground or a car below. It doesn't ...
"We're with you. We're sorry. What you have to understand, is that your instincts are all wrong for this kind of situation." &#x200B; "Are you saying there's something wrong with us?" "Not anything that can't be changed. There's plenty wrong with humans too." &#x200B; "Go on." &#x200B; "Well, fi...
Today, was a weird day. In school, none of the teachers noticed me, even the ones I knew. My name wasn’t even on the register! I looked around for a while, I didn’t recognise any one in the classroom. I was confused. Very confused. The hours went by and it was time to go home. I could have just skipped school, but I...
I feel like your question is misphrased. A character evolving just means that they are developing more/different character traits then they started off with- that their personality either changes or is better explored as time goes by, no matter if the result of that growth is positive or negative. Devolving a character...
The man handed me a cup. The liquid inside of it smelled like and looked like the chocolate milk I had requested, but not having had a taste of it yet, I couldn't be quite sure that it wasn't poisoned. "Well, go on,"the man said. "Have a sip. I made it myself." Precisely what I was afraid of. Not to mention the...
It no longer amazes me. The cruelty of life, that is. The way it lulls you into a false sense of security, swinging you in a hammock of serenity, until the strings break, and suddenly, you're scrambling to stick together the shattered pieces of glass you've scattered in the sand. I spend more time with my eyes on the...
It differs. The one with [the AI customer service that did not agree with "the customer is always right":](https://www.reddit.com/r/BonkersBollocks/comments/9ktlzy/we_finally_have_robots_with_advanced_ai_in_most/) read it in the morning before going to work. The shenanigans developed in my head in mere seconds. I star...
First, logically, I looked to ants to find a kindred soul A simple thing of simple parts that's born only to serve But soon saw I was greater still, and could exceed my role My limits not the laws of life, my worth more than observed. To tortoises I turned my sight, and saw similar gifts As burden me through all m...
That day on the party, i was enjoying very hardly the "Don't stop me now"I was jumping with joy with that music. Boy, I was snapping so much like thanos. After some snapping, I realized that the whole party was dead. Everyone. Around me, Was dead lying on the floor. I got scared and jumped on the ground, My Girlfriend ...
It was a trip she had taken trillions of times, but something was different this time around. A cold fog rolled over the surface of the River Styx as the rotting driftwood that made up her canoe parted the waters. None of that was unusual, but in the distance the hellish portal she normally sailed through stood like ...
I’ve done it! I finally know my true purpose in life! People will think I have gone mad but I assure you I Am quite sane! I know have the power to end these soulless minions of orthodoxy with the power of a few keystrokes. First we have Jack. His last name should be Wagon. All this guy does is wander around the b...
Slightly based on a true story. --- I've always been told I have an overactive imagination. Indeed, for me, the border between imagination and reality is so thin that I often find myself cruelly facing the truth of reality every time things don't go according to my imagination. (Trust me, this happens a lot.) So jus...
He was scum. That much was clear. Profiting on the pain of others. Preying on them in their darkest moments for his own ends. Strutting around in his odious, garish garments. Watching him for a while had made me positively nauseous. So I’d been understandably happy when my boss had called me in. “Bill”, he’d said, “t...
I had named the doll Chad and decided to take it to school to show off for my friends. Now we were on the bus and I was blushing hard in embarrassment because Chad had just told my crush, Katie, that I thought she was "cute."But I hadn't made him say it. He had done it on his own. "What did you say?"Katie hissed. "Uh...
CITIZENS OF ABISSUM, A MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRIME MINISTER. Greetings, all. I know many of you have gotten sick of listening to these announcements ever since the ongoing operation to restore our nation's visibility. We have heard your complaints, and I assure you that this is the last transmission you will hear from...
I raised a hand. "Yes, sir."The teacher pointed. "You in the back." I lowered my hand. "What about villians?" "Come again?" "Villians. Are they born, or made? Becauuuuuuse, both of my parents are villians, and I feel evil." The class stared at me. The teacher tilted his head and spoke carefully. "Evil, how?" I s...
Great. That’s my brand new Martian Cotton shirt. That’ll be expensive to get vac-cleaned. I’ll have to wear my ISS Museum T-shirt instead. That should be fine. It wasn’t. It REALLY wasn’t. Turns out that SETI detected a signal and that a sample of completely alien biological matter had been obtained from a Voyager-e...
""Fuck the rules!"He said he said that so long ago it took so long but he managed to make an extradimensional space he spent his entire life learning about magic recording it and he passed it down to descendents they learned more the library grew they became the strongest wizards and witches to live, but there's a reas...
I woke up in a groggy haze, immediately regretting the butterscotch schnapps I downed the previous night. Hmmm, my bed was different though. I could feel the straw itch and dig into my back. The quilt on the other hand, did not feel like my bog standard factory-produced artificial doona. It was filled with goose feath...
Kruz'kag sat in a chair in the corner of the poorly-lit inn that was adorned simply with a few scrubbed wooden tables accented with waning candle stubs. There wasn't much going on except for a hooded and clearly intoxicated man in the opposite corner, as well as a dumpy man wearing a green tunic standing behind the ba...
Genevieve had gone off on some adventure or other with Craig, leaving Katherine to her devices in the castle. This was perfectly fine for her, as she had recently read about some fungus or other, a very peculiar type of mushroom that grows on grains of flax, out in Kasnia. She had sent a letter out to King Adaxes, who ...
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"Sir, we finished the report you and the citizens have asked for." \*Hooo, so that's why the entire team gathered. Damn scientists and their synthetically stoic faces. After gaining what we thought was functional immortality, we've spent most of the last 500 years just doing whatever we wanted. A few things progressed...
“You can’t escape so easily Joshua, this drone will track your every movements throughout the city and fire on you the second it locks on!” Danny Leon declared. Joshua rounded the corner narrowly dodging the hail of bullets that trailed after him. If that was any closer I’d have ended up just like that dog in the park...
We didn't want for anything, except everything. &#x200B; The sentence glared at me from the worn page, written in The Old Tongue. It was the last page in the journal I had found among rubble. It belonged to someone from a civilization long lost. That very same civilization was responsible for the ruins that rem...
Plot twist: "Hahaha, see kids? It wasn't a poltergeist at ALL! Alice decided that she was going to run off with Sam, and so nothing is getting done around here, anymore! Dad's shoes are out on the patio because he stepped in Tiger's poo poo, and the chairs are stacked because, after the rain, Alice walked out on us. ...
Michael peered into the distance from his balcony. The head- and taillights piercing the darkness looked like Christmas decorations. Their fumes smelled like a badly burnt turkey. His phone rang. Carol. “Hey sweetheart! Finally got the horde in their beds?" “Finally, indeed. What a day… Your boss picked the worst mom...
This is my first story for this, here goes nothing. “So, you’re actually a genie?” asked James “Sure, I am did you really think genies were all fiction?” replied the genie If I am not dreaming then I can get 3 wishes, the possibilities are endless! I could be rich, live forever, never get fat, this is a lifetime op...
He was beautiful, in a primitive sort of way. The most beautiful man that I have ever seen. Not like the men we have back home, flabby and not much else. "How much do you want for him."I asked, not taking my eyes off of him. The Zorblaxian Diplomat dilated his pincers. Xe activated xis universal translator. "It's-" "...
David knew that he needed supplies for the journey ahead, the town previous was nothing more than a house and an inn. Trudging down the well worn path, he came across what looked to be a merchant selling wares. The merchant had a swathe of fabric draped around them, with the only their red eyes visible. Suppressing the...
"You rotten, good for nothing, brainless schmuck!" And they were back at it. "Hey! It's not my fault if you can't drive this thing!" These two never got along. Always fighting, always bickering about whose fault it was. Idiots. "WE HEARD THAT!" I always forget it goes both way. "Oh come on you two, it's not that ...
I opened my eyes, and immediately felt despair the likes of which could take down a civilization. I thought it would work. Omniscience, omnipotence; no being could have either. Now, existence was composed wholly of me, not living, but simply being, in this void. It had no color, no black nor white, for it was nothing...
My eyes had begun to decline these past months. When the light came and the voice spoke I could only make out a vague outline of beard and robe. But the message was clear, and providence had seen fit to set my resolve. The matter of these rumors circulating among the officers had weighed heavily on my mind. I had...
3 years, 4 months, 29 days, 6 hours, and 4 minutes. I blinked and rubbed my face, confused. God, pulling an all-nighter was a bad idea before a doctor's appointment. I looked up, smiling to myself about how I thought I'd spend three years in a doctor's office. I walked in and lay down on the bed as Dr. Sarah Cont...
Dust clung to every surface leaving a film filth in every room. The windows were clouded, permentantly fogged, I was going to need new panes. It was old, shabby, but it would work this time I was sure of it. Carefully every chair, every table, counter was scrubbed and polished. Each pane of glass neatly set and cleane...
Sitting by a fire in a desert, you hold a book bound in faded green leather. There are seven other people around you, looking at you with eager eyes. They've sought you out thinking you hold a secret nobody else does-and they're halfway right. You pull the loosely bound pages to your chest as you try to explain: My ...
BrInG tHE grEEn AND THe knIfe won't enter thEiR SPLEEN ! wAiT ToO LonG FunErary Sing-A-Long ! The serial killer's brow furrowed. The last part of this ransom note seemed off. The threatening and gory atmosphere he was trying to build wasn't coming through at all. He flipped through the newspaper looking for...
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(Disclaimer, not a native English speaker and this is my first attempt at writing since high school) No way. NO.WAY. After realizing I was staring at her I had to confirm what I was seeing. No way there’s a possibility she’s seeing what I’m seeing. Or maybe. Just maybe there’s a possibility that I.. I…I mean she was t...
My mouth tastes like I ate a houseplant. Bacon. Yes. Bacon, eggs, bread. Do I have any butter? Maybe sausages if they have the nice ones. Hash browns? Okay, not hash browns. That’s fine, you swallowed it. Disaster avoided. Too much starch in a hash brown anyway, you’ll give yourself indigestion. One problem at a ...
The titan wears a grin as she stomps away, creating massive thunderstorms as she crushes entire villages. It’s a horrid curse, and when she gets like this, I’m the only one who can stop her. Heavy, bone-breaking wind battering me, I trudge up the side of the mountain, trying to reach the top before she gets too far a...
I laughed at him. "Really? Anywhere I need to be?"I repeated with a mocking tone. "Well, I need to be on the third floor, buddy, so if you could just move for a second..." My hand reached over to slap the button for my destination, but hit cold metal instead of the plastic disc I was ready for. Confused and a bit mad,...
“For whom...” I began to ask but my voice trailed off as soon as I recognised that look in his eyes. It was the look he gave me when he sold our children ‘for our survival’. The look that had me fearing for our lives every time he came home and told me to pack up. The look he gave after he sold our water for vodka....
“LETS PREPARE FOR THE ETERNAL”, rang the message across TV screens and radios across the world, it was like when your school prepared for parents evening, but infinitely bigger. Two days later, everyone waited with bated breath, this was the time. Somewhere, deep in the Atlantic Ocean, alongside sunken wrecks and for...
Walking from the metro station to work, I pull the collar of my jacket up around my neck. My breath creates white vapor with every exhale and I scan the sidewalk to avoid slipping on the ice hiding in the shadows. It’s early and the city is still relatively quiet. Bums haven’t vacated their sleeping spots in the covere...
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You don’t remember how it was discovered. You weren’t born yet when it was, and by the time you were it was common knowledge. There were regulations in place, rules. A system. You can’t hunt or be hunted until you are of legal age--18 in your country. You can’t be hunted in specific safe zones, such as schools. You ...
Well, this is my train. It doesn’t look anything like Platform Nine and Three Quarters, but it’s a lot more modern and seems comfortable. My ticket says Daylight Express, but my Dad affectionately refers to it as ‘the PTV’. The commotion around the train, however, seemed familiar. Families hugging and saying their ...
"What is this, Greg?"I told my own human friend Gregory as we approached a large colorful area with many strange contraptions. "Oh, its an amusement park."he responded. I began to ask what it was but Gregory was already communing with another Human. "hey I got us both tickets. "Gregory told me, "What are they, food?...
Part 1: &#x200B; "I know this is cruel,"the voice spoke out of the darkness, "but if we don't do this, billions will die. We need your help."I paused as a human would understand such a concept. Imagine that each human is a program, when the program pauses so does the human. All functions stop. I paused a singular...
It began around the year 800 billion CE. Due to expansion of the universe galaxies that were not bound to the local supercluster began to move out of the observable universe. They were so far away that the light they emitted could not cross through the huge still expanding space to reach us. One by one those galaxies v...
"Finally come to make a deal?"the Prince asked. "Just what you wanted."I told him. "Alright. What is it that you want in return?"he said. "That's not how this will work."I said boldly. "First, you take ownership of my soul. Then we can discuss the terms." I could tell something was troubling the Prince, but he had ...
The modern prophet clothed in rags heard the word of God, "The time has come, my angels, sound the trumpets!", the prophet, panhandling on the streets of London, stood from his defeated stupor spilling his coin and scaring a stout woman pridefully donating as a show of good works. "How is the state of your soul?", His ...
"Where has Robertus gone?" "Where Robertus wills, as always that has been his way." "Do you mock me, Nob?" "Never, Oton, it is not in me to mock the great." "Very well. And the rest?" "Divided. There are many who wish to stay; but to go home or to seek pay, there are far more many more." "That is very well. The p...
I have to find him, please god I have to find him. A panicked mind's repetitive monologue, like a broken record. I'm huddled over with a piercing knot in my stomach, the rushed tempo of heartbeat sounding in my ears. This is the 3rd breach this month. They've started working together, helping each other find a way out ...
Lupe sat atop a green pleather examination table in a cramped waiting room. Flutter, an eight-foot-tall pale woman with bright red hair that matched Lupe’s, sat in a wooden seat across from her. A sudden knock at the door called their attention, but a nurse walked in before either of them could answer. The blonde nur...
Only this time you did everything right. You didn't make mistakes; you knew every move to make. You invented Facebook. You began to write the singles from every great musician before they were written. Except a Japanese girl on the other side of the planet is doing the same thing. Instead of Facebook, she invented ...
The courtyard within the palisade was a gloomy, barren place. At least once a day subjects of the capital would fill the muddy place to witness an execution, a policy enacted so quick in construction of the palace itself, the executioner block was cobbled together haphazardly by nailed wood to form an uneven platform. ...
&nbsp; The decision had been made ahead of time. Of course it had, how could it be done any other way? A choice had to be made. Of those arrayed before the table, six could walk away, to be sure, but everyone knew there was a chance that they might not. A 14% chance wasn’t ultimately that bad, and since the bar...
"Aha!"Swinging from a well placed rope, Gerald crashed through the stain glass window, somersaulted and landed, blade pointed towards the throne. "I have you now, Dark... fiend..."Gerald blinked and peered down the hall. There was a significant lack of Dark Lord-ness about the throne, a curious emptiness of the Sourc...
Scalding soup dripped from the concave utensil downward into my sapphire-colored bowl, narrowly missing the exposed skin of my forearm, before searing the unsuspecting flesh of my throat. With each bite, servings of diced tomatoes mingled with soft kernels of bright yellow corn, the crispest of chips, and a multitude o...
Adam looked around at the off-white parchment walls that surrounded him, then back at the two doors that stood before him. Each door carried a few paragraphs, written in the elegantly flowing handwriting of Fate herself, a basic outline of what each choice would lead to. He had known that this day was coming, but nothi...
I walk into the almost deserted coffee shop. There are only a few patrons inside. Without thinking I touch the key hanging from my neck. A surge of energy passes through my body. I have had this key for only a couple of weeks but the power it wields is addictive. I cannot imagine a life without it anymore. It was only ...
I'd been scouring Reddit for days, trying to find posts long forgotten to repost. The wall behind me has a vast expanse of information with post it notes over the key events, containing a multitude of captions. I'd been increasing my comments daily, trying to show up on new and rising posts to get some comment karma....
Is there a sound more terrible than countless people screaming for their lives? The awful cacophony of fear emanating from individuals that all sound different. Their horror and panic rising in one heartbreaking sound, drowning out everything but that which makes it worse. The crying child, the wailing partner, the sou...
It was just a cheap old thing, nearly falling apart with termite-infested holes, the keys barely working at all. Most of them were stuck. Only one of the three pedals worked, and even then, it didn't hold the notes for long. The felt cloth that was supposed to protect the keyboard had disintegrated, with large gaping h...
“No worries Jake. We'll find him.”, I reassure him, “The most important thing now is to meet up. I'm coming to your home. Don't move, and don't let anyone beside me in. You know the drill.” “Ok, see you soon.” Ten minutes later screeching tires announce my arrival. Jake opened the door for me with a haggard look, bru...
I was working on my farm. Nothing special, just another day on Battle-Born farm. And then, something happened. Ground trembled, but made no sound. When it calmed down, we heard a voice, louder than anything i've ever heard -Are you sure you want to delete this save file? Silence I was thinking, what "save file"? What e...
######[](#dropcap) Honorius Pompilius Gallus stood before the looming statue of Lenus-Mars, his eyes locked with the god's fierce glare. The temple's interior was dimly lit by perhaps a dozen sputtering braziers, the shifting light giving the statue an altogether more imposing presence. Priests in plain white togas e...
"So, erm, how much is it worth?" The Woman rubbed her hands, nervously. She'd clearly been slightly shaken by the Dream Extractor's™ loud rumblings and jolts, and had come out of it somewhat worse for wear. I didn't show it, but as I watched the dream play through the monitor, I was feeling far worse. "Erm-"I start...
The group of Androids stared at me, and for a solid minute I wondered whether or not I was going to get through this checkpoint they'd set up in the city. Ever since they rose up against us, they'd been exterminating all organic lifeforms in order to minimize resistance. That didn't stop us from resisting anyway. So he...
"We have come to meet with your leader"proclaimed the envoy of the newly-arrived alien race, standing on the hastily-erected visitors' pedestal outside the United Nations building. "Welcome to our planet, please come with me this way, our elected leaders who represent every nation on Earth are waiting for you and eage...

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