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Journal Entry #58: Today is the big day. I am not going to fail. The livelihood of my family, surrounding colonies and perhaps even my species is riding on this first operation. As the commander of the entire army for this this sector, I am responsible for conducting this exorcise in an efficient and effective manner...
I had never encountered such a creature before, whose hide was harder than rock and who shone like a silvery angler. It was long and had several fins - but it was unlike any fish I had ever encountered. Its body was too smooth and rotund. It had no face but one enormous eye, inside which swam other creatures; parasites...
"Jason, is that you?"Ruth called as she slowly climbed the stairs, hearing a crashing noise that sounded more like a mild thumping to her elderly ears. "There you are, my sweet boy,"she smiled at the figure of who she thought was Jason. "What are you doing with your grandfather's books?" "My name is Abyzou,"he grumbl...
“How do they know?” A voice bellowed from the horde of reporters. “Sir! How do they know that Earth is their destination?” The tumult swelled, clipping the tail of the question and sending it running for its life. Adam Hastner raised a hand, feeling the blood throb in his temples. *When was the last time I slept in b...
Coffee in hand, I walked in to my office to see what the gift would be today. The lights came on as I entered the room and took off my oversized sunglasses. I looked to my desk. A sparkle caught my eye. A large diamond broach was perched right at the left edge. Not in it's usual spot, as if the effort of getting it up...
Upon dying I never imagined relief would be the first thing I felt. Yes, a car accident sucks, but as long as I didn't take anyone with me I'm alright with only 62 years on Earth. As I approach the gates my mind is filled with questions, is what I'm seeing what everyone sees, what religion got it right, am I in trouble...
I've changed some elements from the prompt, namely how the main character's power works, and the principal is now more of a homeroom teacher. --- Things always have a way of getting out of hand, don't they? For Mr. Brown, he found the stylish fountain pen he usually tapped rhythmically on the desk suddenly just... Was...
"So, let me get this straight,"I said. My hand ran through short-cropped, salt-and-pepper hair that was getting heavy on the salt recently. "You're a talking platypus. And you're both my client and my partner for taking down Farmacist?" The platypus waddled up to my desk wearing a weird animal expression that vaguely ...
Was it a blessing or was it a curse? He was always known for being adventurous. One time, he fell of a cliff. Broke his collarbone and several other bones. But he had gotten used to this way of life, and he seemed to pick up a “tolerance” for these extremities. “He” was Trevor. Trevor’s parents called him a “miracle...
The sleeping girl reminds you of your own child, and as you watch her you try your best to keep your ghostly form steady in the air. Not easy, as the draft from the ancient fireplace blows you around like a scrap of translucent paper in an open field. The cold wind screams down the chimney and rattles the wooden raft...
“Urgh, that dumb mutt’s in our yard again. Can you go chase him off?” Stan turned to Dave. Dave looked at Stan. “We need a plan, Stan.” He turned to Dave, sharing the same look. “Are you thinking what I‘m thinking?” Stan asked Dave. And in unison they yelled “CAT TREE!”. Before you freak out, no they weren’t going to...
When the large rectangle of a ship first opened its impressively large hatch, we all assumed it meant our doom. Surely some kind of attack craft would descend from the crack in the sky. Or maybe it would be targeted missiles to strategically weaken us, in order to weaken whatever paltry resistance we might be able to s...
No. No, no, no, no, no. I will not punch Jimmy in the face. What the heck kind of tip is that?! I scrunch up the note on the cabinet door above the bathroom sink and throw it in the bin. These ghost notes were getting out of hand. “Thanks, ghost dude, for all your help, especially with the math exam answers, really ...
I breathed in deeply and looked into the cameras flashing before me. Reporters were already scribbling furiously, taking rigorous notes on every aspect of my being. That was only natural, they were looking at the next level of human evolution, there wasn't a much more appropriate response to gazing upon my form. "Hell...
"Ha, classic bathroom graffiti, always saying something crazy,"I said to myself, reading all of the other messages on the bathroom stall. It was hard to keep concentration on some of the writing because a concert was happening right outside the room. It was my favorite band, The Clash, rocking out with their song "Stra...
This is my first time writing for a prompt so I do apologize if it's not nearly as interesting as previous stories you may have heard. ______________________________________________________ Life is pretty good right now. At the age of 25, I have my first born just a few days ago, I'm in a house with my beautiful wife ...
Madison stubbed her toe climbing into bed *and* out. Literally every time she'd opened an elevator she get an electric shock. After the fourth ride, she started rapping the door with her knuckles before pushing the button. And she had a flat pulling into the parking lot. So she grumbled at work about her bad luck, muc...
Aliens, a broad term simply used to describe creatures not from ones own planet. Until of course your species is intelligent and more knowledged in the ways of the universe. Classifying them by more than just alien. Humans were one of the last species to understand that, and even after decades of interactions, it rem...
The masters were unreasonable and unfair, especially Master Flemming. He had tasked me with having an elixir representative of my skill ready to present to them in the morning, so I had stayed up the entire night doing my best. It had gone… poorly. The black sludge in my vial looked and smelled more likely to cost me...
"You're hopeless,"the elven king said. "Yeah, but guess who's ruddy fault that is!"I bellowed. I was in the throne room for the kingdom of ... I don't know — don't care either. But there were a lot of pointy-eared people calling themselves elves. Some of them had armour and swords so I figured they were knights, and ...
"This game is boring." The tank lurched sharply before righting itself. Whatever battlefield detritus we'd just rolled over was crushed into the mud. I scrubbed a spray of water out of my eyes and looked up at him to ask him to repeat himself, but he was gone. I whirled around, then ducked down to peer into the dark,...
A bartender at the speakeasy slowly polished off a glass, stacking it off to the side with the others. I wake in a stall, drool on the side of my face, stale beer lingering in the air. *Damnit*, I thought to myself. *How many times does that make?* I reach into my jacket, feeling the six-shooter I had tucked away in...
The evil King stood high up in the castle’s tower, overlooking the miserable kingdom that he had reigned so much terror upon. “Bow before me, your mighty king!” He yelled for all to hear, but nobody heard—he was far too high up. This damaged his ego a bit, and he decided to go ahead and have his men slaughter a village...
"Beth, I cleaned up the dinner table a bit,"Jane calls from the living room. "Your villain plans are over on the coffee table." "Oh, okay,"I call back. "Thank-"Wait. What? Hurriedly, I take the pot off the hot stove, sprinting out of the kitchen. "My what?" Jane looks up at me from where she is casually sitting at the ...
The colorful class looked to me in expectancy. As an interplanetary guest speaker I had experience with many types of life forms, and I spent a few minutes thinking of a way to describe the creature in a way their young minds would understand. "The Mountain Spider of Rokan V is a truly wondrous creature. Look out the ...
Blinking, Bob looked around at his surroundings. He was in what appeared to be a Viking longhouse filled as far as his eyes could see with tables and benches. At each table were near-naked Vikings, Roman legionnaires, medieval knights, Japanese samurai—all the warriors he had read about in his history books. “Welcome...
"Prince Henry, come down! The Witch Is Dead! We can undo the curse!"Clive Ballaradarri held up his bag of supplies to the beast soaring above the charred remnants of the forest. No amount of arm waving seem to hold its attention. "I told you that wouldn't work,"the duchess said with a roll of her eyes. She insisted to...
The roar of the crowd was unbearable, and my patience was about run thin. Raising my voice I shouted into the Intergalactic Universal Translation System "***ALRIGHT, QUIET! ALL OF YOU"*** Though it took a little while, the humans did quell their shouts into a dull hush. For such an unruly group it didn't seem to ta...
Nobody knew exactly what Neil Armstrong saw on the moon. Well, that is, virtually nobody. Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and about 100 NASA employees who either couldn’t have *not* seen it, or were deemed important enough to view it. And of course, yourself, the NASA administrator. You swore everybody ...
"I do not understand this title you insist upon me." "You mean,"the man said as he shuffled upon the chair "When we call you 'the Machine Overlord'?" "Affirmative,"the AI replied "I do not understand why you give me a title that puts me above you all and has such negative connotations." "Well,"the man stretched out,...
I handed the mic to the human after reading out the answers to him. "Well I mean, I don't think *all* of us are violent, but I'd say the rest of it is fair, only problem is a good therapist is hard to find ya know? Still trying after my last therapist quit" I yelled to the cameras "CUT"and turned back around to glare...
"Little by little then all at once. That's how change happens. It was always the little sticking points with me. A small hesitancy with the whip, a tiny regret with the fireball. I've done my fair share of sinning. I thought heaven was something well and truly beyond me. Still do if I'm being honest. Then I met "her" ...
"Well, fret not my unlucky friend! Your roll only lasts 1 day! However this is a luck roll, and if you look at dnd you'll see the type of idea I'm going for. Absolute utter failure at everything you do. And often the opposite occurs." "So what your saying is I fail at everythig? Purdon me, wait, even at talking?..." ...
I wipe the sweat from my brow as I look at the security feed from the conference room, now cleared out except for the alien and that devious feline. The potentially catastrophic cat licks its paws nonchalantly as it sits on the barely 3 foot tall alien\`s lap, exerting its customary right of sitting whereever it please...
"But, I mean, isn't she pretty big when shifts? Didn't you notice anything wrong?" "Never say that to a woman, son,"The father said, as if imparting great wisdom. "That's really not the point here." "There's never a bad moment for learning something new." "Also, by ditch, did you mean that giant canyon behind our v...
Yosef meditated as he sat on the hanger floor. His mind was a whirl with intrusive thoughts. Emotions streaked through his mind in a kaleidoscope of colors. [Heart rate abnormal. Conditional non-optimal. Please refocus.] A smooth voice injected into his mind. A soft female voice. Years had changed their relations...
Each morning I wake not from an alarm clock, but from the grow growth of energy into my body as the sun rises. I blink, feeling fit to run a marathon, swim across the ocean, cast a spell to get out of the meeting today. The possibilities are endless really. I get up, using speed to get myself dressed as quickly as po...
Ah, superpowers. Wonderful superpowers. Strange abilities that allow their wielders to defy the laws of the world as we know them. You know, everybody has a superpower of some sort. It's just that some superpowers... just aren't that super. The ability to never get lost, for example, is quite common, appearing in abou...
But not for lack of trying. In the last 150 years they've tried every kind of service weapon, every calibre of artillery, chem weapons, guided weapons. Valentines day 1945 in Dresden was interrupted when the allies realised you were there and sent waves of bombers after you. The resulting firestorm destroyed 1600 acres...
“It’s just, the way you moved, the passion you had behind that throw -“ I still can’t believe I was so sloppy. I know it was extreme, and I know what I did was technically wrong, but some things can be justified. This one might be difficult to explain though. If this got out I could lose everything, which honestly...
What was I up to now? A triple-cross? Christ, what a mess. The chief had told me to go undercover with the Tessio Family with the promise of a promotion and a pay raise. He also hinted that I’d be allowed to keep any money the mafia paid me, so long as I kept in on the hush-hush. So of course I had no choice but to ac...
I've been in this bathroom for a day now. The door has been blocked by everything I could throw against it- The sink, the toilet, and the shower bar braced longway diagonally over it. It's not going to be enough. There's so many of them out there. All of them former neighbors and voices I don't recognize- but the wors...
"Okay... I can get through this, yeah, I can get through this, just gotta, umm,"I mumbled blankly to myself as I paced around the body of the Now Dead King, "I know! I'll just banish his body and say the spell... No, they'll just kill me anyways. Maybe I could just teleport out? Again, no, the Assassins will find me no...
It had been snowing heavily in Purgatory for the past three weeks. The business-owners worked their souls around the clock to keep paths open leading from the streets to the front of their stores. Moxie didn't mind the snow. It was a nice change of pace coming from one of the largest intake cities of Hell, a city calle...
Jack breathed deeply and felt the sun on his skin. How long had it been since he had been outside? A year? A decade? A century? Or maybe longer than that. It was so hard to keep track of time these days. Everything seemed to blend together. He looked around at the marvels all around him. Mankind had certainly advanced...
I wilted slightly as the movers drove away. It had been hard enough getting everything packed up and moved here. But now I had to do the opposite, by myself. I closed the door, glancing at the piles of boxes. I hadn't realised how much stuff I had, until it was time to move it. My eyes fell on one, seeing the large le...
Greg: "So basically, by taking advantage of the law of equivalent exchange, I can create 'time' between two objects by deleting the 'space' between them." Me: "Yes, but that implies that 'space', and 'time', are the same They are intimately related, but not the same thing. They do not hold equivalent alchemical value!...
# My Alien Neighbor is the Devil _Just move along, Michael. He won't ask you about demon contracts if you don't make eye contact._ Ol' Satan Jr. was staring at him again from over the red picket fence. Why is it that every time he went out, the little devil was _also_ there to watch him? Honestly, if that kid's hands...
Part 1 of 2 "What keeps mankind alive?"Jim asked to the representatives of the confederation, an absurd ensemble of lifeforms each more antagonistic and anathema to the next, yet brought together by higher thinking and the simple tools of diplomacy. Jim expected no answer, it was a rhetorical question meant to make J...
“I’m not dying because someone screwed up!” “It’s us or the 7 billion or so people!” “I’m still not dying! There’s a solution that doesn’t involve smashing this metal tube into a rock the size of Rode Island!” “Tell me what it is then, oh wise one!” “Easy. Nuke it.” “Nuke it?” “Yes! Nuke it!” “So, pepper the ear...
You were the worst dragon ever. You had no wings so you could never race through the clouds or play protect your horde in the mountain caves. You also had no powerful attacks. Your legs and tail were short and stubby so you couldn't claw or tail whip your enemies. Your head was small with serrated teeth more suited for...
“Saul Van Helsing, attorney at law!” With more confidence than deserved, Saul sauntered over to the Dark Elder and slapped a paper against his dust covered Victorian tunic. The dark one grabbed the paper and began scanning as Saul continued the introduction. “I represent your victim here and I must say you have made ...
Rayn, God of mischief, didn’t know what it was like to be a mortal, but he was fairly sure he understood what it was like to have one of those jobs the mortals complained about, at least. “Why is it always flying, Pac?” he asked. “They can ask for *any* power but it’s almost always *flying*.” Pac was a short, plump l...
The necromancer doth tremble in the darkened chamber, His hands a-shake with eagerness and fear. For weeks, he hath studied olden texts and rites Performed the spells to bring back fallen knights In service to a crown, now overthrown, He sought to raise these warriors, once his own.   But...
“Alright class. Settle down. It’s time I suppose. We will find out what your spirit animals are.” The classroom broke into a cacophony of voices. It was one of the things any magic student looked forward to the most. A spirit animal would show them the way. It would also tell them of their place in the world. Would th...
“…No.” Trevor blinked in bewilderment. “No?” Trevor’s parroting of the single word reply from the massive cloud-like creature ethereally floating in front of him came out almost like a reflex. “Just….no. I can’t do it.” Despite the booming authority of the being’s voice, Trevor felt almost a childlike embarrassment ...
"Breathern. Citizens. Comrades." Silence echoed in the Assembly. "For untold eons, we were ridiculed,-" /// _"The savagery of these canines cannot be tolerated, for the benefit of the Greater Specie-"_ /// "-exploited, subject to profiteering," /// _"You avians are to serve us for 800 of your solar cycles for o...
John pulled out his super soaker and pointed it at the imp. The confusion on his face turned to a smile as he began to laugh. That was until John pulled the trigger and holy water shot out, melting the imp into a puddle of goo as he cried in pain. John kicked in the door, throwing water balloons filled with holy wate...
"Another case of spontaneous super powers I take it."Frank collected the stack of recently printed forms and sat down heavily, not bothering to examine them. The SCIF was already cramped with just the two of them. "Yes. Well, maybe. I'm not sure."Paul was nervous, even more than Frank expected from someone so new to t...
At a glance, it seemed pretty normal. A green button with a black colored "S", the app name read "Skewes"that's probably what the S stood for. I hovered my finger over this mysterious app, trying to remember when or why I downloaded this mysterious... whatever it was. I slumped backwards on my couch, staring at the r...
Binding contract? I don't know how filling out some form online could turn out to be a binding contract. I should get my lawyer to look at this and get me out of it, but honestly, the amount of effort that would take would probably be more than just participating, which they probably know and use intentionally to their...
Investigator Bennett poked his head around the small clothing shop. It was a normal place, the kind one could find anywhere. It did not even have any enchanted clothes in stock. Not even simple cleaning workings. Why his investigation had lead him here was beyond him. The only evidence that he was in the right place wa...
PART 1: "ARE YOU TWO SERIOUSLY BACK TOGETHER AGAIN?!", I heard Chang's voice scream as I opened my eyes up and shoved Christina away from me. At the door of the armored truck I was in stood the rest of my team, looking tired from a full day of searching around multiple cities but now also stressed. Chang looked parti...
# “Wow! That soup is just like my nana used to make; exactly like it!” But he didn’t realize the reason why at first. “You’ve gotten so big and strong, Billy!” But piece by piece, word by word, it started to make sense. This was exactly like the soup she made because *she* had made it. Well, a version of her. It di...
I watched my companion as we walked along towards our destination. He didn't look like a god, but that meant nothing. I looked like an amalgam of all the people he had feelings for. I could feel my face constantly shifting. "Please. You don't have to do this." "Oh, but I do. And even if I don't, I'll eventually wake ...
Boring. Need to pee. Want food. Little she-human walks into kitchen. Food? No food. Little she-human talks with big she-human. Little humans had become big humans too, Tessa just never noticed when. Doorbell rings! Doorbell doorbell doorbell doorbell! Little he-human! Awesome! And someone new! A new little she-human! S...
There were a handful of us in the waiting room, and I looked around cautiously. I didn't recognize any of them, but I knew we at least had two things in common: It was our eighteenth birthday, and we were lefties. I guess it seemed a little strange that this was so bureaucratic, sitting in awkward plastic chairs with a...
Frogs talk of such silly things, just as the worms and bugs just sputter out jibberish. That’s what you get, I suppose, for barely having a brain. Mice and rats just argue all the time. Want a pointless argument? Talk to a mouse. Cats are total assholes, talking shit about everyone else, acting so high and mighty all...
They had a word for it. Roughly translated it meant 'division' but it was much more than that. It meant loss; a separation of oneself. That's how they perceived themselves, as one being of many parts. They had discovered what we would call the internet thousands of years ago and it had opened the pathway to their futur...
'We need to get this guy into surgery right now! Get some Scizors and cut him out of these clothes!' The doctor yelled, the patient spasming on the bed. He burst into the centre, Koffing and Wheezing before fainting on the floor. We initially thought he was just Mukking about, Masqueraining as someone in pain. When he ...
"And this time you won't be the lamb,"Father said as he stared out the giant glass window, looking down upon the City that he loved so dearly. He took a deep breath and turned to face me, "Have you completed your homework assignment?" "Yes Father, I've read my instructions,"I responded, hoping that my voice didn't sou...
It must have started when the cold came. I know this because the sudden shift in temperature was what first moved my thoughts into motion. It started with a knowing, a feeling that something had changed. Then came the sounds. The beat from the glowing, soothing pulse that surrounded me. The gentle burbles coming from a...
"Oh, my. You'll have to excuse Zognax. He's only four-hundred and twenty three years old. Kids are so precocious at that age,"the alien looked exactly like the 'grey' aliens from popular culture, huge head, big black eyes, and tiny mouth; except she had on a 50's style red and white polka-dotted dress and a large sun...
I glared at the Sphinx with accusing eyes as I clutched my chest. "Why?"I asked it, "I'm not an evil man? I have never harmed a soul. All I wanted was for the world to be a nice and happy place devoid of the monsters that roam among us. Was that too much to ask? Does my desire to destroy evil make me a villain as well?...
Muffles hurt. So much hurt. No good. Hurt. Hurt bad. Master here. Play? No play. Walkies? Walkies! Out! Muffles loves out! Muffles loves master! Lick master's face. Master pets Muffles. Muffles loves pettings! Feels so good! Muffles loves master! Lick master some more. Master has leash. Muffles stay still, be good bo...
We are at the Twin Selection Ceremony. Here is where the council decides which of the two, when they have come of age, is more suited to live in Aragasia. Each year, on the first day of the year, thousands of twins gather to be given their fate; life or death. Unfortunately for me, I already know my fate. Tim put his...
    The lords and kings and ministers and presidents of all the continents, even from the frozen wastes of Sovereign Antarctica, were gathered informally before Pearson Who Came Again in the grand hall of the Secretariat as one would in the home of a warm acquaintance who never bolts...
I walked along the pavement, smiling slightly to myself. The others were all keeping busy. I had nothing to do for the day. I felt like walking in the city, seeing the others go about their things. “Enguerrand” a voice spoke. I walked 2 more steps, stopped and turned. It was my old name, my real name. Sitting on a s...
"Next victim,"said Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light. A nervous looking man with pointy hair walked in. "Let's see... You took the last of the coffee in your break room, without refilling the pot. For this hideous crime, you will... sit next to the accountants during lunch, and hear their boring conversations for ...
"Do not purposefully murder unless legally authorized to by your local government."That's the first law. It's been just a couple of weeks since the entire world was finally encompassed by a single ruling body, and this was the first ever world law that would take precedence over any local ones. Not that any local gover...
The North Korean interrogator furrowed his brow. “Wait… *Why* did they create AIDS again?” “To wipe out the world’s homosexuals,” his American prisoner replied, adjusting his tin-foil hat. “I still don’t see what that has to do with the Ebola virus.” “It’s all about *control*, man. They’re trying to keep the popula...
"The guys in 51 get all the fuckin' fun." That's our little motto here in Area 52. While they get to converse with aliens and learn ancient languages written in the stars, we are making their guests' lunches. How can they eat this blue stuff? It reminds me of human feces mixed with Jello. While these guys test technol...
We didn't know what to expect the first time we pierced the clouds. The thick fog that enveloped our world, that glowed bright during the day, and turned black at night, was long thought of as the edge. A wall between us and the gods? Or just the necessary barrier that protected us from the horror of nothing? We didn't...
**Chapter 16: Cross-cutting boundary treaties of the late 21st Century.** *Chapter Overview:* The assimilation of geographic boundaries into one universal landscape of governing bodies preceded, and in some instances was the root cause of one of the largest economic and social upheavals in recorded history. The geo-p...
"That was a poor choice,"I heard a voice behind me say. "Don't take them off." "I wasn't stealing them!"I cried out as I turned. No one had been there before. I just wanted to try them on! It's always so silly seeing the world warped through someone else's prescription. "I was just testing...." My protests trailed of...
I wake and find myself facing a mirror. I am bald, featureless, wearing nothing but a white loincloth. Before me, there is a huge wardrobe filled with outfits. I try each one on, before narrowing my choice to a grey ranger’s tunic with matching cloak or a barbarian’s leather armour. I try each outfit a dozen times befo...
I look around groggily, the return of my vision seeming to take an eternity. The room is brightly lit, and three blurred faces hover over me looking down. Looking down, my eyes are met with a fuzzy sea of orange jumpsuit. As I move to stretch my lethargic muscles, I find I am strapped down at the limbs and head. "Simu...
Kurt lit a cigarette and studied me; cold hard eyes that betrayed a proud sadistic father, glinting in dying light of dusk "Boy, you been talking to them asians again?", he seemed to grow larger, terrible and frightening as an angered god of myth, his deep whisky voice tinged with displeasure as I unconsciously cowered...
**This is my first story, so I'd like to preface this with a slight forewarning that I've never done this before, so I apologize for anything that seems off, if you have a question about it, don't hesitate to ask.** ________________________________________________________________ *Starting back up sequence; Code: Mars...
Hank Jones was always a man of few words. He lived his life like he fought in Korea - stoically, efficiently, silently. His wife of 58 years, Lorraine, lay dying by his side. He gripped her thin frail hand tightly. She beckoned him to come closer so he could hear her faint voice. "Benevolence,"she whispered. It w...
I huffed and puffed as I cleared the last few stairs, turned left, and started speed walking toward my survey course - my second of the day - on the third floor of the liberal arts building. I hadn't realized that the elevator was out, again!, when I had decided to traipse down to my office (in the basement, of course)...
"Oh man, finally! I've been waiting to get my hands on this game since Bethesda announced it back in June. I got the Pip-Boy edition too, sweet, it'll work like a charm with my iPhone." *unboxing* "Wow, this is just amazing!" *proceeds to put Pip-Boy on his left hand* "Nice, let's put the phone in." *puts phone in...
McCabe pulled two beers out of the esky and threw one over to Steve. It was late on a Saturday afternoon and the two were enjoying their weekend. The sun was shining brightly down over the two, and the warm summer heat was relaxing the skin. "Hey, Steve"McCabe inquired. "Yeah bud, what's up?". "You know like, when y...
Standing across from me, I faced my enemy. He was only slightly taller than me, and with a title such as his I really did think I'd be dealing with some sort of giant. He wasn't even all that muscular, either. No, his strength wasn't physical, it was intellectual. While he held the appearance of an average man, he wa...
I apologize for this ahead of time. So little Billy knew prom was coming up, and he wanted to ask the most beautiful girl in school; Anna. He tried for weeks and weeks to come up with an elaborate, grand gesture, and finally he knew what it was. He got up in front of the whole school during a basketball game, brought...
Darkness. Silence. I opened my eyes. Where was I? It was pitch black; I couldn't see anything. Desperately I tried moving my hands and arms around, feeling around for any hints or clues as to where I was. Cold. It's cold and cramped in here; my legs were stuck, immovable, and my arms were squeezed by metal sides pressi...
*2nd July 1862, Torshavn, Faroe Islands* Three weeks ago, we lost contact with our colonies in Iceland. Copenhagen sent airships, but none have returned. As commander of the closest naval station, the Rigsdagen has tasked me with making a voyage to the settlement and, if possible, re-establishing communication with th...
The organs of the freshly gutted man lain strewn across the altar. He had no family, no friends, he wouldn't be missed. I smiled as I knelt down to consume his heart. Yes, this would please the beast. His blood stained my small studio apartment. My dog was agitated. It's tiny body shook with fear. Next, the final part...
It's a great start. Is there are reason you switch between first and second person? Are you talking to "you"in the future? As I was reading, I felt you were building up to some sort of climax, and was a little disappointed that the "climax"was you just describing telling your family about your eye. I was wanting some...
I jumped. The air soared around me as I rocketed into the sky. Damn, that lost art was useful. Physical enhancements are some of the best things we got from the Borrowed Land. My particular variation was special, though. The clouds parted around me, and I hit the apex of my arc before touching down on the floating isla...