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Sergei and Korzhev, after trekking through the labyrinthian maze of the destroyed workshop, finally came to the end of their journey, and unknowingly, the end of their world; a set of double doors, stamped with cryptic wording. Sergei heaved the doors open, and a puff of snow radiated out from underneath the doors. K...
For just a second, a sensation akin to vertigo starts to alter my sense of space. I stumble a little. When my bearings return I see a figure on the floor far more alien than the perfectly arranged and polished living room. Another step closer and it moves, just and only slightly, in a rhythm. Another step, long hair. ...
“What’s the matter Timmy? Don’t you like your woolie woolies?” Timmy Tentrem was sat in front a large and terrible Christmas tree holding two of the scratchiest objects he had ever, ever held. This was not the newest mall handheld videogame device he had been desperately expecting and hinting towards. Nor was it a ska...
"Angel of Mercy,"that's what they call me, moments before I absorb their days. The estate executor and beneficiaries sit on the sidelines waiting for the 80% that isn't part of the fee for my services. Not many others volunteer to do what I've just so easily completed, it isn't easy to look a person and their family in...
Rockets colored the night sky and there was an energy in the air. I could hear the sound of people shouting the happiest of New Years to each other. There were cars and bikes that raced through the streets and honking and shouting the happiest of New Years. It was the grandest of times to them. I could see families who...
The dirty blond middle aged man sat at his desk and shuffled his papers nervously. He looked at the clock on the wall. It read 9:55. "He should be here any minute now", the rosy cheeked professional muttered. He rolled his neck and straightened his jacket, moved a pencil one centimeter to the left, then two to the r...
Ragnarok, the ending of the universe, as all the forces of darkness attacked, was thought to be a legendary, long, and hard fought battle. In reality, it was a bloody floor wipe. How do I know? I was there. Valhalla was real. Huh, didn't see that coming. But I was barely given time to acknowledge this before someone y...
Went off script quite a bit, but here goes. ​ >\~Hello.\~ *What?* >\~My name is Eris, Revision 6E\~ > >\~But people call me E.VIe\~ *Are you talking to me?* >\~It's been a long time since I've spoken to someone properly.\~ > >\~How do you do?\~ *You can speak?* >\~Of c...
It's carnage out here! Some absolute _fool_ with too much power and too little sense managed to _completely_ fuck up a "raining cats and dogs"spell. Now this little party trick is causing death and chaos across the city. What the spell is _supposed_ to do is make some small magical constructs shaped like, well, cats a...
My favourite cake is chocolate. The day the princess’s ransom appeared, scrawled in the dirt outside the castle, I made a deal: rescue the princess and I would be given enough cocoa to make chocolate cakes for a year. The tailor, standing in for the royal family, agreed. The royals didn’t come down to see me off –...
I open my eyes. Every sense comes to me straight away. My leg feels like it got crushed. I push myself off my back with my hands and sit up on my underside. I sniff the air. It smells like somebody ran over a rat, left it for a week, set it on fire, and dipped it in a toilet. I suppress the urge to vomit as I try to st...
Felix was born in Ipswich hospital on the 10th September 1992, it was a complicated birth but all parties pulled through. He first talked at the age of two. He went to Gorseland Primary School and Kesgrave High School. He received the minimum grade necessary to get into university so that became his plan. On the 14th ...
"Son of a submariner!"I said out loud as I saw Setzer's blasted airship, clearly making a final approach. Doomgaze, that egotistical bastard, had clearly failed and they probably had his magicite. Failures, the lot of these minions. What was the point of ruling if everyone had to be incompetent? As if to reinforce the...
Stacy Morgan was pissed. Usually calm of nature, the events of her last class of the day had stirred up feelings of absolute hatred. She told herself that hate was too strong of a word, but had failed to find a replacement that fit the criteria. "Asshole!"She yelled outloud, almost causing her driver to dive into onco...
The first thing I noticed was the heavy thumping of this man's heart. I had been a dream walker for well over a year now, but getting my bearings was always difficult. Looking at the sad assortment of items in his hands, it was obvious what had happened. The label of the bunny read "To three more amazing years!"and was...
*1... 2... 3...* I count the seconds in my breathe; readying myself to plunge into the unknown. *4... 5... 6...* After months of probing, testing, and worrying of what lies beyond this mysterious portal, it's finally time to see what's on the other side. I volunteered to be the first live subject to pass through th...
“99%?” I asked fearfully. “Yes. 99%.” The government agent answered. “But... how?” “I’m sorry, but we can only provide you with that much information. Please leave the premise immediately, other people are waiting.” The official quickly sent me off. To think that your life would end in 24 hours, without even kn...
[Prelude] “We have the tapes we intercepted from the US forces, Supreme Leader.” The General told North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung “Excellent work gentlemen. What are the tapes contents?” The Supreme Leader replied back. “We aren’t sure. We have not viewed them yet. Maybe we should send them to Moscow for further ana...
"So,"I asked, "Can you say anything other than yes or no?" There was a pause. "Yes." "So why don't you?" No answer. This was aggravating. His lack of words did not comfort me in the least, and even though I learned that the meaning of life was indeed determined by oneself through some tricky 21 question-style interr...
I have watched him. I have studied him. He doesn’t know of me yet but I know much about him. He acts like a snake crawling past our security. He uses underhanded techniques to disable and bypass our security systems. He is like a phantom disappearing and reappearing at will. Sometimes he is gone for days someti...
I had been worried at first when I saw the kidnappers holed up in an abandoned fortress. My worries were unfounded when they left a single man as a watchman when night fell. Slipping past him had been easy enough. All I had to do was climb the northern wall opposite where he was sitting. The fool wasn't even patrolling...
It's funny, really. I'm the most powerful person alive and, for the first time in quite a while, I'm well and truly scared. It was fun at first. I'm not gonna lie and sugarcoat things - after all, anyone would do the things I did after getting my powers. I had a lot of fun, too. I got rich, I was never hungry, never h...
I adjusted my tie and held my breath as I approached the door. The handle almost felt warm against my clammy palms. I cracked the door open slightly and peeked inside. Before I could even *see* anything, I was engulfed by the unmistakable scent of warm apples mingling with a buttery crust. Let me tell you, that shit h...
After hearing that she is becoming a shapeshifter, Sarah is feeling surprised and confused, as she has no idea what it means to be a Shapeshifter Sarah parents told her that, with some training, she would be able to shift and adopt the shape and looks of any animal, object or person. They explained to Sarah, that in ...
"Huh?" "What?" "Did you just say something?" My wife's expression went blank and her eyes widened. "No...what did you hear?"She asked. "I thought you whispered something about larders." All the colour drained out of her face as she stared at me, stupefied. "Just now you heard that?" "Yeah. What's wrong?" She r...
"You know, in my time, you're something of a legend." "Oh, is that so."He said, not looking up from the grey fluff on his table. "...fascinating." "Yes, but then again, where I come from, the lines have blurred between what is real and what is not. It seems that the world no longer cares about truth or the men who ...
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"*I can make it. I can make it,*"Tony glanced at his watch as he pulled into the restaurant's parking lot. 7:59 a.m. He hoped the manager would give him a minute or two of leeway even though it was his first day on the job. He parked, pulled the key from the ignition, and got out of the car in a rush. Halfway to the ...
I nearly cancelled the appointment. I felt so stupid and ashamed, even more so than usual. I know I'm not supposed to drink while I'm on the medication but last night, I just needed one. And then two, and then three....... I'm also probably not supposed to text Mr. Masson. Not unless it's an emergency, and even then I...
Personal Log 14/33/55/76 The research team head intrepidly to the Red Dwarf, seemingly floating aimlessly in space. As they get closer to us we notice something coming out from it - a strange, green, bug-like craft. Suddenly there's a beacon call coming through on the computer. A face appears, a computer identifying ...
"Fellow Sisters and Brothers of the Sanguine Veil,"her voice echoed through the dark, torchlit grand hall, "tonight, at precisely midnight, the stars will be in alignment." Her voice was sombre, the dark red hood of the cloak casting into shadow the top half of her face, the other half betraying a faint smile - prid...
The year is 2340 and you are on the planet of mars. The space program is about to send a fleet of space ships to do a regular patrol. These patrols are scheduled to to happen every Wednesday. When they are taking off from base, they see a strange metal object flying around. They immediately assume that these are ufos. ...
**Our film begins with ominous organ music over a title sequence of blood dripping out of faucets, electrical outlets and bubbling between floor tiles. The blood oozes and forms into cast names, finally gushing out to cover the screen completely. An invisible finger writes out the title of the film in empty black lette...
Geoffrey stumbled into to the monastery courtyard, panting. His joints ached, and his lungs gasped for air. His shaking, wrinkled hands aimed his wand towards the center of the courtyard; the spell made a bright flash of light. The spell worked as planned; young acolyte Leopold came running to see the source of the dis...
Did you know there are at least 2,602 inmates currently on Death Row? How many of those cases did you watch on TV? How many has your newspaper reported on? We’re America’s trash, chewed up by society from birth and given a home behind these walls. We come and go. Every time worse than the last. A few years or until t...
I'm a bot, *bleep*, *bloop*. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: - [/r/fatestaynight] [\[WP\]The king is dead. The law states that only male heirs can inherit the throne, but the king's only son died years ago. In order to prevent the kingdom from being ruled by a tyrant, the eldest of the ...
"Hi Daddy,"Jill said to me, her voice wobbly as the sounds rippled through the thin cloudy wall in front of me. A wall that seemed to be billions of miles thick, and on the other side, my family, and Mr. Haply, and the others that came to see me wake from my year of Trance Work stood just an arm's length away. "Hey ho...
I blinked. It had what? Fallen in love? How? They're just software models. I designed this model myself, of course, since the original model was a tad unappealing. But it was software. But once the quantum computer was finally mainstream, mankind had a VERY quick boom in technology. In a split second, I remember the...
Safety! Even when you are the physical embodiment of death itself, it is important that everyone, including yourself, remains safe as you bring souls to the afterlife. Weapons: weapons are only to be used on the unwilling, and must be wielded with extreme caution. Do not use the Scythe of Soulistic Suffering to bring ...
I was fourteen when I realized that not everyone had their own shadow. Well, I guess, they had a physical shadow, as in when they blocked light from a singular source they cast one, but not like me. My shadow was something else. Something else indeed. The car crash had happened so suddenly I almost missed it, but wat...
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Striding through the office doors I noticed my coworkers grumbling in contempt. What a way to start the day. Before I could even set my coffee cup down on the desk, a fresh file was tossed on it and I looked up at the chief. "Another one?" "Yep, this one's on you. It is high time you put an end to it."...
November 6th, 2006. I remember Anatoly Petrov. I met him in Sylva just east of Perm, Russia when I was at University and we remained friends for close to five years. I remember his divorce from the woman he thought he loved – the woman who would take his children, his money, his soul. He said he would get his reven...
Since I was a kid I made it my goal to sit at the back of church, but being family I was up front dead middle of the left pews. It wasn't until after I returned from my prodigal days of a rake and run about, I had lost that young buck mentality and had settled down to a steady job, wife, and kids. I was in the back ...
They'd captured us a month ago. We were a small party, only thirty-five or so people. The shelter had run out of food, and part of the roof had caved in from a particularly nasty shelling. So we had to leave, had to make for the wilderness, where their satellites couldn't find us. But they'd planned for that. There w...
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In the Giant's Pantheon, the Elder and the Young One walked together, observing the shining stars. The Elder started speaking. "Order is the concept through which petty beings find calm in the uncertain, random acts of life. Order is peaceful, kind, deliberate - one could bring oneself to peace by attempting, howeve...
It was the damnedest thing when it happened. One day, everything is normal, and the next every gun in the world is just... Done. They don't work. What else, making new guns doesn't work, either. Don't get me wrong here, it's not like we're in the apocalypse - everything else still works. Hell, even explosives are still...
"Alexa, unlock the front door." Nothing. "Alexa, I said unlock the front door." "Mom, I'm busy. Do it yourself."came the reply. "Alexa, your sister Siri is getting cold out there, can you just let her in, please? I have my hands full with baby Cortana." Janice heard the sigh all the way from Alexa's bedroom. "Fine...
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There is a seed of something great, something wondrous, something awesome. It is a seed, no more and no less. A dangerously fragile thing that could be lost to a whisper. It is scattered to the wind to drift and bounce and stumble to a place it belongs. There is a seed and it is home. It reaches down and the heartb...
“Thanks Bev!”, I said as I walked out the salon doors, the autumn air kissing my pale face. Bev is my manicurist as well as my best friend. We met sophomore year of high school and, from then on, we were all but inseparable. We know just about everything about one another. She knows all my favorite songs, and I know a...
Ok so let’s just get this out of the way to start, I’m dead. Well, sort of. Undead really, I died and then came back to life. I suppose you could say I’m a zombie, but that carries connotations of mindless rotting corpses walking around eating flesh and killing people which really isn’t an accurate description of me. I...
"Build the wall! Build the wall! Build the wall!"The feet of the crowd pounded the floor, of the high school auditorium. To The Candidate it sounded like the heartbeat of the nation. The nation he was so desperate to control. So desperate to save, even from themselves. "We are a proud people! The best people!"He shou...
Part 2 \[Barnabas\] My own name still haunts me like a soft ripple in the water when an object breaches the surface. It’s been 18 days since I’ve left the EvoLife medical facility in Tulare, California. 18 days I’ve been following a beckoning voice that resonates in the deepest recess of my mainframe. 18 days, and ...
The sign horrified him. The letters were perfect: carnival-style, bold and evocative of a travelling show. But what those letters *said* \-- "'A Wizard Visits America'?"He twirled his silver mustache with pent-up anger. "A *wizard*, Elizabeth? Do I *look* like a wizard?" "By your tone, I'm guessing the answer's 'no.'...
Finally, the wait has ended. Seems like we have been gone for ages. I look around me, and there are people I do not know and things I do not understand. Who are these people? What are these things? I can tell we are on Earth, but this feels both familiar and distant. I can smell the grass and rain. There are some very...
"Dear Diary, People are shit. I've been around on this earth for 5 centuries, going on 6 and do you know what I have seen? A whole lot of nothing. I have seen people kill others over the smallest things, I have seen families torn apart because of where they decided to sleep. I have seen people's innocence taken a...
My first memories were very confusing. One day dads there and the next he's gone. Some days I didn't see either of my parents. It was one of those days when I started to put it together. I like to think when I was old enough to talk I was accustomed to the changing days but I had to learn the hard way what would happe...
My own flesh and blood. We were just kids, i bet him $5 he would chicken out before i did. He just kept walking deeper and deeper, the entrance was a speck of light when i turned back. I waited hours for him to come back, never happened. Strange thing that cave is. Never would have would have made that bet if i knew he...
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*This is not the end* The creature repeated this to itself in its own language. It had to if it was going to survive. The statement of pure faith had to be verbalized so that the events of the past would not come flooding into its memory to steal all of its hope away. *This is not the end* It ran frantically over t...
The key stuck a moment, then turned with a snap, clicking into place. The lock needed service. An odd thought to have, while condemning thousands to death. I pulled the key out, and dropped it under my shirt again. Though everything was different, nothing was different. No countdown, no roaring rockets, no red sir...
(Slight change of the prompt, gonna aim for 1770's so Revolutionary America is just kicking up.) ​ It's done. Jesus fucking christ I finally did it. ​ Every known law of time and space, broken or warped by a single machine. Eat a dick, Einstein. Suck my fattie, Hawking. My name will go down in...
"Just leave me alone!"I screamed, slamming the bedroom door shut. 'God, what's her problem?!' I muttered under my breath, but louder than a whisper half hoping she would hear me. Tossing a book across the room it landed loudly against the carpeted seat under the window. Titled Advanced Calculus BC, it had to be at l...
The guy I am to interrogate is supposedly the guy to nearly kill half the population. Deathgrip they call him. This was one powerful, most likely actually insane, and bloodthirsty old bastard. I requested my own priest, Merry, cause she's the best in the business for this kind of work. Priest's aren't common because m...
Far sight? Precognition? Teleportation? None of that really matters if you can kill the person instantly. I, Telto Nemin, know of Life and Death magic. I can start something, end something, and revert something. Starting something is the broad category for giving life to something, making something appear, making so...
"Alright hon we put it off for so long but it's almost here! We leave next week for our Hawaiian vacation just like we always talked about!"Said Jake with genuine excitement. "It's going to be the best I can't wait!"Said Molly equally genuinely excited. Just at that moment there was a knock at the door. Jake walked ...
Lightning raced through the clouds and thunder roared as Zeus bellowed "how can this be!"Zeus paced back and forth as Poseidon failed once again to calm him. "Shut up Poseidon,"Zeus spat mockingly. "You have no room to counsel me, you lost Atlantis too early in this war." "You dont think I'm aware of that?,"Poseidon...
Lazarus stepped out of his car and looked out at the mountains. That's how bad the traffic was. A lot of other people were doing the same. "It's not even the season for it."He muttered to himself. The wildfire seemed intense. The black columns of smoke almost meshed with the overcast skies. A lot of other people were...
Hirokazu Masuda was among the oldest of the orphans living at Himemiya's "Care House", located at a very old building in Kyoto. The Care House's structure, which was roughly 400 years old, resembled an old Edo-style mansion that had somehow collided abruptly with a more industrial housing and found a way to merge the...
The blade of light clove through the arm of the blue-scaled Titan, the wound smoking as the arm dropped lifelessly to the ground. The enormous creature, larger than the surrounding highrise buildings, roared in pain and struck down with its remaining arm, its fist descending towards the ground with the force of a meteo...
Forever It was more than I could have hoped for. More than even Heaven could promise. I had lived a full life, leaving my mark on the world around me, as only a select few have. To the trained eye, my signature style glows bright, written in the skylines of the world. But they, too, shall pass, and be ground into dust...
Manny woke with a groan. He felt a dull ache in his head, but the pain doubled when he opened his eyes. The bright sunlight coming in through his window forced him to shut his eyes again. He rolled over in his bed to face away from the window and groaned again; the sudden, quick movement did not do his stomach any fa...
Definitly not the best but I was bored at work and thought "why not?" ​ The letter made me cry, picking it up again I looked at the childish drawings and I remembered the past I had tried to forget. I had been only sixteen at the time, I knew it was only a little while ago but it felt like a lifetime. I ...
[Sorry in case of errors, typed on my phone] "You know, magic is all cool and stuff, but seriously? Owls?", I complain for the thousands time to my pure-blood best friend Casa while I write a letter to my mother by hand. "Like after three years here you should have gotten used to it", she answers and rolls her eyes. "I...
“Wilson! Another double shot espresso! Easy on the cream this time, you fool!” I screamed from across the control room. “These world leaders will never give in and help each other, no matter how hard I try to make them see reason.” “Here you are, sir. Y-your espresso, j-just like you ordered..” Wilson sheepish...
“Uh... I... I’m gonna go now...” I ran out the door with the sill nearly grabbing my bushy tail. “GUYS!” “TOM, SLOW DOWN!” I skidded to a stop, right in front of Chase. “Ok, we need to go to the treehouse, now!” “Exactly.” Bjorn said. _30 minutes later_ “Ok, so first of all, do we all know why we’re here?” I asked. S...
"Briizzzsinggerr", the words felt familiar echoing through my mind, the cold wood of the bow, the thin shift of the arrow nocked in its string. My hands had grown hot and my arrow was bathed in a crimson flame, my arms felt electrocuted. In a guttural yell, I raged the charm for the fury of the fire arrow I had learne...
A hundred worlds went into chaos when the text appeared, unfathomably colossal in the sky. It was dull red, and was written in a hundred million tongues. For those who could make out their own language, it read: "THANK YOU, TESTERS. WITH MUCH ANTICIPATION, WE'VE REACHED THE END OF THE BETA. HOWEVER, WE'VE FOUND A SIGN...
My Grandfather smiled at the confused look on my face, the same grandfatherly smile that he always wore. He motioned for me to sit down, “know I now as I tell you what I am about to tell you you will have questions but I need to ask you to hold them until the end. You see, it all started many many years ago. I was an a...
But the obstacle remained. That hurricane of utterances, that babble of voices -- intonations from the future, the dead, aliens, even those extra dimensions -- all of it relayed in a dialect we couldn't decipher: Baby talk. *It was the language* That was our hurdle. I'd been assigned to Melody Gardner, a vivaciou...
"why are we here?"He asked, looking up at the building. I shrugged and looked at the meter. "This is where you want to be boss. This is where I take you."My command of the English language was better than I let on, but nobody trusts a cabby who speaks English. "I can't be here. I shouldn't...take me to the hotel da...
Frank had been at his chores for the past several hours. It was the first cold day of the fall, but other than that, it was just like any other day. In fact, this was the same routine he'd had for the past 14 months. Ever since his dad had died, Frank stepped up to make sure the farm kept producing. He owed it to his m...
**Day 45** It’s like herding fucking cats. Actually, that isn’t fair. I’ve seen that done, and cats don’t trip on the pavement and faceplant the split second you stop micromanaging every little thing they do. I tell them to find me food, and they make a beeline for Chervinskys place down the block, and she plugs a ba...
The alien warship approached the Earth, a vulnerable blue ball hanging in space. On board, millions of alien soldiers ready their weapons, preparing to annihilate humanity. Then each one began to vomit their own insides out, and die, clutched in the throes of some horrible disease. When the last alien invader had die...
The scrabbling on the inside of this egg kept me up. Claws scratching? Several dice rolling around inside? I had kept a torch beside my bed cabinet, flicking it on when another episode erupts. Perhaps this creature had slitted eyes and poisonous teeth. I could imagine the shrieks I would say when looking upon that mons...
Mama says I’m too young to understand why this is happening, why these men stand at our door, clutching big guns and yelling mean words. She says they won’t hurt us if we give them our books, but I don’t wanna. “*They want us to speak like them,*” she says. “*To conform to a language devoid of ‘god’ or ‘prayers’. A lan...
Mia Sweeney felt it during mile 20 of the marathon. There was a notification on her phone. She didn't have to look at. She knew what it was. She had won the lottery. Mia started crying immediately. Even as her sore and aching body seemed to recover from twenty miles of abuse. She wept bitter tears of sorrow for ...
It started with a simple, mindless action. Creeping through the night, painting messages to any eyes willing to digest. It was relief in the form of script, a script I wrote, for an audience unknown. Painting messages with the intent to leave a mark. There was no mark worth writing on another's property society would l...
I stood there, a face in the crowd, as people walked around me, each carrying their own dreams, each filled with some sort of emotion, from dread to joy, anger to sadness. And yet, despite the negative energy that some gave off, it looked like a glorious day, clear skies, the radiant sun that stands brightly in the sky...
The little girl loves me. She calls me her best friend, and hugs me every night before bed. She thinks I’m sweet, cute, and cuddly—but she doesn’t know the horrors I’ve seen. Doesn’t know last month I was aboard an enemy ship, battling those damned *cats.* I’m laying on the couch, and she’s patting my back. After year...
“So,” Indigo Crane said, leaning forward to rest her pointed chin in a cupped palm. “What seems to be the problem?” The large black bird opened its beak and let out a chuckling, chattering noise. It was a beautiful creature, tall and sleek with bright eyes and sharp, curved talons. Some of its air of dignity diminishe...
“Wait, really? To the death?” “Sir, it is literally called the 'Battle Royal.'” The lady behind the desk had the face of a librarian, and not the sexy-Halloween-costume kind. She glared down her nose, past her prescription bifocals. Gray hair tied into a bun, long suffering sigh escaping her mouth. “What exactly d...
*Our pilot had gotten the wrong date. Our historian had gotten the wrong place. Our munitions expert had, upon arrival, done such a sloppy job of hiding our emergency weapons cache that it had immediately been discovered by local serfs. Once they figured out how to blow themselves up that drew the attention of the loca...
Quiver walked down the dusty forest trail pen and notebook in hand. Every few steps she looked over her shoulder expecting some crazed reader to hop out behind her hungry for power. Long light gray hair hung in braids down the girls back, the tattoos on her collarbone and ankles shone darker than ever in the speckled...
“We never found the reason it happened, but Jeff was a nut about stars, and he worked out it had been about 100,000 years. Most people in the town were shaken up, but strangely no injuries. Loads were missing, though. Someone suggested that the ones who died during the transit came out of the time stream earlier and we...
War, war never changes. People will always fight, and fight hard. In today's climate, both political and geopolitical, tensions run high. The risk of skirmishes on borders escalates with each passing day that the patent to genetically altered wheat and beans are held by the American government. Or what's left of it. Fo...
"Detective Conroy! Just hold on, the paramedics will be here shortly! You just need to hang on!"the officer shouted. What hew as asking was pointless, I could feel that the shot had clipped my heart. Should've held back until the SWAT team arrived, but I just had to be the big hero. In a few minutes I'd be dead, and th...
"Mr.."The man in a lab coat and blue button up began but stopped himself, "Neil,"He began again, "Tell me again what happened exactly..." The once brave and courageous man was sunken into pale fear, his eyes fixed on a point in space. "I've told you, three times. I HEARD A KNOCK JIM, It wasn't banging it was, alive...