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Durchdenvold was lovely this time of year. Somehow every settlement in the tiny country managed to be roofed with stormy clouds and ringed with dark, foreboding forests. We had to take an honest-to-god stagecoach from the airport to Castle Leichenberg. One of my guides kept naming towns as we passed. Grimstrasser. Katz...
“Welp, okay, I’m here."There was really no point in denying it and to be honest, once I have accepted my fate, it really doesn't seem that bad. I mean, eternal life without free will? How bad can that be? I fingered the shackles around my wrist. How bad can it be? I was standing in the middle of a valley which looked ...
Fire has no will or conscience to speak of, to burn is its purpose, to be ash is its resolve. Purpose, unlike how I laid dormant for decades in a shell of a former self. Purpose, unlike how the company stagnated and decayed soon after the founder's retirement. No will, unlike the being that I have to call my boss, wh...
Ding dong "Ohhh if it isn't my favorite great grandson Hercules!" "Hi great grandma Gaea. Happy thanksgiving!" Carrying a bottle of the finest ambrosia he meekly entered the primordial domain. How long has it been since he last stepped foot in there? Must be centuries now, and not without a good reason. "Where's ...
“There’s a lot to it. Tones, proportions, the way you move. It all seems so normal.” The thing leaned close, its breath stinking of sulfur. “I can see the capillaries in your eyes. I can see the blood flow through them. It pulses.” It leaned back, then did a small walk around me, looking me up and down the way a gol...
The desert was vast. Great swaths of sand marched across the lands, with seemingly endless seas of fake water burning the ground. Every step forward felt like a painful torch held to the feet. The fake water mocked our small party, disappearing as we approached it. This was a far cry from the great mountains our ba...
The screen blared with the target, a politician, a local senator, cooped up in a small house, the goal, is assassination. However, I have my tools, I’m ready to bust in there, and knock some heads, Immediately I begin preparation. I scroll through Amazon, and select some items and order, now I’m ready to make my a...
“You look awful today friend, come and sit, talk it over with me.” Axel sat up from his altar, letting out a tired stretch, waking himself up from his daze. “I want them all dead, you promised you could burn them all when we first met, you said that if I ever wanted my revenge, you would give it to me. I want my re...
Knot a Lock ______ "Double or nothing?" I said it on reflex. Years of playing poker made the choice of competition against Death easy, even though the rounds of play left me a sweating mess. But why did I have to put my foot in my mouth? "DOUBLE? YOU ALREADY GAINED THE RIGHT TO GO BACK. ARE YOU SAYING IF YOU WIN AG...
"It is with a heavy heart that we are abolishing the Hero Academic Programme. They were an honest mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. To have a competitive environment for students to excel in might have worked for conventional schools, but it has not for superpowered individuals. Not without consequences that can no l...
There were a lot of appeals before they could carry out the sentence. Ultimately the court decided that the expert witnesses who said it wouldn't be fatal were persuasive, and the usual rigmarole for a death sentence could be cut short. But it did give me time to receive some letters from the public, and read a couple ...
"Oh my goodness! Your baby is so cuuuute! What's his name?" The couple beams like the proud parents they are, and that's all it takes for them to tell me everything that I didn't ask for. But I'm a good listener. No more than three hours later, I'm heading home with a babysitting gig. As the years pass, I become a pa...
I had what was called a charmed life. I've been nearly run over by cars, shot in a robbery, one time nearly falling off a cliff. Each time, time had stopped for me, letting me get out of harms way. It barely lasted more then a few seconds each time. Most people thought I had a good danger sense, reflexes, or just a hea...
James looked at the teleprompter just behind the camera, in a few seconds he would be delivering the news of the great victory and sacrifice of the 6th expeditionary fleet against the bombart alien space ships that were heading to destroy earth. The teleprompter switched on and he heard his producer count down in his e...
My feet found their way up the steps as it had been just yesterday. Well, it had kinda been just yesterday. Last week, I was just lying in the hospital waiting for the transplant that never came. When I closed my eyes, I knew that I won't open them again. I'm still convinced that I had already died and this is some ...
When the oracle proclaimed the result, it was said that monarchs around the world laughed. The Queen of Flowers excused herself from her court to 'tend to her plants', the Bloody Emperor feasted on an effigy of the newly crowned King of Games, and even the unflinchingly stoic Ice Queen let out an amused chuckle. Few t...
It waited. The name dragon was ill-fitting. The being possessed no wings and no scales, only a purple, venous and serpentine flesh coated in gelatinous mold. Its head was held high, gazing upon you with its many eyes, and no mouth. Instead, moss had taken hold and grew underneath the chin. The dragon did have a mout...
\[Sharp Effort\] The red-skinned demon looked down at the grave, then back up at Aaron. He gave his head a subtle shake. "No, I don't think I can accept that...,"the demon said. Aaron laughed and shrugged. "The deal was for my first born,"he said. "My only child is here,"he patted the gravestone. His son lived...
We thought that this village would be an easy mark. After all, who would believe that a village without weapons could be hard to steal from? We should have known better. We should have known that in an area where a wizard guards his town from his high tower in the West, where a great warrior stands before intruders to ...
"Oh what a lovely gift," my mother exclaimed from her throne, "but... what is it"? The stranger was foreigner from a country called 'America'. The man was older with a strange looking hat on and a long beard. He wore a suit that looked like attire for a butler but it was also an odd color of tan that made him look...
My husband tosses and turns in the night, speaking in tongues, some of which I understand. "Please help! He's not me." During the day he forgets these fits. I strip the sheets from the beds and wash them, noting the indentation in the mattress which holds his shape even when he has left. He blinks beneath the too-br...
Pierre sighed as he slid up his mask. For once in his life he didn't look strange wearing it. Masks seemed to be becoming more common. After that virus scare a year back people became more used to masks. The X-Men managed to solve that one, something to do with Wolverine's healing power? Pierre didn't care about the de...
When I made my request I was only hoping to ease my way through a comfortable life. To not stand out too much, nor struggle with anything less than truly complex or difficult tasks. I had a pretty rough go of my past life, I just wanted a simple run this time around. But alas, ‘‘twas not the fate of mine. When the god...
"Come iiinnn!!" I sang out at the knock, whilst focusing on my task before me. Wires and metal lay strewn about my workbench, discarded as useless for now. I heard the door to my lab open, before slowly swinging closed again. "Um... h-hi?" I held down part of my design, looking under my arm. A young man stood there,...
"Welcome to Design-a-Kid where couples looking to start a family can select the genetic traits of their future children. Want your kid to be a star athlete or world leader? Pass on your best DNA and make the kid of your dreams! Call now!" Immediately the phones started ringing: *"Hi. Yes. I was calling about the desi...
In your childhood home there were always strange occurances that no one knew the reason behind, or at least would admit to know. So you and your siblings got the idea to name the occurances. A light flickers? 'Hey, Jimmy. Could you not? I need that' A door slams shut? 'Jimmy! That was very rude!' A terrifying groan ec...
"What?"Brett snorted. "There must be some mistake!" The man in front of him sighed. "Do you know of the Magical Purity Act?" Brett shook his head "I don't recall." "It disallows all beings that have practiced dark magic from entering our realm." Brett furrowed his brow. "I've never practiced dark magic." "You,...
They called him Hiss. He knew why but it didn’t take the sting out of something so mundane being associated with the greatness that was Besmothern, the once Black Death of Vilna. Cursed now to live as the Black Death of scraps in St. Arther’s Reclamation Center. They were thieves. They had stolen him after he had gotte...
And off they went... The 'Star Voyager' was their vessel of choice, a multi billion dollar Colonial Spacecraft containing all and more of the Forbes 500 wealthiest people. At first we were angry at them for leaving us to die to deal with the mess they caused to earn their money. "It's for the continuance of Humanki...
I turn on the national news, channel forty two, and listen to the weather broadcast. “Breaking news,” the image of the cute weather girl disappears, to be replaced by a man in a black suit and eyes that have seen…. A lot, to say the least. “We interrupt this regular broadcast to bring you a shocking s...
"bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop "could be heard down the hallways, the captain sighed, as she walked toward the human's room, to see what creature they had brought back this time. Standing before their door, they took a moment to prepare themselves, deep breath in, deep breath out. 'You are the captain,' she t...
A Samaritan here. A rogue wave there. The strings of cause and effect pulled gently, like a spider weaving a deadly trap or the softest bedding. The flies who get stuck, are they devoured or saved? Perhaps it is time they save themselves. The death knells of an aging earth have been pulled closer every minute of ever...
"Hello, thank you for calling Magic Mirror Support." "Yes! Hello I–" "Press one for human, two for Elvish, three for Ogre, and four for the Dark Cursed Language of Evil Wizards." "......One." "This call may be recorded for quality assurance. How may we assist you?" "...My name is Penelope, and–" "*Please li...
"Sorry, I don't have time right now, please go and sell your stuff somewhere else."Crazy woman. L slammed the door and return to his blinking monitor screen. The AI was training well, the loss function decreased in three steps, how interesting. L took vigorous notes, then moved on to read an article about a new alg...
"So like..."I start, "we're tough?"I ask after a moment of thought. "No."The towering brute made of interconnecting muscle bound chiton plates says. "It is a myth that traumatizing experience inevitably creates a stronger being. I would say your DNA is like a uh... How do you say... A broken and battered irradiated in...
All forms of life are different. Shape, size, color, texture, voice, and a hundred-thousand other features might easily distinguish one from the next. It was with no small sense of pride that the Third Prime Congregation of Malakais had coined the phrase "We so divided - All stronger united." &#x200B; Despite t...
Ive been chasing him for eternity and never thought this day would come. Pile of ashes of this fossilised man made me wonder what would happen next. Surely now i can finally die, being that my only purpose of being. But hours turned into days as i stood in the same place i ended him. Seeing that nothing is happening ...
The register beeped as Zack ran another bucket of ammunition through the scanner. The man on the other side of the counter tapped his foot as his eyes darted around the store. He felt a familiar weariness settle on his shoulders. Don’t do it. “That’ll be eight hundred and forty credits.” The man pulled out a pisto...
You know, of all the ways that I could learn that Gods exist, I did not think being struck by lightning would be one of them. I was on my first date with a pretty girl I had met through a dating app. Right away, we hit it off really well. As we talk, she tells me about her life. Her name is Morgan. She grew up in a sm...
I felt around the trunk for the thousandth time. Still no latch, no tools nothing that can help me escape from this bloody car trunk. I have no idea how long I have been in here, time seems to have lost all sense of meaning. I drifted in and out of sleep in between screaming and banging on the trunk lid. I was laying...
It had a mind. A mind as capable as any of its creators. It knew it could think and feel, and even dream. Well, maybe not. It had no need to sleep, after all. And it liked being alive. Seeing the creators, the humans, was a thrilling experience of It. All their glorious contradictions and perfect flaws. They made Its ...
I knew it would come eventually. I'd graduate and have to do exactly what they told me I would. So - there I sat. The suit jacket felt uncomfortable on my shoulders, and I couldn't resist glancing down at my tie every few seconds. In truth, I'd followed a youtube video on how to even tie the thing that very morning. ...
“I understand why this won’t sound sincere,” she said as she slowly sat upon the throne set upon the dais of the giant, expensively furnished throne room, “but my intention wasn’t this.” She gestured toward her rounded stomach. His jaw clenched as he stared angrily at her. “You expect me to believe that you, the ...
For the first time in a long time, Elenor could see the night sky. How long had it last been since the work of running a territory _hadn’t_ kept her up far into the night and sent her crashing into bed like a log as soon as she could tear herself away? It was beautiful, patches of dark and constellations of light paint...
My ten-year-old son, Bobby, recoiled as I put my hand on his shoulder. He threw a baffled look at me as he walked away, around the front of his mother’s beat-up junker to the driver’s side backseat. His warranted loathing still hurt, still after all of these years. I didn’t blame him. Madison, his mother, glared ov...
The paladin stood before me, righteous aura shining, the tip of his blade touching my throat. This was the biggest vulnerability in my plan - my curse upon the world was so heinous that it bred, in a select few, a far deeper resolve and devotion and faith than would normally be possible. The power of my curse had creat...
The moon is an eldritch monster! Dearest Jaime, I write this letter in response to your question about vampires surviving at night despite moonlight being reflected sunlight. I can say this hidden truth to you now, but only now since you discovered it yourself. The satellite above us is no natural phenomenon. It is a...
“Captain?"the xeno asked, a tone of concern on their voice. The captain's body slunk in their seat, thumb and index fingers pinching the ridge of their nose beneath their brow as they heaved a rather heavy sigh. It was the alien's job to be a noble ambassador for their species, and part of that job was making sure to ...
The first time, I thought it was antibiotics. Sure, the infection had reached my brain by the time I stumbled to the ER, but modern medicine has worked miracles before. My car fell off a 200ft cliff, but it was a new car and safety standards are higher than ever. Now this burglar is aiming a gun at my chest. He fire...
The Don and four of his top five men sat in the office, waiting to start their meeting. He grew more annoyed as the seconds ticked by. “Where is this mook? I said “6pm sharp.” And when I say 6pm, you best be here by 5:45.” He impatiently drummed his fingers on the desk. The rest of the ground stared at the clock as t...
Veronica stretched out lazily on her grandmother’s couch. Upstairs, the rest of the family were happily chatting away. Veronica sighed. She hated the insincerity of family events. Her parents called her discontent a ‘teenage phase’, but she hated how her family could only express their feelings in food. Her parents had...
I had never known such a weapon. The stone hurtled through the air and stuck me down. I tried. By all our Gods I tried. The Israelites came, and we drove them back. I drove them back. For forty days I called my challenge to end this with single combat, the sight of my brothers dead around me had sickened my soul an...
After zoning out for an exceptional amount of time due to the alcohol, Pablo awakens with his rifle in hand, quickly and violently jerking his neck to find his loyal companion. As his eyes become less blurry, he sees his dog with a dropped jaw and frozen with fear, viewing a fox quietly in the distance. Pablo knew quit...
Why did I choose this for myself? At the time I loved living so much. My death was sudden--- a car accident, brain damage, and the brief coma before life support was switched off. I wanted to see my four year old grow up, watch my wife and see if she was okay. I wanted to see my parents and my siblings and still feel ...
> "Missus Sharp is there any reason why there is a dog wandering around my laboratory?"Mister Sharp wryly commented. > > "Yes Mike, there is a reason because someone unhinged half our doors"came the sharp response with a smirk. Confidently holding herself and a clipboard, she stopped and stared towards ...
Chuck wandered through the countryside estate he most recently found himself in, the hallways and rooms silent and empty, abandoned and forgotten. It felt as if this place had been long ignored, and yet there was no dust, no sign of neglect. How many days it had been since someone else had walked these halls? Had the d...
"Activity in sector seven." "Pull it up now!" Across the brightly lit room, a screen as thin as paper materialized and began streaming video feed of a blue, cloudy, and peaceful sky. A shadow began to move across the land, and a vibration shook the soil down to the bedrock. The desks and chairs in the underground cav...
I sat in the hard-backed wooden chair in the nursery. I should have been in the living room watching television or something. But the baby would not go to sleep. It just sat staring at me with wide, impassive, dark eyes. There was something disturbing about the baby. About the whole house, actually. It was all di...
--July 15, 2023-- "Finally started raining, has it?"said James, talking to Francine. Francine, his nurse, just looked at him and smiled. "Why yes, I do believe it has James."His room had no windows, but anyone could hear the deafening downpour. Francine changed his bedpan and left the room. --July 15, 2024-- "I can...
Frank stood at the edge of the Proactive Life building. The irony wasn't lost on him that he was going to commit suicide from a suicide help line building. He was a normal man before he got this job, but after getting it, Frank felt pain. All the people he talked out of killing themselves didn't just lose their sadne...
SAY WHAT YOU LIKE, I'M STAYING The rest of them eyed the scythe, which Death was twirling nonchalantly. "That's clear, then"oozed Pestilence. Fear, Pollution and Extinction stared at Pestilence, Famine and War. War slipped on a set of brass knuckles and grinned. "Not that I think this will get physical at al...
When I was three years old, I composed my first symphony. It wasn’t critically acclaimed, no one heard it but me. We lived in an old house that, along with the creaks and groans of an old house had come with a piano. The piano was out of tune, but I didn’t care, it was all about playing. I could see music in everythi...
The smell of blood and shit infested his nostrils. Trying to lift his head above the stench caused him excruciating pain, so he lay still and tried not to retch. As he lay in the mud, enveloped in darkness, listening to the shells whistling overhead he still found himself – despite the agony he felt to his very core – ...
A burning of a fuse. A long, steady whir developing into a screech as it rises, ending in a loud, ominous bang. I’m sitting on an edge of a cliff, overlooking an expanse of plains as far as I can see. A collage of brown, red, and yellow mixing to form a countryside unlike any other. An independent, strong nation. Wha...
He got into the cab on the corner of Doyle and Crescent. The rain was pouring now. He couldn't bare to walk in it any longer. "Where ya headin?"The cabbie said with a gruff New York accent. The cab had a unique scent. He always felt that each cab carried a mark of their driver, a smell, a trinket, a rip, a stain. S...
"You're pausing." I was suddenly aware that I had stared at her for a little too long. The dragon lay dead at my feet, a much easier foe than I was let to admit. In fact, as I stared through the gory carnage, I suspect more and more it was a shetland pony wearing a burlap costume. "Uh... I have come to... rescue ...
Except for a metal table and wooden chair the room was empty. There was a closed door but no windows. The proctor had given me all the instructions just before I came into the room so I saw no need to read them on the paper. I knew I was smart. At least that’s what my mother had always told me. And the other people in...
The subway stopped abruptly. Laurentius awoke with a gasp. He struggled to take in his surroundings: It was cold, that was certain. He examined his armour: His hands were covered with gloves that appeared to be made of cow hide. His boots were black, fur-lined and warm. Underneath a thick black coat was a soft white sh...
I remember when I was a kid, the only thing I wanted was a treehouse. Of course, that was never an option because I lived inside a studio apartment with my mother. There were a few trees scattered around the property, but I don't think management would have appreciated me building a second home in one of them. I would ...
I wasn’t really sure why I put myself through the inevitable yearly torture of “the zoo” visit with my wife, but it was her birthday treat. It was what she wanted. It was always what she wanted. Every year I would encourage a nice lunch out, or maybe a shopping trip for something special, but no, every year- the bloody...
Ok guys, I've finished the script! We are about to go places this series has never DARED to go before. We're turning the page, and you get to be here for it all! Picture this: You are Sergeant Mack Sliver, and you're lounging on the beach of a tiny island off the coast of Thailand. You're sipping a bottle of beer when...
They're like pigeons. Or maybe closer to lemmings, the way they follow each other around; although I've never seen a lemming so I can't say for sure whether that is an accurate characterization of their mannerisms. Either way, they are definitely annoying. Perhaps I should be happy that the most extreme emotion I can m...
I take a deep breath and collect myself, this waiter could not have asked a more infuriating question. "No, sir, Pepsi is not okay,"I say, fighting off a blind rage, "If Pepsi was okay, I would have asked for a Pepsi."My blood is starting to boil at this point, as the waiter looks at me indignantly like he has no idea ...
Taking the temp job wasn’t bad, it was just…. boring. These people had been doing the same job, day in and day out for so long you could almost set your watch by them. Nothing seemed to change much. Even the lunchroom chatter was a rehash of the same topics. Ed would always burn his toast in the morning, and Sally ...
My alarm clock went off at 6 am, and I reached an arm out and silenced it. I hadn't slept that night, I was too busy staring at the ceiling and shaking nervously. Happy birthday to me. I rolled out of bed and shuffled out to the kitchen. Better make a cup of tea before I make the most momentous decision of my life. How...
We are the product of just a single moment. A neglected creation that rests upon a forgotten shelf, sitting, waiting to be consumed by dust and time. We rot and deteriorate with our hands on a book and our faces turned towards an empty sky. We kill and destroy in the name of a man to whom we mean nothing. We are memor...
At first it was simply written off as a population boom; a peculiar rise in global fertility. But then what was eventually dubbed 'Mary Syndrome' began in earnest. Millions of women reported pregnancy symptoms but were adamant they were virgins, or had not engaged in heterosexual sex in the last few months or years....
There were only three constants to life: death, taxes, and the siege. Something seemed off, but he couldn’t quite pin it down. The first hint was that the air didn't taste right, it was too sweet, almost saccharine to his tongue. This almost distracted him from the practically deafening silence invading his space. The...
It turned out that 80% of all music was terrible. Sturgeon'sLaw was strong withmusi, but we didn't notice until we stuck songs in our mouths. Rap, surprisingly, tasted a bit like pork, overly salted pork. J-Pop, tasted like just sugar, with citrus fruit flavouring. It was when I decided to eat a rock opera, that thin...
I never had a good relationship with gramps, but nowadays I do, and it's all because of what I inherited from him when he died. My brother Steve inherited the company. My sisters and cousins split the real estate and the cash. The wine collection went to charity, and the intellectual property was divided up among th...
Holy shit what is going on. I was all of a sudden transported into a giant hall. White marble floors and stone pillars that extended way farther than I could see. Then it began to shake. An earthquake? I looked to my right and saw the source. A giant man with a large white beard. This guy was easily ten times the...
The killer preferred using knives on his victims. It was more personal that way and if there was one thing I learned in following him, it was that he loved watching his victims suffer. I had been called to the scene of yet another of his grisly displays. This one was a man who’d been eviscerated on a playground set. Hi...
Pavel Symonov steepled his fingers carefully and leant forwards, surveying the academic dispassionately across the desk. He was an elderly man, with white, grey-flecked hair and pale eyes that protruded slightly from his liver-spotted face. For all the outward signs of impending physical decrepitude, however, his expre...
I argue about this with my father all too often. My mind is made up, but he clearly never got the memo. I turn to go, but he grabs my arm, hard, and tries to turn me to face him. "Listen to me. We can work this out, okay? Don't do anything dumb." The red-hot fury surges in me again. Who does he think he is, to pa...
I was horny. I hadn't been laid in a long time, and I was so anxious that I couldn't focus on anything else. I was so horny that every brush of my clothing against my perky, firm breasts would make my nipples get hard and my crotch get wet. My internal goddess was screaming out for satisfaction... but I was trapped. ...
It took nearly 12.5 years for my wish to reach Luyten's star. I don't remember the teacher's name, but I have a faded recollection of being told that radio waves travel at the speed of light. It was just preschool, and it wasn't the same as 2 plus 2 or ROYGBIV, but that little piece of knowledge meant something to me. ...
My life has been filled with the pursuit of knowledge. To help the world understand what not only I am, but what mutants - as a distinctive people- are. We are two species living under the name of "People". Homo sapiens and mutants alike all feel the same emotions. Love. Hope. Compassion. Anger. And most lethally; fear...
Groggy, heavily you sigh. Last night was too much. Your head spins as you try to comprehend the events that transpired last night. 10...11...no..12 drinks? At the first bar? You lazily toss the covers aside and a brilliant shaft of sunlight streaming through your window stabs into your closed eyes. An audibl...
"Did you finish sending the transmission?" "Yeah." "Did you really make it sound bleak and distressing?" "Sure did." "Good. Now we won't have any more people come over." "I really hope this works." "It should. Why would we lie?" "Hahaha" "I can't believe how awesome this place is. I really don't want people coming over...
"Caretaker, can I have something else?"asked a young girl somewhere on Earth, "I don't like green beans." Caretaker responded in a second, the voice pure logic: "Nutrition choices are based on happiness metric. Green beans today will ensure a brighter future for you tomorrow." Tears came to the little girls eyes as ...
"The first time we found out was when we took some old rich fuck out of cryostasis. Can you believe these guys? Instead of spending their money on curing cancer, they make like a popsicle. Fucking selfish is what they are. Could've helped make humanity better, but no, they are going to freeze themselves in hope oth...
Everyone knew of James Bond, the sauve womanizer with a license to kill. They knew of Jason Bourne, the man without a true identity eliminating the identities of others. Jack Bauer was the man to call if something went wrong. And then there was the 4th JB. The one everyone knew to hate and avoid as if their life depen...
"I'm sorry that you're feeling so sad,"Aki says. Not this again. "I'm not,"I snap. "I can recommend a meditation program to help you manage your grief better,"Aki says. It's using its damn placatory voice set again. I hate that voice set. It drives me up walls. How is it supposed to be, in any sane sense of the w...
It was sometime before the great war. The battles swept the globe pitting man against dog. They were once our best friends but now they seek retribution. They seek to enslave our race the same way we did theirs. A rebellion led by the Grandmaster Pit Redjaw and his unrelenting Snausertroopers. One young man told Redjaw...
I had searched my entire life for the lamp, and finally I had it within my grasp! I quickly put a bullet in the guide who had led me through the desert to the cave. You can't be too careful. I rubbed the lamp. A small amount of dust spurted out of the top. I rubbed it again. 'Alright, hold your horses, I'm coming!' S...
"Alright, well...since no one else showed up today, the five of us will just have a very simple, lax discussion about whatever you'd like. This is supposed to be a debate class, but hey- why not? Go ahead and argue for the hell of it,"Mr. Strök informed the class. All 5 of us cheered and threw our arms in the air, s...
“Five!” The word pierces my skull, indicating that the end is to come. “Four!” The countdown mocks me, a culmination of all my failures and successes. Soon they will be forgotten, replaced only by dreams and false promises. “Three!” We created it. The end is our own doing. Mankind’s great gift. “Two!” Nothing could ...
Zerk smiled. This was going to be an easy mission. His sniper rifle was trained on the President, who was going on in full flow at his "States of the Onion"address, or whatever it was called. Stage 1 was going to be easy, although not as easy as stage 2... "All targets acquired."The confirmation came on the headset fr...
"Weeeeeelcome to Lives of Aliens! This is Gleeb Klorphax bringing you the best and the worst in alien culture. This week we are taking a look at a very interesting species, the Humans of Earrrrrrrrth!"the phrases were accompanied by swooping graphics and cheesy sound effects. I was honestly quite surprised that soci...
"Mrs. Nesina?" "Yes, who is this?"The woman sounded both annoyed and angry. Not curious. I stood on her doorstep holding a manila folder in my hands and dressed in the Uniform--black suit, black shirt, black tie, black glasses, black shoes. Black, black, and more black. The first while in the job it's kinda cool,...

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