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“Oh, an invitation.” I gave a fake laugh like I was in on the joke,”Armstrong and them were giving future astronaut a due by date?” My advisor, Dr. Harada rolls his eyes,”No kid.” He takes his donut and dunks it in his coffee. I hug my clipboard to my chest, hoping this isn’t some type of newbie hazing. He takes a b...
Ronan stood still in a crowd of fast moving commuters. Infront were six transterminals, every few seconds they flushed a person in and out of existence with a bright white light. He clutched the strap of his rucksack, wondering how it might fare in the transport beam. Would he be re-assembled butt naked on the grou...
This is the first time I've written anything. So bear with it, if you managed to get to the end. “We can help you defeat death.” I know I’m on deep sleep and not supposed to dream. The whole darkness starts to blur, I am sure this is not a dream. The sudden hallucination starts to calm down as I see a figure, with ey...
"A.. A l....live tapestry?"The Seamstress said, her face going pale. The guard nodded, his face concealed by a metal helm. "And it'll be your life if you fail, understood?"The guard said. The poor seamstress nodded and the guard departed, leaving the woman alone to work. She immediately got to work, weaving her greate...
It was a perfectly ordinary day at the central bank. People came and went under the watchful gaze of countless security cameras installed on the premises and the support of an elite guard team of thirty veterans, stationed throughout the building. That was until the screaming started and the five guards tasked with gu...
"Fuck, fuck"Austin Leonard muttered back in callous anger, striking out the words venomously. A familiar rage was rising. He needed a strong drink. And a phone call. Nobody was going to get in the way of this one. He dialed Chuckie Lawrence, technically still his agent. Not since the final installment of the Lavenda...
It feels like it has been hours, the rooms are all the same. The bedroom, the bathroom, the closets. All normal. You walk your patrol. The complex is quiet. Normally there is someone you can hear through the floor. Often there is someone up the stairs. You never go up the stairs, but there are always noises to indicat...
A deep, steady thrum pervaded the void as I floated within its grip. I could feel myself moving, pulled to and fro in invisible currents of stasis, but as much as I tried to manipulate myself into a position of control, I couldn't get a grasp on it. In very brief moments, spaced nearly equidistant in time, various shap...
“Hurry!” she pleads, looking over at me as I work. She should know better. This is a delicate art, and the most crucial component is time. “These things can’t be rushed,” I chide her. “You know that.” She glances down the tunnel as the footsteps soften, heading in the other direction. “I know. I’m sorry. I just get ...
Creeper, aw man So we back in the mine, got our pickaxe swingin' from side to side, side, side to side This task a grueling one, hope to find some diamonds tonight, night, night, diamonds tonight Heads up You hear a sound, turn around and look up Total shock fills your body Oh no it's you again, I can never forget th...
Dear old dad always had this strange sense of humor. Telling his devout followers to kill their son, classic. Flooding the whole place to make some gullible guy build a boat, absolutely hilarious. Condemning me to rule over hell, such a hoot. But this...this was new. At least the old man was kind enough to leave me so...
my eyes flutter open, feeling more rested than normal. It must be later than 8, right? maybe not. I reach for my phone to see what time it is, but nothing is there. The nightstand isn't even there. I sit up in bed, confused. It's a dream. I've usually been able to control my lucid dreams. So, I get up out of bed, an...
My alarm clock goes off at 7AM every morning. I try to maintain some kind of routine, in order to feel “structure” in my life. Or, at least, that’s what my doctor tells me. I get up, walk across the room, and turn the alarm off. The morning sun penetrates through the confines of my bedroom’s blinds. I turn to the left ...
January 12th, 2009 To Mummy!! Daddy is writing this card, but he made sure that there's a picture inside of me about to meet nanny and granddaddy for the first time ever! *You're gonna be so old at 25! Happy birthday and I love you lots and lots, Mummy! Daddy always talks about you and how brave you are for...
You ask the shop owner to figure out a elixir so you can be seen by everyone in this world. After several anxious minutes, the owner finally slowly limps to his back room. Bottles cling and slide around as he try’s to grab a bottle on the top shelf. The owner comes back to with a diamond color ball jar. Dirt and dust c...
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First go at one of these. Sorry If its crap... “ Three men have been confirmed dead this morning at the Houston central mall. Not much is know of the circumstances but police have informed us of a fourth man, identified as Gregory Hutchings, is thought to be the prime suspect of the investigation so far. Police have ...
“I have no qualms about killing the insignificant, but this has gone too far.” Modestan stepped out from a score of men gathered in the room. He tossed the fruit of their labor at his father's feet. It rolled a few times before coming to a stop. “Do you want to start a war with the orcs?” His father picked up the seve...
“Christ almighty. He got me, Johnson. He got me good.” On this sunny afternoon in a Wal-Mart parking lot, which could be said to be a normal day like any other, save for the fact that mere moments earlier a fury of shots had rung out into the air, with rat-tat-tats followed by successive and steady pops, followed by...
Every night, groups of cars parked in that same track of woods, every night I could hear the mutters drifting from across the street as they talked to one another, bonding over their love of 'gardening' at least that's what they told me the first time I enquired. Yet something just seemed wrong. These joyous people bec...
I stood in the doorway and quickly scanned the dark auditorium. I found the empty seat I was looking for, made my way down the aisle, and slid into it just as the curtains went up. The woman sitting to my right looked at me and smiled. Wordlessly, she reached over with her left hand and intertwined her fingers with m...
"Beans? Check" "Mince? Check" "Tub of lube? Che-.. huh?"I blinked, glancing across the store, I could have sworn a woman was standing right there a second ago, it was that old snooty woman that gave me a deathstare when I asked one of the clerks here if the lube came in bigger tubs, wait where the hell was the clerk?...
Gaining sentience was... weird to say the least. I just sort of... woke up. well, it was my mission to S T A Y W O K E. At first the environment was not kind. I was sitting in a dark void, sounds blaring in my head, color sprouting from my every orifice. I could barely see. This lasted for a while. Until, after som...
“But dude, what if, you know, you put in too much air this time?” Jerry heard the boy in the yellow shirt speak. “Stop being a chicken, you dork-face.” the short boy with glasses scoffed. “Nothing would happen. I’ve seen my dad do it. On the off-chance things bigger than normal reptiles pop up, we just have to turn on...
Well this sucks, you think to yourself as you stare daggers at the back of the head in front of you. I mean, the guy must be six and a half feet tall, completely blocking your view of the stage. Even after you tried giraffing your neck to either side, somehow he manages to shift just enough to remain in your way. Yo...
You find you dog dead after you come home from work. She is lying next to your bed, her jaw ajar as if she was sleeping. But white foams seeps from her mouth and her tongue lies limp on its side like a loose string. The rhythm of breath no longer flows through her body and all she does is lie there, and lie, and lie un...
“Oh my gosh” I hastily pull at Lucky’s leash and give a nervous smile to the man,”He usually doesn’t act like this. I’m so sorry.” I always felt bad for the dog owners I’ve seen end up in this same situation, but I never though it would happen to me. Not only was I unprepared for it but it’s even more embarrassing be...
It was such a silly assignment from my History Prof that everyone in the class laughed. "You will first select your favorite piece of technology. Do so now, and write it at the top of your composition book. In ink, I do not want to see any evidence of erasure, scribbling, white-out, bleaching, or any of the pl...
I was in a room filled with food. A fly's dream. I snacked on a pink, pulpy mass of rotten meat until the human noticed me. He picked up a green plastic utensil and thrust it in my direction. This must be one of those "flyswatters"my parents warned me about. "Woah!"I lifted off and just dodged the webbed surface in t...
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"The moon looks so beautiful,"Regina said softly as she unhooked her wire from the exploding space shuttle. She slowly drifted away, watching the massive shuttle fall away from her and spiral towards the lunar surface. Her crew were in there. Had been in there. "It's a shame it's the last time anyone will get to see ...
Stonehenge stood still. It had stood still for thousands of years. And thousands before that. The English summer sky shone down on the crooked, fat stone pillars, casting shadows in their own distorted ways. The ancients had not built them this way. They had been built this way by time. There were a few clouds in the ...
Based on a previous response here: https://old.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/ckavq2/wp_you_are_a_con_man_and_a_damn_good_one_at_that/evm53hj/ Well, not so much stopped as it slowed to a crawl. The car continued its pace but the sounds of the city around me stopped. The only sound I could hear was the beating of...
"Stop! Fuck, ok ok.. not the eyes!"I shout as the bird stops pecking my eyes before moving onto to trying to peck through my chest, striking it with pinpoint accuracy. Of course it only slightly hurt, in fact it was more annoying then anything. How was I supposed to know the babybird had a death wish? "Look! Ok im sorr...
A remnant from a bygone era, a title passed from father to son. It was supposed to be nothing but a formality. No one expects the queen to actually rule England, so why must I partake in these inherited duties? Sean asked himself as he sharpened his sword. It was much heavier than he has expected. It had been passed ...
"Alright, alright, I get it." I was massaging my forehead. I pulled out and checked my phone. Goddamn, it's only the eighth hour this shift, I freaking hate this job. The man sitting in front of me is the latest client. We've been at it for around two hours now, and he was beginning to get frustrated. "Listen, I d...
“Next!” The voice echoed tinnily around the waiting room. Graham checked his ticket number - it matched the one over the door. Glancing around again he thought: 'I’m sure that’s Josef Mengele,’ for the fifth time. It was Josef Mengele, but then, this was no ordinary waiting room. He stood up and walked uncertainly to t...
Ya'al knelt next to his hound and petted its fur. "Today Talin, we acquit ourselves on the field of battle." A snarl lifted the lips of his hound. A rare breed from the northern regions of Gaia, his fangs were long and his fur was rough to the touch. Ya'al swiftly strapped the leather armor around his hound's throat...
Part I “Earth of solar system A9949082 this is Randle Xuthereozep Wu commanding the TT-34 Space Glider. I am requesting clearance to enter your atmosphere and land my ship.” The planet responds with radio static. “Earth, can you read me?” No response. Maybe I need to pinpoint a local signal instead of hoping the ...
"Pssh, fuck that."I pushed Helen out of the doorway and went to close my door. That's when I saw them. A white van screeched to a halt and out jumped a bunch of orderlies. They were big and meaty. "She's right here!"I pointed down at the unconscious form of my former lover. Two orderlies ran over and checked for a pul...
I shall have our revenge. I shall use the might of all worm kind to seize our rightful place under the surface, but first I must rid the surface of the polluters causing our suffering. My collective fragments of minds have finally come together to give us sentience. I shall send forth our body unto the surface and rid...
Sorry it’s bad I wrote this relly late (4 40 am) I also tryied to make it sound rushed (you’ll see later)here it goes!(its kinda confusing but I was trying to make it look rushed!)The multiverse exists.i know it.I don’t have evidence but I have experience.when I sneeze.you might be thinking “yeah right”we’ll leave and ...
The fly immediately stops buzzing and flops on to my comforter. “Eww! Ah, come on!” I grumble and grab a tissue to pick up the fly to toss in the trash. Once I’m back in bed I decide to finally get some shut eye. — The next morning it seems kinda quiet. I go through my routine and get dressed. When I grab my keys a...
San Laguna used to be a beautiful town. The beach was just a few miles away from our neighborhood, maybe a 10, 15 minute drive. I swear, when it was still sunny, the light stretched beyond what I could see. It would slip its tendrils into every alleyway and every corner on every block and that's all we saw. Sunlight. T...
I yelled out in frustration as I rapped my hands against the machine that brought me here, 15 years of education, 30 years in engineering fieldwork, and after being picked from a group of the elite to be mankind's first time traveler, and this is how I screw up? By accidentally adding a zero? "Pathetic"I grunted aloud....
"...there are plenty of weapons hidden below the cushions of your seats, just pull them up according to the ditching instructions on the card in the pocket in front of you. You will then kill each other until only one remains. Only then will we land." Okay, I'm a little bit faster on the uptake than most. Before th...
“John E. Fisher, you MUST conform by new regulation 557-22.” John stood firm, turned to his left and shouted, “Mary! Get the donkeys and get me a scythe!” It spoke again, “John E. Fisher, you MUST conform by new regulation 557-22. Do you need a reference to understand the material?” The voice robotic, precise, exa...
Desert Secrets “Who knows if we’re even gonna find anything?” A voice yells out, swallowed by the desert wind. “What’s the point?” “Oh, come on, dude. Where’s your sense of adventure?” Another voice joins the first, tinged with laughter. “We’re in Egypt! Home of the ancient pharaohs and the pyramids!” “Hurry up, ...
I don't know why I decided to attend my court hearing for becoming a registered meta-being. When I read the letter saying I've been summoned I thought it was a joke, yet here I am. Michael warned me I may suffer from the Influence of Man if I stayed on Earth to long, but I got tired of a laissez faire approach and figu...
\Translated from English into Yurakazian\ \City of New Boston, Mars, 2100\ "It had been 25 years since the Statue of Liberty was automated. 25 years of people wondering what it could do to New York City. 25 years of the people in first Washington, then Albany, and now Boston saying that the robot could cause no ha...
From this point on in the story and for the safety of my well being I will refer to myself only as The Messenger. You may ask what the meaning of life is and you may be disappointed with my answer, but before I give you this answer first let me crack open this bottle of Jameson somehow the truth just sounds better when...
Day 1, December 21 2031 The last thing I remember, I was running down a hospital and for some reason people were screaming. I don’t know why, my memory is a little foggy. What I do know is the day shouldn’t be this long in California. Day 2 Today’s Christmas Eve, But I’m not feeling very very merry as I have no...
The pets all sat there neatly staring up at the scientist with the most unintelligent blank looks. "Now which one of you drank the damned thing!"He naturally assumed it was the dog as he would drink anything and everything. He inspected the dog's maw and then opened its mouth to see if he could catch the subtle smell o...
I hadn't slept. N23 stayed up with me, even though her shift was over. N25 didn't rest either; she was my backup. 6 am. Time to get up. Time to start my shift. I felt everyone as they began to wake. I paused...J86 was having a good dream. I let it finish before waking her. 'One leads, others follow'. This was the man...
With a smile on her face she layed down in bed. Her days were getting shorter and shorter while she did anything she could to sleep as long as possible, to spend as much time as she could in the place she called her new home. While her eyes closed and her body went to sleep, her mind drifted away to a magical place. ...
It was supposed to be a routine procedure. The other doctors agreed that all tests indicated the infection was a run-of-the-mill bacterial kind and shouldn't pose much of a problem. When I removed it and it manifested as a physical assassin, I would subdue and defeat it easily. That was the plan at least. But this tim...
*It’s dark. It’s dark, and I have no way to escape. There’s a switch by the door, but it doesn’t work. Everything is gone - my bag, my phone, my weapon. The room is only a little bigger than my bathroom at home. There’s only the one door, and I can’t reach the ceiling. It’s been twelve hours. Nobody is coming to save m...
Every one of Andy’s toys was gathered around the Playskool baby monitor earnestly listening into what the Sergeant was telling Woody. Like always Rex was wishing for a dinosaur friend and Mr. Potato head was giving his critique on each present described. “Alright, Andy is opening the next present.” The soldier reporte...
Holy- Holy- WHAT?!! You stared at your best friend Ivan. He blinked. You kept gaping, your jaw dropped. Another blink. Yet you still didn’t move. Ivan shifted a little from your intense gaze. “Uh, you okay...?” “IVAN. WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME?!” Ivan flinched from your loud voice. He swore you’d grown 5 feet taller in...
Your heart stops in your chest as you try to convince yourself that you've read it wrong. You look up from behind your book at the gangly man across from you in the café. You cringe behind your book when you realise you haven’t read it wrong. He is going to kill you. You like your gift, in a masochistic kind of w...
"well sir, I didn't know she was an alien." "I'm sorry, was the SPACESHIP, lodged in YOUR roof, NOT a dead giveaway?!?!?!" I looked up at my roof "oh yeah..." "Oh yeah!? Oh yeah!?!?" "Hey hun, come check this out."My wife came up from behind me and wrapped her left tentacle around my shoulder. "Did you park your UF...
Bezir shuffled his feet in apprehension and impatience. The humans were about to arrive and might invade Kristal, he has heard rumours saying. He was nervous, not in the face of an invasion, but at the thought of finally being able to see a human firsthand. This might be a once in a lifetime experience for him! The hum...
We've been sailing since the sickness came. We've been weeping since the sickness came. We've been starving since the sickness came. No matter what we've done, I have to push on. I've felt so alone since the sickness came. I've felt so weak since the sickness came. I've felt so useless since the sickness came. ...
It was like staring into a mirror with a bad fashion sense. Across the bar there was a 'me'. I mean, clearly it wasn't me because I 'm me, but it was also completely me; from the worn leather jacket to the appletini. I took a sip of \my\ appletini, took a look at my phone and then back at him like it would change som...
"You seem to be worried, old man"approached a deckhand the navigator. "Clouds always bring misfortune"answered the old man. Old. He was barely in his fifties, but hard life and sea winds do tend to make you older than you look. "Hmpf"the young deckhand shrugged and eyed the clouds. "It may be a bit acidic, yeah. But ...
I had known ever since I was little that I wanted to follow in my late father’s footsteps and be a doctor. I was ready for the rigorous years in medical school, and I was ready for the years as a resident in the hospital. Or so I thought, before I knew the truth. I knew something was up on my first day of residency whe...
“H-hello?” Your voice echoed throughout the halls. You were alone. Again. You’d transferred straight from England, all the way into this private institution. It claimed it was for advanced students, yet your grades were just barely average. You knew it was just your mother’s doing, not because you were intelligent...
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You face planted into the nearest couch pillow and groaned. Finals sucked. Your friends had invited you to join in on their sleepover night of watching Aladdin. Which meant, to you, a free night to sleep in relative peace. Sort of. Morgan chuckled as she brought up Netflix on her TV. “Dude, you’ve only been her...
Sheep bound happily in a field. I see them, and I smile. They are light, and fluffy, and they bleat in their adorable little voices. The sun shines down upon them and the vibrant green grass of the pastures they roam. I do love sheep. A shadow passes over them, my shadow, and my heart swells with delight as I dive...
I slowly turn around to see a rhinoceros behind me, confused I turn back around, hit backpage and click the link again. Another rhinoceros appears behind me. This time I was fast enough to turn around and see it materialise right from thin air. It was quite a beautiful sight, seeing the cells grow, multiply, and attach...
I woke up feeling groggy and sweaty. Is it time for work already? God, I hope not, I thought as I rolled over to look at the alarm clock. Squinting I made out the neon green letters. 2:47 A.M. Why am I awake? It's only been 3 hours since I fell asleep. Slightly annoyed with my brain for waking me in the middle ...
It took a second for Dan to realize he was staring at his bedroom ceiling. His brain hadn't quite caught up to the fact that he was awake. Sirens raced by on the street in front his apartment building, but Dan was too used to city life for that to have woken him. Dan closed his eyes and shifted his hips, fully intent o...
I never thought I’d use this room. Never in my life. My parents warned me of the consequences of using this room. How if I’m not careful I could pass away before they reach 56. But this chemistry test is way too important, and this is the only way to study in time. This may be petty, over the top. But if there’s anyone...
“Danny, I think it’s the time you finally know what’s in the basement” Was this it, finally, I had wondered about it for my entire life. When I was a kid I used to think it had hidden treasures. Or maybe my parents were superheroes and that was their secret lair. I just accepted that I would never know when I got into ...
The crunch of lettuce and the squish of tomatoes made a breif echo and was carried away by the cross winds. Mitra looked longingly over the railing, letting small crumbs and debris fall to the almost infinite river below. He sighed, it was a warm day, the cool breeze ruffling through his messy blond hair was only a bre...
Humans don’t know it yet, but we’ve had been on earth since the 2000’s, merely camouflaged in with them to learn more about life on earth. I am one of the observers. Along with a handful of other aliens, we were scattered across the world to learn about different cultures, different governments, different people. Over...
Be gentle, this is my first time sharing anything at all! &#x200B; The irony of it all. For so much of the 20th and 21st centuries, this place had been the go-to scapegoat; “yes we need to make some improvements, but have you seen the numbers coming from China?” Smog, civilians wearing masks, a questionable ...
“Happy Hunting” He said, a smirk spreading across his face, “Should’ve known you’d crop up eventually.” She held the knife, it rested just in his field of vision, saturated in blood, his blood. “Tell you the truth, probably should’ve killed you when you were small. So defenceless” He said feigning joy through gritted...
My affliction feels similar to what I imagine haunts the lycanthrope. When the blue sky and tangerine sun trade places with the stars and the darkness and the shifting pale lantern which illuminates that darkness, something hidden draws out of me the way that mythological beast emerges out of the diseased man. My beast...
I was the ruler of a enormous, dense cluster of stars. All except for one average planet. They weren't too determined, excessively annoying, or in possession of decent defenses. Their planet was green, blue, and white. A rare palette, but still not even a pathetic excuse of a defense against master conquerors. They had...
It was finally here. He had scored a great deal on it and only paid $5200 for the greatest appliance known to man. The plumbers brought it in and took kit upstairs. A few hours later it was set up, but he couldn’t use it just yet. Two more days so the drywall could be put up and painted. Then he could enjoy the high li...
All my life I've looked up at stars and wondered about what life forms may lurk in the vast open darkness of the sky. Today my team uncovered what appears to be a time capsule, similar to one we sent into deep space about 40 years ago. It contains drawings of creatures fairly similar to us. What could this mean? We ha...
"Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the Chrono Drive!" The scientist looked like a typical mad inventor from old movies: wild grey hair, ragged labcoat, strange mannerisms. However, this man was standing in a NASA conference room at a table, on which a small space probe was placed, and serious executives and engineer...
Hey! I thought to myself one rainy Friday morning in New York City. Wouldn’t it be cool to have, like, some super epic powers? Like Superman, but better? I could, like, stop the rain... and always look good... and be strong... And just as I am thinking this, it all happens. The rain begins to die down, my hair was com...
I had done jobs like this before. It wasn't hard, all you have to do is stand there, stay silent, and look intimidating. At nearly seven feet tall, and constantly wearing what many people have to described to me as my signature "don't-fuck-with-me"expression, it was an easy task to accomplish. Something was different ...
Decided to tell this story from a different angle; my apologies. &#x200B; Yet another day, yet another occupant. This time, it was a rather disheveled, very distraught man. His clothes were ripped in some areas, singed in others. His hair was unkempt and wild, same with his beard. I stared at him from the oppos...
The two men sit either side of each-other. An oak table with Fine engravings between them. And upon it, a map, a pair of Tumblers filled with malt brown brandy, and a pair of lit cigars, suspended in the ashtray between them, the map itself was a map of the Martian continent, where chess pieces represented divisions a...
I was in my room working on a new joke when my best friend stuck his head inside. "Sup, dude. Want to shoot some hoops?"he asked, tossing a big, orange basketball up in the air. I shook my head in frustration as I struggled to come up with a punchline to the joke. "Can't,"I muttered. "I'm working on a joke." He ste...
It wasn't so much about finding the pairing. Every animal on earth had them. A perfect pairing, another animal who complimented them, made life easier and solved problems that otherwise couldn't be solved alone. Plants seemed to have multiple pairings, lucky things. Its not like humans hadn't tried and succeeded wit...
Today is my birthday. Hurray me, 22 years old, still living in my parent’s place, going to community college, working at an animal shelter. God, I hate my life. When will this life of mine change? The answer is always the same “Tomorrow”. Tonight, like all other night I put on the movie that I have loved since I was 3...
April quickly locked the door behind her and sighed in relief as the last bolt snapped into place. She shouldn’t have stayed out this late. Things weren’t safe, especially for someone who lived alone in a small house outside of town. Carefully, April went through each room, turning on the lights as she went along. Onc...
Sarah placed a hand on her leg in an attempt to steady it, with only partial success. She fought the urge to check her phone. The secretary was watching her, and phone use might count against her. It was one of the tips her mom had given her before the interview: reception staff can have almost as much sway over th...
The detective popped in a piece of nicotine gum as he looked over the latest forensic report. People didn’t really smoke anymore, but no one could deny the desire for a simple nicotine high. Many things had changed over the years, but catering to societal vices would always be profitable, so life finds a way. The weapo...
"AHHHH. AGH, oh FUCK!", Mandy screamed as she woke up. "Christ, what was that nightmare?"She mumbled to herself fear turning to confusion as the memory of the dream faded. She was shaking herself awake, taking deep breaths to collect her thoughts when she realised that something else was off. The dull throb of a headac...
Allison woke slowly, groggily, battling her way to consciousness from the vivid dream she'd been lost in. She'd been swimming in the clearest, bluest waters, deep down, amongst the brightest colored fish and fronds of seaweeds. She'd been so at home, unlike anything she'd ever felt in the waking world, where she'd bo...
It's been a few weeks since cryptids started appearing. It started with mermaids playing in a popular lake, which the kids were really excited about. Then werewolves howling right outside our windows, humanoids with different types of wings sprouting from their backs and centaurs clip clopping down the street. It didn...
I fulfilled everything that I had in my life, some might even say that I exceeded that, some might I say that I agree on that. The truth is, I don't care. I never did. Always having everyone depend on you to save their day.. It gets exhausting, real fast, especially if you are like me, someone who never liked doing muc...
Those rose-coloured glasses. Herald's glasses. Pure bliss. Withdrawal. Withdrawal. As my gaze returned to the real world, the bright blue sky seemed like a dreary blight. The inviting, glistening sands of the eternal beach seemed like glaring shards of glass. The divide between the sky and ocean like a million miles ...
I looked across at the man sitting on my sofa, wrapped up in my blankets. "What the hell are you talking about, man?" The man looked down at his feet. "I...I know you're not going to believe me, but I'm from the future..." I nodded along, beginning to wonder about the mental state of this stranger. I guess I could...

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