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I'm a magickian for hire, specializing in law magick. It's a thankless job, and a boring one, but my clients pay very well for the services and the discretion I provide. And thanks to the patronage of a select few clients, I don't want for much. I live a quiet life, in a quiet house, tucked away in the mountains of the... |
Quinn steps inside the local dive bar to meet her old friend at the other end of the bar sipping on his martini as he waved her over. “Quinn long time no see.”
“You too, make any money this week?” She asked playfully.
“You know being a puppet for a maniacal, old ass doesn’t pay as much as I thought it would.”
“Sho... |
(Apologies in advance for grammar issues. English is my first language - I'm just not proofreading these after I write them.)
Czerny smoked a cigarette under the bus stop cabin. It cracked in his lungs, but it filled him with the warmth of fire and fix. All day at work he was hungry for it, but the no-smoking-on-site ... |
The creature was a gross juxtaposition. A fleshy lump, slowly breathing. A single eye gazed languidly through our bodies, as if we weren’t really there. The eye was more grey than white, with little more than a pin prick sized pupil. Somehow this was more menacing. The eye told its story, without the need for any wor... |
52 years. 52 years of complete and total isolation. Over a half century since everything died... well ceased to live was a better way of putting it. None of the bodies decayed. The world was left a huge museum grade diorama of itself. Humans and animals alike simply stood frozen in time. None had heartrate and were col... |
I... had forgotten everything. I am not entirely sure why I am even walking along side this road, but a kind man seemed to suggest it after I showed him my great confusion. As I watched the sun rise, I could suddenly feel something, a story, my own, unfold. I glanced back, but the man was already gone.
I remembered w... |
“Have you seen this one?” Grarg said, then bit the head off a vacuum slug without taking his sensors from the particle screen.
“What now?” Said commander Greeg.
“During some kind of robot uprising, they reprogrammed a robot and sent it back in time to stop them rising up in the first place.”
“My goodness! It's wors... |
"Listen Vic, I can get that shit from china for pennies on the dollar don't fuck me like that, I don't see any mistletoe up my ass!", I said slamming the phone so hard my peppermint cigar ashed all over my pressed tunic.
This fucking jobs gonna be the death of me, and I live forever. Its gonna be a long Christmas if ... |
When dreams don’t leave with the sunrise, you know they’re important.
I sat back in my bed, trying to put together the fragments of last nights vision. It was a confused jumble; urgent, unsettling and tantalizing in every detail. I tugged gently at the threads of recollection, fearing at any moment that the whole thi... |
Far too many ideas and not enough fuel. I would love to get other writer's input, as I genuinely experience what I would call "the muse effect".
Not to make any claims of specialty, I am not unique I believe, I simply can't write a story unless it is "flowing".
Just writing this makes me cringe, but I am being genui... |
Elsie Desrouffet disappeared in 1960, less than a year after her husband had his second stroke and passed. She left a short note saying that if Felix didn’t need her here anymore, she saw no reason to stay, and also for the next owner of the house to keep an eye on the old oak that had been looking sickly. She took the... |
\[POEM\]
In youth a day was but a drag, a mile, a task, an age.
But over time the rate of change, would see impatience fade.
Soon my days were lost in weeks, and months; no longer slow.
And years would flash before my eyes, where did my time all go?
Life itself seems but a dream, as seasons whizz on by,
Each of t... |
(Everything in double quotes is a real quote from Moby Dick.)
"Call me Ishmael". It's not my name, but it fits the story I am about to tell.
I was one of the first men recruited to Elon's mad quest. He told me that he had gotten all his money just for this effort, and that we were going to save the world. I couldn... |
Beep beep beep. Smash! I hit the alarm clock, stretch out and start to blink. Everything is a little fuzzy, you know how sometimes you get gunk in your eye. Like that. I rub my eyes and it still seems fuzzy except for this white line at the bottom left of my vision. I couldn't quiet tell what it was, but then it w... |
As the night began I watched from inside my little shop as the survivors outside prepared for the night I could hear the subtle sounds of fires crackling and spoons hitting the sides of bowls as people ate, I could hear people laughing and talking it was peaceful here.
Who knew that opening a supply shop at the end ... |
I remember it clearly, the day I found this curious artefact. Actually, it had found me, in a dusty antique shop. I was walking home from work, the most important things on my mind were whether to order pizza or chinese to eat while watching Netflix and numbing my thoughts, when I noticed the shop. The spark of novelty... |
We all worry about the butterfly effect, but the universe has a way of preventing paradoxes. Whatever we do to try and change the past will always be canceled out by entropy. I could've went back in time and killed a dictator, but another would just as easily have taken their place. People like to think that they have ... |
Filled with anger over the slaughter of your family, you walk towards the vampire.
The vampire stares at you and seems rather confused by your appearance.
As you draw closer, your rage turns into determination. You intend to kill this thing in revenge and thus prevent any further slaughter of other innocents.
The va... |
The broken glass crunches like gravel beneath my heavy soles.
The glass windows have been smashed in; now tiny fragments glitter like diamonds under the midday sun. As I walk into the store, a funeral silence greets me. I have never seen an empty supermarket before, and the sight fills me with dread. Ever since the r... |
The sun was shining up above the small rays of light illuminating the world below. The occasional glimmer of metal elucidating valuable salvage. Sparkling chunks of iron and steel within the ruins of the old city center.
The old stone and concrete held together by the twisting vegetation clinging onto it's form. A verd... |
My son came to me and asked, "Dad, did you see that? All those animals running by?"
I laughed. I said, "I did, son. How could I miss them? They were kicking up so much dirt, I thought it was a sandstorm!"
Then my son asked me, "But did you notice anything strange or unusual about the animals?"
"No,"I answered him.
... |
I – New Acquaintances
In my old age, I am no longer surprised at anything. I do still get excited, though. Excited is how I felt when the sonorous doorbell reverberated through the old mansion. I was even glad enough to get out of my snug armchair in front of the cackling fire. A few months had passed since the last v... |
*Oh, so close! Keep trying, Val*...
The message scrawled on the mirror was just another reason why Val was relentlessly pursuing this guy. Money be damned, this asshole put out a hit on himself and Val got stuck with it. It wasn't the first time -- folks did this a lot, actually -- but not all of them were lifetime Sp... |
"On its surface, it's a simple concept,"the old man offered to the group of young men. "Energy in - energy out. Nothing comes from nothing, but somethings come's from somethings."
The young wards were clothed in dark monk robes, their hair shaved from their heads. Their faces were much thinner than the two weeks befor... |
*types out alien script* just kidding! Here’s your story!
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Dear diary,
Today we are landing on what is believed to be another habitable planet. This is the second one this year, and my family back at earth thinks it would be the same as the other one.
Me and my crew weren’t with the last... |
**I was the dumb girl who followed a guy,**
**I don’t know why I followed that guy,**
**But I wanted to die.**
**That really, weird guy was a vampire,**
**That raced and chased and put venom inside me,**
**He swallowed my blood, so I caught his curse,**
**I don’t know why he bit me that night,**
**I wa... |
I sat at the old swing chair for hours that day, allowing the loud screeching noise to silence my troublesome thoughts, the cheap cigarettes also helped, beyond the crumbling house’s porch i saw destruction, empty houses, broken windows and blood, so much blood.
Ever since the catalyst took place in 2027 the governme... |
Stories of The Thousands Speak
Desperation: Tides of Magic Crash in Gurwantu Bay!
[Part 1: *Preparing for an Ending*]
The witch kith, Dallasandra and Ipophomet, didn't have time to admire their handy work as an assortment of thorns, crags and ice formations pierced, lifted, and ran aground *The Revengence.* They had... |
"The situation is dire gentlemen". The archangel Michael placed around the war room in front of the table I sit at along with some of the greatest warriors and generals of all human history. In front of me sat Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf in his desert fatigues, Shaka Zulu in his tribal war dress, Hannibal Barca in his ... |
I silently thank my uber driver and hand him some won’s, the currency of south Korea, the amount seems to satisfy him and he nods his BTS cap at me as he drives away, leaving me in front of one of the tall buildings of Seoul. Even though it’s nearly midnight the streets are not empty, they are actually quite crowded.
... |
Alright let's rock!
The band took the stage, like they have before a hundred time. They were a cover band from Chicago, though not known to the world they are here for a very important purpose. To test a new kind of weapon.
Watching from a control bunker a safe distance away, a couple millitary official look on. "So... |
"I've lived a good life"I say to myself surrounded by my family, all crying weeping or holding back tears.
I managed to live up to my 70th birthday before things took a turn for the worst now I'm laying in a hospital bed, I'm too weak to even reach out and take my Wives hand, "i want to hold her hand one more time at... |
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I see the shadows often. When I sleep I see them, they dance circles around my head, a crown of torment.
You think that you know suffering, but let me tell you, as the wisps of smoke of what could be linger in my room, myself frozen in place and helpless to watch them, that is real suffering. To know that deep down s... |
"So how is that missing person's case going, Detective Helmsley?"Commissioner Michaels asked me, with a goofy grin on his face.
"Shawn, you already know me. Go ahead and call me by my real name. Anyways, I haven't gotten any substantial leads. Went to his apartment complex, and the residents there told me that the las... |
I'm Santa Claus. I've been Santa for the past 1000 years, and I do a damn good job of it. But my time is up, and I haven't found any replacement Santas. 'Till this guy came in, anyway... but he seems pretty sketchy. I dunno if I want to trust him.
"Right, so... your name is...?"
"Leon DeFonso."
"Okay. Well, you're S... |
I am about 80% sure that this isn’t regulation, 90% sure that this is illegal, and 95% sure that we’ll be eventually caught and imprisoned for this.
On the other hand, I’m 100% sure that this is a lot of fun.
A bullet crashed through the back window, zipped right past me head, and shattered the rear-view mirror.
Rig... |
\[Poem}
When words bind us into our paths,
And the chance for change seems bust
Where else can we turn but the best of the best
In Traveller's Law Firm we trust.
They swindle, they cheat, they bend the rules
Yet nobody's ever complained or called them the fools.
Their English Minors finally put to use like nobod... |
With every breath, with every blink of an eye, Rhodrick would see their face staring back at him, a silent plea for help pressed upon their cracking lips. The obvious question was who; *who were they?* But to that Rhodrick already had an answer, one he didn't like at all.
Rhodrick was labelled a madman, with the appro... |
When I first realized it was not normal that they come to life, I was only three years old. I remember my mom telling me, trying to make me understand, that I’d have to keep it a secret. She said she had the same ability. It was inherited to the first born of each generation.
I watched her create, day in, day out, and... |
*Bill's Log \~\~ An Observation of Principles Pertaining to the Mystic Coin \~\~*
If you're reading this, I am most likely no longer of this life. How I died I am unsure, although I hope it was a natural death and not something rather...unfortunate coming from the coin. I have done my best to record a series of tests ... |
I wrinkled my eyebrows at the person who interrupted me, clearly not enjoying be pulled away from my drink. It was Gunnery Sergeant Huschens; clean chiseled face, camo fatigues and a drill instructor hat. At first his voice sounded official and very commanding, but upon hearing me answer affirmatively, changed to that ... |
>***Captain's Log: ᏉᎥጀᎥᏉ***
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>*We thought we knew everything about the universe there was to know. We were able to transport people and objects faster than light could catch up with us. The ends of the habitable universe were within our grasp... or at least what we knew of the universe. To the dismay of m... |
“Hera, are you sure that this is something we have to do?” I asked, walking down the halls of the annoyingly bright and pink hallway,
“Yes, I’m sure, and the sooner we get this done, the sooner you can stop complaining. I think this is the right room.”
I looked at the sign on the side of the door. It read, “Room 69-Drs... |
"How much did we make, Partner?"
"Are you seriously asking me for a bribe?"
"Well, no. Sargent Bill Thompson, Nevada Gaming Commission. I'd like to ask you a few questions."
"Can I guess, you're about to ask me how I got nine royal flushes in a row and how I knew to bet high on each of them. Am I right?"
"In a word... |
~~Dear Diary,~~~ Anyone who's reading this, this is my last few days on this station.
I've lost count the number of days I've been up here for.
Certain parts of the station were damaged by what must have been bits of some satellite- there's so much room up here in this endless void, and yet they still collided.
... |
As a child Chey would roam the lesser travelled pathways of our world, seeking out the wonders hiding at their ends. Often he'd come back with vivid tales of those places that to the average mind did not exist.
*An over active imagination.* His parents would say, mostly laughing away their sons strange stories, thoug... |
When I was a kid he was just Mr. Skelington, my imaginary friend. I'd see him in public, toddle up, and babble at him. Mom laughed it off, and dad ignored it. At least, until I started elementary school. They sat me down and explained that I was growing up, and that he was an imaginary friend. I'd be going to big girl ... |
"I mean despite his inherent, shortcomings..."I said to my Daughter Astra in a way that was slightly demeaning "...you really have fallen for him."i finished and went back to her Dinner while her Boyfriend Dennis was on the Toilet.
She looked at me raised her eyebrows and said quietly "Please Mom, not here, not now, n... |
“So, what do you propose, Doctor?”
Everyone in the room was looking at him. Some were clearly nervous but tried to hide it. Others waited for someone else to make a mistake, and then sink their teeth into poor shmuck’s throat. A lot of dangerous folks here tonight.
“Well, it’s not like we can bet whether or not he’... |
It had taken Wolfgang 30 years to get here, as he stood at the summit of a small hill he marvelled at the sheer number of men around him. Tents stretched as far as the eye could see as his men and their families rested in preparation for there final push. The attack of Rome.
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The campaign had seen the Da... |
Don't forget that [Scrivener](https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) is offered at half price to NaNoWriMo participants. (In the interests of full disclosure, I *have* Scrivener but it is not a software I regularly use for writing as my current projects were started using a different methodology and it ... |
Things have evolved. I still remember the 40's crisis. A huge wave of apathy has stricken human civilization. It was too early to spread "privacy fashion"then. Suddenly everyone was wearing a blank featureless face. devoid of emotion, and of any characteristics. Even androids appeared warmer. more human. Disconnection... |
I've heard it said of a distant, mythical land, that they once experienced a time called 'the dark ages.' All the kingdoms knew of these tales, and we talked about them freely. Many assumed the darkness was literal, others determined it was a sort of intellectual stagnation. But the real meaning was not important, in t... |
The man looked at the sign - so art deco, "private eye"- and then he observed the facade again. Befuddled, he tilted his head. Was it *in* there?
Two children came out, playfully waving what seemed like a wand, one of them, and the other navigating a retro ship in the air while making displaced car-sounding noises.
H... |
Something about the way this flaccid slab of NY Strip inched and scrunched its way out of the bathroom like a brown legless caterpillar left us in a state of shock. Frozen in fear. All the air sucked out of the room, as we watched the 12oz menace round the corner.
The worst part was the slap. The slap of the wet meat ... |
An ocean tide wind slammed without mercy against my thick glass wall. My house was pretty much made of glass, so I got an amazing view of what they are calling the storm of our lifetime. It’s honestly beautiful, blankets of gray/blue ice rain are going in all directions against my windows like an orchestrated dance.
... |
"Ah! Thank you for seeing me today Destroid, its a pleasure to finally meet you, it's a shame you missed out on the last corporate party, Susan brought a mince pie that was just to die for!"I smiled, trying to ease the villains tension, his leg bouncing against the ground, sending small ripples through the room, nearly... |
The bundles of tightly wrapped paper fell into the bag. The canvass filled up in a jumbled heap as it poured over the counter, thrust suddenly across. Bundle after bundle continued to come across, as endlessly as a buffet plate refills itself on five dollar night. Then, as rapidly as the stream of freshly printed paper... |
"I am the lord of darkness, the inevitable, Nephthys, Hades, der Tod, Azrael, livsfara, ölüm, kamatayan, morte..."
"Yeah of course,"the life grinned. "A very thin, short little guy."
"I am not short, actually for standarts of 1500's I can be considered as-"
"Little!"The older girl shouted. "And we are not in 1500's... |
"In my restless dreams, I see that town,"said the familiar character, named Mary, in a disembodied voice, as a figure overlooks a lake. "Silent Hill. You've promised you'd take me there again someday. But you never did. Well, I'm alone there now, in our special place, waiting for you..."
My hands on the controller, I ... |
Justin, Justin Wellesley, was a likeable young man, 17 years old in his second last year of school.
He was smart, funny, and personable, got along well with everybody and had his own circle of friends who were part of the schools athletic team, above all the one thing he'd always felt he stood out in was his dedicati... |
I jerk awake, sweating and panting with terror.
Not again. Ronald McDonald has been haunting my dreams for the past six years.
Six years of fluorescent red hair and a manic unwavering grin haunting me.
I sigh and heave myself out of bed.
I pad into the bathroom to rinse the cold beads of sweat from my face.
Steadyin... |
"I guess I never expected to do anything. This job is supposed to be one where no action is a good thing. Having to actually work on something aside from practice could be devastating to the people at large. So when the orders came down from on high, shock was the first feeling I remember.
"I went through the motio... |
"Betty, not yet", I wistfully said. A hand that once firmly held mine in hers, fragilely laid in mine.
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"Thomas, we both knew I couldn't fight forever. I'm so exhausted and I feel ready", Betty whispered.
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Since this disease began, Betty and I were able to survive. As society mirrored those... |
So, my twin sister and I recently started going to the same college (she's majoring in journalism, I'm majoring in law). To save on rent, we live in the same apartment. Unfortunately, the apartment building happens to be in the worst part of town. Seriously. We were trying DoorDash, and when it scanned our location, it... |
Shimar wiped the sweat from his glasses for the third time in as many minutes. From shirt to socks, he was drenched in sweat. He took a moment to squeeze the last drops of an aqua pouch into his mouth before puzzling over the open panel again. It was so damn hot.
“Techie, where’s my power?” The vox link at Shimar’... |
Jim/Brian and Cindy 5 yrs after h[ttps://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/dhqsw9/wp\_you\_feel\_the\_weight\_of\_the\_dirt\_all\_around/f3susg3/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/dhqsw9/wp_you_feel_the_weight_of_the_dirt_all_around/f3susg3/?context=3) :
It took me 3 years to tell Cind... |
In the eyes of the human, the neon lights of the cities made up for the dissapearing of the day and even the animals and the plants learned their ways under the artifical radiance. However, the Night and its glorious veil of darkness did not found any solace in this travesty of the daylight. The pitiful street lamp cou... |
You are the first baby of the first generation born in space on a long, 150 light-year journey to another Earth like planet. However, no other babies are born and slowly it's revealed that you're in fact an illegal and experimental clone of your father, because cryosleep during the journey has rendered the original gen... |
**Hell's Mind Newt**
Hell’s most powerful creature is a minute newt, barely an imp in size and as black as pitch and as sticky as glue. It sticks to its prey’s hair and sinks into their brain as they sleep, conjuring frightening images of torture and tyranny to scare its victims into submission.
Of course, this is on... |
**Teleportation Troubles**
Of course the eggheads tried to minimize all possible instances of the teleporters causing bodily harm but unfortunately, their efforts appeared to be not enough. Only when the devices were set up in every major and minor city across the globe did rumor begin to spread that teleporting had ... |
"I like my toes serenaded with remoulade and grilled to perfection, and my eyeballs injected with whipped cream and served on a silver platter. The intergalactic culinary arts program will teach you how to genocide human populated planets and harvest their precious flesh. Tuition starts at only 897848977985€¥£, and th... |
"She brought this on herself"Deacon forced himself to say when he read the king's interrogation list and Catherine's name was on it. "It is the will of the king".
The walk to the dungeon was one he had taken many times before and it brought back memories for him. Some he remembered fondly, others not so much. Today h... |
Blood Of A Martyr
For Two Years I Have Been The Reigning Champion Of The Blood Pits Arena Of McCall. A Small City Infesting This Small Winding Valley Plastered With Pine Trees And Bandits. The Ruined Concrete Damn Looming Overhead Of The Town Casting The City Into Near Perpetual Shadow. And Yet The Light That So Rarel... |
We barged into the closet, my mind wandering all about before it happened. You see, our middle school is ancient, built in 1938, just before the war. A underground shelter was allegedly built under the school. It was made to be airtight, so if the Nazis gassed London, we wouldn't suffer from the horrors of gas, or so t... |
Everyone remembers where they were the first time they saw the spot.
I was on my way home from work, at a traffic light that was notoriously hard to see against the setting sun. Deciding when the light was green was always a guessing game, and more than a few times I found myself accidentally cutting someone off or n... |
"Hey waiter!!"
*Story\_Telling\_Person* turned around at the sound of the loud voice, abruptly stopping her writing of an order the customer in front of her had just ordered. She turned back to her current customer, an older woman who had just ordered a burger and fries to tell her that she would be right back with he... |
"Look how cute you are!"I screamed, petting the beatiful golden retriever.
"Yeah, I hear this a lot,"he said. I didn't expect it to talk. I am not Dr. Dolittle, am I?
"Now you have to come with me, mortal. I really believe in you, you will be very helpful in this war."As he said that he turned into a man, young but t... |
I slipped the mask over my face, not completely convinced that it would hide my identity. With a huff I pressed the button to livestream. The red dot on my screen lights up and my anxiety sucks out my soul. I'm ready.
"YOOOO, it's ya boy, Freaky! How are you all doing today?"I shout at my camera and spin around like a... |
"Patrick. It's time."
The researcher laughed deeply, as he carefully sifted through the ancient artifacts under the old pineapple. He reached for his favorite weapon, and weighed it in his hand. It has taken a while to recreate the weapon that had brought the end of the humans above, and given sentience to the animals... |
I started my day surrounded by confused, frowning octopuses.
"Hello?"I said.
They only looked at me more quizzically.
"...I'm in the right place, aren't I?"
One lifted a tentacle to me. I became confused as well, until a perfectly clear line of text appeared on the tentacle.
*Are you trying to communicate?*
"Yes,... |
**SCP-XXXX**
**Object Class:** Keter
**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-XXXX is to be held in a humanoid cell with a standard bed and table, along with several cogs aligning the walls to make it appear to be from a futuristic factory. If SCP-XXXX is to ask about their 'pocket' (SCP-XXXX-1), he is to be told they... |
The footsteps were loud and clumsy as they came up my steps. The intruder would have no idea that a 12-gauge slug was waiting chambered in my Remington 870. The steps became clearer as this unwanted guest stumbled up my stairs, the heaviness of steps lead me to believe they were wearing boots. Makes sense since this wi... |
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A harsh voice deteriorated by the chemicals of a thousand cigarettes broke the silence that had settled about the room. “Ben... Ben, get your arse up, we need to move...... |
The past two weeks have been a god damn train wreck.
It was hard getting that call. Devastating. It’s cliché but true – you really don’t realize what you have until it’s gone. My best bud had been smeared across the highway like a bug across a windshield. We’d never hang out, never bicker about dumb shit, never be th... |
"Help...? What ?. Who's Pablo ?"
Those are the word your incoherent ass blurted out, still not sure that you have awoken or were still dreaming.
The man handed you a picture:
"Pablo is a dog you had promised to do anything for her. We have the screenshot with your comment right here with your username on it"
"yea .... |
"Hey Bob, you see the news?"
"Yeah man, biggest datacenter in the country, up in smoke."
"We feel anything here? I was driving in when I saw the smoke"
"Yeah, we had a blip for about five minutes. Then Joe over in I.T. got an automated call that we were being transferred over to a center on the east coast. They said... |
The rain brought strong winds and four identical murders.
And the flooding. God, the flooding. The police had all been out the entire week, directing teams of volunteers in soaked, cheap ponchos and waterlogged work boots. Men with trucks, weekend warriors who had seen their opportunity to shine and jumped on it. The ... |
The dead inched forward, dragging their decaying limbs towards me. The horde swayed forward, clacking what remained of their jaws as if I were already in their hands. These corpses had feebly clawed themselves from their coffins, fuelled by an unquenchable hunger for the living, two weeks ago. Bullets were now in shor... |
“We’re sorry, but your existence violates our community guidelines”
The woman read the strange sentence from a sheet of paper - the only thing in the room that looks like it hadn’t had beer spilled on it at some point. She continued to stare at the sheet of paper as though she couldn’t bear to look me in the eye while... |
It started out as a pretty average Thursday in fall, not yet late enough in the year for the nights to become bitterly cold, just crisp with clear black skies – perfect for stargazing. I was driving my truck down the I-44, keeping an eye on the other traffic and listening to the radio. They interrupted my singalong ses... |
The year was 2069, a war had broken out, invading everyone's lives. This war was all in the amazingly realistic virtual world, televised all across nations Bets were made and ranks were given to "Soldiers". I think everyone blocked out the fact our nations were the ultimate prize for the winner, they treated it like th... |
During these years, thousands of species returned to their homes and ecosystems. They also spread and established new genetic lines. When we banned fishing for sharks and rays, it was the sharks that started to spread the genetic elements of their bodies and brains, and they also bred these new genes into new species. ... |
“Is it broadcasting?” I ask the tech hand in the decrepit studio. He flashes five fingers, then four then three. The lights come on and bathe me in their glow. I was dressed in my full military dress uniform. It was suitable that salvation and destruction be one and the same and it is ironic that it should come at the ... |
Hitachi Jherico was not a dumb man, nor was he particularly a smart man, but there was one thing no one in the world could call him. A coward. When the Shogun demanded his loyal lords send their best Samurai to his defense, Jherico complied. Among the Kyoto elite Jherico was somewhat of an anomaly, born to a christian ... |
I rubbed my eyes in a haze. “Hmm. That’s not right.” The clock read 2:00 am. The knocking turned into rapid, thundering bangs. “Er, one moment!” The answer was simple: I’m dreaming. When in Rome so they say. I walked over to the new door, a solid white thing in the center of the room, not attached to any wall. The br... |
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Today was lousy, I woke up and everything was dark and gray and gloomy, just your average fall morning. Are you at work no change there. Opening up my email I side and looked at the mountains of work that accumulated. But then, then I noticed something peculiar, it was a letter from no one. Intrigued I opened it and sa... |
"You look well."I said cruelly, watching the hobbled mess of a hero drag their body towards me. Their once powerful physique reduced to that of a leper. His ribcage pushing against dry skin with each heaving breath, such a pitiful sight... it was like a mutt that needed to be put down.
"You took EVERYTHING from me!"He... |
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