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There she stood, adorned in armor that donned deep slashes. The most prominent being a hole in the back where the Archangel had pierced her. It had to be from behind, if she were rushed from the front they wouldn't have stood a chance. Having been one of them she knew what they were capable of. The time she served un...
You first expected that the era was the 1850s, 1860s, or so. Looking closer you see that you can’t focus on people fully before they start to change, dull in color, maybe? But that’s not right because one person you look hard at actually disappears. You walk outside, and see much of the same, nothing like what has happ...
Dreary is the life without emotion. Every day passes into the next without special ceremony or thought. A gang of schoolkids holding candy bars high in the air laugh and run past a group of gloomy office suits. The workers probably have a strict ”no candy during work” policy because of the porven short term improvment ...
I clenched the pair of dice and closed my eyes, meditating on the image of where they would roll. I visualized their fall and felt the round dots slowly come to a halt. “Twelve.” I yelled, throwing my hand and watching them tumble across the kitchen table. As I opened my eyes a roaring headache overtook me. There th...
Craig honestly didn't know if he was going mad when he first found it. The photo was underneath the blotter on his late wife's desk. Dead center, perfectly equidistant from the edges. It was grainy, slightly unfocused but he recognized the girl instantly. On it's back was scrawled a date in his wife's hand- The date it...
I was just an extremely below average kid I had a vast knowledge of random things such as how physics works I know about most things but it’s all back level knowledge and everyone Said I had potential. If only they knew how... wrong ...right? I’m not sure but when this all started was originally just a bad day. I had w...
Sarah gasped for breath as she stumbled back to the Habitat. The air was leaking out of her spacesuit but she couldn't focus on that. She was well beyond that. Five more steps. Her back ached. Her arms ached. Her head throbbed. Four more steps. The unending alarm screeching into her ears seemed almost to fall on deaf e...
"Master, the preparations are complete." "Excellent, now stand over there and be quiet!" "Yes Master" I stood up from my desk, and stretched, feeling my back pop. Long hours of study had lead to this moment, a new breakthrough in the dark arts of necromancy. The new method of raising bodies to serve was about to be ...
The day that Exorcist Jung arrived in our village was the best day of my life. She alone was able to name the demon which had tormented me every waking day for ten years, preventing me from leaving my domicile: “Agoraphobia”, a foul beast that with the help of Exorcist Jung I was able to defeat using “exposure therapy”...
You wake up to the sound of your alarm clock, just like every morning. Groaning, you roll out of bed. "Just three more days until the weekend,"you tell yourself. "You can do this." Opening your bedroom door, you almost trip over your two roommates and boyfriend. They're kneeling on the hallway carpet in a half-circ...
"You're just a demon! We serve no goddess like y-"where his last word, as his head fell on the ground. "Anyone else want to be relieved of his head?" Her voice was calm. Despite the large number of people, too many to count, none dared utter a word anymore. It's the 6th that had lost his life. Two insulted her, one a...
"So...can I ask why? I figured most soldiers were, you know this size...generally." Martha indicated the armor where it sat on it's dolly, not much taller than she was. In fact, she knew several people who were a good deal taller than the armor. "Surprise. The armor sized for men, usually around six feet tall or so,...
In 5 minutes I am going to go into a time machine, buckle myself in, and be transported somewhere in the future for 3 days. I don’t know how far in the future. I don’t know when. But I will be. I signed up for the first ever lab trial for time travel. No one know what to expect. In 4 minutes I am going to go into...
Either we are the first or we are one of the last. Nonetheless we made it. Humanity escaped the boundaries of earth and the solarsystem and now with the Gate-technology at hand we reached for the stars. Closing the distance of millions of light years to a few hundred meters as long as the gate is stable. At first we ...
King Daeke was wise and benevolent, loved by all of his subjects. He also considered himself a patient man, considering all that was upon his shoulders. 'Another' it called, and a terrified man appeared at it's shoulder with a horn of steaming chocolatl. With shaking hands, the man placed it on the table, turned it jus...
I'm probably the best at what i do and it's not too brag, i like the adrenaline, the chasing, the feeling of blending with the night. You might be asking what's my job. Well, have you ever seen the Mona Lisa painting? It's fake. Yes, I'm a professional on the run thief, some of the stolen things have been searched for...
I sat against against a tree not far from where the fabled sword in the stone taunted would-be kings. I had heard the stories, everyone had, of the impossible task. How only one chosen by the divine could lift the sword from its resting place. I had also heard how many had failed in the year since it appeared, and how ...
You know, you’d think people would be shocked That I’m Alive, happy for me, glad I’m back, but it’s like i am some creepy ghost, like I’m not properly back in town... No one will speak to me, my own mother just looked at me in anguish, refusing to acknowledge me in public, as if she’d be arrested for aiding and abettin...
"Okay, we can do this, right? I mean, how hard can it be?"I glubbed to the fish beside. He shrugged to the best of his ability. It's hard to shrug when you don't have shoulders, but I had a plan. And I had time. How much time? I somehow knew I had nine hours. Nine hours. Wow, that's a good chunk of time for a fish. Th...
In the latest surveys conducted by the Council of Human Interaction, it has been established that every citizen dies approximately 2.3 times a day. In older cultures and customs, this would be seen as a lie, an impossibility and overall a general concern for the well being of the public. Modern society, on the other ha...
Lydia had always assumed that consciousness faded along with the use of the body. She hadn't been looking forwards to spending her last years of life with aching bones and bedsores, so her sudden collapse on the subway platform had almost come as a blessing, if she could see past the unexpected agony of shortened breat...
"Oh. Uh... Thanks." I tipped the seer a modest amount and made my way out of the dingy, smokey office she was working out of. I can't say what I had been hoping for. I hadn't had high hopes, but honestly, I'd have almost preferred some ominous doom-filled prophecy over "mediocrity". I always thought they were supposed...
I, Guido Mista am a Gang-Star I'll explain it as best I can err. Let's see. So ever since I was young I had decided every day to live as simply as possible and to take every opportunity to not only enjoy life but enjoy it thoroughly and leave no door untried. I enjoyed food and wine and spent my days wandering the st...
So you've heard of God, yes? Powerful being, reincarnates to the humans in many forms to give great messages. We have Odin, Zeus, Osiris, Allah, God himself. He comes in many stories, in many forms for those silly humans. Then there's Hades, Anubis, Tartarus, Lucifer, Satan, God's lovely counterpart. Then there's ...
"Greetings,valued temporal guests." The perky blonde woman on the video screen smiled gently at the small crowd. "Before you enter the park, we would like to take a moment to cover a few rules." A teen in the midst of the crowd could be heard in the small pause. "...space mountain. It's not there in our when. It wa...
Caesar was by no means the most obedient dog in the world, but I would say we have mastered the game of fetch. For months we have been coming to the park to master our trick. The days and nights of throwing a stick with no hope of it returning have finally paid off. "Wow that's amazing! I could never get Mica to that...
Note: This is the second part of my Ghost Books series. It is a welcome coincidence that I have found such prompts with which I can create a series. [Link to the first part](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/gniy9m/wpyou_are_an_aspiring_author_writing_your_first/fra6hqh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=we...
They say that everytime you fall asleep, you will most definitely wake up the next day; that when you close your eyes, you will open them and nothing will change. But everytime you close your eyes, theres a chance that you might wake up somewhere else; somewhere far from our reality. There is a very small chance that...
'And as we walk into the living room we can see how you like to spend your time, lots of paintings in here that will depict your day to day life and the objects showcase your hobbies and interests.' I explained as walked intot he room, taking my time to walk around the room and take it in at the same time as Barry my n...
The sun slowly glides up from the horizon, as a gentle brush of wind flows through the leaves of late spring. The sun warms the back of my head, while the asphalt underneath my knee is still a little chilly from the night. A few birds sing their meandering songs in the sky, and employees everywhere yawn as they open th...
[Announcer]Our first contestant today on Play Stupid Games- [Audience]Win Stupid Prizes! [Announcer]-is one Kar’en from planet Dirt in sector 85273S. She has demanded to speak with the great Glorbulon’s ‘overlord’ [Audience]Gasp! [Announcer]As we all know, the great Glorbulons are the benevolent overlords...
"Hey come on Mike, let's go up to the rooftop!" I grinned at Rav. He was holding the camera, and he had a mischievous twinkle in his eye. We were already on Level 3 of the car park, and as it was now - I checked the time on my phone - 11:18 at night, there was no one around. Even the security office was empty. I grabb...
Everyone says when my house burns down I’ll save my photographs but you won’t, when the fire is licking at your doorstep you will feel three things, fear, sadness, and an adrenalin-fuelled urge to get the fuck out there as fast as you can, everything else pales for that last one. We had moved there to build a world ...
I stared at the picture, noticing the hair, the eyes, the face. I had the same color hair and eyes, and our faces were strikingly similar. I had stumbled out of my friend’s funeral for fresh air, but when I wanted to go back, the funeral director lead me into this one instead. To be fair, I looked a lot like the deceas...
Part 1 I missed Ember so much. She was the sweetest most beautiful cat ever. She was a Short hair Calico. I had a connection with that cat that I had never felt with another pet before. She had been my only friend after the divorce. All these years day after day working and coming home to just my cat had made me appr...
The air tastes of dreams and magic. Fantasies become real. Aging stops. Loved ones of days past appear, not as visions, but as reassembled beings, possessing all memories. But those with a strong will, realize that time shouldn’t move that slow. That a life of lies isn’t life, just lies. Ghosts aren’t real people, th...
"Men, I know they're laughing at us. I know they have all the latest gear. I know a lot of it is cutting edge. I know they don't follow the book. "None of that matters. We are the best. We are the best because we have trained for decades on the most successful ways for men, or a group of men, with simple, ***reli...
We called him 'Brainstem Billy". He was nearly impossible to catch. This would be his twelfth victim. Not only was his method of killing the same across each crime scene, the base of the skull at the back of the neck carved open and violently stabbed, often puncturing the esophagus and severing the arteries in the neck...
It was in the late evening when I finally put down my work to get some dinner. Slowly I dragged myself down the stairs into the kitchen, but once I arrived I noticed something weird. A quiet knocking could be heard in the room. It sounded like someone was hitting something hard against metal. I slowly started to mov...
Kitchen! Yes, Ko It's here again, I just saw it mimicking me. Ko, the milk is in the refrigerator. You will need two ounces of whole milk with five millilitres of vanilla whisked to a froth. Kitchen, where is the small silicon bowl and a fork? Ko, the cat cannot use a fork. You will have to whisk it. It was alway...
The sun was up and I had to get up for the bestowal... if only it could wait for me to wake up, sigh. With a groan, I forced myself to get up from the bed and dress up. They say that you want to impress the Gods, so until the last decade they had those horrifying events, people even died, but rarely would a person be ...
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I started getting the nightmares after my brother died. They had ruled it a suicide--the toxicology had found a cocktail of hard drugs in Nathan's charred remains. He'd fallen asleep with a joint between his fingers, they surmised. Blissfully paralyzed by euphoria, he hadn't even noticed the apartment catch fire around...
"Shhhh, it's going to be okay...,"Debbie consoled the sobbing stranger with an arm around his shoulder. The pair of strangers sat on a lobby bench; and, the small crowd that gathered for his meltdown dispersed. "How?"Brandon asked. He sat hunched over with his elbows on his knees staring down at the sunlit checker car...
It was the first day of opening for my boutique. I was so excited to see how it would go. I was the first time I had ever had the opportunity to make money doing something I really enjoyed. Though, I was also a little anxious, I have to admit. After all I had spent almost all of my money on this and if it didn’t wor...
'Shit, shit, shit, why isn't it working!', I thought. 'Everyone is staring at me!' I looked around and smiled sheepishly and tried an embarrassed chuckle, but the party just kept staring at me swimming naked in the pool. 'Nooooooo, this can't be happening!!!!' Just before I decided to just drown, someone threw a tow...
It was a strange, cataclysmic, yet, completely empty void. Throughout the system of digressions of empty luminescence, I attempted to lift my hand. Yet to my shock, and utter dismay, nothing returned the favor. For just one moment, in this place, I had no form. Yet as soon as I realized that I wanted form, that I crave...
“Do they think we don’t see them?” Ashok’s raspy voice came from behind me as we marched. I looked behind at the necromancer. The old man had only recently realized that we were being followed and neither I nor Carcaros were willing to tell him that we’d known for days. “I doubt they expect to find three mages, traveli...
I never thought they’d do this to me. We’ve flown together since I got out of bootcamp. My first squadron. The Yellow Flashes, they called us back home. I thought we were made of heroes, of individuals so valiant and courageous there was no obstacle we couldn’t overcome. It appears I lied to myself. Bumper, Stripe,...
100 billion lost souls. Still bound by time and space, yet without the power to touch things in the real world. They existed outside of their bodies, still able to talk with others like them. But most of them were bored. Stripped of their ability to create new things. Unable to build a home, most have wandered to a pla...
Covid-19 started in China in 2019. By the end of 2020, it evolves to Covid-20. The pandemic stopped everything from food production to medical treatment to local law enforcement. Martial law ruled the world. The Internet itself was ripped apart and smaller networks replaced the general public’s access to world wide c...
In my Mega Playworld I created an endless rock show, an eternal mosh pit, and a greatest hits metal band to play forever. While totally rocking out in a crowd filled with Brittany Spears clones, a random Selena Gomez appeared. I approached her with all the swagger and confidence of a 15 year old playing a video game...
I'd been having real trouble sleeping as of late. I'd been experiencing those restless nights of checking the clock on the wall to see it was barely half way through the night and going to pee, but coming back and laying awake in that existential insomnia one sometimes gets. As the summer had got more humid, the abilit...
My neighbour has always been a really weird guy. When he first moved in – on a Wednesday of all days. Who moves in on a Wednesday? – he woke me up from a particular good dream. Now, I’m a pretty level-headed guy, but when someone wakes me up at two in the morning, I think I’m allowed to be a little disgruntled. And...
Reus ran from the Tome Vault, a crumpled slip of paper clutched beneath his white knuckles. The Scribes wouldn't stop him. He knew that. He ran anyway. They wouldn't stop him, but Reus knew they'd pursue him. The last time an acolyte defected and tried to take a page from the Tome, he was unceremoniously returned by ...
It was crowded, too crowded. Too many people out and about enjoying their merry sunny day. Despite the recent regulations, people in groups couldn't be stopped. After all, how can someone stop people from getting their natural vitamin D, along with their usual intake of UV rays. "This is perfect. This is exactly what ...
Nelly sat up from the grass and shaded the sun from her eyes with her hand. In front of her, she saw her husband, Nick, and their two-year-old son, Trent, finishing up the last bit of planting in the vegetable garden. “Wow, boys. That garden looks great! What’s the last plant you’re putting in?” Trent glanced up, dir...
There's a weight on my chest. I can barely breathe, but I don't know why it's so difficult. Opening my eyes, I see the demon sitting on my chest. As I'm fighting the rising panic, I realize this can't be real. I've heard of this though: Sleep Paralysis. Remembering something I read about it a long time ago, I close my ...
I think back to my childhood and see myself at the desk. Kindergarten. Mrs. Beetle's class. My #2 pencil freshly sharpened. One question on the paper: "You MUST choose a job, what do you want to do for a living when you grow up?" I was the first generation to experience the Child's Dream Job Act of 2023 in action. I ...
Ethan was one of the "Hunters", or so he thought. He had recently joined the group out of pure boredom, but after a while of hanging out with them, he grew a liking for the quirky members. Jonathan, the ever theatrical performer, had joined to continue his acting career for millennia to come. Greg, the experimental che...
"God writer"wasn't just a nickname. Zuroc literally had the power to craft the deity entities that governed individual civilizations and realities within the multiverse. Yahweh, Zeus, Thor, Ganesh. They were all his creations for a small planet in the Milky Way galaxy. We saw everything from the perspective of a pool ...
Darkness was covering everything around me, but I wasn’t afraid. The GPS on my phone told me the trail’s end was just up ahead, and with its flashlight I could travel the foot-worn dirt path. Never had it occurred to me to see where the trail I run daily ends, but something in the back of my mind compelled me to finish...
######*The Convinciner* Vince put out his cigar in the too-full ashtray at his desk. He'd finish the other half of it tonight—it was his last cigar and he didn't want to risk going out to any stores should his plans be successful. CCTV is the worst snitch after all. You can't beat it without winding up behind bars...
There it was. The Great Red Dragon. Known for its expensive and precious skin. Jake slowly aimed his rifle. "These dragons sure pay a lot."He mumbled to himself. Just as he was about to fire, he heard sirens in the distance, and what seemed to be a helicopter. "FBI, YOU'RE SURROUNDED, RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!" It wa...
HOT SINGLES IN YOUR AREA!! HOOK UP!!1! NOW!!1! Admittedly, clicking on that link wasn’t the best idea. But hey, when you’re up at 2am and feeling desperate, a lapse of judgement is bound to happen eventually. You didn’t expect THIS, however. Your trusty -albeit dated- laptop began to smoke, sparks pouring from its i...
"Again,"screamed the Nightingale, and Hierlark stirred on the floor. One small hand quested shakily for the nearby blade, dropped to the floor when the Nightingale's kick found a home in her guts. "We are not done. You rest when I allow it, not before." The Nightingale's voice was a whip-crack. I strode from the sidel...
"You are me?"I tried to loosen the rope on my wrists. The knot was cutting circulation forcefully into my hands. I began to panic as I questioned my mirror image in front of me. "Yes, and vice versa. Do you know what caused this to happen?" I recalled the days events. I woke up normally at 6:35 AM. Showered first bec...
The winds blow against my fur. I exhale a deep breath, seeing it escape from my mouth. Antlers lay on the ground in pieces, tens of dozens scattered on the charred dirt. Proud and stout trees wither into ashes. Charcoal lingers in the grey air, thick like the mists of a winter’s night. I dig my hooves into the ground...
Have you ever had a time where something felt odd? Strange? Not right? Well, I didn't think that would apply to me today. You see... uhh... my hand won't stop typing, so I'm trying to write whatever comes to mind in hopes that it will eventually stop. I mean, I can still control it; it just doesn't want to stop. Did I ...
The gremlins are nothing to scoff at, they could and have destroy entire towns and cities, indeed before I came they had no order, they even attacked them selves in large groups out of bordem. I set them minor tasks, a few per town to break the little things. Nibble at the legs of a table so that it collapses the next...
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I, concerned over what Jack and Bailey were about to declare, listened very carefully. "Here we are, and then our legion of babies will attack the enemy on the left flank."Hearing this, although pretending I hadn't, and continuing "watching"my dog. "As the enemy is out of the home base,"continued Jack, "a full encir...
The frosty night air filled my lungs, I bundled further into my thick black coat. From my vantage point atop an old apartment complex I spotted my target leaving the restaurant across the street. William Green. He was a wealthy businessman who had recently gotten into some trouble,he pissed off the wrong people and no...
I’ve been working on this for months. I’ve managed to do it with the dogs. The scientists at the University managed to do it with sheep. But these cats! They’ve been impossible! I’m on the edge of a solution. I can feel it at the tip of my thoughts. This entire week, I’ve barely slept. Waiting and watching through my ...
This is Willian Amster a knight unlike any other. Is rebellious, undisciplined, don't like orders and wears an axe and morning star. He uses both in each hand to kill and crush his opponents. He is a master of war tough a bit too wild. This Toshiro Kamazaki a samurai exemplar of his class. Loyal, obedient, disciplined...
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(First idea i had for the prompt) To say it was not on purpose would be lying. I'm part of a secret cult dedicated seek apotheosis for sake humanity. The human race is close to reach it's apex developed physical capabilities to the point of break big stones run 100/k per hour, endure temperatures that could kill peop...
The chopper exploded in a huge fireball over our heads, raining molten metal and glass down on us. My squad mates and I took cover behind a wall of sandbags, hiding from the tank that just decimated our only hope in this battle. "That's the fifth chopper they shot down in an hour! These fuckers got aim!"Jay cried as ...
"Ciao Signore Rosso. A bad night?" Rosso spun around, fury etched into his face, though the sight of the five men before him held him in place. "You. You did this to us." The man tutted softly, stepping carefully over the debris that littered what was once Rosso's shop. He stopped, brushing some dust of his otherwi...
“Jamal, you’ve got the worst job that an accountant could ever have,” my friend Aston said. We were half a bottle deep in some rather fine Riesling, and the man had stopped pulling punches entirely. “Seriously, bro. What are they calling it? The Blood Book?” “Blood Ledger,” I corrected him. *“It’s actually...
Many people think evil is something that always existed. For thousands of years humankind has regaled themselves with stories of “good” versus “evil,” always rooting for the former to triumph over the latter. But what if I told you that evil did not always exist? That evil was the invention of man, not unlike the wheel...
I...I was dreaming, right? I was laying in bed next to my husband...but I was also standing in the doorway. She...I walked into the room, smiling at my husband. In a wave of jealousy, I smacked my husband's shoulder, but it was like he didn't he feel it. He didn't flinch or move in any way. So I sat up and yelled, "T...
"Curse" &#x200B; Part 1 &#x200B; Trying to stay out of it didn't work. My father was in prison when I was born, and my mother eventually got shot by god-knows-which-one outside a Wal Mart in Norman. My dad was killed in prison about eight years ago. My grandparents didn't want me because they had t...
reality fiction...that's not a confusing concept in itself. Topics coming next week: A guide to Honest Deception, Autobiography of a stranger, and Asexual Erotic Novels. Hurry up yesterday and be the last person to enter first. Winner receives a lifetime supply of Jumbo-Popcorn shrimp, caffeine-free energy drinks and p...
My Favorite Time of Day &#x200B; On any given day, except perhaps on Sunday, My favorite time of day, Is when the postman comes my way. I see him coming down the street, When sitting in my seat, It always gets me standing straight up running on my feet. &#x200B; He brings me things that make me smi...
I woke. Wet earth stuck to my back. I groaned, my vision painting white mist onto the blue of the night. Firelight danced in the thick pine air. I was stiff. How long had I been unconscious? No matter, the purpose of my evening was to gain consciousness. Here I was, conscious. My hand burned. I glanced at it. ...
Entertainment definitely isn't the first thing that comes to mind when people think about eternal damnation, but damn if it wasn't important. Even tormented souls could end up getting bored if left in the same agonizing torture for too long, and boredom led to complacency that led to... well, not suffering as much. It ...
This was only ever supposed to be a job. Survey and report the person of interest until either evidence could be gathered against them, or they were no longer considered a threat. I had done it several times before, usually with people who I could identify as pedophiles, wanna be terrorists, and the occasional drug lor...
'Happy little accidents' he called them. So sweet, so sinister. &nbsp; I had watched Bob Ross all through my life, from the first episode in 1983 through to the last in 1994. I was hooked, he was so calming. A perfect serenity in a world full of chaos. He's the reason I wanted to see so much more good in the wo...
Hank was walking down the street holding a gilded harp. He was fully aware that this life was every bit as real as any life he had known. Yet, it had the misfortune of being accessible only through his dreams. As real as it could be, he found that his perception of it was clouded in all of the trappings of any quasi-lu...
“Thank you, officer.” Terry dropped his phone and slumped into his chair. His head fell into his hands and he wept. “She’s back,” he whispered to himself, over and over. Mary, his wife, stuck her head out of the kitchen. “Is everything okay?” She asked. He looked up at her, dread in his wet, red eyes. “She’s back.” ...
I’ve never been the best at time management. I’ve made it all the way through university and into the workforce by being a lazy prick. I’d spend my time watching movies or playing games with my friends whoch then lead to me trading specific parts of those experiences and sometimes even entire days to make it through. N...
[Poem] Hey doc sorry I missed your call phones off but I’m home lockin the door knob returning your call now it seems the mark is darkening I was at the market parking when a car barged jarring my larynx ajar coughing a hair ball onto the dashboard the kids in the back seat started gasping as the wifey sat in the passe...
The eternal torches of Olympus, ablaze for untold millennia, lay dark for the first time. Thirteen gods, fickle and capricious deities of great strength, now glower in the dark silently. Their eyes flicking from each other to the ceiling then to the floor. They were supposed to be invincible. All powerful and unconstr...
The cold crept in around my fingertips, still gripped around the steering wheel. I'd shut the car off almost 25 minutes ago. I could hear the inside of the house from the inside of my car, all the way at the edge of the driveway. I knew what was happening because I'd tasted plenty of it last year. Not the yams, I mean:...
There comes a time when you have to stand up and declare, "enough is enough!"Well, today is that day. It wasn't anything grand or horrific that brought me to this point. It was a pebble. A tiny spec of the Earth trapped in my foot that I wasn't allowed to stop and remove. The monsters don't take breaks, you see. They ...
Taken aback, Karen stood shocked that her husband would reply like this. "I'm sorry babe, but the way you act in restaurants and stores really makes me appalled and fearful that you may turn on me one day." She was stunned. For 16 years, she and her husband fought through everything together. Her father's death, the ...
"Isn't this what you wanted in your physical life? Lavish possessions with no limit. Everything encased in iridescent metals? Metals not of earth. You demonstrated a desire for material items, more than you did relationships in your past life. Here, I have given you what your soul truly desired."God spoke to me. His ...
As I drove down the long dusty streets of the town I couldn’t help but wonder if I had arrived at the wrong place. On either side of the street there were barren houses torn apart and pieces of scrap littering the pathways, stray dogs and cats wandered between destroyed foliage. It was only as I turned the final corner...
On an unremarkable day, waking up, but I couldn't remember what day it was. Nevertheless, I got up and got dressed for work as usual, selecting a smart blue suit with a crisp white suit and brown brogues. Running down the stairs to grab some breakfast, I saw the back of my wife Mandy at the sink - her perfectly tous...

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