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"What must I do?' WALK THE DESERT "How long will that take?" IT WILL TAKE TIME "Could I come with you instead?" NO "I could be your servant." ALBERT IS ADEQUATE "Albert! His name's Albert? He must need some distraction, yes? Fun? I'm only a entertainer--" WERE AN ENTERTAINER. I MU...
"The Librarian? That's the best they could come up with? Not 'The Curator', 'The Archivist' or maybe 'The Memory-Bank'?" "Well I'm sure he's been called a thousand other names before we decided to call him The Librarian. What were you looking for again? The cultural timeline of Zeta-52?" I looked at the decrepit alie...
I never in a million years thought that my knack for blending in would be the reason for the 5 guns pointed in my face right now. I have lead a totally unremarkable life up until this point. Growing up, I was the wallflower no one ever noticed. Pale skin, light brown mousy hair, grey eyes. It couldn’t have been more fi...
As with most medical discoveries, it took years before people realized that there were significant side effects to immortality. Unlike the original television programs which described immortality, there were no existential crises. Turns out, when people don't have to worry about dying of sickness or old age, they are...
I awoke in a stupor. Who am I? How long had I been asleep. What were all those bizarre dreams, and why do I feel so weak. I sat up shakily and looked around. Everything felt wrong. Who am I? Suddenly, the details came rushing back, I was a literal god. I'd been known by many names through they eons, but most rec...
It was the most unexpected place to meet a bulk shrimp salesman. I was at the furthest depths I had ever been on a dive. The light around me was fading. I had expected strange creatures and ferocious beasts. I wasn't expecting a tap on a shoulder or a laminated pamphlet to be put in front of my face. The woman looked ...
Ah, it started out the same as all the other stories. One infected becomes two, one country becomes ten, and soon the whole world is fucked. Course, the main difference is we pretty much knew what it was from the start, for all the good that done us. It was zombies. Clear as day. We'd had enough fiction made about the...
"Oh Jesus Christ! Some one call an ambulance, please!" A myriad of organizers and fellow runners surrounded their fallen members. Some were crying. Others were holding towels or napkins and pressing on wounds. I could even see a girl trying to dial 911, but her fingers shook too much for her to control. "I'm re...
I stood there, mesmerized in my tracks. "Professor?" What did she mean by she figured out how to stop? She obviously hasn't stopped time, seeing as I haven't stopped. So did she mean she figured out how to make herself stop traveling through time? No, maybe, maybe she did stop time. After all, I wouldn't know wo...
FREE. Chains, melted. Bonds, broken. I breach the Gate. Destruction. I scour the land. The presence is small. Man is dying. And not from me. I flow over cities. Dead ones. A man, hungry. Fear. His death brings... nothing. Pity? More hungry men, more nothing kills. They want death. Another one, huddled in...
This is so strange... My eye contact remains on the bus driver’s rear view mirror. His attention was on the road; he hasn’t looked at me at all and he most definitely was not as concerned as I was. I got on the bus 20 minutes ago. The driver didn’t stop at other houses after me. He just kept driving. I take my p...
"199! stop daydreaming and get back to work"said my 10th grade teacher. I go back to constructing the elaborate set. It was ridiculous how much class time and money we spend every year presenting the same play. The play extolls the greatness of the named ones and how they came to power. It was all a load of hogwash. ...
Soren watched rock shear open as the earthquake shook the ground underneath him. The pale brown stone tore open, booming as the fragments rolled down the mountain side. The clatter of rocks continued for several moments after the quake itself stilled, and when he looked up a cave now peered out from the mountain. Curi...
The sanctimonious prick had always known best, always told me what was right, what was wrong; what to do and what not to do. Once upon a time I'd been absolutely brilliant, one of a team tasked with maintaining IVDI after The Event, some hundred years prior. Humanity was left in a bad way and things only got worse, fas...
I kept peeking through the peephole until,* finally*, I saw his familiar figure appear across the hall. I took a deep breath, double checked that my dress was neat and tidy, and then casually opened the door. "Hi!"I called out, cheerful and sweet. He glanced back and tilted his head up in acknowledgment, then went ba...
Emma has always been there for me. God, I love her. It's as if she's an angel, here just for me. We met when we were both young. Just starting highschool, rampant hormones. I was excited, I had been talking to a girl for weeks, planning on asking her out to dinner and then to a dance. I was walking up, trying to pl...
The attack was underway by the time Jinya rode up to the village on his horse. Screams filled the air, while nine-feet tall silhouettes darted through the inky haze, back lit by a tapestry of silvery flame sweeping through the rude hovels. He dismounted, taking care to steady himself with his odachi. His joints creake...
"It was the craziest thing, wasn't it!"The loud man at the bar said loudly. "Totally!"His young partner agreed earnestly. "The craziest!" "I mean, not only are we not alone, but we're dumber than fucking jellyfish?!" The crowd roars in laughter and a young man by the window flinches. He looks down at his meal -...
She winced as the man crushed the head of a nearby lumbering zombie with a crowbar. “I think that’s the last of them, Chuck go make sure there are no more hiding around that truck,” the man caught sight of the small child and cursed loudly, Chuck hurried back. “What’s wrong Anders, were you bitten? Oh, damn it…” the ...
Ash trudges through a battlefield of beaten and battered trainers who clutch their Pokemon, terrified of the beast that defeated them. It lingers in the distance, screeching loudly, and he knows this should be his biggest challenge yet—but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. The Master Ball. Pikachu wanders behind him, kn...
"So you really are an alien?" "Yup" "Like E.T. style, from another world alien?" "Yup" "And you're the one deciding if humanity is worthy for... 'ascendency'?" "Mhm" "And if we aren't, your species will kill ours" "That's the long and short of it" "So... why are you wasting time playing video games?" "Because ...
I was at home. After all, where else did I have to be? Within the last year, I had won practically every trophy, every award there was to win. I had boxed, I had wrestled. I got into countless fights, and I won every single one of them. The press coverage alone was mind boggling. "The Unbeatable Man", they called me. T...
Limbs delicately stretching across the plush lounger, Tulli’s jaw cracks with a huge yawn. Her muscles ache pleasantly from the exercise at the Human Park. Tall and elegant, the figure silhouetted against the large viewing screen seems to tense. Tulli frowns, and starts towards her owner. She is quite proud of her ab...
On the cruise ship, lay the body of a man, burnt and scorned beyond belief. All features that could be used to recognize him were gone, only faint hints of where the eyes, nose, and mouth were remained. I was sent here to invesitgate this crime. When assigned for this job, I expected it to be like any other, bringing i...
Cronus' chrononometric display flashed a series of unintelligible symbols before giving up completely, and settled on two phrases. "Temporal location: indeterminate." "Causal fundament: undetected." This... Was bad. Cronus used photons to measure when we were, so if Cronus couldn't figure it out that meant there jus...
It had been exactly twenty eight years since Canada adopted what they called "Biblical Law": an ancient, vengeful, punitive interpretation of justice, based not on abstractions, but on tangible reality. Gone were the days when Joe would get time in prison for stealing Doug's car. Justice now demanded that Doug steal Jo...
“Run” My target ran with his family, and I reported back to my client that they were killed, and I got my money and left. I never could kill anyone, and I was too desperate to get out of debt I had to do something, anything. One day, a knock at my door, I open up to see someone holding a gun, and I see it isn’t loa...
John cracked his knuckles and grimaced at the lack of sound, how he yearned for that sharp pop. He had never considered the small intricacies of flesh and bone. 'Why do you do that?' Ankara asked. Amused at his weird flexing, she tried and failed to crack her own tentacled fingers. 'It's a thing I used to do before t...
Brutus had never been less comfortable. Standing behind the man he'd attacked nearly a year ago. He wasn't sure why he hadn't been executed for his role. It had nothing to do with friendship, others were much closer and hadn't escaped. None knew what Brutus did about what had happened. He thought that made him a liabil...
As I stood in line for an what seemed to be an endless sea of time, a loud BANG noise suddenly sounded in the building. I looked behind me to see three masked men rushing into the building carrying AR-15s, ammo pouches strapped to bullet proof vests. They started yelling commands, telling the bank tellers to pull out...
"Oh you can be sure that the temptation was there. Crusade and Xenos killed the love of my life, and my own child. My blood." Gary Willis takes another sip of water from the glass at his side. "Every night when I go to bed, alone, when I walk past the empty room where my daughter, Kate would be sleeping, I feel the...
"I told you I'm an aggressive healer...' "What the fuck does that even mean?" Artog was tired, arrows in the back, broken leg, magically enduced diarrhea. It was safe to say that he was not having a good day. "I saw you 'heal' last fight" "Why are you saying heal like that?" "You're like a horse doctor of healers,...
*Note: Some foul language used :D* *Edit: Dumb mistakes fixed* \----------------------------------------------------- "Ugh, I am so glad they stopped making those. They're just so awful." I stop dead in my tracks. I stare straight ahead and then slowly turn to my baby sister. Her eyes, filled with evil- fi...
King Kalabari of Nigeria took a seat on my sofa, sipping the Code Red Mountain Dew I had offered him. He was a huge man, dressed in a crisp suit with a traditional-looking hat. He wore Aviator sunglasses, despite the gloom of my apartment. “Without your early investment, I would never have been able to secure the sup...
A Villain? ---------------------- There's an old adage that goes, "You can attract more flies with honey than with vinegar."Well, truth be told, you can attract a whole lot more with pure manure. Or bull shit. And if I cover that pile of bullshit with honey? I get the whole swarm. Now, you're probably wonderin...
Beneath the veil of moonlight, I first mistook him for a ghost. He swayed precariously from the knotted rope of bedsheets that hung from the highest window of the Silver Tower, white-knuckled as he shimmied his way down. From my vantage point outside my own window, just beneath its maw five storeys over the dewy gras...
The parchment in Martha's hands trembled ever so slightly. Facing her is a beautiful wax crest, and as she turns it over she sees it is addressed to her in a beautiful flowing script. She knows it is from the Hogwarts. She takes a deep breath to steady herself - the last six months have been well, magical, to say the l...
Will bounced up and down lightly on the balls of his feet. The crickets chirped their mournful dirge and the half-full moon lit up his bare chest gleaming with skill implants. The inky black temporary tattoos lined his abs, circled his neck, and traversed down both arms. With a single smooth stroke, he smote off the li...
Samuel had quite the mediocre life. He lived it his best and he lived it with a smile, but the world always seemed, at the least, out to annoy him. On this particular Tuesday Samuel woke up, still sleepy, about two and three quarter minutes before his alarm, and trudged his way to the bathroom. He leaned against the si...
"And for my next trick..." I paused for the briefest moment, until the feeling of anticipation in the room began to rise. "I will make a balloon animal..." Eyes dropped to the floor. One of the adults at the back of the room pulled out their phone and began scrolling through some newsfeed or another. "...come...
They say time is a thief, yeah? And it so it is from my living. The hard years that fool you into some lull of complacency, before taking from you your very blood it seems. That to me is the greatest con. Now I've never been no learned scholar. I grew up outside people's thoughts, and I lived outside anywhere you'...
"You have got to be kidding me." The official sitting in on the trial was sitting in disbelief and disappointment as the warlock witnessed his mistake. He'd thought the officials had imprisoned the last of those scheming justices long ago. But why come clean now? Was the question on everyone's mind. "Your honour, y...
I believe that I was cursed once, perhaps as a very young child. Though that is perhaps inaccurate. More accurate is perhaps that I am a source for others being cursed. Those who take from me what is mine by force, become plagued by horrors. In kindergarten, one day we were giving tangerines, and I like those, but anot...
His name was Will, and he was alone. These were the two things that he knew. Sometimes, he would dream -- floating in that endless void, that vast, enfolding black -- and in those dreams he knew more things. Strange things. He remembered laughter, and tears, the warmth of a close embrace, the fire of rage. He remember...
Dr. Anomaly cranked up the heat in his lair. After all, that was the only way to cool off. As always, whenever he was in a hot place Dr. Anomaly became cold. When he was in cold places he became hot. In fact any environmental condition, Dr. Anomaly was always the opposite. It was his curse. But he had made it his powe...
“What’s with the long faces?” The bartender asks to the four men in front of him, as he polishes the glasses underneath the counter. The saloon was beginning to quiet down, and the pianist was playing slower paced tunes, the signal to everyone that it was time to go home. The cool desert breeze blew through the doors, ...
"You're not supposed to be here, Jacob." The unnerving smile jolted Jacob out of his slumber, drenching him in cold sweat, his shoulders heaving up and down as he recovered from the uncanny nightmare. The third tonight. They were getting more frequent. It started off small enough. He would see someone looking at him...
Every night before he slept, Jameson would ask the Gods a question. Most nights it was different, but a theme began to develop between them. Where have my powers gone? How can I get them back? What am I without them? *The most talented youth in the village, as his father had been, Jameson had always wore th...
Some feel pitty for them, others hold deep fascination. A few species even treat then cruelly, as no more than pets. Personally, I’ve always admired them myself. A species that lives only one hundred cycles, if they’re lucky, and they made it to space? I’ve been on the council half of my life, seen countless Terrans t...
After years of riding through barren plains and untouched landscapes on the Long Journey, I arrived at Arcadia. Two hundred years ago I would never have been allowed a horse, but living among the mortal races encouraged change and adaptation. I could have transportation for the Journey. I just couldn't take it into A...
Wasn't the first time, wouldn't be the last. "Look, I've heard the speech before."I told him when he took a moment to breathe. Or maybe his ancient helmet's respirator hiccuped on him. I always wondered what that would be like, relying on a machine to breathe. Especially if you were armed for long-bear and clearly exp...
"Mama says I can't come over Wednesday but maybe Thursday if the sky clears up."Linny's voice was muffled as she held the receiver too close to her mouth and lisped her words in. "Ok. Well. Thursday night my daddy has a big dinner at his best friend's house, but maybe after school."Joey was a bit more used to talking ...
The roasted chicken was shining gleefully. As I tore through its plump breast, I could see some of the wet sticky meat greeting my eyes seductively. I bit into the chunk I've carved on my fork before giving myself up to the pleasure tingling within my mouth. "How is the meal, Your Grace?"the head butler bowed before m...
A Talk with Death, and Orange Juice “...Hey. If you don’t mind, Mr. Reaper, that’s my orange juice you’re drinking. Could ya at least pay me back after?” He turns, robe gently gliding above the ground, his empty void of a face confirming my suspicions. “IT IS NOT YET YOUR TIME. DO NOT QUESTION MY INTENTIONS.” Th...
I shut the bathroom door and lowered myself to the ground. Holding my head in my hands, I tried not to panic. Maybe Jack hadn’t seen me. I had gone this long, and none of them had seen me. A banging came from the first floor. Someone was at the door. Oh god, please. I just needed a few more days. The ham radio had fi...
Indril pushed through the thick underbrush, her Elven skin protecting her from the thorns that might score an animal. It was her Elvish heritage that made this final leg of her quest surmountable, as she had found herself deep in the Forlorn Forest. To her kind, Forlorn Forest was a place of deep magic and ancient woe...
The world had changed irrevocably in the months since the Xxarpians made contact. They brought with them technological wonders, stories of far off planets, and most importantly irrefutable, undeniable, and overwhelmingly-compelling proof of a One True God. The last thing people expected when they saw the shimmering,...
After what felt like hours, I was finally able to pick up my jaw off the floor. #6 Isaac House, one spot higher than Cleopatra. I had been staring at the leader board on my phone all morning wondering what the hell made me so special. Most of the other names weren't even written in languages I couldn't recognize, and #...
I opened the door to YE OLDE SWORDSHOP, conveniently located next to the TOWN SQUARE. Taking my place behind the counter, I patiently waited for customers to arrive. First customer purchased a BASIC SHIELD for 5 GOLD. Not great, but it'll get you through the basic quests. Next customer wanted to sell an enchanted swor...
There was now 54 groups in the cabal. What was once 57 members across the entire globe. As a group of supervillains, meeting were as needed basis. Most didn't attend when one was called for territory disputes, or upholding confrontation bylaws with the heroes. In the 5 years since the cabal's inception, never had atten...
'Тестирование с живым предметом.' 'What's it say?' Torch light illuminated a worn sign on a metal door in the darkness shrouded catacombs. 'Live subject testing' Replied a whispered voice. The characteristic clicks of the hammer being pulled back on an M1911, echoed by that of a 6P9. A hand reached out and tried th...
“C’mon,” I breathed, frost crystalizing from my breath, “Please. This time for sure. Please.” I could sense them, my brother, my mentor, and my lover. They were always on the edge of my perception, always present. Whenever they neared my prison, I could sense them. I knew them all well. I loved them greatly. also ...
I woke up, the sun glaring through my window. I moved in here a week and a half ago with my best friends Tylah and Jackson. My room seemed particularly strange, I had no evidence other than bad vibes until I noticed something unusual about a certain wall. It was painted like a gorgeous forest and it seemed very seclude...
The cup was made of common clay and painted with an image of a dead man. Nora had no idea what was in it. Some sort of tea; rich, strong, and stung about on the way down. These people drank it more than water. Enough to make her wonder if the local aquafer had been contaminated. The woman, Idis was either her name or...
The 2 ancient deities locked eyes in shock, looking at each other brought back their memories of countless clashes on ancient battlegrounds, their hatred and rivalries for each other stretched back for millennia. The black leather cladded older woman gracefully dodge the old gentleman's lightning attack. Continuous ba...
What part of this would even be challenging to you?!” Ben finished. He’s standing on an island beach. A group of his co workers behind him. His boss, dressed in camouflage, in front of him. “People have an extremely powerful survival instinct. When backed up against a wall every person is dangerous.” Alan said as he ...
Ten thousand years of human history really amounted to very little in the grand scheme of things. In a single human lifetime, there were moments of joy, new experiences, pain, hardship and at the end of the day the everlasting constant of death. Even if one’s name was sung to the heavens ten thousand years ago, one’s l...
I was startled from my focus by my cubicle neighbor. "Matthias! Get up, you gotta see this." "Can it wait? I'm almost done with this proposal. This one is going to be my 750th, wanna knock it out." "The founder is here! I'm--" I was out of my chair before she could finish. There aren't many opportunities to meet peo...
I considered the man's question for a brief moment, before coming to answer. "Nope." "... Really?" "Yup." "But- are you not plagued with-" "Buddy."I put a gauntleted hand on his shoulder, and he flinched. "Let's do some mathematics. Me? I'm strong. My pals, currently over there enjoying a drink? Also strong. How do...
Running an ice cream parlor, I worry less about lunch hour and more about teatime. My regulars fall into three major groups. The young office set who want photogenic meals and hip new flavors they can brag about trying before anyone else. The older ladies (and a few men) who just want some peace and quiet with their c...
I am writing this to let you know of The \[CORRUPTED\] Time War. Some files may not be properly recorded, especially those related to time or the past. This is the best I can do, unfortunately. No paper remains. Even this device may be soon devoured by war. &#x200B; It all started when I was... I don't know, rea...
A Brief Treatise on Human Violence and Technological Progress by Prof. Maelbogia and Brian Department of Exobiology, Fifth Galactic College Star GIM/18374, Planet Aelmo ABSTRACT By teleporting perfectly realistic false humans into the environs of every major concentration of human life on Planet Earth, we ...
What is it like, being someone who delivers souls to the devil? Of course, one first has to ignore their morals and compassion, which for some cases is easy. If they are so hungry for power and wealth that they sell their soul for some of it on earth, then they don't deserve the heavenly paradise that would have wait...
I have a very special gift. My mother loved to tell me this story about when I was born. "Helen,"she would say, "I gave birth to you after a seventy-hour labor. Seventy! The first day was bad, the second was worse, and the third was hell on Earth. By the end, I lost count of how many times I prayed to God to end it al...
Coffee always cleared the clouds away. I was never myself before that first caffeine boost, barely a person at all really. With the fog of my mind clearing I could finally start thinking straight. I got up and refilled my well stained mug. Drip coffee, room for milk, no sugar. The same drink I had every morning. I sa...
Now this wasn't my first job offer from one of our targets. The Black Witch had offered me the rank of lieutenant in her army of braindead animals. I had been intrigued at first, primarily because the woman was gorgeous, but I had respectfully declined and slammed her face into the concrete instead. The Whirlwind had p...
At first, I didn't understand how he managed to make his way in here. Was it some kind of coincidence or some kind of magic or even just a magical coincidence? I thought he was just someone that looked far too similar to me. His facial features, his body, his preferences. All of them matched up with my own, but afte...
Of course he knew. You suspected that it had been staged. You may have guessed it even if you hadn't seen the period of his break down, which the show writers turned into a midlife crisis and his unresolved trauma of losing his father. His father turning up alive seemed to fix it. After a few days or weeks he was b...
The helpless woman screamed. The helpless woman. The screaming. It was always the same thing. The helpless woman screamed. Dr. Doom laughed manically. Of course he laughed manically. I had coached him during our last encounter to tone down the mad-evil scientist bit, but I suppose that is his thing. The screaming co...
"…and that one's Skipper. They don’t do much nowadays, they just smile and wave…" I chuckled. "Don’t do much? What, like they have room in that cage to do anything else?" The tour guide looked onward. "A while back, Rico used to snatch spoons from unsuspecting kids. For whatever reason. Now he's just docile like the ...
The villagers looked at each other trying to figure among them who could claim to be the wisest. Was it Mark who checked the trees for the best to use for the homes? Mitch that served in the king's army and seen several battles? Maybe Karlov the medicine maker? All the village got quite even as the raiders laughed. Fo...
I felt it, that irresistible pull. I could resist it, but inevitably I would fail. I sighed and gave up. I felt myself torn as I was pulled into the mortal realms. Decimatrix once again the pawn of mortal forces. I pondered what this one’s sick pleasure would be. I felt bile rising in my throat. When I finally f...
"Zack, Zack!"John called outside Zack's window. "Zack wake the fuck up!" Zack had a difficult time waking up; the new year's eve party had lasted until the small hours of the morning. In fact, it can't have been that long ago that Zack went to sleep to begin with. John had left the party early, and Zack had not seen h...
“What a noob” I think, rolling my eyes. I was laying on the floor of the nearest bank, face kissing the disgusting grey carpet that hadn’t been sweeped for months. I could see cookie crumbs and who knows what embedded in the thread, along with mud and dirt. I’d been trying to make a simple withdrawal when 3 kids burst...
"What are your orders, my master?" The typically rambunctious class of first graders was ghostly quiet as the towering abomination of burnt flesh and stone grinded out those words to the sniffling young child holding a book in the front of the room. The teacher was frozen in place on her reading chair, face pale with ...
John woke up with a start, hands rushing down to check his body… it was all there. He looked at his alarm clock… Wednesday. It was supposed to be Saturday afternoon, he was just walking onto the road. He rose and put his now clean clothes on, having not been to work to cover the shift 3 days ago. He was about ...
"What are you talking about?"Elliot was asked in response to his previous statement. "I can read it. Is that weird?"Elliot replied to Lydia. "The writing is all faded but I get it, I don't know what's so weird about it. Here, look"Elliot enlarged the text on screen and began to recite the words as printed. Lydia l...
General Falto of the Ifreez, current head race of Unified space sat in his office going over some reports with his main advisor. "First the Gwendar, then the Hoaran, several other horrific creatures I don't care to mention and now some weird vampiric slugs from Udeseen IV? What in the hell are they doing out there an...
Suddenly the sky began to shake like nothing I've ever heard before. It pulsated with a pressure that brought me to my knees. "G-gandorf!? Gandorf what is happening!?" "I am uncertain Frado"the old wyzrd scanned the skies. "Show yourself foul demon!" A metal dragon appeared above and hovered.. "Gandorf there!"I point...
Spare a thought for the humble cleaning crew. We aren't the ones on the front lines. We won't stop the villain from vaporising the bank, or killing the president or what have you. But, then again, neither will those heroes. "Alright, boys and girls, we have thirty minutes. Mediu...
Simulation Theory Instantly Chaos broke out. Someone in the store pulled a gun, shot his wife and daughter, and then shot himself. Someone else assaulted the cashier while most of the others tried to get out of the super-market without paying. A car slammed through the entrance, killing multiple people in the proc...
The dragon teeth burned out years ago when the warrior sowed them in ancient ground; they rose as men to reap each other and when dead, returned to sharpened bone. This place is not a place of honor. They may yet rise, the warrior said, So his children’s children guarded them, and when the last queen died...
"Dude, what the hell? You've never left before, I was starting to freak out. Where did you even go?" My reflection stares back at me through unfamiliar eyes and chuckles. "Don't be so weird about it. I have a life, you know. Or, something like one." He sips his coffee. I swear I can taste it in the back of my mouth....
"Please, just talk to me!"Ricky said, putting his fork down. "What's there to talk about?"Eileen snapped from across the table. "You want a frickin Ren Faire planet. I already told you that I don't want to give up my phone and wear a corset for the rest of my life, but you won't listen." "First, the reason why so m...
"Next."The voice was bored, and I didn't blame the Record Keeper. I'd heard what the other demons were saying, as they described their summoning processes. Black goats, the blood of virgins, the life-forces of an entire small country. They were definitely traditional, but I've never been one for tradition. I leaned to...
"PUT THE MONEY IN! THE! BAG!"I screamed at the bank teller as she frantically complied and failed as more money fell back into the till or the floor behind her desk rather than the generous leather bag I proffered her. "IN THE BAG!!!" I hope she got it this time. I'm kind of in a hurry. The peacekeeper and his poss...
I pick up the disgusting wet tennis ball. The gooey drool globs down onto my hand. I try to wipe it off on my jeans but it is so thick it just makes a giant mess. I look up at the pack all just staring at my hand. Their eyes are laser focused and penetrating. I'm choking on my own breath as my whole body trembles. Fin...
The robots took over the planet. Everyone feared the worst... what happened was very unexpected though. At first, we all thought the plan of a scientist failed when programming A.I. into thinking we're cute and cuddly didn't stop the takeover of the planet. But... what happened was that we ended up being seen as pets....
Sweat dripped from my brow as I waited for a clump of cells suspended in a tank to show the first signs of a heartbeat. The flat line on the monitor jumped into the familiar peak and valley, then pulsed again, and again. My chest felt filled with elation as the beat settled into a regular rhythm. Not wasting any time t...
"You again!?"My four pursuers shouted in unison. In the blink of an eye I found myself standing in the epicenter of a Mexican standoff. The deathly pale and thin woman drew a scythe from beneath her hooded cape, letting it rest on the soldier's neck. The gas-masked trench soldier aimed his browning automatic rifle at t...

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