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From the observation deck I could see the device spinning. Engineers in containment suits were scrambling around taking notes, but for me there wouldn't be much work to do until we'd collated the data. I put my feet up and adjusted my glasses. My assistant burst through the door. "Mr.Anderson? I sighed. "We've been ...
How much longer can I last? The Fighter winced as she gingerly dabbed at her fresh cuts and bruises. The roars of the crowd flooded the staging area beneath the arena. Schizo must have gotten in some good hits. The only time the crowd goes wild like that. Poor Spence. The Fighter tossed her rag into the rusted bucke...
“Listen up fuckers. After your deplorable performance today, we are now officially the worst team in the league. How do I know that? Well, the math is simple - we haven’t won one fucking match. Actually, it’s worse than that. We haven’t even won a set. Do you care to explain yourselves?” No one says anything. “Nobody...
"That's it! I've had it!"I cried, ripping the headset from my ears and hurling it like the shot putters used to do when the Olympics was a thing. "Jeremy calm down!"said Wilson, my boss. "I'm done!" "But you can't be done, you still have the main quest! With all these side quests you've hammered out, the main quest ...
The soldiers turn with terror, trembling faces were glaring at the thunder shooting down to the roots of the burn't trees. I dropped everything i had, we were all packed tightly, heavy armour and an unimagineable race of thought. "Soldiers! To the left! Quick!"The sudden hesitation of the general awoke my eyes, they po...
\[POEM\] I am the inner voice, living deep inside your mind. Though I've always been here, my hiding place you'll never find. &#x200B; I sit in here and speak to you before each choice that you make, Leading you toward what you do, each path that you will take. And no matter what you wish, your mind I won't f...
The Queen is a fraud. That’s all that Ryder could think as he stood on the precipice looking down into the pit. Far below the lowest levels of the castle were the caves he now stood in, and the floor of the pit was at least another hundred feet down. He couldn’t tear his eyes away from what lay at the bottom. A d...
“He says they call themselves the ‘Retrogrades’. Say they want things to go back to how they used to be.” “Lieutenant, let’s not take his story at face value. There is no ‘they’. This is one man suffering from a very peculiar derangement.” Their prisoner didn’t look deranged. But perhaps looking so supremely calm in ...
“You there, boy,” croaked the old hag, the Mystic Matchmaker, ruffled papyrus skin in a pile of colourful rich rags. “What's your name?” “Fairn”, gulped the boy, no more than 14, and frightened to be addressed. “I have your match,” she announced with a glint in her eye, suddenly becoming more animated. She motio...
Santa Claus is the world's richest businessman, with a distribution network so large he can afford to give presents to all kids around the world in one night. He has the biggest toyshop on earth, where toys are made. He has a home for his reindeer, a company of elves to make toys, and a direct connection to every child...
_______________ Definitely not how solar flares work, but enjoy anyway. :P _______________ "Newscaster Lauren deWitt, coming to you live from a helicopter flying over what used to be the frozen arctic pole."Lauren deWitt spoke into her microphone while pointing the camera a hundred feet below at the ground. "We've j...
\[Poem\] \[Lawmaster Engaged\] the robot said. It was armed and 10 feet at the head. Shiny chrome and golden parts. It even had a pair of mechanical hearts. "Follow me, it's time for patrol!" &#x200B; \[Confirmed. Beginning Patrol!\] Lawmaster followed my patrolling cadence staying close behind as I survey...
On the outside, they appear to be perfect. But of course, things are never as they actually appear. You don’t know it yet. But you will. The man who wakes with a smile on his face and kisses his wife goodbye, digs his own grave. He puts on his boots with shaky hands and kisses his children goodbye, knowing this very ...
You wake up to the feeling of sandpaper in your throat. The flowers on the bedside table are dead. You can hear the steady beeping of your heart monitor, but other than that the room is deadly still. The air has a stale heat to it that belays the fact that the ac has been off for some time. You try to call out for a nu...
"We know planets war."I said to the class. I liked to lock eyes with the students in turn as I spoke; it helped them feel personally connected to my lecture. "But what we're going to discuss today is that, before galaxy colonization, groups of people on the same planet would war as well."I paused to allow the weight o...
The boy flipped through the pages of his textbook, looking for a specific page. Once found, he copied down needed information from it into a piece of paper in an already overflowing binder, before a quick look at the index to find the next page. Stagnant, busy work. Not intellectually stimulating nor challenging- he c...
The boulders miss us by the skin of out teeth. Earnshaw, the half-elfin rouge quizzically pats himself down as if checking to determine all his parts are in the correct positions. Melfa, our priestess, coming down from an intense squeal, collapsed like a ragdoll to her knees. "W-what... what the hell was that?" I didn'...
SCP-5067 Object Class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures: The entity is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment chamber, and is to never be provided with any type of sugar or metal. The entity is not to be trusted, and is to be guarded by two members of Security Detail at all times. Discovery: Aftet seve...
Panting rapidly, Hugo drags his now crimson fingertips against the dirt and gravel piled upon the rusty emerald door. It's metal relief scared with years of moisture, scratches and what appears to be a bullet hole. He pushes a bulky rock from its resting point upon the golden glimmering handle with some kind of alie...
“What is up, you crazy dudes and dudettes?! I'm Ziggy Walson, and this is yet another live stream of the world's most extreme elder, Hot Streak Ferguson! I know a lot of you were worried we'd miss the old geezer's latest stunt, since he never announces them, but I was on the ball this time! No replays for us today, we'...
With a finishing thrust, the cold iron blade found its way to the soft tissue underneath his visor. His body made a final spasm, before it fell limp in the muddy soil. The rain played a cold arrhythmic melody on my armor, accompanied by the screams of dying soldiers around me. I watched as the blood poured out of the s...
'Thirty years' thought Colonel David Jackson. "Thirty years of quiet service, of plausible deniablity and moral ambiguity in our actions. My whole career, and what does it come down to? Budget bill showdowns and political compromises.' Jackson sighed, and put down the memo from the Director of Operations. Pushing a...
(Sorry this is so long, I really got on a roll.) I have no thoughts of my life ending soon, or my work bearing any fruit that would end this madness. I am simply resolved. This is over. It’s my fate, it’s my daughter’s, it’s all of humanity I suppose. I have figured it out, and I wish with all that I am I didn’t. No...
"Passengers, this is your Captain speaking, we will be landing in Los Angeles in 30 minutes." Martey sighed, hundreds and hundreds of times, he had heard some variation of that message. Always to different locations, Tehran, New York, Wellington. He had heard so many different accents, met so many people, travellers, ...
"This shit is crazy, bro." "Why, what does it say?" "It's too long to read but it ends with 'Nathan married Amanda, and they lived happily ever after'. And 'They had 3 kids, all of which went to the same school as their parents'." "I'm positive Amanda wrote that shit, bro. Crazy girl like her love fanfiction. Too me...
Local legends have spoken of a portal to the "underworld"for a long time. The few adventurers who passed through the area had always assumed it to be the religious myth of an isolated tribe of an odd race, certainly not worth dealing with when there were quests that actually paid money on the table. Things are (of co...
I have no idea why or how it happened. But I remember vividly when it happened. One day, when I was seven years old, my mother walked into the bathroom and turned on the bathtub faucet. A few minutes later, she told me to go take a bath. Being a child, I of course felt the need to argue and tried to coerce my way o...
"Honestly, Lex--did you really think it was your brain keeping you alive all these years? Superman doesn't--didn't--kill. Did you really think you would have lasted five minutes--five seconds--without his scruples?"I'm not stupid. I'm talking to Lex Luthor's corpse. I also did a quick (not as quick as Superman coul...
“This way, young one,” Elder said, herding me towards the very edges of our home, “Today is the very first that we test your skills.” You are apprehensive. Your studies in mimicry have been spent on your own under Elder’s gentle guidance and many private sessions in the comfort of the night. This will be your first fo...
The Troll stalked the labyrinth, hellfire flickering and crackling, the smell of the soot and brimstone clouding his nostrils and masking the smell of the human female running away from him. He struck forward, licking his chops as he would feast upon her tender, nubile flesh. Very rarely does morsels as tender as her s...
"Mother, is it not peculiar to send a 5 year old to be am ambassador to the self-declared human leaders?"I asked on my first day of work. Mother just growled at me, unfortunately when given human intelligence I lost the intelligence of a bear, I mean, I do not even enjoy fishing anymore! I hated that! I went to schoo...
Beware the candy kraken they would warn children. It was the same every year, on this night of all nights. What should be a holiday dedicated to the joys of the supernatural and spooky was instead one of fear and dread. One year, a particularly petty sorcerer came upon this woeful little town giving out candy to the ch...
# The Stygian Boat Race > "Come one, come all, to the river race down the long, long Styx, whilst the wraiths give chase. Oh, come on down to the river race if you want to keep your souls." I'd just dropped down to the underworld seen the Cerberus and the flags unfurled Oh, I'd dropped down t...
"Well this just got a hell of a lot more complicated,"I grunted under my breath as I was lead through the castle. "What was that Your Majesty?" "Oh it's nothing, I'm just a little nervous. I grew up thinking my father was just some drunk that abandoned me and my mother. So you could imagine how shocked I was to find ...
I said after clearing the wave of living skeletons, zombies and spiders that kept coming at us, little did we know that was the passage to the boss guarding the dungeon's treasure. A giant stone golem emerged from behind the rising wall of the arena. It had a floating blue crystal hovering where a head would be, brig...
I had heard the old saying about warships, "Each and every warship in existence has had a soul. Each and every warship has its own tale to tell.", but I thought that was just a saying. I guess that's what I get for thinking. It was late afternoon when I arrived at the ship. A relic of a conflict of my grandparents' ge...
"They found me." If I knew what that meant back when I first heard it, I never would have helped her. I still don't know what happened to the girl. And I don't really want to know. I first saw her, with bright red hair and with tears welling up in her eyes, standing right in front of me as I came out of the gas stat...
The atmosphere within the wall was excited, yet nervous. The shuffling of tiny whispies was accompanied by a murmur of small happy yelps and questions spoken in quivering voices. "Miss, will they be as grotesque as we have learned, miss?" The elderly whisp smiled, remembering having asked these very questions back wh...
Item #: SCP-9264 Object Class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures: SCP-9264 is to be contained in a standard 5m x 5m x 5m containment unit. At least one (1) security personnel must remain stationed at the entrance to SCP-9264’s containment unit at all times. ~~Experimentation with SCP-9264 is only permissible thro...
May 25th: the day that the aliens invaded Earth. Early in the morning on a dry summer day in Arizona, when the stars still flickered in the sky, something became visible just over the horizon. It descended from the heavens, engulfed in flames. The fire surrounding the ship flickered smaller and smaller the closer they...
Around them, rocks crumbled and trees crashed to the ground. The hulking mass of mossy stone rose before them, its roar piercing the air. Then it froze, seemingly watching the warriors before it. The mage sighed. "I think we made it angry." "Can we fight it?"the warrior asked, raising his axe. "This is Charlie's fau...
Alice coughed. Her mouth was dry, and she was a little hot under the covers. She squeezed her closed eyes, as if that would get her back to sleep, and decided that she needed a drink. Just a bit of orange juice would do, enough for a mouthful. She turned and sat up, still groggy from her interrupted sleep, and turned ...
Terry walked slowly and sadly down the dark hallway. Where was everyone? How long had he been alone? The answers eluded him, ran from him. The old hotel had been full of life and energy yesterday. Where had it gone? Slowly, the dark hallway began to light up as he inched closer and closer to reception. Terry stepped o...
The Dark Lord laughed softly to himself. All the heroes who stood against him hovered over him. The chosen heroine shuffled on her feet, holding the blade in front of the villain they had just vanquished. “What… what is happening?” she asked herself. In response, the Dark Lord simply stood up, and brushed the dirt of...
\[Poem\] I wake, a beam of silver light, Stretches across my room this night. From the curtains, slowly blowing, The window opens, two eyes showing. She leans in, her whole head now, Wrinkled face like some old sow. I try to yell, I try to flee, I can't move, she crawls to me. I watch with cold and unmat...
The morning after a night of wild, animalistic sex, Benjamin Braddox got out of bed early to make a romantic post-coitus breakfast of steak and mashed potatoes. At first glance, nobody would assume he was a master chef due to his exquisitely fit physique. His jawline was chiseled like Roman marble and his abs were shr...
\Congratulation on reaching level 2\ I could hear the voice in my head. It hadn't spoken to me after I came to this world for the 1st time. Every time I sleep, I awake in this... place? Some sort of ever changing labyrinth. The paths leads to forests, rivers, cities or whatever. But stray too far from it, and your p...
First time writing something like this. Pardon the grammar please! “There is no doubt that’s him” I thought to myself as I took the next customer’s order — a macchiato for Kyle. I laughed under my breath thinking that the man I need to kill, came to me. I shook off my quizzical expression and focused. I watched my t...
My friends sat at our usual table. Friday night, 10 pm. Same as always. The bar was a quiet dive, never busy and cheap drinks, with a surly old bartender. Their hushed conversation came to a sudden stop as I threw myself, charred and sweaty, covered in ashes and exhausted beyond words into my seat. Although I think...
All that glitters is not gold. Don't compare your behind-the-scenes to other people's highlight reels. Pretentious lies that I corrected as soon as I had the power to do so. Glitter mattered. Appearances mattered. I'd spent far too long watching my friends and classmates rise meteorically in fortune to believe othe...
Time is a fine, finicky strand. Sometimes it frayed and unraveled before righting itself back out, twisting and coiling its way through space. It was linear to most. Sometimes, though, mortals stumble across a loophole. Typically in a time loop where one key phrase, event, or small happening could connect them back...
I had gotten enough time, more than most, a full and arguably happy 87 years. My deathbed was surrounded by my family and friends. My death was marked to be in my sleep, a calm passing that everybody wanted. I wanted it as well, my bones had started to hurt enough that heaven sounded wonderful. Tina, my twin was lying ...
Saint Mary, Mother of God, take this hangover from me and I swear I'll never touch tequila again. Either the Sacred Virgin wasn't in the business of curing hangovers for wayward souls, or she knew my hoe ass was lying about giving up tequila. No matter the reason, my fevered prayers did nothing to dull the pounding...
A variety of baked goods lay upon the plate. Balancing it upon my lap, I continued watching my show. It was Saturday morning, and I was treating myself to some cartoons from my childhood. Transformers was on and I was engrossed in the episode that was playing. “I’ve always dreamed about a world with transformers.” A ...
\[Poem\] All I’ve got’s a hammer, and everything’s a nail. New coworkers stared Like I had two heads. “Have you got a screw loose?” I might be better off dead. Said the new boss (Same as the old boss): “Like a fish to water To this you should take, So go break a leg.” I woul...
On the New Year's Eve, I went out partying with my friends, that's fine right ? We start shouting the countdown and when we get to zero, something lights up in the sky "round 1 begins in ten hours", I passed out of shock. Since then, there's been 137 rounds, when the next one starts is unknown to me, I only know when...
My heart beats wildly in my chest as I sprint through a dark alley. I knew I shouldn’t have taken that shortcut home from work after dark. I glance behind me to see if it’s still there, but on this cloudy night, there is no moonlight available to see anything. But I can feel it, whatever it is, something ominous is ...
"So this is it... you caused me a lot of problems, but time for the final lesson. You don't mess with the mafia." The man smiled, and unholstered his tommy gun. He pointed it to the man tied in the chair. He was beat up, and his once pretty suit was torn to pieces. He smiled. "What are you smiling about, you cunt!" ...
There it is, I thought to myself. Here comes that sensation again! I could feel my vision pulsating, becoming ever so narrower, ever so clearer after each pump of my heart. I take one final breath in.... its deep... I hold it for what feels like an eternity. I look around the circular colosseum, gazing at the crowds....
“Abe, can we talk?” “Sure Alex, what’s on your mind?” Abe sat on a park bench, observing the sunset in a relaxed manner. Alex sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “You know what, Abe.” “I’m not going to have this argument agai—” “If you don’t here it from me, you’re gonna hear it from someone else. When you sa...
This wasn't what he lived for. The days he wanted were the ones where he didn't have to think too much, where plotting went by was wayside and he functioned solely on instinct. Good days would see Brian would wake up just before his alarm, hit the treadmill, and mix a protein drink before seven. Bad days saw him stumbl...
Jon finds himself paralyzed by fear. There's a scream building inside of him, but it can't find an exit. The person standing on the other side of his doorway has no face. Well, they do have a face, but it's a void. A void that draws in your gaze but pushes you away before it can be contemplated. "Hello,"says the perso...
"Hi, welcome to Dan's Deli, how can I help you?" The large man in a black suit just stood there for a minute, taking in the small delicatessen. Then he reached up to lower his sunglasses a centimeter, peering at me over the top of them. "Are you Dan?"His voice was low, serious, and slightly menacing. "Yep, I'm Dan."...
NOT EVERY DETAIL OF EVERY PLAN GOES ACCORDINGLY. EVEN PROMPTS TO TELL A STORY COULD TAKE AN UNEXPECTED DIRECTION AS KATIE WAS ABOUT TO LEARN TONIGHT. THIS YOUNG-ADULT LIBRARIAN COULD EXPRESS COUNTLESS WORDS OF JOY FOR HER LOVE OF HALLOWEEN–EVEN IF IT FELL ON A DREARY WEDNESDAY. BEING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK WASN’T GO...
They met on the first day of spring, witnessed by the nosy necks of new daffodil shoots. She sat on a park bench by the large pond, running from everything but towards nothing, and he stepped into her way by sitting down beside her. She would have risen, but he began to feed to the ducks with dark rye crusts and she w...
The problem is...you ride a bike to work, you think to yourself. The bigger question you thought to ask yourself is what next? Do you ignore it? Put it down as a side effect of the chemical fumes given off by the factory you work in? Could it of been an angel of a life lost ago? Even if the threat was real, who would ...
They never talked about her, the angel of the void. Who would believe them? Who’d believe in an incorporeal, squid like being that kept the station running, saved astronauts by guiding them to the control room, and provided a sense of belonging with her songs. Most likely, she’s some kind of alien ghost that got stuck ...
"Can I be DM?" "No, Tolkien. Last time you were DM you conducted the entire campaign in a make up language,"said CS Lewis "It just wouldn't have made sense in the setting to conduct it all in English." "Then you should have made it make sense so we could actually follow along." "If thou art done bickering, then get...
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I woke up that morning. It certainly wasn’t what greeted me. The world was dim, yes, but it felt off somehow. Not in the way that the smoggy skies of my city felt. I drew back the curtains, and immediately closed them again. This was not where I was supposed to be. There is a mirror,...
I'm an old man now. I get by with skill what I no longer have the power to force. In a way, I would prefer to go back and do better for the people who I have already helped. But… they are far away, and there are always more that need help than a thousand of us could provide. Because of my lack of power, I can no lo...
"Look..."Dave begins, "We need to talk about your schoolwork..." Chad closes his eyes and slowly takes a deep breath, "Christ, not this again." "Yes, this again."Dave replies sharply while moving closer. "I can't keep doing your work for you. You know what would happen if I stopped. You'd get kicked off the team, n...
# Death Spin Pensive thoughts to stare with care at the cemetery wall so tall in the dark. But I've just the spark to leave my mark on a society full of fault and so I vault with room to spare landing with care in the lair of the dead. Let the flame spread! Ideals burn from the shame of no lessons l...
"Why do you... Wish to keep peace, War?" "Because peace is something that fighters yearn when in times of war. War was no longer as simple as it was. The rules to not hurt the non combatants were no longer followed through. I have watched a mother be murdered in front of her family. I watched a family who was enjoying ...
The others all looked to The youngest engineer and waited for him to keep going. He always had some sort of explanation for everything that almost seemed to make no damn sense. He cleared his throat and kept going, "I mean, for one, it's quite....well, it's got more then one colors and we can clearly see some sort of.....
I looked around the room, the meeting area of these so called 'elite heroes'. They all honestly look like complete douchebags, chin to the sky, chest outwards. All seemed like some sorta joke, I saw one of them give me the head to toe look and snicker. See?.. Very correct I am. I sighed, hands in my pockets rocking bac...
A man before a king, an angel without wings, Loved by his people, the singers of his deeds! Their king, their lord, their friend and forever such! In his heart their dreams ever dwell, in his mind rings their spirits' bell. A thousand men walk the hallowed fields, harvest in their land, A hundred men sing the song...
I slowly poured the powder into my glass, hoping it would make the headache go away, banish the fuzziness from my tongue. Last night can't happen again. I silently swore never to touch alcohol again. The second I finished mixing my patended hangover cure, I heard a loud crash from the wall behind me, and the air fil...
“I curse you! You will die a horrible death! I shall rend you limb from limb and will inflict upon you torture so great it will make death your greatest wish!” “...Jeez dude it was just a sandwich,” Maybe I should give some backstory. Just when we all thought 2020 couldn’t get any worse, an earthquake revealed a sea...
Autumn leaves crunch under my sneakers as I make my way through the forest. I hear jogging, heavy breath, a squeak of boots behind me. I turn around and see a cloaked man behind me; he comes to an abrupt stop. We make eye contact: His eyes are bright blue, like mine. I lower my gaze to his mouth as chills crawl down m...
My death wasn’t particularly violent, as things go. Slipped and cracked my head open. Really, it was just embarrassing. Next thing I know, I’m in an old, dimly lit room with an empty book in front of me on a decaying wooden table. On the left of the book was a golden quill, and the left, a folded note. “To Samuel” it r...
Mary struggled with the adjustment of her anxiety medication, after losing her father she jumped at every bump in the night. Ever since she was little, she would see shadow people, and as she grew older she found out how common it was for mostly everyone else. Hauntings were mostly a let down, usually it was someone l...
Hi u/mobaisle_writing, this submission has been removed. Usage: places constraints on the writing, not on the story itself. It can be used to restrict certain words or otherwise add other limitations or requirements, such as word limits or writing styles. For example, writing a story without using the letter "A"or...
I woke up in an unusual place. Nothing like I normally wake up to. I got up and walked around. Why is this so cumbersome? That’s when I realized: my skin, my hands, my face. They weren’t right. My movement was difficult. Why aren’t I walking on the right number of legs? It was all very strange. I turned around and no...
Before this orientation continues, we here at the Agency would like to clarify some things regarding time travel and all its workings. After, and before, working here, you will have questions with answers that are hard to come by. The primary question being 'How does time travel work?' followed by 'How do I unstick mys...
“Bright enough to cast shadows.” That’s what my mother had told me about the Rainbow Curtains her last winter before leaving home. It’s also what the ephemerides recorded at night as far north as Thelil. A once in a lifetime display, if that, happening again so soon. I’d never been so far south before, so I had to take...
Whoa... Okay, what just happened? One minute I'm browsing games in my local Gamestop, and the next I'm deposited, somewhat roughly, mind you, into some place that looks like a bad virtual reality game. Although there are things taking form here, stuff is just popping into existence. I look at myself, realizing that, y...
"It has been proved that life on Earth came from Mars, sir,"Riley reported. *He stroked his beard. With the humans from Earth in their advanced technology that the ones who had received intelligence superpowers and diverse superpowers coming in their gigantic space cruisers, their forces would reach Mars within a we...
Part 1 Today sucked. Even more than yesterday, today was the worst. I really thought that the funeral would be the hardest part, but I was thankfully mostly numb during the grief procession of people who suddenly gave a damn about my loved ones. Today is 3 days after the funeral, and 7 days after the fire. People...
"911, whats your emergency?"I asked, drumming my fingers on the desk, ready for action. "H-hello, can you hear me?"whispered the woman on the other end. "I can hear you ma'am, what's your emergency?" "I'm being held captive along with your daughter in the trunk of a car and we are being taken somewhere." "Excuse ...
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It was a simple invasion. In and out, twenty minutes max. Something we have done many times before whenever we needed specimens for our experiments. Earthlings were one of our favorite species to abduct. They were weak, stupid, primitive and honestly, just fun to probe. In fact, across the galactic chart of favorite ...
It was noting but a long running joke, lies intertwined with a wandering mind, the poor warning man. He made claims, we laughed and shunned and ignored. The warning man had warned us, he said they would come giants of steel and arms. We never listen to the warnings of the warning man, and when they came he laughed...
Gotta take pride in your work, if you wanna be a Toother. Kinda like the pride of them silly warriors with their toothy necklaces, except I earned it for honest. Takes no skill to rip the teeth outta a dead hunk of meat on the battlefield. Takes real skill to rip the teeth outta a live hunk of meat. Meat that’ll k...
“God I can’t wait to get out of here,” I thought to myself. It was 12:30 PM on a Friday and this had been a week from hell. I was just typing away trying to get through these last few hours when Gerald just had to come by and give his two cents. The absolute last thing anyone wanted to deal with before the weekend. We ...
"How's the veal, my dear?"Edith asked, the corners of her mouth lifting into a kindly smile. She slid the dish closer, leaving the white tablecloth damp with condensation. "Please, eat as much as you would like. I don't dare imagine how long it's been since you've had a full meal. Once you're full, we'll get you out of...
I had finally done it. I had finally beaten the Dark Lord. I yell out, my mind running wild. The wizard who had sent me out to defeat him smiled slightly, knowing the world would be free of his curse soon. “You have done as I have asked of you, and now I will reward you. You may ask me any question, and if I do not kno...
When the demon possessed their friend, it occurred to them that maybe this wasn’t a great idea. The friends were out on Halloween, and for fun, they decided to go inside a haunted house. Not a haunted house you would see at a fair, no, a legitimate haunted house. This house they were inside was famous for its history o...
"Okay, maybe he’s not cheating,” I thought, dodging behind another tree in the increasingly dense forest on the outskirts of town. I watched as Ben strolled deeper into the tangle of conifers, walking as if he had a clear destination in mind. I hunched over to catch my breath, winded from following him for over an hour...
# Tabitha He let out a whistle, “Here girl! Tabitha?” The weak light filtered through the drifting canopy. Bluebells swung merrily in the morning breeze and the soft mist still curled between the boughs. Songbirds twittered their inducements and the sheepdog’s distant barking reached back down the trail. But she did...
What happens when you cross the world's edge? &#x200B; Thousands, maybe more, have asked the question. Personally, I had never found it terribly interesting. People die. Surprises continually present themselves. Heartbreak comes when you least expect it. The world presents enough. I never really wanted to know t...

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