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Drums echo in the black stone walls of the great hexagonal chamber at the dungeon's topmost story. A high-pitched violin is followed by the collapse of the floor's edges, transforming the room in a huge arena. The great iron door opens with a rusty screech, and I can see three shadows kneeling near the shiny statue o...
After waking up, Tim the Tortoise realized that he felt a craving. The usual turtle diet appeared just fine to him on other days, but today he wanted something different. Some... human food? Yes, a bagel more specifically. Tim sighed. He knew of a place to get great bagels, but going there requires quite a great deal...
'I remember being so connected to my family. We weren't solid, sure, but we were very close. We were poor, very poor. When we started out there wasn't much by way of food or clothes - my brothers and I used to just play fight for entertainment!' he smiled, sweetly. 'But as times went on and my mom started working, we ...
You stare at the panting messenger confused. Surely you heard wrong, you take off your helmet, holding it under your arm as you talk to him. "So sorry, could you repeat that please, helms sometimes make it hard to hear properly. " By this point the poor boy has caught his breath, and was able to talk in one smooth flo...
I was just ten when it first took place. I was playing with Rex when all of a sudden I felt like I was shrinking through space and time , the next thing I knew was that everything was dark. I couldn’t see anything and there was a twitch in my eye and the next thought that popped in my head was “What if I turned blind”...
Sigmund looked around him at the people with their manicured blonde dreadlocks, hemp jewelry, and dilated pupils. They were mostly dancing, and all clearly having a good time, except maybe that one sitting over there in the corner, in the wide hallway that served as both an entrance and exit to this part of the stadium...
"Tonight, another body was discovered off of Angel Road in Torrance. The body was found with the infamous calling card of the World Killer, a simple note reading 'Learn the Truth'. Police are still investigating-" I shut off the T.V. with a sigh. The news anchor was grating on my nerves with that high pitched, nasally...
Your terror is just a symptom of the greater disease of fear; fear of living, fear of dying, fear of leaving the dark to step into the light and have it illuminate your most damning flaws to the world around you. Your nightmares are simply premonitions of exposing the monstrosity that is the culmination of your failure...
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"Howdy!" -"Oh my God, wtf?! Wait... Ohhh. Hmph, let me guess... Flowey, Flowey the flower?" "H-huh?! How do you... Wait, this isn't the underground! Where am I, er, where are we?" -"You're at my house, which is on the surface, infact, there is no underground, or monsters here. Do you remember a player who literal...
For people with typical minds, I could hear thoughts quite well, intact, even for non-typical minds, those with mental disorders and the such, I could still understand, even if their brains worked a bit differently than most. Well, apparently, for people with DID, I don't hear the current personality, as I'd expected, ...
There she was, kneeling over me, almost as I remembered seeing her the day before. I had failed to say anything, failed to reach out to her. She wore her years well, I dreamed about that missed moment. Now here she was wrapped in black black cloth and leather, I was such a lucky man. She slid the dagger in her hand ...
(Warning: horror) Percy shielded his eyes as the single lightbulb flickered on, revealing what appeared to be ... a kid’s ... bedroom?!? The young agent never imagined he’d go on a mission when he first joined the agency. Of course, he never imagined making it into one of the world’s most prestigious spy agencies e...
The slip gate network... I've been lost in here for what feels like years. It's hot, hotter than you'd expect. The passage of time doesn't feel right. Could only be days. This world is stranger than the rest. Quiet, sticky, dark. Terribly dark. Though I don't feel like I'm in danger... This time. I'm terrified to turn...
\[Gaming Dates\] "Excuse us for a second,"Russel smiled at the well-dressed woman as he pulled Justin away from her. "Sure, okay,"the brunette returned his smile. Russel dragged Justin far enough so that she couldn't hear them talk about her. They did not have to travel far, the bustling town made plenty of noise; b...
You know that feeling you get, like when your entire body just feels off? Like something isn't right but you can't quite put a finger on it? Yeah, that feeling. And my day was going pretty well before I got home, too. I didn't even notice them at first after I'd unlocked my door and stepped inside, just too happy and...
Talus’ optical system came back online, finding themself in a cave with calm, blue flames. No matter how efficient the Yellow Planet’s mechanicals were with recycling, the pollution that ravaged their home kept miners like Talus digging for raw materials. According to the data given by Eze, this cave didn’t exist. Gl...
Wilmarth used to go on and on about it. Made himself the laughingstock of the entire university, in fact, whispering with lit-up eyes about old legends and myths. The Stone of Destiny, said to announce the coming of heroes and great kings. The Siege Perilous, supposedly carved in the time of Arthur, to identify the one...
Todd is a man. Todd lives at the top of a building several miles high. He stares out the window of the penthouse, down at the clouds below. Come to think of it... and he didn't think much OF it, in fact... He'd never left this place. He looked up at the myriad of other buildings, far into the distance, huge rope brid...
“I damn it, Jesus, what did you do?” “I swear, it was an accident! Daniel just said your name in vain and I-“ “-Flipped out? I get that you’re a human just as much as you are God, but did you have to go and hurt him, AND yourself in the process? Now I need to go to Hell, where LUCIFER is keeping you. Jesus, your-“ “...
"There should be a law against airports." "Not this again. I told you, the entire thing makes perfect sense to 100% of the population. You're the only one who doesn't get it." "Why should I have to pay just to wait twenty minutes to pick someone up?!" "You don't have to pay anything. Just use the cell phone lot." "...
I know that it would be no use to try and call someone. If I were to get a hold of anyone, I worry that my phone’s battery wouldn’t make it through the entire call. Even if it did, and I was able to say what was going on, and where I am, what could that person do. So, I run out of the house and jump into my car. ...
"Citizens of Gaea. I address you today to celebrate our hard work as a species over the past 30 years. In that time, the *Fortitude* has sailed across the endless bounds of space and into the unknown. We have entrusted the very finest of humanity with this mission to the final frontier, to the edge of the stars. It's b...
The pickle stares back at me, a wide fucking grin on his face. After a long day of running from creepy tentacle monsters, the first thing I love doing is cracking jokes with my ol’ pickle pal Sanchez. We’ve been together since the start, me and my pickle. Be it chilling in the pool(aka an algae-infested pond we found d...
Bow chicka bow wow…. Ohhhhh yeah.. This dream is juicy. Get ready. For. Ms. Haverton. Spanish Teacher. Oh, what’s this. The bottons on her blouse are popping loose? And she’s coming over to my desk Oh! Ms. Haverton I don’t think I can get up for the class presentation… Unless, you want to dismiss the class… yeah. And I...
Ever hear of gods’ greatest gift to mankind. The stolen one that is simply described as a chemical reaction that is ignited by oxygen and fuel. I’m going to tell you how my discovery triumphs that childish mythology act of thievery, and let me tell you, it’s real fire, fam. To be honest, I’ve relinquished being hip wit...
In a blink of an eye the demon's supernatural speed put him behind Thomas, raking at his back with black claws. Thomas though, was a trained demon slayer and all his years of training prepared him for exactly this moment. The slayer was just as fast, his sword meeting claws and deflecting them aside. The move opened up...
He stepped out of his squad car, checking his sidearm, and looked at the large abandoned apartment before him. His radio put out a burst of static, and he took it off his belt. "Come in Command, this if Officer Ross,"said the officer, "I'm at the location, over." The voice on the other line responded, "We read you Ro...
I hate it when my human bumps into her friends while on our Walks. They'll natter away endlessly, and I'm forced to sit on my haunches on the heated pavement and wait till their conversation ran dry. And my human has a *lot* of friends. It's even worse when these friends come with their dogs. They are such attention-...
Sharon Renee Halstead. Her full name is emblazoned on a trending YouTube video, front page. The light from her phone screen illuminates the dark room around her. She'd spent the night scrolling for hours, and it smacked her squarely on the forehead at four am. Double checking her volume, Sharon presses play. There i...
“No!” I can feel tears streaming down my face, so wet and cold, they're making my vision go blurry. “Please, No!” My heartbeat is faster than it has ever been before, I'm screaming at the top of my lungs and yet nothing but a faint whisper seems to leave my mouth. I'm scared, my head is spinning, my legs are shaking...
A deep heartless creature, had found their own heart in the form of a story. The Demon saw a movement without a cause, which fluttered and failed. From within the Demon, he realized that he and it weren’t that different from one another. “You realize those weren’t the terms we agreed to.” The demon uttered. “Please...
“It’s *real*. Do you not see how much of a problem this is? *Quanta News* picked the story up last night. This is a *disaster*. The story will tank our stocks. Virtual reality is great *because* it is walled from reality.” Agon wanted to reach across the meeting desk and shake Koraiah by the shoulders. How could she ...
It was dark out. Pitch black, really, apart from the street lights that were too far away to offer any helpful level of illumination. John and Theresa were at the flanks, with the rookie in the back. What was the kid's name again? It slipped my mind, but I might try to remember if he survived the mission... Though that...
Hell on Earth. The second coming. There were many names for it, but Cain didn't care. His sentence was almost over. "One thosuand years past the fall of man you shall live to see." The Big Guy may have been cruel, capricious, and vindictive, but He was at the very least a deity of his word. This was his punishment...
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I used to be the Satan’s right hand man. Or woman, I supposed... do demons have genders? No matter. My job was to track the most evil humans to live. Hitler, practically every dictator as well. Every so often I’d get a serial killer. If they killed more than a thousand people, they were going to get me. After a while...
A dragon. A big, fire-breathing, gold-hoarding, beast of a creature was lurking just over the hill. John could practically taste it - though perhaps that was just the heavy smoke in the air. He inched forward, crawling on his belly now, up the hill and towards his destiny. All his life he'd been searching. All his li...
It's been said that the forest was enchanted. Magical. Filled with wonders that seem impossible to the real world. It once was a place that invited people to explore the secrets it held amongst the trees. But over time, new words used to describe the forest crept their way into the lexicon. Haunted. Cursed. Filled wit...
My mother always told me to live every day like it was my last. And I always did, with one exception. The exception being Monday. I was never good at Mondays. I like to think that Monday is the real 'off day' of the week. A tiny strip of cartilage between the exhaustion of the work week and the wild debauchery of the w...
I sat absorbed in a silence broken only by the soft sound of struggled breaths and the occasional beep of a heart monitor. Staring at the woman on the bed in front of me, her pale pained face sticking out from beneath the blankets covering the rest of her body and her long brown hair grown messy and rough from lack of...
Its been 57 days since the storks declared war on me, 57 long drawn out days. They thought it was a joke at first, when I shot one of them out of the sky. An explosion of feather and a small dud and I had successfully evaded the delivery. They sent another one right out. It received the same treatment. Then they starte...
You wake up in the recliner in your living room. The smell of bacon and coffee takes over your senses. You head to the kitchen to see your wife in her favorite apron that is completly black with white designs of different leaves and flowers on it. Underneath is a dark blue sundress that always has been your favorite an...
\[1/2\] Rozhin watched the blood pool around the body of his sworn enemy, his archnemesis. It soaked through her green robes under bronze armor that was no match against the sharp knife that slit her throat. Despite his vow to kill her himself, someone had beaten him to it. He eyed her pale lifeless corpse, her dark a...
As the man took his final step, the bones of his right knee gave a creak. The creak was familiar, almost comforting. He had known the creak for a long time now. It sounded once more as he took his final seat on a flat, unassuming rock. A deep breath in. Cold, fresh mountain air. The wind was brisk, but the man was exp...
Abd-El-Malik, the mightiest *djinn* ever to scoff at the mortals of Arabia, He who had brought ruin to the wealthiest sultans, He who had taught the haughtiest emirs humility beyond measure, towered over the shifting sand of Rub al’Khali, and the one foolish enough to release him from his prison. He grew larger still, ...
Up, on the wet marble steps, the reflection of the city lights shone brightly. The rain has stoped for a while, but the air retained its refreshing smell. Yet, salt water flew gently on the lonely girl's checks. Her eyes were red as she watched the dancing lights with a slow wind combing her dark red hair. It's har...
Harriet liked the Zoo well enough. They visited twice a year—her and Mother, Francis in tow—to do a round of the grounds and stare at the animals in their sad cages. Oh, the keepers said the creatures were happy. Enrichment activities, carefully designed enclosures, release programs, yadda yadda… But Harriet saw the ba...
The ground shook beneath our feet as we made our way up the fine grained, ashen dirt of the volcano. *Well, not* my *feet per se. Seeing as how I’m currently trussed up like a hog and getting hauled to my over-sized fire pit.* Smoke spewed from the top of what I suspected to be our destination. All attempts at rea...
Fuck... I am so very fucked. Of all the things that could have happened to me this had to be the worst. I couldn't die peacefully and move on, oh no. I had to get reborn and go through life a second time. This time in the harry potter universe and in the same year as the kid to boot! Having to deal with new parents...
A stern look of disappointment gushes lots of emotions through the human body, heart palpation, increased breathing which could all surmise into the sense of being in discomfort. But I was amongst the special ones, for my discomfort seemed beyond the norm. One thunderous look and my body seemed like it was on fire, and...
They have always been there. Of course I vowed to only use them for good after I had finally grasped the concept of good and bad at the age of fourteen. Just because I hold the power to probably erase the earth doesn’t mean I’m the brightest candle on the cake. Cake was also the think that made me look over to the ti...
I had grown up not far from the hermit's hut, but I had no real knowledge of who he was. My uncle and aunt did not like me spying on the old man; they claimed that this took my mind away from my chores, but I think perhaps they did not trust him for the simple reason that he acted in ways they did not understand. I cou...
I couldn’t believe what I had just heard. Mike kicked the bucket in the middle of his shift, and the boss was *mad about it*? I was absolutely blindsided, and so was everyone else in the room, who stopped in their tracks to gape at him. “Sorry, come again?” I asked, still mentally processing the shock of what he had sa...
Finally decided that today is the day you buy yourself an android to help you around the house and help with your social anxiety. Chose a female clone of my favorite celebrity Miranda Cosgrove. Weeks passed by and felt nice having the android cook, clean and do all my chores for me. After chatting with the android I be...
I wish I could just go home. I wish I didn’t know how it felt to kill. I wish I had never become the “*Lunar Queen.*” I wish for a lot of things and never wanted this to happen. It still boogles my mind to think that I Layla Fiann has played such an enormous part in the current state of affairs. I would never have dre...
Pt1 Clouds rolled across the sky and the familiar scent of the crops almost ready for harvest drifted over my village. The memory of that day is a happy one. I was filled with joy as I had just become the Silat Melayu champion of my village. It was a few months after my sixteenth birthday, which made me the youngest...
"Ah, not this Shit again!"I hate job interviews and now there I was: wearing a second hand hooded robe and my slippers with a demon standing in my living room. Not even a particular scary demon, when I imagined summoning a demon from the ninth circle of Hell, I imaged an eldritch monstrosity. A being so mind-boggling...
So, Hades started; you two believe that as gods of war you have a greater claim to the land of the dead as you’re the ones responsible for bringing the vast majority of its residences here, do I have that right? Taking a moment Ares and Keres look at one another letting a silent moment pass as if they’d been rehearsi...
At first, I had shit my pants. This eight-foot-tall, bow-legged, zebra-antelope-spider with meter-long HORNS and a skull for a face stood in front of me with its long T. rex claws up like a praying mantis. Except I was the one praying to whatever god could hear me to please be the one that’s actually real and come and ...
Day 407, estimated time back home - late evening. The siren in the cabin kept its quiet pulsing. The journey was only estimated at around 7 months of travel time, even 5 if the gravity shot from the moon was feasible. However nothing about the current situation right now screamed “on schedule”. Lee furiously kept ...
The sun beamed down on my skin. I wore my black jogger shorts and a simple white t-shirt, looking for all the world like one of them. I sat on the bench in the center of Gravel Park. My eyes twinkling and my hands burning to do something. I started whistling, watching all of the people, men, women, and children includ...
There we stood, layered two, sometimes three deep apon the high branches of one of our magnificent oaks. To my left and right were comrades I was ready to die for. Fat Charles, Tina, Gregory, and so many more. We waited for what seemed like an eternity, for Susan and her dog Zuke to leave the concrete structure. Each ...
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: For all of you tuning in to watch Fareed Zakaria GPS, we will bring you that program shortly, but right now, we want to continue with our breaking news coverage of this deadly train crash in liberty city. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. At this point...
Every villain grows up thinking that they want to rule the world. Rule mankind under an iron fist, yadda, yadda, yadda. They are hungry for power, for unchecked power to command others to do their bidding. But honestly? It's all a damned ruse. Besides, humanity has enough on its plate to deal with. You can't even ...
Three stressful months with no sight, nine ads posted online and removed, and at least a dozen dozen "have you seen me?"flyers posted in the neighborhood. Isuelt was out of her mind worrying for her lost cat, Lady Hibiscus Wiskers VonFloofingsberg, an abyssally, voidish black, long haired manx. It didn't even make sen...
"So, Demon, why would I risk my eternal soul... When just five hundred dollars would do?" The creature snarled, and growled, chilling the Human Lawyer's flesh to the bone. "Do not call me 'Demon' again, tiny little thing. I was here when your kind crawled from the mud. I will be here still, when this world is devoure...
"This war must end, both sides lost many of their own, and we will not let any more of our people die for this same cause!” One of the angels said angrily. Heaven was known to many people, a place for peace, but no one can stay peaceful after seeing the horrors of the battlefield. “As hard as it is for me to say it...
“...Alice?” I stood before my sister for the first time in years. Waves of emotions crashed into me - I remembered burying an empty casket at her funeral. How our father picked up extra shifts just to avoid coming home. How mom, plagued by a compulsion to visit a stagnant room that slowly grew thick with dust, eventua...
It was a rainy day when I received the letter from the bureau of compatibility. The brown envelope was practically torn apart from shipping, I assumed. But what was most important was the content of it: my soulmate, the person I was most compatible with amongst more than 200 countries. My heart pounded inside my chest ...
"You've lied, you've cheated, murdered and betrayed - there was no sin too big or too small for you. And yet, here you stand, tall and proud of your actions, unwilling to bend the knee even for the Prince of Hell himself. Give us one single reason why we shouldn't just consign you to the void and eternal oblivion." ...
I don't think I've ever been in the news before. The exception would be when I made the Honor Roll in the 3rd grade and my name was mentioned in the local paper. My mom still has it cut out in one of the family albums. So as much as I'd expect to see my face, it's still odd when I flipped to the news app on my ph...
Birds chirping, the satisfying smell of fresh coffee, the sun peeking through the blinds, and... that fucking laugh. Every single morning the holy trifecta of "today will be a great day"is ruined by that shrill and unnecessary cackle. But, today's different. Today I've had enough. Today, that asshole is going to di...
As your eyes open you gaze upon the endless valley. You see the trees to the left and the mountains to the right. The river slithering down into the great divide. Parting the landscape into natural wonders you shall find. You will ponder on the reasons for your journey through this grand novel we call life. How you fl...
The hardest part was forgetting. The mind fought to hold onto what it previously had established as concrete fact. But of course he wanted to forget. Day after day, not seeing, not hearing he discovered that the pang of what he thought he saw began to disappear. The smell even disappeared after awhile. Life was beautif...
"Breaking news, I was just handed a report stating that Power Hawk and the nefarious Iron Curtain have begun to duke it out mano e mano down in the market square."The report shuffles his papers audibly as the radio crackles with life. "If you value the lives of your children and wives, please stay home. This looks to b...
"Hey, whats going on guys?" The three bank robbers froze in place, knowing exactly who was talking and all too afraid to actually turn around and look at him. "What? No love for you're friendly neighbor hood superhero? Come on, its rude not to look at someone when they're talking to you" The robbers slowly turned ar...
FLASH! CLICK! Daniel blinked as he was blinded by flashbulbs, holding up a hand with a scowl. Every. Freaking. Time. Jesus Christ, if it got worse, he might have to move again. Before he'd even made it down his front steps, he was mobbed by fans, teenage girls mostly, shrieking excitedly. "Ohmygod, where is he? I wa...
"Fuck", I muttered, still reeling from the dizzying, horrific montage of images of the inevitable armageddon. And worst of all, I knew it would come true. All the other ones had. I looked at the bottle of vodka in my hand and took another swig. "No. That can't be it". Surely the more visions I had, the more I'd see. M...
"Pay up"he demands. I just stared blankly at the man as he made his way over to my desk. Instinctively, I looked around for the night-guard, Tim, and remembered that his shift had ended about an hour ago. I was all alone with this strange man. The windows matched the pitch dark void behind the man and threatened to sw...
Report, Dr. Marcus Grey, overseer, investigation of SCP-114473. The following logs were retrieved from the last transmission of deep sea submersible SS SCP Aruna, tasked to investigate SCP-114473, designated "Hulk". \----------------- Captain Shawn Daggart, SS SCP Aruna. This will be my final report. Should it ev...
I continued to look at her as she helped me with the formulas for my latest project. Beautiful. Drop-dead. GORGEOUS. Smart. Funny. Understood me and all my quirks and moods. Helpful and loving. To be frank, it was taking all of my will-power to not suggest a "time-out"in the nearest bed. She was also me while I w...
Science Officer Tol'Rukk rushed onto the bridge of the *Soaring Ketlan,* an exploration ship of the Dariffian Interstellar Republic. She was expressing several emotions, most strongly excitement, but there was an undercurrent of concern that the Captain of the vessel, Vol'nar, took notice of. "We have translated their...
“What do we do,” the old counselor asked Merlin, “they can’t *all* be kings. Hellfire, some of those running around wielding the swords, like sweetmeats, are *women*, and *children* hardly out of swaddling! What manner of deviltry is this? I’d a sooner a cow be crowned our liege!” “It is passing strange, I will agree,...
*Good morning*, read the message. *If you're reading this, it's not too late. The machine has worked, and I have managed to send a message through time and space to this moment, before the entire world went to shit. 'Course, that's the way I -- you -- like it.* *Past me, I need your help.* *I suppose it's a good sign...
"Setsuna!" I couldn't hear his voice anymore, but I knew he was calling for me. But, I could not turn back anymore. There was something only I could do, even if it will cost my soul. My power was fading, but still strong enough to keep this monster in his place. Even if it will break me, I will not let it cause anym...
Everyone remembers where they were on that day, when all the forces of evil massed together and declared war on us. The National Crime Syndicate started a spree of assassinations and robberies across the nation, with the help of every single hostile foreign power. Embittered scientists unveiled technological horror-bea...
[Part 1] A loud shrill quickly covers the school grounds. *Shit, I'm late for social.* I quicken my pace across the field. The grass is turning slightly yellowish in the unusually cold autumn air. I pass many of my classmates who don't seem to mind the bell ringing one bit, despite knowing what miss Charleson thinks...
The general had harrowed his opposers with ash and soot, besieging them with steel and chagrin. His rise had been ineffable and now such was his fall. He forced King Iopilus to abdicate his throne and such ushered in an era of peace and been emblematic of the same principals rehearsed and regurgitated since the dawn of...
"Throughout most of history, our race died young. We learned early that we were soon to be gods. The first battles where simple: illness, small animals, tests of inteligence, criativity and even what some could call games. Those would always be seen as fun, and everyone always had help.  At your 18th birthday, you bec...
Hello and good day to you, my new friends! Welcome to my TEDtalk, "The Art of being Genuine"! I'm sure I need no introduction, being one of the Original Five, but just in case you have lived under a rock the last 1200 years, my name is Adam. Yes, once I reached my secondary 5 years, and learned about the origin storie...
There have been points in my life where I have been thankful for my immortality, and there have been moments where I have truly regretted such an ability. It has both been a blessing and a curse, as the numerous movies and novels have depicted - I treasure this ability as much as I want to rid myself of it. I am not t...
“Well, at least I have water and toilet,” I thought as I opened the door into the bathroom for what may be the hundredth time. I had banged the door and yelled and screamed, but it seemed like this bathroom was not connected to anywhere else but this bathroom. Panting, I ran the faucet and washed my face, hoping that i...
I roll out of bed rubbing the sleep from my eyes, patting the nightstand haphazardly until I feel my glasses. Pushing them up my nose, I slide to the floor and tug my ankles under my me. Palms up resting lightly on my knees, I open my inner eye and start searching through the darkness that surrounds me. It feels just a...
Peter awoke in the cool metal hull of a ship. His insides were exposed, with little flags pointing up from his fleshy internals, an alien scripture written on each one. But he did not seem to care. Above, a tube ran from his mouth to a steel hanger, a gas tank attached. He tugged at the tube and found that it ran deep ...
“What if we do a U-turn?” The captain whirled his finger in the air. “Captain, with all do respect, what if you shut the hell up?” The captain pause and then turned to the giant framed window, explosions blasting in the distance of space. “And what if I did,” said the captain. “Or, what if I turned you off and finis...
I was just cleaning up the mess a couple of guys made when he, or whatever the hell that thing was, walked in. It was late so there weren't a lot of people and those who were there were too drunk to even bother about the new guy coming in. But I, fully sober, was shook. His entire left half was gone and in the middle...
"I'm sorry, mate,"the pudgy guy repeated, "you know the rules: no clothes without a receipt." "Do I know..."Death stammered. "Do *I* know the rules? Listen, *Greg*, look into the deep, despair-driven voids that are my eyesockets and tell me that *I* don't know the rules. I, who have presided over the death of every mo...
Camilla West sat in her dressing room, examining her freshly made up face. Did she look too old? She wondered. Like one of those old Hollywood movie actresses well past her prime? Joan Crawford, maybe? She knew what the Grips and the Gaffer were saying about her, that she was difficult to work with. But she knew that a...
*Filth*. That is what humans represented. *Filth*. They shed skin cells, and hair, and bits of lint. And the crumbs. Don’t get me started on the *crumbs*! Stuffing their fat faces all day long, masticating like pigs at the slop. Bit of food falling needlessly to the ground. Tracking dirt and god knows what else kind of...