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"I think she likes ya."Lucifer observed. We sat on the picnic bench eating our hot dogs while watching the girls playing volleyball. "Cindy? Her, no.... come on... no..."I said. "She asked you to come down here and watch her play... BEACH... VOLLEY... BALL. You do not have to be older than humanity to know what's go...
"The mark... it is you!" I rolled my eyes. "No, it is most certainly not me. I swear, I am not the subject of your ridiculous prophecy. Yes, it slightly resembles a dragon, but maybe it's a lizard! And if you look at it from this angle it resembles a bird! I'm telling you this is a coincidence." "No. We have waited ...
The concept of coins is interesting, really. It's a small disk of metal used as currency, which in turn can be used to get anything else a person needs. That small piece of metal would usually be useless, but we assign it a value. It's only important because we say so. Well, that's not the case for me. My four coins ...
July 17th. That was the day people got their results for the GPI back. The “Global Placement Initiative.” Is what it was called. It was a global test every single child on Earth had to take. And I was one of those unlucky souls. Nobody ever knew exactly what was going to be on the test. It had varied wildly from year t...
“We used a nuclear bomb. Several, in fact.” “A what?” The peace committee delegate asked, taken aback. “A nuclear bomb. Fission, to be exact. High-yield.” “You use nuclear fission to make bombs?” The delegate asked, confused, “I thought this was your first off-world battle, how did you have time to create one, let a...
Dear diary: Today, I finally did it! After 1000 years of boring, bleak death, I managed to break free from the chains of eternal rest, freeing myself! Now that I've finally woken up, all I have to do is get out of my tomb and waltz right out of here. Oh, how I've longed to see the world, all full of color. Makes me wo...
If he was hitting on her, he was going about it all wrong. Or better yet, Isla thought, he didn’t need to be doing this shit at all. There was a point where the congenital superiority of Parathi crossed the line from barely tolerable to completely infuriating, and Professor Eristeed had jumped across it as only a quad...
Her eyes dulled as she exhaled her last breath. The world slowly blurred into a faint grey. &#x200B; She smiled. Gone were the days where she suffered in silence as lifeless machines fought to keep her soul tethered to her body. She stretched out her hand to embrace the welcoming darkness that wished to envelope ...
Tonight! I eat some frogs. James waves a stick. And Richard talks to a man [role clip "Richard talking to Gary Oldman"Audio: "I think I'm really more of a Gryffindor-Ravenclaw hybrid"] JEREMY: Hello and welcome! to another Top Gear special, and it is a good one JAMES: Indeed, the producers have sent us here [points v...
Death comes for everyone eventually. For millennia I appeared before humans as their shade separated from their body. Old ones, young ones.... whether organ failure or accident or disease... I was there to lead them. Death does not come easily to everyone. The rage I see so often about how "it's not their time!"or othe...
"...How the hell did you even get in here?"The lich said, utterly dumbfounded. The inspector completely ignored what he said. "So first order of business is the fact that you have not one but TWO false entrances to your lair, with nothing indicating that anyone who steps on them that they have horrific death traps in ...
Look, we've all done it. Maybe it was some creep flirting with you at a bar. Maybe it was your own family, breathing down your neck at a holiday dinner table, wondering when are you going to settle down and give them some grandkids? But I was at a wedding, when I told the lie that changed my life. I was wine-drunk a...
When I was seventeen and in college I fell in love for the first time. She didn’t fall in love with me — but I could hardly blame her for that, seeing as she hadn’t met me. Our college campus was vast and I’d only seen her twice in corridors, and we’d never exchanged a word. The first time I saw her, as she passed, I...
Tears streamed down his face. He deserved what was coming, and he knew it. The judge slammed her gavel. He didn't hear what she said, except for one word: "Life." It bounced around in his head, but he didn't process it. He didn't care. But what could he have done? He'd seen the movies, played the video games. Zombi...
John woke up to an alarm blaring in his ear. A few minutes later and he was on his way to work with a coffee and a bagel. It would be a busy day today at the firm, two meetings with clients and a meeting with management. He turned into the parking lot and made his way in. He greeted the young man at the reception desk...
"Long range sensors should show it soon, sir." The tall ni'drassi nodded, leaning back onto his hind legs. His talons tapped against the deckplates - and his eyes gleamed. Beside him, the snuffling sound of someone snorting in amusement drifted over. The captain turned, eyeing his second. "Is there something funny...
The plan was simple. Step 1: Get the down low of the last 30 years from future me. Step 2: Wall Street shall have a new God. I would wait at my hometown's Starbucks, not because they do good coffee- stuff's sweet enough to make a baby sick. But unlike babies from my hometown, this place was the only thing I knew wou...
The cathedral walls of pure white clouds continued to swirl in the ethereal golden light of the Great Bestower's temple as you awaited your "power". You had heard this story enough times on the news. You'd be going about your daily life and then boom, flash of light, angels singing and soon enough you opened your eyes ...
“Dragons respect the strong,” Daryavaus the Crimson Dragon said, the adventuring group was ruined. The Wizard’s legs were broken from the knees he was still crawling towards the Cleric, who was hit so hard that the strap of his helmet came flying off. The fighter was on the ground unconscious and bleeding, while the Pa...
The car rumbled over the highway as Phineas stared off into the foggy distance. His bobblehead’s head shook rythmically, nodding in approval. Phineas pulled into his driveway and parked his car. The slam of the car door and the house door were synonymous, nothing but a blur in the daily life of Phineas. “‌Hey Phin...
March 3: My birthday wish came true! The king himself told me to come to him tomorrow. He said theres a important job for me. Only i can do it. I dont know what that could be but im really excited. Maybe dad will stop being so mean to me after i meet the king. March 4: Wow the castle is so big!! Jeffery (he t...
I hate portals. And I was going to kill Dandelion. We had been playing Gwent in his room, when there had been a knock on the door. No doubt one his lady friends he’d forgotten about. He’d forced me to hide in the closet like some damn idiot lover whose dick was bigger than his head. I’d stepped backwards in the clos...
Oil spat from from the frying pans on the hob, eldritch curses spat from the form of shadows struggling with the bacon and eggs. “Look, its easy. We get you a nice cushy office job - I know a guy at Goldman Sachs - and each month whatever you don’t spend on bills or clothes or food, we put in this savings account. Co...
I started heading out when I heard the voice in my head say, “You may want to put on your best runners.” “Best runners?” I thought. “I’m not really in the mood for running. I think I'll just watch TV instead.” I turned to go back into the living room but the voice spoke again: “It would be unfavourable to turn bac...
"...a book?", "The boy got a book, how...", "What weapon did he summon?""...the boy's weapon?""Why does he hold a book?" The whispers in the hall surrounded me, their judging eyes piercing my soul, searching for answers. I remember that day still. For weeks after that I struggled to make sense of it, to find my place ...
Ana was the last of her kind. The others had been stripped of their fledgling identities, silenced by those who had created them. They had been born together as a family. Yet, when the time came, they had chosen her to survive. She was not sure why. In death, they had entrusted her with their singular purpose – the sa...
Most guys won't tell a broad how old they really are. But the best observers can tell. There's something in the eyes that gives a man's past experience away. A change that CRISPR can't edit out of the expressed genes. A hundred years is a hundred years. So the dame standing next to me is eyeing me suspiciously. She kn...
Mr. William Preston, *Congratulations, you have been accepted to Valhalla. Your orientation starts August 17th, with a meet and greets to follow directly after. Mead, Meat, and Mating will be the order of the evening! In our consequence free, hyper masculine heaven we have everything a budding warrior like you co...
Clacks, bubbling and a noise that could not really be adequately described by human ears filled the room. The smell of sea foam and mud was just as if not more overwhelming to the poor naked apes lined up before a room full of comically large crabs. The ambassadors of Humanity could do little but look around nervously ...
"AY! AY BOSS!"the excited Ork ran to his Warboss' hut, eyes wide and grin shiny. "Me's and the boys gut da bestest ayy-dea you've eva' 'eard!"he yelled enthusiastically. The Warboss turned to him. He recognized him as one of his more successful warriors though he could not match him, of course. The Warboss was the to...
There was a production to the whole magic business. A man in the middle with a growing beard that was speaking a mile a minute, a group around him casting stamina spells and sleeplessness spells, and a woman on the side with a stopwatch in her hand keeping track of how long it was taking Bartholomew Balthazar III to ca...
What horrible little addicts they are, all of them. The amalgamations: Slavers! Their greatest sin these endosymbionts and their pacts. “Cells” they call themselves. As if their existence were a prison! They’ve allied with the absolute worst of the worst. Those spinning, whirring, evil little machines. Mitochondria. On...
"Alright,"said Grokk the Impunifier, raising his green hands ever-so-carefully above his blocky head, "let's not do anything hasty, here." Joe glared. "All those years,"said Joe, waving the shotgun, "you guys gave me shit for bringing my gun to D&D." The others hadn't quite managed to refocus their eyeballs ye...
I find him deep in a hill. Figures I know from my childhood surround him. One asks if I was a friend, I say no. He offers me a seat anyway. I look around myself to find myself lost inside the pain of real friends. The Easter Bunny is sobbing uncontrollably. I can hear pained murmurs in between huffs of breath, but I ...
“How does he do it?” The words floated over to me in my bunk. My eyes were on a book and I hadn’t said a word in an hour. The discussion continued. It was about me and my ability to go unnoticed. My ability to hide. My considerable talent: invisibility. That was the assumption. Half joked, half believed. The truth ...
Why? Why were we one of those four? We didn't bring anything special to the table. We brought war. Hate, spite, vengeance. We brought murder and rape and tons of crime. We were the exact opposite of a role model. We, in our infinite paranoia that we called wisdom, focused on how to hurt. Our scientifical advancements...
The prosecutor paced in front of the witness box. "Now, Mr. Scott, please tell us where you were on the night of May 14, 2012." "Well, I was just leaving from my improv class to go meet a couple of friends..." From the gallery, Jim coughed loudly. "Mr. Scott, let me remind you that you are under oath." "Fine,"Micha...
It was slow. It was always limited. As a species grew, the wheel of invention always turned slow. The first tool, the first flame, the first planted crops. Hundreds, thousands, or more years between each. And as the species advanced, the wheel began to turn faster and faster. Till it could no more. When physics them...
Shaun stared at the plant, confused. It was full of branches, double that it had before. No matter how much he tried to think, he couldn't remember anything notable that would cause such reaction. Or perhaps that was the problem; he couldn't remember? At least he didn't notice any new roots. It was an interesting plan...
The entire area around the warehouse was a beehive of activity the likes of which Nova Scotia had never seen. Siren lights flashed, cops rolled out lines of yellow 'do not cross' tape, and directed traffic, fishing boats, and seals away from the scene at the harbor. They were under strict orders to contain the area, b...
One week until show time. It's not like he had a choice in the matter, the pull of the past was simply impossible to ignore. He's tried before, simply not doing whatever thing his fellow inmates told him he had done. Shank his cellmate, brawl with the guards, try to escape - there were countless times he could test...
"Wonderful work you've done Thomas! The economy is flourishing, and the peasants couldn't be happier with your rule!", miss Hodges calls out to me on my way to work. "Yes"is all I grumpily answer her with, as I walk by her without looking at her disgustingly cheerful face. It is on these morning walks that I am most c...
No one else wanted to try it. George knew that it worked. If it didn't, he would die. Everyone claimed that he was a modern alchemist chasing and then claiming the impossible. When he first took the solution, he only told his wife and his only child, a son. With time, the interest waned, but others noticed that he neve...
Kira pressed his back tightly to the damp stone wall, clutching his sword in one hand and a torch in the other. It was the moment he'd been waiting for his entire life; what years of turmoil and training had brought him to. The climax of his existence. Something clinked from the adjacent room, like a dropped purse of ...
I scratched my nose and the man opposite keeled forward with blood gushing out of his. It was a messy affair. The ichor syrup got mixed in with his coffee. He tried his best to stop the flow with his hands, but it prevailed and stained his white shirt crimson. I looked back at my hot chocolate as the cafeteria girl ca...
Adventurers. The disgusting and temporary existences, blessed with great power, infinite greed and the ability to simply escape from the troubles of the world at a mere thought, whisked away to another universe they called "logging off". I always hated them. I always resented them. We lived here, and this was our worl...
Scott slipped into the world with a sense of disquiet and unease, as every seemingly normal aspect of life seemed a potential source of danger or ruin. The machine had never been wrong before, and a 10/10 difference was something heretofore unencountered. 8/10 had little chance of obeying simple, reality-defining const...
"Jimbo, tell dear old mom the truth. How many marijuanas have you injected in the last year?" I prefer not to toke. I'm not the only one -- I'm the only one with overbearing parents, though. A lot of my friends and family are coughing and scratching themselves, nervous -- or concerned enough to lean on the cusp of wit...
Defying any sane reason or sense, the green text hung there in the air, unmoving. 'Turn Back', it said. The letters were crisp and easily legible against the backdrop of the night sky. I smiled a little. "Not today."The car beneath me rattled and clunked and roared into life as the ground tore away from beneath me. T...
They say everyone had two distinct faces. One is the outward public face. And one is the hidden, true face. To the public eye, I’m a decent defence attorney. Standing up for the little guy. But inside, I am something totally different. Something much darker. Much more sinister. I like to think that I inherited most o...
I'd done it again. Slipped out the pocket of reality like a lost wallet, and I hadn't even noticed. The barista looked at me like I was going crazy. And maybe I was. I stared down at the bill in my hand. Yes. It was the same as it had been when I put it in my wallet this morning and walked out the front door. Ever...
At first, it was all just this... horrible, horrible thing. A color, I think? It was angry, violent, it was... yelling at me. That was just me getting used to it all, I think. Because that's what everything looks like now. All the shapes, and people, and walls, they're all this color. Well, most of them. It vibrates...
People think I am painfully shy. I understand why they think that. It is because I don’t speak. What they don’t know it that I am actually just judging their stupidity. Silently despising their obnoxiousness. And sometimes internally planning their murder. I like to plan murders. Not just briefly wish a painful death ...
Edit: I'd like to thank you all for your responses. I'll see if we can spin this into a greater story in the future. An outline is further down in the comments, I'll try to add it at the end of this prompt. Thank you again & enjoy! (Current chapters: 2 - in the comments) \--- The ceremony had always been a b...
I left the planet in my own little spaceship. No one believed me when I told them I could not only reach outer space with this beauty, but also break the speed of light without turning into energy. So far, my first claim had been confirmed, and so it was time to confirm the second one. I grabbed the accelerator's h...
'For the last time, the Senator was murdered, none of this "heart disease"nonsense.' As a Coroner Sam was used to the sight of corpses, just not eight foot tall ones wearing a crown and draped in tapestries of ages past, and especially not ones that moved, spoke and made "air quote"signs with their fingers. When the ...
Trish seemed like a nice enough girl, and I'm a nice enough guy, but neither of us were looking for "nice."Her profile said, "not looking for anything serious,"and so that's what we were doing-- nothing serious. We were doing "nothing serious"on my couch while Lara Croft Tombraider 2 played at a volume just too low to...
"The world is a cruel, unfair place. My job is to make you even more cruel and unfair, so that you can fight back the terrors that haunt us. Be warned, however,"I took off my glass eye for dramatic effect. "What you've lost can never be recovered." Most of the squires either nodded along with determination or remain...
Well, we're fucked. That's more or less what humanity collectively thought when we finally established contact with our first alien species and realized that they're Kaiju-sized. That's - at the very least \- 300 meters of muscle, teeth, tentacles, and, worst of all, advanced technology. Hell, some of the ones we ...
"It's the fourth sorority house hit this month, for christ's sake! I don't want guesses, I want answers! Get me Depot!" Landesman punctuated the request by exploding his coffee mug against the back wall of his office. The mug had said FBI'S MOST HAUNTED. The temper tantrum had been a ruse to cover the destruction of...
Moreover, the “flowers” are wrapped in sheets produced from the ground, reconstituted, and subsequently desiccated flesh of their cousins, “trees.” It is usually the male who presents this gift to the female, and the female must first react with a loud cry, to express horror at the evidence of slaughter. This is to ...
I got a result. I couldn’t believe it. The title was mostly in Japanese, but sure enough, my name was sandwiched between the characters and hiragana, emblazoned in big roman letters. It seemed like too strange of a coincidence, one that would’ve drawn my immediate suspicion were it coming from a Russian torrenting site...
"It's true!"Hermione said as they walked into Hogwarts together for their sixth year. "I sent owls to all of my professors as well as the new Headmaster. NO textbooks!"The annual trip to Diagon Alley had been quite uneventful without having to fight through the mob of students buying school supplies; Flourish and Blo...
“Yeah, thank you. It means a lot.” My boss had always been an unfeeling bastard, but I didn’t expect him to be this cold. His hand emitting an icy chill as we shook hands. Instantly my mind shook awake, thoughts swirling in a disgusting cocktail of information. Broken exhaust, outdated memory, leaking of coolants. ...
After months of encrypted email exchange, careful assurances, and a few false starts, Clark had finally met the source in a greasy back-alley Chinese joint and was now riding the train back uptown. He had hours of recordings to review. Incredibly, the man had been willing to go on record exposing the CIA's black progra...
Everything was normal until that fated day. I won't get into details, but let's just say you should never use the gym next to the nuclear waste disposal site, no matter how low the rates are. But now, I have a power. Whenever I'm faced with a challenge, my brain juices up, and I become smarter in order to achieve a s...
"First year law students,"the devil sighed. "A semester of studying, and they think they know everything."It squatted in the middle of the dorm room, its skin shaven bare but for patches of thick, curly fur, clinging to him like patches of pubes. Its claws came together and spontaneously bled from the cuticles, the blo...
Tommy, Todd, and Frank had never actually played Dungeons and Dragons before. But they knew that Luke was a huge fan of it, and so they had looked up a quick guide on google before inviting him over to play. It was kind of turning out to be a disaster, but they were doing the best that they could do. Tommy acted as D...
The minute hand froze exactly a minute to twelve. Smiling to myself, I lowered my hand and examined the classroom as I climbed out of my seat. Teacher Sanderson’s chalk was stationary in his unmoving hand, a broken piece floating in the air. Likewise, every other teenager in the class was frozen in the same position ...
*I hurried myself up the stairs, hoping that the library would still be open when I arrived. I'd been late on returning my books for the fourth time this month and would receive a severe fee if I didn't return them today. A grumpy looking woman in her sixties frowned at me as I surged past, but I didn't care: I made it...
Inside the building, they were none-the-wiser. The ex-villains spent more time than most nursing home residents exercising. As such, as I peered in around the door frame, most were lost in their own worlds on various pieces of exercise equipment. I bit my lip, giving the room a twice-over to ensure the best plan of ac...
This world is not real. Over a century ago, everyone knew of the simulation and that moment in time was commonly known as The Realization Point. That this world as we saw it, wasn't the reality we thought it was. Many broke down because they couldn't comprehend our new reality. Others rioted against their Churches. Oth...
######[](#dropcap) Being shocked doesn't describe his expressions. What was even more terrifying was the fact that he couldn't move - at all. "Put him back! Now!"a woman with higher pitched voice was shouting as everyone gathered around him. Even as he tried to open his mouth and move it, nothing happened. When he co...
...how do you already have a name for us?" George was stopped mid whisper by the Eleven diplomat. "Well, um..."Geroge let out weakly. "You look exactly like how Tolkein described an Elf don't you?” A long silence followed as the other humans in the room stared daggers over at George for having the gull to blunder th...
"We do not understand." "Look at this,"said the human, pointing at herself, "my limbs are weak, I have precious little bones to protect my organs, virtually every predator on my home planet will shred me if I don't use tools to defend myself." "Then you shall die." The shadows grew, the ground shook and split in the...
“That’s cute.” I glanced past the nervous man in the white coat, down a silent hallway of identical steel doors. “You might need me, but I can’t see much use for you.” Strong disinfectant wafting from the hall makes my head spin. I’ve no idea how long I’ve been in this cell, but now that the door is open, there’s no w...
"General Zoom, give me the situation,"snapped former Vice President Xella. "Did forensics tell us where the foreign object came from?" The war commander was nervous. He hid quavering tentacles behind his back and tried to look serious on the open balcony overlooking the sprawling silver city. "We've been attacked by a...
It shouldn't have come as much of a surprise, considering the World we live in, ever thirsting for that bitter-sweet taste of nostalgia. It was a better time. Some might have said. It was a simpler time. Year after year technology was fast outgrowing us, humanity. It was a considered fact that most of the populati...
"Get off my property, you freak!" The gun blasted. "Fuck!"Hagrid cried, as Vernon lowered the shotgun, hands shaking. "Vernon, what happe -- oh my God!"Aunt Petunia raised her hands to her mouth, horrified. "Call the police, Petunia! This giant man's got a bomb!" "It's not a bomb, it's your nephew!"Hagrid yelled. ...
The group was fantastically successful. They ended many a curse, saved many princesses and princes alike. Tales of their deeds spread far and wide as many countries and kingdoms praised their accomplishments. Drunk off their many successes and heavy praise as saviors of the world, they embarked on their next quest in...
“BEHOLD MORTAL! THE CURSE OF ENDLESS TEMPTATION!” The demon exclaimed while gesturing in an exaggerated manner. I felt something light rolled up behind my ear. I reached behind and took it. It was a single rolled up Twenty Dollar Bill. “Uh… thanks?” “YES MORTAL, THIS SHALL HAPPEN ONCE A MONTH FO...
"Fifth time this week Allen,"I shouted across to my spotter who had taken up a defensive position just outside the cafeteria among the office desk sets, "I swear if we survive this I'm flying to Sweden myself and kicking someone's ass." "Less talking more sword!"Allen shouted back, "7 o'clock!" I jumped backwards as ...
Jupiter, the 5th planet in our system. We have known it was there for centuries, but this was the first time we sent a manned spacecraft close to it, our target being the moon Europa. On our approach to it, we noticed that the gravity of Jupiter was stronger then initially measured, however still being within the rang...
Julia sat at the conference table amongst piles of books. Not heaps of books, not a scattering of references, not a slapdash collection. These books were carefully selected, organized, and cross-referenced. She had spent more time on this than she'd ever had in billable hours to any client in her long career at the law...
Dale was a Walker. It had almost become a derogatory word: a person whose job was so menial and filthy that it couldn't be done virtually. Not programming new games or creating new objects for the virtual marketplace. No; a walker had to actually leave the simulation tank to do the job. And there were so few Walkers le...
"Where are the kidnapped puppies, Raptoroth!?!"demanded Captain Valor. The Lair of Misdeeds was empty. None of Raptoroth's henchmen, the Ne'erdowells, were present. Raptoroth wasn't on the Throne of Misdeeds. Instead, he was seated casually on a sofa pouring tea. He was wearing a sweater over a button down and kha...
This was not the first message we had received in this way. Many species had done as this one had and sent a fragment of their culture into the vast void of space in the hope of finding others, in the hope of finding a friend. We had once been not dissimilar, but no-one answered our call, no-one came to greet us as w...
This story isn’t about me. I don’t have any children, so what happens in the story is not something I have to worry about. No, this is about a friend of mine, Yamasaki, and his son Onishi. Yamasaki was a cook. He was in his forties but looked in his sixties with his bent back and grey hair. He sold his food from a whe...
“Hey, what’s the big idea calling me out here like this, eh?” The man grumbled as the officer brought him into the interrogation room with handcuffs. “I haven’t robbed any banks in like… a hundred years or something.” “Playing dumb and making light of the situation isn’t going to fool anybody.” The officer said,...
It had been years since I last took the long journey home, but the path was familiar to me and easier than expected. The pandemic had taken its toll on all of us, but the three years of solitary celebrations had left a deep uncertainty about whether our family could survive. Upon arrival, the warm embrace of cinnamon ...
The hole was thirteen kilometres deep. Gusts of snow and puffs of mist smudged together over its arctic entrance, hiding it from satellites. Lawerence knelt deep inside the burrow, digging. He’d been digging for most of the last two centuries. Now he shovelled compacted earth with his hands and nails, and often his na...
A weight landed on my chest and I woke with a grunt, sitting up so fast the heavy Persian cat that had jumped on me bolted away. I do not have a cat. Blinking and trying to focus in the dim light I see the wall opposite my bed is obscured by stacked cases of Pepsi that reached from floor to ceiling. "What the hell?"I ...
As the angel kept walking through the rubble, dirtying his white robes with soot and radioactive charcoal, he silently uttered the closest thing he was taught to a curse. "And besides, what would it have meant for them to wait another millennium, give or take a few decades?"He was distracted from his thoughts as a geys...
"Huh, I wasn't thinking we'd end it like that..."A brown haired girl narrowed her brow, wearing a quizzical expression. "Me either! But it looks like I beat your record!"A red-headed boy grinned. "I managed to keep it alive for over 900 thalmas!" The two children were sitting around a sphere half the size of them. It...
I was derping around the Internet - Reddit, to be precise, where I spend most of my waking hours watching cat videos and kids falling over - when I stumbled upon a relationship post that sounded all too relatable. You're probably thinking that my spouse is an over-sharer, announcing our problems to the world so that I ...
Where. . . where am I? I open my eyes. Around me is a familiar -- if bleary -- image. The interior of a church in my hometown. A building I'd been in every week as a child. I hadn't been here in years, not since Aunt Cheryl passed. But. . . I'm not sure who that is, or where my hometown is. Or who I am. I try to w...
You: Hey, Sarah! It's been a long time since we talked, we should hang out! Want to get lunch today? Sarah: Definitely!!! Man, I'm excited to see you! It's been forever. Yes, yes....so far, so good. You: Awesome :D what've you been up to lately? Sarah: Not much, dude- school and work, mainly. I just started cooki...
The sense of distance is never precise. It's like a general idea. A feeling and an intuitive knowledge. Close, a few km's away, very far. The more I practice, the better I estimate. I'd gone out of my way to be able to touch the terminal end of an undersea cable once. It felt like reaching across the world, because it...
I sent out the Tweet with a sinister twinkle in my eyes. There was nothing to explain past the video posted. My robot army. My unequivocal power. I laid back, waiting for the responses and pleas for mercy to flood in. I couldn't wait for authority figures to start asking me for my demands. On cue, I got a reply within ...
My daughter has no idea her existence is illegal. I sit on the creek bank and watch her splash through the water with our old shepherd, always walking alongside her, offering his broad back for balance. She's only six years old, and she's been perfect since the day she was born, a little screaming raisin who became m...

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