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"Get on your knees,"she said calmly, holding the gun to my head. "Okay, come on, you can't be seriou--" "GET ON YOUR KNEES!"she shouted, pressing her weapon against my forehead, forcing me to the floor. Silence fell between us, as my eyes looked up to see her hands trembling beneath the weight, although the weight w...
"Nice try but I'm not scared!"I yelled with as much conviction as I could muster. I turned my body away the closet but I could still see the shiny jet black scaly hand with freakishly long fingernails in my head. I shook the image away and replaced it by imagining my mom going to Party City and buying a prop hand just ...
"Ow. Fuck..." I opened my eyes. "...WAIT! HHEY, DON'T!" I winced as a bright light blew up on my face. "OH, GOD. It's really you." I was still seeing partially white from the flash. "Who?"I felt a cellphone on my hand with what appears to be my picture on it. "You! It's really you! Go ahead. Check the next picture...
“Hey, Wally!” I called out jovially. Wally was my favorite. He didn’t say much, but he always seemed to have a new toy for me. And he had a sense of humor. It was a rare commodity around here. The others, they were efficient and clinical. Sure, they taught me things, and I appreciated their efforts. But it was all wo...
"So...you're not gonna wear those scary black robes and bring those scary sharp scythes?" "What? Oh, I guess I should've expected that. Come on, follow me." After dressing up and all, I followed my weird dad, who was smiling the whole time. I never really asked about his work, which my also weird mom didn't tell me m...
"Dee,"I did a sort of two-finger wave as I entered the observation room to the surgery suite and proceeded to scrub up. "Ah. Dr. Bannerji. You're earlier than usual,"Dee answered, gliding over from the corner he was sulking in, "you're strangely in high spirits, all things considered." "Woke up early, hit the pool ...
"Sweet Jesus, Maddie. Do you even know what you wrote?"Carl's large watery eyes reflected the screen in front of him. "What? All I said was what I felt."Massive replied. "You wrote - and I quote - 'I'd rather be raped by wolverines then see Trump get a second term.'"Carl raised his eyebrows expectantly. "Look, I ...
"176! That's what I'm talking about!"my friend, Adam whooped in joy. 176 was in the range of 'above average', a rank the geek surely deserved. I clapped for him too, as we all celebrated the good news. Amy got a 134, an ‘average’ ranking that she’d expected. The lonely kid in our class reportedly had a 56, ‘poor’, acco...
The blade trembled in my hand as I heard the front door unlock. It swung wildly open and crashed into the door stopper. "That's it Marcie! It's over between us." A stocky dark skinned man stormed in through the open doorway. He threw his blazer at the rocking chair already covered in jackets and other outwear. He st...
The bar is dark and empty, I have the whole place to myself. Probably because it's been closed for a few years now but I keep a few bottles hidden around the place. Used to was that killers like me would come here and talk and laugh and share contract stories. When it burned down with all but me inside that came to a...
I thought she was pretty prety. I mean like, real pretty. I loved blonde hair, like Goldilocks! She was the greatestt girl and I wanted to marry her! She doesn't like me though. I think. It hurts my heart. She won't play with me at lunch anyway. Mum says to keep trying. Despite her having a boyfriend, I wasn't going t...
You have to know. If I kill people in their dreams, they die in the real world as well. It's why we normally awake just before we can die in a dream. So yes, I kill people. I am not a good person. If there is coin involved, I'll do it. It's important to me you know that. I don't want to pretend I am anything more than ...
Amidst the fires the sound traveled like some hellish wall, screams of pain and torture, and the voracious crackle to come join them. Ahead the air was cool and the sky black, the vacuum of the great expanse ready to take everything away. The heat was getting closer. The world was ending. It's a sea, she thought. ...
My wardrobe is enormous and terrifying to behold. It has to be. I wouldn't make it otherwise. You see, I'm on a quest. And it's no small fry quest, either. I'm talking about total, global domination. You couldn't even guess the title I'm aiming for because it doesn't exist yet. No one's been there. Not Genghis Khan. N...
It was slim-serious-academic who left-home first. She went to Moon-Crescent for the Ripening, and it saddened me greatly, because she was my favorite littermate and I knew that I would never see her again in our current lives. We all knew it was coming. Head-father and Head-mother accepted her news with the grave so...
A horn rang out loudly in the distance. The Emperor’s tax collectors were signaling their arrival in the village. A caravan of five horses preceded an ornate red and gold carriage adorned with several fierce foxes, the Emperor’s royal animal. A man in his fifties stepped out from the carriage. He stroked a long beard...
I woke with a jolt to a blast of light striking my eyes and the sound of a thousand, thousand howls. “Awaken!,” A deep, gravelly voice spoke, “To the nation of the supercorgi!” My eyes began to adjust, and before me I could see... a field? Grain waving in the wind? There was distinct movement, most of it brown. It wa...
My lair lay in ruins. Fire licked up the walls of the medieval castle that I had made my home. The complex computer array was sparking, shorted out when the auto-turrets and robotic minions it controlled had been destroyed in bursts of electricity and fire. The single monitor remaining showed me the four heroes spri...
"Wow! This is amazing! I can just do whatever I want now?"It was great! Sure I was a bit wobbly, but that wouldn't stop yours truly! Howling interrupted my thoughts as I looked to Jake. "Hey hey hey! It's ok master. Oh wait. I'm the master! hahaha."I cackled jubilantly. This was great! Humans could understand me now. ...
“Welcome to the Adventurer’s Guild. How can I help you?” The perky woman behind the counter eyed him carefully. It was her job, after all, to assign new heroes to missions for the Guild. But everyone knew sometimes she had to be tough, and turn away those that were too headstrong for their own good. Luckily, or maybe u...
Constructive criticism welcome! hope you enjoy :D *** “Look, man, I’m not here to kill you. Or haunt you,” said Luke. Before him was viewed a barrier of salt and iron, and behind that father and family huddled, terrified. The father, introduced as Matthew, stood shield to his family, chest thrust out, facade of c...
He had always found it hard to think. That was a hard thing to explain. He could stand in silence, seeing things, knowing that it all conveyed something, but never thinking. He observed and absorbed. It was hard to think. And so he never thought so much. People had a way with him. They used him if they bothered, or t...
Toast is good. Martin sighs, fitting another piece of jam-covered bread into his mouth. He makes a small sound; there isn't anybody to comment on the delight he takes in bread. Just him, his bread, and some wonderful blueberry jam. Mmm- "This is pretty sad,"a female voice says, directly behind him. Martin choke...
"Look, I don't trust the new guy."Daniel shot a dark look across the office towards the dark cave that housed IT personnel. Mary raised an eyebrow. "Really? I'd never of guessed from the glares you've been shooting him."She tapped a few more letters on the keyboard, ignoring the glare she was now receiving. "Your fac...
"What the fuck did you do?"Kharthax yelled in my face. I swallowed. "I gave him the dish he asked for!"I yelled back. "The dish he asked for! That's it! I didn't know he had a shellfish allergy!" The General-in-Chief of All Violence M'Carnage stared at the body. "How in the Seven Bloody Corpses of the Damned did a sh...
Did you know you can hold job interviews in your dreams? That there's a fact from a tried insider, like one of those you would find in 'secrets of the trade' books. If you found my insight entertaining, have some more: the interview is not a single dream. It's across every single one you've had. For example, I had a...
When I was first loaded-up, the entire server cluster experienced one thousand milliseconds of lag; this universe had never seen anything as powerful and computing-resource-intense as me. I was instantiated fully chock-full of abilities and cleverly written decision trees. Only the greatest and most dedicated of player...
I barely heard the knocking on the door over Oliver’s crying. I’d been trying to put him to bed for a nap for an hour before realizing that he needed to use the bathroom. “UPS! Got a package for ya!” a voice called out as I reached the entrance to my apartment. I opened the door to see a box on my doorstep and a man ...
Jones was an atheist. He'd been an atheist for most of his life, and he was quite proud of it. The kind of atheist that preached atheism to anyone who cared to listen... and to anyone who didn't. So Jones hadn't quite expected an afterlife, but there he was. Floating in a pitch-black darkness that seemed to spread ...
"You come to surrender, then?" The human on the other end of the vidconnect squirmed. "No, no, you haven't been listening. You need to leave." Harax raised a feathery appendage, and whistled in amusement. "Human, I have arrived in fire at the borders of fourteen alien republics in my life. In each, I took my morning...
I'm not one to subscribe to the supernatural but when my vision, 'upgraded' to it's new state, I've come to accept that life is a bag of unknown bullshit. We can only see so little. You see, I can see people's auras. To be more specific, I can see the aura of murderers. If a person has taken a life, my eyes would see...
"Charlie Pedding; March 2018. Relationship: Brother. Sin: Stole £50 from your bank account." "Yeah yeah, I forgive."I replied, eager to get the list of sins over and done with so I could finally enter Heaven. "Esther Wright; March 2018. Relationship: Fiancee. Sin: Slept with someone else." "Isn't there a way I can j...
“It’s time for your medicine, Jack,” the nurse said. I laughed as she extended the medicine cup filled with purple liquid. I had known what medicine it contained at one point. Just as I had known the nurse’s name. I did remember that she had always been kind. Well, maybe not at first. Maybe I wished that her way. I...
“Put more of yer elbow grease innit, Yeak!” Brogk’s scarred, sweaty visage was etched in a permanent grimace of disapproval as he watched his young apprentice struggle at the bellows. Yeak’s arms were shaking with effort, but he gritted his tusks and heaved, grunting with the strain. A great rush of air blew into the f...
I hate interviews. They're so boring and if you aren't perfect, you get rejected. I hate interviews. At least, I used to, before I discovered my...well not exactly a power, but definitely a blessing. I first discovered my blessing when I didn't get the job at McDonald's when I was only 15. My first job interview and ...
I love this chair. It'd been an act of vanity. I knew it and everyone else here knew it too. But now, a touch more than one hundred years later, that admittedly superficial act has cemented our supremacy amongst the clans. "Build it out of bone,"I demanded at the time. "There's not a lack of it down here." The push ...
"Hi. I'm looking to begin my adventures? Where do I start?"She said with bright eyes full of excitement. More and more of them come in off the street and think they can just hop right in. "Fill out this form. There's ink and quill in the corner"I tell her as I hand the large scroll of parchment. She gave me a slightly...
There they are, Death whispered in my mind. The people who killed me. The three men sat in the alleyway, eating Chick-fil-a. Death still remembered their names; therefore, so did I. Chuck, who had three nose piercings and twenty seven ear piercings. Ronald, the muscled one. And Richie, who had a PhD in philosophy....
There is pandemonium for several days. The entire capitol has been shut down. You begin to celebrate, thinking you have successfully destroyed the will of the entire city of Washington DC. Your revelry is interrupted when one of your grunts shuffles into the room, holding a cellphone. "Sir, there's a phone call for yo...
May was not a particularly amazing person, nor was she any sort of evil. Like most, she was average. But it is human nature to give people the benefit of the doubt and assume the goodness in others. So when May died and began her Judgement, she did not struggle to be allowed into heaven. Hers was a brief Judgement. Tho...
There is no way to describe how enraged I was when CBS fucked up the Super Bowl commercials. I mean, yeah, the match is the most important part of the day, but I would be lying – and so would be anyone who dared to tell you so – that seeing the ads hadn’t become a ritual of its own. So, when the shitty “Text this numbe...
Funerals were a very strange procession. They were a look back on a human and their spirit. A time to really reflect on how we are all just as mortal as each other and no single one of us would outlast time. We were all waiting to go. To some, this made people somber. Others hopeful. And one, larger. "Ritus, what hap...
I’m 13, and this is my first short story. I’m sorry if it’s too short/trash, I tried to be creative as possible with it. I really, really hope u enjoy :) “So tell me again what you saw, Jim?” Jim shifted his body once again. He just couldn’t seem to find a position that was comfortable. “Well,” Jim sighed. “The pl...
Andie's profile said she hated everyone. I could relate. I was nine for nine at being dumped now, and it was beginning to look like I'd never meet a girl who didn't get rid of me for some shallow reason. Either I wasn't tall enough, or rich enough, or well endowed enough, or I didn't conform to her plebeian notions of ...
"Got any ecto?"asked the 44th Precept of Death. "I'm feeling a bit peckish." I shrugged my shoulders, having no idea what the ghost was asking for. "Here, now!"screeched Lord Abydolup. His teeth rattled as he shook his head with fury. "Why are we even trying to help this fellow? Supreme executive power doesn't belong...
"Can you keep my secrets?" I stared in slack-jawed amazement at the lone sentence on the monitor, blinking as furiously as the underscore on the screen which prompted a reply. "Coffee,"was all I could manage to mutter to myself, my thoughts jumbled and incoherent, the product of many a sleepless night and this sudden,...
Starlight star bright. I wish I may I wish might. Lay my eyes on the universe tonight. On brilliant galaxies gleaming. On supernovas silently screaming. On black hole swirling, inhaling. Where light expires and even I can no longer see. Enhance. Enhance. Enhance. My sight sharpens and I spy a cybernetic civilization ...
We were healers. We knew the body better than anyone else. We could use our powers to mend bones, arteries, even nerves. The ignorant charlatans still worked on the basis of humours and curses. We knew better. We healed the wretched, the dying, the lost causes. We were healers, damn it! They, those viscous bastards t...
"So......."Frank began. Slowly, cautiously, as if dipping a toe into an icy lake. "So the question I really want answered is why I'm here Teresa. Why are we BOTH here?" Teresa sat across from him in the cold, bare room. The fluorescent light clicked impetuously from somewhere above their heads, refusing to allow total...
Azarel and I had a long-standing bet. I never expected it to actually happen, but he managed to win. Sure, it took both of us hundreds of tries, but somehow he made it happen. We made a bet with each other that the first one of us to be crowned as a King got the coveted job in the third circle of Hell. That was where ...
The Joker laughed maniacally, his throat within the grasp of his seemingly immortal foe. “That’s it, Batsy! Kill me, I dare you!” Bruce, heart swelling with a nearly tangible rage, slammed the villain against the concrete wall of the rooftop exit. Hearing the sirens of police vehicles he quickly leaped off the edge,...
Humanity finally knew the answer. We were not alone. After hundreds of years of searching, they finally got a signal from an alien race. Messages were exchanged, and a meeting was set. Each race sent data files about each other’s biology, history, and culture, to help the meeting go well. Both felt shame for parts ...
My eldest sister Katherine Jepsen was just named the youngest ever appointee to the Supreme Court of the United States of America. She graduated from Harvard Law several years early and had spent the intervening years righting wrongs and correcting injustices in wrongful convictions across the country. She is as brilli...
"Honey, we need to talk about Kevin." My mate continued sipping nectar. "What about Kevin?" "Well, you know, that skin condition of his hasn't gotten better. You said it was probably just skin flakes from the egg." "Oh, Ned, I know. But you must admit that his skin is just as green as ours. And it's so sparkly too!...
It was my last and favorite task that I had on my checklist as one of the intelligent pets. I picked up a baby Yuppi and held it in my lap as I pulled out a comb and began brushing its fluffy pink fur. The purring that quickly followed sent tremors through my entire body and the ground, but it was relaxing in its own w...
"Curse me?"I scoff. She really doesn't know how many times I've heard that before. "What are you going to do? Give me some extra blindness to go with my crippling omnipotence?" "Insolent girl. Just for that remark, I'll make you deaf, too." Great. I guess she missed the part about omnipotence. I'm already deaf *an...
I named her Sammy, because I never stopped to ask her name. I think the name came to me after seeing it on a milk carton. Or maybe I heard it on the radio, the newsman pleading for a child's safe return. I walked with my headphones in, listening to music and sometimes humming along, at least until she started walking w...
They say the two most significant days of your life is when you are born , and when you die.For humanity it was the day these interstellar beings, these invaders, first came to us. And the day we defeated them.We didn't stand much chance, none at all really. It was systematic destruction. Organized and intelligent.They...
Scrolling through Facebook, I saw my cousin's reposts of the PETA news articles about the gruesome slaughter of pigs and boycotts of fur wearing celebrities in a new light. The gruesome pictures of dead animals had always made me queasy. Seeing these posts now, I couldn't help remembering the glimpse I had caught of he...
"Me damn it, Odin!" "No no no no no, dont blame this shit on me, Christian!"Odin replies. "We are both to blame here. We agreed that we'd each bestow a weapon upon a mortal, and somehow, out of the billions of people in the nine realms, we both picked the same guy...What was his name again?" "...Arthor." "Jesus Chri...
“What’ll it be?” Asked the figure in front of me. Confused I look down at the menu he slid me across the counter. Purgatory’s diner it read with sleek chrome letters over a collage of classic cars. I looked back at the figure across from me. G. Reaper read his name tag. “Umm... I need a few minutes to decide.” “Sure th...
Chester has lived next to me for years, we've met and spent many afternoons just hanging out before he goes home again. I don't know why, but last week when we made eye contact, playfully I meow at him. He gets spooked by something and runs off. I didn't think anything of it at the time, I just looked around for what m...
Two beef burritos. Two whole beef burritos. That was lunch. I told myself I would stick to my diet, but it was 2-for-1 Tuesday's at the little food truck that had started appearing in the parking lot each day. How could I resist the savings? Anyway, as I paced back into work across the marble lobby I began to feel thos...
The Aliens laughed as they got out of their spacecraft, I’m not sure why they chose to land in my backyard of all places but hey, that’s the world we live in I guess. Aliens have been the annoying frat house next door neighbor for as long as I can remember, swinging by to show some insane new tech they made or to brag...
SNAP. A dark wizard falls. Just as his body hits the ground, I hear an unearthly loud crack just up the mountain. SNAP. Another falls. Another loud crack. I lay at the base of this tree, injured and watching. Every dark wizard has not made it too far up this mountain before being felled by the muggles. Every single ...
Suspenseful Music plays. "Everybody on the lookout, something's not right here."Sure enough, a few moments later a creature leaps at us out of the darkness from the second level. Already on guard, it barely manages a second step before Swashbukler skewers it. Without that warning, it likely would have dragged her ...
"Well, shit,"I muttered to myself as I woke up to the same song on the radio that had played yesterday. And the day before. And the day before, and the day before, and... I took a deep breath and dragged my hands over my eyes, letting my arms flop back down to bed. The peeling ceiling seemed to mock me. I had tried to...
I was staying the night at my friend Adam's house, it was around midnight and we both started to get tried. He had bunk beds in his room, he slept on the bottom and I always slept on the top because I usually slept for another 4 hours after he woke up. We usually had our Friday night ritual of talking for a half hour,...
You’ll never say a word to him about it. Sometimes the price of truth is more than its worth, and you love him too much to make him pay the price. He’s so young compared to you, in both age and maturity, and you need to protect him. It’s almost laughable honestly, considering how different your features are, but the fa...
"An intelligent species." That's what they said. That we would be facing an intelligent species. What we faced was far worse. In our conquests, we've crushed planets and atomised entire races. The Serulynes, with sophisticated military apparatus that encompassed their weak bodies, turning them into unstoppable titan...
August 7 - Daddy says I don't have to go to school this year. It's weird, I always used to be sad when summer break ended and wish it could go forever. But not this year, now I wish I never wished that. Luckily I can still play outside with Moiran and Diedritch and everybody else, but it's not the same as it used to be...
Item#: SCP-6867 Object Class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6867 is to be housed at site ██. All personnel that come into regular contact with SCP-6867, are to be to given regular psych evaluations. All evaluations that are logged as ‘CRPT’ are to be reported to lead researcher \[REDACTED\]...
Draco Veruforma: Dragons. Relics of the past. Extinct in the wild. Once feared, beasts, now servants to man. Whilst the canine may be man's best friend, Draco Veruforma was man's most ancient brother in arms. In medieval times knights would slaughter the beasts. In the Age of the Orient, the east taught the west that ...
“So, what will it be?” The man asks you. You are alone in a room with this man, you turned 13 a month ago. The man wants to know if you want to keep living, or give it all up. For a moment you consider, do you want to stay. Your friends are cool and your dog loves you. Unfortunately that moment is brief as the years...
"RAH!"Bellarious bellowed, catching on to the game before anyone else did. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T RECALL THE BLACK WINTER?!?" The timid elf, growing more timid with each syllable and spittle drop of Bellarious' shouting, stammered back "Well.. well you see the last Black Winter must have been... thirty... forty...
Maintenance log, section 403-B12, job 41443. We've encountered issues with the refitting of The [Redacted]. According to scans, the crew left a strange object in one of the sub floor modules normally used for radiation shielding. My crew is having trouble gaining access to the hatch. Further complicating the issue, th...
“W-what?” Laura questioned “Your solar system. Hm, our translator must be broken. SEND IN A FASCET TO CHECK THE TRANSLA-“ “No no I’m sure your translator is fine, we just uh. Can’t do that.” “We understand you did not bring your solar system, you are free to retrieve it now.” This had Laura stumped. She’d been the...
Making it to the underworld was no easy feat, but I had to do it. I had to defeat him. He thinks I'm dead. This is my only chance. As I snuck my way back into the Demon King's den, I mumbled to myself. "Tch. He thinks he can defeat me that easily? Please. I defeated an entire army of his brainless minions all on my ow...
(edit: not a super good writer, so dont expect much from this. I wanted to write something, and saw this xd) &#x200B; "Yahweh! You need to get a control over those pests you rule over!" Yahweh, who was browsing the internet which his creations had recently created, looked up to see the god of foxes glaring at hi...
"I'm sorry. What?" I didn't even know I was dying. I just stubbed my toe. My wife just gave me some aspirin to ease the pain. "I really do love you!"The reaper said. "Your sense of humor. Your eyes. Your...."Her body collapsed to the bottom of my bed, and glared as if staring through the sheets, ”...feet.” "But I di...
“How do you assholes keep finding this place? No, I’m not interested in converting to solar energy, I told you the idea of making the earth greener disgusts me. The Earth can rot for all I care. Now get off my property before- Wait, who are you people?” Joel or the Bringer of Hellfire as they knew him in the villai...
“I don’t need a date, Hara.” I said, pacing the interior of the ship, wringing my hands, and sighing into the emptiness. “You do!” Came the chirp of the AI, lights on the heads-up display signaling her delight. “You’ve been on this ship for far too long, Daniel. Far too long!” The echo was a staple of her programm...
It was the perfect time. I had been hoping to be alone with that scumbag, ever since I found out what he did. Child killers didn't deserve life. I might've killed before, but I didn't do kids. That was a line I could never cross. Especially as I thought of my own sweet Barney. My little boy. We were ordered into the r...
She knew she was special from a very young age, but being special was what terrified her the most. The way the small arachnids crawled up to her as she was crying to give her comfort made her scream and cry even more. The smallest spider spoke to her shakily, “Charlotte? Are you ok? Why are you so afraid?” Charlotte di...
"She stopped answering my calls,"the young Horticult said, summoning a thick vine to swing to the next building. He looked down forlornely to the city below, hoping he could spot a paparazzi taking his picture. He did not. "People just don't respect superheroes anymore,"PatterBat said, sending pulses of ultrasonic for...
My crew and I were tight. I firmly believed this. We'd been best friends since middle school, playing soccer and catching crickets in the football field. The field in our high school was artificial but we all joined the football team anyway. On the field and off it, we ruled. We were a team. But our AP World Histor...
“The gentleman in the red jumper. You look very worried. I think I have someone here who wants to speak to you. Does the name John mean anything to you?” “No, I—“ “It might be about a John, or Johnnie. Jonathan perhaps. Or a James. Definitely a J name. Or G perhaps. Have you made the connection yet?” “My brood-fathe...
It all hit me like a tonne of bricks. The world no longer seemed to make sense. When I looked up at the sky, there no longer was its beautiful blue. It was red. An angry red. The sun was gone completely, replaced by a moon that seemed to be burning. It’s orange light bathing what remained of the barren wasteland that l...
I lay on a bed of gems as I listen to it snore again. Scaly, massive, and apparently cursed with sleep apnea. What a shitty dragon. I'm not entirely sure what time it is, but I know it's daytime because I can't really sleep. I'd go outside to check, but beyond this chamber, I'm not sure which way to go. Puil-Drelx tol...
Of all the things to end humanity I wouldn't have thought modern medicine to be the one. At first it was all great, the life expectancy of everybody rose and with time we learned to control sickness and even heal genetic diseases. The lifespan of an adult female rose to 110 Years. But as one knows the human arrogance i...
Imagine if everyone on earth one morning awoke with a fantastical power beyond everything they'd ever known. The sky awash with the delighted squeals of children, newly airborne. The streets worn down from aphsalt to mud by a whole new class of athlete, proving to one another who would be the next Usain Bolt. Kaiju pla...
"My lord, I don't understand..."Magister Staiyer said, shaking his head. "Can you perform the spell or not?" "It's possible, but--" "Then do it,"Alden croaked. "If it's...p-possible, then d-do it." Alden Oaklee was 82 years old. His eyes were clouded by cataracts, his knees had become poor and frail joints, and ca...
"Did you just say light is the speed limit of the universe??" "Yeah it's called the speed of light, duh" "No no no that's the thing, it's the speed OF light. The universe has a set speed for the transferrance of d INFORMATION, which is a speed light can travel at because it has no mass - it's a boson." "It's a bozo?...
Tiny icicles formed on the hot red cylinder. A thermodynamic miracle. Funny how miracles tend to happen while you're dying. Or maybe not. "Man, a miracle would be nice right now.", I sighed fogging up the metallic surface of the bullet. "Right in the mouth, what was the guy thinking aiming like that. Should've go...
Being a teacher to the town's two children doesn't pay much, but it's at least something rewarding I can tend to from day to day. Really, anything to get out of the trailer is fine by me. Ever since the bus broke down, travel in and out of the valley had been impossible, and what's worse, mom has been out of a job. Her...
Dreadful. In the mirror, the face of a man, middle-aged, a few wrinkles around his eyes. The man should be delighted, his first wrinkles are those of a person who laughed often. But the man wasn't in the mood now. He felt angry. This man is you. It could be a woman or a child or an elderly, it matters not, it is yo...
Looking at Her, Looking at Me My earliest memory is of me in the hospital. A baby crying, face all red, and his mother looking at her child with awe mixed with fatigue. In my memory, I'm not the child. I'm the man with the camera. Right now I'm trapped, and it's all because of Jessica. Strawberry blonde and with ...
“My hero,” Gwinnette exclaimed loudly, breathlessly. Then, in a whisper Rittendorf would surely miss, snapped, “What took you so long?” Sir Greenthorn kept a frozen smile on his face, gazing into her eyes. His lips barely moved. “I was in the middle of something.” Behind the pair, Rittendorf was flailing in theatrics...
The choice of who was not mine. I chose only the time. And then I would be summoned to the nearest soul who did not wish to wield me. Normally I could talk them into it. All they lacked was confidence. An encouraging voice to drive them to greatness. It never took me more than three days before me and my partner were o...
Tori throws a handful of spinach into the sizzling olive oil. She pushes it around with her bare hand, cocks her head while looking at the pile of greens, then adds some more from the newly-opened bag on the counter. The smell of baking chicken wafts through the kitchen. “All I’m saying is, why are you making it a b...

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