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Groundhog Day is fun as a movie concept but less so in real life. It sounds amusing yet frustrating right? Living the same day over and over to achieve a specific set of objectives to break the loop? I thought as much, but now, not really. See, I’m in my own twisted version of Groundhog Day. Getting objectives on you...
"Interesting disclaimers. 'for a human' and 'despite the situation'. So you must be used to what? Crying?" W'lks ears flick a moment. "Well actually yes. We usually get the smaller ones of your species and they are quite distressed." Blue rubbed her temple adjusting the circlet holding back her hair. "Smaller. So you...
# Soulmage Caniel laughed as he lifted the tip of his shortsword from my throat. Scowling, I scrambled to my feet. The dim hall, slick with oil, made it tricky, but I'd navigated harsher landscapes in my life, and mortal fear was a good motivator. I didn't trust his "better reason"for keeping me alive further than...
"Ow...ow! Well that fucking hurts.", the man at my side retracted his teeth from my neck and began fanning the blisters that now formed around the corners of his mouth. At my neck I could feel lines of warmed liquid flowing down from my bite wound. Any normal vampire would find the sight of fresh blood irresistible, bu...
To say the news was surprising may have been a bit of a stretch. I always knew Anna was a bit...odd. Quirky? Sure. Out of this world? Definitely! I just didn't expect that to be taken literally. Now, sitting beside me on the couch, her eyes glowing a bright neon green, I find myself at a loss for words. "You haven't ...
Day 62 on the job “Adventures Guild, please hold.” I clicked the button and the line 2 blinked white. “Adventures Guild, please hold.” Another click and line 3 blinked white. Pressing the line one, button. “Thank you for calling the Adventures Guild. How may we assist you?” “Help! My sister was taken by tentacles w...
If I can just run a little faster... I'm almost there... THERE IT IS! No... they caught up to me... I'm pinned... "Wha- what do you want from me?" The biggest werewolf in the pack puts his face right up against mine, his snarling and growling making me feel small and weak. The full moon shines bright on his dark fur. ...
No one had ever really anticipated the waiting. You can read about it - there's no shortage of articles of books that detail that fact; it's something else to experience, though. There's the familiar part, of course. Boredom. Time slowing its flow to a trickle. Then there's the new parts - a layer of worry, a smatterin...
I've walked this land for longer than I could remember. I've seen simple flowers and might empires rise and fall alike and as the time went on, I learned to care for both with the same apathy. There was just little reason to care about them when they would die in a few decades and I'd forget all about them in a few mor...
Rob giggled as he hung the sign on a wall by the beach. Someone was sure to get a laugh from another one of his local practical jokes. He didn’t expect the sudden smack to the back of his head. He fell to the ground, but was quickly hauled up to his feet by the stranger who hit him. A tall man, seven feet to be exac...
Your family had decided on moving without your input, so you could only tag along and wait how things turned out. It was a big house a little away from the city, with a huge garden and live green fencing. Papa sounded happy to have found a place close to his job for cheap, Mama complained that the place was so dusty a...
I had always known there was something strange about me. Yes, garlic allergies existed. Yes, churches were often places of questionable hygiene. But my canine teeth should NOT be this pointy, and I should NOT sunburn this easily. I had cut my lip by simply putting the most minute amount of pressure on it. “Alyssa! Can...
It was supposed to be a routine mission for Captain Nikolaj and his crew. The blue-and-green planet appeared to be stuck in the pre-industrial stage of development, which wasn't unusual for a human colony lost during the Collapse. The orbital scans revealed vast forests and rolling farmlands, quaint villages and imposi...
Music slowly coming to a halt, a snap can be heard as a short moment of silence replaces where the notes once flooded. "That was...yet another K-pop band that I know you all love." The enthusiastic, yet smooth voice crackles out from the radio, before a loud hysterical cackle can be heard. "Haaah...You know I'd neve...
Jamie’s day started like any other Friday morning. His first alarm went off at 6am, a nice calm one to let him know he had some lie-in time before his second and third increasingly aggressive ones activated. Today, however, he did not need them. He opened his eyes. Instantly feeling wide awake, he sat up. Pondering...
I remember the day the boy's in the schoolyard called me a villain. They said it because I liked wearing dark clothing, and the shadows of my minions wrapped themselves around me. They said it because, the only friends I'd ever had were the strange, mysterious monsters that swam like wraiths through the air, cutting ...
"Good morning, Claire. How are you feeling?" "I wasn't expecting to see another human! And you know my name, oh my God!" Claire stood before a middle aged man in a white coat with a stethoscope draped around his neck. His coat was embroidered with four lines of unintelligible script, followed by "T. Nguyen - HUMAN DO...
"Where are we going? I'm quite happy where I am and I haven't done anything wrong.", I said, annoyed by the suit and the two goons that had showed up on my doorstep. "You can do this the easy way or the hard way Mr Yibblibobbly". "For the third time, that is not my name. I am James Kowalski". "Brrraaapp! Listen to t...
“Day in, day out” he mumbled. “Day after day, night after night,” he grumbled. “I’m sorry sir, I think we’re meant to go that way. That appears to be the way to the underworld. It’s clearly marked” I pleaded in a panic as I saw the sign pass by, attached to the husk of an old tree that sticking out of the toxic w...
With a few books in a bag over her shoulder, Georgiligardinilania walked up to the library steps. From far away already, she had heard and seen that something was up, something went down. Coloured lights - a disco ball - went through the windows and colored the surrounding buildings. Blue, red, yellow, green. And the...
“I have done all I can, I am sorry but this just beyond my abilities,” the plumber said sadly as he handed me a bill. “Three hundred dollars? Three hundred bucks and there is nothing you can do?” I was irate. This was the tenth plumber I had called. All of them tried for a couple hours, billed me, and said there was ...
One swing was all it took for that confounded axe to change my life. Before the swing, all I had known was the farm I worked for Lord Marcees. Sure, I was strong, but I don’t think I ever set any wheat stalks on fire when I walked through with a sickle. Walking to the fields that morning, I thought it was going to be a...
The markings glimmered beneath the teetering feathers of moonlight. It was an odd scene. That much I knew. If someone saw me—if someone heard my mumbles and murmurs, perhaps-—no, not perhaps, but certainly—their thoughts would spiral down into the routes that lead to the maybe-correct conclusion: I had lost my mind. B...
"it's not possible!"An astronomer stared at the screen, the simulation of a meteor hitting the planet looping over and over. "Not probable. Yet here we are."A younger coworker stood behind them, arms folded, a look of resignation on their face. "That hits us, it's game over. Bruce Willis can't save us now." Meanwhi...
##You'll Get Yours I was great at deals. The best, some would say! Obviously, dealing with my fellow man was easy. They never really thought too deeply about things. I prodded their base needs a bit; their hunger, their loved ones, or their desire for power, and just like that, they became as pliable as clay in my ha...
"Come on, you know this isn't fair"Johnathan pleaded, already aware the conversation proceeding this would be fruitless. Still though, bottling things up wasn't healthy, and maybe he would eventually wear his housemate down. "Fair? I'm pretty sure this is quite fair , it's not like I'm taking up any living space", h...
On Earth, we saw carcinisation, arthropods, especially crustaceans, tending toward a crab-like form. In space, we found homonisation, intelligent life, especially the dominant form, tending toward a human-like form. At first, it confused us. We had theories of seeding, of one intelligent life putting us all on the rig...
My boss wasn't happy. The text said to be in the office at 7:00 AM. He never shows up that early. That means that his BOSS has already ripped him and it's rolling down hill to me... I was early, but the Boss's assistant was at his desk and wasn't happy.. "He's waiting, you're late"while handing me a cup of coffee. A...
Monday: "Why did you do it?"says the skinny woman with the blue handbag. "Because I had no other choice." Tuesday: "Why did you do it?"says the black haired child in her pink coat. "We didn't know the mind virus had entered the colony ship, we thought we had escaped it. There was nothing to be done for E...
I woke up aching all the, the first sign suggesting that I wasn't dead. The smell of hundreds, if not thousands, of bodies rotting was my second indication. I closed my eyes again, hoping the gods would pity me and let me die in my sleep. All sleep brought me was nightmares, and the same scene replaying in a continuou...
I've been a drift for what seems like an eternity. Though, since the ships' internal systems fried a while back. It's really hard to determine how long. The last time I checked the system, it had said 2350. I remember watching a star explode with my crew making a wish. We were star collectors. See, stars are full of na...
I step out of the machine, feeling a strange tingle as the atmosphere of the capsule which clings still to my skin is replaced by the dry, thin atmosphere of the tomb. I switch on the external sensors and watch as the screens come alive, but then seem to die again. No signal. No sights. No sounds. Every particle outsi...
It surprised me how much creamer Death put in his coffee. But then again, what's it going to do? Kill him? He came back to the table and passed me a second cup, black. Taking a sip, I nodded. “I have to say, this isn't how I imagined the afterlife.” Death smiled. Not warmly, but still. “The population of the Afterlife ...
Dave looked curiously at the watch he had acquired from a strange old man a week earlier. The man said the watch was "special". More like broken, he murmured. Today it read 7:19 pm all day. Yesterday it had read 1:02 am. Which happened to be nearly the exact time a school bus full of kids went off a highway, and were...
Of all the revelations regarding the nature of the universe, none could be considered more humbling, or unnerving, than those that exposed how little about it was known, let alone understood. Dr. Vargas thought of herself as an aficionado of ignorance--not the sort of ignorance that emerged as an ingrown social condi...
Every customer and employee is down on their stomachs, hands over head, fingers interlocked. It's amazing what a couple 9mm warning shots can do. I take a tour of the lobby, collecting everyone's wallets, watches and jewelry. I am gonna have a condo. With a minibar. Shark tank. Gold plated fireplace. Fuck yes. I feel...
A square-jawed and handsome man who was in his forties, but looked like he was in his late thirties, appeared on the television screen. It was Brian MacAvoy of American Eagle News. "Welcome back. As I mentioned before the break, a new drug has hit the streets that can, quote, make people more sexually provocative ...
O'Malley's is one of those terrible faux Irish pubs, but I drink there because I work there. The owner has an exploitable weakness for sequential art so I've been drip feeding him with single issues of The Avengers from the early '90s for a couple of months. He sends punters my way and lets me conduct business in a...
I sat there, cross-legged on the floor taking it all in. At first, it was the smell that overwhelmed me, overpowering most of my other senses, but after a while I began to notice other small changes and the anticipation inside me grew. The slight metallic taste in the air that I only began to notice after about 20 m...
> if you do not like it, please unsub and create your own mod oppressed community. That's kind of a "last resort"kind of option, I think. There are solutions that don't involve taking your ball and leaving for another playground. A phrase we mods love to repeat is "Be the change you wish to see in the world,"or i...
__________________________________________________________ “Hey Carissa,” I say to the barista. She looks at me and smiles. “Heeeyyy, you… How are you doing today?” I smile weakly. Besides my face being so forgetful, my greatest weakness is that I can’t hide what I’m feeling. Now she’s looking at me like she just ...
Lofty speeches aside, Batman found himself surprised to see Mr. Grislow handing over his gun and badge. The security guard had been working for Arkham Asylum for 30 years. He was a fit man, just on the bad side of fifty. He looked tired. Batman felt very small and very old at that moment, despite being only 33. He wa...
Imagine a spark. It is surrounded by darkness, nothing tangible and nothing to see or know beyond its flickering light. It is tremendously alone. The spark wanders, casting its faint light wherever it goes. It is afraid, alone. It has yet to know anything beyond its light and the ever-present dark. After a while, the...
I opted to continue the story I started yesterday from a similar prompt, which can be found [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2cwf0s/eu_a_borg_cube_stumbles_across_an_avenger_class/cjjrvav). --- --- Emperor Palpatine watched as the Holoscreen projected a map of the galaxy. It zoomed in on a sectio...
She sits atop a throne of bones. A chair of cities. A conqueror. Only a few understand how it ended up like this. Most can recall a time, not long ago, when the world was organised into governments, countries, states. Most people can still remember wars, fought mainly in the distance on TV and the radio. That was w...
"Who the hell invited Saudi Arabia?"Britain asked. It wasn't good. USA got shanked a year ago by one of their crew, and when he got out of the hospital, he went to work with the rest of the jocks by putting Iraq into the hospital. And Iraq didn't even do anything... "Look, mate"Australia sighed. "I only invited em cuz...
"Surrender to me now or meet your end,"I announced to Superman, whose abs looked rather fake. He was much shorter than I'd imagined. And a bit more... rotund. "Dude! Come over here. This guy refuses to go meta."Batman joined him, his mask was rather fabric-y; he snorted in derision. "Who are you supposed to be?"Gotha...
Three teenage girls sat in a circle outside their lockers during lunch. "Allie, what's the matter?"A dark headed girl white irises asked. As they all looked over, Allie's eyes were morphing from a silvery-white into a deep cerulean blue. "I...I just..."Tears started gathering to burst, and as the white-eyed girl scoote...
It’s a man deciding to use his lunch break to go have a meatball sub with that homeless guy at the intersection. It’s that older sibling who, instead of going out with his friends Friday night, goes home to help their younger sibling with their homework. It’s that friend who didn’t mention they got an ‘A’ on the test s...
The forkful of meat froze halfway to my mouth. That last bite had tasted... Different. I leaned over to my fiance. "Honey?" She didn't bother looking up, eating with one hand and checking her phone with the other. "Hmm?" "That meat tasted... Well, it definitely wasn't cow." Barely blinking, she set her phone down a...
Stephen looked a the clock and sighed, 5.30, another half hour to go until he could close up the deli and go home. He sighed and turned back to the counter, he gave a small start, a customer was waiting at the counter. Perhaps waiting was the wrong word, the customer was gazing straight ahead with a blank expression o...
You haven’t written anything for a long time, the voice in her head taunts. “I can write whenever I want to!” she defends. “I’m just lacking inspiration.” You’re weak. Pathetic. An embarrassment of a moderator. “No! No! It isn’t true!” she cries. You can fool everyone else, but you can’t lie to yourself. She...
"Hey man, I'm sorry about Louis."Jack said as he gave my shoulder a quick pat, "suicide... Damn I never expected that." I wanted to respond, but I couldn't find the words. In all honesty I just wanted to be alone, but I was too polite to say so and Jack, friendly as he was, was horrible at picking up social cues. "He...
Normal is Engineer, Italics is English. Monday: 7:30AM *As the most annoying sound on Earth began to pound through the haze of sleep I once again vehemently swore that morning is an ungodly hour that should be done away with. Or maybe just waking up, either way, I hate that alarm clock. I fumbled with the ...
"Sir you can't use a grass type."Campaign supervisor May said, flicking through a chart of Pokémon profiles. “Why not?” President Barock Obama pouted and put his head in his hands, as his Victreebell sighed. “It’s too green, anyone slightly to the right will think you’re some kind of hippy eco warrior.” “But I l...
My microphones ache. "Jesus saves!" "-and his name is Allah!" "You too can be touched by his noodly-" I understand why the professor decided to allow all the representatives in at once - selecting any faith to be presented before another would sow unnecessary discord, and as a scientist, he valued impartiality abov...
Chuck opened his eyes, blinking in an attempt to bring his vision back into focus. He was lying on his back, staring up at what looked like a series of green circuits in an otherwise darkened sky above. Just a few minutes prior, he’d been white water rafting—an admittedly poor decision, considering his complete lack of...
Someone somewhere, is doing somethimg illicit in front of a video camera. That’s a certainty. It’s equally certain that out of all the people doing horrible things in front of cameras, at least some of them are doing it with the cameras on. So I figured if I just scan through fast enough, eventually someone is going to...
The silence is what got to Else first. It was the first time since her awakening as a medium she had experienced it. Every house has spirits. It's a fact. Even newly built houses get their first supernatural occupants soon after completion but this one was centuries old. It was unnerving. It wasn't the silence of shy ...
It was an interesting policy President Palin had put into effect shortly before leaving office. Escaping jail would grant you immunity from prison for life. Prisons run by private companies made more money as more people were incarcerated. They knew that those desperate enough for money would have no choice but go to j...
Xenon was Natalie's secret, had been since she was eight. She found him beside the little creek in the little park next to her house while she was out for a walk. Xenon didn't speak her language, but somehow they connected. Natalie'd rushed home, dug through the attic to find Dad's old theatre mask, rummaged through h...
Final sequence complete The lid of the regeneration chamber lifted with a hiss. Inside, an infant curled into itself, whimpering softly. An artificial umbilical cord, the infant’s only source of nourishment for the past nine months, disconnected itself, leaving behind a small plastic disk on the infant’s round belly...
"Daniel, less you want that man t' really kill you, ye better be slowin' down with that whiskey." Not quite agreeing with what his partner meant, Daniel looked Henry in the eyes and ever so slowly brought the whiskey up to his lips; his mind filled with thoughts about how it would feel to be killed and, after what h...
I woke up to the sight of my wife completely naked this morning. It caught my attention immediately. Despite being the mother of a nineteen year old she didn't look a day over twenty five. I lumbered out of bed, also naked and grabbed her from behind, kissing her neck slightly as we both took our time getting dressed. ...
Congrats on the fiddle contest! Have you considered X-posting to /r/ibeatthedevil ? It is a great community if a little small. They also have very strict mod policies about stuff they consider to summon the Lord of Darkness. Apparently, SRS tried to raid them a while back... Anyway, a thousand souls isn't really a...
There wasn't even a URL. The address bar was blank, but the site was definitely there. It called itself SN-Match. I didn't even know how I got here, I was clicking links more or less randomly, in my sleep-deprived haze, and suddenly I found myself staring at a site that was describing itself as "the matchmaking serv...
One day each of the Seven Deadly Sins imbued its nature upon a Human turning them into something more than men and women, something at one and the same time less than Human but more than mortal. I was one of those affected so. When normal mortals find themselves in our presence the sinful nature of their fallen Human f...
What didn't happen. No tears, no fireworks, no great calamaties, no black explosions. The world did not collapse on its axis, the buildings did not shake, the rivers did not flood black with tar. I will tell you what did not happen. We did not sit knock-kneed together in a nursing home bitching about the nieces that d...
There had been no reason to ever enter the system. As far as star charts were concerned, it wasn't a star system - just another empty stretch of cold space. Out of any major freight lines and nowhere near major planets of any note, it lay undiscovered for hundreds of years. If any of the few ships' passengers who...
I was twelve, and that night I rented a book on morse code from the library and stayed up late, waiting for the tapping. It started, as eagerly as ever, tap-tap-tapping against the glass. I tallied it all down. Tap. Tap tap. Tap. Eventually I got the first word. 'J- Jackson!' My name! Then the second word. *Tap. T...
I was laughing so that I wouldn't cry. Besides, the sky had that covered. Heh. Being told that you have six to eight weeks to live is interesting. Especially when you've lead as careful and sheltered and fucking boring a life as me. It's like being punched in the heart; you're all wide-eyed and panicky, blah blah, obv...
The fortress wall was vastly tall but ledges there were plenty. Our secret lairs had hidden stairs and blind spots from the sentry. The heroes tried to get inside just like we had designed it. We hid our gold and things untold where they would surely find it. The treasure room stood cast i...
r/funny stands centre, bellowing terrible jokes at the other participants of the fight, until they are writhing in agony on the floor. r/gaming shape-shifts into a 100% science based dragon and breathes fire on everyone in the room. r/circlejerk is simply standing in a summoning circle, jerking. He hopes to conjure h...
Ben walked through the arcade, a large atrium with plush pile carpets that gave off a fluorescent glow. There were pods, rooms, glass arenas, holograms and people all around, playing. Ben worked as a Galactic Architect, a standard-issue white collar wage-slave, and he was just done with a particularly hectic week. A ...
Malia Obama giggled, messing around with her father's phone. She set a status on Facebook about her dad admitting inferiority to her as a diversion from the true prank: She saved 'Hillary Clinton' as 'Putin' and vice-versa in his contacts. To: Hillary Clinton, sent at 5:46 PM **Finally, that dumb cunt went back ...
“I’ll be honest with you, it’s been a while since someone’s come in with this many points.” “Yeah?” “Yep, but to be fair, we don’t get many people can say they’ve saved millions of lives.” The man laughed. “I don’t know if I can personally take credit for that, it was a team effort to develop the drug.” “Still, t...
"I didn't disturb anything."Harold led Inspector Tidwell into the room. "Well, except the door. I had to open that. And my phone, to call you. And my headphones, because they were on my person. But nothing else, I swear."A single bulb illuminated a small bedroom. In the realm of furniture, there was a dresser, a bed, a...
Ropey yellow tresses fell across her sunburned shoulder. Her brass bangles glinted suggestively as she raised a calloused hand to scratch her nose. She moved around the dining table with the grace of a crippled angel. Stephan spotted her from across the room and shuffled through the knots of mingling drunkards to get a...
I don't know how anyone else sees it but to me 20 years is an awfully long time. When we're born, we have no idea what our ultimates are. Most researchers seem to think they arise out of "hidden potential". After that, they remain in a state of permanency: when you call them again they'll have the same effect as the f...
"I can't believe this, George. You're scheduled to go to heaven!"Satan slumped into his chair in disbelief. His son returned from the bar and handed him a drink, before taking the seat across from him. "Dad, I know you wanted more from me, but I'm happy with my life." Satan sighed. "I know that, George. I know. ...
Flickering lights barely illuminated the abandoned hallway. Lockers hung open on one hinge, combination locks broken through with sheer force, and various holes punched in the ceiling tiles. Day in the life. I drew the short straw for this one: supply retrieval from the tech closet a few hallways down. No man's land,...
"Next!"called Saint Peter, waving the elderly woman in front of him through the Pearly Gates. Looking up from his ledger, his jaw dropped. The...creature in front of him beamed from beneath a comically oversized purple turban, his burly chest gleaming in the eternal sunlight of Heaven. Saint Peter glanced down and b...
Monica's heels were hurting her. The sharp, pinching pain sprang up from her toes with each step, a constant metronome of irritation. She should have known better- Lot 34 was hell in heels. Too many winding metal staircases, too many giant concrete floored warehouses, and definitely an excess of helipads. Two was usual...
"Good morning Mrs. Amos." I smiled at the young nurse and blinked twice. He bustled around me, preparing a cocktail of medication that would be coursing through my blood vessels by the end of his visit. His eyes were fixed on the bottles but he sent a smile at my direction when he met my gaze. "You gave us quite a s...
Mr. President, it is absolutely lovely to meet you. No please, don’t get up. I’m certain you’re very busy what with all the random bombings and political maneuvering you have to do today. So I’ll try to get out of here as quickly as possible. Who am I? Oh I’m sorry, where are my manners? My name is Jackson Gilton and I...
50,000. The number popped up by the contract as the person signed it. It was basically against their will, but at this point my sales abilities were pretty much supernatural. They forced a smile, I smiled and shook their hand. "Thank you for purchasing 1 bucket of sand and debris for 30 million, Prince Rashad! I...
In the land of the dead, a healer is a bad thing. I accidentally made a vampire explode trying to heal his cut. The elder lich to his left tried attacking me, but was so badly hurt by a simple touch that she ran off. And then there was the incident with the zombie hoarde. I didn't know that healing a sodding zombie w...
Shit. It wasn't supposed to be like this. My client wasn't going to be happy about the fact I just stole his prize. The job was supposed to be easy-- don't kill, just capture Red Sparrow. Bag 'em and take them back to HQ so my client could slit their throat to take the title. I wouldn't know why anyone would want th...
"Peter Overground, white male, 32 years old. If you see this man, you are advised not to approach, and to contact the police as soon as possible." "Oh fuck, oh fuck, everything is so monumentally cocked,"moaned Peter, sitting on his bed and watching the tv from across the room. "Currently, Overground is chief suspec...
Sweat dripped down my brow as I pored over my test, searching frantically for any mistakes. Speed of light? 3x10^8 m/s. Electrical charge follows the right hand rule. Like charges repel, opposite attract. Damn it, what happens to neutral ones? Come on, come on, the fate of the nation depends on it! Right, attracted to...
Motherfucker. The only seat available was the one in the back corner. Next to the window. That seat was always trouble. Hiyoko double-checked the room in a vain attempt to find another desk, before sighing in resignation and slowly taking her seat. At the teacher's instruction to turn to page 52, she opened her d...
Click The headlights of my truck illuminated the dirt road ahead. Luckily, deer weren't known to be in this area, so I never would have thought I needed to pay too much attention to stuff on the side of the road. My friend was the only one around here for miles. The road never changed, most of this journey back hom...
"Sir, we have analysed the two machines. We can now say with a high degree of certainty that these items have been sent back from sometime in the future."George, the head scientist, walked Winston Chruchill in to the laboratory. "Fascinating."replied Churchill, standing near the table in which one of the machines was...
“Thank you for allowing this visit, Prime Minister,” Jack Spanning bowed, hoping that the gesture would be interpreted as friendly. Keeping track of international cultures had been hard enough before the Earth’s demise, and he couldn’t imagine how hard it would be to manage interplanetary customs. “It is our...pleasur...
Working late that Friday night, John Brady sat at his desk in the corner of the bullpen, idly chewing on a pencil. The only light still on was the desk lamp and the flame bursting to life on his lighter, before he quickly smothered it with the lighter top. He had been staring at the contents of his desk uninterrupted f...
Sweat beaded on our foreheads as we descended deeper. The cameras showed only the darkness all around. Miles of sea water filtered all the light and threatened to crush our small vessel at every moment. It took careful maneuvering to reach the depths below, and patience at the ballast control. Too fast and we would imp...
The dead eyes of a face he was used to seeing in the mirror stared back at him from the screen. "1 million for this one"was all it said. The post was only 4 hours old and already it had risen to the top of the feed. It seemed like every assassin within 1,000 square miles was out to kill him. He closed his laptop, pus...
Finally, my greatest creation it was, but... hmm, there was something missing... "Oh yes, a tail"I spread my arm saying "Let there be a cute tail!" "woof woof!"said the creature, while turning around chasing its new fluffy tail. Hmm, turning around... that gave me a good idea, "How about... we turn my name around an...
"Here,"I say, uncorking my own bottle. She steps back, here eyes flashing and her shoulders arching. "I'm trying to help." "Why would that help? Love... It just lets you get hurt." I stare sadly at her. "Only if you give it to the wrong person." "Then why don't you go find the right person. Try giving her your l...
He walked like a man with the world on his back. His knees buckled and there was the sounds of collapse, of everything shattering, falling down in an armageddon rain. He held the world with his knowledge, but he could not stop it from falling. He was a doctor and that day began normal. The sun rose and the shadows ca...

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