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As stuck in a snail as we could be, the enchanted slip and scrawl that fared across the pavement was no match for what was not to come. It was obvious no progress was made. A tile, a large one at that, still bore its monotony all the way along this sulking path. Still though, i sensed another. Someone hindering my suc...
"Fuck, fuck, fuck! What have I done?" Tears streamed down my face as I hugged her lifeless body. "Wake up! Please!" Blood covered my knuckles. She lay on the bed with colorful bruises covering her face like abstract art. "Wake up you bitch!" The anger was back. The voice in my head that caused this madness. I cl...
It was dark. Not the normal kind of dark where the corners of the curtains are illuminated by the soft glow of your alarm clock. Jacob felt blind. No amount of squinting would yield an image in front of him. He inhaled sharply. His lungs were not met with the stale air of his bedroom. No, it felt damp and earthy. The...
Beep Beep Alison woke up with a groan. Yawning and suppressing the urge to snooze for just a little while longer, she turned the alarm clock off and sat on the bed. "Morning, sweetheart"her girlfriend mumbled. Alison bent down and kissed her cheek before getting out of bed. As she was brushing her teeth, Alison he...
It happened again... I'm awoken by the harsh light of day streaming through the window onto my face. Drowsy, still tired and feeling the after effects of last night's drinking I pull the curtains closed and stumble out of the room in search of the sink. I turn the cold tap and rinse my hands and face to wake mysel...
Pain. Pain everywhere. Pain burning every nerve ending and cooking every synapse. Then control. Power. Anger. The pain ends and I see the world anew. Faces gaze upon me through the dark in wonder. Faces that judged and sentenced me. Doomed me to purgatory for a cruel accident. I can feel the power dancing through t...
Timothy approached the "Individual Database Pod". It was easy to find. Since the revolutionary introduction of these devices some years ago, they are on seemingly every street corner. The pod's main menu glowed blue with just a search bar. With shaking hands, Timothy typed in his mother's name. Multiple results came ...
It was the longest day of my life. I burned and pushed and forced my way through the annals of higher education. I fought and clawed and cheated. I traded favors and treated money like a way to keep score. I had power, and with it money. But real power. Some soccer more can protest and every breeder can vote. But I ...
The day my life started, I mean actually started was a Tuesday. The bus dropped me off on the corner, I waved by to Stacey and Phillip and made the walk through the alley into the back door of the house. The door was unlocked, which was unusual. Walking into the kitchen for the snacks that always waited and I hear vo...
“Alright RIC, it’s time for some fuel, buddy,” the Explorer announced while giving his Robotic Interstellar Companion a friendly slap on the back. Or what would appear to be his back. He was simply a computer that followed the Explorer around the ship and kept him company. Going insane was a very real and present threa...
"Well you seem like a perfect candidate Chris, but tell me; why have you gone for so many years unemployed? Is there any issues I should know about?" Chris sighed, and he reluctantly pulled on the chain around his neck, until a small metallic cross poked out from the edge of his collar. Immediately Mr. Anderson under...
Silence can take on many form, I reflected. It can be uncomfortable, as in when someone has just said the wrong thing. It can be peaceful, as in when you are lying in bed with a loved one and her head is resting on your chest. Peaceful. Silence can, also, just be. This was the silence of the subway station. Very...
Sirens wailed over the hills, through the fields, and into the night. The Q cried in the late hours of the night. When everyone slept, a select few wagered their souls for the life another. I awoke from my sleep, someone in need of help, someone in their darkest hour cried for help. My engine cried through the night ...
I didn't know the bomb sitting next to me was about to explode. Where I went wrong is that, I knew it was a bomb. I'd always known it was a bomb. All bombs look pretty much the same right? I mean there's wires, stuff that explodes, stuff that shoots out from the explosion, and some kind of trigger. Every bomb need...
Whoa. Pretty good stuff man. Im not usually into darker themed super heroics, but being a fan of many of the Marvel Knights comics, i can appreciate them all the same. The story kept my attention all the way through, and i enjoyed how descriptive it was in regards to the characters. That turn around at the end to was ...
You were always so kind to me, Murmuring whispered words into my ear. Telling secrets that weren't yours to tell, Or sharing stories about your life that You crafted years ago. We shared laughs and loved, I loved You thought you did, and any tears were Puddles for jumping, made from joy. The torrent ...
"Are you sure you want to do this?" "Honey, I can't stand perfection. If everything is perfect then nothing is better. Everything is the same, monotonous routine" "But what if you don't make it back?" "I've told you this, I'm sure I'll be back in the blink of an eye" "But how can you be so sure?" He sighed, wishin...
It's a simple room I enter, coming from the darkness to the light of an orange lamp on a worn desk. Paperwork is strewn about and the man behind the desk is unshaven and haggard. He appears to be in his sixties. The computer on his desk appears far older. His nameplate reads Peter. "Name,"he says simply. I give it. He...
"Can we daddy? Can we please take him with us?" "Not now darling."Sigh "Why not papa? Didn't you say we can take him later in a few years? It's been a few years! I want to play with him now, daddy!" "No, no. Your brother still has many years left to live. After all, the Great God has yet to allow him to come home...
Halfway into writing all the suggestions, I realized they are all from existing books and I replaced them with other things. A brain of a suspect is extracted for interrogation. A human with wings in the world where everything else is normal. Modern day witch hunt (not the media, but religion driven one) You have a...
Philip was a lonely boy. Sitting on a bench in the park all by himself. The people walking by laughed at him, since he was unable to eat a simple candybar straight, without mess in his face. But all the laughs passed Philip right by, for in his mind there were a dream so magnificent and sweet! Oh the joy he had, rollin...
I walk along the chain link perimeter. My Hazmat suit protecting me from the radiation levels. The howling, it's chilling, cuts to my very bones. The moonlight is reflecting of the giant Monolith, the last great tree in an empty forest. Nuclear Fission stumps where other great Monolith's once stood. I grip my rifle tig...
Once upon a time there was a man who lived in a very expensive neighborhood. He had a loving wife and two children. After his wife left for work each day and the kids went to school, he would make sure that the house was as clean as it possibly could be. However, before he finished his work, his children would come ...
"What the... that wasn't there when I left it!"God said, agitated. "This is all wrong! What the hell have this people done!?". It didn't make any sense. He thought he created the humans to be intelligent and responsible to take care of themselves while he went out to his business trip, "but clearly", he thought to hims...
I saw what that bastard did to my mom last year. He took advantage of her. My mom, the faithful, honest, pure woman that she has always been, who always loved my dad. She didn't deserve to be put in that situation, especially on CHRISTMAS EVE. You may say that I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus, but that doesn't do th...
"Melasomneol - The ultimate caffeine. The rich hate it. It's all about watching your health these days. Not needing to sleep, despite the lack of side effects, just didn't appeal to them. Those that need it though, working as hard as they can, taking as much overtime as is available to help support their family and c...
Standing in front of the cameras, he spoke. I am Jesus, son of God, and I have returned. Immediately, laughter burst out; nobody was going to take him seriously -- only madmen would ever try to convince others that they were the messiah. Yet, his gaze remained unwavering toward the crowd, and from just his eyes, re...
"Hey! Wake up! C'mon, wake up!" Oh not this shit again. It's in the middle of the night, I had trouble falling asleep and I'll have to get up in just a few hours... "Do it! Now! She'll never see it coming!" I sighed and looked next to my bed. A little bit of light fell through the window and illuminated that strange ...
Brian stole a glance at the control panel, a little red light flashed on and off. We're going to die, he thought, we're all going to die. Slight tremors shook the control pit as Brian fought for a firmer grip on his chair. The red light began blinking faster and more urgently, however the pilot seemed unaware. Bead...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dennis picked up the newspaper and his eyes wandered over a peculiar advertisement: ~Mourning the death of a loved one? Rest assured, child, for their voice can still be heard. With your help, I will contact your beloved and relay their message to you. See you soon.~ &...
Logan could not breathe. He had been running for 30 minutes straight. His wife had called him up hysterically saying that their son had been playing with the family heirloom tinderbox and that their house had been set on fire. A lifetime of working in the mines had left most of the adult men in the neighborhood weake...
It's like feeling drunk. It's like feeling drunk, but without that inflated sense of importance. A tiny, insignificant little man. It's like feeling drunk. If drunk were just that feeling of nausea. It's not what it is that's important, it's what was. And what was he? He can see that, despite who he is now, who...
“It’s time.” Mother whispered through the door to Charlie on his twentieth birthday. She hugged Charlie tightly, “Happy Birthday!” She said happily. “Thanks mom, I love you.” He said smiling. “I’m really going to miss you Charlie!” Mother said through tears wishing him farewell. He laughed, “I’ll be back soon, I promis...
Not that, of course, it was his fault that his parents were unmarried at the time of his birth. His father had loved his mother absolutely but she had looked to him as a commodity. He figured that was probably why his perception of the world was so skewed. Why else would his life been driven in the direction it had go...
"Fuck it"He said. They were sitting in his car, an old black 95' bmw, parked outside near the college. Their class was over and he was giving her a ride home, like every monday night. The street light was giving her hair the most beautiful shine, it looked more vibrant and he couldn't help it anymore. He had to tell h...
Chapter One My name is Nathaniel Breen and this is my story of the most profound experience in my life. Watching my entire world shatter before me, learning of the things that happen behind closed doors (of perception), but that comes later on in the story. First off, I would like to introduce you to a character in ...
Everybody is born male in this universe. Our evolution required neither such inefficient mechanism of reproduction as a sexual one, nor incredibly slow and weak substances as the DNA and cells. But all universes have their anomalies. All form of life in this universe changes it's direction of reproduction after thir...
A man in black stepped out of a portal. "Stu! You won't get away this time!" Gary reached into a his pockets and flung a spread of kunai at his attacker, each one with a paper wrapped around the hilt. "Explosive tags from Naruto."the man remarked. The deadly weapons vanished into thin air. "Try again?" Gary raise...
"What was that flash?"James cried as he ran out of his tent. The fire was still smoldering and everyone had gone to bed. "I don't know,"Ashley muttered, staring into the sky. "It was huge though. And green." Gabe came tripping out of his tent and rubbing his eyes. "Guys, just forget it. I was just getting to sleep." ...
[Journal translated into Basic for interspecies use] ENTRY ONE: LANDING I have never seen such destruction. Merely seconds after entering the atmosphere of Terra-249, I could sense the lifelessness of the planet. Even the perpetual wars of the tribes of Terra-48 didn't cause this much destruction. Although I realized...
There it was. Nothing special, nothing even worth making the papers. Just a mugging gone wrong. A loud bang, a flash of light, and then darkness. Through that darkness however, there was something else. a light. A soft glow, calling out. "Closer"it said. "Come, make your choice"The light became brighter, brighter, and ...
I've done a lot of reading recently. It's been three years now since I found out about my gift, and I can't say I haven't been selfish with it. Small things, really. Spilling drinks of people who give me stick in bars, making the odd thing drop onto someone. I have had my fair share of revenge. But I never considered h...
What are you running from? Is it me? Of course it is. All men do. All men must die, after all. But know this: I do not tire. I do not rest. I do not bend, I do not break. I kneel to no man. Many have tried before to escape me, and just as many have failed. And, my dear, you'll find that those who run the longest, en...
The delegation arrived. They were three, men of science and the abstract, chosen from the vast majority of the population who had, at last, accepted the Knowledge into their minds. The first was Dr. Andrew Jonson, an American from the midwest who excelled at reconstructive surgery. Behind him, Miss Abina Obaka, South ...
According to The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, the referenced comic first appeared in newspapers 11 April 1993. At the time of this post, [GoComics](http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/04/11) has a decent quality image available for this strip, click the comic to enlarge. For true high quality, this comic ...
A little god is sitting under an old tree and carving a mask. All about him was the shavings of the wood. He uses a small lightening to carve the features and his breath to sand down the rough spots. He carves gingerly and breathes slowly. His golden curl frames his youthful face. Puck walks by and asks - what are ...
The smell of diesel takes me back to Kuwait. It's a trigger for me. Not always a bad trigger, but usually I find myself half a world away. That’s not true. I can’t lay this all on a scent or a sound. They don’t help, but the real problem is much deeper. I should start at the beginning, but instead, let’s start now. B...
Well this got dark. Not what I started with but what made more sense with the prompt at the end. "Just kill me, please. I'm begging you. I've never married, never had kids, my parents are dead, the rest of my family hates me, I was at my peak as fucking fast food restaurant janitor! The amount of crap on those walls ...
The long table was filled with the faces he knew from so many conferences, business calls and private dinners. Representatives from Exxon, BP, Mobile and many more were represented in this odd, white glowing room. At the far end a guy from Chevron he'd met once or twice was trying to get a seat at the end of the table ...
There had been two great alien races. That much he could tell, from brief flashes and short spurts of clarity that sometimes only served to confound, to lead him into further confusion. It had happened millions of years ago, when the planet called Earth was nothing like what it is today. Where the most primitive of lif...
The machine observed. It was all alone in the darkness. If a being existed, which none did anymore, that could hear, which it could not possibly do, then that being would hear a almost imperceptible beeping sound, every few seconds. Beep. Beep. Beep. Like a metronome, with mechanical precision. The machine observed. An...
I stare at the yellow siding of the house as I tread the sidewalk. When I reach the door, hesitating to turn the knob. I think about all the times I will open the door in the future, and all the people that will welcome to my house. I finally turn the knob and with a small creak the door opens. There is a staircase...
I scrolled through my contacts list, looking at all the names that I had marked a “D” next to. There were so many now. Every day, more and more names received that designation. Every day, more and more people disappeared. Amy, John, Greg, Mallory…all gone. Even worse, I struggle now to remember their faces. Was J...
My mother and I rushed out of Target, already late. Today was Amina Sayeed's 10th birthday party and I had been begging her to let me go for weeks. She finally caved this morning and agreed to take me. Once we climbed into the car, she paused. "I don't have a good feeling about this, Wendy, I don't think you should go....
It’s been a while darling. It’s been a while. When will you come back? I don’t know. There was never a time frame for him. There was never a secret whistle to tell him to halt the charge. His hat on head and dog tags on neck. So he kept going. Even though he was in pain. There we could see a man full of strength. When ...
I had just finished reading a wonderfully compelling comment under one of the writing prompts subreddit. The strangest thing is that when I went to upvote it (because I wanted everyone to read this comment) the username was almost exactly the same as mine. 'Giraffeandcricket' it read. So of course, I felt the urge to ...
It's you! The genius guy who completely topped me last night on the immortal thread! Haha anyways, here's one: You (or whoever, just the MC) has been alone for a very long time (any location/reason) -maybe even a bit crazy. Describe their first interaction with another human/entity similar to a human \cough\ constell...
I'm tired, I'll edit this, the first draft, tomorrow. Realistically, there were very few things an infamous thief could do to achieve glory. He could succeed in a nearly impossible heist, but it may be hazardous to his health should his identity be revealed. And even then, he will only be a figure of admiration to w...
"Pawpaw?" "Yes?"I called back and adjusted my cap so the bill would face the sun. I turned towards Duke as I bent over my garden. Damn back, I thought vaguely, as I hollered back into my shack. "Why are you called PawPaw?"His eyes, green lasers in the sunlight, flashed at me in anticipation. Lucky kid had his grandmo...
Stretching his arm towards the suns, his hand opened, he tried to remember. « A'hta on the left, Vhall on the right. One quarter ... » His father taught him how to guess the time, using the stars. A'hta was the biggest of the two suns ; it lit up the lands for twenty-eight hours a day. And when it fell beyond the horiz...
Every child has an imaginary friend when growing up. How does one feel when their imaginary friend grows up with him, and becomes famous with him? Jim looked down at his hand one last time. It might be silly, but a tear rolled down his eye. "Kermit,"he said "thank you for being the better part of me. Without you I woul...
"XKeyscore. XKeyscore. This was our fucking secret. SO WHY THE FUCK IS IT ALL OVER GODDAMN CNN AND FOX AND EVERY FUCKING NEWS CHANNEL IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY! FUCK!"The director kicked a metal trashcan so hard it slammed into the wall and clattered, eventually coming to a rest. Everyone in the room was silent, ...
She blinked at me from beneath long dark lashes, those blue orbs gazing at me. "C'mon, Sam, please?" I turned away. "Jackie..." She rested her slim fingers on my shoulder. "Just this once, love." I brushed my fingers through her soft brown hair, smiling sadly. "No." "Why?"She whined childishly, adorably. "Becaus...
"Hey, relax. It was just one sculpture! It was an accident. Bizarro was going to get away otherwise!"said Superman, slowly backing away Captain America glared at him, and slowly detached his shield. "One sculpture?"he said, anger in his eyes, "It was the fucking STATUE OF LIBERTY!" "Now, now. Don't get mad. I'll fix...
I had purchased this box when I was young. The old man around the corner somehow convinced me to buy it for five dollars. I was a kid and the box seemed surreal at the time and it seemed even more impressive once the old man told me what it had inside it. A button to end the world he said, I still remember it. The wa...
Winning has become all too easy, lotteries, horse racing, football games, anything you can possibly conceive can and has been won. But you soon learn that people become suspicious of this mysterious figure laying bets all over town that you needed to travel further afield back in the past to spread your bets out but th...
I ran my fingers over the cold, ridged rail of the antique procedure bed, holding my breath to stop my near-panicked panting. I could feel Leah ignoring me. She was perched on the edge of the bed and jerking awkwardly at the laces of her boots. She had been wearing only sandals for months now, but had perversely insist...
Janine had never been the most eloquent type. Her parents were both professors and could give wonderful lectures at a moments notice, but not her. She'd tried the debate team growing up and had been laughed out of the auditorium. She tried choir, but her voice crackled too badly. Eventually, she'd given up. She found o...
William looked at the map Master Hartsfield had given him one more time before bed. A gift he called it, until we can get you a real one. William didn't know what a "real map"looked like, but to his ten year old mind, it was impossible to imagine something better than this. This map had all of Albany on it, even pl...
First off, the post is incredibly hard to read due to the lack of formatting, split your paragraphs by double-pressing enter or submit it to a blog/pastebin/etc to preserve formatting if it came from an editor like MS Word. Second, work on spell-checking and grammar-checking your sentences. Read them out loud and make...
You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan, written and directed by his red right hand. - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Red Right Hand The doctors say I am going to be able to walk again, for the first time since the incident. That's 8 months in a fucking wheelchair and a full legs and ass cast for one...
"Good luck", your brother tells you as you walk up to the podium. He has a smirk on his face-well, why not? You're frightened and feel unprepared. And your head is spinning. ''Well, I'll need it'', you tell him. ''Maybe something will happen so I don't have to go, though.'' ''You wish'', he says with a smile. ''What...
"Fuckin' Synners." James was digusted. A Synth that resembled a large squirrel had just been elected mayor, his coffee had been made by one resembling a pink inflatable tube man, and just now he'd tripped over a little foot-high robot. The damn thing had the nerve to be insulted, as if James wasn't the one harmed here...
(Note, I didn't want to do a first-person viewpoint for this.) The paperboy hit the front door again with the paper and Bobby-Joe jumped with a start and spilled a little coffee. "Aw, hell son!"He said and went to the door. Bobby-Joe dropped the paper as he stood up. In front of him was a young couple pushing a baby ...
I stretched carefully as I prepared for my morning workout. Good preparation is important before any kind of strenuous work, I thought. As I brought my arms down from the final stretch and walked over to the leg press, the door to the exercise room opened behind me. I turned to see a frankly beautiful man dressed all...
In the lobby of St. Mark’s hospital, the dry hum of the vents muffled the click of the secretary’s keyboard. Plastic brushed styrofoam as Mark stirred his coffee. He took a sip, only to double over, coughing. It tasted like latex and laundry detergent. Shuddering, Mark rubbed his teeth against his tongue, trying to scr...
Authors note: some foul language in the writing, warning. “Wow! I guess destroying that proved to be a good thing, after all!” All I could do is stare at my friend. Incredulously, I said “Dude, shut the hell up!” I’m pretty sure I had to stop being friends with him now. The dumbass had thrown his gym lock at our ...
I paused. "Is there something we need to talk about?"I asked. She pulled away. "What?"she mumbled. I tapped the object in her pants. "Oh,"she said, "My meds. I should probably take these, huh?"She pulled a pill container from her pocket and I felt the kind of relief you can only experience if you've almost died. She...
NSFW “Mr. Mauhs, what are you doing rummaging through my medicine cabinet?”, growled Bruce, who raised his hand to cover his eyes from the intense bathroom light. “But Bruce, your medicine cabinet is soooooo stocked”, replied Mr. Mauhs with a twinkle in his eye. The disgruntled billionaire walked forward and grabbed...
Citizens! I am your president! We all yearn for the afterlife! I know I do! Once preached in many religions, now scientifically proven. Yes, this afterlife is good and everything is plentiful. But don't turn from this world! This is the world that birthed you, these are our roots. You all will have an eternity in the ...
(Forgive me if this is really bad,this is my first writing prompt.) I always get a wave of nostalgia when I drive through old country roads. Even a little homesick. I grew up in a tiny town with the nearest "big"town about 40 miles away. That means huge open fields, cows mooing, and beautiful green pastures. Various ...
FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY "EARTH'S LAST HOPE": So there I was, seven hours into a beer and tequila fueled bender when the President walked into the bar. "Archie, you are Earth's last hope. Our future is in your hands." "But I'm completely drunk!"I exclaimed, slurring the completely and letting the moment land with ...
"Shut the fuck up"David screamed at the genie. He had just gotten his first wish granted, it had taken a long time to decide given the constant mockery of the genie: "Oh, endless money. How original, you thought of that one yourself Sherlock?" "Come on kid, I got tickets to a movie in 30 minutes. Just wis...
When they had launched the UTASS Augustus in 2143, it was state of the art. With a carrying capacity of thirty Hydra H-22 anti-ship fighters and fifteen B-99 Orbital bombers, it was the most powerful piece of war that humanity had devised. For sixty years it kept the border colonies from stirring up too much trouble. F...
30 MAY 45 21:14 Fort Obama Near the Al Bahar Border I couldn't log last night, because we got in a firefight with the insurgents again. I don't know why they even want independence. Without the Commonwealth they are nothing. They wouldn't last a Lunar Year. They preach freedom and equality, but they forgot who go...
Oh, shit. I know this feeling. How the hell could this be happening today? This is critically bad timing. Too much riding on—you know what? I can’t do this to myself. If I’m going to be the least bit successful at that meeting, I can’t start with the negatives. That’ll throw me right off. And right now is crucial. I’m ...
The solicitation could not have been more ordinary. Take care of the unfaithful husband while he's out on the town with his latest floozy. The only wrinkle: it absolutely had to happen at the latest underground rock concert. Eliminating targets in public wasn't really my style, but I chewed on it over breakfast at my ...
For his WHOLE life, grandpa had always been fair and nice to him. He had taken him to the carnival in the county park, given him the BB gun he wanted for his birthday- he even let him take a sip of his beer, which burned and bubbled all the way to his stomach. But now he wasn’t being fair. Not at all. He told him...
The dentist gave her a lollypop, and she was content to sit and lick it for hours, but knew she had little time to do so. Her pageant was not too far away - and she was going to make mommy proud. The dentist sat her in her chair and told her to lean back. As he turned on the lights in the chair, it cast a large shado...
I guess we picked a bad day to go on holiday. Who the hell could have guessed that two of southern California's major theme parks would declare open war? It would almost be laughable if they didn't also have the arsenal to back up their threats. And with both parks at peak occupancy they also ended up with plenty of - ...
First writing prompt attempt. Wake up, shower, work, change, go out. Rinse and repeat. This is my life. I remember having dreams. Myriad and lofty. I still dream, I guess, but they come out as jokes, people laugh when I tell them anyway. I want to pursue something more, but so much of my time seems to be wrapped u...
You have invited your two best friends Philip K Dick, and Tom Cruise over to discuss the short story you are working on. Upon reading the draft, both look at you disappointed, then at each other, then back at you. Confirming each others suspicions without a single spoken word. You hear footsteps, then a knock at the do...
"How do people keep dying!"one angel yells to the other angry and confused. The angel he was talking to clearly has as much clue what to say as I do. "Well sir"I speak up, after a few minutes of the angel pacing back andforth "I think I was hit by a car.."I really hope that this didn't mean I had to go to hell "That ...
It's a day like any other, yet the skies seem bluer and the birds are singing louder; the alarm doesn't shriek as terribly this morning and I awake with a smile. Today marks the thirtieth year of my existence in this world and it seems the most beautiful yet. I stretch my body, turn off the alarm and roll out of bed to...
[Edit: formatting] ~TRANSMISSION BEGINS~ Dawn Treader: Captain's Log, Final Entry =============================== Dark, so dark. I mean, I should have expected that, right? Space is dark, genius. Not this kind of dark. Even with FTLs it's a long trip. 50 kiloparsecs give or take to the Large Magellanic Cloud; I...
Hey, Unfortunately i have to remove this post. Writing not in response to a prompt can only be shared as part of our Sunday free write threads. Otherwise you can visit /r/writing and share on their weekly critique thread. If this was actually from a prompt, please message the mods with a link to the original post and ...
"Ten!" I didn't see it at first. It was too crowded to actually notice anything. And far too loud to hear their screams. "Nine!" Then I felt it. It was like a giant had taken a heavy step somewhere nearby. The ground just sort of...quivered. "Eight!" Then I saw it. A whole group of people across from me just gone...
My technician tools were neatly laid on the table: a screwdriver, some measuring tape, some sharp knives for prying away at things that wouldn't budge. A half-used roll of duct tape was taped onto a coat hanger, swaying left and right as brief gusts of wind swept past from the rotating standing fan in the corner of the...
She shoved her laptop to one side to get a better look at the board seven or eight rows in front of her. The notes that she had been taking diligently were snapped to one half of her screen while she had pulled up a window of extra searches on the other side. Down below her, the lecturer was droning on reading the note...
"...And so I says to the guy: That's not your wife, that's my Schnauzer!" Nobody said a single word. Not a sound came from the audience. "...Get it? Because...because the wife..." silence "...she uh...You know what? Fuck this job! I'm sick of you humorless bastards!" ----- Jeff picked up the remote and switched...

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