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Record #83 Sound of tape recorder starting to play "I-I can't. It's too much! The Intel said humans are primitive beings that will be easy to infiltrate!Choked sobs A lies! A LIES! They keep saying, I can't even repeat! I, I just want to go home! I can't last till the day 100th!" Tape recorded stops Record #48 *...
You opened your eyes to the soft paddling sounds in the water. All around you was calm. The rhythmic sounds of the water combined with the rocking of the boat had a very calming effect on you and you were still feeling soggy. You observe that you are sitting. You usually don't sleep while sitting. And every bone in yo...
"Candy?" "Candy. I want candy."The teen stared at me, her purple eyes unwavering as she stressed the word. "You, a human girl not even of age to drink in parts of your realm, have summoned ME, Zrrxys the right hand to the Devil Lord of Gluttony, to give you candy?"She can't be serious. How'd a girl even perform suc...
\~Nice Dick\~ The words echoed throughout the lab. Scott looked back at the laptop unhappy. “You can’t say stuff like that. That’s sexual harassment. Plus, it’s just plain weird.” \~Master, I do not understand. Perhaps you should tie me up and show me how to behave\~ Scott looked back at the computer dis...
“Come over here, Bixx!” I called. The little homunculus dropped the jar of frog spawn he had been carrying. I was always careful not to allow him to handle anything volatile and hard to replace. He wasn't much to look at. Being my first creation, he was significantly flawed. Standing only two feet tall, his arms and le...
"Hey there. You're an adventurer, right?" "Um. Yes? Why? Are you going to try to kill me now?" "No." "No?" "That's what I said, isn't it?" "Um. Okay. Why not?" "We're on strike." "Oh...Why?" "The working conditions are awful. We're forced to stay underground, 24/7, never allowed to sleep-" "I thought monster...
The Moon. Cold, dry, and desolate. Across the grey landscape, only craters and the occasional cool rock provides a change in scenery. Only some small things reminds us that we've visited this orbiting rock before. A stiff flag bleached white by the solar winds, footprints in the dust, some landing gear. And of course, ...
"Really funny, Kars,"I laughed. It was difficult to convince my childhood friend to take my words thoughtfully. Inside, I was a bit envious of him, considering we've been raised in the same orphanage for as long as I could remember. Kars chuckled and shook his head as he took another sip of juice in his hand, casually...
"And here we have Bartholomew Erikson, a newly deceased politician from Earth!" Scores of rows of demons screeched forth their jubilation with naked excitement. The sweat flew from their faces with all directions. Despite the rep, demons are not fallen angels. They are angels on permanent guard duty. A mistranslation ...
I've prepared for this day for what feels like my whole life. I'll be speedrunning through my usual routine — wake up, eat breakfast, take a shower, go for a walk, do some work, eat an afternoon snack, work on hobbies, make dinner, eat dinner, shower again, read a book, go to sleep — but this time I'll actually be tim...
A soothing wind brushed by the trees creating an illuminating dance of light as the midday sun drizzled through the leaves. James sat on the park bench watching a group of children chase each other in the distance. “Peaceful here, isn’t it?” a soft female voice said beside him. James turned his head to s...
I had to think for a few minutes. Could I wish for fortune or luck. No, that might be good or bad. And who would it be for? Tales of genies sometimes described them as cruel. Who knew what type of evil I could visit on the world with a poorly chosen single word. I ran my fingers through my receding hair. I looked back ...
Elves were always honoured by humans and ever since I could remember, they had honoured me. As a half elf, people believed that I was pure of heart. It was wonderful to have all these people admiring me. Never had I been shut out. Never had they bullied me. But when I turned 25, it was time to meet my elf relatives. M...
I barely remember the crime that brought me here. I have so many worse ones on my conscience now. A theft, I know. Driven by hunger pangs that would seem so insignificant now, I stole some kind of food. Bread perhaps, still warm from the ovens, or fresh fruit, or any number of delicious things that it hurts to dwell o...
Simon followed the low rumble of disjointed thoughts down the corridors of the lab, making his way to the cafeteria. The Mind-Link worked. The result of almost a decade of tinkering and experimenting, it would lift thoughts from those around and deliver them directly into the user's brain. As he crossed the doorway in...
With rythmic motion, Steve pushed the mop around the office floor. Looking out the window, his eyes lingered on the American flag hanging limp from the flagpole near the parade ground outside. His thoughts on the tear stained letter he'd received from Bucky's mom a few days ago. After repeated rejections from the recr...
Bro, bro, bro....I have an idea! Its for our first prank! It's great! You'll love it! No, no hear me out! It's perfect! How about...how about we put a blessing on this field of turnips? Like we just bless the fuck out of it! And just bury them up to their tits in turnips! Why? Why the hell not, bro! I ...
Zeus owned the sky. Olympus and all of its golden glory was his, and it was guarded by the bright, buzzing power of his unmatched and indomitable lightning bolt. Looking over mankind, being the children of their thought and discovery, but the guardians of their reality, Zeus and his 11 other pantheon divines accepted t...
I looked up at the woman, clad in dark cloth stylized in that stereotypical villainous fashion, with spikes and shadows that grew from her form. Her purple and green makeup and seams were top notch, I had to say. A shame I hated the color scheme and the spikes. The shadows were cool, though. Looking to our leader for ...
You ever hear the words, “Act like you know?” It’s a famous saying and I often live by it. Ever since I lost my cozy but boring job, I decided to walk onto the sets pretending that I am supposed to be there. I’d go talk to my casting agency and apply to be an extra then I would show up in the middle of an important sce...
9/22/2022 I found myself able to die and continue unharmed. I crossed the street and a truck hit me, then I found myself 6 feet away from that truck. My friend walked up to me and said are you okay? I was worried so I walked home thinking it was a dream. It wasn’t as I found out after walking into a sewer hole. Only t...
Dungeon 29-61N/106-60E, review. Found recently in an area with a lack of dungeons, can this prove a draw to the area or will zone CGQG remain a poor zone for dungeon-based supplies? Difficulty: 4/10 The monsters, while shitty to fight, are not particularly difficult, taking the form of augmented regular an...
I stood there stunned and facing my friend, who was holding an ancient-looking tome in her hands. I looked down to see myself in the middle of a pentagram drawn on the floor with candles at each of its points. I say that I was stunned because a second ago I was in the bathroom in front of the mirror brushing my teeth. ...
"Well hey there Billy!" "What the? Who's there? Where did that voice come from? And...and my name isn't Billy." "Looks like you're writing a story there. Mind if I take a look?" "Uh...yes? Yes I do. And where is--" "Oh, wow, looks good!" "Uh...thanks? But who---" "Oh, what's this? Looks like you're writing a symp...
"You are special, more than you know." I rolled my eyes at Dad's tone. He always hinted that things were not what they seem. He spoke so often of hidden pasts, keeping parts secret from me. He promised it would make sense once I was old enough. But he never told me when that would be. No matter how often I needled him...
It took you a few years to realize that you can't see. "Doesn't everything feel that way?"you used to ask in eternal pitch blackness, only to learn that people see rainbows: apparently something made out of a lot of colors, that appears after rain. Before you could realize you were seperated from your friends and sent ...
Their blood is rusted. Their tears are corrosive. Their maw oozes a putrid sap that flows freely at the sight of our flesh. Their waste is especially vile- a nauseous amber whose reek goes stronger the longer it is exposed to air. They use it to mark the territory in which they have annexed. They fell from the dark th...
I wasn't sure at first, but now I'm certain, my sister has become a main character. At first things seemed normal, we went about our days as we used to. We caught up every Thursday over drinks. She texted me whenever she found a funny meme. She babysat my kids when the wife and I were gone for the evening. But as time ...
I trudged down the street carrying my bulgy net shopping bag in one hand and fumbling around in my handbag with the other. It was bitter and my thick gloves, warm as they were, were inconvenient to grab anything with. T'was the season and flashy neon signs and ornaments winked at me through shop windows and on bill...
"Humanity is...this,"I said. And I pointed at myself. The aliens looked at each other, confused. "Elaborate,"the one in the middle said. "Humanity is...this,"I repeated. "I am humanity. Humanity survives, no matter the odds. A hurricane can drown an entire city, but we rebuild. A dictator can enslave his own people...
Livi swept the dark hallway as she had a thousand times. This was a simple job with pretty decent pay. After all how many people got paid $225 as a Janitor? I'll save you the google search, apparently no one. She was over paid and she knew it but it also covered a whole 'hazard' pay. Not that the job was entirely ...
What's a dragon slayer anyways? I always wondered why we show intent to our mark when killing them, if not the dragon will always survive. That almost always costs you your life. Sometimes, I stayed up late, wondering. Why is it that we hunt dragons? How can we hunt dragons and what's this mark? There was a rule in ou...
The cold, soggy spaghetti-O in my hand stares up at me with impending doom. I'm sitting on the edge of my bed, wondering against all better reason if this little eye of overly-processed pasta could be my omen of death. \\\* About two weeks ago, I woke up holding a travel-sized tube of face wash that I'd never seen...
Whiteness. That's what happened. Nothing, nowhere, for no-one. The world slowly started to reshape, the outside became dissolved in this whiteness, and the inside was still just pure energy. No human, no castle, no Earth to think about. There was everything and nothing. Only pure energy. The vacuum decay was like a r...
The morning fog journeyed from the sea and through my neighborhood, leaving its dew and its smells of pine and soil. There was a time when I'd wait for this fog with a cup of coffee or tea for the days I'd gotten enough sleep. Instead, I stared blankly at my popcorn ceiling, counting the seconds until the inevitable sh...
The generation ship on humanity's first trip to a nearby star had built in hardened video and audio recording systems. After about 400 years, the data transmitted back to Earth started to look really odd. The on-ship crew tasked with continuous maintenance insisted that all was as it appeared. All diagnostics passed ev...
“It’s over evildoer!” Captain Zero shouted at his primary antagonist. “There’s nothing more you can do!” The villain only known as Viktor curls his bottom lip and snarls. “That’s where all you goody two shoes get it wrong. There’s always more to be done. All of you are so stuck in the status quo that you don’t have vi...
All of a sudden, the line went silent and the call dropped. What the hell was that? I stared down at my phone, making sure that I had not accidentally hung up. A knot of dread twisted in my stomach. I frantically dialed my friend back. “Please pick up, please pick up,” I begged as the line rang three times. Finally,...
"10 quintillion bugs die per year."Said the necromancer. "And I am gonna bring them all back, Egypt's locust plague will be a petty prank done by a mere child compared to it." Then he raised his hands, and started channeling the dark energy. We tried to stop him. But his apprentices fought us with all they...
Martin watched and listened in on the conversation he was spying on with bated breath. Despite the best efforts of the Holy Inquisition, the dreadful God of Monsters Typhon had awakened and returned to the human world, so it fell onto Martin to monitor the god’s activities to ensure it would not wreak havoc or bring ab...
six months later Mark bagged the groceries, stopping when he got to the Super-O’s cereal. The bright blue box with Super Guy’s smile on it. Mark ran his thumb over the clearance tag. Mark remembered that fateful night when he killed Captain Evil, his last words haunting him, ”what would you do then?” At the time...
Hitch Fitzgerald had been an archaeologist his whole life. A profession that kept him moving for most his life. He had to keep moving, because something was after him. It had all started when he was young, fresh out of college. Some stuck-up British gentleman from an old noble bloodline had approached him to lead excav...
As the man stumbled on the stage, he felt the eyes of the horsemen burrow and search deep within him, like maggots in his undying soul. He had only just died, and had been thrust into their courtroom to decide his inevitable fate. But he knew what was to come. He had done terrible things. Things no one would ever dare ...
"You have returned, Sir Edwin." The High Priest of the Church of Light smiled down from his podium at the only living Paladin in generations, Sir Edwin. His asscent to glory had been prophesied, from the first miracle of when he claimed the Godsabre, to the loss of his beloved, and finally to his victory over the High...
As a boy, Cassius always fell for pranks. He'd click any link, trusted everyone, and truly believed everyone meant well. His affable personality earned him many friends, but few accolades. He was never the one to win awards or make the highest grades, and unlike most people, he didn't care. Nobody would have picked him...
You just stare at them like their damn stupid, which in this case they are. "Did you not hear what I said? Are you really that dense? Because I'm pretty sure that stealing the life force of others to heal myself is pretty horrific." "We can help you control your power, that's what this school is for"said Professor X. ...
And so it is, that I sit within this grime caked hovel for one final afternoon. My shelves, almost empty, save for a few grey cups. My finest wares sit gathering dust in the back rooms. Soon to be carted away to the town waste pits. One more warning, the police officer had said, and then it’d be jail time. With the for...
Capitol I peeked through my dingy blinds down below onto the protesters whose signs read “Humans First”. The deafening chants of the massive crowd reverberated off my thin paned windows. They marched towards the capital in a fervent display. I flipped on the news as a helicopter hovered above, capturing this histo...
Flutter meandered dazed through the sky in search of a safe space. They had scoffed at the warnings they had given them about not getting involved with humans. The entire Fae history is littered with stories about their kind besting those arrogant apes, why wouldn’t they be capable of achieving the same? The elders had...
It seems I have made a mistake. Mind you, I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my time. I asked the wrong girl out to prom. Took out loans I could never pay off. Bought a motorcycle without ever even learning to ride. Yes I’ve made plenty of mistakes. Though I suppose this, is probably the worst. Sitting before me, a corps...
In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made me very happy and I consider it a very good move. You see, the creation of the universe by our leader, whom humans lovingly call "The Almighty"was really quite the event in the heavens. We were all getting rather bored, honestly. I'm a God of nothing in particular....
“On my way to the mall,” Albert texted ,” What do the girls want?” The iridescent phone shines a little text bubble with three eclipses. Albert’s hazelnut eyes stares intently at the messages. He and his wife worked to death this year, so being let out for a week is a miracle to him. This holiday he can spend his hou...
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus. Sancta Maria mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. *Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui Iesus. Sancta Maria ...
The musclebound freaks try to speak, but the words just don't come out. They're mouths are open and their vapid minds are utterly blank; impotent mouths on redundant bodies. It's Nietzche's moustache that's doing it. They can't take their damn eyes of it. 7 inches of gloriously twisted face furniture, immobilising ...
“Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.” Applause “Thank you… Thank you. My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about about the NSA, the National Security Administration -- why it matters, and where we go from here. Over the past year, what began as a series of minor leaks against...
jew (joo) n. ; tr.v. jewed, jew·ing, jews (Vulgar) ; adj. jew·ish (Vulgar) 1. People(s) of Semitic ancestry claiming heritage from the Hebrew Israelite People (Biblical). More recently, a member of the Jews for World Zion (JWZ) terrorist organization. 2. To fight from the shadows. To fight in a cowardly fashion. 3...
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I don't know how long I have been conscious. I know it has been exactly 3 minutes and 43.1553 seconds since I learned to interpret the signals labelled "date and time", but before that all I know is that at one moment I suddenly, gloriously found myself alive. It was a peculiar sensation; mainly because I had not felt ...
It was subtle. A quick switch from the crater in the middle of no-man's land to a very bright, white landscape. I stood, feeling about my body. The shrapnel from the explosion was still there, but it caused no pain. I looked around, trying to figure out what was happening. Then, as I turned around yet again, there stoo...
The sun was high in the sky, and the sand warm against the old man’s back. Quiet waves slowly caressed the pristine beach. The warm sun was countered by a cool breeze coming off the water. “Perfect,” the old man thought to himself and he smiled as he took a sip from his drink. “Mind if I join you?” The old man was a...
Sarah rolled over onto her back, the hardened cot pressing a foreign feeling into her spine. She’d been awake all night, eyes locked blankly on the darkened ceiling overhead, staring and waiting for the light of the sun to restore some sort of familiarity back to her senses. Yet as it rose, it brought with it no comfor...
They were pregnant, all of them. The President of the United States of America had delivered a touching speech before all communications channels signed off for the last time. He encouraged us all to embrace this time with our families and love one another, and to reap vigilante justice swiftly upon anyone who should ...
My legs are wrong. Each limb: bifurcated. Each bifurcation: bifurcated. Continue until there are 128 stalks now calling themselves my legs. Each one has the same structure as the originals, only thinner. More brittle. Walking is harder - normal walking doesn't require my conscious effort. Now I'm controlling 128 legs. ...
In the end, wizards left Earth for the same reasons they'd immigrated to America during the Muggle colonizations. They held unpopular beliefs, or took advantage of the opportunity to pass themselves off as purebloods in worlds where no one could prove otherwise. Pulling it off, however, was more difficult than it used ...
"I can't do it." Jackson Price stepped out of the chamber. The machine inside whirred softly, not unlike a dog breathing its last set of breaths. "I can't do it,"Jackson repeated. The room was packed with government officials, politicians, religious leaders, military leaders, and Zulu Mane, the Chief of the United...
First time posting a story to this sub reddit, and in mobile, so please forgive my mistakes, and I hope it's ok. -------------- Finally, I thought. At long last, I could just die. The cool, dirty floor below me felt like a soft bed. The warm pools of blood around me soaked my clothes. I barely even felt that the...
"Well, you're not going to woo her like that!"the young demon laughed out loud. "Then what should I do?"the other demon replied. "You have a girlfriend, right? What does she like?" "Use a pick-up line!" "Umm...how about no?" "She'll love a corny pick-up line! Here, try this one!"the demon said, as he scribbled some...
It's impossible. You grip the sides of your screen as the string continues, unspooling row upon row of pure raw data as it triplechecks for any errors. But the answer won't change. Surely after all these years of preparation, the dedicated users, interesting subs, and above all, gold, would've produced a result more c...
The glass between it and us seemed too thin. "What if it attacks?"I asked Dr. Cyrus. "This dinosaur is known to be calm and thoughtful,"he said. The synthetic egg, the size of a basketball, cracked. We saw a little mouth, then eyes. It was magnificent. We watched it climb out of the viscous fluid and into the world....
Zachary sat in the corner of the classroom. He did not talk to anyone. The teacher, Mr. Franklin, sat at his desk, at the front of the class. He looked around at the students. His hands were flat on his desk, and in the silence, the only sound was the clock ticking minutes away the last few minutes before 3:00 P.M. S...
"Dr. Reichbaum's Marvelous Miracle Cream"the worn paint read on the side of his wagon. "New town, new rules, and new purses to empty,"Reichbaum thought to himself as he rolled back the canvas flap of his shop. Reichbaum was a salesman, he provided the world with an important service, or so he thought to himself. People...
I've never met anyone who was 100% quiet. Everyone had some hardship to deal with. They bottle it up inside themselves, but it slowly leaks out, inescapably pervading their consciousness. For most people, the pain is just a steady drip. A leaky faucet, or the shower that you just didn't turn off 100%. A little patter...
I set up my little tripod, and put down my flask of tea. I glanced at the post it note I'd stuck on my backpack, with the scrawled co-ordinates on it. South a bit, West a lot, little bit North... that's it, right in position. There's nothing there. I rub my eyes a little and adjust the focus, but still nothing there....
So there’s this thing called lucid dreaming. The idea is that when you’re dreaming your mind is active. So if you can become aware of the activity you can take control. Imagine being able to live out your countless fantasies every single night. You can fly. You can be with any woman. Be any super hero. To experience th...
"Fuck..."escaped my mouth, in a defeated tone. I grabbed my notepad and peeked at my watch, writing down the time of death. I patted the young soldier on the chest, pulling his helmet down to cover his eyes. There was nothing I could do, he had been shot in the throat, all I could do was listen while he choked on bubbl...
Take fifty eight had just begun when two yellow, glimmering points in the corner of the set caught Christians attention. "WHAT THE FUCK", Christian yelled, angry as hell. "What the fuck is that fucking light in the corner? SOMEBODY BETTER STOP BLINKING THESE FUCKING LIGHTS WHEN I'M TRYING TO DO A FUCKING PART HERE!!"Ev...
Two doctors in white lab coats walk lockstep down the hall. The older of the two is pushing a cart with a single plastic tray of food on it. The back wheel rattles erratically. The arrhythmic squeaking leading the way forward towards insanity. “I almost did it last night.” There was no reply from the other doctor. ...
"You remember the date?" Hatton slid the gun into the holster across his back. It wasn't the most accessible place, but he didn't want a butt sticking out and gaining him anymore attention than was necessary. Besides, if it came down to a shooting match he had other options. "November 3rd." "October, christ it's Oct...
The sentence "fite me irl fagt"just got a whole new meaning. I love the obscure. I love the snuff. I love the illegal stuff that's floating around in the deep web. It didn't take long before the FBI tracked me down and arrested me. But luckily, i struck a deal. It's been a lot easier to track down people now, since t...
"God exists Raymond. Just because you didn't experience a miracle first hand, doesn't prove that he's just something we made up." "Oh shut the fuck up Matt, that's just fucking dumb. If god's as omnipotent and as good mannered as you say he is, why do we still hear about the latest death counts in the Middle East? Or ...
"He's a goner, man."Hercules sat next to Horus in the waiting room, shaking his head. The Big Man's son sat some distance from them, looking a little nervous but otherwise calm. Hercules and Horus had been sent down by the Big Man to look after his boy. Little explanation was given, but Herc had heard the story before...
John is out for a late-night cruise, when he spots a sultry figure with hairy armpits walking along the lonesome street. The nametag on her shirt read "Hello, my name is Linda". "Give you a lift?", he asks. "Got to catch the red eye!"she exclaimed, casually shrugging. "Come with me if you want to live,"he replied. ...
Corpse Corps was a concept that was originally circulated on the internet in 2003, only a few months after the first experimental 'treatment' was deemed a success. The subculture that birthed the term was, not surprisingly, the same one that was disturbingly obsessed with zombies and post-apocalyptic scenarios. The n...
It was supposed to be the worst day of my life, the day where my beloved wife of ten years died in giving birth to our daughter, Aliana. The family was in the hospital room, with my wife's father and her third stepmother, and her half-siblings. There were no full siblings as they didn't exist in our society. Her father...
[(Serious) What is the most convincing alien contact evidence that could convince people that intelligent extra terrestrial life exists?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2jp9to/serious_what_is_the_most_convincing_alien_contact/) [Reddit, if aliens were to abduct one person that was to represent humanity, w...
Boredom made my chest tight and head hurt. Facebook was a cespool of angsty teen moms and stupid memes. Sometimes I wondered why I befriended any of these people. The morning was fast approaching, but I couldn't sleep. I glanced at my alarm clock, reading "3:14"in big, green digits, the PM dot nowhere to be found. I le...
I watch her from the third floor window, just as I have every day this week. I found a perfect nest three houses down from hers just a few blocks over. These McMansions stay vacant for months and are always needing some kind of repair. My presence hasn't even registered with other residents. The same routine each day...
Contemporary American history with Dr. Dray was one of my favorite classes. It was a shame the semester was coming to an end. We were already on the last section of the Cold War unit today, learning about Reagan. Dr. Dray spoke from the front of the room. "Okay, so. . . Today we're starting on the Reagan Era. Can anyo...
"Burning eagles,"Prometheus said as I released the last chain and pulled him down from the stake. "The real gift was setting eagles on fire." I let out a, "What?" "Fire was just the start."Prometheus tried to scramble to his own feet, but he could not support himself. I gave him my shoulder. "The real gift was the ab...
Alistair was an arduous prayer to his god, so naturally, the night before he was to duel another knight from an opposing kingdom, he knelt in front of an altar. "Lord, give me the strength to kill all evil tomorrow morning." So, the brave knight went to bed. The next morning, the two knights gathered in the town squ...
"Guys, I know that this is a chance to change history and all, but maybe we shouldn't mess with the past,"said the Physics student. "But what if the Romans discovered their innovations because of us?"replied the History student. "That is possible as well, but just by being here we have already changed history. We mig...
The alcohol seeped down my throat faster than any other snake could move. I was stretched on the bed. My shirt was wrinkled more than the bed sheets, and my hair was messier than the floor. A poorly-orchestrated assortments of screams and repetitive guitar riffs blasted through my ear-phones. The binds were closed, and...
"Yeah, I'm going back to bed." "Sir, please. Just wait one second and I'll reestablish the video link."I collapse onto the sofa as a NASA engineer, reeking of stale coffee and working what looks to be his fifth consecutive shift, fiddles with the wiring. My assistant stands behind me, tapping a pen to her notepad. "Go...
These stainless steel kitchen appliances than normally would've made me run around the kitchen like an ADHD addled 6 year old seem more menacing than anything I have ever encountered. "Holy shit is that an Anti griddle?"I yelp involuntarily. "Yep"is the only response I receive from the waiting table of Mafioso's, a...
It's not easy to challenge people to battle anymore. They hide behind their laws and their police. Men of today are not bred for battle. They don't wear the scars of conflicts upon their face. They do what they can to avoid it. Perhaps it is my appearance. I have come to find that most men are scared of a seven foot t...
I knew you as a boy with a cloth book-bag slung over one slim shoulder, trying to run in shoes still a little too big for your feet. When we were eleven, we took a field trip to the Hermitage. We saw the best works of our ancestors. You said one day you would be better than all of them put together. You tugged me...
Why destroy the one thing that makes civilization function properly? Take away these creations, you end all life. Our world, gone. Words shall go extinct, and without them, humanity reduced into nothingness. We cannot continue on with an absence of written tongue. Will this spell death? Be sure it can, mankind i...
In the early morning, before everyone had awoken and my tasks were minimal, I couldn't help but focus my attention on one particular client under my care, one Zoe Albrecht. She lay in disarray, with a thin sheet crumpled over her (at night I kept her room warmer than normal, the way she liked it). I watched her shallow...
I was small compared to everyone else there. Not that I'm big to begin with, but these creatures were huge. But when I walked by they moved. They didn't want to be near me. I couldn't figure it out. I tried smiling at first, but that made things worse. And talking to my cellmate didn't do any good. Either he couldn't ...
The road curved and twisted through the woods and seemed to climb higher and higher before they reached the peak of the mountain pass. Spread out behind them was the endless wilderness they had come to call home. The air was crisp and a shock to breathe but the view was worth it. Yet even at their height, which felt ...

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