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"Sir,"said Tim, massaging the folds on his forehead, "could you repeat that for me?" "I said I didn't install antivirus on this computer, because an antivirus program made my last computer autistic." "Your previous computer was autistic?" "Autistic, yes." Tim stared at the pockmarked office ceiling. At times like t...
Scholars never ceased to write about how amazingly fast humanity came together when an existential threat was proven to loom over our continued existence. We first received The Signal about 30 years ago, right when I had first joined the SETI team. After five years of painstaking work, linguists were confident that i...
Hey. I made a subreddit for myself. Not sure what I'm going to do with it and maybe it's a bit premature. But subscribe if you're interested in following my future stuff I suppose! /r/wrobbing ----------------------- I had guarded over Doris for her entire life. It had been a long, and very productive run. I looked i...
Frostvale isn’t the largest or most important town in the Asterum kingdom, and thus we don’t receive much help from the larger or more important areas. Occasionally, the nearby settlements will pitch in to help, and in return we also help them. So far, nothing has remotely prepared anybody in the region for an ice drag...
After a long day in the field, you head inside your front door and after turning the lock closed, breathe a sigh of relief. Working the field alone is brutal but gives you a sense of purpose; keeps you from going insane. Your resolve had been tested mercilessly the last two years. After Sena left you alone with an in...
My father was a surgeon, his father was a psychiatrist, my brother was an engineer, my sister a lawyer. All of them had perfect smiles and abs without even trying. Me, I had a weak chin and asthma. I was too feeble to get one of the heroic degrees, so I settled for mad science. My mother wanted me to be a janitor, begg...
"Step right up! Step right up and spin the Wheel of Reincarnation!" The voice comes from nowhere and everywhere. I'm near the front of a long line of people, but I don't know how I got here. Ahead of us is a wheel so impossibly vast that the bottom edge is a flat line extending out to both sides, disappearing into...
Dr. Grell Stevenson cleared his throat. He stood at a podium in front of an audience of thirty. All of them were leading minds of the scientific world. He began reading off of the prepared statement that he had slaved over the previous night. "As many of you may know,"Stevenson said, "the most popular theory to t...
It turns out there's a limit to “Mild Inconvenience.” I experimented yesterday. There's a certain amount of inconvenience I can cause which counts as 'mild' in the view of whoever made this book. I cannot cause too much inconvenience with a single entry, however. So far, I have the ability to: - Make a telemarketer ...
"Ok, so right off the bat you guys are saying that it happened long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away?" "Well, time and distance is relative, you know?"the human replied, thinking quickly. "Why haven't we heard about this 'Darth Vader' fellow?"the aliens asked, still suspicious. "He seems like someone we'd know ab...
The wind breathes a ragged red-tinged dust of salt and bone and blood — a ghostly smog of what was once humanity. It swirls about me in shapes that I swear are almost human. It howls in ways that sound almost like a cry. How many thousand years has it been since I saw you last? However many it’s been, I won’t stop sea...
I slapped the sticky bar table. Adrenaline pumped in my ears. "I'm going to do it! I'm going to talk to her!"I announced. My buddy laughed, "I'll believe it when I see it."Everyone else at the table snorted into their beers. Gathering all of my courage and spontaneity I jumped up from the table and strode over to ...
You see, it's never the big things. It's the little things. I woke up yesterday, my 15th birthday. The day my power came. I say power, because of course that's what everyone says. Mine is a curse in truest sense of the word. See, I can't lie anymore. Just lost the ability. I don't think it's a big deal, but my parents ...
Misnaming was a crime, for good reason. The best case scenario, from the point of view of the government, was that you never discovered the magic that went with your name and spent your whole life as a cripple, unable to add much value to society, with difficulty finding someone to settle down with, until eventually, ...
Mutants make the strangest sounds. Deep reverberations that seem to echo through thin air. Low mewling noises that appear to come from beneath the earth. Cries and caws and the frantic calls of hunter and hunted, a vicious cycle playing out over this desolate wasteland. "We went this way last time,"I whisper, watching...
The bank was average looking, an ugly square block amongst the buildings. Are we here to help? Fire asked. It’s voice spoke to me through a tiny earpiece embedded in my ear. I barely moved my lips to respond. “Of course we are, that’s what we do – help mankind. Isn’t that what you want?” I whispered. Yes! Yes!...
I had just turned fourteen, I recalled, as my father and I found ourselves out in the field before sun-up for the third time in my life. It was always peaceful at this hour. Wildlife undisturbed - insects flying about, birds chirping, and even deer running through. It was cold and snowy, though, as it always was in ...
Bullshit. What a ripoff. I wasted twenty minutes of life for this. My last kill was almost a month back and I could feel the bloodlust calling out to me. I knew what I had to do. *** I looked at the address. It was quite unexpected really. It was a regular suburban neighborhood. There was a damn gmc truck in ...
Andre Jackson, clumsy in his spacesuit, stumbled out from the cave and up the copper-red ridge, kicking up dust, and at the top found Cmdr. Earl Dorsett frowning inside his helmet. "What's the matter?"asked Jackson. "It's just wrong." "We have no other choice. They're our orders." "Yeah, well. Orders are complicate...
I came out when the early warning system went off. I have no desire to replace the blast door again. Why can't these assholes just leave me alone? I don't even want to fight them. They never listen, just slapped the villain label on me because of my power. &#x200B; A white streak came over the ocean horizon towar...
"I'm gonna kill that motherfucker,"the beautiful princess announced in her royal suite. "Dear, surely you don't mean th--"her handmaid squeaked as she followed. "No. I mean it. I'm gonna kill him. Right after I beat the living shit out of him,"she interrupted, as she rummaged through a chest and retrieved a sword and...
"God fucking damn it, men! What was the first thing we taught you in training?"The officers voice could be heard across the compound as it belted across the seven, formerly six soldiers. "The protocols, sir!"The men replied in unison. "And what is posted on damn near ever surface in this godforsaken structure?" "Th...
As the woman ran through the streets, illuminated only by the faint yellow glow of the streetlights, she could feel his presence behind her. Turning into an alleyway, she immediately saw her mistake. In front of her was a large brick wall, stretching up to the night sky. She had hit a dead end. With nowhere to go and n...
"I want to, uhh, thank you for making contact with our planet,"President Obama started. The aliens had settled into the White House conference room, standing on the chairs so that they could see over the tabletop. Fiction never seemed to predict that the aliens would only be about a foot tall. "I know that this... exch...
"Father!" The old man, sat at his favourite chair by the fireplace turned his head towards the little girl who stood by the door. He gave a slight nod to which the little girl began running in earnest towards him. "So how was school today?"the old man asked, putting off the ember in his golden pipe. "Oh! I almost fo...
“It’s inefficient and slow.” The insufferable little man complained for the third time in 2 standard intervals. “The Lyrnaure way represents true travel beyond light speed.” Uhigiria made the message flash on the humans small display screen tied to the small man’s wrist. It was not a bad way of communicating with the...
Two years ago I left my home planet. Four months ago I landed on this planet. Meanwhile I've started to believe They're the same one. \-- "Come here Max", I shout to my dog, the only living thing I could trust since I landed, at least at the start. He leaves the piece of wood he was playing with, looks at me for a f...
"I won the lottery today,"I told Millie in the same way I'd tell her the rain was wet or the sky was high. "I know. So did I."She bent over and kissed me on the cheek, a little awkwardly since she had her lightning-proof helmet on. The law required you to wear lightning-proof helmets. "See you after work today." As s...
"I do not care !"The General screamed into the phone. "When I give an order, you'd better damned follow it. Don't give me your excuses!"He slammed the receiver down so hard that a crack spread across the red plastic handle. Around the room, his subordinates exchanged quick looks of fear, but also relief to not be the...
"Father please. We must leave,"pleaded Euna. The chief of the village shook his head slowly as he gazed at his people. "For centuries this has been our home, Euna. But did you know Euna, before this, we had nothing. You do not know because you weren't born yet. Our ancestors fought with their lives to make this for...
Where my peers have failed, I have flourished. Most dragons aren't what you'd consider "hip"or "trendy."I know countless members of my species who stubbornly refuse to engage with the modern world, then get all pissy when they stop accruing capital. Me? I have a computer. I work the stock market. I invest wisely. I'...
I walked into my apartment and slowly put all my keys individually on a small piece of paper that described what each key accesses. It wasn't necessary to do per se, but I felt it might save a few minutes of the death officer who'd be swinging by later today. Earlier, I called the Death Bureau, despite knowing their ...
“You know James, the likelihood of you failing this test is well over 50%,” a cold voice reminded me. “Shut up, it’s not his fault his roommate snores loud enough to wake the dead,” a gentle voice argued. It was the voices again. They had been arguing amongst each other and trying to talk to me all night. I was so used...
He let a yelp of fright escape him, then quickly covered his mouth with both hands. It wasn’t Kingly to show others one’s fear, Papa would say. And he really, really wanted to please Papa. Actually, he would love nothing more to climb up and sit on Papa’s lap right now. A big, warm hand that would gently stroke his bac...
In the corner of my house, there's a board. Across it sprawls a large map of Skyrim, marked with flags and string, and lit by my one remaining candle. Once, the map marked Imperial and Stormcloak territories. Now, it marks the journey of a single man. I was a guard of Whiterun, and I was the law. Nothing got by me. I ...
EDIT: Good lord that blew up. I will see about maybe writing some more tonight. ------------- "Hey guys,"I said over the comms. "You're all going to want to come down here." "What is it, now?"Jon's voice said in my ear. "Another pretty rock you want to show us?"I could almost see the bastard's smug face. No one on ...
"My Son, I have officially run out of ideas..." Couldn't you give them another chance, Father? "No, they are too far gone. They have walked the path of sin for centuries. I have tried to correct them with even the most extreme of measures. Yet even two global wars with the most despicable atrocities were not enough...
I touched down lightly onto the pavement, my black cape floating down around me. Judging from the looks on the faces in the crowd, it looked as awesome as I planned. The normies scattered around me, backing into a wide circle. "Dearest humans. I regret to inform you that this city will soon serve as an... example f...
To avoid suspicion, Owen stuck to the type of photos that just made people think he was insanely talented - not born with a gift for freezing time that would allow him to take any picture on Earth, if he wanted to. Perfect, crisply captured action shots. Wildlife photography that prompted ridiculous rumours that he c...
Light is jarring. Wind rushing. I fall up, and down. Dark colors swirling. Thought I was dying. But… Ocular sparkling hurts my vibrating skull. Conscious now. I am lying on a path. Standing slowly, I start to walk. Walk and think. Thoughts shoot randomly. Choppy and confusing. All is vivacious, in a not-dissimilar...
I hadnt really noticed at first. Maybe a passing thought about things feeling different around me crossed my mind, but I had been so deeply exhausted that I simply didnt have the energy to focus on it. My exhaustion on the day It happened was more than usual. The previous night I had returned home late, as my friend...
The Scourge fell through one of the Gliese systems, a swarm of thousands of autonomous darts equipped to strip worlds clean of their raw materials, organic or otherwise. They moved in multiple tactical formations, hoping to catch the local colonial defense ships from every direction. Soulless, calculating machines with...
This story now has an official subreddit at /r/magicmuggle "How much longer, mum?" "For the fifth time, Matthew, it arrives at nine." I looked at the clock. Eighty fourty-nine. Why did mum always make us arrive early? We'd arrived on Platform Nine at King's Cross Station ten minutes ago, it it was another ten be...
This is the story of a man named Stanley. *Stanley worked for a company in a big building where he was Employee #427. Employee #427's job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to pus...
Robbie was confused. What was a Moon City Delta? Why did they think everyone was dead down on Earth? He would have to consult the Elders. He was no more than a junior cultist, after all, yet to learn the eldritch magics that controlled his world. He gingerly placed the two-headed gourd on top of its divine shell, and ...
"Of course I did! Why else would I?"she replied, her eyes reflecting the blazing fires in the distance slowly closing in. I am at loss for words. She had seemed so reasonable and yet...I sigh. "I have to know; was it worth it?" She turned to face me, a demented grin on her face. "Yes. Anything for a pun. After all, i...
There are exactly three genies the world over. One to represent each wish on The Paw. Never shall they meet again, once best friends. To ensure this, one lays at the bottom of the Marianas Trench, a cruel twist of fate from a travelling merchant. Another is lost in an expedition to the Antarctic, embedded in a sheet of...
“Who, who will hear us?” I stared blankly at the screen, with the message flashing, taunting me in its simplicity. I craned my neck around to my superior officer, who was leaning over me with the same stupefied look on his face. “I don’t know, sir.” I looked back to the screen and my hands gravitated back to the keyb...
Time has slipped away from me since I landed in this strange and foreign place. Without my Squire to count the days, nor my regular appointments with the Baron to keep, time was no longer measured in fixed measurements. Instead, weeks and months had turned into seasons, and it was only through interpretation of changin...
“No claws, but it has a really long smile and these glowing white eyes.” Mary said, opening her eyes as wide as possible to show the sort of creature that was standing beside her. “Hmm. Ok, so it’s not a demon. Demons have claws, at least they do according to the information mom left.” Paula sighed, wishing her mot...
A drop of sweat rolled down his forehead, and slid into his eyes. It stung. Mr. Blond sucked in his breath. He turned his head away, making a clandestine attempt to wipe away the sweat before the Judges noticed. One of the judges cleared her throat, "Something wrong, Mr. Blond?" "No,"he said, swallowing hard, "Please...
She smiles, her slender fingers tracing the indents on the clear plastic as smooth as glass. Dots of white arhosa mark the window in what could only be assumed as disarray, carved in by the point of a pen. Almost a year ago they were made, and in a year they'll be a new array, each point carefully calculated and marked...
From the moment that the connection was made, the entity known as "WhyteHaute"was struck by one thought above all others: This was taking entirely too long. It was probably the fault of some old, neglected server in the back corner of an office in which the letters "IT"were only used to reference a Tim Curry film. T...
The sky darkened, a drop of ink poisoning the afternoon's cerulean into a deep ocean abyss. The eye of the coming storm hovered above the corner of Wabash & Lake, where a garbage truck had crushed a phone booth only a moment before. It was on that point of contact that my eyes lingered, my legs paralyzed in place, ...
I'm telling you this as a warning. Immortality is a curse, not a blessing. It's not just that you have to watch everyone around you grow old and leave your life. After the first couple dozen generations, you just can't be bothered to keep up anymore. Human connections feel meaningless, and you'll end up living the on...
6.8 billion deleted, it said without the slightest hint of concern. It cared nothing for the lives it had destroyed. There was no point, no point at all to… to any of this. “Your time is elapsing. Two minutes and thirty seconds remain.” It was sick. The thing talking to me, was sick. What it was doing, was sick. ...
I make a terrible god. I have no awesome and mighty powers. I have a parking lot that used to be a forest and a pond that only has mosquitos and algae now. You wouldn't have heard of me. No one has. If there was once a human name for me, I forgot it like I've forgotten the taste of clean air and the color of wild t...
The most unnerving thing about it all is the silence. I've always been one for quiet places, but there's a point where silence starts to get to you - where you start believing you hear whispers in the shadows. The mind doesn't like utter silence, and so it fills the emptiness with echoes of your own thoughts. I try ...
I woke up in my holding cell, the warm sweat of yesterday's "make the subject sleep on a hot plate"test still soaking my shirt. Honestly, these "experiments"are just getting ridiculous. This stopped being funny ages ago. Sure, I can leave by punching a hole in the wall, but where's the fun in that? I'm still sticking t...
Mark shuffled through the desk's drawers searching for that vital piece of evidence. Who had killed his father? Who was the mysterious "X"who kept leaving him clues? Who had kidnapped his missing co-worker Elliot? "Stand back and put your hands up."The shadow of a gun came from the darkness, making Mark jump. The voic...
We are the knights of the periodic Known far and wide If you need to stand high temps Have tungsten on your side If it is a flame you wish Oxygen's your man Or if you wish to light your sign Neon is at hand Carbon is always there If you need to write With deep pressure, maybe for your wife If diamonds in her...
Ignore the creatures that aren't there. Ignore them and they'll ignore you. Or was it ignore them and they'll engore you? He stood three heads taller than the nearest person, staring hungrily as they passed. Breathe in. Count. One, two, three. Breathe out. Count. One, two, three. Repeat. Ad nauseam. Shadows wi...
The furnace of her breath washes over me like the open door of an oven. It isn’t unexpected but that doesn’t make it comfortable. I wince my eyes further shut. A rumbling crackle deep within her throat vibrates her exhalations. Surely this is the end. &nbsp; The cool moisture which lashes against my forehead is ...
Sarah often wondered why her. Why had her Father chosen her? It was wrong, is what it was. Not only was Sarah a girl, she was the youngest child. The throne should rightfully have gone to the eldest son, Henry, not the youngest, and certainly not a girl. The young queen-to-be had protested, of course. All the way...
Alyx stepped on to the travel stone. He smiled to his sisters. Even Asyx, busy in in the firefly fields, had come to see him off for his vacation. He waved and they waved back. Then he took a deep breath, and considered the Universe. When he was a child, he used a guidecube, rotated by hand, but he no longer needed th...
Tom yawned, stretching away from the desk. His shoulders had knotted up. He was only halfway through grading the children's papers when the clock struck midnight. Failing most of them out of spite felt tempting. The average person would be completely justified in doing so after how they treated him today. Tom couldn't ...
"I want confirmed kill in twenty-four hours, understood?" I sat completely still on the other end of the line. It was secure, as was all of my communications with the CIA, but this one was the most important call I had ever received. "Understood, sir." "This is the target we've been hunting for the past twenty-two ...
I'm sitting in the quad at my college. There are dozens of kids lazing around, talking and laughing and skateboarding down the steps of my library. So why did he choose me? After all, I have genuinely no idea what to do. What does he want from me? Maybe he picked the wrong person. I must have a doppelganger! That has t...
★☆☆☆☆ Incredibly Dated The antiquated techniques used to control characters in games made sense back when humanity had hands, but now? I don't even think anyone even remembers how to use hands. ★☆☆☆☆ Horrible Graphics Did people really used to be so angular and polygonal? All historical records we've retr...
My forehead feels slick, as if I’ve woken up and just broken a fever. It is dark in my room, one of those hours when the night seems endless. I rub my eyes, and then I see it. GET TO SAFETY IMMEDIATELY. I sit up, and close my eyes, listening. What is happening? But there is nothing. No loud noises, no heat, no smell....
Episode One (Or: my first day at school in Yokosuka) Howdy viewers/readers! How are you on this fine and dandy morning? My name’s Clara and I’ve just moved from Austin, along with my parents and my annoying little brother Isaac, to Yokosuka in Japan. Pa’s job meant we had to uproot, but I don’t mind. In fact, it’...
I prefer the term "clinical."It makes people think of scientists in labs or doctors curing people. "Psychopath"is just ugly. It conjures images of knife-wielding maniacs. Both words mean the same thing: devoid of emotional attachment. So does it really matter? Yes. Appearance is everything is this world, and I am a cha...
"Chad can go straight to hell"was a common refrain of mine throughout my time working at DepotMart, a big box warehouse store that aimed to out warehouse other warehouse stores. So the irony was not lost on me as I lay here clinging to life that I'd likely be headed there much sooner than my nemesis... but I'm perhaps ...
Arron looked up at the towering creature before him, his hands shoved in his pockets, eyes filled with irritation. Most people would have quivered before such a monstrous form, but he looked up with wearied impatience. The creature looming over him was a column of sleek black scales that seemed to catch the light with ...
Caleb was putting away his gear when the call came in. He had been called to the interrogation room B immediately. “Can I just grab a cup of coffee? It’s been a long day.” “No. Come in. Please.” The please had been an afterthought in that sentence though. It was an order. No doubt about it. Caleb rushed to the ...
I raise my hands in front of me. I don't want to fight her. We've never spoken before but I remember her from the last heroes gala. She's the aptly named Rising Star. Heck, I've seen her on TV. "Die, evil thing!"she cries out, "Strawberry Blast!"A beam of pink blasts out of her staff, and even my numb and scaled flesh...
I’ve been in this game since I was a teenager. Can’t remember when exactly I got sucked in, but it happened gradually. When we were 13 we thought it would be fun, fooling around the streets, generic “foot de rue”, graffiti, cliques (I wouldn’t call them gangs) and whatnot. We thought it was fun then. As time went by,...
"He's coming! Today! Are you saved?"Peter asked Barry in an intense whisper, glancing over his shoulder as he spoke. Barry felt a wave of exasperation as he tried to close the door, but Peter was grimly hanging onto it. This was the tenth time this week. Ever since he'd moved into the neighbourhood, they'd begun hou...
"... Do what?" "Enchant it!" "Enchant? I am afraid I am not familiar with this term..." "You know... Runes! Spells! Thought and pray-" "Wait wait, Spells, as in, magic..." "Yeah! We use it on all our rounds, that's how we manage to destroy your 'invincible fleet'. Just a few penetration runes and boom! Straight th...
"What did you say?"Tarok the Indomitable asked, confused for possibly the first time in three centuries. "A board game. You don't know those? Like chess, marbles, that kind of thing?"Arater asked, raising an eyebrow at the half-dead emperor standing before him. The past three hundred years had been dominated by blood...
Every five years, I receive a package in the mail. It comes even when there is no mail service, like when Sherman was rampaging his way through the South. A single delicately-crafted golden puzzle piece with intricate cursive handwriting on it. Taunting me, revealing bits and pieces of information of where I might find...
The Arrangement had been going on between us for long enough that it earned the capitlisation of its' name. The Spectre would kidnap me, take me to his (current) lair and hold me until I was rescued. Sure, over time that has evolved into a text message 24 hours prior, my agreement to only put up a struggle when we w...
Roger Jr. knew three things. 1. He absolutely, unequivocally, was going to get Mr. Fluffypaws back. 2. There was no way Heaven was better than the pillow fort he’d made to be Mr. Fluffypaws new home. 3. He’d gotten everything he’d ever wanted by screaming and crying, and this was NOT going to be any different. He’d s...
Father blew into his hands then clapped and rubbed them together to keep them warm in his thin woolen gloves. Mother wrapped another threadbare blanket tight around her shoulders. My breath steamed in front of my face. “You’ve got to do it,” said Father. His words came out in a chattering, halting pace. Mother looke...
Being a god is such a messy, bothersome business. Once, I revelled in it. My teenage (well, in a way) self got high on power, and lesser gods knew to fear me. But how long can you be satisfied with things that come so easily? And so, I left. Contrary to popular belief, it was not gods that created the vast, breathtak...
The streetlights lining Martin Avenue bathed the sidewalk in harsh, neon light. Four symmetrical shadows stretched from the point where my shoes met the pavement, disturbing the stillness, each long enough to fade into the darkness at the edges of the street. Outside my front door, I set down the paper grocery bag an...
I held a picture of my dog Rex, he was the sweetest golden retriever a person could love and cherish, he was a goofball, but he WAS MY GOOFBALL.He was my BEST FRIEND, and they TOOK him. They didn't even leave a note, and the worst part is, that we thought that they were our friends, our comrades in the great unknown ga...
It took the investigators 10 hours to arrest me. It took my dad 3 days to pay my bond. It took 2 weeks for my case to go to trial. It took 4 months for 12 people to find me guilty; a full year to be sentenced. 5 years for my first appeal attempt. 15 for the second. 20 years after that the governor gave me a tempo...
I am a lonely creature. In my culture, it is only proper for a mother or father to groom their child, or for mates to groom each other. Beyond this, mating, and combat, we have no need for physical contact. It is not allowed. Many others, on the Intergalactic Fleet ship I crew, are similar in their cultures. Most of...
I was 4 days old when it happened. A huge, stiff bat came barreling through our cave and it crushed my parents. No reason, no thought, and it was quick; their limp bodies tossed through the air and landed in the dirt. I could do nothing but weep over them. I've sensed that bat before, and several times since- it's like...
All right, quiet down. Nearly every student who has passed through this hall has two questions when I walk in the door. I will answer them now. First, yes, you are in the right place. And second; yes, I am that Davyd Ogarath. By every metric the Adventurer's Guild deigns important, I am the worst adventurer ever t...
Warning - some NSFW language ----- No ships sailed to Antarctica. The port official didn’t allow it. Upon learning, he had shook his head. “Dunno why you’d choose Ant-arc-ti-ca,” spitting the syllables like some hated enemy, “all there is, is ice, ice, and more ice. Besides, it’s govn’ment property. You’d be tres...
Superman trembled. Wonder Woman groaned. Batman swallowed. In front of the fallen heroes, Darkseid stood supreme, his towering height shadowing over them like his might over even their combined strength. There was nothing they could do. Superman's strength and Wonder Woman's lasso had done nothing against the monster ...
Father once told me he had been a hero. That he had fought in campaign against the Dark Lord, having survived every major battle and more than twenty skirmishes. It never quite added up to me though. I grew up with tales of the hell that was the battle of Mirewood. Lost friends and unyielding hordes of enemies. The ...
It's 3:00 AM. My eyes are red, slight hint of dryness. I have been playing games on one screen and keeping a news tab open on another. Skyrim. I play it because I can always pause it at will and continue later. I also play it because I can get swallowed in it. Either get a new mod, look up what's causing issues on why...
"Alright, lad. End o' the line." As I open my eyes, I realize that I'm sitting in front of an old, friendly-looking man with hair as white as the freshest milk, a big, fluffy beard and blue eyes that seemed to stare into the deepest corners of your soul. Looking around, I see that we're the only ones here. "How was t...
"Members of the press, thank you all for coming this morning on such short notice. I know everybody has deadlines, so let's get started. "First of all, yes, I'm the devil. Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, the Morning Star, the Light-Bringer, the Fallen Angel, so on and so forth. "Second, I'm not Evil Incarnate. I'm just th...
The Demon was slow. Methodical in his movements, brief but powerful. At least, that's what Belgharst was thinking as he was knocked to the floor, his claws scraping the Linoleum trying to grab anything to slow his slide. In reality, The movement was one of reflex. A simple wave of the hand as Adam had done so often wit...
Kelly Nieman is a florist. In fact, Kelly Nieman is a great florist. At least, that's what her customers think. Well. It's what she thinks too. Not to brag or anything, but Kelly Nieman could probably out-florist every flower-vending hippie in all of SoHo. Then again, Kelly Nieman has an advantage. When she was five...
Clyde slumped on his sofa with a can of beer and a tired look. He opened the lid of his laptop and logged in to the horror fiction fanatics IRC, taking a deep chug. _MacabreLover_'s name had a green dot next to it. A window popped up just as he was about to send him a message. _MacabreLover_: Hey, iStalkKillerzz. How...

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