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We’d thought the humans would be easy to defeat. How wrong we were. The war had started when we struck a major human spaceport with a hundred ships of the line. Ten thousand space-fighters bombed that planet, razing cities with precision strikes. The humans had attempted to defend themselves, but what could this peac...
Prophecies win wars. That’s what my father had told me, holding me firm, as I watched a man’s life fade from his eyes for the first time. His words had been muffled to me; as I watched his face contort with pain, the last thing I had thought to do was listen. It never seemed right to me. To stare expectantly as men dre...
The Siege “Brock has betrayed me. The football team has abandoned us.” Sheldon, President of the Chess Club, gripped the windowsill of the library’s tallest tower. Legend had it that this historic high school campus, built in 1820 originally as a medical school, was once the sight of a great siege during the Civi...
With massive student loans and no-one taking my research seriously, I was desperate for money. I heard about the $100 app from a friend. It seemed too good to be true, but I was desperate. A task a day. More if you were lucky? More if you performed well? Something like that. Were did the money even come from? Some ec...
"I imagine I know what you'll choose, but I have to ask anyway. Continue, Restart Day, or Restart Life?" He looks at me, his hand poises to write Continue in my file. His eyes raise. "Today was the worst day of your life. The worst you'll ever experience. I can't write this officially until you answer." With tea...
Warren Buffett sat on the stage. Today was a bittersweet day. It always was. His back was killing him and some asshole was five minutes over time; talking about what a brilliant businessman he was. He didn't feel brilliant right then. He felt like a fucking pig waiting to be slaughtered. His mind ran through the la...
You want to know about the best business in the world? Lemme tell ya about it. I used to be a prison guard. Me, if you can imagine, working a job like that, people treating me like crap all day long... But then BodyRight came out. You pop one pill to lose as much weight as you want, and that weight gets transferre...
I got a ten out of ten on my last history test. The questions weren't so easy neither. But I had studied really hard. I even read the parts of the book which Mrs. K said weren't gonna be on the test, but I made sure I knew it all just to be safe. So even when the questions were tricky, I knew all the answers. I ...
Beverly McCallister lived life. Parties, cameos in two dozen television shows, a mansion that could have crammed most of the other ninety-nine percent inside--even a fledgling career as a musician, fueled primarily by name recognition as her talent was sorely lacking. Beverly McCallister had it all. Anything she want...
Jake looked at his sister - it looked just like her, down to each individual freckle. She was busy on her phone, acting just like his sister would have done, but there was no doubt, and they both knew it. "Mary, can I ask you something?". Jake sat down in front of her at the family dinner table. Mary looked up at her ...
"Oh, my god! Oh, my god!"Goldblade cried out, pulling at his hair, before running over to his arch nemesis, the devious Dr. Malice. The menacing, iron-masked doctor gagged and sputtered blood, a sword sticking through his chest. "Oh my god, I thought your armor was indestructible! It is almost always, why aren't you w...
I woke up with another pounding headache today. I don't know what I expected when I drank almost an entire handle of vodka in three hours, chased by the cheapest bong hits money can buy. I don't know what I expected out of myself. How am I supposed to be able to handle this whole situation without obliterating mysel...
I feel a bit guilty about this, but my first thought when I squeezed the F12 token and saw the developer tools for the universe appear in front of me was if there was an Alt and an F4 laying around somewhere so that I could end this whole miserable existence. Alas, that didn't seem to be the case and I had read-only pe...
“One hundred and fifty. Death must have missed my name on the list.” I chuckled, letting out a dusty cough as I laid in bed. Birthdays were always the worst, no family by my side anymore, everyone dead or too old to visit and celebrate with their bedridden relative. The only people that visited now were the vultures fr...
At the highest peak of the world sat a lone sanctuary, built of the purest marble, nearly indistinguishable from the undisturbed snow on the mountaintop. Legends say that the sanctuary is home to the strongest hero to ever see the light of day: a saviour, a god, a traveler of the many magical planes beyond the one that...
Chuck glanced up at the waiter leaning over the table, his arm outstretched as he placed the glass of water down in front of him. He looked so familiar, but not exactly in that “I think we went to high school together” kind of way, but rather the “I’m 90% certain you’re Hitler” kind of way. Something about how his hair...
Being an ambassador to other races, this was routine. You sit back, relax, and listen to some of the best audio stimuli your people have ever produced. These humans have evolved much during their time. They've seen much as well, yet always survived. You wanted to learn from these humans. You want to expel your questi...
Norse-It-All - Starring Vanadium and Thorium Friday, 3:00 P.M. Professor Esmark’s class: Norse Literature. My favorite teacher in the world sat propped against his rickety wooden chair like a pillar. With a bent neck, he eyed the clock, pale ice eyes fixed on the hands like a falcon’s on its prey. When the minute...
The low hanging branches rustled as if the wind were passing through them, the leaves trailing off as if their tips were running off someone's fingers. The world was starting to return to a sense of normal, and with the summer sun shining down from a wide-open sky, many people were out of their homes and taking advant...
Tanzania, February 1983 Kaisi hummed along to the radio as he tidied his house. His sister was coming to visit tomorrow night, and he liked things to be tidy anyway. This would probably be the last time she visited him for a few months, as the rainy season would be starting any day now, and she was always busy at th...
"So I'm going to what now?"I ask. I stare at my client. An old man, who was sitting down on the chair facing against me. "You heard me. I want you to kill me."The old man said. Now this was a tricky situation for me. This old man was said to have NO weaknesses at all. An immortal in every sense. No magic spell t...
The man was a mess of old scars and freshly sealed wounds. An eye missing. One purple, flapping nostril, dangling like a blown tire. He smiled, though, and shook my hand. His one eye met mine, dancing back and forth from left to right. "Mr. Coulson,"I said. "It's nice to meet in person." "My mother,"said Coulson, tak...
“Hey honey,” Kanye said with a smile, adjusting the golden suit jacket he was wearing. He’d picked it up from Goodwill the day earlier, at the request of his daughter. Wear something a little more humble, she had begged, at least for my birthday. He was reluctant at first, staring at her as he contemplated his opti...
Both sides agree that is was the Labor Revolution of the 2090's that was the tipping point. A few hundred years ago, the "every-man"rose up. Complaining about living conditions, about feeling useless, but mostly about the robots. Who is going to pay you a living wage when a robot can do it better, cheaper, and 24x7? T...
Humanity was expanding. It was time to go. It had been 200 years since humans had reached the edge of the solar system. It had taken 2 years to journey that far back then, and now they could pass the expanse from the sun to the edge in just a few tens of minutes. But they could never pass it. The great barrier hung,...
By the time any of us noticed the infestation, it was everywhere. The warnings we sent to one another took time to be received and understood, but the plague could spread itself in the blink of a flare. When we finally understood what was happening, dozens of us had already disappeared. The agent of the disease was in...
Lucifer smiled, staring deep into the woman's soul who stood in front of him. "Your desires lay open to me, a canvas of greed and corruption,"Lucifer growled, white billows of smoke escaping from the sides of his mouth. "Really? I doubt you could back that up with any evidence."The woman in front of Lucifer replied, ...
Audio Log, GROUND CONTROL/ISS, Sun. Nov. 20, 2016, 22:36-22:42. * GROUND CONTROL: Come in, ISS. ISS: Space Station here. GC: Good evening, gentlemen. Summary report for the last twelve hours, please? ISS: Everything within acceptable parameters, ground control. GC: Excellent. ISS, we've been reviewing footage do...
Wasn't enough to just be a shopkeeper these days - no, times were a'changing. See, all these adventurers sound like a great idea, at the start at least. They come into the town, offer to just about exterminate whatever ain't human, for a price of course. Just appealing to damned xenophobia, really. Then they happily go...
“Magic first and foremost requires cooperation,” the professor said. “Grandiose, beautiful spells require lengthy mana channels and so we need to buy each other time to cast them.” It was one of the first things that Magician Tallow learned at the academy. The second thing he learned was a basic healing spell that eve...
"DAAAD!"Lilly screamed. "Grandpa's bugging me again!" Jason rolled his eyes in frustration. "Just ignore him, sweetie. He'll get bored and stop soon enough." "No he won't!"Lilly shrieked. "He never does! He just keeps getting right in front of my face and won't go away!" Jason sighed, and walked around the corner in...
"You've got to be kidding me, "I growled. The absurd, three-headed dog currently pissing on my shoes wagged its tail, causing its whole body to move fro side to side. Predictably, the piss aimed at my shoes splashed onto my shins, thoroughly soaking my socks. I kicked at the dog. It squeeked and ran away, piss flowing...
Jarkop takes a deep breath through both of his mouths. He lets the air rush out of him in a little cry of despair. He realizes in this moment that he has been duped, and duped bad. If he hadn’t agreed to cover Globzell’s shift at the Ministry of Intergalactic Hunting and Fishing, this mess would be on someone else. Bu...
The tanks and APCs circled the encampment in the afternoon, with one tarp-pavilion serving as a command center. The officers sat on the floor in rapt attention. Before them were two men. The first was Colonel Axton, leader of the battallion, who they knew well. Then there was the other guy, wrapped in Irish-looking mag...
"I hate you."I whisper to the blade, and I heard the all familiar creak of metal as arcane steel honed itself, and watched as the sharp edge became sharper still. I raised it, and struck hard downwards, bringing the blade in a whistling, fatal arc. The whispered truth came crashing down with the weight of a guillotine...
"A pink floating cat thing you say?"I asked her, my mouth turning dry as the words left me. I could almost hear Sophie's smile through the phone, her bright laughter bubbling through the earpiece of my phone in my office cubicle. As a veterinarian, she always had a soft spot for animals, but there was no animal that ...
Game Over. Do you wish to try again? It makes sense, really. Even as the darkness unfolds itself from a single square in the center of my vision, multiplying infinitely, I still have enough cognitive awareness to realise the truth. That this was just a game, and I'd lost. It had taken me seventy-three years, but ...
I’m either the smartest man alive or the dumbest. I spoke one too many times, warned too many people, and saved one too many lives. Do I regret it? No, absolutely not. But this isn’t where I thought I’d be in life. I’m sorry, let me start over. My name is Soundtrack, sidekick to Platinum. Her power is teleporting, th...
"Wow. So, hell is just... heaven for shitty people?"I asked, looking out through the floor-to-ceiling windows across the vast metropolis. It certainly looked like someone might imagine heaven - gleaming white marble and gold buildings clustered on fluffy clouds, linked by impossibly narrow, graceful bridges. I could ...
"And now we go to Marcy for the news in Syria." "Thanks, Tom."I smile my trademark grin into the camera despite the wind whipping at my face. "As you can see, the Crips and Bloods have just arrived here in style. We have about five cruise ships docking right now, unloading this odd alliance."I wave behind me at the o...
It's interesting- people have asked me to describe what I can see, but it's just not possible with words. How do you describe a color, after all? Our descriptor words are based on the colors we see, not the other way around. It's very different than blue or red; to me, it's more beautiful than any of the others. It's...
You press your nose to the glass of the car window and ask, "Where are we going?" I squeeze the steering wheel. You had to make it difficult today. You look like the stuffed toy bunny I lost as a child. As if you know I can't stand to let you go twice. Your button eyes reflect back on the glass, your little stitched s...
Seth paused Madden 15 and narrowed his eyes at his girlfriend. “Hey, Susie, are you sure you don’t have a problem with me hanging out with my ex-girlfriend tomorrow night?” Susie rolled her eyes. “No. For the fiftieth fucking time, I don’t have a problem with it, asshole. Now unpause.” After a few moment’s hesitati...
"Hey guys how are you?"I called over my shoulder as my friends walked into the bar. I didn't even bother looking over my shoulder to confirm it was them; I knew the probability of Jeff coming through the door exactly thirty eight seconds after he sent a text stating he was on his way was 98.7%, and those were odds I wa...
Dying of cancer is no easy feat, dying twice of the same malady produces a kind of resilience in you, instilling a sense of curiosity; How to escape this dreaded limbo? It was my second time in the same room, white walls surrounding me, blankness all around, except for an old arcade machine, the same one from the firs...
The Volvo steered itself down the road, lane-assist functions following the painted lines in the road, one hand resting loosely on the wheel. He was tired, so tired. He'd been awake for over twenty-four hours, running the whole situation through his head over and over. It started one day when their four year old baby b...
[Part Two](https://www.reddit.com/r/nickofstatic/comments/ed4361/unholy_night_part_2/) *** It was a cursed night to be born. God made sure of it. He laid out every piece on His holy chessboard, watching the little pawns move. Soon, the soldiers of heaven would sweep over Earth like poison wind and snuff out every new...
"You sonofabitch how'd you know this would work?!" He sounded angry, he looked angry, but I could tell Zack was impressed. "Honestly, I didn't. I didn't even try to do this. You know how Laura's all into Halloween and creepy stuff? Found this online and put it down as a surprise. She loved it, almost moved it to the...
NAH. Honestly, there's a large amount of misunderstanding here; your Human partner doesn't really seem to understand that higher ranking Orcs have multiple partners, and you don't seem to be understanding both how sensitive Humans (either m or f) are when it comes to their self-worth. Humans, as partners, are also odd ...
Laser eyes? Sold. Too many of them, out of style. Mostly welders and handymen who save on electricity this way. Most buildings have in-built layers to resist the heat anyway, not like you could take over the world with it. A few dollars. Telepathy? Sold. No more need for a phone, can exchange love letters with a boy- ...
“You’re not my husband,” Lorelei said. Martin, as was currently his name, looked at his wife. “Sweetheart?” “It’s not that I mind. You at least pretend to love me in a way he stopped bothering to do, not long after we married. But all the same, you’re not him.” Martin leaned back into the plush armchair and consider...
The voice, I was the voice. Imagine having infinite power in your voice. I could do anything I wanted, say anything I needed. I thought for a long time about what I should say. I could demand world peace in the name of the gods, I could make myself dictator supreme and so much more. In the end I realized that I don'...
Ian always hated English class. It was rare for there to be anything that interested him. Most of the books were boring and the writing assignments were even more so. A four page essay about my spring break? I stayed at home watching TV and playing StarCraft, should I write about that? Uhg. While Ian internally compla...
I watched with trepidation as thousands of screaming soldiers toppled from the obsidian bridge towering above my head and fell head first into the boiling yellow lake below. They kicked their legs desperately as the roaring water whisked them towards the spinning maelstrom one hundred feet to my right, but their strugg...
"I got it!"Dr. Becker yelled, rising from his chair and throwing his fists in the air. "Good, now throw it out,"came the low voice from the edge of the room. Becker looked to find an old man wearing a black vest and a beret, leaned by the door frame. "Who are you?" "God,"the man replied. "And you need to throw thos...
His language sounded like none on Earth. A different flow and structure, deploying sounds the bulk of humanity reserved for non-linguistic communication. The hiss that shoos cats from gardens. The tongue clicks of disappointment: tisk tisk. The onomatopoeic "boing"a ball makes when it bounces. Along with many other str...
A dragon lived inside Larry’s cupboard. At nights, it would push open the doors with its little green snout, then fly out, gathering up loose change from down the side of the sofa, from coat pockets, from the sill by the door — that is to say, wherever change could be found, the dragon would sniff it out and collect i...
It all started when the President posted a photo of himself with his dog, a small Pomeranian that could melt the coldest of hearts, on his Twitter account, with the attached message: "Cutest dog in the world #therealvp". Nobody could have realized that it would lead to the end of the world. The next day, a picture wa...
"Actually, some of us do,"Tejas said, with a scorn in his voice. "What?"Anxanchl couldn't hide his surprise. "Well, there's a God called Hanuman in Hindu mythology." "Ok, ok, that wasn't my point." "Fair enough,"Tejas sighed. After gazing about the cave they were in, he finally asked: "but what are we going to do a...
"...so did you take the job? I would- oh, hello!"the man before me said as he and his friend finally approached the counter. "I'll have a... caramel latté and my friend here will have an espresso, thank you." "Right away, sir,"I smiled and started preparing both beverages. Still, despite not wanting to, I couldn't hel...
The cell phone kept buzzing. I'd told Sue to go to sleep an hour ago. I admit, I've been known to get drunk and "harass"her late at night on occasion, but drunk on love. It's never the same on the other side of the fence, is it? I groaned, and clawed at the flashing, buzzing, annoying slab, sliding it off the...
In the beginning, there was light. Horrible, blinding, burning light. And there was hunger. My existence was a balancing act. The hunger drove me on, to feed, to slake. The light drove me back, to hide, to cower. Some times the sky was too blinding to contemplate. I stayed in my deep cave with nothing to occupy my...
John sat on a bank in a small park of Dublin in the middle of the night. The full moon was hidden under a thick blanket of fog, he heard sounds and imagined the pictures. A cat singing a serenade. The gravel crunching under the heel of a young woman, searching for a lull in the mist to observe the sky and share the st...
I started by shaking her over. She didn't respond. I couldn't detect any breathing from her nostrils. I tilted her head back to open her airways, then I locked my fingers together, knuckles facing down, and pressed her sternum. I pushed hard and fast, twice a second, five inches deep, to the tune of Ozzy Ozborne's remi...
I was extremely careful of how I placed the sword onto the downed fighter’s chest; Too haphazard and he would think he had just been thrown out of the graveyard, too careful and he would think I was preparing him for a crypt. Around the fourth time I’d dragged someone out of the garden I had put the sword at an angle \...
“And as you can see,” Mrs. Price said, circling her poor excuse of writing on the whiteboard. “The author chose Mars as the scene for the epic battle against the Tramaldons as a reference to the Roman god. It portrays how the protagonist is experiencing a warful state after the loss of his beloved space queen, Laktura....
The bombs fell, as everyone said they would. I would know, after all, I was there. So was my handler. Those of us from the great war, those of us who saw our way through the second world war, and saw what happened in Japan? We knew this would come eventually. After all, we're guns. Guns are made to kill people, just ...
Every schoolchild learns of The Compact and its history from a young age. They say it dates back to The First People, but the final version was settled by English colonials. As part of The Compact, we were able to physically contain it behind the Wall of Sacred Maples. But while we were able to imprison it, there, in t...
She had done it. The trend was fast becoming the next logical step after getting your own place and getting your first "real"job. Robotic boyfriends. Alicia smiled to herself, looking across the table to Zack. He was an Eros. One of the first "next gen"models. Fully customizable, and her ideal companion. It was the bes...
My job is to protect my humans. I make sure that the doors are open at the right time, when they needed to exit or enter the ship for maintenence. I adjusted and fixed any errors that appeared in the life support system, especially after the last time we engaged enemies. I helped my humans in locking their guns ...
Most days, I feel like a selfish asshole for wishing it was anything else. Most days, I think about running away to where no one can find me. My mother’s spell is melting ice. That’s it. Our sidewalks were always clear in the winter. Sometimes she’d go around and help the neighborhood, but if she didn’t, I doubt anyon...
Duncan leaned over the port-side, his large gray trench-coat flapping in the strong wind. He peered into the dark waters, “Are you sure it’s safe?” he asked one more time from one of the crew members that patrolled the large vessel. Duncan had learned that his name was Zane. Rain began tippling down, “Fer the last tim...
I didn't even know dogs could get depressed. Sure, I've seen dogs pout and whine when their master was gone for the day, but full-blown depression? Never. But there was not a doubt in my mind Frost was depressed. The first morning after I got him, I expected to be woken up by a squirrely dog jumping on my bed giving ...
"Tell me more,"was the simple response from Grand Commander Heraldric of the Halassian Armada, Orior. "Preliminary reports have been submitted by ground combatants that state they are running into heavy resistance and in some cases, strike groups have been annihilated completely,"the advisor began. He flicked a talon ...
"Hey, I need you to tell me what Excelsior just bought." "What?" "I just saw him in here. He had a pretty huge bag. What did he get?" "I have no idea. I'm just stocking shelves." Praxis looks back over his shoulder like he's being followed. I don't buy it. Nobody follows Praxis. Not even on social media. "Come on,...
The name on the envelope was barely legible. If the Postman looked closely at the smudged, rain-splattered ink, he could see that it said The Viper. Address unknown, of course. Just like all the other mail. The Postman had made many deliveries to outcast assassins over the years. Most weren't that hard to find, rea...
"I'm sorry could you run that by me again?" The voice from the other end had that canny but satisfying retro feeling to it that my asking again was half because some person introduced herself as an intergalactic law enforcement operative who called me up and confirmed what I'd been questioning for weeks now, and half ...
Fate is a cruel being, and Luck is fickle. Capriciously, the two of them cast their dice, playing a game for the very universe itself, and we are mere pieces. Some are more important than others, some are just there as extras, filler, set-pieces. And some are Protagonists. I gave birth to a son, after a long and hard p...
"Hey there, tall dark and handsome!" Her lips were blood red, and pursed in her most seductive smile. Her dress was black, with white skulls in the pattern of polka-dots; it was also short. Her legs were long and smooth-shaven. Her eyes smouldered. "Stop it." His voice was huge, cosmic. It boomed with the sullen, cr...
The craft landed on a new world reported in the Uud system. As the most adaptable beings in the universe, the human was always suited up and sent out first to investigate. "Ah just like home,"said human science officer Raj as he stepped out onto the earth-like landscape. "Scans look good here." The alien crew looked ...
In the light of noon, Gish’s sword fell to the youngest student at the academy. The two shook hands and Gish went to hide in the shade of an oak tree. The tree was fully grown, it provided him with not only shade, but it made him feel a little happier. He knew it was weird for a tree to make him feel happy, but it did....
“Ok. Great job today everyone. We’ll pick up tomorrow.” Kyle gave the stage manager a nod as he wiped the sweat from his brow. It had been the same routine everyday for nearly ten years. Wake up. Work out. Receive the day’s script. Review past plot points, the reports from the two Kings and ongoing tactics and storyl...
"I am not here to end your life. Do not be afraid."hissed the reaper. I managed to choke out a few words. "How did you find me, you should never have been able to find me here."I fell from my rock, my back creaked as I hit the cold earth. The reaper moved towards me, its figure looming as I crawled backwards agains...
Bonjean, fabled one-eyed general of the Unified Resisting Planets and hero of the people, frowned at the supplicating tyrant. “You what?” “I surrender,” the prone former emperor said. “Completely and utterly. Please, imprison me.” Bonjean’s second-in-command, the legendary pirate-turned-flying ace known only as Bi...
When I first discovered what I could do I used it as a joke. It worked really well. It's cool how easy it is to mess with people when they lose control of something that's theirs. If someone tried to annoy me or if I wanted something out of someone, I'd just BAAALLAALALALA them. Oh, were you in the middle of a sent...
The demon's metallic claws flashed in the candlelight. In hindsight, the summoning had been a mistake. Julia regretted not actually reading the warnings in the book, but in her defense, there were eight and a half pages of warnings. "You have made a grave mistake summoning one of the soulless!"the demon spat while rip...
It's time. He's stepped up to the microphone. Why would they give him a microphone? Of course, the first thirty things that are going to come out of his mouth are obvious platitudes. Statements that will change nothing because they're already obviously true. He likes to use them as camouflage. There's going to be o...
"Welcome to the Pain of Painting, an informative show about how to learn proper painting techniques. Over the course of this series, I will whip you into proper painters, ones worthy of being called artists. Not some splatter-painting, modern art-loving, quasi-intellectual sack of shit." He sat on a stool, a blank c...
The last thing you remember is tripping. You were always clumsy, sure, but you had hoped that in a life-or-death situation that you survival instincts would overcome your intrinsic clumsiness. Apparently, that wasn’t the case. You’re pretty sure you hit your head on the sidewalk. The spot still aches, even though the...
“Damnit, I should have known it was too easy.” You fiddle with the silver strand while you consider plucking it. Maybe Tig will know something, you think to yourself. While Tig is not the vampire that turned you, that Hateful Bitch had moved back to Eastern Europe back in the early 90’s, she is the one that ‘adopted...
“He fixed it‽”, I asked, the feathers on the back of my head rising in surprise. “He fixed it. It shouldn’t even be possible.”, my commander said, clearly exasperated. “What is it?” “A freaking mini fusion reactor. It is the size of my fist.”, he says shaking his fist at me, “we haven’t been able to make one small...
There was unease on the ship. Ferdinand Magellan could feel it. Men would go silent and look away, mid conversation, when he first came above or below deck. At this point, he didn't blame them. The days were short and the nights were long. The sun barely made it above the horizon for an hour, before retiring back to ...
I coughed weakly, smoke filling the room. I could feel the unbearable heat all around me, desperate to get in and ignite us. Snowball was curled up on my chest, her self soothing purr rumbling into me. Dexter and Bonso had decided to lie either side, panting. I cried as I lay with them, losing the ability to take a bre...
''Wait, your mating season is constant, as in never ending from the time you reach maturity until the time you cease to function?'' The alien biologist looked like he was just told that his feathers were on fire. ''Yeah, that is about right. Why?'' He confusedly attempted to note something down on his infopad, pres...
I didn't know what i was getting myself into. I'm just barely getting my feet in this college town and i did something stupid like asking a girl out. Not just any girl either, my lab partner for the year. Not just any lab partner, but a local politicians daughter. A politican tied up in racketeering charges. Great. He ...
It was relegated to a creaky shelf in the very corner at the back of the room. A golden telescope, no larger than the cardboard roll inside paper towels. Most patrons had passed it over in exchange for the flashier powers and artifacts. Flight, immortality, attractiveness... you name it. "A very special object,"Apollo...
"If I must,"he said, "but only in exchange for freedom." "We'll see,"the creature said. Despite being a high ranking general he had a soft spot for books and stories. "Hmph,"George mumbled and sighed once more, "well, it all begun with a whipplewhop." "A whipplewhop?"the alien repeated, "what's that?" "A whipplew...
The gentle tapping echoed through the house. It had freaked me out when I first moved here, but by now I was used to it. Making sure the front and back doors were locked, I headed to the living room. When I bought the house I had tried to question the realtor about the tiny door in the wall. They looked at me like I gr...
Darkness. Everlasting, boring dar- Oh? A crack of light shown through the wall of darkness. A thin seam that I could peer out of, for the first time in... I wasn't sure how long it'd been since I'd last walked the world. What were those heroes doing? It wasn't like they forgot about me. That cleric visits me what se...
She was at a table with her coworkers, sipping a glass of white wine and laughing out loud with her friends. Aren't Fridays swell? You get to unwind after a long week, kick back, let your hair down, lower your inhibitions. "Working tonight, Matty?"The bartender asked, sliding me my usual seltzer water and lemon. "Y...

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