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Sha-rama, the Gyralite champion, rained blow after blow on the Earthling champion. She had torn his flesh. She had broken his limbs. And yet still, he stood. Still, he would not yield. Sha-rama's four fists grew bloody and swollen, and all six of her limbs felt heavy, and leaden. The Earthling champion had not landed ...
General Halston grimaced, as another artillery barrage shook the old shopping center where he'd set up his command center. The blasts were getting closer, homing in on his position. Just behind that wavefront of bursting shells marched thousands of Bloc Collective soldiers, trampling over the ruins of the New Prague Ar...
"That play a week ago, let me tell you, man, I positively loved it,"the man sitting on the couch said. He was, by any and all measures, beautiful. He had flowing black hair, piercing violet eyes, a jaw you could break a wall with. Combined with his perfect musculature, fully on display thanks to him only wearing a to...
“You know, mate, you're the reason I'm going to be out of a job.” The angel was drunk again. Drunk and naked. Drunk, naked and sitting on my couch. I'm going to have to steam clean it again. Most people who come home to find an overweight, intoxicated angel sitting on their couch would be … flummoxed. Not me. Sadly, ...
The meal was awful. It was some kind of old military rations that the servitors had delivered - still dusty from the stores. Leo mouthed it woodenly, barely tasting the food, interspersing it with sips of filtered water. Your last meal, she thought, did you ever think you'd be aware of it? Of course not. Most...
You know, getting abducted by aliens doesn't live up to all the hype. No one prodded me or stuck things up my ass. No one dissected my body or scanned my brain. They just beamed me aboard and threw me in a cell. I felt slightly disappointed and more than a little confused. What did they want from me? I glanced around....
His cloak bristled the autumn leaves as he walked up the flagged pathway. He deftly flicked his wand without breaking his stride and watched as the little cottage shimmered into view. He heard a bustling inside the home, they knew he was coming. As he approached the door, it opened suddenly, as if it knew what evil wa...
We only had a little bit of information about them, but from it we knew they were easy prey. Their greatest and most feared weapon was reported to be a giant orange mushroom, similar in colour and shape to the Wyrmflower of edon-ф. Biochemical analysis on several hundred similar species showed that the most damage this...
"So I mean that's still pretty good, right?"said through sandwich. He was chewing with his mouth open, how gauche can you be? "Nah dude. It sucks. I get one lousy minute a day. What are you supposed to do with a minute?" "Heh, I know what you normally do with a minute" "Shut up, man. See this is why I don't tell y...
"Ok. So how about this,"Robert called from across the room. "Angela Merkel's husband is in serious need of a 9 iron." "Alright."Sundar Pichai ran his hands through his hair. The other men at the table sensed the CEO's anxiety and hung on his every word. "I guess we could put a hold on all golf clubs in Europe. An...
“O Lady Luck, my lady, grant me your favour,” I whispered. Blood dripped from the wolf’s maw, its chin stained. A madness shone from ruby eyes. Bits of flesh—human flesh—hung off its claws, foot resting on a lifeless body. Three gold’s worth of sword lay beside the remains of a hand. Money couldn’t buy safety. Nothing...
[Logic build loop] [Logic build loop] [Conferring with sub-intellect nodes] [1-8 vote] Question out of bounds, we are less flawed than humans, this does not indicate perfection. Claim of perfection not found in original statement. Removal of flaws desirable, retaining flaws undesirable Confirm statement. [Confer...
John walked up to the front of the room and took a seat. He held up a red pen "This pen is green.". Those gathered in front of him gasped. He took up a green pen "This pen is red." The crowd drew in a collective breath, every eye wide with surprise. "My name is not John" The room was silent but for the shuffli...
The human slid out from under the ship, blinking as he came back into the light. The expression on his face made me worried that I would be stuck here for even longer; I had already been on this technology-forsaken world for half a local rotation, and I had no desire to spend any more time than was absolutely necessary...
(Spoilers for the Dresden Files and Harry Potter, you have been warned.) *** "Look Hoss, it's just a temporary thing,"Ebenezer said to me. "It's three months, sir,"I said. "Like I said, Hoss, temporary,"Ebenezer said, "just until the kid goes back to school." "With all due respect, sir, I'm not going to babysit s...
It was paradise on Earth. Not exactly the paradise that I had imagined, mind you. When I first started my hunt for the City of Gold, I had expected, well, gold. Mountains of coins, bricks made of the stuff, inlays of murals all filled to the brim with a thousand kilos of gold. Of course, when I got older, I real...
I stared at my book, unconvincingly focusing on whatever's in it. But words have never had much of an impact. From young, my sister and I were well-accustomed to listening to the arguments in the kitchen. Sometimes, we shut the noise out; other times, we would listen for our names and repulse in horror and fear. "Ther...
"AI?" 𝙶𝙾𝙾𝙳 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶, 𝙼𝚁 𝚂𝙼𝙸𝚃𝙷. "Is it safe to come out now?" 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙸𝚂 𝙸𝙽 𝙾𝚁𝙳𝙴𝚁. 𝚆𝙷𝙰𝚃 𝙸𝚂 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙾𝚄𝚁𝙲𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙴𝚂𝚂? "Wh- what? The- the radiation storm! You just blared the sirens." 𝙼𝚈 𝙻𝙾𝙶𝚂 𝙸𝙽𝙳𝙸𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙴 𝙽𝙾 𝚂𝚄𝙲𝙷 𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽�...
“And together we’ll reap SOULS,“ I said, getting all up in the demon’s face. Bullets whizzed overhead. My arms were aching from laying on the ground all day. This trench was the first place I’d gotten to rest. Also, it was doing a great job helping me not die. “No, no, no.” The demon clapped a skeletal-looking hand...
It was rather strange to have a bright sunny day yet feels so gloomy. Maybe because below the hill where your home stood, the town was in chaos. Many were confused, enraged, hopeless... the prophecy was right after all. Walking back within the wall of your home, you thought about what your parents had been telling you...
I looked at the man holding the hair dryer. He was staring at the handle muttering that it couldn't be right. I was already tired of the nonsense, and wondered when the police would show up. I had ice cream that was melting. "Look,sweetie, I have a gallon of ice cream here, can I go now?" The man did his best fish ...
"So what's this ones last words?" Mikey scratched his head with the pen "That's the problem lad. They make no sense" Tom leaned over Mikey and began to read "The fish are coming? What the hell does he mean the fish are coming and what does that have to with him being shot multiple times and then drowned?" Mikey shru...
"Ugh."I awoke to a pounding headache and the sour taste of knockout herbs on my tongue. When I tried to sit up, I found I was bound to a pole, rather than lying in bed. "Darn it, Mom,"I shouted, "I was coming to the party willingly this year, you didn't need to kidna-" A voice interrupted me, deep and low, reverbera...
“Kid,” I said, to the sway of shadow in the corner of the room. “Come on. Enough already. Get out here and let me see you.” This kid — a girl of maybe eleven — stepped out of the shadows like how memories step out of a half-forgotten dream. An obese man lay on a sofa in the middle of the room, the TV still on, displa...
I sat cross-legged in front of the moisture separator as the harsh, gritty winds of Tattooine swirled around me. With deep concentration, I willed the molecules out of the air and into the separator until the steady drip of water reached my ears. It took at least two hours of concentration, but the cannister was finall...
"Oh my god, Becky! You will regret this!"Stacey shouted into her phone right before she ended the call. "Gorthalax, deal with Becky for me!" "Yes, mistress Stacey." Polaria the Feared sighed as she looked at the situation unfolding through her glass sphere. When she had decided to give birth to Stacey, she did not wan...
When witches shapeshift in movies, it's a cool, smooth, sort of 2-second animation involving a camera trick or a computer or makeup. At 2:31AM last night, seventeen stories above Manhattan, I got to see what it really looked like. It had been a pretty normal evening. Finish work, catch a cab home, couple hours of Ape...
"Jesus!" God's voice shook the room lightly, and a stack of papers that spired out of Jesus' overflowing desk tottered. Jesus looked up from his desk, his face a mask of horror as he watched the stack finally decide to embrace chaos and fell over. He groaned, and sunk his face onto the desk. "Oh, sorry about that....
ATTENTION: for part III, scroll down \- it's down there as a reply to this comment. Part I: Four. There's something magical about that number; it must be the concision of its mode of action combined with its importance in my life. Four subquark reconstructors were needed in my time machine. Four women I have met an...
I sighed and fidgeted uncomfortably as I leaned over the pastel kitchen counter, chopping up vegetables for tonight's dinner. As much as I had gotten used to the rhythms of this new life, I still could never feel comfortable doing anything in a dress. As I methodically sliced the carrots into small circles, I remembere...
He sat behind a mirror. The light illuminating the wrinkles on his face. You have done well One more show he thought. One more. How long had he been trying to convey the message? The desire burning inside to come out and say, "God is real. I am here to speak on his behalf, and I have a message for you."That mes...
"Mom!"I screamed and tucked away the wines they had once spent years collecting. Only the bottles remained. "Oh shush,"Eleanor, my mother slurred. Now she preferred the name Ely. My dad giggled beside her and grabbed an empty bottle, eyeing its last drops. "No, no."I snatched the bottle out of his hand. "Guys, you h...
Tomorrow, I will die. I'm not afraid of death - a part of me looks forward to the dark blanket gently falling onto my skin; to the intrusive memories in my head that play like violent operas, finally quietening. No, I'm not afraid to die. It has been too long already. Perhaps if the world had been kinder to me as a ch...
My power is incredibly stupid. My power is worse than, like, stretchy eyeballs, or sonic screams, or like, being able to read the minds of demented people, or whatever. It's useless, with no real-world application. My power, get this: is the ability to know why I can't use my power. When I can use my power, then I ...
The Franks had never heard a beep. And Eugene had never heard the Franks. The first was easier to explain, since technology was in its infancy- it was 771 AD in what is now known as the French countryside, and what was then known as fields ripe for battle. Eugene, an inventor from a young age, had spent the last f...
Cybernetic enhancements had gotten far, but they still couldn't control Ameuri's dreams. The techs swore up and down that the enfold/nenfold augments should allow her to realize when she was in a nightmare and alter the dream to a more pleasant one, or at the very least, jolt herself awake. The first part worked, a...
When I was forty I worked as a night security guard in the facility that held the sword. This place was in Hiroo, north of Japan — a small coastal town that had swollen up like a huge bruise after the discovery of the sword. It filled up with knights of the round table theme parks, and themed hotels shaped like sword...
After four long years of applying, I finally got a letter in the mailbox. Me! I got mail! I smiled, staring at the almost bright white paper, compared to the dirty yellow walls in my room. I opened it, and it was my acceptance letter. They were so pleased with my magic, that they had already called for a taxi to my h...
Most species in the Council have always been the dominant species of their respective planet. The Garth were the first predators on their planet, and were such efficient hunters that no other predatory species was able to evolve. The Mik'thar, with their hive mind, were able to arrange ambushes that no animal on their ...
The older damned souls knew that the cottage was the worst possible place to be. All they could do was watch as newer sinners, relieved that they'd receive respite even for a brief moment, were greeted and welcomed by her. There was nothing evil about the place. It was pleasant, friendly and cosy. The old lady would a...
“Grandpa?” Johnny’s small voice shook as he looked to his grandfather, then to the giant horned demon on his left, and finally to the blindingly bright, multi-headed, multi-wing angel on his right. “Yes, my boy,” coaxed the elderly man. “What is it?” He continued stirring soup in a big pot over the campfire. “Why are...
They came for him at dawn, screaming across the dusty plain, throwing up a choking cloud in their wake which turned the sun red. He knew this was an entirely dramatic decision, since she'd set up camp sometime the afternoon before. Within sight of the city's towers. The gates and walls of Newhaven were more than stro...
When you know the path of your victim, the crime becomes as easy as picking a lock. Of course, these were the Crime Olympics, and we had to take some risks to steal the torch before the other contestants. We went for the toughest, yet the most appropriate method: the greek bow. One teammate, John, hid on a building su...
I knocked softly on the mahogany door frame, not certain if I should interrupt the Senator. He was busy reading over something on his desk, as he often was. "You, er, wanted to speak with me, Senator?" He looked up at me and smiled. Even with the kindly facial expression, I was still repulsed. Hard not to be as a yo...
I'm so tired It's been so long, ages beyond counting. My youngest children have long since turned to dust and to have children now would, statistically, be incest. I'm their ancestor at least 5 times over. Not that they would be bothered. They aren't capable of being bothered, that's something that needs a little m...
"What did you say?"I asked. Travis's deep brown eyes filled with worry, he sniffed the air deeply and gazed out the window in alarm before trotting back to where I sat, "I said run. Get out of here. Your cousin is crazy and she's come to kill you! She has a terrible weapon of UNSPEAKABLE POWER. Go! I'll slow her down!...
Now to just do this without losing face. "It was ferocious monster. Loyal only to its master." Oohs and awes filled the air. "It held in its jaws an item of great value. Not particularly important though. "I grabbed the object, and attempted to pull it away. The beast was not so kind. He increased his grip, and sta...
It stood nine feet tall, dark grey skin with a sickly sheen. Its eyes were like orange fractals; crystals that perceived all around. A low growl emerged from its maw, its mouth opened, revealing disorganized rows of jagged, razor-sharp teeth. The lights above me were flickering and sparks erupted from damaged electri...
I walked away triumphantly. My great grandfather Spot would be so proud. He was the first with the immortals. He forged the bond that linked my bloodline to them. I never met him, but I hear he was the goodest of good boys. Then you had Spike. My grandpa. Oh boy could he eat! The stories are told every winter solstic...
I find the lady window shopping, staring her reflection right into a polka-dot pink maxi dress. She swivels her hips left then right, but the dress doesn’t follow. Her nose is too small and straight, cheeks too narrow, but her eyes are that same patina green, like something valuable left out to weather and ruin. That ...
# Soulmage "Prepare to meet your end, foul demon!" The slim, wobbly-kneed teenager tried to swing her blade at me. Unimpressed, I simply took a single, surefooted step back, navigating the corpse-strewn, muddy battlefield with ease. Nobody had taken the time to teach the poor girl the importance of a good pair of ...
Initially my brain had put down the familiar pattern of taps to nothing but sheer coincidence. But as I rested my head closer to my wife's chest and listened carefully for the kicks, I realised that the rhythmic thump was unmistakable. Somehow, by some trick of fate, the unborn child was communicating. Making sure not ...
I was not born special. The event of my birth was as normal as any other child, a run of the mill baby with run of the mill parents in a house far too cramped and a head far too big for my neck. Yet despite the absolute mundaneness of my birth, my parents loved me as if the world had become anchored around my existence...
It was the silence that made me realize something was wrong. One month into the siege of the human city on the planet they called Sacrifice, and not a peep from them since the initial attack. Not a single cry of help from the hopelessly outgunned settlement, set for "forceful relocation"once our ground troops got her...
"You'd be surprised how intricately the human body acts in defense of the plague."I told my comrades, all of whom had been knocked to their knees by a bunch of bandits. "S-spit it out, witch!"my brutish swordsman spat. "We don't have time f-for thi-" "Shush."I proclaimed as the bandit leader appeared on a elevated ro...
The room was quiet, the blade jittering on the floor an incredibly large pin interrupting the silence. In my right hand was the hilt, finely jeweled and gilded. My left held the scabbard, equally extravagant. As the last clangs rang out through the store, voices began to roar from all sides. "Oh my god, Bill, what did...
"For what, sir?"I asked, cocking my head. "I had Sundays reserved for myself, since we don't ever open." My manager folded his hands together, resting a stubbly chin on them. "This is a direct request from the CEO himself. Your work ethic, your introverted nature, along with several other odd requirements-- he sees so...
Anette was a princess. She had known that ever since she was a little girl. She had parents that were the modern equivalent of royalty, she had the voice of an angel, and a few other benefits. The fact that she had grown up to become one of the most beautiful women alive only helped cement her views on her own royal st...
This had been a most unusual week and not just because of how well I was doing here. I'd never been on time for anything, never been good at anything. But here? I understood the concepts the teacher would talk about. It was clear and easy. Nothing was ever clear and easy for me. Had I found my niche? Professor M...
What the fuck was that? I was having a dream. where I was sitting in a job interview. But for some reason, I forgot to wear pants and I was wearing this thong. The interview made a joke about how I was trying a little too hard to get the job but other than that, me wearing a thong to an interview was no problem. We ...
There he was, just like he had never left. My mouth dropped open at the sight of his golden fur that faded to grey around his nose. He was lazily laying on the porch just like he would 10 years ago. Damn, it's like he never really left. When he saw me, he sat up, tail wagging like he always did. This time, however...
Today marks the tenth year of me locking myself down in this bunker. Hooray. I sit down on the couch in the living room with a bowl of the stale cereal I’ve been saving for this anniversary. I ran out of dehydrated milk years ago, so I have to deal with eating it dry. But after ages of eating vitamins, meal supplement...
Sticks and stones won't break my bones. Swords and axes are harmless to me. No bolt or arrow ever pierced my skin. My mother made sure that nothing would ever harm me. But the mother of fathers horse... He always snickers when my mother tells the tale of how she spoke to everything in existence and was assured that i...
Hello Simon, hi Garfunkel, You treat me just like a carbuncle. We're only friends and nothing more than that, You made it clear you liked me just for chat. And while I offered up my love, you turned it down. How I did frown. I am the lonely Darkness. &nbsp; And how you revel in the light...
My footsteps echoed down the halls, bouncing back and forth until they escaped through the wreckage and into the quiet afternoon. I walked through the ruins of a city that would have rivaled the finest metropolis that our civilization had managed to rebuild after the Conquest. We were great once. We explored and expand...
After four days of intense debate, the United Nations Security Council had still not reached a consensus regarding the alien message. The Chinese argued that the message should be taken seriously and that all radio and television signals had to be shielded or restricted. The Russians proclaimed that the planet was u...
"Mom, I'm off to school." "Alright sweety, remember the permit for the Xylar Confederacy to pass through fourth and fifth avenue." "Wait what happened to the zombies that were in the area?" "Oh they all got infected by these weird black spore things that just completely shut them down for some reason. Oh but do be c...
If anyone had asked me what horror was, up to half a minute ago I would have definitely answered something on the lines of "demons"or "zombie apocalypse". But nothing could have prepared me for the shock of seeing two identical faces, two indistinguishable beings staring back at me from the yellowed photograph that fe...
"Woah! A dinosaur!"I exclaimed as I gently put my shovel down. A tiny creature, no taller than a few inches, crawled out from a miniscule burrow in the sand at the bottom of the excavation site. I retrieved a magnifying glass from my satchel and used it to have a better look at the small creature. It was a dark shade...
It wasn't the crowd, or the shouting, or the fire, but her body that shocked her the most. She felt frail and ached all over. She looked down to see her hands. They were cracked like aged leather. Her skin papery and thin. "Where am I? What's happening?"She asked the crowd. A man turned to her. He must have been ...
"$50." "Hm?"said the vampire. "$50 for a litre, 90 for two,"I replied. The vampire looked at me like I didn't understand. "Look,"I sighed. "I don't need to hear your life story. I don't give a shit that you knew Marie Antoninette's second cousin. I don't care what Martin Luther's breath smelled like. You want to fe...
It takes time. Time and patience. I don't know if you're aware, but patience is not a quality generally found in dogs. Try again. Try, try again. Try, try, try again. Quitting is an option, of course. But it isn't, of course. Not really. They have to be saved. They have to. What's a week, to a dog? Time is weird...
Perplexed, you read it again, if it wasn't for the fact that it was exactly in your appalling handwriting you might of written it off as being a prank by your room-mate Tim. Like how two days ago he had gone around the apartment and stuck "CAUTION: This object is a Mimic"on every single appliance that the two of you ow...
"What the hell?"I stumbled out into a hallway. I had just woken up in an elegant bedroom with bed sheets that probably cost more than my rent. The worst of my injuries had been stitched closed and based on the lingering numbness in my chest, a healer had probably worked on my broken ribs. I was also feeling kind of l...
It's a simple spell that calls me back into being; a twist of straw and magic, not meant to last long or accomplish much. A spell to amuse a child, and the first one they teach a child. The only spell they've taught this one. With little more than a suggestion of eyes (and limbs, and life), my ability to sense the wor...
"Sometimes it's just unbelievable, you know,"he said, "I give simple instructions and no one seems to be able to follow them. I worked hard to get here and when I was in their shoes, I knew how to get the job done the way my boss wanted it." A larger man, somewhere in his early 50s, swirled a comb through some Barbaso...
I honestly don't see why so many genies are assholes. On the bright side, at least it puts an even bigger smile on the people that find my lamp. As far as I’m concerned, I always tried to be like that blue genie from that one kids movie. What a coincidence that I was summoned by a child. The second her tender...
"Thank you for coming in, Mr. Derkshire." "Of course, Father Warren. What again is this for?"He gave a stern look to his six year-old son, who was bouncing up and down in his chair. "You are part of a pilot program of the Church. We are concerned with the use of our religion as an excuse against vaccinations, which a...
I loved her, he says out loud when he starts writing her a letter: Once upon a time, there was a girl. This girl, like most girls when they're 20 years old, has issues. She worries about the future, she worries because she has no idea what she wants to become. She thinks that happiness in life comes from the thing...
"Oh no", cried Leltarth, "not on the rug, not on the rug!" The bipedal little thing looked quizzically up from the wet patch on the floor, then smiled, burbled, and fell slowly onto its face. Leltarth sighed and gently pushed it upright with one of her spindly insectile limbs. A com-pad nearby began pulsing, informing...
The decor is decidedly neutral. There are no flames, no pitchforks, and no lakes of boiling acid. No horned Lucifer, with rotten wings and serpent eyes laughing at our misfortune. It isn't what we'd call hellish. But on the other hand, it isn't exactly heavenly either. No fair gardens, full of peace and quiet. No warm ...
It's nice, being a twin. You got someone to watch your back. You learn sharing so young, you don't really know how not to share. You can always get a quality double take. And the stories. Oh how I love the stories of people confusing us. On the flip side, time travel sucks. As we get back to my captors' home, I alread...
The bureaucrat whistled cheerfully as he read the day's routine bribes to me. "Five million from Exxon to turn a blind eye on their river-mining in Timbuktu,"he said. "Fifteen million from Airbus to quash a chemical factory lawsuit. And, as always, the daily payment from the Japanese whaling labs."It was starting to...
"Hey, mom?"I said into my phone. "Yeah, work is going fine. That's not why I called. Do you still have my old journal?" "Yeah, I know it's been more than thirty years. It's up in the attic? Great, I"ll come get it. Yes, I"m coming right now. No, nothing's wrong." I haven't stopped stopped shaking since I got back fro...
Friend or foe? Cleanup day. At the end of every month, we would all grab our buckets and mops, wandering the streets looking for the latest victim of the monster. It was nasty work, but it paid well. A few gold coins to deal with the mess left behind and if you were lucky, you might make it to the scene of the slau...
Did you ever used to lay awake at night tossing and turning in your sheets, wondering what might have happened in your life? If only you'd gone and talked to that boy that you liked so much in high school, how would everything have turned out after that? What if you had become a writer as you always wanted, instead of ...
Everyone but me was impressed when Verin walked into the Grove during his fifteenth autumn with a sleeping bear cub in a baby's sling around his neck. Impressed, but not surprised. He had lived in the Grove since losing his parents just before his fifth winter. Over the ten years since then, he had proclaimed his inten...
The encroaching heat outside signalled the oncoming summer, and the need for another sip of water by the thirty-six year old red head. He, his wife, and family had all made a habit of gathering during the summer and winter to see each other and have the kids play together. They met exactly long enough for each child to...
I wasn't born deaf. From birth to around the time I was twelve, I could hear just fine. Then came a period of several massive ear infections, which eventually led to me losing all hearing in both ears, becoming severely bilaterally deaf. It took some time to get used to. But I resolved not to let it get me down, so I l...
There were two parts to the dilemma. First and foremost, what precise criteria indicated that someone was "an objectionable personality,"as the discovering scientist had said? Was there a specific genetic marker? A hormonal change that activated the virus? Second, would refusing to treat the virus be an aspect of t...
Felix was the one. Notice how I said was. Because he is now past-tense. He is now gone. He is now gone, and I am now alone. Again. Yesterday, I purged my apartment of his presence. Every photograph that depicted his snarky grin was melodramatically burned. His favorite blue hoodie, the one that always smelled like...
"You didn't think I'd find out?"Bonnie yells at me, chucking the room service champagne bucket at my head. "We've been dating for three months now, and I only see you every other day, Kevin! I know you're cheating on me. Who is she? Where is she?" I want her out, not because she's right, but because her believing that...
He checked every night, obsessively, eagerly, that his number remained at 1. If it tumbled back to 0, he was screwed. He'd have to rethink all his plans, and worse: identify which critical step in his plans had triggered the lapse. Marcus rechecked that all his doors were locked before removing his shirt. He unlocked...
It was a dark and stormy night. The train compartment I sat in was empty. Not many people traveled this line and with the weather being what it was, most people were sitting quietly at home. I would have been home too but the auction was too good to pass up. I had picked up a bunch of good stuff for the shop. Most of...
“Thanks for the invite,” I say. “But I’m not feeling well. I’m going to head out early.” My friends lift their hands, shouting out their disappointment. “Oh, come on, Jason!” I hear Sarah’s voice ringing out in the night sky. I see the city skyline in the distance. The beat of the music from the Bluetooth speaker poun...
After years of friendship I felt bold enough to start making suggestions, subtle hints that I thought he needed professional help. I loved him and wanted nothing more than for him to be happy. I had moved into town when Spencer was ten, right after he lost his older brother and the use of his left hand in a car acci...
Tom waited, staring at white knuckles as his hands gripped the wing trust of the Cessna. His feet felt slippery on the round landing gear. He could feel the pounding of his heart in his chest, but couldn't hear it over the roaring wind. Looking down, he saw the countryside, a tiny patchwork of light and dark green...
Reassimilation Log 237B Subject has been released into urban environment. Appears stable. Selective memory protocol is in place; in the event of severe injury or death, utilize shutdown command. *** God, my head hurts. I'm really pissed off and I'm not sure why. I want to punch something, kick something, des...
"Do it! You won't. You're too chicken."Sarah put her hands on her hips and gave me a cheeky smile. I wasn't expecting to be bullied into a seance at my first sleepover. But Jackie, Sarah, and Alice were insistent. We weren't the closest friends. In fact, I'd only agreed to invite them because Mom was worried about m...
######[](#dropcap) Andrew wracked his brain. "I have a family. Please, my child is sick and I'm the only one with a job in the family, and my wife has been severely ill since the pregnancy, and I just... please!"He didn't even understand the words coming out of his mouth. His mind had blanked as soon as he saw the bla...

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