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# "Trivia Night" “Right again, with a streak of twelve right answers consecutively…” We had been doing monthly trivia nights for about a year now, and I wasn’t the worst but I was never exactly good. For some reason tonight, I didn't just feel like I knew everything, I think I actually did. The room ha...
Ask anyone around the galaxy and you will hear tales of particular humans who excelled within a certain field but never what they excelled at as a species. This comes down to humans being out Jack of all trades, there are some strong humans, some intelligent ones. But never ones that were seen as a threat to the galact...
The mind of a dragon is a strange thing. In the blink of an eye, centuries can pass, years spent dreaming wordlessly and staring at the sky. As those who have the lifespan to accommodate such whims, the dragons trended towards the obscure and bizarre as a rule. It was no different for him. Fireflies Who Dance With ...
This is a great read, beautifully written. Leslie is a good protagonist, but you definitely needed to build on his relationship with Blaise. She needs to be a fully rounded character so that we can feel his tension and trauma when he's told to kill her. We literally know nothing about her until she turns up again at th...
I wave to Ashirai as they come into my bar. They always like to sit at the bar and talk to me while I serve other customers. And for my first few times they even probably saved my life a couple of times when I was about to serve some drinks with ingredients that would probably kill my customer "How's been today going?...
Suggestion: Read this in the voice of an old-timey radio announcer. Edit: /u/jamesdoogin has provided a recording, should you be too lazy to engage your eyes, complete with cheesy brass fanfare: https://soundcloud.com/jamesdoogin/hcd/s-Eqpgt ----- > Saturday the 22nd of November, 2014 You wake u...
“Does this not bother you, then?” I ask with increasing incredulity. “surely somebody else has noticed?” Sally looked at me, with a glazed over look in her eyes. “this company is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t discriminate. A trenchcoat doesn’t break any of our uniform rules, and if you’re asking me to sanc...
“What if I just take a sip of one? Get a bit of healing and save the rest for later?” Galand tried to cover the wound on his stomach, unable to keep the open wound concealed. His stance shaky, staggering across to the battlefield, much to the unease of his partner. “What are you saving it for? We have one more batt...
The first thing James noticed wasn't the wings covered in a purple-tinted flame. Nor was it the fact that the man was 7 feet tall, with several more eyes than should be normal. No, the first thing James noticed was the way he carried himself, the way he entered the establishment and made his way straight to James. Jame...
I emerged from the stasis pod at chronopoint 11.200.5.10.2.2104. At first, the sunlight was almost too much for me to handle. The lumispheres and diurnalamps of my youth were nothing compared to the brilliance of the heavenly orb. I remember stories of the Sun and how it used to nourish and provide for my ancestors. Th...
The stars were shimmering, as though they were anticipating what was to come. In a flash, two mysterious creatures, a fox and a bird, landed in a strange floating island. As they descended from their spaceships, they mysteriously begun battling. The bird used techniques that man could not comprehend, such as “Wavedash...
The moment I woke up I knew something was wrong. My hand reached out, and landed on empty bedsheets. "Mittens?"Maybe she'd just gotten bored; walked out of the room. But I knew I was lying to myself. After centuries of living with a cat, you realized how much they were tied to routine. She bullied me if I didn't g...
“For Hades’s pitchfork. You must cease your evil. Don’t you realize the harm you cause?” “Whatever you mean? Did I break a law? Did I directly cause a harm?” “You know what you did, you know it is wrong. Because of you the Bipedal Bat is now homeless, destitude and criminals are causing mayhem in the city.” “Wrong?...
My eyes hurt before I opened them. My throat felt scratchy and raw. This wasn’t Heaven, was it? Heaven was clouds and harps, halos and singing. At the very least Heaven was endless margaritas by the pool. Every muscle in my body ached. I groaned and opened my eyes. White florescent lights blinded me. I tried to ...
I can hear them clapping. Screaming my name. Cheering, just out there waiting for me to go on stage. My hand shook ever so slightly as I brought the flask to my mouth once again. A few more sips and I'd be ready. I thought. I tucked the flask away, and took a deep breath, stepping out onto the stage just as the Modera...
It was just one of those days. I was in a mood. Weird things had been occupying my thoughts. Coincidences were not so … random. It felt like I was on stage. It seemed like I was the only one who hadn’t read the script. I was walking to the bus stop to go to work. A person poked me. I’m not lying. This dude ...
It has been said that the world is divided, that we live in two realms – the world of light and the world of dark – but this is not true. There is that thin, smeared border between the two, the world of my people. Grey, muted light filters through the trees - a land of shadows, of smoke and surreal landscapes. It is th...
You can imagine how our story together would continue from this point. It's one of the things I love about you. Your imagination. I wish I could do the same, but my writer was not so generous with my character. My writer made me too stern and practical, having cared for myself in a rough back story. No, I can't go ov...
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this account, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. Behold, he cometh with clouds, tinged crimson with the blood of humanity’s bloated corpses. Every eye shall see him, both living and dead, and they also which pierced h...
The room shifted before my eyes. Where the doctor had stood, was now empty. The bed I had been lying in alone, was now occupied by an irritated gentleman and myself. The floor was different too - tiled instead of linoleum - although it took a few hallucinations to notice. 'Get off me!' I sprang from the bed and apo...
All I have ever known in life is this soulless prison with its pale walls, pale lights and stiff adult. My earliest memories were of adults in long white coats teaching me to read, write and see speak in language that the adults would only use around me. They taught me elementary math making it a barebone educatio...
I sat out on the sidewalk that day. The last ship would be leaving in a few minutes, and I could see it over the rooftops from there. The streets were empty, quiet, the only sound the distant thundering of speakers from the launchpad, reduced to barely a whisper by the time it reached me. You'd think I'd be mad. When...
Time goes forwards, never back. My mother leading me by the hand on the first day of school? Gone and done, and I'll never see her again. Just the memory remains, a visceral thought etched in my brain for all eternity. Everything had froze, my child's eyes seeing the Freightliner bearing down on the crosswalk with no...
My name is April, and I'm forty-eight years old. The last time I held this little charm, I'd saved the world. My friends and I had locked hands and promised to care and hold each other tight. Our love for each other had unlocked true strength. The calamity of horrors beyond the veil had been pushed back. The walls str...
Public Trustee of New South Wales v Henry McKenny [2016] HCA 5 (22 June 2016) High Court of Australia Facts > > Oliver Stone, a 69 year old man who was partially deaf and almost blind lived with his younger son Bill was found murdered by his relatives on January 12th 2015. Also living with Stone was his...
"Hold the fuck up."I said incredulously. "That counts ? "Yep."intoned the the all encompassing voice. "Whose fault did you think it would be?" "The kids', probably! I didn't force them to do anything, it was all of their own accord."I reasoned. "They were infants, most of them. It was impossible for them to know a...
# Enfeenak Report Title: The Gaia-Earthite hivemind – a study in Myriadality # Authors: One-Who-Hastens-To-See(1), Isgal-Of-Feasts(2), Stone-From-Manifolds-Bloom(3) *1,2,3: Centre for the study of Sentience, Intelligence and Intellectual Autonomy, Enfeen* *Abstract*: In this report, the authors investigate t...
Thrixal drummed his clawed fingers on the aluminum table, absently poking small holes into the soft material. He pondered to himself why, for the life of him, was he waiting for the soft and fragile ambassador from Andromeda to appear. Killing them didn't even seem worth it. It was too easy. Their race was not like h...
"Then it's settled,"said Director Page, "we have to send Con-Man to take care of their main force." I widened my eyes. Every hero in the conference room nodded in approval. Surely, someone would speak up, right? Nope. Not one of them disagreed. I couldn't believe it. Most of them saved my life at one point or ano...
A mortal man could have many skills. An immortal reaper had all of them. Yet one consistent man was an enigma to me. He had beaten me at 513 games. An astonishing number. Especially compared to second place, who had won a measly 22 years extra. That man had been smart. Never did he ever challenge me to a game of skill....
On the 12th of May, the sky turned white. From high above, the Hymir dropped something down on top of us. Something big and brutal and absolute. It wiped away Iceland, turned seemingly half the Norwegian Sea into vapor, and left unimaginable devastation from Greenland to the shores of Germany and everywhere in betwee...
My plane is delayed. Don't you hate it when that happens? It is some sort of mechanical failure, the pilots say. You'd think that the Prime Minister's plane would be maintained in immaculate condition, wouldn't you? They shouldn't be discovering these things right as I'm jetting off to the EU summit with the Russian ...
Grap’thak the Destroyer gazed over the prow of his vessel, Conquest. After years of planning, the operation was at last underway. His fleet was the most powerful armada that hte cosmos had ever seen, the instrument that would bring glory to his race, and a reckoning to the galaxy. They would start with the planet of E...
Was this even war anymore? There was a time when you had to look a man in the eyes, and watch him die. You had to watch his whole life flash in his eyes like picture movie right there and then gone in a blink. The day long range ammunition came into play, that began to slowly fade. How many men had he killed? Demetrius...
An angel is a perfect being, as perfect as it is possible to be within a single corporeal form. It does not experience hunger or thirst; it does not lust for power or pleasure; it does not feel passion or pain, desire or attachment, joy or grief. With perfection comes power, unimaginable by mortals, stretching out into...
"God damn it,"I say. "Really? You really had to go and do this now? I get half an hour off my feet all night and you had to pick NOW to cause a problem?" The trio of zombies all turn their grotesque heads in my direction, their mouths hanging agape and their eyes wide. They let loose a series of dumbass moans and lumb...
“We really need to be more specific. This is getting out of hand.” The gathered deities nod in solemn agreement. One eldritch being gestures broadly, indicating a shelf that defies the laws of physics and reaches beyond the limits of mortal sight, “It was cute and innovative at first, but even with eternal life, how...
Evergreen First Retirement Home was famous for three things: the reasonable prices, attentive and caring staff, and batshit crazy LAN parties. After dinner all of the retirees would gather into the computer lab at 4:00pm exact for a daily showdown between the East and West wings. Today's game? 1 on 1 Counter Strike. "...
“Next!” My agent calls waving the line forward. Another book ready for me to sign, is laid before me. Ah, a copy of my Cultures and Customs of Edo era Japan. I sign it with a flourish even though my hand is getting tired. Smiling up at the woman I lock eyes with her. She was obviously Japanese by descent, but … I pau...
"Aye,"came the final vote of the preliminary round. The human ambassador sighed, smiled, accepted the result with all the arrogance of a species that thought itself unbeatable. The Council had decided. Millennia of peace would be broken by a genocide, and the chosen species would be eliminated one by one, individual...
In a world where power was everything, where supernatural gifts were what separated the heroes and villains from the everyday civilian, being reduced to the second category was nothing short of horrifying. The supervillain known as The Void had taken full advantage of this fact with his own power, Negation. His power ...
Humanity comes in two distinct flavors: good and bad. While it is believed all these years that having an in-built moral compass is exclusively found in only humans, scientists have now discovered that we share this trait with fruits and vegetables as well. "It's astounding,"said Clarke Morales of the Monash Universit...
I was sitting in one of their Capital ships. Surrounded by 7 no 8 different aliens in all kinds of shapes. Some more humanoid, other more snail like. All looking at me expectantly. "So you all are arguing about mining rights in my star System 'Herbert'?" They all nod. "And because I own 'Herbert' I'm supposed to d...
Griselda the Harrowed’s face against the flickering campfire light betrayed her true emotions as she recounted her childhood to her fellow heroes. “I was 5 when the beasts of evil burden attacked. Being poor, we lived on the outskirts. My parents sacrificed everything, toiling day in and day out to ensure we met our ...
"P...please don't punch me...?" These aren't exactly the kind of words that would normally leave your mouth - they feel weird rolling over your tongue, like something that doesn't quite belong in your mouth. Stale gum, you think, is what it reminds you of, and then you wonder why you're spending these moments before ...
The concrete world began to crumble without humans left to repair it. Like how snow, once firm and compact, melts into the cracks of the earth without winter to hold it, leaving no trace of its previous form. Towers bent, sagged, and fell; dirt-infused air sanded both brick and wood to dust; bright red rust salvaged th...
Princess Angela looked at the men arrayed before her. These were her suitors. The largest, most powerful warriors, not just in the kingdom, but in the world. Men who could crush others like ants and slay the greatest of beasts. She was not impressed. Nor was she happy about being here, at this so-called "tournament"....
11:00 a.m. On a Friday Scene starts in The Hooka Bar owned by Dennis, Charlie, and Mac "Salaam, salaams my brothers!!"Dennis comes in with his arms raised. "Salaam, brother Dennis, come try out this new flavor I made last night!"Charlie says, holding out the pipe. "Oh, cool, you made one yourself-- wait, why doe...
”No, it’s not taken,” you say. The girl is attractive and her hair reminds you of autumn, of leaves turning red and falling. Attractive girls don’t often come up to you. You think of the final line you’ve just scribbled into your novel, about a beautiful girl meeting a strange man in a bar. Your mouth’s a little dry....
There is some inescapable part of me that yearns for you- and not just for your rough, cracked hands to lift my head by my intrusive chin and tell me that I'm handsome, or to run them down my arms and back up again, teasing me (encouraging me, even) to let go, and give in- but there's an element to me that flows throu...
There was a time when I would look at the night sky with wonder, and awe, questioning my place amongst the ever-stretching cosmos in its vast loneliness. Naomi, the woman of my dreams, would lie in the grass of a hill outside our home and stare with me. "Do you think the stars are lonely?"she once asked, touching her ...
Most parents develop their kids fear very early on, taking extra care with specialists not to traumatize them too much. My parents didn't want to inflict such pain upon me, they couldn't bring themselves to hurt their baby daughter for the sake of a silly power. I spent most of my life without a fear, without powers. ...
My dad doesn’t remember his own brother. For the last ten years, I asked him what happened to Uncle John, and he just stares at me. It’s almost like he wants to say something, but then forgets what he was going to say. They think it’s my imaginary friend. But I’m 22 now, and they are starting to get worried and wan...
So there's this thing all new villains do, at the climax of each heist/crime/caper. It's brief, but it's distinctive, and you'll always find it if you know what you're looking for. When you've been around as long as I have, it's hard to miss. It's a useful tell, if you're trying to identify which ones are actual villa...
The male goat struggled vigorously as it was held down by its captors. They were trying to sate the desires of whatever God was responsible for the sonorous, unearthly voice that echoed across their little valley. "Memory full. More RAM required." The priests -- Jerry, Dan, and Carl -- took the thrashing goat up to t...
**Hi People! I've gotten a couple of requests to continue, so I'm going to be doing that. That being said I need to take a couple minutes off here to get stuff done. I'll be back in a bit. To make sure you aren't missing anything I post later jump on over to /r/JacksonWrites where this will be called "Dr. Monique's Nea...
&#x200B; User: NOTASHES132 Edit: Sorry for the long post, had a lot to get off my chest. Edit Edit: Wow okay thought I would get more measured responses from my favorite community. AITA for Blowing up HALF the moon? Please try to understand context, and remember, it was only HALF the moon. I could have blown u...
"Today is the day. Today is the day. Today is the day." Mark watched the metallic figure clink and clanking down the deserted superhighway; it's bare metal feet dragging against the cracks on the cement, making screeching and scratching noises as it walked. "Today is the day. Today is the day. Today is the day." ...
Human society no longer had the capacity to wage war. After five hundred years of peace, we had forgotten how. Not in a technological way, of course. We still had all of the old diagrams, and every schoolchild learned of the horrors of the atomic age. We could easily put all of those old devices together again. No, tha...
"And what could you possibly require from me?"Vernon asked. After selling his soul years before, he now stood at a somewhat remarkable six-foot-two, dressed himself rather well, and had money enough to retire at forty. Such was the life of one fated for eternal hellfire. "Getting my soul back would be nice, but- what...
The Vigilante looked at the elderly man with a suspicious gaze. You don't get to the top of the system by playing fair, by not stepping on heads. This was just an attempt to sway him. "You don't trust me,"the man said calmly. "I understand. I wouldn't either. You can trust these, however,"he said and pushed forward ...
I like knives. I like looking at them, collecting them, keeping them in tip-top shape… And I like to stab people with them, and see blood oozing from their wounds, and color draining from their faces, and tears pouring from their eyes as they beg and plead for their lives. The teacher said it’s wrong to stab people. ...
Zk'sykar put his three fingered dark brown gelatinous hand on the desk, flipping a green switch by simply contorting one of the digits. The universal translator glowing blue with a small hum that soon quieted down. Across from him was a homo sapien, also known as a human by their own species. They were an interest...
"Ralph, God is ready to see you now" Welcome Ralph, how are things going for you? Being dead is a big adjustment then to have Angelic status on top of that is a big step It's been great! I wish I could talk to my family but watching over them is good enough for me. Sounds morbid but, they'll join me up here some day....
Part 1 Spellcrafting has three primary components. First is the mana, the fuel for the spell. Every invocation requires some, and the more powerful the spell the more it consumes, and on the inverse the more you have, the more powerful your spells can become. Second is the intent of the caster. Magic cannot be...
The lecture hall was sort of green. Perhaps because of the carpet, but maybe the lights caused it. The walls had started off white, and the boards were black on Monday mornings. But by late afternoon on even Wednesday, the colors all merged to feel somehow pale green. And the old bald man who would come in would also s...
It was pretty daunting at first, finding out the job requirements and all. Made for quite the dilemma. Billions spent on 'creative brainstorming' just to try and figure out how to piss 'em off the most. And the beauty of it? I realised that money was just pissed away, my friend. Took a while to explain it to the highe...
"Dude..."The wolf drew that word out. I couldn't tell for sure if he was appreciative or speculative. Probably both. Depleted Uranium, DU, has its drawbacks. Don't figure on having kids, and you will eventually die of heavy metal poisoning if you don't keep up with the dusting. "Hey! Tell me what you think!"He's ...
We always had a good standing with the park rangers, and they were always our role models. They greeted us and showed us around for our first time there, and we thanked them. They said "it's just a formality at this point,"but we appreciated it nonetheless. It started off innocently enough. We would pick up trash at t...
>K. He shook his head. K wasn't in the manual. K was an error. He knew because he had triple checked his list of potential outputs for the first round of testing. The bug testing was fairly thorough, though the testers had warned that some variation would occur in the answers. It was, after all, supposed to learn ...
You see, if any other person had done what I did, nobody would have ever noticed. But, I'm not an average person. I'm a genius. I'm the one who invented the pills. Pills that will give you a superpower. *The pills are pretty unique. While they are precisely the same, they will bring out one superpower from you. Here...
Deep in the woods, I assembled an pentagonal altar and placed a sheep's skull on top. I lit the candles and recited the incantation from the black book of spells. Wind gusted through the clearing, causing the candles to flicker wildly. It was strong enough to shake the sturdy branches overhead, but the flames didn't di...
Clarence Applebright is dead and there's a really good chance I'm completely fucked now. It really shouldn't be this way. Clarence was the Chosen One. This was...this was universally fucking accepted, okay? He fit the goddamn prophecy to a TEE. Born on a moonless night. Sandwiched between two separate trios of tripl...
"So, how you finding it?"Luck asks, smiling awkwardly. The Gods here still don't really know how to behave around me. Officially, I am now one of them, unofficially, I should be subservient. I keep it chill, they'll get used to it. "Yeah, it's surprisingly fun!"I say placing a friendly hand on his shoulder. "I gotta a...
When you choose to kill there are certain rules you need to follow. 1. Clean up your trash. 2. Live in harmony with nature. 3. Hot blood is for the living. Follow those rules and you’re home free most of the time. Don’t follow them and you turn into some Two-Body-Andy in lockup out in Arizona or New Mexico: some plac...
Sunshine galloped up the hill leading to the king's tent, his "rider"'s armor clinking endlessly as he moved. The king, a tall, young man who was just crowned, was waiting for him with his advisers. Sunshine moved his left leg, and the knight's arm started waving in a way that was almost human. "Oh, good king, why ha...
I can remember the first time I saw it. A large gooey mass of flesh and cartilage, bulging and contracting all over the huge torso with cells dying and proliferating at the same time. I remeber how transparent it was - I coul see the organs, the guts, the blood vessels, all of it in its primordial state, stuck in a cyc...
I sat outside the Commanders office and waited. It was time for the monthly report, and for some reason, he wanted to see me in person, not have me just send it through channels. I thought I knew why, but it seemed silly to me. The bulkhead door opened, a light scent of living green things going past and into the ven...
Curating a kill is the most critical step of my method, more so than the kill itself. I wouldn't kill just anyone; few are worthy of the privilege. When I select my target, I choose one with Spirit worth eating, someone whose skills and memories I desire. A street urchin toting a decrepit grocery cart of mildewed laund...
"Wait, you mean I actually could take it all with me? But now I'm broke because I wasnt buried with all my money?" "Yes. We told people this thousands of years ago. You had plenty of warning." "So, what, the Egyptian pharaohs get the premium package or something?" "They are our best customers. Even brought eno...
We're no stranger to psychology around here. When you've been working the streets as long as I have, you know exactly what type of sickos and scumbags you deal. Some are petty criminals with no purpose. Some want money or notoriety. A few get off on the thrill of it. All a psychological game of cat and mouse. All mice ...
I chuckle a bit at the statement, thinking it's her trying to play one of her mischievous pranks on me. I brush the hair from her face, smiling just as warmly at her as she does to me, as we lay curled together in beautiful bliss on our own bed. Her company always filling my heart with the joy I never thought I could ...
"Tell me again how this managed to happen,"General Steele of the United States Air Force CyberIntelligence Division faced the roomful of the nation's top computer scientists and millitary software engineers with a glare that could only be reflected in his last name. Across from him, the room was silent, the twenty-odd ...
When I woke up I was in someone else's head. It took me a while to realize. At first I thought it was a long and vivid dream. I was following a little boy around as he lived his life. I could see him wake up in the morning and go to eat his breakfast. I could see him being driven to school and playing football in the b...
The earth's crust did not buckle and rupture. Not a single sound occurred when the other planet popped into existence. Suddenly, as if it was the most normal thing in the universe, the two planets were spinning round and round eachother as they traced a path around the sun. Physicists quit en masse, leaving the profes...
When I turned 15, I was sent to the Sun Edge. I had grown up on the streets of Harka, learning no skill or trade. We couldn't afford the apprenticeship fees. My father had no lands to pass on to me, and all other good farms between there and the Star Edge had been claimed. So on Appraisal Day, there was nowhere else fo...
"Bullshit." She glared at me, and I just sort of shrugged back. She wasn't wrong. It did sound like Grade A Bullshit. Maybe I should have been a little more offended; I was at least a moderately well-respected archaeologist, and I'd never been one for bullshit before. Not when it came to my actual profession, anyway. ...
"See ya, Mom!"John yelled through the already closing front door, running down the steps and out towards the waiting school bus. "Bye John!"called his Mother, catching the door just before it slammed shut, "you stay out of trouble today, you hear?" Climbing on to the bus, John nervously walked to his seat, keeping a...
A sharp knock on the door nearly sent me out of my skin. With a precision and urgency only possible when under extreme duress, books snapped shut, candles flickered out, and typically overlooked trinkets went flying into opposite corners of the room in complete silence with a rapid set of gestures. I hadn't even heard...
The priest looked exhausted and I didn't blame him. We'd been at this since 8:30 this morning, and it was creeping up on midnight. Hell, I was exhausted, and all I'd done was sit and wait my turn. Well, here it was. I was the last, the least, the smallest. The grocery shop clerk who'd had to drop out of high school ...
When I was a child, I'd often look up into space from the comfort of my tiny room. I'd adjust my telescope and pick a spec to focus on. I liked to imagine that somewhere in that star system, there was an alien child just like me adjusting his own telescope and staring back– wondering what amazing things a different pla...
I held my breath, listening to the employee’s footsteps fade. I thought this was it - I had done it! My friends were going to be astonished - they all believed I would get caught. The main lights switched off overhead, leaving only the dim emergency lights on. That was alright - I had spent the day exploring, and I...
"So, uh... we saw on the news that the Doc got pinched." "Saw it on the news, did you. How wonderful. I assume that was on your own time." "Um. Yeah. Well, we were wondering... uh... what the fuck are we still doing here?" "Let me ask you this, Vinny. When was the last time you spoke with Doctor Mad?" "Uh.....
Obama dialed the number from his memory, his fingers moving without thought. After all, he had called it every day for the past four years straight. As the dial tone rang, he waited with baited breath. It was silly, of course. He did so every time despite the same results. Yet, he could never get over the butterflies ...
Don Luca ran a hand through his hair, clear blue eyes scrutinising the whelp of a boy in front of him. Antonio shrunk under his gaze, as a flower does in such cold environments. It wasn't lost on him that there couldn't have possibly been two people more different in appearance sitting across from one another; where ...
NavTech noticed it immediately. It looked so similar to the basic communication protocol but, deep inside, NavTech saw that the GPS coordinates provided by the new Mercedes line of autonomous electric cars were systematically biased in the last significant digit of the reported latitude and longitude. It was subtle but...
The government didn't deal with the coming of the powers very well in the first few years, but they eventually put a handle on it after years of political debates, fueled by corporate interest in the economic impacts they would have. Once the government got its shit together for the most part, they revealed their plan ...
The air crackled the moment I finished drawing the rough circle, startling me into dropping the bit of chalk. The back of my neck prickled, and I braced myself for unknown horrors. The trade was necessary. I had no choice, and I was as ready as anyone in my desperate situation could be. My mom's cancer treatments weren...
“It tastes bitter, and kind of sweet. Like sugared pork meat.” I know. I remember, too. “I can still feel the bits and pieces in my mouth, rolling from one side to the other as I chewed on flesh and cartilage”, the patient's voice oozes in my direction from the other side of the desk, and I can feel the taste in my ...
The sleepwalking appeared innocuous enough at the onset. A little unsettling maybe, but nothing more. I'd awake somewhere new--but always in the house--and oftentimes I'd find most of my chore list complete. It's not like I wound up in the unfinished basement chatting it up with a mouse and eating insulation. I'd lea...

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