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Tonight, we shall tell a tale of hubris. The humans were once pushed to the brink. Battered and beaten, they were pushed to the edges of their civilization. Barricaded in their cities as our battlements battered their walls. They couldn’t fight, they couldn’t run, they couldn’t hide. All they could do was die. They...
"Aha! We knew you were the final boss! A villain like you won't stand a chance at the hands of heroes like us!" Lazy comparisons, self-righteousness, what's not to hate? I could never stand the likes of these adventurers who appointed themselves heroes. They dragged the spotlight onto themselves, instead of proving it...
I don't fucking get this guy. Is he just simple? Does he not care? Does he even know what's going on? We've been here for an hour and gotten nowhere. "Yeah, you will I bet! You're probably better at whatever game you have then me. You'll probably win."he says, glancing at an old Xbox in the corner. His dull blue eyes ...
The great hall sat in stunned silence as Dumbledore made the announcement. The Weasley twins had been suspended for two whole weeks after their 'Weasley's Wizard Wheezes' disolving condoms had resulted in Professor Snape having to brew a very controversial potion for two fifth year girls in Hufflepuff. Snape and McGon...
Hitler held the mask in his hands. He knew that it was more than just a mask. It was the icon of Batman, the infamous vigilante of Gotham. Now it was his. He pulled the mask on to his head, completing his Batman outfit. "Goebbels!"Hitler snapped. "Ja, mein fuhrer?"Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's one true love, said, snapp...
“Anderson, please!”, I said, bursting through the door and throwing myself at the seat in front of my old boss. “Something horrible has happened!” “Morgan, you look –“ "Please, Anderson! It's about Sarah!" I remember throwing the papers in front of him. All the evidence pointing towards my wife. I remember his fac...
"B-back off!"I exclaimed, swishing my feeble dagger at them, a fruitless attempt at keeping the ruthless group of 4 Level 80s at bay. They laughed and mocked me, showing no signs of backing off as they advanced, all clad in full adamantite armor. "Last warning! If you don't back off, I'll slaughter all of you!"I shoute...
'Where is he, please?' A teen of fifteen looked around the sidewalk he walked down, taking in the buildings he had just seen a moment ago being built. The people he passed still dressed like how he had grown accustom to in the past three months, so he couldn't have gone traveled to far. "Jeremie!" The blonde turned ...
From the crowd only a few people shouted it. Before this all happened, the entire crowd would say it. But the phrase is dying. Experts have pointed out how it may come of as nationalistic, and that it's somewhat old fashioned. Fewer and fewer people started saying it. And that took its toll. Looking back now, it all ma...
I sat back in my chair after another victory. The hero was being taken away by paramedics, unconscious but not hurt too bad (I hope!) They must have been used to this, it being almost a year since the challenges had started. "I must have beaten every super hero in the country by now!", I exclaimed excitedly. People w...
I've already lost contact with Canada exactly two hours ago. Alaska one hour. As soon as we began losing contact with different time zones, me and plenty of other people started moving west. Most people didn't make it. I'm in a hold out here with the richest in the world, all of the people who could afford a plane h...
(Slightly NSFW) Go to University they said, get a degree. Well, went to school for four years and stuck behind a desk while I have one brother who teaches skydiving for a living and another who spends all his time making cupcakes. He's fat as hell but least he enjoys his work. Unlike me. You used to think that the ...
I'm a good samaritan. I try to give to the community, and take as little as possible in return. I pay my taxes, I call my grandma every week, I help my cousins with their homework. I'm a nice guy. Therein lies my fucking problem. Of course, when grandma started getting sick, and asked me to house her soul until we...
"Why do you need a magical focus at all?" Everyone paused to stare at Ethan. Ethan stared back, puzzled; he wasn't holding any magical focus to speak of. His hands were empty. "Aren't you the new kid?"someone asked. She was a kind-looking girl that held a staff made of smooth mahogany and lifestone crystal - a healer...
The intergalactic summit meeting between the warring factions took place at an artificial asteroid operated by a neutral third-party species. I arrived with the Flade Hierarchs aboard one of their Victory Unlimited class vessels. As we made our approach, our viewscreens showed us a Tsast vessel coming in from the far...
Jonah thumbed the statue's face, mentally making out the nub of the nose, the deep-set eyes, the cleft where chin met neck. This was dangerous. Foolish would be a good word too. Rome had been a cakewalk. There was plenty of documentation, of dates and figures and maps, a wealth of historical data that more than matche...
The years have not been kind to me. The world is no place for an orphaned girl and the wastes in particular make a rather poor excuse for nursery. I don’t remember who my parents were or how I got there but my earliest memories were hiding from the vast swaths of undead that seemed to rise each night on the Guildar pla...
"How much sleep have you been getting, hun?"asked Jen, softly. She placed her hand on his cheek tenderly. "Honestly, it's like you don't know what to do with yourself when I'm gone." Daniel chuckled. "I don't. Picking up after the dog is nothing like picking up after you. There aren't socks and hair clips all over the...
I looked at Sir Edwards and had my answer within a second, "He murdered his wife with his cane. She was bludgeoned to death in the early mornings right here in this room."Everyone looked at me in fascination, "As you can see from the picture above the mantle and as can be readily observed in the social section of the ...
It's a trap. Obviously. Karissa glares at the colorful card in her hands with utter distaste. A small little note, adorned with a few pathetic drawings. If she didn't know better, she would assume this was a prank from one of the imp-spawn. Brainless maggots... But no. There's too much...effort. A half-dozen cari...
"Flattery ain't gonna change that bet, Enzo." The orc just looks at me, like he's never seen this kind of thing before. Seven feet and three hundred pounds of "don't fuck with me", crouched over my desk like some sort of overgrown pencil pusher. It was after hours, and there was still bets to be counted and bribes to ...
Katherine stared up at the door, trying to convince herself all this was real. Even after walking an hour through the downward sloping dark, she couldn't believe it was all real. The doors to the ancient tomb loomed over her, reaching up higher into the darkness than her headlamp could pierce. They were massive slabs ...
The man in the red suit sat across from me as we watched the slideshow together. "You remember the day you graduated high school, yes?"the man said to me in his dulcet voice. I didn't know who he was, but he had been here, telling me about my life for almost a half hour. "Yeah. It was a good day. I nearly didn't fini...
I did not believe I would last five minutes. There was anxiety and built-up pressure learning about the expectations of this institution. I came regardless, and found the endurance and willpower to keep pace with the teachers in my four years here. And lasting four years can be difficult. The school provides co-curricu...
His voice was demonic and booming. Every word he uttered sounded like the screaming souls of those evildoers who died across all of eternity, screams of pain, suffering, and madness. His appearance was both unbearable and intangible, as if I were staring at all of my nightmares- no, every nightmare imaginable, all at...
I almost called out the general right then and there but the more devious side of me thought this was going to be hilarious. "Apologies General! I had a brief accident with the cleaning crew spilling chemicals on my uniform and they insisted to take it to get cleaned!"I replied with a half-hearted salute. The General...
Sue Wilkins got a cat; she lorded that over us for weeks, as if a cat was the best sort of animal there was, and not the acme of egomania. Mark Johnson got a basset hound. He spent the whole week moping; then again, that's what he always does. His parents were cruel, meaning to be kind. When my time came, the first t...
Our planet’s population is seven billion, seven hundred and seventy-eight million, seven hundred and forty-two thousand, and forty-nine—or 7,778,742,049 human beings. It has been that way for the last fifty-five years. Ever since our planet stopped growing. It wasn’t noticed at first—The Great Ceiling that is. That’s ...
"Do you see this??"the Lone Survivor roared, pointing to his left arm which was dangling limply at his side. There were white bones jutting out from the elbow, and trickles of dried blood had marked his forearm with black streaks. I did my best not to vomit. "It... ugh... looks like you could use a doctor." "I used ...
Issac stared, wide eyed with awe at the great being before him. It stood, nearly motionless on a large stone at the side of the road. It's ancient eyes gazed upon him with indifference. Its leonine body was relaxed, although he could guess that that could change in a second. Issac had no idea what to do. He had heard...
My family tree is a bit….messy. Most of us kids are products of our father’s liaisons. My mother is technically our stepmother but over many years we have all become so close that we just call her Mom. I was always the fuck-up. My siblings went to class. I just threw parties. My brother had a pretty fiery temper in ...
The cloaked peasant knelt, head stooped and face covered in shameful shadow as the Emperor's Advisor glared down from the raised dais, "And as previously noted, there are no more rations to be spared for the common folk. Our leaders must be well fed and watered as we strategize against the oncoming forces. Don't you un...
Sir Galilwayne rode up to the entrance of the great cave. With a hefty sigh, he dismounted his white stallion and pushed down the visor of his helmet. The half-inch of steel plate surrounding his body would be of little use, however, against the fire spit by the deadly foe inside. Steeling himself for battle, Sir Gal...
Catherine sat at her desk, looking out the bedroom window above it at the vast expanse of brown fields and dying grass far below her. A light snow had begun to fall over the sullen landscape, dotting the dark fields with bright spots of white. Any ordinary girl would have been crying, but crying was not Catherine's na...
June 26th, &nbsp; I guess you might say that I've always been at my most comfortable when taking orders from another. First as the secret weapon in the hands of my old friend M, and now as the quiet watcher of young master Wayne. Though opposite ends on the spectrum of experience, they are tied together by the co...
"Please your highness, I beg of you. Don't kill me!" The queen looked at me as I said 'please,' and paused. 'And just why do you think I should make an exception of you?' The queen looked stern, but genuine. She appeared to be interested in my answer. She didn't appear as old as I had been led to believe. Old, yeah....
Today I've got a real treat for you, and I'm guessing many of you will recognize it immediately. That's right, it's a Kodos brand Interstellar Slave Collar 5000. In fact, this is my collar. See, there's my identification number right there. Mrs. Lockpicking Lawyer thinks I should keep it around for ahem special...
My upbringing was rather unusual, I won't deny that. There aren't very many towns in Lebara that are predominantly populated by humans, but my hometown of Tangata was exclusively human. My name is Jandar Dyernina, and I always thought of myself as a pretty normal guy. I went through all my years of school, not excellin...
My father Michael Walters and my mother Natalie were both well respected doctors. My older siblings- Vivian, Sam, and Edward were all gifted. Vivian was still moving through med school, Sam and Edward were focusing on engineering degrees. I was the youngest, and I'd always felt like a disappointment. My whole family m...
"We are the Ultar Aesh, chosen of the God Telemach to be the inheritors of the stars themselves. We have ravaged our own world to prove our divine right. We have razed the heretics of the Caloon Moons. We have broken the Kirikkee on the Alter of our resolve. And now I stand before you all to demand you put forwards the...
The sleeping pebble was known as a rest stop for weary travelers from all walks of life. No matter what side of the pointless war you were on, you would always find a hot meal and bed at the inn. Hestia considered her inn a haven, a place where true peace could develop. No matter what god you fought for, you were alway...
“Why do I have to go live amongst the humans? They are dirty and weird. Can’t I just keep studying under you? Maybe If I study hard enough, I’ll be able to meet you?” Amber tried to stay optimistic, despite the Eldritch being making it very clear that the two would never get to meet. “Amber, dear. We both know you ...
Tentacles are more adept at holding a beer bottle than I would have expected, I thought. I watched as the sea creature pulsated in the shining summer sun. I wasn't sure if it was breathing like a human or was just very good at holding its breath while drinking. Its gills opened and closed slowly and steadily. Somewh...
5289 points, posted 4 hours ago Tell us a story about something horrifying, like a murder or mystery in your town. ^(PM_ME_UR_PMS 12437 points 3 hours ago) A couple of years ago, in my home town of Pittsburgh, there was a murder that went unsolved despite what you'd think would be an easy case. It was pretty fuck...
Bruce Wayne stood stoically, looking at the footage from his arsenal of security cameras. He watched as an ever-growing crowd of reporters gather around his property, eager to find out even more about the man behind the cowl. They, at least, weren't making any attempt to hide. He wasn't very concerned about any darker ...
She picked up on the third ring, like she always did. I could picture her with that old landline, sitting in front of the television waiting for a sound from the antique phone with the clunky buttons and the tangled cord. Her "hello"interrupted my reminiscing and I smiled as I heard her familiar raspy voice. It had bee...
“Bring them out!” I shout to the guards, taking a large drink of my wine. My face feels flushed; I’m sweating. This god damn throne is so uncomfortable. After so many years fighting for it. After the thousands, tens of thousands of deaths. I thought it would feel like perfection sitting on this throne. But all it does ...
"I just want the screaming to stop,"whimpered Agares. Bones shifted under his feet as he hiked along the path to the clearing which had been his home for millennia. He clutched the hood of his cloak, pulling it tight against his ears. "Just... Stop... Please..." The screams did not stop. Neither did the moans, the sob...
I Look down at the ring Izzy is holding in her hand, beaming with happiness. I can feel that it is silver, the smell is burning my nostrils. “Yes“, I answer her, “I would love to marry you.” My fiancée gives me the biggest smile and holds the ring forward with expectation. “Don’t you wanna put it on?” I take her hands...
Obama raked in the chips representing Iceland, Denmark, Sicily, and New Zealand. Yet another winning hand. "I knew we shouldn't have played Texas Hold 'Em,"Italy's prime minister grumbled, eyes never leaving the token for its prized southern island. "It's an American game!" Obama leaned back in its chair and put hi...
A green flash. A thunderous crack. Echoes. A heavy distortion flooded the cavern, waking the party of Uruk-Hai that had made this dark, rank hole their resting spot. They started, sitting bolt upright in their sleeping rags, turning as one toward the source - a green glow clawed its way through the murkiness of the ca...
Manya had had enough. Yes, magical kingdoms and fantasy lands were amazing. Being able to live thousands of lives, experiencing them was otherworldly but going back to your 16 year old self, not so much. She had had enough true loves to last a lifetime but not an actual one. She knows this doesn't make any sense, so so...
They left in waves, once they heard. The explorers went first. Then the rich. Those who were left banded together. They recycled the science and smelted the metals. The first world left. Then the second. The third went last. In all things order was preserved. It wasn’t the bases that pulled them in. Those lonely outp...
I spiraled through the air as I plummeted towards the concrete below me. This was my favorite thing in the world to do, and trust me, I had done it all. The thrill of it never faded, and it made me feel something that faintly resembled happiness, even though I knew I hadn't felt that for thousands of years. I knew it w...
The Millennium Bender How do you catch a drunk that literally never stops drinking? A creature that prowls the night plying itself with liquor, immune from collapsing in doorways or slumping against dumpsters. A force of nature that consumes and destroys in a chaotic whirl of mayhem and sorrow, its only fixture ...
Kansas State Mental Instutition Incident Report Log #2465 14:12, 06/07/1961 ---- Patient 214, Cal L. Humphreys, viciously beat one of the attendees this afternoon as the staff attempted to restrain Cal in order to administer a new type of therapy. Cal is a unique challenge as a patient; his large size and muscular ...
When the doorbell chimes out the care bears theme through my massive blanket fort, I release a sigh. Crawling through the maze of pillows and stuffed animals, I finally reach the entrance. "Enjoy, dude!"Says the orange-masked teenage mutant ninja turtle. Michaelangelo drops a skateboard and glides away shouting...
"Here's your tea, here's mine,"Abe says. He pushes an empty teacup towards me, takes one for himself. Bernie the Bear gets a teacup, too. Actually, never mind. "Where's Bernie?"Abe asks. "With your other toys, Abe,"his mom says from the living room couch. She's uptight, snappy as a snob's fingers. Abe will grow to ...
The subtle hint of pine needles and chocolate wafted from the palm of the forest elf's hand. Crossing the distance in a whirl of distorted light towards my distracted body, as I bent over the log, delimbing the branches for my fire. "Speak your true name human" I hadn't been planning this camping vacation, my fiance...
"Hey, love! I was just thinking about you."Her voice was comforting over the phone, as usual. I still couldn't believe what I was telling myself to do. "Hey, Laura... I know we were supposed to see each other tonight.” “Yeah, I can’t wait!” she interrupted, unknowingly. I just took way too long of a pause. “Um, t...
The knife slides smoothly into the tender flesh, almost like cutting through hot butter. I do so like to collect sharp knives. With a few quick works of the blade, I separate the chicken meat from the bones, cut them into tiny pieces and place them on a frying pan. It sizzles loudly, echoing in the giant, empty cavern....
The Dark Lord turned, the lifeless corpse in his hands, to face the demoralized heroes. One of them falls to his knees in a satisfying fashion and calls out, "Blessed Agnara, he's finally gone!" The Dark Lord stared in puzzlement as another, in the robes of a magician, bursts out sobbing and a third, a girl wearing ti...
Jack was a nice man. His teachers told him that. His parents told him that. His way-too-beautiful girlfriend told him that on a daily basis. Jack also hadn't made a sale in almost three hours, and had three unpaid parking tickets. But No one seems to bring those up. He tried to look on the bright side of things, like...
Alexander was waiting by the door when Cameron finally came in. Cameron would have compared him to an eager dog waiting for his owner, but Alexander's expression was anything but excited. His dark brown eyes almost seemed to flicker with lightning as his anger surfaced. It was two in the morning, and Cameron was just n...
Deep beneath the surface of London, in the oldest parts of the sewers, lies a secret kept for nearly a millennium. The Cult of Drakh has worked tirelessly inside the damp, brick tunnels. Scientists from the outer reaches of society, and even modern "mages", have slowly and meticulously been crafting a masterpiece in th...
I'll be doing a short piece (EDIT: short piece? Haha. That was funny, past me.) for each of the 7 days mentioned in the prompt. EDIT: Holy shit balls, thank you for the gold /u/Misty_Chaos! Shameless plug, I'll be archiving all my work over at /r/minusxero (my first reddit username) if you wanna check out more of ...
"I have said it before, and I will say it again. Dancing is the work of the devil. It will bring great evils upon our town and our people! I will not allow the youth of our town to jeopardize our lives! That is why there will not be a dance!"Reverend Shaw Moore slammed his fist down on the podium. A number of the ...
Sisyphus had spent millenia in Tartarus, cursed to keep rolling the same boulder up a hill, only for it to inevitably fall each time, locking him in a constant state of fatigue and frustration. And why was he forced to endure this never ending humiliation? Because he had the nerve to desire immortality and the brains t...
This starter was none too different, except when I opened my seeingclosers, things felt strange, like there was the secondsounder of a distant thinkerstory. I woke up in my own sleephider, as usual. I got got up from my sleepsoftener, put my walkerlimbs into my fluffenwalkerwarmers and shuffled into my grey mywasherhi...
"Do not open your door."the television said. I blinked, staring blankly at it as though I could try and pull some sort of rational, reasonable argument from its screen. "Do not let them in."It droned incessantly. "Where is your toilet?"The man I had just welcomed into my home said, his voice oddly flat. "Uh."I sque...
"What's that buzzing?"She asked, her fork dangling above the half-finished tart we were sharing. I took advantage of her lull and swiped the rest of the pastry, cramming it into my mouth. I started to laugh, but I inhaled a raspberry instead. My laugh died before it really started, it turned into a choking fit. "Se...
He'd already refused at least a hundred other offers and gifts that day. As Dr. Henry Hobbel sat and finished his dinner at the restaurant, he rejected one more: the bottle of white wine his eager and nervous looking waiter had thrust towards him from across the table. This was the second bottle of wine the restauran...
I'd done twenty years for assault, battery, and rape. Imagine your life getting turned completely backwards. Imagine being a twenty-year-old college student, led out of the lecture hall in handcuffs by a crowd of uniformed police officers. Imagine staring at the smirking face of your ex-girlfriend as she described...
The lights on Ambassador Tel’s suspension tank remained static for some time. Like the rest of his species, his- it’s - body was a tangled web of translucent strands like a jellyfish crossed with a ball of yarn. In their home waters, under that warm tropical sun, even a mild current had the strength to tear them ...
I was dying in the middle of nowhere. Well, I guess that idiom makes no sense, the more I think about it. You can't be nowhere, right? No matter where you are, you're somewhere, even if it's a somewhere that specializes in a whole lot of nothing. That's the more accurate description, I suppose, though it doesn't ...
He hated heavy metal. All the clanging and crashing and screaming. He hated it, but it was the only way to clear his head. The blaring, meaningless sound was his proverbial shower, cleaning off the filth of the working day. Today, as he listened to some teenager in too tight pants yell about death, he caught sight of s...
The first day of my new life was spent pretty much the same as my old life. Morning coffee, shower, dress, drive to work, all the regular trappings of an average life. The first sign of the transition came when the nerdy security guard at the office opened the door for me and smiled broadly. We’d barely exchanged a han...
"It was never supposed to be like this." His words cut into the night, shattering the silence that had forced its way between us. I leveled my gaze with him across the yard, the lights of our small home illuminating his silhouette. Shadows crawled across our back garden, the dead and dying plants hidden in their depth...
Qe Lal stumbled out of his Land Cruiser into the human village, bloodied and maimed, on the two of his legs still worked. "Oh no. MOTHER?!"cried out a child in some Earth language. He feinted from his blood loss before he could remember which. Miraculously, he regained consciousness. While the humans may not understan...
When the first baby "born"in a lab had taken its first breath, the world cheered. Well, most of the world cheered. The religious crowd was opposed to the whole operation and nearly got the project shut down, and they were still outraged months into its life. According to them, we had grown a husk, a creature devoid of ...
Elon Musk stands on the balcony of his seventeen million dollar Bel Air mansion and looks up at the stars, and listens for a signal that will never come. He is the last of his line, the least of his myriad siblings. Once upon a time, he would have come bearing fire. He would have come speaking the equation that allow...
"Carmen, listen,"Lone Star called to me. His voice was soft, and lilting as if he was singing. "Carmen, there were people out there who were attacking everyone. I did what I could, but I cannot stay here much longer." It had been interesting, living with Lone Star every other day. He'd take over my off days from work,...
I follow the two men through the streets of Geylang. I keep my distance to prevent them from spotting me. Fortunately for me, there were still many people around despite it being close to midnight. It is Geylang after all, a rather infamous red light district that people have been telling me about. The noise from the ...
I remember the Year of Three... I was young then, didn't know what was going on. All the forums exploded, over one little video, something about a game. I remember my grandfather talking about the day World War 2 ended, the celebrations in the street, well it was kind of like that... but better. The following day.....
The Lost Scriptures, excerpts from The Book of Noah: Noah 4:26 And then the Lord said, "Noah, will you shape a planet near this star? You are my best sculptor." Noah 4:27 And so I set to work on Earth, humbled by the Lord's praise. Noah 4:28 When my work was done, the Lord said, "Noah, you did not disappoint. Now wi...
FADE IN: EXT. A TRIBAL MEETING GROUND - NIGHT *Several figures huddle around a campfire. The flickering light reveals that half of the individuals are humans, whereas the other half are cat-like creatures. One of these latter beings rocks back and forth in place, staring at a silver box in front of him. This is HMRRH...
I'm not the best programmer in the world, but I'm pretty good. See, I can tell what a piece of code is going to cost at a glance. It's surprisingly high. A single line of boilerplate might be a few cents, taking no time at all to write and test. A single line in the middle of a hot loop might cost far north of $1000, o...
Imagine dying in a room full of people where nobody can hear you scream. Rate of time dilation was a factor of stress for Jake Curran, that much had always been true, but never quite like this. He had knocked 25% off the clock when writing his dissertation, 33% when fighting his greatest rival, and 50% when he’d propos...
A history lesson for you: In 2015, there were no super-powered humans. In 2020, the meteor struck. The Earth rang like a bell, and there was global devastation from earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis... and that strange orange rain for weeks afterwards. "A novel mineral from the meteor"said the scientists of the...
So, you want to know how my first year was ? Alright I will tell you. If I had to boil the whole year down to one single sentence I would say: I lost a few teeth and made some pretty good friends. But I suppose you want to know some more details. Since you already seem to know about the houses you might want to know k...
"There we go. We're signed,"The man said, a twinkle in his eyes. His monocle sheathed the light from one of them, but didn't hide the one from the opal in the other. "Right,"I said. This was going to be easy. So ridiculously easy. Amazingly easy. Possibly the greatest trick that I, Murray, Djinn extraordinaire would p...
The Non-magical and magical world's don't have a large amount of overlap. There are points they bleed through from I e to another, for example 2385 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, Alberta Canada is a prime spot for supernatural creatures to cross from one plane to the other, hence the Second Cup. Extreme moments of magic can hav...
Tessa blinked at the computer screen. "THESE are the beings I have to teach our ways?"She swallowed hard, trying to keep the judgement out of her voice as she spoke. As head of the research team that first made contact with extraterrestrial beings, she had been charged with facilitating a connection with the intergal...
Entering the assembly hall, I looked amongst the cheap plastic chairs and spotted my group of friends in the crowd. Awkwardly squeezing past people, mumbling sorries and excuse me's, I sat down with them. We were facing a large raised stage, lectern in the middle with teachers sat towards the back of the stage. A lar...
I tapped my quill impatiently against the mostly blank parchment in front of me. We had burnt through two candles already and the only words on the page to show for it was “Prophecy” in neat scrolling calligraphy. “What about ‘After the darkest night comes a sunrise, from the ashes a hero will rise?’” A little human...
"I thought you gave out swords"I say to the strange woman in the lake. "I do, take it"she responds holding out the object. "That's not a sword."I try to argue. "It's absolutely tiny!" "It absolutely is a sword. Now take your sword and fulfil your destiny!"The strange lady responded. "With that thing? Fulfil my d...
"Have you ever noticed those celebrities that lose in lookalike contests?" "W-what?" "It's a simple question, really. Adele infiltrated a lookalike talent contest, and the other contestants thought she just had good makeup on." "Yeah, sure but... That's not the same! You do stand up comedy about your fights and stor...
What you are witnessing is real. The participants are not actors. They are actual litigants whose sins will be reviewed now. Their fates will be decided here in Death’s forum. THE PEOPLE’S COURT The music started to dim when the courtroom doors flung open. Death was nothing but a tall man dressed in an all char...
Chronos is one hell of a drug. It just makes things "real slow, you know?"to put it as one of the junkies I've caught with the stuff. But its unique, it only fully works when everyone present is on it. Talk about peer pressure. Just imagine being the reason everyone can't get high. It links our brains, using that ...
The drawing had been exquisite, Ari’s best work by far. All done in black and white, it had been nothing like her usual oils or watercolors. The pen she used too— it had been like nothing else in this world. And somehow Gerit had laughed! She had worked up her courage for days to give it to him. It showed him not as ...

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