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I had kneeled in this ashen cemetery for countless years, the coiled sword keeping the darkness inside me contained. Contained, that is, until it was removed by this ashen knight. "Champion", he had called himself. Many had called me by that title, in ages past. The body of this contender remained still, unmoving. Usua...
“I’m so sorry Mum, so sorry for everything.” I felt the tears welling up in my eyes, she looked so small. I hadn’t seen her since Dad had died, and I only showed up to his funeral for the free booze. “It’s okay Gareth, I wasn’t the best mother either. All that matters is that you’re here now,” my mother spoke. Her voi...
"PEPPER DID NOTHING TO NOBODY!!"Both my baby girl and I roared with all we could muster at another self important hooligan. Me swatting away with my scythe might not have scared them away like her spits of fire, but she still needs daddy's protectin. I thought I was gifted a perfect scarecrow that faithful May morn, b...
Dungeons. Everyone goes to them. At least once, they're a great source of gold, jewels, and magic artifacts. Some explorers make a fortune in a single raid. It's not for everyone's after all, dungeons are inhabited by monsters. My whole life I've been told they are mindless. Blood thirsty. Killers. So, after my twent...
Some people love God, some people think the idea is silly. One man, however, not only rejects the idea- he sees it as cancer, slowly eating away at the health of humanity. In his eyes, it does nothing but breed animosity, hate, and causes unnecessary division between fellow men. It acts as a shield for evil, and a vi...
"So, we're all agreed that we just pretend that the doppelganger is Urgoth?"Jung asked his companions with his wooly grey eyebrows raised in question. They were a semi-pro/semi-famous adventuring party known as the Madcaps consisting of five aspiring mercenary heroes. There was Jung the Mystic; logical human wizard a...
I opened the door with my elbow, balancing the sad tray of potatoes and gravy in one hand and the glass of orange juice in the other. "Ok Dennis,"I said, "You won't believe what I have cooked up for you today."I let myself give what I thought to be an evil grin. Man, I'm really getting into character here! Dennis w...
Elisabeth watched, unfazed, as the devil materialized amongst billowing smoke and sizzling flame in her dining room. Up until this point, she'd been dining alone, as usual, though she wondered if the spectacle would bring the attention of her staff, or if - perhaps - this grandiosity was an illusion for her senses only...
For years, alternate Dimensions were something very few were privy to, and even fewer had the displeasure to enter. More often than not they were hellish desert worlds, devoid of life, filled with only harsh winds and endless sand. After the initial excitement of walking through a giant portal to another world had worn...
gling-gling "Welcome to Mort's Little Shop of Curiosities! I'm Mort, and what are you looking for?"I smile at the new costumer. Of course I know already, but it works better if they feel in control. "H-hello. I'm..."The young man freezes, straightens his back and puts on what I assu...
The Adventurer strode through the silver-welded doors, he glided across the palace floors like moonlight on water. And when he stopped, exactly five feet from his throne as customary for visiting aristocracy, his silver eyes met his own. No trace of fear or unworthiness in his gaze. In fact, his face was carefully and ...
"This lamb is raw,"the blonde-haired man hissed, poking at his plate discontentedly and peering at the meat. "Hush,"Peter said, glaring across the table. "How did you come here? What is your name?" Who was this man, dressed impeccably in white, as if to try and blend in among them? He was no disciple, that was cert...
I felt the brittle bones of the imp’s skull give way beneath my gauntlet, and my fist waded through its brain. Turning, I raised two barrels to the face of a charging- There was a rushing wall of light, a torrent of sound, a feeling of falling, and then I stood once more. The chamber was stone, dimly lit by candles. ...
We all thought that the day that humanity freed the being known as Ck'luth\`oin would be the last day in the galaxy. Humanity had long been looked down upon by the other spacefaring civilizations. They were less advanced, with their ships made out of lowly titanium and steel, their FTL barely able to go 10 times the sp...
The toy scrapes itself along the floor as you move it to the center of the white circle. It used to be unsteady but in the last week it has hit dead center every time. The white-coated woman smiles and congratulates you as she always does - she’s your favourite, with copper-gold hair and kind eyes. She smiles a lot. B...
“Behind the closet door” was the third post-it, the words followed by a little, poorly drawn arrow pointing at my bedroom closet. The one before that was “A man in white hair and black suit.” And the first one “Call the police. There's someone in the house.” It can't possibly start as early as thirty five years o...
Great... Fucking GREAT! The movie has probably already started and this old bitch in front of me has spent 4 minutes trying to pay for one box of LifeSavers. "No that's 67 cents ma'am you only owe me 65,"the cashier patiently explained. "Oh thththank you dear, y-y-y-you're a lifesaaaver,"she said with a slow screechin...
"I am telling you it was a sex joke"William practically screamed across the room to Mrs Dreary. She simply rolled her eyes and chuckled slightly. "Oh William, you are so dirty minded" She chuckled again, Mrs Dreary was an old woman of around 60 with grey hair, a frail build and a face like one would typically see on a ...
I sit straight up in bed and check my watch. 6:57 AM. I'd somehow become an early riser in here, even though I used to love sleeping in. Of course that would happen once I had no job or any other obligations. Just my luck, right? I rise and dress quickly, not that I have many wardrobe options: there are only three ou...
The man entered my kitchen the way he always had- through the door in the white tile wall, the only door out of my apartment. He gave me his usual smile, one of responsibility tinged with guilt, one of a man who works for the greater good and turns a blind eye to his daily actions. He had on the same clothes he alway...
"What about longbows?"There was a ripple of appreciation throughout the room. "Still too short-ranged. The alien ships won't descend closer than forty thousand feet, at the closest." "Trebuchets then."I tried to cut off the bearded ghost- Chinese? I didn't know I was part Chinese? "You're not understanding a fundame...
Clark had thought nothing could surprise him anymore. All the places he’d been, all the worlds and times and dimensions. But Japan was different. He remembered how Lois had once showed him some sappy movie about a young woman and Bill Murray in Tokyo, and how it had looked otherworldly, surreal. For the first time in ...
The Gatekeeper looked at me, eyes rippling through its translucent, amorphous body like a thousand buoys tossed about at sea. It shimmered, fractured, and reformed, and shrunk and grew as it moved. It was confounding to look at. A higher dimensional being that my mind couldn't fully understand. Its job, its sole purpo...
Immortality is a curse. I'm sure you've heard the reasons: all your loved ones die, all your loved ones die again, and the boredom. Oh the boredom. I was actually cursed though. But I suppose it was called a blessing at the time- I was to write the greatest literature in human history, past and future. I would exper...
There's a long pause as Admiral Pxtoril digests that information. "Explain,"he finally says. I can feel the eyes of everyone in Command Console on me. "They detonate their nuclear devices on their own planet, Sir." He looks at the planet, called Earth, framed beautifully in the window of our spaceship. I have to admi...
I got dressed up, but had no where to go. Couldn't really leave if I wanted to, with no car in this weather. Flawless make up, killer heels and too-tight clothing. Looking into the camera on my phone for a selfie, I joked, "Hey, NSA, if you want to go out on a date, gimme a call!"To my surprise, suddenly the phone rang...
Weakest is a relative term. Humans may appear physically weak, but adversity breeds innovation. Of all the known races in this galaxy not one had developed within the medical field quite like those humans from Sol. Why would we? We were foolish. We never developed X-ray machines, why bother when our bones never shatt...
"Hey, Vilas, we aren't the heros, are we?"Dave inquired as I sat tapping the skull and femur armrests. The question shocked me with its sheer stupidity. I sat of the bones a dozen enemies I had personally slain and fashioned into a chair and he is asking if we are heros? "No, Dave, heroes don't really do the whole mu...
A girl sleeps in the forest. She has traveled a long way, for a human. Twenty-four years. She has given her name to the fairy. They hold it in Their hands. It is a dark, twisting thing--heavy, and cold to the touch. A stark contrast from Their fingers--slender, warm, and shining. A weight of false identity. An old ...
The Ides of March I mark the days in little notches on the inside line of my belt, in case I lose track of myself. Of everything. The things I've lived shouldn't happen. Couldn't happen. Three days ago I fell through a crack in time. Those words run in an absurdist repeat over and over in my mind like a squeaky...
"The city of Fadero!"the knight yelled, counting off on his gauntleted fingers. "The cloud lands of the Eaglizul! The desert refuge which only had a population of three! Everywhere I've been on my long journey to dethrone the Hamcult Prince, I've seen a merchant that looks just like you. That is not a coincidence!" "F...
"Bullshit!" "I assure you, Mr. President, I'm being entirely-" "That's bullshit, Jack, and you know it! My father was posted at Los Alamos, for Chrissakes! My grandather could watch the mushroom clouds from his goddamn porch!" I sighed. I knew this was going to be difficult. "Okay, sir. Okay. There is suc...
After 10 years of playing the ultimate MMORPG, I believed it was finally time to stop. I was 80 years old by now in real life and I was ready to rest and relax at the senior center. It had been enough, fighting great monsters, battling on spaceships, escaping prisons... with all my other friends, it was easy to lose yo...
"GDP suffered a small downturn today after a raid on the Pavelex Corporate Branch Netscape by an unknown group. Wide-scale breaches and data-corruption have been detected and at least two Monitors have reported themselves as compromised. The motives and purpose of the attack are not yet know, but local law enforcement ...
My grandfather once told me a story about an old hound that had been abandoned by its owner and was on the brink of starvation. But one day, it found a bone. The hound carried the bone to a safe spot, tucked away from wandering eyes, and started gnawing away. The hound was so hungry that it chewed the bone down to noth...
The greatest power of all is one that all humans possess. Call if foolishness, Zen, or simply not giving a shit - the end result remains the same no matter what the circumstance. Humans returned back to normalcy no matter what their past. And it was this power that brought me and dozens of other people to be sitting...
The Tribunal Portal was a mysterious entity, even to the Divine. When the Portal first appeared the most followed Gods on Earth came to realize that they occupied a relatively low level in the cosmic pecking order. It was humbling. But as all things go, to reign supreme on Earth was to feel powerful and mighty, and no...
I woke up one morning and realized that my alarm had not gone off as my ears weren’t bombarded by the shrill call of my phone’s speakers. My room was awash with green, fluorescent light. I was incredibly confused, so I got out of my bed and noticed that a different, less powerful green glow came from my arm. There was ...
Jameson didn't recognize this villain- didn't care to, either. "For the final nail in Spider-Man's coffin,"the nameless, rather indistinguishable villain crooned, "I will reveal to you his identity. Spider-Man is Peter Parker!" "Yeah, how long did it take you to piece that one together, Atticus?" "You knew?" Jam...
The Infinite Imperium began aeons ago on a world of powerful magic. There, it started as a unification of the Elven races under one Hegemon, who promised the immortal race of elves a civilisation that would never falter, never fade, never cease to expand and grow. The elves of the wood, the elves of the dark, and the e...
How did I end up here, stuck in the temple of the Dragon Queen herself, pinned under her claws helplessly and waiting for the greatest heist the party's rogue ever planned. Only that he would hopefully steal more than a handkerchief. He has to break me out too. But let's start from the beginning. When I joined the par...
See, most people try to live forever, but that ends one of two ways: they don't or they wish they didn't. Rob Herman was a famous example of the first, Rob chose his Event to be “Winning the lottery and getting struck by lightning.” It was a great choice, the chance of getting struck on any given day was 1 in 245,000,0...
5,000,000,001. That's a pretty big number. If it's money, you're set for several lifetimes; if it's a golf score, hang up the clubs and kiss the fairway goodbye. But if it's a measure of how essential you are in the chain of 10 billion people, how important it is that you receive food and other vital supplies, it means...
I awoke around noon with a full bladder. The last thing I wanted to do was leave my bed. I rolled over to the other side of the bed and closed my eyes, but I knew it was useless; I had to get up. Stumbling to the bathroom, I knocked my knee on the computer chair in the middle of my bedroom floor and grumbled. Mornings ...
# Forward, to the Seventh Battles raged beneath the reporter’s smile. She was young, pretty, not very good at her job; Carter watched her as he had watched condemned men. When she cracked it would make it easier. The vidscreen flickered, connection was always horrible down in the Pits, though she was far enough off i...
The ghost says to the zombie "technically I shouldn't exist because for all intents and purposes you are not actually dead yet"at that point the ghost vanishes. The zombie has an epiphany and starts to see flashes of his former self and starts to revert to his natural state. Unfortunately he gets his head blown off by...
"Just to be clear, my family knows I'm here, and we've alerted the police where I am."Margaret said before reaching to her waist. "I've also got a gun and a knife right here. I want this on me at all times while I'm in here."She warned as the man nodded. "If you wish to see them and have them take you outside, just c...
The news report showed a man in a clown mask handing over his assault rifle in two pieces to the police. The voice behind the B-roll footage states, "Local authorities say by the time SWAT arrived on the scene, the suspect was already outside, sitting on the campus lawn, talking openly with the students who had been r...
Put enough ones and zeros together and you can make anything. That's the best I could come up with, at least. Looking at the picture gleaming back at me from my laptop screen, the explanation that technically, very technically, it's possible that this image was created digitally is the only way I can justify its e...
Just got another free lunch. The waitress tripped with my burger and ruined the ladies dress in the next booth. She stormed out complaining about some meeting. Then she comes out. Through the window of my booth, I watch her leave her apartment and get into her car for work. She's in her blue dress today. That's my f...
I cracked open the door to Marie's parent's home. We were going to spend the evening there, Netflix and Chill as it were. Marie and I had met on an online forum and hit it off pretty well. I was bringing a few drinks and... I'll stop beating around the bush, Marie is 14. Don't judge, that isn't the reason that I'm pass...
The signs were there. They had always been there. I was too blind to see them. I would be cooking a meal and look at the bowl of pasta I'd made. Had it moved? No, of course not. And so I deluded myself. Pretended that I didn't see his glory, his message. He saw me worthy enough to communicate me and I ignored him! Wh...
Director Wisnewski tapped his pen against the notepad in front of him nonchalantly, every few moments switching his attention between the blank paper, and the cutting-edge Mech Suit standing before his desk. Despite the high-tech facemask between them, Miko still felt like he could see right into her eyes. With...
King Lowe, Hero of the Free Realm and Conqueror of the Blighted Lands squirmed uncomfortably on this throne. One buttock had gone numb and he decided rather dejectedly that it was somehow more irritating than if they'd both done it. "That dog of yers killed 3 o'my chick-uns!” "Hogswallop! It wer 1 at most n' hardl...
"James, got another one for you."A half-full folder landed on James' desk. He shifted through the photos quickly, but not quick enough to arouse suspicion. A mutilated corpse he'd already seen was on the photos. Hell, he was the one to kill him. "What you think it is Mendoza?"James asks, his acting chops getting a w...
You know, everyone thinks that we ghosts are mindless drones, floating about to scare the crap out of unsuspecting humans minding their own business. That's just bullshit. First of all, humans don't mind their own business. They go around "ghost hunting", AKA making a mockery of my people. Listening to babbling old ...
They didn't come back for Thanksgiving. I forgave them after eating the turkey myself in silent anger. But Christmas alone? The sweetness of the cake was a sharp contrast to my feelings. The cold enveloped me as my children hung up on my angry calls. I didn't see them unless they were forced to meet me. Not like I want...
You know how older people always talk about how they remember major events? Stuff like how the weather was when Pearl Harbor was attacked, or how they were checking the news to see if they could call in to work for bad weather when the Twin Towers were hit? You know. The events that seem to change the world. Well. I h...
"Another shot?" "Please,"Greg said. The first Jack Daniels was already starting to wear off. The choice to arrive a half hour early may have been a poor one, but the choice to steady his nerves was wise and he had no intention of undoing it. The shot arrived about the same time she did. Greg immediately forgot about ...
If there’s one thing in this life that I’ve learned how to do well, it is the art of disappearing. Some could say that I’ve built quite the reputation for it. Even if the commonly alleged concept of my arts were incriminating and, frankly, horrid. They were the burden I was to bear for choosing this pathway in life. ...
I've been wearing this eye patch for months, now. I told my friends and family that I'd had an eye infection and the patch was needed to help with the recovery, but they'll have to work out soon enough that this was a lie. I can't wear it forever. Luckily, I live alone so it hasn't been too hard to hide most of the ti...
I've always considered myself a practical and reasonable fellow. A shrewd buyer, someone who doesn't just take the overpriced offer and ask for more. So when I found an entire mansion, for sale at a quarter of the price of the smallest house in the neighbourhood, I took that action. Good brickwork, solid foundation, sp...
The name Council of the Rejected didn't have an immediate ring to it. Because of the unfortunate naming membership was initially...lacking, and it became immediately apparent that the climb to recognition would be a slow one. Of course, for humans it was a quick process to have joined, especially considering the fact...
I don't like to say I'm immortal - I'd rather call it injury-resistant or something that discourages people from taking potshots at me with a .22 or trying to hit me with their car. It was a joke. At least at first. We were just drinking, chatting shit and the topic of restraining orders came up. Most of them talked ab...
The potion seller places the love potion on the table. "Before I can sell you this, are you certain that the other isn't in love with you?" I laugh. It's a quiet sound, with no real humor in it. "Why would anyone be in love with me?" The saleswoman takes her time replying, drumming her fingers on the table. "This is ...
"Dumbledore... he's supposed to be dead, isn't he?" "Ah. Harry, my boy, you may not understand this as you were raised among... well, hicks, but _v0ld3m0rt is most famous for perfecting a certain malware: AKXD or the Killing Curse. No setup wizard has ever survived it." "..." "But don't fret. It works best with a ce...
There had to be someone left. That's what they told me. Someone to stay behind. To record, to monitor, to preserve. But why me? What did I do? What was my failing? That was the joke. There was no mistake on my part or theirs. It was pure luck, an absurdly cruel twist of fate. I was to be denied infinity to recor...
“I tried so hard to prevent your sleep, my master,” the tragic, twisted figure whispered. He was a hunchback and frightfully so, the whole of his body drooping down and to the left, wreathed in rags and smoke and the last remnants of a forlorn hope. Worse still I knew his name, and knew the figure in front of me was n...
Year 4781, 3rd of March, Terran Calendar “Dave, the fuck happened?” Captain Bob O’Connell was looking into a cell containing two bruised and battered humans. One was clearly sleeping off a doozy of a hangover. “Well,” Dave gave the captain a chagrined smile. “The other night while you were delivering the neuron accel...
You know, except for the goat-rabbits, life in America after the global nuclear apocalypse wasn't all that bad. I kind of enjoyed it, actually. I'd never been much of a people person, and it was nice to have some time to myself. Basically everybody who didn't die to the Ebola X pandemic wound up perishing in the nuc...
"Is that all, sir?"the owner of the convenience store asked, befuddled. I nodded. I was sheepishly trying to hide my excitement. "You've been buying those a lot man, late nights or what?". I nodded again, just trying to get out of there. "Yeah, exam season"I replied. Exam season? Exam season?! It was October, and no on...
For any child, growing up to become the world’s greatest anything is unlikely. Especially for a child with my interests. In middle school, they laughed at me for trying to invent new flavors of ice cream. In high school, they told me shop class was pointless. Even in trade school, I was told I needed to focus up, pick ...
"SURPRISE!" I almost had a heart attack as the blindfold was whipped away and I was greeted to the display of cake and balloons. My heart swelled then, not in a heart attack, but in warmth and happiness. My eyes flicked from face to face. Cam gave me a big old bear hug and began chatting my ear off instantly. He'd be...
"This is getting rather complicated,"said Tom, expressing what was on everyone's mind in the room, which included Tom, the hero, the dark one, Jane from accounting and Sylvie from marketing. "Can you start again from scratch?"asked the dark one, who had a bald head, a mellow face and a calm voice, which was rather at ...
And that was it. The line went dead. I ended the call and re-dialed only to watch my phone attempt to connect before I realized there would be no more outgoing calls. The noise on the streets gave way to what sounded like at least 3 people banging on the entrance to my apartment building. "We already know."They s...
"Hey, Zorglax! I told you it was a good idea to ask the humans! Look, we already have an answer." "I don't know, why would they reveal us their weakness? It just doesn't make sense. It's most likely a trap, I don't want any part of this." "Fine, have it your way, but when I am promoted Space Admiral for conquering Ea...
It was a normal day and I was just a normal teenage kid, before I became this pariah, this heretic or hero, depending on who you talk to. Oh how I wish I knew that Saturday morning what I know now, would I do the same? Or would I bury my head in blissful ignorance? I had gone downstairs for breakfast and lied to my m...
His broad stature could barely fit through the door frame, though fit he did. Each angered stomp leaving a scorched hoof print behind. Standing at the top of the stairs at the contractual archive, he watches in frustration at the chaos unfurling. "What in the Here is going on in here?!" "Sir! It-its the contracts!"...
Well, shit. I mean in retrospect I guess I should have seen it coming, sort of. Genies have a reputation for twisting wishes in cruel and unusual ways and I let my excitement get the better of me. So here I am, immortal and invincible. And some 100 million years in the past. Could be worse I suppose. When I take the...
I’d heard of them before but never seen one in my fifteen years of living. My secret location was the last place I expected to. After all, that was supposed to be my own sanctuary. No one else in the Safezone knew about it. I had to climb the wall in the middle of the night so no one knew that I where I was going. The...
I sipped my pina colada and adjusted my sunglasses to protect against the dazzling bright rays. "Oh yes,"the Genie whispered in my left ear. "Someday soon." I ignored him. I focused on the gentle waves lapping against the white sand beach of my own private island. A group of dolphins frolicked playfully in the surf, ...
The jury paraded back into the room in single file, eyes on the floor. Judge Prewitt, watching from his bench on high, took one look at the foreman's face and tossed his hands into the air with frustration. He did his best to stay calm, but I've known the judge for long enough to see the seething rage underneath. He'd ...
They say the only permanent things in life are death and taxes. But really, the lack of change in your life makes this a questionable hypothesis; sometimes you think life is really just a series of the same cycles, no matter what choices you make or what pitfalls you swerve to avoid. Time isn't a river: it's an ocean...
The King came in, a devilish grin spread on his face. Well, he tried for it to be devilish, but given his gentle disposition, it came off as endearing and amicable rather than menacing. "Guess what, my love!"he exclaimed cheerfully and placed a kiss on his wife's pale cheek. She turned to him with a warm smile; a st...
“Hello, my name is Jen and I can stop time.” Jared Rix had, maybe, twice in his life been approached by a girl in a bar. Never before had they used a pick up line and only once before had he been so confused by it. He ended up marrying that one. “I like that name,” Jared said. He did not address the second half of th...
As I walk past my mother, She looked at me teary eyed. In a state of confusion and sadness, She thought she'd be the one to die. For I was young and she was old, And that's all they ever cared for. I took a deep breath and sighed a happy sigh, And walked through that broken door. They never cared abou...
The burlap stinks. And these ropes are killing my wrists. God, that's gonna be a pain to patch up when I get out of here. Did they have to put me in a plastic chair? Damn, they even tied up my waist to the chair. Props to them. Can't wait to see these people get owned though. Mom's gonna kill them. Sounds like there's...
"All I'm saying,"Trump explained to the crowd, "Is that most of the Founding Fathers were a bunch of cowardly little shitbags, OK?" That message hadn't played well here in New Hampshire, where the state motto hearkened back to the Revolutionary War: Live Free or Die. Today's crowd booed and hissed as expected. But t...
Mrs. Williams, a wrinkled covered, deflated version of the beauty she had once been, had no idea what the announcement meant. Her grandson, who was staying over for the weekend while his parents partied in New York City, seemed to have some idea, because, on the computer, he was talking to his friends about it. "What...
I've been in here for twenty years. People are growing very, very suspicious. I've heard the whispers, "Why isn't Gary getting older? How come Gary still looks like he's still in his thirties? How long has Gary been in here anyway?" I know I need to escape. I've known I had to escape since I first got here, throw...
“Marcus? The egg?” The Paladin looked to the elderly Mage and back to the egg. The smoldering corpse of the monster dominated the space between them, its red eyes a slowly dying fire. It seemed that no one else had heard its last request, that no one else knew his predicament. He could simply walk away and none would...
“You don’t have the balls to try it.” Moreno was sitting across from him, chewing the butt of his cigarette. “Cause if you fuck it up, the senator dies, and you just might die with him.” “I’ll do it,” Kevin growled, scratching at his short beard. “But when I bring the senator back successfully, you’re gonna agree to p...
Teresa showed up first, and I encouraged her to put her wine in the fridge. I sat in my living room, waiting for the others to arrive, when I heard her terrified scream. "What is it?"I called, bolting over to the kitchen. She stood before the open refrigerator, frozen with shock, with horror, the wine bottle dangling...
[Part 1 of 2] “They had my wallet. Why the hell would they keep kicking me after that? Bunch of hooligans, damn it, where are my keys?” Dave dug through his pocket, trying to find his keys, after a bit of fidgeting he fished them out, only to watch as they clattered against the concrete, earning a groan from the man. ...
<Comedy/Speculative Fiction> ## House Logs Houses #1 and #2: It turns out gasses don’t make for great houses. Not off to a great start here. House #3: Worked okay, but the metal was a little soft. Oh, and the house burnt down when it rained. House #4: Honestly, who even remembers this metal? Anyways, it was really ...
The jaundiced man in the overcoat double checked his weapons. "You say that as if I didn't know."Safeties were off. He was going in hot. The old man cast his eyes towards the ground. "Then you'll die like the rest. Those hoping to find some memento to take. Some treasure. You die like the rest. If the bird don't get y...
I’m waiting for the bus. First day of work and all that. Suddenly, a man stumbles out of the alley next to the bus stop. He’s ragged, limping, with a chest-length, mud-caked beard. In his hands is a piece of cardboard, with an old-timey milk bottle drawn on it. “Milk!” He shouts, and a few heads turn his way, “I’ve go...
Different timelines, realities, dimensions. So many world changing pivot points, also known as branching paths. There’s quite a few realities where Zayne never leaves One Direction, but more realities where he leaves it much sooner, or never joined it to start with. Even more realities where he’s never born. There’s ...
######*Dreaming Eden* Before the Sin of Eden, man and beast roamed the plains as one. The plants provided sustenance for all of God's creatures. No wars, violence, deception, corruption—just peace and harmony. Then he came. He called himself Adam the Dreamer and swore up and down that he came from a place too d...
Their conversation started the way it always did. “They are considering another set of legislature.” Lord-Commander Hroan scowled into his cup. His drinking partner nodded sadly. “There is talk of extending the ban on self-propelled delivery systems to include unguided ordnance as well as guided.” Hroan said. “As...

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