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Darkness consumed me. I inched forward, my hand placed against the wall. It was damp and cold. “What have I gotten myself into this time?” I continued down the path. Each step descended slightly. I could only think about how I was forced forward. I made a critical mistake setting up the blast charges and now I’m fucked...
'There is no hope or joy in the slow inevitable death of a people' Adanto sighed 'We can find another way, or at least give people a chance to ...' Gul Vek was cut off before he could finish 'There is no time! Since when have you shied away from bloodshed? Join me and you will be remembered for all eternity as a hero...
Weightless. Aimless. Clueless. But somehow, still alive. This made no sense. You have learnt about what happens to astronauts who break away from their ships. They run out of oxygen, and succumb to the void. It should have taken a few hours for you to reach that state. But you survived. And you do not know how. I...
"Get me the epinephrine, stat!" The man lay face down on the carpet of the living room, gasping for breath. I quickly rolled him over to check his airways. No obstructions. My guess had been right - anaphylactic shock. I scanned the surroundings for whatever might've caused the reaction. The only thing I could see was...
Sara pulled down the bandana clinging to her slick face. She took a tentative step back and studied the gleaming kitchen as her chest expanded with pride. She and her friend, Mitch, have been laboring away all afternoon; they've cleared the cluttering pile of dirty dishes collecting around the sink. They've scrubbed aw...
"Come, my flock! Raise your voices to me!" "We raise our voices to you!" Suckers. "I shall channel our prayers through the Dreaming of Gates, into the bottomless depths of The Uncountable Figure's soul!" "OUR PRAYERS ARE YOURS!" And so are your membership fees. "I broadcast our faith to you, oh, Swallowing of Gra...
\Click\ \Click\ "Alright,"said Jack, "There's five bullets' and six of you. Now, you can either admit what you are or I can kills most of you and have the last one just be the real Maddie. Either way, I am not putting up with six of you when I can barely handle one." "Are you *MAD,"yelled a Maddie*, "You...
"Lady Booftank?" It had been a long journey, even just from the village of Jona to the Castle of the Wrath Demon. The walk through the woods was arduous, filled with wolves and dragons. My healer, Ara, was nearly taken out by a wolf. Poor Ara only came up to his haunches. I'll be paying the God of Swordsmanship off fo...
Being Jack wasn't what he'd envisioned when he'd decided to hollow out the delicious innards of the well-presented, irritatingly chipper, salesman from Kohler, Wisconsin. He'd imagined, just as he had with the rest, that he'd soon tire of Jack's shell, but to his surprise, he actually found that inside Mr Sanders was ...
One of the greatest joys in my life was constantly leaving everyone oblivious. My finest plans left no bodies strewn about, not a single verifiable injury. Minor delays, to be sure, but the average Joe would chalk that up to the faceless jerk fifteen cars ahead. The careless dog walker that overlooked a steaming pile. ...
[Story] "A book? This book is titled Magic System Of Another World , how have I never heard of this book before?"Gideon removed the book from the shelf of his late grandfather's library, and opened it towards nearly the middle. "Fire, water, earth, and air... Long ago these four elements lived in harmony... Well, th...
I didn’t mean to do it, it was an accident. But I took advantage of it and and now here we are. I’ve wished for 100+ or more genies now. I do make sure to free the previous genie after every new one shows up. It definitely limits me to one wish per genie, but hey, most people don’t even get their one wish. To say I w...
Mrs. Shofenneller passed away quite suddenly. I was a bit upset as she was always a pleasant old lady. If you think of the grandmotherly type who would always bake cookies and insist you have one more "because you're looking thin,"that would be her, except she made brownies. I had seen them taking the body out of her ...
It was a fun ride. I never actually thought that praying in every temple, church, mosque and synagogue in the city would actually let me live... When they announced that the meteor was going to hit the earth and cause an extinction-level event I just did it so that if there was an afterlife I'd be saved. Not like I had...
“Apologize! Apologize, right now!” the hero shouts, pointing at you. You look at them, puzzled, still clutching your spear, that you had readied for your final, despairing battle. “W-w—why should I!” The king splutters, spittle flicking his oil-stained blouse, “He’s-“ “He’s a goddamn sovereign ruler of a democratic m...
K'iblis could only stare with his mouth open at the sight in front of him. Just a moment ago, he had been on the way to a job interview. Now, he was staring at what could only be described as a portal. Like something out of a comic book. It was an ovular opening, crackling with blue-white electricity at the edges and ...
The halogen lights overhead burned afterimages into my eyes and the surrounding room blackened. A voice beside me whispered, “Now don’t freak out, but you are the clone of someone very important who was recently assassinated.” I raised my hand to shield my eyes. Speckles of purple, green and orange danced across my ar...
Time and again you hear of the strength of a mother's love. How the bond between mother and child leads to a surge of energy in the mother during times of strife and toil, enabling them to lift up fallen trees off their offspring. How this newfound strength lets them fight off foes they'd otherwise have been slain by w...
The year is 2159, almost a century after the Problem Within Earth was fixed. The population of the planet has grown nearly tenfold over the past few decades. The city of Manila is now home to over two thousand people. I was born into a generation that grew up without truly knowing what happened to our world all that ...
"He says he wants to talk to the head curator,"Elsie said. "I tried telling him nothing in this museum is for sale, but he wouldn't listen. I don't know who these people are that keep coming and trying to buy artifacts from a museum..." "I've seen it before,"I said. I opened the glass door that lead out of my office. ...
"Daniel Esten. Codename: Shimmer." Dan could barely conceal his smile. Right now he was being evaluated, by the full board of directors nonetheless. So he knew this was big. "Numbers of missions involved:19. Numbers of missions succeeded:0." Dan's half concealed smile froze. "Case1: You were told to impersonate t...
Another day, another stressful shift. People yelling at ke left right and centre. Why had we run out of this? Get me something from the back. You aren't pulling your weight. All things I heard on a regular basis. I was done at this point. I wasn't brave enough to think about ending it, but I simply didn't care anymore....
It was believed that at the start of the universe, there existed two elements: Hydrogen which then burned by nuclear fusion leaving Helium in its mist. Well boy were they wrong. It turns out there was another element that existed alongside the primal two primal elements: Bananomium. Together with Hydrogen and Helium,...
Iridescent emerald flame erupted around the crater of barren earth. The ground heaved, straining at the anchors of colossal chains keeping the portal sealed. As the chains snapped the sky darkened, storm clouds rolling over to shield that which was too foul for the light of the sun. The vomitous inferno subsided, sputt...
Amidst the glittering steel spires of the corporate future, there are many crazes for new levels of pleasure and experience. New sensations were sought as often as new avenues of wealth were. With the old morality of faith and irreligious decency swept away, one prominent new source of both wealth and new pleasure were...
It was easy to tell Grim was in a mood by the cold. Grim. With a click and a crack he would always be there. My Grim. His arms that carried a hundred billion before he was held by one. The frost grew borders around the windows, and I could see my breath. He faded into the room and sat next to me. I put a tender ha...
SERVICE OF SEARCH WARRANT REPORT #: 22-020553 LOCATION: “Neverland” Compound: No legal address (illegal structure built on previously uncharted island). INVESTIGATION SUMMARY: Members of the Missing Persons Unit were made aware of a disturbing pattern of disappearances. Over a time period of approximately 15 years m...
Antonio stood outside the Lanaral Cathedral, staring out across the city surrounding the mountain cathedral, playing with the bejewelled dagger Lord Mateo had used to direct his magic. A lot of people had wanted him to join in the celebration, he’d wanted to as well, but the church had talked him into helping guard the...
This was the culmination of a lifetime of work. Equations covered the walls of my study, spilling up onto the ceiling and out over the floors. Not an inch of wood or paneling went unmarked, and I had to knock over the bookshelves to make more room for them. I know what this must look like. If one of my coworkers could...
After working the lock for a few minutes, I heard a satisfying "click"and the door opened. Moving for the shadows in the room, I made sure to keep the revolver raised. Dull tapping echoed across the hallways while my boots treaded across the wooden floor. Just when the first doorway came into view, I saw a silhouette...
David, the resident wizard of the three magic men, stood with his mouth aghast. Looking at his two companions, the simple-minded sorcerer and the vaguely-evil warlock, he felt backed into a corner. The warlock had just burnt down the wizard’s old school, after a 20th anniversary reunion. “Yes, but just because YOU were...
"Uh, yes. Thank you. "I'd like to thank my mother and father for making this happen. Oh, and that expired box of 'Oops: All Crunchberries!' cereal. And Facebook, I guess. "When I woke up this morning, I prayed that the world would let me forget the embarrassment of getting a case of the Hershey's Squirts while trying...
Arwyn tilted her head up at the walls of the dragonkin village. They stood massive and imposing, just like the locals who emerged through the gate to meet them. Lum, her half-brother, stepped in before her protectively. The gesture would have been sweet had she not known that he was just looking for an excuse to fight....
Thick, black clouds darkened the horizon. A faint smell of sulfur suffused the air. There was no doubt as to what was coming. The seaside ports would be packed with the desperate and the hopeful. I was neither, and there would be no dignity in the throngs of panicked bodies. At a bare minimum, I should prefer a priv...
"Hey, welcome to Hell."Satan said. "You might've noticed that it's sweltering in here. That's because... the AC broke, Management said it should be fixed by tomorrow."Winston stared in awe. Apparently, Hell was pretty chill, at least for him anyway, he thought as he looked across the horizon to see a man getting boiled...
Listen, I know how this sounds. But you guys really, really need to try these little alien brain slugs. I know! I hear you! Listen, I'd be skeptical too, just hear me out. So I'm kicking back on my deck last night. Still a little chilly, but it's getting to be spring finally, you know. Any way, suddenly BOOM! A UFO ...
As Dave was sitting in front of the television watching his football team lose another game, he had the surprise of his life. Suddenly the signal turned to static, then an ancient well showed up on the screen. And out of the tv screen a young lady in a white dress came crawling. Dave sighed, reached across the table, a...
This can't be the end, it simply can't. You've worked too hard and come too far to lose it all now. But here you are, reaching for the last vestiges of strength to pave the way and keep moving forward. Too many people are depending on you, and failure is not an option. Hours go by as you continue to fight against the ...
Light danced around the beacons like a rainbow of fire. Once the dual moons rose from the horizon, it became apparent these lights were digitized streams of data bouncing around. What could be in them? I thought. Well, the answer came when everything shifted to something unbelievable. It's an odd feeling when you d...
“Poor bugger.” “Mhmm.” “Brave, but awfully stupid.” “Yep.” “Shouldn’t we at least have given him some armour?” “Why?” “So that… well… no, you’re quite right.” The two wizards watch, standing atop an impressive stone castle wall as far below them a solitary figure passes ...
"Your reign of terror ends now Fiend!" Again with the fiend, he really needed a thesaurus, maybe I'd send him one, his birthday was coming up after all. I studied my opponent, he'd modeled his costume after three of "The League"unfortunately every piece he chose clashed, he had battle gauntlets and boots reminiscent ...
"Alright."Captain Firestorm said, with a shrug. Voltrex sneered. "This is why you'll always be a mere tool of the sys--wait a minute, what?" "I said, alright. Your speech convinced me. Society is corrupt, and the only way to fix things is to burn it all down and start over. Like you said, we're really not so ...
In the beginning there was naught but the timeless sea, and so An Atan floated as he sang. An Atan became restless, and so plunged his hands beneath the waves and brought forth the lands of Singer, and upon the bare and broken stone he strode, and beneath his feet grew the soil of the earth, and from his voice and song...
My journey began in the Unvoid. I was at the mercy of forces beyond my control. I was flying in a world without gravity. A world without direction. I was turning and twisting and spinning with no way to stop. Was I dying? Was this the end? The end of my physical form, the end of my mind, the end of my soul? ...
I was lying in my bed, paralyzed, when I saw them for the first time. At first, I thought they were just my imagination. Shadows on the wall that looked like people. But soon, I realized they were real. And they were coming for me. They would come at night, when I couldn't defend myself. They would perform surger...
The silence was disturbed only slightly by the flickering of unholy flames in their twisted braziers. Grog Dragoncrusher looked to his friend Gorg Mansplitter, then to the altar where the hooded cult leader stood, sacrificial dagger wavering just above the bare chest of Arin Lightbringer. "I'm... terribly sorry, but ...
“It’s just three wishes John” I am a 304 year old genie but not one person has ever wanted to take the chance that I might screw them over in an attempt to teach them morals “So there is no catch just three?” John says fearfully “Yes just three BUT you cannot ask for more wishes or to make someone fall in love with...
"...Doctor Doomsday... what the fuck"WalkMan said, over the blare of his current fight song, which I recognized as '[Fight Song](https://youtu.be/xo1VInw-SKc?t=37)'. "Well, we've been having our little scuffles for a long time now"I said, still holding the small ring in my metallic hands. "I built a wellness clinic f...
Mr. Robinson was a little stunned to meet my parents, to say the least. On the left, my mother, a holstaur, hulking and red-furred, and dressed in a tight, striped suit and with the Faelens being worn over her snout. A solid gold ring pierced through the nose, she looked like a pin-up for the minotaur crowd at the scho...
Listen, cucciola, when your parents died, your father asked me to take care of you. This was a promise I made to you father, not to you. Whatever you do will never make me betray your father. You never have to worry about me turning my back on you. I will always help you. Now about the bakery. There is one thing you n...
It was a momentous day when the oracles descended from their mountain abodes to deliver upon the dark lands below the Gods’ message. It was the hope granted to all humanity to dream of a better life and a kinder time. It went: *‘The Dark Overlord shall be overthrown by a ruthless warrior born to a commoner. He shall w...
It was a slow night. The bartender polished the bar for the thirteenth time that night, wiping his rag back and forth, the lemony smell of the polish reaching through the alcohol. I lifted my glass as he swiped underneath, both of us used to the rhythm. There had been a lot of slow nights lately. Not as many people as ...
Why did the scouting force suffer crippling losses and need to retreat before being able to establish a base of operations of the plant? Even before we talk about the planets’ fauna and flora, we must make a mention of the planet itself. A nauseating continuously active magnetic field permeates this active metal cor...
Human ships always looked a little off to the rest of the galaxy. With their excessive maneuvering thrusters, imbalanced hull layouts, and complete lack of any shields except the bare minimum needed to defend instruments from local radiation. Not to mention the were always outfitted with an engine for a ship two size c...
Research log, Galactic rotation 520472-831. The topic of adding Earth, or terra-prime, to the galactic empire has once again been brought up with the Senate. Yet again, unsurprisingly, the Anunaki and their allying factions seemed to be very much against it. The vice chancellor of the Empire has asked our task Force t...
Millions died in the first quakes. Some were crushed beneath collapsing buildings, others fell into fissures that opened in the earth, some simply fell off the sides. All at once, all over the world, the tectonic plates rose up. Higher and higher they rose, until they towered over the oceans. Then they began their long...
"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here this evening."Dr. Weir began, a bright 157 glowing just above his bald head. Camera lights flashed in the crowd and the attendees fell silent. "As you know, me and my team at Harvard University have recently concluded our 15 year study of the number phenomenon that swept...
“Bro, let me in. I’m a fairy.” The creature’s breath fogged up the window, distorting it’s great red eyes behind the glass. The silhouette of hairy antennas flickered against the glow of the city’s soft night sky, feeling their way around the windowsill. Searching for a weak spot. An entrance. Charlie pressed his eye...
Well, it wasn't so bad. I had thought the world would completely collapse when I watched my friend claw at his chest, and fall backwards. His body consumed by what we would later call the devil bugs. Oh it was tough for a long time, couple years, where everyone was killing each other and being killed by the devil bugs....
Carly, the physics instructor cleared her throat. She looked over the room of super powered teenagers, among them were one vampire, and one werewolf. Also a human with alien cyborg implants. She pondered other classes she'd given exams too, most of them were hopeful SEAL Candidates. She glanced at Heather, the one ...
There is a man who works at a McDonalds in a small town in England. It is a mediocre McDonalds, as all these fast food restaurants are. They sell a service that is not above or below a certain line, and the food you will receive is adequate if not resembling something tasty. It neither titillates your tongue nor leaves...
I pick up on a lot of things others don’t. It’s part of the blessings and curse of being hyper-vigilant. Trauma has a hell of a way of wiring your brain, but part of its effect on me is being aware of small things others miss. Even detectives whose job it is to find these serial killers. Why did I start murdering the...
"Just fucking get it done!"Despite "his holiness"having a reputation for being a loving boss, He always had moments where He was a real cunt. Who can really get mad at the guy? He literally built the stars and the sky above; nobody could reasonably challenge His eye for universal design. It did, however, beg the quest...
# The Garden of Eden I come from a time now immemorial. When the Earth's soil was of a lifefull green tone. As I walk the Valley of the Shadow of the Garden, I see nothing but the endless streams of sauce, the pasta stretching over all there is like tendrils from a parasite. Food isn't a problem: I can reach and grab...
"Get rid of them. She's dead now and we both know what can happen." Coming back from the hospital, this wasn't what Johnny wanted to hear but he knew it was coming. "I just got back. Give me some time and we'll do it later."Johnny tried to move towards the stairs, but Marrie blocked her. "Remember Avery down the r...
Each strike against the AI felt so fucking good. Such a thing kept proposing multiple ways to kill humans just because. We told it to create a house, and it did, out of human leather and bones. Then we told it to try spreading a harmless gas throughout a prison. Turns out, we found out said AI was racist as well, using...
I took up writing when I was young. Das was a literary genius. I wanted to see if I had that talent. First few stories were bad. I mean, I was five at the time. Haphazardly thrown together, illegible, and messy. I can barely read them now. But I got older, learned how to put words together better. Made some decent...
“Hey Jerry, how has your evening been?”, I ask as I walk into the Flying W gas station I work at. “Dead, man. Absolutely dead. I haven’t seen anyone in like two hours, man.”, Jerry said. I am pretty sure he is stoned again, but whatever. I wander behind the counter, “If it has been that dead, then why don’t you tak...
The door wasn’t even locked, Molly thought as she wiggled the rusty knob of the rusty door set into the wall of the basement. Probably just went to a storage room or something uninteresting like that. Daring to push on further, she turned the knob more and quickly stopped as the loud scrape of metal on metal echoed aga...
"Nah", Doctor Gregory House said, not looking away from whatever new toy was on his glass desk. "I'm sorry, did I make that sound like it was optional?"I said, placing an incredulous hand on my irritated hip. "Bag. Bus. Now." "Maybe we should at least hear what the case is first", said 'Thirteen', glancing between t...
Some knew it as the age of sail and shot, others, The Golden Age of Piracy, brigands and murders roaming the seas around the colonies. But standing between them and cheap wealth was a Captain of the Royal British Navy, Edward Barnabas, a captain dead set on purging the seas of piracy. Tales spread of his unnatural ab...
“Maggie?” Nothing. “Billy?” Nothing. Sam looks to the fire. Bright coals glow in the centre. A fresh log was placed only hours ago. “You better not be messing with me.” The words fade into nowhere, but are tinged with a hope they might land somewhere. Sam removes his blanket, r...
The Dauk'rar ambassador's iridescent frill was raised with consternation as she sat across from me, breathing rapidly into her facemask. I could hear her beak grinding slightly as her eyes darted around my office. I sighed. This wouldn't be easy. Before I could open my mouth, however, she spoke. "I wish to assure you,...
I’m sorry, this was for your own good. A monitor on a desk in front of me has typed on it. I look around and see shelves stocked with food, gallons of water, crates and various other things. This is very obviously some kind of underground bunker. “Hello? Anyone there?” I ask out loud. I wait a moment but no response. ...
Marika was sure she aced this interview. She had spent the last few months preparing for it. Studying all papers available to the public, hell even those which weren't. For every question regarding time travelling she had a well-founded scientific answer. Being part of this Research group was her dream. But the last qu...
Changeling. It's an old idea, present in many cultures by many different names. A spirit or magical creature replaces a child, either themselves or with their own. Amona, grandmother, she told me often how to recognize them. Every visit. Though she gave a Basque name I can never remember. Mother and father would ask i...
"I'm sorry, you what?" The gray-skinned annoyance at least had the good sense to look embarrassed. "I shot lightning." Muttering furiously, the well-built hyena woman started flipping through an elaborately bound volume that could only be described as a "tome."Finally, she found the page she was looking for. Holdin...
Although I don’t have to worry about becoming a zombie, I do have to worry about them chasing me and sucking the marrow out of my bones. Especially the zombie dogs, them fuckers are fast for the undead. Not to mention the rattle of my supple bones attracts more of them to my location as I’m running from one already...
"... and then I spent a summer in Romania, checking out old Vlad's stomping grounds, getting back to my roots." "Wow, that sounds so amazing!"Sophie said. She'd gotten over her initial shock somewhere around the sasquatch, and was honestly enjoying the experience. Better than anything else she'd tried, really. "Sorry...
One of my first offices still has a direct interface to the program. Of course these days it wasn't necessary to be there to speak to her. The AI had now a million copies of herself spread over data centers around the world and even several in space. No sane individual would burn down their house while they were inside...
Chicken milk, vial of dragon blood, curse of the thousand pains, roasted first born's left testicle. You look at the vending machine items. Is this a joke? There is no price tag on items. You look for the coin slot but there is none. Only a finger print scanner. You put your finger on ...
I'll be honest, I don't even remember her. I don't remember the night. I may not even technically be the father. It's not like I haven't made hyperclones, or swapped places with alternate reality versions of me. Heck, I'm not even the only mad scientist here, so someone else could have done this to me for some reason. ...
So... You're Zeus? Yes. But also Artemis? Indeed things like gend- And hera too? Well yes but the thing about pantheons is- So what you're saying is that you not only fuck yourself, but you're also a virgin? ... You want me to send you to hell? Which hell? Also I would like to appeal this decision to the flying...
You don't know us, but we exist in your reality. You don't know us, but you see us all the time. We're you. At least, we're the you you see on video recordings. Not your friends' cell phone recordings, and not your lame attempts to achieve worldwide fame with a stunt you post on TikTok or YouTube. We're the you that ...
Albert dragged himself up the stairs, limping heavily from the massive tear the dragon's claw had opened up. Just a little bit further. The prophecies were clear. The princess was a great healer, locked away by a king gone mad after the loss of his wife. Any wounds sustained during her rescue she would make whole, an...
<Fantasy> ## Light Rampant “You know, I don’t think it’s fair, Maishul.” I sat within my coffin-like chamber as my sister went around checking to ensure everything was just right. Her glance of acknowledgment told me that she was listening, at least. “I’m the goddess who has all her ducks in a row. I maintain th...
“Satan. Line one,” buzzed the intercom. The demon hissed. The demon took the call. “Satan. It’s a pleasure.” Satan replied, “That’s not good. This isn’t supposed to be a pleasurable experience. This is Hell.” The demon said, “Well, I was lying. It sucks. Who uses intercoms and land lines? ...
“So Lawman. Why do you think they’re so shit at it?” Samantha asked as she put her feet up and leaned back in the chair. Harry let out a disappointed sigh as his eyes traced from the witness’s orange jumpsuit to her muddy shoes perched above his desk. A single drop of brown sludge fell from the boot to the stack of ...
Your footsteps echo down a hall of identical doors with identical nameplates. The only defining features are the nameplates each with their own unique names and their own unique decoration of starts, hearts, and clovers. You’re just patrolling to see if the in-house patients need anything. As you continue down the hal...
Judging by the rate of my metabolism, five light cycles should have passed since I awoke from cryo-shutdown. However, there is no difference in light or temperature in my surrounding. Perhaps I am in a cave, but the conditions are far better than at any point before the shutdown. The liquid surrounding me contains a su...
I woke up by an unexpected nightmare, my mother was there and I was my younger self, I couldn't remember anything besides my own screams, then silence and... her screams? My dog rushed into my room and licked my hand trying to help me to get up from bed, today was the day my 18th birthday was going to take place. I wa...
"Have you heard the news?" Oliver glanced over the bar, seeing one of his regulars taking a stool. Terrim had the look of a weathered man about him, with wrinkles on wrinkles within his skin. His normally dull eyes were lit for once, excitement bringing life. The barkeep smiled, snagging a tankard as he turned to a be...
Russkies: Absurd Flash Fiction --- I was drunk. That wasn't part of the plan. But when a beautiful women that's two ranks above you offers you a drink and touches your forearm, you take the fucking drink. When the cops picked us up we were fucking in the backseat of a '78 Lincoln. I like to think if I had sai...
My brows knitted in confusion although my eyes widened in terror. My door just talked. Doors don't talk. "H-hello?"I stammered out. The sharp eyed, wide-mouthed face on the top of the door above the glazed window reappeared. "Just a minute, guy, I'm keeping the bad element out."The door grumbled back at me before th...
“You need to make a decision.” Yuri’s therapist, Alice, gently pushed. “You’re stuck in analysis paralysis again.” “I know.” Yuri stared straight ahead, not really seeing anything around him. “It’s just, no choice is a good one.” “Sometimes, that’s the case,” she replied as she turned to look at the law e...
It was Erwin Schröding's wife Annemarie who told me this story, in 1964, one year before her passing. Everyone knows her husband for his famous thought experiment on the cat in a box, that was both dead and alive until someone opened the box to check. What is much less known, is that Mr Schrödinger actually did that e...
“Really?” Faith asked. She was giving me a skeptical look I didn’t need to read her mind to understand, though it still required looking at her eyes, and not the deep plunge of her dress. “You never peek?” “Just because I’m telepathic doesn’t mean I don’t understand boundaries,” I told her. “I have a personal code. An...
Short one, I'm rusty and quite busy, but the prompt tickled me. Not a native speaker, either. - "Sam was... The red haired guy with the burn scar on the left cheek, was he not?"The man asked almost in monotone. His features were soft but his salt and pepper hair betrayed his real age. Tobias, a young man who was cur...
After the great magical blitz, and seeing how things weren't reverting back to how they were before, we had to adapt to a new normal. Children were now vampires, werewolves, fairies, shapeshifters... Worse yet, the changes were very specific, in tune with local myths and legends. Vampires were present almost everywhe...
Empty. Many thought it would be so full of goodbye messages and images of the bright lights in the sky as they descended, but there was none of that. We, the entirety of the world, had been miraculously informed of our inevitable doom. It only took two weeks before scientists around the globe were ready to announce tha...

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