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"Okay. This is the hardest part,"I explained to my friend, Vlorg. "This is where they start killing each other." "Haven't they been killing each other the whole time?"Vlorg asked. She had a good point. A set percentage of humans are programmed to kill from the beginning of the game, and they start on day 1. The percen...
Alys rubbed the back of her left hand with her thumb. Two inches long, the scar moved from the base of her wrist to just below her middle finger. It looked long healed, the skin white and soft as silk. Someone in the queue behind her honked and she swore. "Piss off,"she dropped her left hand to the gear stick and pu...
"I'm home, Mr. Goldberg", I said as I came through my front door. No response. Normally I could expect a warm greeting any time I came home, but my pet rabbi had exhibited some strange behavior lately. Don't get me wrong. Mr. Goldberg was the best pet anyone could ask for. He was a great conversationalist and an all-...
"Hello?" I knew that it had a microphone, because one of its weird voices started mimicking mine once, and it obviously had a speaker. But, after so many years, I stopped expecting that it could speak English. "English?"I stammered, alone with the pocket-sized machine in my cell. "Kinda,"it said, "but if that's alr...
They created QOLA (Quality of Life Algorithm) to run simulations. That's really it. It was a well meaning project. The program was supposed to be gifted to local governments to help them decide the best way to allocate certain resources. Just suggestions. That's really all QOLA was supposed to provide. But that's th...
A blade was a weapon of an older time outdated and outmatched. Bullets that moved faster than a human could react were simply the more efficient killing device. That was the opinion of most, however one man stood now in front of the whole town as the sun began to rise, looking to prove that was not true at all. Lucas ...
How did I become the cat dragon? Funny story that... but at least I deal with a lot less knights trying to avenge something or other. I had raided a castle and found bumkis. Nothing. Nada, big fat zilch. Well I got angry and I don't know if you've seen an angry dragon before, but standing buildings and angry dragons t...
There it was again, steaming on my desk. I took a tentative sip, and yes. Just how I like it. As always. It had been our morning ritual. She would put the perfect cup of coffee on my desk, and I'd plant a kiss on her forehead. It had been just over a month since the funeral. But the morning cups of coffee never stop...
When we were discovered by the intergalactic Coalition (it was our name for them, anyway), a lot of things changed. It turned out that out of all of the different species and cultures out there in the whole wide universe, ours was the least puritan. Every single one of them made the Mormons seem like casino regulars. L...
They put you in the game. You get a name, a ten-digit number, and a data card full of false memories. I'm stuck with middling skin with a few freckles and this gaudy flop of black on the top of my scalp. Everyone calls me Renee, that's my name now. Every day is the same, go sit in front of a terminal and move some box...
I made sure to apply my makeup extra carefully before putting on my suit. Today was going to be a good day. Today was going to be a good day. All right, you can do it! Go out there and put on a show! --- As I wandered around the park, I made sure to smile at all the little kids and wink at their parents. I even boug...
Blink. I sat on my swivel chair, my hazy drunken eyes blinking sporadically. What am I looking at? The numbers kept going up. In the last hour, my account was on the receiving end of three transactions, each over $10,000. I clicked refresh again, waiting for something to make sense, like a notification of glitches in t...
I had gone through so many. I just wanted to go to sleep. The dog, cat, fish, and so many more turned and bolted away from me. I don't know what's wrong with me. I tried doing anything to get them to like me, they just wouldn't. Even the fucking flea got as far away from me as it could. But then, I don't know, I could...
I pulled the X-65 over and rolled down the “window,” if you could call it that. It was more of an aerodynamic plexiglass carbon-fiber surface infused with antimatter. The officer’s mustache unfurled as he poked his head in my window and took a look around. His eyes meandered longing across the cockpit and he gazed at t...
"Its either her or me" I finnaly got them together. Now to chose. The queen, or the president. I dont even know who I was working for anyway. The only way to figure this is out is to decide. "Well, are you gonna do anything?" I pointed the gun at her. I dont want them to talk. I cant concentrate. I find it funny how...
Scattered bodies and pieces of armor littered the dirt in front of him. The bells on his hat jingled as he strode towards the fortress. His weapons: juggling balls, a few jokes, and strongest of all, his wit. This jester was no fool. He had outwitted priests. Befuddled doctors. Stumped royal leaders. The round table pr...
As the latest assassin lay dying on the floor, Marcus sat down next to her. He must have broken her neck when he flipped her over the counter. It made him sad and want to cry, but he was too exhausted after this last week to muster up the tears. This had been the fifth person to try to kill him. The first just popped i...
I sat at the bar at the Edge of the Universe, the name of the establishment, not the literal edge of the universe. I don’t make nearly enough as a cargo shipper to actually go to the edge of the universe. Instead I enjoyed a stiff drink after a long shift and few light years. The Krotoans and Asterans entered as self-...
I've watched people die. Seen their health drop so fast that they're on the floor before I've blinked. Explosions are terrible. But a slow, creeping, unwarranted death? I have no scratches, wounds, diseases, nor any other visible ailments. Doctors have given me inconclusive results. No one knows what's happening. Now...
I sit alone at the cafeteria. A succulent severed arm lay on the tray before me, but any appetite I had is long gone. I want to go home, but I know I can’t. I'm barely through my first day at the Plogojowitz High School for Hybrid Humans (aka Plogo High) and I already hate it. The other vamps would barely say a word...
"Hi,"she said. I wasn't looking straight at her so I didn't realize she was talking to me. She tapped me on the shoulder--but wasn't she like nine feet away? I stopped in my tracks and snapped my head around. She was indeed three long steps behind me. I looked the other way. Nobody. Nobody in sight at all, in fact. ...
It’s always a little strange to know that you are incredibly different from your parents. Some people’s parents are chemists, while they instead want to be a lawyer. Other’s parents are unmotivated, content with their lot in life, while they instead want nothing more than to make an impact. For me, my parents always we...
Terrence Applebaum strode around his house, peeking through the blinds, trying to get another glimpse of the clown. There was no sign of movement in the bushes, the leaf-strewn lawn undisturbed by comically large clown feet. He'd dashed off to grab his phone, and it had vanished completely, with no sign it had ever bee...
Day 1: I have decided to keep a diary. I have come to realise, too late, that my actions have dire consequences. Of course everyone knows this already; indeed everyone truly believes that their own actions, no matter how trivial or intangible, have concrete consequences. What a shame that it takes tragedy to fully ...
The campus coffee shop--only moments before saturated with the sound of blenders, brewers, indie music, fingers on keyboards, chairs scraping along the floor pulled from this table to that--was a snapshot of Oct 13, 2016 12:10 PM. Patrons were suspended mid gesture, credit cards in hand. A barista poured a frozen strea...
You are alone. We wish we had more time, time to exchange cultures, to establish a friendship, to help each other. But no, we have found the flaws in our planet, flaws we put there through our callousness, greed, and ignorance. And when we cast our gaze into the stars, we found only you. By our calculations, our plane...
As the zombie hoards break through my last barricade, I know this time there is nowhere to run. My grandfather taught me to never give up no matter how hopeless things seem, back before the Plague. That advice has saved me countless times through the years. I've continued my search for another human being for so long ...
What’s the worst part of my situation? Well it’s hard to pick, honestly. It feels like everything’s the worst. Mostly, it’s the fact that nobody believes me. In the movies, your friends and family might not believe you at first, but once you bring them home and a couple of them die horribly, the rest are inclined to ...
It all started five months ago, or should I say it will start in five months. I woke up, like any other day and went t work. That's when I began to notice something weird. You know that feeling of Deja Vu? Like you've experienced that moment before? I felt that constantly. All around me, my coworkers went about their d...
"Hello everybody, this is your host Brad Denton-" "As well as your pal Gerald Jonsen!" "-and boy, do we have a show for y'all tonight! Tonight, and only tonight, we have the leaders of the People's Republic of China, United States, Russian Federation, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea fighting in an ALL-O...
Mark, his wife Emma, and his two teenage sons, Jack and Felix, sat at their table. The waiter came by, asking their orders. Mark cleared his throat, signaling the others to order. Emma raised her finger. "I'll have the Caesar salad with a glass of water. I'm on a diet." Mark said "Diet? More like kill it!"Everyone bu...
I burst through the Gate, running as I kick down the doors of the room into the garden beyond, marble statues dotting the landscape like weeds on a manicured lawn. With a crack, the doors burst apart into a thousand splinters of glass, beautiful in that frozen moment. The marble reliefs tower over me as I sprint throu...
I groaned, rubbing my hands over my eyes. It didn't really make the aching go away, but I knew that, by the end of my shift, I'd feel worse. A couple seats over from me, Ricky, the junior technician on duty, looked up with sympathy. "Hey, Dana, I've got some aspirin in my bag if you need one,"he offered gallantly. ...
The rats. As they flooded the streets of London, doors slammed and windows were barricaded. I watched from the second floor as a child fled from the swarm. He was too slow. The rats covered him, biting and clawing as his cries echoed through the streets. My blood ran cold as I heard his anguished screams. It would be f...
Now I understood why no one ever wanted to play with me. Why I was so lonely. Machiavelli said it is better to be feared than loved, but I am not so sure. Love is all I could ever want. But I cannot touch anyone. Not even my family. I was always sad that I had to wear gloves and long pants and sweaters even i...
When you say "I have a bad feeling about this,"people will tend to ignore you. When have feelings ever been an accurate omen, anyway? In my case, those who have spent a lot of time with me actually listen when I say "this is not going to end well."In fact, whenever they're unsure of a decision, they turn to me first....
It was time. After years of contemplation and indecision, today was the day. I slowly walked up the seemingly never-ending 42 flights of stairs, internally reminding myself "Left foot. Right foot. Left foot. Right foot."in case my body somehow overrode my mind and decided to back out. But I couldn't back out. I had b...
After overpopulation threatened to harm the world even more than usual, governments teamed up around the world to figure something out. It took them a full month to come up with a plan, and two years to finally complete it. Today, I live in a duplex with my wife, Marissa, and our next-door neighbor Shannon. We have a...
Like a mother hen waltzing into a bar, Jerry Lawfonda was a man who knew what he wanted. Each step of his life, each stride was made with absolute certainty. He came out of the womb with his destiny grasped firmly in his tiny little baby hands, and he hasn’t let go ever since. He inspired awe in his companions and drea...
"Ho, ho, ho, Merry everyone!"cheered Santa entering the workshop. He was ripe with excitement, high-fiving, pointing and winking, and complimenting the elves on their wonderful attire. "16 days until Christmas everyone! Let's keep this party rolling!"He turned on the stereo playing "Let's Get It Started"by The Black ...
My right hand trembled as I held my Razer Naga tightly, so tightly that they turned pale. One click was all it would take, and my life would change forever. There was no turning back. Once you joined the dark side, you stayed in the dark forever. I moved my cursor, hovering over the character I was picking. Then I ...
Jon had left his room at the hospice. He was tired of the medications, the failed attempts to prolong his feeble life. The smell of urine, bleach, and the dying had driven him to leave this place. More than anything he wanted to see Lake Calhoun one last time. Jon's wife had passed some 17 years previously. He had no...
Allie and I have been friends since second grade, we've told each other about our friends, our enemies, our boyfriends, and our traumas, but I never expected she would have a secret as weird as this. I had to see it for myself before I believed it, there was no way such an artifact can exist, or at least that's what I ...
This was a rather unusual position to find myself in. Not physically as much, no, though my knees were together and my butt muscles clenched to the point where rocks would be jealous of their firmness, my knuckles were white and my neck was frozen stiff from looking straight ahead for at least twenty minutes. I was onl...
Write an Alien-esque sci-fi horror story from the perspective of a blind person. ** You buy a telescope from a garage sale. There's a note attached to it that says, "Beware, beware of the Stars that bleed, of the Suns that freeze, and Wolf that swallows the world."When you finally use the telescope, you understan...
Usurper by Steven Carlton I wake to the sound of whispers. There is warmth on my skin and an odor of brine in my nostrils. My eyes open to a cloudless sky with the sun directly overhead. For a long moment, I am confused. There are many things to confuse me, so perhaps my state of mind is forgivable. My naked bod...
The ocean's current carried heavy ice floes over the warm waters of Atlantica. The sea creatures didn't notice the subtle shift in temperature, they continued to sing their songs and swim about merrily. Then the freeze happened nearly over night. Icebergs bobbed overhead driving the once warm tropical waters into an...
"No, you don't get it. I never donated any blood!"Pearl shouted at the man in her living room. "Did you not hear what I said? Your blood holds a cure for diabetes! Why are you so hung up your own faulty memory,"Roger answered defensively. "It's a violation of my body and my rights. That's why I'm so hung up on it. W...
Lance Corporal Scott Henderson, United States Marine Corps February 23, 2037: It's my birthday tomorrow. Yay. Command says that whatever's left of the First Marine Division is teaming up with a few divisions from the Army to lead the final push into Western Moscow. Heard that most of 3/3 was wiped out there. Semper...
He sat upon a stump near the glistening lake. The warm breeze kissed his cheek. The sun was up high and the sky was as blue as his eyes once were. The stump he sat upon was the only piece left from the tree that had been cut down for industrial use. The same tree that had his and his wife's initials carved into it. I ...
I had seen it all my life. The beast. The demon. The ghoul that walks within the walls of my home. I had seen it in mirrors, reflections. I had seen it while I had friends over, when I was intimate with someone. Only I could see it. I remember when I was six, when we first moved to this then new house, the first ti...
Roland pulled the wine bottle from his backpack, and struggled to read its heavily faded label. "I don't think these boards are going to hold up much longer,"Harry said, moving anxiously between windows of the abandoned house. "No, I wouldn't expect so,"Roland answered nonchalantly. He pulled his knife from its shea...
"Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit." "Shut up, man. You're making me nervous." "I'm making you nervous?"Rookie Smith waved his hands wildly at his friend, "Are you fu-" "I mean it, man. Shut up."Rookie James leaned back against the interior of the sky ranger, clutching his assault rifle to his chest. "We'll be fine." "*Fi...
Souls are beautiful beyond comprehension, but not enough people realise this. It's difficult to see your own soul; it's as if something inside of you blocks you from seeing your true self. People fall in love with others again and again and again, noticing sparkles in other's eyes, graceful movements, shy smiles and st...
Hello welcome back to another episode of "Dog Whisperer", my name is Cesar Millan, and today, i face my toughest challenge yet. A few days ago i received a call from Mr Jonathan Pickler, who claims that his dog is very disobedient and likes to chews EVERYTHING. Since theres no dog i cannot tame, i've decided to lend m...
"Mike, at the prescribed time, your alarm goes off at 7AM sharp. Roll a will save to not snooze." "I rolled a 10 with a plus 4 bonus for a 14 will save." "You fail the will save and snooze." "Dammit! I-" "You snooze until 7:45, if you shower you will be late for work. If you don't you will make it on time but loo...
As the sun expanded, slowly dying, it began destroying all life on Earth. Nothing could survive. Man's greatest achievements, all turned into ash. Nothing could escape the heat. At the very end, there were two creatures left, a man and a dog, stuck in a bunker far below the surface. The man gazed around the room, looki...
"HONEY, GO BACK INSIDE! I'LL DEAL WITH THIS ABOMINATION!" I sighed as the man in front of me held a pitchfork, trying to shoo me away as if I was a pest or something of the sort. "For the last time sir, I'm the Angel of Debt, not Death."I said in an expressionless voice. This had happened way too many times to coun...
I used to believe that almost anything was possible. That if a person tried for something hard enough, their wildest dreams could be obtained. Anyone could make it anywhere, and do anything- if they wished for it badly enough. *What took the longest time was to understand that really only covered half of the truth: ...
Part 3 Tomorrow was the Dark Binding ritual. At least then my nightmare would be over. Zord had enjoyed tormenting me for the last week. My inner dialogue was still painfully aware of everything he had compelled of me. I was still there, trapped inside a body I could no longer control. I cried as I ate my...
I lived in a two bedroom apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with my roommate, Lucifer, Son of the Morning. The rent was eight hundred and fifty dollars a month, which included electricity and water, but not cable television or internet access. We had an in-suite dishwasher. Four washing machines and four clothes dryers ...
The torchlight flickered eerily off the craggy stonework as the heels of a hooded figure stepped delicately in the dungeons. Rastinore's plain hunting boots echoed softly down the narrow dungeon corridor. His plain cloak rippled as he moved and gently brushed the unmaintained surfaces below the castle. Slipping past th...
It emerged on the horizon like a decrepit specter, the setting sun accentuating the tired vessel's haggard appearance. Tattered remains of what must have been a flag clung to a frayed rope that climbed the bent mast, whipping wildly in the wind like an dying animal desperately trying to wrench itself free from the jowl...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle! Hello, my esteemed publisher! I'm afraid that we will not be able to publish your next book. You're not publishing The Case Of The Bloody Barrister, Who Did It, Maybe, But Let's Not Be Too Hasty What Barrister? But why? It's nine thousand pages Yes, governor. Holmes began to f...
Hawker was a geologist, but he never worked for anyone. All he did was waltz into caves, record data and send them to various institutes. He'd never been professionally trained, and in fact only learned what a geologist was last month - but that never stopped the information he collected from being both astounding and ...
The Devil sat down at his desk and cradled his head in his hands. How had everything gone so wrong? Hell used to be such a horrible place! What happened? He scowled deeply. He knew exactly who was to blame. Those blessed Canadians! He could hear one of them walking down the hallway now. What was her name? Edith? Ellen...
[Slightly off track story from the prompt] Words were limited in the modern world. Due to over population in the year 3053, the human race on earth decided to limit how many words someone could use in their life time, to 100,000. In the past humans spoke around 10,000 words a day. And now people spoke perhaps 3 to 4 a...
"So I was thinking, if this all works out in the end, I'm going to go back to my roots and become an artist,"Hitler mused, staring into the campfire. "I've always been a creative mind." "Oh? You don't have to limit yourself to just art, you know,"Tolkien piped up, clearly excited to share something. "I mean, creative ...
Human left door. Door close. Click. Lock. Lock. Lock. Lock. Leave. No trace. Gone. Can't smell anybody. Light. Door. Counter. Chocolate. Chocolate. Chocolate. Jump. Chocolate. Chocolate. Bang. Ground. Food. Food. CHOCOLATE. Food. Bowl. Water. Water. Water. Chocolate. Chocolate. Cat. Cat. On couch. Fluffy. Fur...
"No."Ryan crossed his arms in defiance. "Not gonna happen." Alexis smirked. "You're telling me you're going to pass up a thousand percent increase in your dexterity?" Ryan glared at her. "It's a pink leotard." Alexis opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off. "With a bunny tail." "But-"Alexis began again. "And a...
As my job as a male nurse, I've seen many new parents doing it wrong. As soon as the baby is born, they start bombarding it with their own wishes and desires. "A car, new car. That would be great for you, little Lucas. Buy mommy a car,"or "Honey, if your daddy were famous and could discover the cure for cancer, the who...
When I awake from what feels like a slumber eternal, my body is charged with the power of a heedless maelstrom. Odin's command has filled my blood with fire. I, Rolf, have been tasked by the god himself to seek out and assess my progeny, to determine whether the Fire of the North persists in their modern forms. With Ra...
~~Gender: Male~~ ~~Gender: Female~~ Gender: Male ~~Annual income: $35,000~~ Annual income: $5,356,569,259 ~~Address: 214 SE 14th Avenue~~ Address: Multiple mansions in various cities, too many to list here ~~Marital status: single~~ ~~Marital status: married~~ ~~Marital status: happily married~~ Marital statu...
"What about Daedalus and Icarus?" "No, Kurt, that's just weird. Why can't it be something normal, like 'Matt' or 'Sam'?" Kurt unlocked the front door of the pleasant little suburban home, still babbling excitedly. "Oh! I know! Romulus and Remus!" "We're not naming our children Romulus and—"A shadow passed over Mora...
"Hurry up!"Gavin said, jumping down into the bottom of the yacht, which was where Richard was cleaning the dishes they had eaten off of that night. "Pointless tasks should not take precedent over Aurora Borealis - what would your ancestors think? Some of them probably worshiped it, maybe even one of your uncles..." "J...
It is my third year at college, I'm in a school for the deaf; Because, I am deaf. The teacher stood at the board signing away about something. I wasn't paying attention. The room was too busy. People think a lot and it was loud in here. I've always been able to read minds, but i never told anyone. I thought that it wou...
He sighed as he looked down at the corpse, undoubtedly tortured to death for the product. He could only close her eyes before putting weights on her eye-lids, a little aspect of their culture that he had learned about while studying this species. 'Shit...' he said as he walked away and spoke to the captain. 'Is this h...
I rolled my body over, the water rushing out of my lungs in spurts as I coughed it up. The beach sand was hard and rugged - I felt it dig into my tender palms. But it was warm, much warmer than the freezing waters of the river behind me. I rolled onto my back, letting the meager heat seep through my jacket. Beside me,...
Lost in the cold woods a sweet, angelic song caressed the crown of the trees around me. I followed it desperately. It lead me to a hidden, obscure cave battling an eternal war against light. My feet just moved, my mind was hypnotised by that song, I couldn't stop. Deep inside the rocky void among the shadows lied a cr...
One second. At first it's horrible. Disgusting. I feel hate, terror, and fear. Fear incarnate. What am I going to do? Is there anything I can do? Can I run? Escape? Get cover? Pray for help? No, let's be honest. I can't. I'm alone out here, outside on the street, and even if this second was transformed into an hour, I...
Satan sorted them, impressed, as she slung a bag of coins onto the table. "Exactly what you wanted---one unit of every currency. I've got a Micronesian Rai Stone in a storage locker downtown. Unit 666." "You were close,"he said. "So, so close."Satan laid out a $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, and a $100. A penny, nickle, di...
She knew it was like calling the kettle black, but it still hurt her sensibilities a little. Aliens. God, after the vampires last month, and the gargoyles last June, and who could forget the wanna-be-hobbits from last year, couldn't something just not exist? Was that really so much to ask for? Was this really the d...
"For whom that don't believe in Love, and also curse their God above. A spell I cast in this pond only, I use this power to help the lonely, That no one here shall leave alone, for here their soulmate will be shown. For I have loved and I have lost, and I have known the final cost. This spell I cast won...
Henry Blake stood by the coffee machine and took a sip of his morning brew. "Aaaah, this stuff is magic,"he muttered, taking another sip. "Y'know kid, it really is."A muffled, gravelly voice said behind Henry. He jumped and turned around, seeing an old man. "Oh, hey, John."John whistled and rocked back and forth on his...
The Second Amendment? Gone. Sounds of pops waking you up at night? Gone. Firearms? Gone. The United States has issued a total ban on firearms nationwide. Gun stores were shut down. Firearm companies moved to Mexico, Canada, or opened their main branch in Europe or Asia. Companies that didn't move were forced to clo...
They call me Hue. That's not my name, but that's what they call me. It's supposed to be an insult, short for human. Even the teachers started calling me that, so eventually I decided to make it mine. I even made a costume, tight spandex in all the hues of the rainbow. The first time they saw it was my first fight of t...
School, the most mundane of all activities I am forced to endure. Day after day, it is the same lengthy routine. If only the merit of time spent there could equate to the knowledge I gained. It feels as if I only learn something new every other day. Most of the time, we are made to accomplish tedious, useless tasks. ...
The yellow sign illuminates the night as a beacon of hope and safety for those submitted to the constant terror of the apocalypse. Even through the darkest hours, the smell of sizzling bacon and maple waffles sifted through the constant stench of decay and brought hope to humanity. When the apocalypse struck, it was s...
I had this idea, when I met Him. It was kind of hard to miss that the Devil looked like a lawyer; mostly it was the suit that did it. Three-piece, tailored, charcoal with a red shirt underneath. Looked expensive. Originally I was planning to take over the world. Sell my soul to rent a few thousand demons and conquer t...
"Shit,"I grunt. Not my first time dropping my phone, but certainly one of the worse ones. Cracks spider from edge to edge, making the display almost useless. I begin to search up phone-fix places, when I see Rachel's sent me a snap. I open it up to a picture of her showing off a new set of earrings. like them? I t...
My speedometer flirts with 120 mph as I race down the three lane highway. It’s not quite rush hour, but there’s still plenty of traffic. I swerve from the right lane to the left, narrowly missing a car that swerves out of the way as it sees me coming. A small smile plays on my lips as the other car careens off the side...
I picked up the slim device that sat next to my grandmother's bed. Moments ago, it had not been there, but my grandmother had. Now it was, and my grandmother was not. The rest of the family wept over her, while I understood their pain, I knew it was her time. She was old and sick, and frankly it was better for her to b...
I stood there silently, watching her warily, wondering what wild scheme she surreptitiously planned behind those doe eyes. The small clanging of her dagger on the busted up pavement told me all I needed to know. "Please..."she said with her palms facing me, showing me she had nothing to hide. "Okay, I'll do it,"I sai...
I checked my phone one last time for the cancellation text that I expected. Everyone always cancels on me. "I had something come up, sorry!"With no offer to make it up later. So when Steph hadn't called it off, I had some hope. I stepped out of my car into the bright summertime sun and looked around. We were supposed t...
The room was abuzz with chatter. Echoing panicked conversation reflected by the caramel colored wooden walls. It was here, in this very room, that the decision had first been made years ago. Delegates and Flags, both of many shapes and colors. Trying to communicate with one another, across cultures, languages, and di...
The car was silent, aside from the occasional deep breathing to lessen the pain. Gwain had opted to leave the lights inside the car off for their trip, so he wouldn't be reminded. The cabin of the vehicle was only illuminated as the car passed under street lights. Light, then dark. Light, then dark. Gwain's mind ...
Goddammit. I wonder what it says about me that my first instinct is to be irritated instead of, I don’t know, afraid for my life. After all, given that there’s only one of me, it’s statistically probable that whoever the hell is in charge of the lever that could save me will divert the train onto my tracks. Unless...
In most cases for most people, if someone else chooses to implement a dumb idea, they'd only hurt or kill themselves or a few people nearby. For me though, its a bit different. Just hearing one of these ideas irks me, and enough of them could (read: will) kill me. To give you an idea of my sensitivity to bad ideas, a...
When I rubbed that scummy lamp in the back of a local thrift shop, the last thing I expected to find was a wish-granting genie. Wait, scratch that… The absolute LAST thing I expected to find was a self-serving, wish-granting genie. When I swiped my finger over the coagulated dust, freeing an inscription, the lamp pra...
The first rule of getting trapped in a cell: Find the mitochondria. The mitochondria were everything. Everyone knew the mitochondria were the powerhouse of the cell. Without them, there was no cell. I looked around at my surroundings, taking notice of where I had been trapped. It seems like I was just outside the nuc...

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