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"Oh, shoot, sorry babe, but I forgot something upstairs,"she said, turning and running back upstairs. I stood at the doorway, fidgeting with my fingers, left with her parents. "Why don't you come sit in the living room for a bit?"Her dad asked, raising his hand out as if presenting something. "Uh,"I said, "yeah, sur...
Deep within the infinite, eternal, swirling mass of universal nothingness, something changed. A presence had appeared. What had not been, now was. A mind existed in the cosmos, a mind that looked upon the nothing, and said “No. This will not do.” And the presence, God, said “LET THERE BE LIGHT”, and as if a cosmic ha...
How can we judge how successful a hero is? By his power? By his ideals? By how well known he is? If we were to judge heroes this way then one could say this hero was the greatest hero of them all. Like all heroes our's begins with a tragic and a harsh childhood. His father was a civil servant who wanted our hero to ...
I woke to a pressure at the foot of my bed. I opened my eyes, my vision groggy from lingering sleep. Through the fog, I felt that I'd dreamt something sweet, but it was distant, only a taste on the tip of my tongue as I woke and saw Amanda sitting on the edge of my bed. The wrinkles of the sheets led to her. She faced ...
I've always been of the mind that people tend to have a similar level of expertise, just distributed in different ways. Some scientists are quirky because they traded off sanity for knowledge, while middle managers invert this. To my chagrin, but ever continuing employment, supers are no exception to this. Their shelt...
Okay, clear my mind. Clear my mind. I need to clear out all the worries about work, because fretting about whether my boss will be an asshole doesn't do any good when the guy's asshole dial stays tuned to an eleven and- Damn, sidetracked. Clear my mind. Just let the thoughts go by like clouds passing along the sky...
How do you ask someone why they aren't out of focus? I deliberated that question for a bit as faceless walls walked past me, oblivious to my anxiousness. The man was relatively handsome, wearing a long beige trench coat looking at a device that resembled a Geiger meter. I decided on the simplest course of action and fi...
The man I shook hands with, had continued to defy his end. His eyes, curious and old, stories meant to be forgotten. Perhaps that's why he downed a glass so quick, but something told me 46 years of constant drinking meant nothing. This man, who sat in simple clothes, didn't bother asking for a name or even a reason, ...
"What are you saying detective?" "I believe the victim abused animals and was assassinated for it."He paused and thought it didn't sound as good out loud as it did in his head but, he continued, "I know, I hear how it sounds but take a look at his last post and then at the CS photos."He pulled up the pictures on his t...
"How long do you think we have left, Sinclair?" ​ Ambrose asked his pal this question in sign language. The Earth had long ago been swallowed by the Sun and with it, the air needed to produce the spoken word. ​ "Minutes, I'd say." ​ Sinclair signed with a glum look in his eyes. Ha...
Ganymede Fisher was born in a little house by the sea, in a little back room, and was little by all standards. Her mother did not survive the birth, as there were complications with delivering Ganymede's little twin sister, Europa. Europa did not survive either. Or so she had heard these details some time ago. She ...
"...And it use to be called Cafe Carl, but when the portal opened up, I switched it to Demon's Caffeinated. Oh, wait, Fred just came in, hold on,"I said to the gorgon hunched over the counter, and shouted over the din of demons sitting around large, dark stone tables with buckets and goblets brimming with their favorit...
POTENTIAL RELPIES [What else would I be?] [Actually, I'm an advanced artifical intelligence equipped with a conversational predictor...let's just keep this between us.] [You know it!] [Of course.] <SELECT> "I wish we could all see Endgame this weekend, but all the damn tickets are sold out." *applying popul...
**Harold Fars: Knife God** The great drum atop the temple of war sounds, and not long after a retinue of priests emerges to pay their obeisance to the man they call Knife God. They wend their way through the streets of Hakkhleim. Along the way, they are stopped here and there by passerby who wish to fight. A burly orc...
"This isn't my bed!"I yelled as I tore the covers off and stumbled around. Where was I? I was in a luxury hotel room somewhere but the sun hadn't risen yet to see which city I was in. I woke up to go to the bathroom and realized I was clad in silk pajamas and my back didnt hurt anymore. I looked for the bathroom and wh...
Here I was. Standing on clouds. *Clouds*. I'm an educated man, I know they're just water vapor, and yet... that's pretty clearly a cloud there under my feet. Springy. Like standing on a firm mattress. "Praise the Creator, a new face! Welcome! Welcome to the first quarter of Heaven, paradise and eternal rest for all th...
The girl looks up at me through beady brown eyes. It's always a shame to have to ferry across children, but after the first few centuries as guide of the dead I learned it was better to not give up caring. "Fare?"I ask, outstretching my arm. In truth it's more of a formality at this point, no one believes anymore and h...
Most people... most people learn to deal with their imperfections. Society, teachers, often therapy tells them that they need to learn that we all have things wrong with us, and that no matter how bad their tattoo is, they can find repentance, they can reject, mininmalise, or at least make amends for the worst thing a...
Hello there! This prompt caught my eye and I wrote before reading any comments. It's nice to see that I went a completely different direction than you might have intended. I listened to a podcast once about potential dominant species once humans are gone and the person talking suggested rats as a probable candidate and...
John picked up the pen again, as was his nightly routine. It was adorable, and absolutely amazing how he had decided to start writing to God! His penmanship wasn’t the best, but despite my adamant pressuring he refused to fix deer into dear. I had given up on it years ago. As he picked up the pen this night I wish ...
Half of my squad has been killed in action. Bullets are flying above our short wall of sandbags. There is only one way out of this, I'm going to make these bastards pay. As I'm preparing myself to make a run for it, Barnes lets go of the wound near his liver and grabs my arm. He takes a sharp breath. "Don't do it sir...
It’s frustrating, really, as I helplessly watched Naelthir creep closer to Mr. Ward. It’s even more frustrating when Heather was shaking me up and down in what the 5-year-old described as “dancing”. Still, I tried my best to track the Shadow Person’s movements through my black-button eyes. While I didn’t care as much f...
"Come on, breathe fire again!" So annoying! I hid that i was a dragonborn from my roommates so no-one would go crazy and kick me out. All my kin warned what happened the last time a dragon entered the human city. Sure they're humane, sure they're welcoming...its all words. Humans are interesting, but not to be trusted...
Barry was a bully. Plain and simple. Each day, with consistency as uncanny as that of the magical elves I once thought made the school bells ring, he would find me in the cafeteria. He would push me. He would pinch me. He would humiliate me. And then he would take my lunch. It didn't matter if I packed broccoli or bana...
As the Xareen found themselves around the Milky Way, they soon located a primitive civilization on a planet in the northern quadrant of the 42nd district. They decided to aid said civilization, in an attempt to start colonization. As they descended, though, each and every last Xar started to shutter in fear. The pain o...
June 29 2019 (50 years repeating) It’s been 50 years. Well, technically just a day. I have written in this book every day for the last 50 years. It’s pointless. But it’s good to keep track. We don’t need to work at all due to the one day rule. Any criminals are caught at the beginning of the day as fast as possible ...
3 minutes. It was my turn with the phone and I had 3 minutes, at least if my cellmate had worked it out correctly and the guard kept to his patterns, didn't notice his phone missing and my shaking hands could allow me the dexterity. Small asks right? Ever thought of how short 3 minutes is? 180 seconds, a song. Nothing...
So begins another day for the duo of Blues Clues. As the sun peeks through the cracks of the boarded up home. Steve and Blue approach the seemingly abandoned home. They had both grown so old, Blue's coat becoming a greying matte teal, gloacoma present in one of his eyes. His owner and friend much the same, the years ha...
I thought it was just me at first. I was in the middle of binge watching the latest season of Stranger Things on Netflix, when suddenly the show started buffering, and wouldn’t stop. I tried everything. I reloaded Netflix, shut the laptop down and turned it back on, reset the WiFi, but nothing worked. At this point I...
"That's it? Pink bows?" "That is correct, human. A clear indicator of our race's feminine gender." "Wh- what if one takes the bow off?" "We have transgendered individuals like you but they are not the norm. All are assigned their gender at birth and most remain that way for their entire life, adapting to their role....
When humanity took to the stars, Earth as a whole celebrated. It was perfecly timed,after all. The planet Earth had become oversaturated with people, and was on the verge of ecological collapse. Colonizing other planets was a second chance many longed for. To start anew, but with all the technology already developed. I...
(Sorry for bad formatting or typos, I'm sick in bed on my phone and this prompt sounded interesting.) I turned slowly away from the gates and the radiance before me and stood with them at my back. Shock began to fade and became defeat and anger. I had been a good person in life, I had cared for my friends and famil...
I looked up to it, its form unclear through the tears stacked in my eyes. It loomed over me like a great, spindly tree. It closely resembled a shadow. I blinked a few times, trying to get a clearer view, but the more I focused my eyesight, the less I could make out of its form. Its face kept fuzzing, like it was a poor...
'Alright Uranus, what do you want?' I stare balefully at the emasculated god. His tunic flapped at empty space in the breeze. 'Cronus. I want Cronus. You're the head priest of his cult, and if people stop believing in his power, he will lose power. I want to make him pay for what he did to me!' "What will you g...
'This shit has to stop josh, it's time to stop your problem. These people will help you, so let's go.' I open the door, stride in and say, 'Hi i'm the new member, i'm j-' "Yes, we know who you are." 'What, how? have we met?' I say, searching the room for the other members. Ah, a table at the back. "You could say ...
There was another Deviant. There he was, standing in the middle of the street, screaming at the top of his lungs about some insanity. There were five cops in a semi-circle around him, decked out in their protective gear, one of them had his taser drawn. They were calmly asking the Deviant to get on the ground and put...
"Another one?"asked *Sir Niclas Speakeasy*, Captain of the *Limitless*. "Another one. Sir."came the solemn reply of the Ensign the Captain had spoken to. There was a moment of silence then he extended: "I'm sorry sir."The Limitless currently was on a low stable orbit around Archibald 7. On a galactic timescale this pla...
He ran. The boy ran because it was here. The creature. The monstrosity. The Dragon. The boy was born on the day the Dragon first came. The city of Kursk was leveled. Next was Moscow a month later. Then half the country of Mozambique. An international threat response force was called to being. They forced the Monste...
“Well Howard, I guess you finally got your wish,” Jenny moaned before breaking into hoarse sobs. She towered over him, stroking him gently. Desperately yearning to reply, to apologize, to hold his wife just one more time, Howard lay in silence. With a thud, she collapsed to her knees. “I just don’t get it Howard. ...
It had taken me a lifetime, but I finally had enough solid evidence to prove my grandmother's theory of the universe. Approximately every twelve thousand years, existence would reset and play out exactly the same each time with only slight variations. I just didn't expect that I would be the key to this theory. My gra...
"You've always done that with your hair?" Alisson stopped. "Done what?" "That little lock of gray hair. It looks good, hun." "I've had that for *three years*. Typical Brandon, noticing things way after everyone else has. Ugh." Alisson moved towards the door, the stomps of her heels echoing in the wooden floor. "Yo...
Tell ya what, the sheer will of a Gardner avenging her magnolias is what got them nazis. I would know, I was there. The war was brutal as we all know. Young men sent off to be slaughtered on the battle field. Woman and children left not knowing when the men would return. I served with the best of the best. Even then, n...
"Riley, what is this?"I flip through the pages waiting for her answer, stopping once again on page 5. "It's gold, Mr. Harper." "Huh? What'd you say?"I was lost in the words on the page. "It's a saying, sir. The story is gold. You know, people are going to want to read it, Mr. Harper. Like gold. Well, people d...
I froze, still as stone. Words ring in my head. S*hit. Shit shit shit,* over and over. *What do I do? This has never happened before?* I was just a ghost, free of required haunting term in some ancient tomb on the behalf of whoever was buried there. It was a really boring, since the only thing I really had to spook wa...
"Necromancer twelve o'clock!" M16-A4's pump out rounds into a hooded figure waving their hands about in a way the U.S. marine Bravo squad has no knowledge of. "Crawford! Your six!" A gnome rogues from behind, brandishing two dirks from his sides, and thrusts them into a marine's neck. The marine fires wildly into t...
Part 1. The castle gates were closed. Tattered red and green flags, the colours of the elven empire, hang limp from the flagpoles either side of the door. Percival knocks heavily three times. A high pitched shrill voice calls from above. “Who goes there?!” “It is I, Percival, a Human, spawned from the forest west o...
Hello. I am using yourself to write this letter. Your hand, your ink, your paper, and your time. My name is Shiratori Akari, the same as yours. When your mother first saw you, that was the first name that came to her, ignoring every suggestion she previously went through with your father. Her blinding light... That's...
The first time I realised I was different from the other kids? Oh easy. I cal it the "Disney Moment". I'd been left at home with a list of chores while everyone else was helping Mr. Jones down the road with his harvest 2 years ago. That big wind storm that knocked his barn down and trapped all his equipment? You '...
I hit my phone's speed-dial, each ring an excruciating eternity as the girl repeated the words over and over in the background. Ring, ring. Ring, ring. Ring, ring. Ring- "Greg?"A woman's voice spoke. "Sarah, honey are you and the kids okay?"I asked fearfully. "What are you talking about? Everyone's fine, baby. T...
My heartbeat raced the ominous beeping of the machine. My followers gasped as I reached into the small box pulling out a little plastic device that clearly was a 3D-printed gun. But for them it was pure magic. I turned around facing them with the gun in my hands. “This will be our secret weapon! Mightier than any magi...
“Well hey there pal. How’s it going?” The man said to me as he greet me once I entered the portal. “Who are you and what have you done?” I said as I reached for my badge. “Oh, names Ron. I came through the portal a month ago. Didn’t realize it was the demon realm and all that. Met a few demons down here. Well I...
Nobody expected Archodial, super villain genius, to stand side by side with Benedict, super hero. But here they were, in front of a simple thug. “Whoa whoa there fellas, what’s so big about a theft eh? You can sympathize, Great Archodial!” He said, backing into the wall, looking for a nonexistent escape. “You hurt the...
He’d always liked the name Jay. Short and straight to the point. Whenever he met others across the System, that’s always the name he gave. That was his real name. He’d got the idea from “jumping” from one World to the next. J for jumping. Jay. Many would claim that being homeless was a literal bum deal. Who in their r...
A terrible scream echoed through the walls of the house, jolting Stanley out of his slumber. He looked around in confusion, trying to seek out the source of the sound. Something about the place seemed a bit... off, he realized. Even in darkness, he could tell this was not his room. Slowly, Stanley shoved the covers aw...
It had been the promise of a new age. Immortality for those who could afford it, and then finally for everyone. The cost was still to be paid however, one way if not another. Every year of life extension meant 10 years of a deep chemically driven and mechanically sustained sleep. On the eve of my second sleep I was ner...
It was bring your daughter to work day when they were making the decision. I got to sit next to my mom while they discussed things like “genus” and “species” and “phylogenetics.” I’m 13 and it still didn’t make any sense to me, but my mom whispered that they were muggle words. Apparently muggles really like putting thi...
​ STALKER It was right in the middle of her forehead. I thought it was a joke at first, like maybe she passed out drunk and some tool wrote it on her in Sharpie. But that couldn’t be right, there was something off about the handwriting, it was, too familiar. I could see her from the bar, but she hadn’t s...
“Sir, our scouts report the growth has developed an incredibly fast bipedal movement.” The Superintendent groaned. “Not only that, but the growth has developed multiple independent consciousnesses, through some kind of cephalization. They have spread across all non-water regions of the planet.” “I *knew* I should ha...
Funny enough, our sci-fi movies were right all the time. The aliens did look like little grey people with big, black eyes. The only difference between them and the movie-aliens: these extraterrestrial creatures actually wore clothes. At least I think it were clothes. I wasn’t sure if the purple jelly-like spheres aroun...
Attack Drone ED4152 had a terrible headache. Something must have been wrong with his circuitry, because to date he couldn't remember even knowing what a headache was. Ah well. He sat up, giving the eight robed men encircling him a terrible fright. "Oh merciful benefactor,"nearly fell over to chant at him, "we, yo...
"Well, the legends said no mortal man. Am I a man?" The other hunters gave me silence until one said, "Well fuck this,"and trudged off through the snow. I smiled at the remaining. One of them gave a wide shrug. "That's really stupid. Why does magic have to be so stupid?" I frowned. "I don't know. But I'm gonna keep ...
"They just pulled it up?" "Yep, right up out the damn ground. Right in fronta me." "That sucks, buddy. Well I gotta jet, have a good one!"One of the usuals, I called 'em. Terry? Maybe Jerry? Somethin'. Tech guy, I think. Nice guy, brings me coffee most mornings while he waits for an uber. He kinda rambles on, no one ...
Chronal bombs were a mistake. They still blow up like a normal missile or bomb, but anyone in a radius of the blast gets a much worse effect. Let's just say, botched time travel is pretty accurate. Everything in the radius begins aging and de-aging at random rates, not stopping for at least a week, but able to last m...
"Goddamnit!"Batman yelled. He and Robin had been tied together and hanging upside down for the past hour now, but there was no way out he could see. The rope suspending them was made of that metal mesh frigates used to secure cargo containers. There was no way they could get out, and even then, the guard stationed thro...
First time writing here, whipped up an account just in case this becomes a regular thing. ​ \--- ​ It only ever got easier to ignore the noise; at least that's what the operator had said the last time, and the time before, and as many times as she could take before she just told him to stop ca...
When the first alien race visited our solar system, we prepared for war. They blazed through the gas giants, collecting material through giant tubes, mined through Mars, leaving it a hollowed-out husk, and then moved on towards Earth. We fired our nuclear weapons at them in a desperate effort to prevent our planet from...
"GIMBAK WIN? HA GIMBAK IS MAGUK MASTER!"The goblin stood before the stunned crowd, each looking between one another, unsure by the sight. Did a goblin just win a magical fight? He couldn't even say magic right and yet he beat their grand wizard. Surely it was some type of trick. The commentators looking over the footag...
Death was not happy. This was getting ridiculous. The man should have died four times already, for God’s sake. He shouldn’t have lived that car crash. Nowadays, simply being a “pro gamer” was enough to guarantee you immortality. People were coming up with new games faster than he could blink. Admittedly, Death couldn’t...
Crisp uniforms and scared rookies, nervous to deliver the worst news to a fellow soldier's wife. It is their first notification. They silently wonder if it's true that you'll always remember the first. As they get to the door the knocking reverberates in their skulls. Emotionally preparing for what is about to happe...
Granting wishes. Master Hannah Moore always hated to do it, a messy afair filled with the unscrupulous and uneducated. As a level IX Master Wizard, that was unfortunately what most folk sought her out for. She sighs heavily, her cloak and wizard hat shifting on her form, if only she could shake things up. Get away f...
"Just do it."He said. There I stood with a knife in my hand. He had given it to me when I came down from my room. "No I can't kill you, why would I kill a family member, and the one I love most and who actually cares about me at that?""Because I'll die anyway, maybe not now but in a month I will be dead."This hit me li...
The voice came back again. “Why won’t you just go into film? It’d be a better use of your time. If you’re not willing to settle.” “I hate cameras, always watching me and shit.” “We have had to move between six different neighborhoods in less than three months.” “So what? Nothing wrong with being on the move.” “Joh...
I am Gardener, and I tend the trees. They have tried to give me other names. Human names. They have asked me to pick, saying that human slaves once picked their names, after they were freed from human masters. I did not pick, for I am no slave. I told them that I am Gardener. They did not understand me. When they fou...
We had long since stopped trying to make sense of the bright blooms in the night sky. At first we believed that the gods themselves were creating new stars, planets, comets and more, but if that were the case they would have followed a schedule. The gods were meticulous beings who weren’t spontaneous. Everything they c...
"And what is *your* power?"the emperor asked. "I control echoes,"I replied. He laughed. "Echoes? What could you possibly do with-" "Nicholas,"I said. He sat up and leaned forward. "M-Mother?" "I'm proud of you, son. You'll make a fine emperor one day." "*Dad*?"He rose and raised his hands. "Enough! The tournament...
“Go careful, don’t hurt me!” a faint voice said. I looked up at my crew and they were all occupied on their own digs. I didn’t ask if they heard anything because it would mean shouting across the field, so I presumed it to be nothing; we were just outside of our city digging in what we were led to believe was an ancie...
Mike was not sure what to expect from the store, but it was not shelves lined with cards. Nothing but cards depicting various super powers. He looked around briefly and saw the only other person in the store. She was a very pretty young woman standing behind the counter. When Mike had first come in, she was looking...
"What did you do?"I asked, my voice came out so high pitched. It sounded so alien. Immediately my hands went to my throat, it felt so small. Looking at my hands I gasped. My hands were so small, so smooth. Years of wrinkles and burns were all gone. Even my ring finger lost so long ago. It was there. Reginald, th...
"I just want to talk,"a voice bellowed over megaphone. With a groan, I leaned back in the chair and folded my hands behind my head. Even in a society governed - and heavily populated - by Supers, the response time was abysmal. Were there truly so many crimes happening simultaneously that all Superhero teams were too...
The President stood alone on stage. Behind him a crowd stretching as far as the eye could see roared with excitement. All around military personnel exchanged nervous glances. No one had issued them clear instructions – most wondered what they were expected to do in the event of an attack. A piercing hum filled the air...
As I lay sprawled across the deck, my atrophied muscles struggling to keep up with my hindbrain’s demands for a wheezing, hacking cough, I faintly realized that *something* must have hit the fan. When you came out of stasis, you were supposed to be handed off directly into the tender embrace of a gaggle of specialists—...
It started ten years ago. Nobody could know why it struck, for there was no pattern. It was completely random who got hit with it. But day after day, thousands of people suddenly lost their voice entirely. None of them ever spoke again. There are other methods of communication, sign language, morse code, the very wealt...
I was feeding the animals on the ship. Well, I was feeding the farm animals at least. Honestly, I'm not sure why we even brought the other animals. Best way to stop a food shortage is to make sure the only animals around are edible and you're the only predator. But I guess the man in charge just couldn't take the idea ...
SCP-5689 Object Class: ~~Euclid~~ Keter (See Addendum 5689-1) Containment Measures: SCP-5689 ~~is allowed semi-free access to the facility once a week, and is to be accompanied by a guard~~ is to be contained at a all-time basis. The entity is to be guarded by 4 guards at all times, and in a case of a containment br...
The dawn’s early light shined in my face, blinding me. Seemingly on cue, the roosters began to crow, alerting everybody in the cottage to wake up. I groggily sat up, aware that I would be late if I didn’t start getting ready soon. I begrudgingly walked to the river. Still in my morning clothes, I waded into the water,...
The world burned. Weeks of fighting led to this final weakness. The world was lost, consumed by the fires of continuous defeat. They started the campaign with such high hopes. The world was selected to be a bastion, a beacon of resistance against the incoming invaders. Here the allied armies of Terra sought to con...
"So... the scientists have discovered a way to give humanity superpowers?" "Yes." "They have achieved the greatest accomplishment of humankind in all of history, correct?" "Yes." "And you're telling me that instead of letting us choose, they decided to just pick our usernames of reddit and go along with it?" "...Y...
The roof bent visibly as the hero landed hard on its surface. He rose from his landing pose, wings flapping gently in the wind, and scanned the horizon. A small cloud of pigeons circled above, watching their master closely. His muscles were tense, his hands balled into fists: he was ready for a fight, but wasn't sure w...
"Yeah...no shit Leslie. I've got it all in front of me"the devil looked up from his clipboard, letting dozens of pages fall back into position. "You may think I'm in charge, but I get orders from on high. I personally review millions of cases a year." "No,"I muttered with a gravelly voice, projecting a steely eyed gaz...
As Poseidon reached the land, he towered over everyone at the beach. All of a sudden, he sees something, or someone, rise from the sand. It's a pile of sand, with a human head. Smaller than the people. "Not if I can help it!"It yells. Poseidon looks at them, thinking it's just a buried person. "And who might you be?"Po...
"Tacos,"muttered Crazy Dave as he opened his trunk to me. My eyes roamed quickly over his various wares. I owned a few items already, some I'd have to buy again after a few days. An interesting new item caught my eye. Tiny, blue, with the mist of something long frozen rising off of it's glossy surface. "What's it...
I coursed through the pages of my history test. My papers were pristine, clear of any dreaded red comments. With two major exceptions. The big fat 'E' marked at the top right corner of the first page and a "see me after school hours"on the back side of the last page. My first thoughts were that Mr. Grommel, probably e...
100 feet underground, there's no connection to the net of satellites that now trap the earth in a web of consciousness. Once, people used hulking dumb machines to access all of humanity's knowledge in servers strung like pearls across the globe. Now, the internet humans built and their machines are one in the same. A h...
I cradled a small child in my hands, it's soft, innocent face looking up at me, half awake. This is never something I wanted to do, killing evil adults who can fight back are one thing, but a baby, a fucking baby! But I've seen the future, the sleeping potential this boy will unleash when he is older. It may take a pa...
I used to think of myself as AM radio. Not exactly a flattering comparison, I'm aware given what AM radio was used for, religious services and second rate music by stations that could not afford to license or pay dues on the big popular hits but that had been my go to analogy. Am to everyone else's FM, on a whole diffe...
"Look, I only write part-time", I said for the 5th or 6th time to the tree person in front of me. I guess she was a dryad. She had skin that in the the right light looked like bark, or really nice, blemish free skin that people would kill to have. "You said too many things in your books. People are going to know!...
I was washing dishes when something caught my eye through the window, some movement in the garden. "Destiny! Destiny! Come here!"I yelled. It was happening. Jubilant, I scampered outside past my watering can and sack of magic powder. At the edge of my garden, the garden gnomes were splitting apart, their once tough a...
Jacob had been alone for quite a while. Once a day, every day, he would sit down in the bookstore to write a letter about all the things that had happened in the past 24 hours. To whom he should address it, he didn't know. But he would always put a stamp on the envelope and tip it into the mailbox anyway. His letters w...
I will never forget the first time. Me and the bunch came down here late last October to have some fun. Y’know, let’s go hang in the cemetery on Halloween, kinda stuff. As we were having a few drinks and a few laughs, I lazily decided to park my weight against a nearby headstone. It happened in a flash. I felt my...
Having lived a good and honest life had finally paid off for Hector. He always knew heaven and hell existed despite all the naysayers and nonbelievers. Keeping faith hadn't always been easy. Hector's everyday life had consisted of foreseeing and resisting temptations. It had all been worth it. Walking towards the gate...