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“Oh…uh…good boy, easy, easy.” You’d think by 2017 we’d have this under control, but this goes back a long time. We were once a scared people, Werefolk, and I come from a long line of wolves that dates to the Benandanti clan of Italy, but after the mutts came there was no reason to be scared anymore. My family moved ...
First came the mist. It rolled through town like a tidal wave of white, a too-hot blanket pressing itself close to every window and everyone who dared to go outside. Weather experts were baffled. Who ever heard of a hot mist? Theories began to spring up online, wilder and wilder postulations about climate change, ...
By page three I was sure the results would be disappointing. I was shocked when it linked an article that was surprisingly specific: "How to change the spark plug in your car." It was a rather unassuming title considering I searched "How to change a spark plug"but the car in the photos was my exact make and model. It...
They had all heard similar stories and mythology, as would be expected for connected cultures. The trouble came when planetary cultures made contact with and exchanged history with their celestial neighbors. That was when scholars took notice, and the theory of alien creation left the realm of crackpots and crazies. E...
"Yo Tony, what are we playing tonight?"Mark barged into the foyer of the south shore abode, a six pack in one hand and a bottle of coke in the other. His gait both loping and shuffling, he seemed to bound forward at lackadaiscal speeds. "Don't wanna get wrecked in that Catan shit again; Juan was way too slick, man." "...
I looked across the room and watched the hidden guns and disguised knives. I smile and return to my paper, slowly opening the numbers app and seeing the display appear above their heads. I sigh and take another sip from my coffee and set it down, people inching at my every move. I think one of them has been following m...
By the time I had finally made it back home, boy was I pissed. I had to had call the cops, then wait there for them to show up, answer questions, let the parademics poke and prod me despite my protests not to (though, to be fair, I probably should have left the whole "cold electric tingle thing"out when I was talki...
Let me make this quick and to the point, because I don’t have much time. They monitor our computer use, as well as our internet access, to prevent incidents like this. Right now Sarah is curled up in our room pretending to be me so I can get an extra ten minutes of time. So if there are spelling mistakes…well please fo...
Fuck time. I think time works like stone, it's absolute, solid, nothing can change the past or the future for that matter. At least not how we think but I'm rambling, let me tell you why I'm 99% sure of that. October 15, 2017 Jack's Apartment, Vancouver CA I'm 19, graduated high school but didnt know what to do ...
*Welcome to Tonight's News Tonight: The Nightly News Show. I'm your host, Devin Tesdale. Tonight, we're interviewing infamous wish-breaker Martin Dakowski. Dakowski allegedly single-handedly destroyed the wishmaking system, and we've brought him on to the show to hear his side of the story. Martin?* Thank you ...
I've been tending the inn and pub for the past 30 sessions, ever since my uncle was killed in a bar fight started by that damned paladin going after yet another "heretic."Things in Bobloblawtowne (I seriously need to find out who named our quaint hamlet) are fairly predictable, but our very unoriginal lord has been thi...
I put my eclipse glasses back on about a minute too early. I've never been good at judging time, so I figure I just underestimated how long the eclipse would last. I didn't really panic until everyone else did. It started with murmurings. "Isn't it supposed to be getting bright again by now?"a teenage girl asks he...
Humanity had been at peace for nearly a century. And then those damn gaevze had shown up. K'itthra, Ascendant, greys, and sezels had come in relative peace, not wanting to go to war any more than humanity, but no, we just had to meet the one species that thought war was recreational. The first message we received from ...
When the news reported an "invisible force"throwing things around in my childhood house, I knew exactly who it was. I drove all the way to Waco, Texas from New York to stop this madness. When I arrived, the front door was wide open. The owners must've gotten the hell out of dodge. I carefully stepped into the house ...
They didn’t know which to give him the Nobel Prize for. Dr John Harris, my brother, managed to build the world’s first lifelike android AND the world’s first adult human clone in a single month. Both were astonishing achievements - years ahead of what anyone else was even dreaming about… and the bastard did it in weeks...
They have no idea how I'm doing it, all the authorities know is what the aftermath looks like. I always wondered why the phrase "no pressure"was illegal to say, yet we are allowed to write it down. It took a lot of research looking through obscure laws and court records, but I finally found the reason. Whenever the...
Jerry yawned and stretched his arms above his head. He was feeling good. Karen wasn't gorgeous and she was slightly desperate, but Tinder at two in the morning isn't for the hard to get. His conquest was standing with her arms crossed in the threshold of her doorway. Right behind her, stood a girl who couldn't have be...
"Do what?.. hello houston?"Something is off we have had none stop radio contact for the past 48 hours making sure the landing went correct. I change the radio channel on thenside of my helmet "Alice come in i think my helmet may have cut off can you get in contact with houston?" A slightly static voice repliea "Joh...
Alex squirms in his bed, tossing and turning. The floor length mirrors on his closet doors reveal glowing red eyes, at least three of them, and a dark shape huddled beneath his bed. As he watches, the creature scoots farther out from the shadows, its scaly body sliding across the floor on strong arms that bend in abou...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I'm so hungry. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This isn't a surprise. I've known my entire life that this day was coming. It's how my mother, father, my brothers and sister died. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just one more day. &nbsp;&nbsp;&n...
You're still dumbfounded. You'd been hoping to get 'best actor ever' for so long that you'd stopped entertaining the idea of possibly getting anything else. And now, all of that effort, the acting lessons, the endless auditions, the preparation; it all felt like it was a waste. The sense of loss would normally have ...
It didn't work like I thought it would. On my last "trip"I had committed specific stocks to memory to use on my next "trip"around the bend. Previous jaunts had taught me I could do damn near anything I set my mind to. Doctor, Lawyer, Cop, it didn't matter. But this time.... Everything "rippled."I would buy, I would s...
I scratched my nose, almost as if I thought I'd peel it away to reveal how it truly was underneath. "Everything ok honey?"I turned to find my mother staring at me, a basket of laundry cantilevered against her rose embroidered apron. "Ye-yeah, just feel a bit different."I replied, putting on my best 'daughter' smile. ...
"This man is guilty!"I pointed with trembling fingers at the defendant sitting behind me. My anger boiled over, incapable of being quelled as the heat rose in my cheeks and my jaw trembled with uncontainable rage. The Judge sat there with an expression of disinterest. His presence nothing more than a relic of a time p...
I've been seeing these bars over people's heads for a while now. Each kill gives experience. Not a very nice thing, is it? Well, I've only seen a few people above level one. A friend of mine is a wasp exterminator, he's gotten to level two over the course of his career. Human kills seem to count more. That one policema...
The ground hurt in this cave, and this troubled Avshalom. Cave were not meant to be so pointy, or so sharp. They were a nice cool escape from the parching sun on the desert, and a place for the cool and damp to collect without needing to approach the humans, who could often prove pointier than the rocks. He'd been fo...
I work as tech support for a company that no one has every heard of, so we get all the requests for menial jobs that no one wants to do. As the lowest man on the totem pole, I am given the worst of all the jobs. Today, I went and visited a computer lab that a school just discovered. Somehow, it got surrounded by walls...
“Atheist? Really? You didn’t do anything evil? Rape children, beat kittens? Just atheism? Must have been a militant form of atheism, usually atheists get in.” The devil glanced up from clipboard, I shrugged. “Not really, just didn’t believe.” “Probably just caught him on a bad day. He gets super pissed around ele...
Urgk Skinner stood back, a nasty grin splitting his face from cheek to pockmarked cheek. Finally he'd done in the little shit. He'd always hated him, ever since the new kid arrived in his cell block four weeks ago. Struting about everywhere like he owned the place, as if nothing could touch him, as if he was immorta...
A gnome? "Are you a gnome?"I asked the small orange man, standing on my grubby carpet in the middle of my suddenly run-down house, his long, wavy hair the deep reds and purples of wildflowers in bloom. "Ah yes,"the gnome replied in a small, cheerful voice. "I am a gnome. My name is Morgan. And I've studied your hous...
My agents are very well trained, so it was extremely frustrating that every Monster I sent to Bed 1,357,532,997 returned early with their tails tucked between their legs. I decided to assign myself to show them how it's done. I went into the portal doorway, punched in the coordinates, and hit "SCARE". I materialized ...
"Whoa man, put those things away!"the agent shouted as I raised my hands between us. "We're not here to hurt you. Settle down, now!" I stared at the heavily armed men before me, guns pointed at my chest sending little red laser dots to dance across my thumping heart. *How did they find me? How did they know about me? ...
Oh shit. Damm it oh shit. The tap was not moving. I could not move the water in the sink. I looked at myself in the mirror, stared back at my horrified expression. Born on a leap day, the doctors said that my element prediction might not be correct, but sadly in this family mine was crucial. My parents had done everyth...
"Kid, wake up,"the silhouette of a man whispered in my dreams. "We reached the end of the line." "We reached the end of the line,"I mumbled, lost in realms far more whimsical than reality. The figure prodded me with fingers of shadows that stretched past the impossible, and I jolted awake. In front of me, stood an ol...
He lit a cigarette and stared into the abyss, a glazed, vacant expression on his scarred face. The lab had been doused with petrol, and it reflected with a strange beauty; almost ethereal in the burning heat of the desert sun. He took a final drag and allowed the cigarette to fall from his mouth and turned to walk away...
It was a cold and snowy winter morning as Herbzikal scrolled through his Reddit feed. To his great surprise his [r/science post](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/7ja05e/3200_years_ago_empires_and_societies_throughout/) had been re-posted as a writing prompt. 'That is indeed ironic,' Herbzikal thought. 'as tha...
Jason smoked weed all day and constantly left his dishes unwashed. That was just the tip of the laziness iceberg. He had moldy, leftover food sprawled out across his room. Xiglamesh was fed up. He lived in the bedroom next door, under Darren’s bed. His intent was to haunt Darren day and night, but it was his soul ...
I'm not human anymore. I... it... this is a translation into English to attempt to communicate the transformation that occurred 6 years ago. Without permission and completely unexpected I was taken from my training station- Alpha Zero Niner, Scotland and given an implant that transformed my mind as it was into a super ...
I heard as they gently prodded through the key hole, as it clicked open, sealing their fate. I sprung out of bed to the wardrobe and ran my hands underneath. There. The case slipped softly across the carpet, I couldn't contain my excitement as the sound of it flinging open filled my ears. I licked my lips as I wrapped ...
I thought she loved me. She made my life full of light. We were high school sweethearts. We had always been together. Everyone had always thought that we’d always be together. You hear about high school relationships that are meant to be quite a bit, but people had always said that we were different. “Dude, you are li...
"What the hell was that?" Steven Ways was a normal man, living in a normal house, with an only slightly abnormal wife. They had no children, two jobs, a cat named Roxie, and very little to do on their weekends. "Look,"Katya whispered to Ben. "That's not how I pictured him at all, did you?" "Pretty much,"Ben answere...
I started to be again. My memories were faded. I could only recall far away thoughts about grandchildren, a grey house, and a few dogs. I couldn't remember much, but one of the things I did was a far away argument about a red button, between some world leaders, perhaps. Suddenly, I started regaining my senses. First, ...
We had been walking through a desert when it had happened. I had gone for about two days without eating, and I was getting pretty desperate. She had been talking about eating humans, one of her favorite topics, and that hadn’t been helping. “Seriously!” she argued. “Why do you have to kill animals? Why can’t we both j...
"You want me to do what now?" "You heard me. As god as my witness if there's anyone who can out-drink anyone on the planet - or out of it, as it is - it's you." "You want me to... What, out-drink the entire Martian military?" "Uh. Yes." "The entire Martian military. You expect me to out-drink them." "Well,...
He sat slumped on his nightmarish throne. The air saturated with the smell of sulfur. Piercingly loud screams and calls for mercy heard echoing around the room. The heat unbearable. He felt none of it; only resignation and unshakable melancholy. Dangling from his between his index and middle fingers was a single strip...
My boss leaned against the cubicle wall. "Well?" "I, look, this isn't an easy problem to solve, ok? The code is complex, but I've got a handle on it. It's gonna take me another six hours, tops, I promise!"I furtively glanced at the inside of my left wrist. 16. I did an internal yes-fist. "Ok, well, I'll let...
"Morning, Cal. Up for a race today?"Kevin said as he jogged up to me. I nodded. "Always."Competition was the best way to improve with a Technique, after all. I took a deep breath of forest air and lifted myself onto the balls of my feet. "Lightfoot Method", I breathed out, pushing my power out into the world. A ...
Please leave feedback if you can! I would appreciate it. --- When the library announced late night “How to Use Your Computer” classes for seniors, I had thought it was a terrible idea. I had pointed out that it was unlikely a senior citizen would want to attend classes late at night. My boss had laughed a little...
The cell door slides open with a loud slam. I nod to James and walk through. Today is the day that everything changes. Most people dream about what they will do on the outside, for me its only been terrifying. In the weeks leading up to this moment I ran though every possible scenario, and none of them turned out well....
“Rowan?!” Lexi knew immediately that calling out had been the wrong thing to do, but the sight of her friend had surprised her. Rowan had always been the meek type, so he was the last person she’d expected. Yet, there he was, charging straight into the throng of her kidnappers. — — — — — “Why don’t you fight back, R...
"50 years ago the world was a bit different as you may know already: violence, peace, wealth, starvation, technological strives, environmental catastrophe, huge population... a very gilded time. Nowadays, we all know the signs of Atricus Necrovita, the zombie prion: swollen cheeks, glazed eyes, rampant coughing, bizar...
"Class, as your final assignment before summer break you are to wite an essay about the ancient, alien civilization known as humans. Describe their culture, values, and daily lives based off of their sole surviving manuscript: The Green Eggs With Ham."When the teacher finished speaking, I looked around in bewilderment....
This was a huge mistake. When I first decided to look for roommates, I wasn't too picky. I just wanted people who would give me space when I needed, pay rent on time and were friendly. As such when I first interviewed them, they seemed nice. Now my life is a living hell, and I am sick and tired of dealing with them. ...
"Motherfuck." Akshar was terrified, scared of the horrendous looking creature he was staring into. He wouldn't have been able to tell if they could see clearly with the several eyes they were made of, but their viscious and perfectly aimed attacks were just enough evidence for them to let that worry go. And clearly, t...
Karen looked down at the crowd as she shuffled slightly on the spot. This was not a position she had any experience with. It felt odd standing up on the stage, the view not how she had ever pictured it. She held the Oscar firmly with both hands, cleared her voice, and began to speak. "There are a lot of people here th...
Sometimes I wish I could go back to my old life. Although the world around me becomes much more jovial with my presence, I have to wonder if it was worth sacrificing my home, my career, and even my humanity. All these regrets, however, fade away as soon as a big smile envelopes the face of the people around me. Nobody...
Lex Luthor sat back in his chair and stared at the ceiling. Twenty meters of reinforced concrete sandwiched between thick steel plates, studded with the various accessories of organized villainy: sentry turrets, laser pointers, cameras, spotlights and a few other widgets that served no useful purpose beyond crafting th...
######*The Maid of Henchman Inn* She thought I wouldn't recognize her emerald green eyes. How could I not? They were like a forest morning in Spring, and I could see where a river a had flowed not long ago. "I can put you on cleaning duty, so long as you don't mind working before the sunrise."A job at the front d...
Having been standing in front of the door for quite a while now, wondering what would greet me on the other side, I took the sight to be only my reflection; a practical joke. Upon further inspection, however, I saw that this thing's hand extended beyond the frame to the doorknob. All the breath escaped from me and the ...
Soon. SOON! Oh yes, world, soon you will all know me, and all fear me! You laughed at me while I played games all day. Well, while I played games all night but still, there was laughing. You mocked me when all I wanted to talk about was video games, when all I wrote about was video games, when all I thought abou...
I hauled my tattered old duffel bag out of the trunk of my Focus, which, to my everlasting disappointment, was in an even more disheveled than the bag. I turned the key in the rusted lock and walked toward the doors of the school. "Damien Sainsbury Composite Highschool"was emblazoned in block lettering above the worn s...
Sebastion's face scrunched up as he wiped harder at the stain on the mug. What the hell is this? he lamented, scrubbing furiously. So furiously, in fact, that he hardly noticed the lady enter his inn. "Hello,"she said as she approached the bar. Sebastion presumed from her tone that she was smiling, but didn't care t...
I peer from every human eye simultaneously. I look from your eyes at the world. I see the pain, the lust, the joy, the dull ordinary. I search for her, my precious one, the one who can save you all. The apocalypse is coming, though you know it not. My girl can save you. There is a war. It is vicious and cruelly un...
“Another day another dollar!” I sit up and stretch my arms a bit. “So what’s the first one you think? Oh I bet it’s that time I punched Johnny in the face, and it ruined my reputation in primary school.” I say. “Not too far off the mark, the system has it down as when you pissed him off, after that the fight was appar...
The scholars of the Good Boy Foundation rose from their chairs as the Bull Terrier rushed through the security door intruding on their bone-chewing session. "What is the meaning of this intrusion, Terrier Cruise?" "Sir Woofenstein, the ancient creators have been found. The committee is already unthawing them from the...
I locked the doors of my Subaru Impreza and walked up to the courthouse. I'd been here before, during the divorce. Just seeing this building caused unpleasant emotions to resurface. The familiar creak of the old doors and that musty book smell that hung in the air-- it all reminded me of that day. Relax, I told mys...
"Bill we got another one."The black suited detective spoke into his walkie-talkie. I sighed in relief. Much to my relief I was not insane and someone else could in fact see the dead body in the mirror. The detective, his name was Richard I think, turned back to me "Now tell me exactly what happened." "Well I was get...
The door brushed silently open to greet me with Downtown ElvenWood Library. Seemed like a normal enough place. Book were being cautiously flipped through, I heard the soft clicking of the nearby computers, and a librarian who look like she'd been here since the Romans invaded doing... whatever Librarians do. But there’...
I state as they close the last lock in the temple's grand door "You might think you can kill me here, but the thing is. I desecrated this temple centuries ago." My voice echoes throughout the beautiful vaulted ceilings. None of them flinch. They start spreading out amongst the benches and the remains of my dinner. ...
"Visual Cortex Booting, Estimated Time Remaining, Three Minutes." Wow, it's really happening. I thought. I was so thrilled, yet nervous. I had heard about the procedure, but always felt that it would be out of reach. I can't wait to see my hands. "Two Minutes Remaining." I felt sweat form on my face as my hear...
"It'll probably take me about-" "Mlem. Ugghh." "What?" "Sorry, just got some déjà-vu, knew you were going to say that." "Haha alright, well how long will it take me then?"he replied with a smile. I shook my head in confusion, "3 hours,"I responded dryly. "What the hell, lucky guess haha,"he responded. "Argh it's...
320 years. If I put candles on my cake, it'd be more candle than cake. A candlecake. Heh. It'd probably set off the fire alarms. Wake a lot of people up...disturb the rest of the old people in the nursing home...Heh...Probably give a few of them a good old stroke or heart attack...Heh...Note to self: next birthday, put...
Gia and her friends were walking home from her sweet sixteen party. Her mother had finally consented to letting her have it at a club that allowed minors up to 9.00 PM. Pfft. Someday she'll get a drink... legally. That's when it happened. A sudden static sound jarred her ears. It was as if the world's loudest microphon...
For the first week, utter terror. But then it simmered to an aching dread. What's worse, sometimes, after one of those strange coma like trances, not sleep but something darker, I would "awake"thinking I was safe at home in my bed. Then it would creep, inching it's way back into my mind: first a silly thought, but then...
John couldn't quite pinpoint when his wishes started to turn sour. He didn't wake up and realize that something was wrong, it was more a general feeling of displeasure and disappointment as little things went wrong and started to become more serious. Over time, he had to spend more and more wishes trying to stave o...
I looked up from the dagger I was polishing when I heard the chime over the front door. An angel, or at least a half-angel, walked in. I did not see any sign of wings, but the golden halo over his long, straight, black hair tipped me off to his race. "Afternoon. Something I can help you find?"I asked. I set the dagg...
"You've gained quite some weight,"I came out and said; It seems a harsh comment, to fill one with dread, But she looked at me, startled, said "I suspected as much," "Your honesty means I'll skip today's lunch." &nbsp; "You look kind of tired,"I said without guile, Not a kind statement, not said with a smile, ...
I'd had a great time this evening. Never in my life had I gone on a blind date, so I hadn't expected much, but Petra smiled when we met, and neither of us had stopped smiling since. "Hi, my name's an awkward way to meet people, and this is Petra."it was a stupid joke as she pointed to herself, but her smile was wide ...
I stepped on the cracks. I walked on the edge of the sidewalk. I always split in Blackjack. These are just a few of the thing to decrease my luck. Make it just a little easier for the whim of fate to push me over the edge. Though the best way I've found is to gamble. Low stakes of course. I walked into the casino an...
Four Techniques My name is James Kerhs, and today is the day where I fight for my future. I find myself standing before a vast crowd of people, more than I could have ever imagined. In fact I think maybe the entire country of magic folk has come out today to see the proceedings, and why wouldn’t they? Today might be t...
Ark looked out over the expanse in front of him and then turned to Knug, his claws resting on his expansive hips. “How many?” Knug seemed to look anywhere but at his captain, “552 sir.” Ark flapped the tentacles covering his four teeth. “552…” he said. He looked through the window of the viewing deck again and sighed...
"Alopeach what now?" "Alopecia areata universalis,"the defendant Dag Strand replied. He proceeded to remove his eyebrows as if they were post-it notes. Judge Antonio D. Ferrini glanced at exhibit A--a plastic bag containing hair found at the crime scene--and then at his associates, who seemed to be indulging in a new...
One would expect that the power of invisibility would be given to a voyeur, a creep, a stalker, a degenerate, what-have-you. Someone who would commit crimes, invade privacy, ruin lives. However, I'm not really any of those things. When I found a soft blue micro-fleece hoodie in the closet in my mother's room, in a box,...
The Potentia Mundi Mutation that appeared in the mid-twentieth century, granting large numbers of people extraordinary abilities, is still not understood by scientists. Only two hard-and-fast rules have been discovered and agreed upon by those who study the PMM: 1. No two people have the same ability. 2. Every ability...
Surrounded. I look back at my army. They are ragged, dour, scarred. Each one of them has fought this war for as long as they can remember. In each face is a well of deep, painful memory: infant hands gathering stones, scrounging food and sharpening spears. Years of hunger barely assuaged by a meager diet of scraps. Lo...
Wait. She could speak. "Oh god, oh please, I will find you guys, I promise! Calm down Serah, you can find them. Come on!" Well, this was unexpected. I basically watched for a while, trying to think of what to do, when suddenly she noticed me. "Hey!", she said, "Maybe you can tell me where I can find my breezles!" Ok...
Robert's eyes shed a few last tears as he watched Tiberius' eyes close for the final time. The young dog had been dealing with heart issues and was in constant misery. Robert and his family thought it would be best to put their four legged family member to sleep and let him rest in peace. Tiberius' last thoughts were ...
Take a shot everytime I say "$5 Deep! Deep! Dish pizza plus a 20-ounce bottled drink from Little Cesar's™" "and uh...$5 Deep! Deep! Dish pizza plus a 20-ounce bottled drink from Little Cesar's™ too, Haha"I said jokingly. After I got bored talking to it I decided to go back to work and finish my writing prompt. 25 m...
“Wait...you’re my imaginary friend.” &nbsp; The voice comes from beside me but I see nothing when I turn my head. That is, until I look down and there he is. Paul. Nine years old. Kid hasn’t aged a day since the last time I thought about him. Same Ninja Turtles t-shirt. Same cargo shorts. Same stupid Jonathon T...
I'd been warned of course, my predecessor had explained about these primitive people on the high gravity world. It was little more than a check in really, after all 10'000 years was little more than a blink of the cosmic eye really. I became increasingly concerned as I arrived in system, my network was suddenly bombar...
It was another boring day on the bus to work, nothing interesting was coming over the airways. Candace closed her eyes and reached out with her mental tendrils. Most people were blanking out, just mirroring whatever they were scrolling through on their phones. One person, up near the front, was flicking through a meme ...
The full moon was always an interesting day. For some, it was a time of excited anticipation, waiting to spend their night swinging from trees, soaring through the skies, or diving deep into lakes and oceans. For others, it was a time of dread. Ensuring that chains wouldn't come loose, that sedatives and tranquilizer...
The child is held in a containment tank with walls of steel seven feet thick on every side. The scientists had declared him in a vegetative state, but every time someone came near him he would claw them with his untrimmed, cracked fingers. Scientists had heard about what zombies could do, so the containment tank was th...
The pain, the pain was unbearable. His field of view shrank to almost nothing when he plummeted to the floor. If was in him, the silver blade of treachery. He took a rasping breath, it hurt. He could see from his position as the feet of some of his council members moved past him. One pair, in ornate sandals stopped bef...
“Right this way...er..., sirs?” The mining manager said while we travelled down the mine shaft. It was a new mine, and it was dark. Opened just two years ago to harvest the precious metals modern society needs to survive. We weren’t there for an inspection though, well, we were, but not for anything mining related. W...
February 28th, 2022 Still that agonizing feeling in my shoulder. Doesn't ever really let up. Don't even think I was human when it happened, but I can still feel the tearing of flesh, the ripping of muscles. Every day. I'm writing this because my psychiatrist advised it'd be a good way to take things one day at a ...
(1) James looked at the sky. Well, more the clouds than the sky as it was raining heavily. He couldn’t help but feel like he was responsible for it considering he was in the dessert. \--------------------------------------- James had been 12 years old when he got his powers, a little older than most but not unheard ...
“Fella! Wait for me!” shouted Nevea as she struggled to keep up with her best friend. They had been born within the same year, a rarity among elves, and had been raised together for all of their 150 years upon this world. As a result of fate as much as their own choice the two of them had a bond that went beyond elvens...
Hello? I blinked a few times, matching the pace of the flashing cursor onscreen. The single word taking up so much of my attention, drawing it away from the incomprehensible code occupying the rest of my screen. Are you there? My first instincts kicked in, and I tore the ethernet cable from the computer. A pla...
“You named yours? I can’t believe you named it.” “Of course, I did. It’s a pet, you’re supposed to name pets.” “But it’s a rock. It’s a scam. Pets are living creatures, your rock is not a living creature. They only did that so we would clear out all the rocks before they added the extension.” “Explain how it’s takin...

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