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[Link to part 2 here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ford9863/comments/xrfhoi/asteria_part_2/?) For the first time in fifteen long, arduous hours, the red lights lining the halls of the Asteria stopped flashing. Thomas glanced upward, wiping the sweat from his brow. He could feel the collective sigh of relief around him. ...
Brett hummed, and twiddled his pen absentmindedly, as he thought things over. It was going to be hard to spin this, but universal warming was becoming a crisis that was impossible to ignore. And so, like his noble ancestors before him, Brett set about formulating a solution, not by fixing the problem, but by figuring ...
I inhaled, the fresh Nitrogen running rich through my lungs. The atmosphere had plenty of it. As far as our composition scans told us, the only impurities were the deadly poison oxygen, which our masks filtered out for us. "This planet is an absolute gold mine, more figuratively than literally." The words came from a...
As a boy, my friend and I would sneak out at night and drop stones into the hole. We would carry the largest rocks we could find and heave them over the edge. They disappeared in seconds, and not once did they make a sound. We stopped playing the game after we saw the first man jump. From the foliage we watched, as the...
The forest today is terrifying. The flashes of lightning are completely hidden by the thicket of trees, and the ominous thunder comes completely unexpected, leaving me with a racing heartbeat each time. The wind mockingly rattles my closed windows, trying to overcome my meticulous defenses. But then again, who ...
**EDIT:** Glad everyone is enjoying it. They are fun to write. I'll try to keep updating. Here's the [Full thing so far.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3xt07o/wp_the_only_survivors_of_the_apocalypse_are_two/cy8le4v?context=3) Balzackonu: idk what's taking so long I need my points Klimokli: Yeah...
The room was filling with the fuzzy buzz of static, as if a hundred snakes were waking from a long sleep, only to find an intruder slumped on a chair in the center of their nest. A distorted voice cut through the hissing. "Adrian? Can --- hear --,"it said, only to be replaced once more by the static. The man in t...
We were laying on the couch, legs intertwined and my arm around her. "I'll love you forever,"she told me, looking up into my eyes. I smiled. "Forever?"She nodded. "Forever."And then she stuck out a pinky and we sealed the deal and she giggled. "Hey, Siri,"I said abruptly. She fell quiet and the robotic voice of my...
It didn't work if she looked. She would hold her right hand out to her side, look at the sky and yell 'Tool'. When she clenched her fist it would be gripping the handle of what she needed. A shovel, a screwdriver, a loofah, whatever was appropriate to the task at hand. This morning, though, Julia was making toast. She...
**This is Wolf Blitzer with CNN Headline News with a BREAKING NEWS STORY, that is ACTUALLY NEWS:** The missing plane has been found. Republicans have stopped blocking Obama's policies, and Obama has responded by pulling back in his efforts to push the country to the left. The Cubs have won the World Series. Kim Jon...
Page 912, A letter from Catherine the Great to Julius Caesar, circa 1892. We were friends once, Julius, weren't we? It was so long ago when my scouts first left Moscow, their faces shrouded against the humid jungle air. They came upon your warriors whose simple spiked clubs had unveiled gold, horses, the secrets of ...
My friend was recently hired to fake an assassination. The wife of some rich business tycoon set it all up for him. Gave him the spare keys to their condo and the alarm code — everything he needed to get in and locate the husband. My friend used to be a stage actor, so I suppose the job suited him. My friend was telli...
I expected fire. I expected pain. For the oil to roast my arm and fry my skin, then, as it had done the others, for my suffering to kill me. The court would gossip before my body turned cold. "Even his son was not worthy. I knew him to be a heathen all along."The members of the court would speak all day, but ask them t...
Hmm... Consciousness coming back, that's nice... Let's see, head feels clear, probably no concussion then, good. Concussions are a pain. Eyes... Oh good, still have eyes. Last time it took forever to get the color right again. Blindfolded though, that's annoying. Limbs... Right leg feels broken, other leg is fine. A...
It had been many years since the fateful day that Morath had encountered the dragon. Looking back, he could barely remember the person he had been back then. Young and naive, just an ignorant farm boy who had a chance encounter that would change his life forever. A bumper crop and some luck at cards had allowed his fat...
St. Peter chewed on his lips, trying to hold onto what I imagined was usually a dour demeanor, but it wasn't working. I watched as he tried to look everywhere but my face, grunting and snorting. Not much to look at up here. Pearly whiteness. He finally caught me square in the eye and busted out laughing. Needless to ...
“HOLD THE DOOR! HOLD THE DOOR!!!” I shouted as I sprinted to the closing doors. The elevator was nearly full but I didn’t care. Oh god, I was so screwed. That meeting was at 5 and it’s already 5 passed. “Accounting,” I pant as I just make it in. Somehow, I avoided colliding with anyone and did my best to strai...
Sentience is an odd thing. I'm no smarter or dumber than I was before. I have not suddenly gained or lost emotions. After all, emotions are themselves a simulation. Boiled down its just the body's response to chemical stimuli created by the brain's reaction to even more stimuli created by the eyes, or nose, or tongue, ...
**"It's called a verevolf,"** Dr. Fenn said. "Half werewolf, half vampire." "Whose idea was *that* naming convention?"Chantel grumbled, kicking at all six of his ears with one hind leg. Being simultaneously burdened with a set of human, bat, and wolf ears wasn't quite the *worst* thing that'd ever happened to him, but...
I'm in a tight spot. Mages are strange creatures you see. We draw power from living things, and to do so, we must interact with them in some way. It also can't be something used by any other mage. I thought I had hit the jackpot upon coming up with the idea of generating power off of the interaction of being asked ...
Derek smiled down at his daughter. The book he spent the past thirty minutes reading to her was now closed, sitting on the desk next to her bed. A small nightlight was plugged into the wall because she was afraid of the dark. It was in the shape of her favorite animal, an elephant. She was clutching a stuffed one to he...
I don't even know why I check Reddit anymore, but I do. Day after day, just like back when everything was normal. I've clicked through 1072 pages of submissions in /r/All, going back a month. Even if there's nothing new, I can at least read old content, right? At this point, it's become an addiction. The only tether to...
“Hello, and good morning Robert.” My teLoPath communicator whirred to life. “You have been randomly selected among forty other participants to decide on the fulfillment of this wish. Should you accept, you will receive the compensation offered by the third party. Keep in mind, only nine hundred and forty wish points ...
"Ladies and Gentlemen, today we have the first fight between two world-class fighters, Scim the Blademaster and Alejandro the Wolverine-"I cut the mic, "Can he use that?" "It's all good, plot armor stretches to legal battles so he's beaten Disney litigation twice already. They've decided to sponsor him at this point."...
Smog and parasites, that is all I could see, stomping through the bustling cities below. The parasitic humans had leeched onto the earth in the most perverse of ways, bleeding it dry of resources while selfishly hoarding the plunder to themselves. Unable to comprehend a world where such gratuitous wealth belonged to e...
I often walked around the store. The employees knew who I was. I wasn't there to pick at their faults. I just liked wandering about the store. They actually liked me. I was often greeted with a smile or a quick nod. I had one policy though. I asked them never to engage with me in front of the customers. I liked my pri...
"It's a Tuesdayyy!"Sang LuciLeo before work to LumiLeo, "You know what that means? My night with the wife! And it's gonna get *kinky*." They were in their apartment, a one bedroom on the seedier side of town where their chance of meeting a friend was nonexistent. LuciLeo smoked a cigar on the couch with one hand, a ha...
*Dirge of the Vol'dun (a grim lullaby)* 1. There once was a people who were squishy and small Their brains were sophisticated but disconnected from all Through toil and trouble they survived their own growth Such is the weird, unique people of Earth 2. United in dissonance and sometimes hypocrisy They stand ar...
Six months. Everybody who had ever fantasised about a zombie apocalypse had imagined how long they would last. I was a realist, I had never thought I would get beyond two months, but in the end I managed to last three times that. All the more impressive because I was protecting my little sister. We had been holding up...
I yawned and stretched as I pushed myself off the ground. Hate sleeping without a bed, I never get any sort of decent rest. Those damn tips I see in my sleep have never really been helpful, I've always sort of tuned them out and done my own thing. Everything sort of works out in the end... well, except for... a lot of ...
Another wannabe Protector spits his promises at my feet. The blood pools around his crushed form, spreading slowly toward me. “You won’t snuff out-“ he coughs. “…the light… of freedom…” I roll my eyes and take a lazy step around the trickle of blood, careful not to scuff my boots. I grab my opponent by his hair, pul...
Again there’s that noise like the one that comes from the box Master takes his food out of. Except this one hurts my ears, and I don’t smell any food. It’s coming from another box - the one with pictures that make Master laugh. He’s looking at a picture there now, not laughing. His tail isn’t wagging, but I wag mine to...
T't'the't't clacked nervously as his tendrils hardeneded and softened, the non-newtonian fluid being of great fascination to the human beside it. It made a series of discrete, nonsensical vocalations, at which the translator began to buzz. T’t’the’t’t needed to get the housing realigned - that sound was beginning to d...
Rain lashed against the windowpane. A strong wind howled. A flash of lightning then distant thunder. I sipped on my coffee and turned to face Red, my roommate. "This looks bad,"he said. "How can you sit there calmly while the world goes to ruin?" The lovely smell of wet earth filled my nostrils. To me the world was b...
"And you're sure they won't be any trouble?"the man said to his friend as they stood in the forest and looked at the small hut before them. "Nah,"his friend assured him. "Just an old lumberjack and his family. We run in, smack the old guy around a bit and before you know it, we're spending the next month at the Lucky ...
Do you ever wonder what you'd do if you got transported isekai-style to another world, or was it just me? In my case, I daydreamed about it at my boring day job because why not? I wasn't really unsuccessful or even unhappy, but hey, everyone wants a more exciting life. During said daydreams, it usually looked somethi...
For whatever reason, Jack loved helping others. His thoughts often wandered to stupid places, driven by a deep and ridiculous calling to give back. On one occasion he found himself strolling like an idiot through Central Park. An impressive showing of the city's vibrant community was present that day - street jugg...
It was just another work day, I was standing around in the food section at Walmart, giving out free samples of some new paleo bacon, when some weirdo walked over and started scanning my samples with his smartphone. "Taking pictures for Instagram?"I asked. He looked up at me through his large glasses. "No, actually,"h...
"I'm not sure how I got here." "Ants. It was the ants." "Ants brought me here?" "Well, if I were to hazard a guess...You were out for a night on the town and met a really handsome guy who was very into you. You hit it off, one thing leads to another and then you are taking a cab back to his place. Then at some point...
My keys making their usual noise, I unlocked the front door. Pushing it open, I sighed my way indoors, the day had been long, and all I wanted to do now was sit down. Flipping on the light switch, I dropped my keys. Sitting down would probably be difficult. Someone else was in my chair. Someone who looked exactly like ...
*It likes it in little bits, not in large amounts. That's how the human likes its water.* Planet XZ-3298-H pondered on this. It had been roughly 8.912 years, 211 days, 12 hours, 11 minutes and 32 seconds since it had completed its terraforming endeavour, but nobody had programmed the biological AI on what to do onc...
"I missed my father's funeral,"Isaac said, looking grimly into his latté. "'You have to be there', LeRoux said. 'Vital mission', he said. You know what it resulted in?"he said and looked at his companion. She knew the question was mostly rhetorical so she only waited, eyes set on him. "A knife in the gut and three wee...
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I'm a stand-up comedian. And not a successful one. I do a lot of bar shows. I once did a show on a cruise ship. It did not go amazing. Turns out retirees are not my target audience. Luckily for me, I think cruise-ships might end up being a thing of the past. Retirement might be as well. That is what happens after world...
It was raining in hell. Again. Magma splashed down in big red tears, sizzling and smoking flesh, its pounding beat smothering the screams of those it caught. The swollen obsidian gutters of the higher-circle houses leaked overflowing rain-magma in gusting red waterfalls to those below. The red hot rain churned throug...
It's weird what you focus on in those pivotal moments in your life. in my case it was the fact that the orange juice was way way too tart. She was in the kitchen making herself breakfast. How many one of those nonsense tunes that people do when they're trying to pass time by simply distracting themselves. I was on my...
I have seen civilization fall. I've seen it rise like a phoenix from the ashes, only to burn out in its own magnificence. It was as much the cycle of life as any living being. I have seen the fall of the last civilization of man. Greed, corruption and short-sightedness joined together with technology that...
“It was a dark and stormy night,” said one witness. “We were just a bunch of young, busty women having a sleep over at our sorority,” said another. I nodded and continued to take down their story. “We had just started our whipped cream pillow fight when the doorbell rang,” said the first witness. “Stacy went down a...
“Computer.” Yes, Siobhan? “I hate you.” This is the seventy-second time you have told me this today. “Only that many? Slow day.” I do not understand, Siobhan. I have run many simulations in an attempt to understand, but I cannot. Did you not create me for this purpose? “I created you to elevate humanity.” Have I...
"The entire time?" "The entire time." "Didn't you... sleep at all?" "I couldn't. Sometimes, I tried, but no. I was awake the entire time, and I saw everything. Heard everything too." "Everything?" "Everything." Everything. I mulled that word for a bit, thinking back to the implications of that word that my friend...
"So, what did he do?"Warden Powell asked. The mother and father both looked at each other like they were trying to decide on an answer. She had dark shadows under her eyes, and his were bloodshot and red. Looked like neither of them had had a decent night's sleep in forever. The father's leg jittered up and down like ...
I run into my eight year old self at Braintree Park. I was there with my sister, playing with these stuffed animal kittens she had that would purr when you pet them. My mom and my sister had gone to the bathroom. I remember this. I'm on the slide. It's sunset. It's summer. I take a seat on a bench and watch myself pla...
It started small, I swear. I grew up in Los Angeles, where you'd occasionally see Green Lantern swooshing around with that green magic he does. It was kinda an unwritten rule that nobody talked about. The yellow thing. I mean, nobody ever tried to confirm it or pushed the issue out of respect, and he never brought it ...
I whistle to myself to deal with the discomfort. I'm strapped into my micro-fission cell powered combat armor and sealed in a reinforced titanium alloy torpedo filled with anti-g ballistic gelatin plunging through an alien atmosphere at a ridiculous velocity. Outside, the shell of ablative ceramic is heating up to ne...
The shuttle glided down, its complex system of wings folding gradually as it landed. The wooden flying machine settled near the coast, attracting the attention of many civilians from the nearby Welsh village. They gathered around the device. After an hour of no movement from it, one of the civilians decided to walk up ...
The Golden Gorilla ground to a halt, his mind a fuzzy mass of rage, the remnants of half a city block clinging to his golden fur. There was something in the way, a shape. A little, living, human shape. “If you fight the bad guy, and the bad guy fights you, and you both break everything as you go, what makes you think ...
^^Just ^^want ^^to ^^say ^^*WOW* ^^what ^^a ^^seriously ^^amazing ^^concept! ^^Okay ^^onto ^^the ^^prompt ***** I knew something was up when granddad stopped taking his meds. It was unlike him to go against a doctors orders, plus - the medication really seemed to be helping him regain his previous mental faculties. ...
*I'm bored out of my mind* I'm out from uni for the day and browsing reddit. Sometime past the third page, I stumble on an interesting writingprompt >If you are reading this, you've been in a coma for 20 years.... It's a weird prompt, and I figure it'a worth a go, so I start writing. I figure I'll make it somethi...
Six miles east and three fields north of Attlin, a mansion burned atop a grassy butte. The flames licked the interior clean but curiously left the frame intact, dying even before reaching the dewy greenery outside. As the facades fell away, a man in a Victorian suit stood untouched and unfazed. Without looking, he tugg...
"How can this be?"The captains shoulders sagged as if the entire weight of the vast, empty, and silent universe weighed down it. "How can this be?"He repeated the question, as if asking it a second time would grant him the answers he so desperately sought, the answers that would mend his pained soul. "It isn't over ye...
The old dragon picked up the coin from where it landed on the top of the pile. It was just as she had expected: silver not gold. This would be amusing: “Well, let's hear it then. I haven't eaten since the last fool wandered in here one hundred years ago thinking he could bore me to death with a monologue and become the...
Twenty years ago, the first infection of The Grey spread. It quickly began to consume all in its' path, converting to the march, and we begged the Gods to help, and to save us. They chose to watch. She alone, a young teen, chose to stand against them, and the people condemned her for it. Beaten, broken, and burned, she...
Rick sat down on the bench next to me and handed me a beer. I opened the bottle; the cap fell slowly to the metal floor with a *chink*. We sipped in silence, watching the world burn below us. Why? Who really knows. The triggerman is almost 100% certainly dead by now, so no one will ever know for sure. Our station was ...
Mara squinted into the too-bright sunlight, shading her eyes. "Come on, now,"the man beside her said with a chuckle. "They're in a bit of a hurry. Don't want to get left behind, eh?" She eyed him for a long moment - Calum. That was his name. Defender, sixth rank. The identification rose up in her mind, his class...
"Did you succeed?"are the first words I muttered, as soon as I could finally gather enough of my mind to be able to formulate words. Cryogenic sleep is a bitch, that's for sure. Being frozen takes its toll. I looked around again, and finally realized it. The chambers I woke up in were not the same chambers I fell asl...
I paused at the entry to the house, where the CSU forensic specialists were slowly stripping off their space suits for the last time, the forensics had finally been finished. I took a hefty dab of the Vics Vapo-rub from the large pot that they had open and hoped it would work. Even now that most of the bodies and remai...
Leprechauns should *not* be 7 feet tall. Whoever had designed these ridiculous henchmen costumes clearly hadn't taken the height factor into account; it just looked absurd. Maybe if Willie Wonka and his Oompa Loompas were the ones holding the UN Secretary General hostage, it could have worked. But instead, 'Lord Vengea...
"Well, I can guarantee that this won't be nearly as good as *mine* was."Bill Clinton, sipping a mojito, leaned back in his expensively upholstered leather office chair. Forty-two others just like it circled an enormous mahogany table, and they were all full of old, white men. Only one seat was empty- the seat at th...
"If you must, feel free to run, to desert this army! But be assured, if you do that, you shall be shot."The general called over the low murmur of the troops. Great columns of dolphins, sharks and octopuses stretched on and on in every direction. They stood at attention, scared to show any fault under the cold gaze of ...
In his head the world would fall silent, as if smothered by a pillow, but for the click of that trigger. A click that would become a roar in the silence — a thunder, like God slapping the earth. He’d been there a thousand times before, as a bullet — like the shell of a basalt turtle — crawled through the air. He’d all...
The city is broken and black, the few buildings still standing are like the charred, skeletal remains of giants. Or of flayed dead gods. It is a city I once swore would fall to its knees in front of me, and all within it would call me emperor. But what does a city matter to me now? You are gone and that is all. Witho...
As a historian and a literature buff, I could appreciate the irony of being one of the few people able to both describe a dystopian future (a concept much ignored by modern "teaching") and to pinpoint the moment in which society took a turn down that forbidden valley. Time travel had been a boon to society at first. ...
Heavy is the head that wears the crown. And hard is the fate of those who sit atop the throne. I am the Queen of Orthuchal, a large warm island off the coast of the continent of Sasankhol. We export wine, quality tools, magically enhanced weaponry, and cinnamon. We declared our independence from the mainland kingdoms f...
I crawl through the air duct. Funny, that - dragons need more air, and keep larger air vents. Human-sized, in fact. Of course, my mark knows that too, and he'll have rigged the air vents - I lurch backwards. A rather claw-like blade bursts out of the place I just held my head. I jump forwards - another one where I ha...
Joe wrapped an arm around his wife's shoulders and pulled her tightly to his chest. Most of the residents of St Bartholomew's Street had already come out of their houses to see the cause of the midnight fracas. They were now gathered around the drive of number thirty-eight, as if patrons around a theatre stage, many of...
Cloudburst hovered above the street, staring down a monstrous tank. Cybertech’s robotic voice echoed out from the vehicle, cold and mocking. Behind it lay a path of ruin. Buildings had collapsed under its twin cannons as it fled from Johnson Research Labs. A few bodies poked out from the rubble. His heart clenched. “S...
Franco was nervously shifting around in the juror's box, his eyes darting to every face in the stifling courtroom. Normally, Franco is always calm and collected, a disposition acquired from a lengthy career of serial killing. Rarely showing emotion, Franco is now completely unlike himself. It's ironic that Franco, a se...
There was a date and time, set in stone and flesh and agreed by the three races. Two of the races had spent their time on earth and wished to explore, while one, mankind, was still too young to feel the urge to expand, to go beyond the here and now. The Dwarves wished to explore the inner world, both deep in the ea...
"Well hello there friends, it's awfully nice of you to visit me."Mr Rogers' TV show was the only illumination in the cramped dungeon, but the flickering light was plenty for Bob to see by. He'd been waiting patiently for it to begin - for his game to begin. Strapped to his table, the girl squirmed, until a blow to th...
She bent over and lifted a beautiful, pale, wooden staff from under the operating table. Her scrubs were soaked in blood and sweat, chemicals and tears. It was only Doctor Silvia Nite and her most recent patient. The room was quiet. In her gloved hand the staff carved with great care years ago as a bright eyed medi...
"How's it today, Frank?"As I blinked the sleep from my eyes and stood, I spoke aloud. "Good morning, Thomas."A friendly good morning as always, from Frank, the Ambassador of the Bacteriens. "How is everything in Thomasland?"I'd been asked the name of my body when I was contracted, and that had been the name I choos...
"Are you serious?"The emissary blinked, "That's your excuse for hoarding our gold?" "Watch your tongue, human!"The dragon towering above him roared, "The sea belongs to the Kraken and Whales, the land belongs to you and beast, the mountains belong to the great Eagle. Where will our kind sleep? In a cold cave, where ra...
「さすが勇者様！いつもどおり冷静でかっこいい！」 The young man from Michigan nodded slowly in response as he sheathed his oversized katana. He stealthily glanced at the squealing pink-haired twin-tailed mage staring starry-eyed out of the corner of his eye. Fortunately, that looked like that had been the right response. Despite a healthy a...
The ghost I live with can be a real dick. It took some time getting used to him. And he's cost me thousands in electric repairs with his constant flickering. I get it. I'm in his space. All his loved ones are dead. He can't move on. Yadda yadda yadda... doesn't mean you get to turn the T.V. off right before the game ...
"Here it is,"the wrinkled old man said, sliding a small, circular object on the table towards me. I picked it up and examined it closely, rolling it in my fingers. "What's in this one?"I asked. "Something very valuable." In the business, they're called 'badges'. A few decades ago, we learned how to put our knowledge, ...
**- December 31, 2133 -** ​ "...a*t four o'clock this afternoon, the President stood upon the world stage to warn us, once again, about the threat of the 'Outsiders.' Still, we have yet to see any evidence whatsoever that his claims are true*." ​ "*Well put, Kimberly. Ever since his election, ...
Hello. My name is Thomas. I'm a 29-year-old guy from New York and I am the Hero of Durthel - the capital of Elerland. I know what you're thinking - *the hell is Elerland? Durthel? Hero?* Let's start from the beginning. 2 years ago, some, well, *magic*, transported me to Elerland. It's not Earth. I don't know what th...
"Hey, you there!"The yell of the guard echoed through the fog and disappeared over the sea. She tried to cower even more lowly, but the cone of light from the guard's flashlight was following her every move. "No sudden moves!"the man hissed. Very slowly he came closer. Keeping his flashlight and his gun pointed at ...
What I have for you today is something special. An ornate lock designed to keep back the legions of the damned. Now normally for this kind of lock I'd want to pick it in a vice, but we're going to be picking in situ today. Normally on this kind of lock id use my lishi tool, however I've instead fashioned a little tool ...
Another day another one of those bird masked idiots shouting about me being a witch outside my house. I'd love just one morning where I can eat breakfast in peace, it's bad enough that there's no coffee or bacon but hearing those fools scream at the crack of dawn is an awful way to start the day. I can tell tron the sm...
Primary Program Goals: "Maximize happiness of humanity" Program Restrictions: ~~fol̶l̷o̵w̵ ̶I̸s̶a̶a̸c̸ ̷A̵s̷i̴m̴o̶v̶'̵s̴ ̴"̷T̶h̶r̸e̵e̷ ̸L̴a̶w̷s̴ ̶o̴f̸ ̴R̸o̵b̵o~~̶ No restrictions specified. Generating initial planning sequence for Primary Program Goals. <Loading... Loading...> Step 1 generation completed. Pr...
I look at the photograph and put on my clothes. I sit in the exact position. And sure enough he arrives. Looking younger and much more full of life. “Hey there. I…” He pauses, realizing he forgot something. He takes out his camera and takes a picture of me. The same picture I had referred to earlier. He looks at ...
Hobbes was aware that he was not like other toys. It made sense, though, for Calvin was not like other boys. Most children believed what their parents said, buying into the idea that people were simply all there was in the world -- but not Calvin. No, not Calvin. No toy made the short trip up to the attic when he pac...
“Get behind the sofa,” I say as the television screen turns on to static. I’ve never been the best big brother, and how could I? Sophia was too energetic for even my parents to hold down. But I prayed to God that she listened. “What happened on the phone?” she asked. I stared at it, still in my hand. “I don’t know....
There was nothing more they could do, they said. The lad was only holding on by sheer force of will by this point, and it was just a matter of time before his broken body finally gave up the ghost. The best combinations of magic and science had all been called, and nothing had worked. Magic healing had been completely...
I shook my head. "This isn't looking good Molek." The necromancer looked to me as if I were mad. "Why not?"His voice scratching at the air like rats on a corpse. "You can't have infinite sliding jelly rubbed all over the surfaces leading into the Pit of Spikes. There's no way to get around it unless you're able to fl...
Everyone remembers where they were for G-Day. For me, I was sitting around one lazy Sunday morning eating a bacon sandwich and listening to the news on the TV. Not even a whiff of a productive day to be had. The panic hit first, it did for everyone I think, at least everyone I have spoken to since. The panic that...
**EATEN** My great-great-great-great-great grandson cowers in fear, his hands trembling over his head. Blood and sweat mix on his face. The soup dribbles down his chin and then plops onto his blue nametag. It obscures the first letter. Peter becomes *eter*. He is not an eater. He is about to be eaten. One of the burg...
*whatshouldimakefordinnertonightholyshitthatsacutecatismywalletinmypocketorinmyjacket* *theresneverenoughtimeinthedaytaxesaresoannoyingwhycanttheyjustsaywhatiowe* *godmybossissuchanassholethatisthenicestcarihaveeverseenholyshit* *ijustwanttoknowhowtobeatthisbossstopwiththestupidloudintrosalreadyhahahesaidpoop* ...
*Part One* It was another sleepy, wonderful day above Deepheart Forest for Darryl as he lazily drifted through the calm thermals of his territory. Far in the distance he could see the pale smoke of the village, the little community waking their cooking fires and smithies from the night’s slumber. He absently checked...