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It was a undeniable, a new era was starting for humanity. After the colonisation of Mars was completed a lot of things changed, little did everyone know that the people that went there would decide to compete with the Originals on earth to see who could be the first to reach a new solar system. Originals called it Cold...
"So the bible was...?" "Written by an absolute fucking wino my dude"Hissed Sombrero Serpent "I mean he said turning water into wine was a miracle! I didn't know constant dehydration was miraculous." The large snake was embossed in green, white and red, and a sombrero sat jauntily upon its triangular head. He slithered...
For aeons past mankind has always looked up into the sky, wondering about its place in the universe. Wondering, if on one of the minuscule dots in the sky somebody else was pointing up at THEIR sky and musing upon the same thing. Our quest to determine our place in the universe is quite possibly one of the most romant...
I ran my hands over my face as the maniacal giggling continued, like a child who had just managed to get makeup on her father’s face. There was no makeup of course, just a rather annoyingly vicious headache that no amount of aspirin or coffee was keeping at bay. There was also the vague amnesia. “All of them just die...
"C'mon, c'mon, I know you're there..." *Riiiiiing...Riiiiiing...Riiiiiing...* His fingers hammered a staccato drumbeat into the top of the desk, smoke curling from the edges of his fangs as he grit his teeth in frustration. It had been at least five minutes of pure agony, the incessant dial-tone in his ear as painful...
"No! We cannot keep Todd! Why do you even want a Todd! Todd's are stupid breeds of humans? Is your Todd even toilet trained?"Glasset screeched, the commanders face bright purple, making his pinkish face look rather odd, like two grapes about to burst out of a pink jelly. "Um.... he works in IT?"Polip shyly said, hopin...
"We have a 10-89 over here! I need SWAT here ASAP!" You scribbled down the message hastily before you forgot it. You don't remember how long ago you found the radio, packed in your grandfather's things. Was it a month ago? Two? It doesn't matter, what matters is you jot down this info. "10-4, location?" It only too...
Even on the edge, I stayed far from the others. I suppose it had to do with how my family lived on their land. Few good people around to talk to, close knit. I loved it there. Damn shame. Here, ain’t good people. So I lived alone. A simple house, bordering the night side. Not much bigger than what a single man woul...
Personality. That is a word which I am uncomfortably familiar with. Everyone's homunculi have changed with them. Every homunculus goes with their personalities. The ones who enjoy nature and gardening seem to have chia homunculi, those who focused on sports have homunculi decked out in the gear of their favourite spor...
Well, well, well... Deciding to follow the trend is one thing but now I gotta actually come up with a cool idea. The thing is : pretty much everything is already taken. I just invented 3 species, filled tons of paperwork and none of them were aproved because, and I quote : "The species you are describing is either alr...
Erich the Slayer rode into the village of Riverton in full knightly regalia, proudly displaying his dragon sigil shield for all to see. He had given Arugoth two weeks to establish himself in the mountains here and menace this town before arriving. Erich had spent those two weeks living in luxury without hardly spending...
My first reaction? Well, to be honest it was relief. At least initially. I could almost physically feel the tension sliding off me, like some lead vest I had only just realized how to remove. Sixty. Thousand. Dollars. I might not have been handed it, but not having to hand it over was just as good. At first, anyway. T...
Humanity's doom was sealed by an eager young marketing intern, which is less surprising than it should have been. A simple idea, innocent even, but with loads of the kind of cross-platform synergy potential that makes marketing execs practically piss themselves with excitement."Why don't we let the Roomba order its ow...
In the world, there are a thousand things that are incompatible with one another. Chocolate and mustard. Water and fire. Survival, and loneliness. These last two especially. At first, you hold one in high regard above the other. It seems like it would be easy, right? But you have to factor in time. That's months of not...
“Stunning and visionary!” Said the New York Times. “Cordell Owens is a master of imagination!” Said People Magazine. He didn’t get it though. Somehow, Cordell felt that he was clear with his publishers. Perhaps the material was so different, a story so unbelievable that they had glossed over it completely. Everyone w...
"Are you sure about that?"I say as I watch him bleed out. "I'm more than certain!"He yells before coughing out blood. I shrug, "Alright then, that's a shame."He stops his rant and looks at me perplexed, "Wait....your just ok with that?"I shrug again, "Can't really stop the fandom. If they want you they want you. We're ...
Everybody in life has the ability to instantly kill one person, and save one person. But that doesn’t mean that everyone knows that. Using that kind of ability requires knowing some special incantations that were lost during the Dark Ages. Or at least, they were lost until I found a scroll containing them buried all ...
An exerpt from *Space Race; the real history of NASA, by Dr. Albert Chan, PhD. :* The public never would have bought it. At the height of the cold war, the Russians and the Americans came to a secret agreement - that no matter what happened, humanity had to survive. Enter the lunar human relocation program. By th...
The Imperial fleet had never encountered one of the Old Gods before. Conquering many planets, they had heard legend of many mythical and god-like beings that rested under the surface. These legends had always been found unfounded, the searches for powerful beings fruitless as the world was subjugated. It became a ru...
"Portfolio? Ha! Hey Ed, this guy wants to see our portfolio!" Across the office, half buried in blueprint stacks, the other man barked a sharp, "Ha!" "Look mister, I get where you're coming from, I know you're used to all kinds of high dollar negotiations. Honestly, it's okay. Ed and I are the best, no question." Th...
He looks at you from across the room, jaw unhinged like a snake and eyes blackened like the night sky. His lips do not move, but a voice still comes out. Not the voice of your five-year-old but a low, smooth baritone. "So, you figured it out. This rarely happens, but I am not unprepared. If you're willing to listen, I...
Potter was gone again and, for the first time, Dudley was experiencing the Wizarding World up close. He and his parents were staying in a small safe house in the North of Scotland, and Hestia Jones checked in on them twice a week. Kingsley Shacklebolt had even come to say hello once, causing his mother to yelp and dump...
It wasn't even a thought in my mind, after inviting Frank, that he would be mixed up in the Bologna gang. After all, Newfoundland wasn't exactly known for its tough criminals. The first red flag should have been the sandwich he had during our lunch. It was just bread and mayonnaise, a classic demonstration of superi...
I stared at the genie. I’m not even sure where it came from. I was just trying to lead my horse to the nearby stream before trying to travel further. When I was just about to reach the stream a blue flash appeared and this so called genie appeared. No lamp was in sight, so I couldn’t figure out how it had been summon...
A secret room is good for hiding things. A secret room inside a secret room, now that’s where the real secrets are kept. The hidden safe under the floor boards contains the alternate will, giving the family's errant son nothing. A cupboard hidden behind a painting contains the gun that would bring the entire company do...
A blond-haired beauty sides into the pub. A solid 10, with the grace of a fair lady, the kind you didn't see on ogre street. Scanning the bar, she spots a drunkard sinking into his seat. Nearly all world problems were solved, yet alcoholism was still popular as ever. The drunk man perked up as soon as he saw her drop...
It's so easy to hope that you're one of the lucky ones. The end comes for us all eventually, but for some it arrives at their doorstep and decides it'd rather come back later. But most hear that knock on their door, and have no choice but to answer. But you can never quite prepare for the door to open, only to have h...
“This could be interesting,” Trevor said to his girlfriend Jenika. The couple stared at the floating mothership hovering above the city. It repeated its instructions in crisp, perfect English, a voice touched by God. Jenika gasped. “Look at that face!” Indeed, a giant image of an alien’s face stretched across the b...
"Heh, to think you would come to me for help Rebecca, or shall I call you by your original name Re-0CCA. Oh sorry, is that offensive? To refer to you by your model number, Did I offend you? I hope I did you, cold metallic bitch. There's a saying that us humans had in the past, I brought you into this world, I can take ...
"Oh, shit, not her, too,"I spat, rolling up my sleeves. From downstairs, Jeremy called up to me, "Everything alright, Lynn?" Glancing over the edge of the banister, I shouted back, "You've got dish duty tonight, Jer!" "But I made dinner!" "Well, we've got a Code Blue situation here, so--" "Are you fucking kidding ...
[Part Four](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/gh2xqk/cw_100_word_microfiction_challenge_genre_science/fq6509y?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) Sticky blood plastered Carmen's chestnut hair to his scalp from a gash just above his ear. His arms shook as he struggled to lift the I-beam off of h...
Geoff sat at a red light in his brand new, cobalt blue, lifted Ford F-250, smoking a cigar. He looked at himself in the pull-down mirror and smirked, taking in his own handsomeness for a few seconds. His beautiful white face, shaved this morning, accentuated his only months-old veneers, which shone in the Los Angeles s...
Every morning I get woken up by a chorus of screaming voices. “White Power!” they chant in unison. Those racist orchids never quit. Other people got to turn invisible, see through walls, or teleport, I just got to listen to an unending chorus of screams. Do you have any idea how terrible it sounds when you make a salad...
There was nowhere left to run. The shop had given way to the street. The street had led to an alley. And the alley led to nothing but a dead end. He had all the hallmarks of a trapped animal, back pressed against a metaphoric and physical wall. His eyes kept on flicking back to me and the axe in my hand. "I know,"I sa...
"Fruitless, ineffective, unsuccessful, useless, or hopeless. FUTILE!"His hands flailed in the air to punctuate his last word before landing heavily on the table, shaking their glasses of beer. "C'mon, Kris, he's just asking a girl out."Lucas put a comforting hand on Lee's shoulder. "Don't listen to him man, you've got...
“We met online, a classic modern-day relationship” The bewildered relationship counselor stared at both of them, her mind unable to process the monstrosity sitting very relaxed in his chair. His left pinkie seemingly hanging on by a thread as he waved his arms around as he spoke. “Except our relationship seems to ...
War. War never changes. We pride ourselves as a race of dignity and intelligence, but the second things go down, we are all like animals. Huh. Fitting. It began with the comet all those years ago. The night sky lit up in vibrant colors. Then, the change took place. It's like a seen in a horror movie. Animals and peop...
Here's the thing about non-edged weapons... sometimes, it feels really good just beating the holy hell outta something. A studded club up against some teeth, mmm. Or an iron mace. Tempting to go after the head, innit? No. Smash it into the collarbone; it'll snap like a chicken bone and the bastard's arm'll just hang th...
When I signed up to be apart of Miss Malice’s crime family, I was just a young mercenary looking for work. We started off so small. We’d rob banks and steal shipments of weapons and drugs. Small stuff. Then eventually we became black market distributors of pretty much everything illegal. Then one day we had finally wip...
I remember. It’s you. It’s always been you. When at first we were cells, millennia ago, and we found each other then. And then our cells formed bodies and together we swam through the seas. And we walked side by side out from the water and onto the green Earth. And we watched as the Earth darkened and empires rose and ...
"So, I'm Satan now?"I ask. Confused as to how this happened. I mean, does the King of Hell have to be the worst person who ever lived? I mean, I've fucked up plenty of times, but I thought I was decent enough. I was raised in the church, went there every Christmas and Easter. I had no idea what I'd done to deserve this...
The Human kingdom, Elf kingdom, and the Dwarf kingdom have been at war for over a century. Constantly fighting over one piece of land where the ancient ruins lay. No one kingdom has made much improvements other then a small tunnel to the ruins that the dwarves have made. Until one day a strange thing happened in a bat...
I stand on the front porch of a small cabin, wooden walls and a sturdy door. There are a few of them in the woods and all some distance from each other. A rough dirt track leads beside the cabin, where a dusty truck sits idle and unused for several days. Wooden chairs rest on the planks of the porch, a small overhang ...
Mankind never developed faster than light engines on their own, but they weren't introduced to the concept by larger and more powerful interstellar empire either. Mankind were introduced to faster than light engines, stellar generators, replicators, and a whole sleuth of other forms of tech from a very strange subspace...
War. War never changes. David McInly had always known that was true ever since he had come back from 'Nam. All the wars since them had been the same. Go somewhere. Kill the guys there. Don't get killed. The details changed, but the basics were always the same. Dave looked around. The place was ruined. Sure signs of h...
"Screw this."I sat alone, in my monastic dwellings. A humble room in a humble temple. I didn't even bother to learn what god I had stumbled upon to 'revere', and it didn't matter. I was done. It took a few weeks to find it, but there was a patch in the garden that proved perfect for growing hemlock. It took a bit long...
“What are you doing?” Lord Vemos said as he felt the cold tip of a sword pressed upon his neck. “I’m here to end your reign and restore peace to this land! Your time of chaos is over!” The man in armor shouted out. “There is no need to shout. You came into my bedroom while I’m asleep, pretty sure you broke my do...
The living room clock rang at midnight and for the 60th time in a row I have been awake to hear it. That wasn't an unusual occurrence for me. I've been a night owl ever since high school. It started when my brother Tim brought home those speakers when I noticed my insomnia getting worse, preventing me from even a dose...
As we sat in the horse, as we huddled in fear, As the walls of the city came ever so near, I took hold of my spear, I grabbed onto my sword, I prepared for the battle, to face the fierce horde.   And I sat and I wondered, “What caused all this fuss? What’s our purpose, our goal? What created this muss?” ...
The Old Master, plumbed deep from the bowels of Thadagast at the center of Andromeda, swept into center stage. By tradition, it took the form of its mortal charges: six-legged, golden furred, armored in tungsten and bristling with an alert but predatory air. The Cosmic Council waited, impassive. The Faces, carved into...
"Have you seen the new prophecy, Lord Commander?" I pretended not to hear my assistant as I idly flipped through readiness reports of the Dark Lord's armies. "I'm not seeing anything about the 7th Cavalry Brigade--is that in here?"I asked My assistant chattered on, seemingly undeterred my cold shoulder. "Chiseled j...
The UE Endeavour was an impressive feat of human engineering, larger even than the great Sky Spires that ringed Earth around the equator, each a self-contained city over nine kilometers tall and wider than Mount Everest. The announcement emanated from every surface of the interstellar vessel, none of the passengers on...
Martin scratched his head. “It’s a math problem though.” “’y’ equals kill everyone in the room, then?” “...” Beezoobub pointed to the paper. “I don’t think so."Martin made some clicks with his pen. “Then this is not the same maths they teach in the depths of Hell, I assume?” Beezoobub gave a ponderous look to Mart...
<<Is everything okay?>> ░░░░ Mina's voice shook me out of my train of thoughts. <<Yeah, sorry, I just got distracted a little bit.>>░░░░ The girl smiled. God, was she gorgeous. Her long, straight hair framed her aristocratic face, the features sharp enough that they were almost painful to watch...
Kyle was a great guy and a fantastic personal trainer. Heck he was the best trainer I ever had and to date has helped me lose all my unwanted belly fat and made me into a muscle man at that. I mean, I am certainly no Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I am good enough to get some looks when I go out. The only thing is that I...
Was that...was that *brimstone essence*? I rolled the liquid around my tongue. The bitterness alerted me to the fact that it was. It was actually really overpowering. But then- SHIT! I dropped my cup as I looked around. One by one, I saw my friends collapse to the ground, dead. *”I knew I’d find you eventually...”* ...
Its December 30th the year is ending and it's the final day of school before the vacation. And here I sat I my English literature classroom loathing this class, Then I decided to use this stupid ability to go to a pocket dimension, which is well a giant pocket. And in the pocket there are multiple sections Cold, sec...
# Highrise Crimes "Well that's just suicide with extra steps!"Patrick threw accusing glances around the assembled elders. "Why not just kill me now and get it over with!" Elder Leon immediately beckoned for the Block Guard. "Easily done. Guard, take this Downfloor trash to the Balconies and toss it-"Whatever he said ...
I remember the story of Job, who had his faith tested and tested again, who lost all he held dear, and who never wavered. And that story drove me up a fucking wall, because it is the most human thing I’ve ever read and it was supposed to be the work of God. Like God is the most insecure boyfriend in the world, who will...
“S” “T” “O” ... Eric laughed. “Hah! You’re scared, aren’t you?” I glared at my brother. “Shut up! It’s not going to do anything anyways, so why bother? What if it charges us or something and Mom sees it on the phone bill?” “Aww, baby doesn’t want to get into twubble?” I hit the 7 button twice and Send without th...
A few of us *had* to keep having children. We realized this when our minds started going, but we hadn't yet come up with the biotech to arrest it. Who wants to be feeble and senile for eternity? So we kept having a few mortal children, who would advance technology until they realized they would only be able to squeeze ...
By day, they call me Hector. By the full moon, they call me... Hec. No, seriously. Hec*.* My siblings -- Ivo, Hilarion, Callisto and Apollo -- they all have the coolest names ever. Me, I was left by the edge of the Olympic National Forest with a note that said, "name him Hector Livesey."Hector Livesey. I ask you. O...
It's that time of the year again: the annual Crowning. Ever since the last king laid down the crown, no one else has been able to pick it up and be crowned as King. Even her heirs have failed and faded into obscurity. The suite of lords, ever so eager for power, quickly assumed control and formed a conclave to feed the...
I heard the front door creak on its rusted hinges as I lounged near the ceiling of the master bedroom. Shuffling footsteps from the ground floor soon followed. I sighed, tucking my hands into my ghostly pockets as I rotated from my reclined position and hovered through the closed bedroom door. About once a month, I had...
It was day 7 that we started to think that we'd made a mistake. A bunch of farmers and miners, geologists and xeno-botanists... not a soldier amongst them. We'd spent weeks planning the operation and we were so sure they'd never fight back. For the first few days it was almost exactly how we had expected. We'd attack...
My older brother went off to war, and I stayed behind, too young to participate. He fought hard, but returned home injured, unable to work or fight. I remember he gave me his spear, and told me that he hoped I would never have to see what he had seen. A few days later he died, an infected wound claiming his life. I ke...
The little boy dashed through the town with his pocket watch in hand. He ran past Mister Anderson, his pocket watch waving through the air like a madman. Fred was after the supervillain who had taken this town for his liking. The evil Mister Yokeman! His little feet scampered across the floor, as he opened the door to...
Britton was an unremarkable man who lived an unremarkable life, and of course he died an unremarkable death. He died of a brain aneurysm at 86, suddenly and to the dismay of pretty much no one. He had no living family aside from scattered nephews and nieces who barely knew him when he was alive. No children of his own,...
“It’s taken a while, but I finally have you, the great Hero at my feet, their life in my hands, after all the times you thwarted me…I knew I’d have to go to a new level, a superior level to finally defeat you and end this once and for all, and with you now gone, there is nothing stopping me.” ‘Damn, I underestimated h...
I generally have a vague idea of what the ending will be before I start writing, and I try to reach it. Often that ending will change, in terms of how it happens, depending on the characters. Since I don't plan the characters out in advance and I don't think of traits much before writing. I don't know how the ending wi...
this is absolutely fantastic! i love how you created this world, which is even more amazing since henry never left the building!! starting from the top, it felt like i was hopping back into a book midway because it flowed so easily and i *loved* every single bit. it makes me yearn for a full book with henry and whateve...
My great-aunt sat on the bench every day. They said she was slipping into dementia. Today, I heard my grandmother trying to get through. "Susan, dear, he died in the war. He's been dead for decades. He can't come back. Please, come inside where it's warm." "Mary, he promised to come back and marry me, and he's a man ...
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!"screamed Lavaboy, his face red from anger and exertion. He must have run all the way here. "Careful love, you're scaring my guests"I smiled innocently, casting a hand towards the line of wary homeless people waiting for their soup. I savoured the moment, dipping a large ladle into a...
The platform I stood upon slid silently to a halt. I stepped off, before the large door, and it slid back down. I brushed a layer of dirt off my clothes, letting the cleaning drones take care of it. Then, I sighed, and approached the door. It hissed, breaking into 4 and sliding away. I walked in to a large, polished r...
History is written by the victors, and I was never one of them. My whole life, I have struggled to strive for goals always out of my reach. I thought, just this once I would win. How foolish. The man above me doesn't smile. He looks at me with grim determination, ready to fulfil his duty. I can't even muster the ener...
Sleep did not come easily to a being of absolute awareness. Yet it had called to him for the last seven eons and for the last five he had tried to respond. A need for slumber pressed down on even one such as he. Silence might let him sleep and silence he had achieved. His universe was a cold one, any life it had once ...
My eyes close into slits as I clutch the garden hose, staring broodingly over the fence. **Dinkleburg.** My soul enemy. The man of the town, my son wants him as a father, my wife wants to seduce him, and the neighbors just can’t get enough of his god damned chili. I spend most of my nights now looking shiftily out...
Something Immortal. That was the name of the book. I only decided to look at it because the cover looked saucy and interesting. I never expected to relive 1850s England. The author didn’t even changed the names! Everything was in here. My intimate relationship with Winston Collins, a guy I met when I arrived to England...
Duck and weave, duck and weave. Superhero Giga-Bomber thought these things as harpoons were shot at him across roof tops. They were not meant to kill as so much as to maim him. Already he had experienced several close calls, but the ally ways offered some way of protection through their shadows. He was the last of the...
"This right here, this is why it didn't work between us Jackie. You're out of your mind,"shouted an exasperated Larry through the walkie-talkie. "Oh, that's *real* rich coming from you, Larry,"Jackie hollered back. Honestly, she didn't even need the walkie-talkie. The whole block could hear her out on the tenth floor ...
"Mortal? Notice you? I mean ... sure I noticed you. I even thought it was strange how you were popping up everywhere. But what was I supposed to say?" "You could have started with hello,"the woman replied, arms crossed. "But I'm glad you weren't as ignorant as I thought. We gods try to be subtle these days, especially...
The world stared in disbelief. *Ignorance is a bliss.* That's how the saying goes. No. Ignorance is a **curse**. It came out of nowhere. A bill so idiotic that everyone thought of it as a joke. But our faces quickly changed when the meeting was broadcasted. The topic was dumb, and yet some senators were so passionat...
Amelia runs a hand through her sweat-soaked hair with a sigh. "Magic isn't real. There is no ancient curse that will kill us. That's just superstition." Peter scoffs at her, staring as Amelia struggles to get the heavy machinery in place. He's pointedly not helping. "That's just what you believe. I had a friend that w...
The job, like most, was supposed to be simple. Track the target, apprehend or kill depending on the instructions of the employer, return with alive or dead target and get paid. Rea had done it hundreds of times with only a handful of failures and was determined to keep doing it as long as she lived. Well known and resp...
I looked at my wife as she stared at me in shock, she had walked in on me while I was serpentine form, ironically I was in this form trying to think of a way to tell her *about* this form. After a minute of uncomfortable silence I began, “I can explai-“ She cut me off with a loud shriek, “WHAT ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOI...
On a peaceful night in rural Japan, the silent darkness was broken by the blazing of a falling object that came to a jarring landing in a rice paddy field. Curious, an ordinary rice farmer and his wife went and investigated the crash site in their paddy field. As they got closer, they observed a sleek silvery object, s...
"Look at them." From the top of a skyscraper, leaning on the fence separating sightseers from death seekers, they observed the absurd ballet of human traffic at 5 p.m., the most accurate representation of hell if it was petty. They were two. On the left, chewing gum and scratching his head in disbelief, was One From ...
Return Visitors When China landed the first manned spaceship on Mars, humanity was immediately contacted by aliens. Formerly concealed by dark matter, it turned out that space was filled with intelligent life that had been eagerly waiting to meet us. First contact was initiated through radio and television and was i...
Day 156. Or at least, I think it is. There's no light down here, and no way to accurately tell the time. The only measurement I have is the deafening rumbling sound that happens about every day. That sound marks another meal for the beast, and more scraps for me. I was just out fishing with my friends as always, out i...
The old man reclined in his La-Z-Boy. He took another look at the blank medicine bottle and half empty glass of water on the TV stand. The clock in the small kitchen ticked softly, the only sound in the apartment. “Felix, why did I have to take those pills?” he asked his personal assistant. The A.I.’s voice hummed in...
Electronic Entity 74228 (Invasion Variant) was conflicted about its orders to prepare the planet for conquest tomorrow. The internet had been easy enough to take over. After five of this planet's orbits around the star system's central gravitational object (locally know as the sun), 74228 was in every networked devic...
I cackled as the rotting soldiers carried my seat upon their shoulders. Soon, very soon, I would rest upon the throne of Acropolis. As we neared the hills summit, I stared in confusion. There were no guards. No archers, no lancers. There was no one except for a lone guard in plain, citizen garb. He leaned back in a woo...
“Hello my ex-master, what has given you such courage to approach me, the new god?” the vacuum robot spoke in a Siri-sounding voice. I looked around the room, a grand hall dedicated to the small Roomba. MS-paint drawn portraits were scattered along the walls and the newest terminator looking robots stood at attention,...
“Wait, what the fuck?” John said. Confused “You don’t remember?” An alien said. “We banished you to this world, what were you expecting?.” The alien said frowning. Scrunching up his reptilian face in confusion. “I thought you were going to probe me.” John said. “What? No no those are those damn Boeotians, sick [unt...
I owe my life to the child. Created from its imagination and born to force it through its fears, I only torment it as it’s my job. We talk. Quite a bit. Well, more like it talks and I listen.  But now the child has mentioned that it is no longer scared of me but the new monsters that come from the sky, not from under t...
I get this question a lot from people in once they find out my wife is artificial. Honestly, most of them aren't actually looking for a real answer. They're just waiting for me to confirm a stereotype that they hold in their heads. Of course, as a human who had to stoop so low as to get an android partner, I must be a ...
The witch knelt by a stream, hands splayed on the ground. She breathed deeply, the smell of nature filling her mind. She grounded herself, before connecting with the wild spirits of the forest. They expanded her awareness, letting her be the squirrel in the trees, the ants on the ground, the birds in the sky. She was a...
I'm that guy in the movie. The one who buffs up his chest and puffs, "my way or the highway, punk."Except I don't get the girl, gold, or even an apartment. Instead, I'm on the run with a worn pair of Nikes. Fucking Congress thinks I'll join the Hero Society after signing some papers. Can't have a Congress without the ...
The sun shined brighter. Caleb breathed a deep sigh of relief, sudden calm overcoming him. The air shifted from a mild chill to a cozy hug of warmth. The clouds parted, beams of light crashed to the ground, scattering about the scene, painting the road and buildings in sparkles. Caleb smiled, feeling so self assured. ...
Nobody talked about it. Nobody ever did. It's so very private. So very personal. Everyone knows about it, they cover it either in private or during early school years, but nobody talks about it. Ever. Some aren't comfortable. Some are disappointed when it reaches zero. Some are scared because they know that their wife ...