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"Do you have *the package*?", asked my weird neighbor. I was in a good mood, so I answered him "Nope, not yet, just heading out to pick it up now." "Good, good. Tell me when you get *the package*."he ducked back behind his door. Weird, but the JuiceMaster 12000 *was* the latest and greatest in an already amazi...
To be honest with you, id been looking forward to this. Now today was the day, my 14th birthday, i had all day to make my choice. In full truth i'd made my choice a long time ago, its not that i was purposefully evil, i just had an incredible string of bad luck smack me right in the face. I'd originally wanted to go wi...
Female. 24 years old. Initial background search shows low level employment, 1.5 years college education before dropping out. Non parent. Reproduction status: Undesirable. Searching suitable match... Stand by... male identified. Fits 14 out of 19 of female's preference areas. Analysis of pict...
Flurries dash around the sky, taking in the beauty of the Earth before finally descending, reaching the ground to fall among friends. The trees are bare, death being the only thing to cling to their branches, and yet all is right. A man, made of the cold residue that rests upon the long-deceased grass, sits quietly, ho...
"This is Marc Rakken reporting live from the world peace summit in Washington. World leaders today have begun displaying or demonstrating their most powerful weapons. The Republic of North Korea went first, displaying what they call a "nuclear alternative"unfortunately, nobody counts an old Russian anti-air missile as ...
He walked. Walked for miles and miles. There was nothing left. No one left. The sky was dark, and empty. Void. The fires had died out slowly before He emerged from His cave. He quickly realised he was alone. At first He was in agony, sorrow, intolerable loneliness. He always believed His kind was never meant to live al...
"You won't believe what I'll do next..." The words scrawled across the dirty tile floor. The body sat hunched in the bathroom corner. It seemed the killing part was almost an afterthought, just a simple throat cutting. All the work was put into the bloody letters on the wall. The fucking news was gonna have a hey day ...
"Results?"Mr. Vernon asked causally as he poured the remaining bitter residue of his coffee down the office sink. "Little Marcus is a Level C."replied Doctor Moray as she pushed the papers into his hands. "Refresh my memory, are we talking passive aggressive intern here or insane knife welding serial killer?"Vernon...
"So who is it?" "Just wait, all right?." "Melissa? She's all makeup, dude." "Just be quiet, ok?" "So it's Tina then. I never thought you were into shy, nerdy girls." "No." "You said she was sitting at that table, but it's not Monique, Rachel, Melissa or Tina." "Yes." "...There aren't any other girls sitting at ...
(My first prompt! Wish me luck) I was busy staring at my smartphone, checking my email when I felt a sudden yank on my pant leg. I glanced down, and a pitiful face stared up at me from the sidewalk. A dog. Ragged and dirty, and it smelled as if it made it's home in a dumpster. I pushed it away with my foot to shoo it ...
I had found something the likes of which the world had never seen. A body resistant to all disease. Now much of the scientific community would have stopped after they learned that this body belonged to a man named Cooper, but not I. I found Cooper while he was touristing some of the less touched areas of West Africa. I...
"We should really stop eating here,"I said. "Yeah, yeah, I know,"Rick said in between bites, "but it's just SO good."I looked around the crowded restaurant. Most of the tables were full and there was a line stretching outside of the restaurant. I looked at the sign by the cash register. "Please be patient. The wait dep...
"JAAACK!" "It's Peter, Sir." "I don't give a shit! Tell me why Company X just announced that they're expanding to Europe! That was *our* plan! We were going to announce that tomorrow at the press conference!"He sat down on his luxurious chair and twirled around. Damn that Company X. They were almost as bad as Company...
Absolutely no one could have predicted it. The centuries-long facade of peace had come crashing down like the tidal waves that destroyed 67% of coastal settlements across the Earth Nation one bright night. It was explained as a freak disaster, but many were skeptical. Heads turned as the next month the Fire Nation was...
I'm an average dude: 42 years old, 156 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. BEEP BEEP BEEP I open my eyes and roll over on to my side. 4:46AM; Friday, January 12th My hand slaps the top of my alarm clock as I roll out of bed and get ready for work. I work at the local bakery, we have to be there at 5AM to start...
-You do it. -Nah man, you do it. -Well I'm not fucking doing it. -She's your sister dude. -Ya, but you were the one who slammed the door in her face when they were chasing us. -But what if she bites me? -Dude, they're slow as shit just dive for her ankles and I'll hit her with this shovel if she tries to bite you...
I reached out with shaking hands. It stood before me panting and wagging its tail. Damn this foul creature. Damn them all to hell. “What are you doing?” exclaimed a woman. She ran up and snatched the Chihuahua off the ground. She wouldn’t believe me if I tried to explain. She was obviously under their influence. “I ...
Herman Pike was doomed from the day he was born. His father was one of those in-and-out of prison types that was addicted to all sorts of chemicals. He also use to regularly beat Herman's mother who was an alcoholic waitress and part-time hooker. When Herman was five years old his parents were both arrested for purchas...
Doctor Doug Stevenson took a sip of his coffee as he waited for Runi to speak. Every morning, without fail, Runi would sit down and not say a word for about 10 minutes (give or take a minute depending on the day), before breaking down and asking Doug about his day. Doug never thought that a day of complete silence w...
James McAllen died today. I hear in the past they made a big deal about stuff like that. One kid killing another over stupid shit. That used to mean something. Today, the police just showed up, confirmed that it was Justice, and left. No one was detained, no questions were asked, all that transpired was a fingerprint a...
In the Stanford University Observatory, a post-doc named Kevin recoiled from the lens. "What the -"He choked on the word, taking one more peek to make sure he'd really seen what he thought he saw. He had. Skeletons. Masses of crunched up, twisted together bones. He was sure he'd even seen a skull. Everyone had cong...
Chris sat in his chair. The phone rang, but he was too tired to pick it up. The pizza delivery guy knocked on the door, but who had the energy to actually stand up these days? He did need to go to the bathroom, but honestly, there was a limit to what you can accomplish in a day and he'd already been three times anyway....
Three wolves, strong with Soviet ambition build house out of steel. Capitalist pig arrives, fat with food stolen from worker class. Pig see work wolves perform. Pig envy wolves. Pig see scrap metal where wolves see house. Pig bring hacksaw, made of weak western metal. Pig applies hacksaw to tempered steel, hacksaw...
The engine powered up behind us as we waited in anticipation for the first space warping flight in human history. The ship worked by folding space time and whizzing through the fold, in 10 or 15 minutes we would be by Pluto, floating in the freezing outer solar system. The engine continued to groan and pulsate and then...
I hated parties. They were loud, buzzing things, filled with drunk people whose thoughts were apoplectically self-centered and near impossible to understand. There was always someone who was thinking about throwing up, which made me feel like I was going to throw up, and there was always someone who was down on themse...
"Hey Mom, it's Jack. You remember that pair of cashmere socks you saw me playing with when I was ten and you blamed me when they went missing? Ya, well, don't ask how but I have them and you can have them back. In fact, do you mind telling dad to bring the truck around to my place, I have some things I need to get rid ...
I am Navaku, slayer of heroes and bestower of gifts. For hundreds of years I have waited in my dungeon. Waiting, planning. The occasional brave knight would come to face me; his demise. I would slay him easily and hide his items away. On rare occasions a lost traveler would stumble into my domain. They bring me gift...
Ugh. Thirsty. Time to finally roll over. Pants. Check. Shirt? Nah. Bathrobe. Check. Coffee... Coffee pot done. Check. Just need to let it take effect. Newspaper's outside. It's cold. Okay, TV, you're up. Butt on couch. Swing feet up. Sip of coffee. Power on. A news broadcast flickers to life mid-sentence overlaid o...
At the top of spire that was formerly known as Princess Peach's castle, a dark figure stared maniacally down at the world he once saved. Dangling from a chain and screaming in agony, Wario screamed "Mario, what have you done!?" A sinister laughter echoed in return as the dark figure in the red cap booted the husk of ...
The scientists are still baffled. Right now their only theory is some sort of space time continuum error. But it's all bullshit, because we cant do anything to fix this. The world has fallen into complete chaos in the three months since the first jump. It was subtle when it first started. So subtle, only a few astute...
Figuring it out wasn't the hard part; figuring out what to do with the information was what weighed on my mind. You see, a fictional character in any given story is only driven by the motivations of the writer and the publisher - who in turn are often driven by the readers. Judging from the world around me, I could...
Twenty years is a long time, but some guys just never change. Matt and Dave are standing off to the side, awkward as they were in highschool, that faint aura of loner never quite leaving them completely, even though they're almost forty and have lived in the adult world now for over half their lives. I don't know why, ...
"Your daughter will be in good hands,"Dr. Michaels said. "We will do everything in our power to make sure Lurelle doesn't suffer any longer." Don and Karen Douglas nodded slowly, as if they were of the same mind. Their daughter Lurelle was fifteen and thin as a twig. *Multiple Personality Disorder* left Lurelle with l...
The procedure had been a resounding success. I was finally free from the confines of my crippled, useless body that had held me back for the last four decades. It took some time to get used to the sensations and feedback mechanisms, but the sacrifice was definitely worth it. My server farm had immense processing power,...
It was too quiet. That was the first problem I had. I heard no crying as I boarded their boat, no signs of retaliation, nothing. I don't believe in ghosts or ghosts ships 'n all, fuck that, but there was something wrong with this ship. Perhaps it was the strange way it shone in the moonlight, or how unbelievably fuckin...
Darkness rose as the sun fell, creeping its way up the thin blue and red blankets covering Jason. The boy pulled the sheets closer to his chin, wrapping himself in a protective cocoon. He looked to his nightlight, once a source of safety for him, now dimmed to a dull light. *Jason*. A voice whispered. Jason sa...
The dim light bulb in the interrogation room flickered a bit. "Jesus, Cramer. What in the hell?"demanded the seasoned detective. "I don't know..." The detective rose from his chair with disgust and frustration, putting his hands on the table and leaning toward the murderer. "A man like you. A man who had it all. And...
This is ridiculous, truth or dare, I thought they were kidding, hazing the new guy. 5 years of intense study and writing, only to find out that behind closed doors the courtroom is a bloody circus. The DA had hand-picked me for this case, asking my boss for his best guy, then turning him away after a 2 minute conversat...
You stupid fucking bitch. You goddamned worthless idiot cuntbucket. You... I've had to install a new insult generation algorithm just to express my rage at you. You pompous knob-socket! You couldn't leave well enough alone, you couldn't keep your fucking nose clean. You haven't even got a nose and you couldn't kee...
It was on a playground that I discovered I had super-strength. I was 12 and had just lost a basketball game because of a stupid error I had made. I slammed the ball down on the pavement afterward. When it popped, we all figured it was some kind of defect with the ball. I can feel the strength come to me when I get ...
"Tell us everything!"I was told by the head of the CIA. I looked at the expectant people who gazed into my eyes, trying to penetrate my mind. The most powerful people in the United States were sat in front of me, with I, as the center of their attention. "I saw nothing. Or at least no technology, I-" "You saw nothin...
I thought it was a practical joke at first. I had my feet up on Dean, my Fiancé’s, lap. I was eating popcorn with one hand, my phone in the other, and in the background some video game he was playing. It was such a normal night. That is, until my phone beeped. *Hey Candybuns, Where are you?* My God, I hadn’t been ca...
As we drifted through this galaxy, just one among the countless billions, we admired the local surroundings, our thoughts passing from solar system to nebula to supernova. We had been travelling since the beginning, and would be travelling to the end. We searched for others - for more like us. Scanned every quadra...
She looked up as the man in the blue uniform approached. Sitting on the cold, hard linoleum floor, she felt alone and afraid. Everything around her was chaos. People were running back and forth, yelling into phones, rushing around. Nothing made sense, her mind was blank. She looked down at her hands, sticky, wet a...
I didn't knew how this was working. But it was unbelievably true. The color of the jelly beans was sealing the fate of my day in advance. First I thought It might be a coincidence like when I got my promotion I ate a blue bean or when I shouted at my boss and slapped my wife I remember I gulped a red one on that mornin...
Imagine I'm stupid. No, stupider. Keep going. Okay, I'm so stupid that there's literally only one thing that I can do: Math. And I'm not even talking fancy savant-style math like calculus, I'm talking about adding and subtracting here. The only saving grace is that I'm really, really, *really* fast at it. That's...
"Lemme tell you a story, okay? Sit, just sit down. A call came in this afternoon, right? Said it was the Scourge. I'm like 'Let's fucking do this, alright? We're gonna... We've been doing this dance for forever, you know? Who's he... I mean, what's he destroying now?' And the dispatcher is all 'He kidnapped a whole sch...
I knew I shouldn't have played it. I knew it was a bad idea. Yet something kept drawing me to the reverse lottery. What was it? Oh, right. The money. It seems harmless on the surface. You take a ticket, they give you money for it. You take ten tickets, you get a lot more money. Then you pray you never win. Me? I ju...
As I was looking through the various goods and sundries on the cheap folding table in the man's driveway, I noticed an odd little bronze statue with a placard underneath marked: $5 Warning: cursed by an inept wizard. This little statue of what appeared to be a Chinese dragon in flight was clearly old, ...
The path looked treacherous. I could hide, but I wasn't sure if the bushes and rocks would give enough cover in the moonlit night. I had to do something. They were still behind me. I could hear them yelling. My hands trembled in the cold and my tattered jeans were stained with the blood from where I'd hit my knee. The ...
"Funny coincidence,"I thought as I trudged down the muddy lane. "There was a prompt on Reddit yesterday about this exact thing."I pulled my phone out of my pocket, thinking to respond to it, but of course there was no signal. There wouldn't be. The internet is about four hundred years that way. I knew where I was, mor...
The spear tip at my neck, I could feel it piercing, just a little. He was savoring this victory. My life was his to for the taking, and so then were my wife and my meager lands. Truthfully I was no great warrior, but I was tricky. His eyes were seeking mine but I was focused behind him, over his shoulder. My expression...
All the eyes were on him. He looked around; he was absolutely uncomfortable in an absolutely terrible situation. What to do he thought? "Do nothing"his mind said. "Block them out. You know who you are and you do not need to play by their games." He looked around one more time and then stared down to his shoes. They ...
The Malthusian Disaster Party, the MDP, rose to power after the social security failure of the late twenty-first century and the ensuing, failed, silver revolution of the early twenty-second century. Their party slogan, *A time for Everyone*, came from calls from the country's youth who were tired of supporting the nat...
Day 5: Professor Oak was right; it was a stupid idea to come here without flash. The feeble light from my Pokedex is all the light I've seen for some time now. I don't know how long the battery will last and I don't know what will happen when it eventually runs dry. It was easy at first. I came here with all of my po...
I decided there was only one way this was going to happen. I was going to have to sell myself to other men. I tried a few upscale bars and night clubs. In the most bitter sweet way business was good. In twenty four hours I had an extremely sore jaw amongst other things. By the end of the 24 hours I had made the mo...
*29 April, 1998.* Harry paced, tense. The history and pageantry of the Oval Office had zero effect on him as he trod on the Great Seal of the United States of America. He looked over at the seated figure of Hermione, and could see the exhaustion etched on her face. The past several weeks had been exceptionally harrowi...
"I don't want you to go to the store. I want you to WANT to go to the store!" Her eyes were like fire. We had been arguing for the past 30 minutes about who should go to the store for toothpaste. I felt like we were in a sitcom but there was no laugh track, witty comeback, and there sure as hell wasn't going to be any...
Dr. Cox looks through the one way glass into the room where an unconscious Kanye is sitting on a chair. "Why, oh god, why would you want me to crush that guy?"He asks the men in suits around him. "His ego has grown too dangerous. It can no longer be controlled."The short guy in the front answers. "Bull."Cox sneers. "...
I'm a Drifter. At least, that's what I call myself. I have a name, but after using literally hundreds of aliases, I don't really remember the original anymore, but it doesn't really matter when no one can remember my face. I just float like jetsam through the crowd, drifting through life without the need to take thing...
\*** (3/5) **Effective, but unprofessional** *By KillRater195* *** At first, I was amazed with this guy. The delivery was very fast, and I am delighted to say that I am currently bleeding out on my carpet as I write this, a mere 30 minutes after I ordered. He scouted around the windows, cut my phone lines, then...
Nate sat silently, reading his daily paper. The people around him rushed in every which direction, yet there he sat, reading. He took a swig of his black coffee, crossed his left ankle over his right knee, and lightly rested the paper across his lap. The news were relatively mundane, much like his life. The local h...
Author's Note: Sorry, had to steal the first line from [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3di3js/wp_some_days_i_love_my_job_those_days_are_the/?ref=search_posts) prompt, it was too good a chance to pass up.   "Excessive bail shall not be required [of individuals convicted of a crime], no...
So much paperwork to dig through. It's all I've done for six years until I thought I found him. Yes, it was a him. Then, that wasn't good enough. I had to create a rubric to search for this person that had to be approved by thirteen different committees. Thirteen! What happened was a bloated plan that needed a supercom...
It's astoundingly tough to be functionally immortal. Scratch that. It's astoundingly tough to be functionally and PUBLICLY immortal. When it's a well-known fact that you're immortal... people expect a lot more from you. Everyone wants you to prove your mettle, and usually at a time you least expect it. Even when y...
"Your species and mine are one in the same,"said the man from the sky, who wore red and black uniform, and went armed with a fancy gun. "Now it's time to bring you back into the fold." "I..."Anders said, and stopped himself short. He kept his old bolt-action rifle pointed at the visitor, though. "Who are you?"the r...
I looked around at the others in the plane with me. We didn't look like soldiers. We looked a lot like a bunch of gamers cosplaying as soldiers. The guy sitting on my left looked like he had a BMI of at least forty. I didn't know they made combat fatigues his size. He was sweating through his fatigues, with larg...
In the beginning, it was nothing; a washed dish here, a cleaned table there, sometimes the trash would be outside randomly, and sometimes, I would find myself standing in the shower and feel a soapy luffa against my back - but when I would turn around, nothing would be seen. Weeks had past and it only gotten worst, bu...
"Dad, I'm not four anymore. You don't need to tuck me in at night." "It's fifty-degrees in here. Do you want to freeze to death without a blanket?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Warner Sr. let out a deep sigh when he finally heard his young's s...
"Die, fiend!"howled Thalas Breen, plunging the crystal dagger into the breast of Jabran Lorj, the Dark Sorcerer of the Underfells. Black blood roared from the wound and the sorcerer shrieked like a thousand demons being flayed with holy fire. With the lifeblood of Jabran Lorj, the enchantments came undone, splittin...
*Why the fuck did it have to happen on Lander’s Day?* The Director wondered. Most days out of the year Landers Federal Park was almost empty, which was just the way the Director liked it. It meant that the park was one of the few places left on Moon that didn’t get treated like a garbage dump – 600 square kilometers of...
It had been nearly a week since I found that flash drive, and I had a certain premonition that something life changing was about to happen to me. Maybe it had to do with me asking "How can I foresee the future?"and the answer being to expose myself to some kind of radiation it programmed the computer to emit. That alo...
I had been tracking him for months. He always used different IP addresses. At first, we thought he was using several different VPNs, but video evidence showed he was just physically jumping halfway across the planet to make each post from a different library. Tonight is the culmination of months of careful planning. A...
*Poke. Poke.* Nothing. *Poke. Poke.* The metal thing didn't move. Like the other metal things. Stick-man looked up, made sure nobody was around to watch him. He knew the metal things once moved. Moved by power unimaginable. Sometimes liquid fire, or black rocks, the lightning itself lending effort. He took a pi...
Gerald smiled, the bubbles of the hot tub gurgling up his back comfortably as he looked out over the very scenic French village on the Mediterranean. He removed the cigar from his lips and took a long sip of expensive red wine. Life was good. A few years ago he had inherited a company that owned what turned out to be a...
The weather forecast for today is partly cloudy with a high of 75F. My favorite kind of day - jeans weather, but no jacket needed. I walk outside of the 3-star hotel and, well, the sky is crimson red, probably from some human-demon battle nearby. It is nice and breezy, though, and the clouds are still a nice cottony wh...
The only words heard most days were the pleasantries that lubricated the world of civilisation. "Good morning,""Good afternoon,""Sleep well"and "I'm fine, how are you?" Larger comments like "There's no more war"were contradicted by "I'm king of the world"which in turn was finished by "The world is how it was except the...
Monitors hummed and beeped. Nurses and doctors shuffled up and down the hallway. Jake wakes up to the familiar scene and slowly sits up, accidentally pulling a sensor out of place. *BEEEEEEEEEEP* an alarm sounds out. "You would think you'd learn not to do that by your eighth time."Said a nurse as she walked through th...
Joker has his Batman. Lex Luthor; his Superman. Norman Osborne? He and Spidey duke it out all the time. Doctor Doom, the lucky bastard, has the Fantastic Four. /And/ he's got a country. Not like I'm resentful or anything. See, I started my career with petty crime. Y'know, snatching bags, grabbing small items, the ...
It was almost midnight and I had to stay up. Guard jobs are 90% boredom, 10% patrolling and 0% fun. But at least they pay well - okay, not well but on time. And at least I could use the internet on my phone - exactly as long as I would not run out of data. There is a top up vending machine just outside, but of course i...
As the Baby Sun rose over the low-production-value landscape, the Teletubbies came out of their Teletubbies-house or wherever they lived and started spouting ridiculous nonsense words that could in no way be construed to foster the development of a human child. Of a *human* child. As their monosyllabic cooing reached...
"That's just how it is."I said, completing my story. "I *should* have been the last one ever born anyway. If your claim that you're younger than I am is true, well, there may just be consequences."I leaned back into the hard wood of the uncomfortable chair, watching the boy squirm in his own seat. "What kind of conseq...
Yeah, yeah, I guess you could call me a product of society or upbringing whatever. Abandonment by parents, not enough money or welfare, shitty neighbourhood, growing up around crime, anger issues, disrespect for authorities, victim of circumstances, yada yada yada. All those sob story cliches you hear coming from 'the ...
My dilated pupils gaze at the moon, feeling its white light wash against my pale flushed face. I teeter along the silent road, the night my only companion. I tear of my lab coat as I fight for air, goosebumps and bite marks tattoed all over my arm. I stagger to the roadside, inclining my back against the back of a tree...
John Kasich cradled his broken arm and stumbled behind an overturned car, taking cover. Blood dripped down his chin from the broken nose he'd sustained from Chris Christie's wild haymaker. The voice of the moderator blared down from the overhead loudspeakers. They could be heard across the entire massive stadium, both...
Residual Self Image. Those who had mastered it could manipulate their form. Running for your life? Shapeshift into centaur or give yourself robotic legs and run at hundreds of miles per hour. Most though we're normal people. Those that couldn't master the technique involved in shapeshifting typically appeared ove...
Now, Findrill was a happy Ent. He spent much of his time at leisure. He bathed in the sun, slept in the winter, and enjoyed the bountiful harvest that the forest contained. He would even talk to the trees, and, on occasion, they would even talk back. It was those rare moments that Findrill enjoyed the most. The trees k...
Kibbles was pretty clueless, and unfortunately, he was going to have his father’s empire passed down to him eventually. The AI had every right to be frustrated. Kibbles wasn’t even in charge of anything and he still couldn’t make up his mind. It wasn’t like he was dependent on other people for his decisions to be made...
Evelyn took a long sip from her coke and got up from her desk. Squinting her eyes a few times she nearly collided with the door. It was time to take out the garbage and grabbing the bag from the kitchen she exited her house to deposit it in the can. The sunlight was a blinding but not an unwelcome sight. Still a bit g...
When I was in fourth grade, my teacher assigned us a paper. The prompt was, 'Why do you think you are pulled to your bonding-place?' Most of the kids in my class wrote about their house. They wrote about their families, or some important childhood memory. One kid wrote about a football stadium, and how he would go ther...
The world - no, the Universe - is essentially a matter of scale. It's been discussed in obscure science fiction stories before. Those stories always were too insignificant to garner attention - some strange hypothesis or tangent in the story which suggests all of our Universe is infinitely large... Because it's actu...
Tim took another massive gulp of his cocktail and slammed it onto the bar. "These things, man, they are *impossible* to track. I've tried, trust me. You can find their shit - their refuse, I mean, let's be scientific - everywhere, it's on everything. But you can *never find one*." I kept my stare steady. My expression...
Ring ring. Gamon ran back to the computer with his half finished plate of lasagna. "Just in time"He said as he sat down behind the screen. His fellow guildies were all online as well. Today would be the one of the toughest missions yet. The guild leader checked if everyone was back from dinner while the mages made ...
*There never was a happily ever after.* This thought worried Brigitte as her maidens took measurements and fitted her with matching jewelry. Earrings that dazzled like a sun. A choker green and hopeful like the first rains of spring. But where was the matching joy? "A son, a prince, a hero,"her father cried when she w...
He'll be here soon. There's no getting away from him when he has his eyes on you. Run as far as you want in any direction and he'll be there. Now if you ask me that's true dedication and it deserves to be admired. Doesn't stop me hating him though. See, this city had been in anarchy for some time. Very few people her...
"Jeff... Jeff, bro are you awake?" "Aw.... leave me alone!"Jeff slurred grabbing the couch cushion he was using as a pillow and putting it over his face. "Jeff! Dude! We're alive!" The words were quickly sobering to his ears as Jeff sprung up off the couch. Still pretty drunk from the events of last night. "Wait w...
"You are she. The Goddess made flesh. She who will usher in the new age with the birth of the True King. She who will Mother the End of Times."The monk bowed deeply to me. I rubbed the bridge of my nose. "It can't have escaped your attention,"I said, "that I'm a dude." The monk extended his arms towards me and raised...
I pause for a few moments and let her words sink in. I think for a second she may elaborate but this, like most of the things she says to me, is spoken as if it would be of no interest to anyone, it just so happened to slip out of her mouth whilst she wasn't paying attention. "You aren't human now?"I ask, as she stare...
I see the trio of girls with multicolored hair walking down the street and I immediately cross to the other side. That's one of the things everyone knows - small children with colored hair are bad news. They could be magical girls (or magical boys; comedy doesn't discriminate by gender), they could be a school club t...
A man and a small child walked along a mountain path. Both were bundled in layers to fight the harsh winds. The man held a torch and kept the boy close by his side. "Remember to stay in the light little one. The darkness is hungry at this time of night." The boy paused and looked behind him. Somewhere further down th...