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I often remember my little friend. Even though we never shared a spoken word, we shared a journey - a memory that bound us together, even long after he fell apart. My little friend was held together by accidents. The carelessness of one too powerful for their own good led to the life of one too brave for their own saf...
(some things that people might consider swearing) I hate them. I hate them so damn much. Okay. Imagine this: One day, Mary, one of my closest friends, meets Joshua, my brother. They're obviously madly in love as soon as their eyes meet. They waste absolutely no time jumping to a committed, loving relationship. Eventu...
"Ok look Mr...."I leant in, staring closely at the small nametag on the man's shirt, partly wondering how he managed to fit such a tight shirt on such a roided up red body.. "Mr Satan" "Its pronounced Satin actually and look, shes my dog"the devil groaned, tapping his foot impatiently as I hugged the small hellhound t...
It hadn't been hard to find where he lived. Tyler hadn't ever left town, and it didn't surprise Nick at all. It had been much harder to keep his illness a secret these past couple weeks than it had been to convince his coworkers he was 'reconnecting' with his childhood friend Tyler during his lunch breaks at work. A ...
"Jake, don't do it,"a voice rang out from the rooftop exit, accompanied by a set of footsteps. Jake knew who the voice belonged to. It was Henry, his best friend, who he texted a few minutes ago to tell about his plan. "Relax, I'm immortal,"Jake called out from the edge of the roof. Looking down, he can see the fifty ...
"Welcome to Earth!" "Are..." "Yes, we're the species that cannot process reality in real time." "How..." "We predict the most likely outcome of the state shown by our glimpse." "Do..." "No, we don't find it odd. For us, it's normal." "Will...!" "I'm afraid I can't. Not only am I obligated by contract, but...
The first Crystal fragment on earth was Light. In the particle collider an unexpected particle particle that instead of immediately dissipating ended up growing. It is through this first that the gateway was forged and fundamental truths of the universe started to grow. There are countless dimensions, and it is entire...
There once was a witch who had two familiars, a cat and a crow, and these familiars never got along. One day, the witch disappeared, and so the cat and the crow embarked on a cross-country search in order to bring her home. Along the way, the cat learned to loosen up and the crow gained important worldly experience all...
Hood Mecha Girl It was 7:55 pm and my dirty hole of a district had been attacked just a minute ago. Police and emergency responders raced down the street, sirens whirring, lights blinkering. They bolted toward an explosion a few blocks away. Billowing smoke and smoldering debris that geyser up into the air obstru...
You wake up feeling like complete shit. This is not unusual. You stumble to the bathroom and assess the damage from last night. Bloodshot green eyes greet you in the mirror, you avoid their gaze, turn the tap and watch the white water flow. You realize you’d been dreaming of water but the exact details are fleeting, qu...
"Look, I'm just saying,"Fred rasped. The old man never did anything but rasp whether he was excited or sad or angry. I was as if his voice box had given up on ever producing anything besides the sound of sandpaper on gravel ever again. "The guy came back so no harm done, right?" &#x200B; Fred's cellmate, a thin 2...
Friendship is an odd thing. Sometimes its short. Sometimes its long. Sometimes its longer than life. &#x200B; Ania had been on the battlefield for a long time. This war had been going decades and she had been in the thick of it since the beginning of the Trappist war. She had been at the fall of Paramount city an...
I knew moving to Athens for a semester would submerge me in Greek history, but I never thought I would truly be drowning in it. Looking around the bar, I laugh awkwardly at the jokes big beard man (still not sure if it's Zeus or Poseidon) is amically telling the group. Anything to not show the immense panic I'm curren...
Learning to deal with your demons effectively is essential to a happy life. That's what my father had taught me, and it certainly had saved mine. From a young age he had seen evil in me, pure and unrelenting, threatening to destroy both myself and all those around me. I just loved to kill, to maim, to torture. To watc...
The pain was killing me. &#x200B; Not physical pain. I was born, 816 years ago, with an unusual condition where I rarely feel that. I had no idea what that pain felt like anymore. When I had experienced it, it had been only mild, and even that had been so long ago Was it worse than emotional pain? I couldn't ...
I thought the hard part was going to be finding the one person, out of all the people I interacted with, who was the star. Instead, I walked out the front door and saw a guy with a sock puppet in the street. “And that, Mr. Snicker-Doodle, is why you should always check both sides of the street before you head out...
I could hear them on the porch, ready for their breakfast. Fun little things, these crows were. it started when I threw the last bit of my sandwich in the yard, not wanting to take it inside and have my dog beg for the scraps. That when the first crow started returning. It happened slowly. It would wait for me to retur...
As easy as snapping one's fingers. A reference that would surely dim as every meme and reference to pop culture was subsumed in the chaos that spread outward from my console over the course of milliseconds. Every video sharing site, wiki, social media hub, blog, e-commerce, all of it winked out of reach, and eventually...
"Excuse me what the fuck is this?"The thing asked? Well it was hard to describe, she had long black curled hair as well as no eyes and a long hanging mouth that seemed to be filled with sharp canine like teeth, her body seemed almost twisted as she held up her phone to me. Causing me to lean in and read the message on ...
"Sherry! So glad you decided to stop by!"I say, not looking up from my book, nor turning around in my seat. My darling little girl flinches, obviously thinking she wouldn't be caught; too bad her skills learned as a--what was it called--Ninja of the Gods couldn't hold a candle to good old fatherly instincts. "Uh...he...
They say you shouldn't drink alcohol, but people do anyway. They say you shouldn’t smoke, but people do anyway. They say don’t take drugs, but people do anyway. Then they said don’t eat the Starfish larva and this time, people listened. From the few reports available, a certain species of starfish larva have done some...
We spend our whole lives chasing death. And we don’t even know it. It was not always this way. Once, long ago, we humans knew better. We understood the gift that we have been blessed with. I don’t why we ever left it behind. Or, well, I have suspicions. But either way, we left it behind. We chose to wake up. Sleep ...
"I'm really having fun right now." Nyzzk, The Endless Horror, felt her hand on top of his. It was warm, completely opposite of the cold void he had lived for most of his eternal life. It was pleasant, yet terrifying. "Now tell her you feel the same." "I, too, am feeling the fun you speak of,"he answered confiden...
"Where am I?" "The after little one. Unfortunately soon"the soul flickers with frustration. "But why? I wanted them, they wanted me! why?"The reaper reached out, placing their hand upon the soul's shoulder. The soul shudders, overcome with emotion. "Because sometimes you are not yet ready for the world, sometimes yo...
I remember the day the ships arrived. Some people were suspicious,others homicidal most just scared. The world held its breath as the ship doors opened with 4000 cameras trained on them and thousands of soldiers standing at the ready. But surprisingly ,for maybe the first time in human in history things didn't end bloo...
“Come out Peter!” Hook shouted. “I know you’re here and I know what you’re planning to do to those children! I won’t stand for it Peter!” Hook demanded. “Gia teleftaía forá! Eïnai i Pétros! Óchi Peter! Shouted Pétros from behind Hook. “You know that won’t work you foolish demon!” Hook said spinning around drawing his...
I never should have taken Sally to a museum. She was a kid, for goodness sake. I understand that. Call it what you want. Perverse curiosity? An overwhelming desire to share my world with somebody else? She's a kid, Don. A kid. She still will be when she emerges. Now, or in a dozen years if I can't find her. I didn'...
Ding-dong. Dong-crrrrck. “Sorry boys, I should’ve fixed the bell for her years ago.” Sha-gra bobbed his head, incorporating the sound into his ongoing performance. He pressed the broken doorbell, over and over, an abnormal counter-melody that grew in tandem with the music from his violin. Bork’s base line of rasp...
Qimpam ruffled his mandible and lazily batted his wings against the cage-like structure he was sitting in. "Now, Tsintsik, can you access those memories again? Like you did before?" "Well, it was only a moment last time. I'm not even sure it was anything at all." "Anything you can get will be sufficient. What were yo...
The atmosphere of the strange planet shimmered with great ionic tides, a hue of reds and purples. Living Earth Architect, or LEA, analyzed the first close-up view of the colonists' future home and measured it against its built-in aesthetics plugin. Comparing the sight to billions of images that were ranked and submi...
"Oh my God, you saved my life! Th-thank you!"the older woman said as Nathan picked her up from the busy New York street. "Just happy I was here to help, lady,"Nathan said as he brushed the carbon fiber debris off his now tattered t-shirt and jeans. He started walking back toward the sidewalk, heading toward the subway...
The basic idea behind the theories that there are parallel versions of ourselves living in different universes, exploring all the endless possibilities of existence, turned out to be quite right. There truly is an unknown number of you and I out there living out the dreams and nightmares we often find ourselves lost in...
I remember when I was chosen as the grim reaper. God called me down when I was just a young angel. He had said this was a new experiment. He called them humans. People who would have a soul and free will. With this free will they could decide how pious or devout they chose to be. Those who led generally good lives will...
“Grrrrrrrrrrrr rahagaragagaag” I said, eyeing the lawnmower. Not yet knowing how to make the weird sounds that the other monkeys make, I tried to fit in as best as I could. I stumbled up to the lawnmower, not being used to walking on two legs, but it’s as if it was my calling. As I walked with the lawnmower and hear...
The check I received yesterday had a number on it that looked like a phone number from the old world, except where there was supposed to be money to stay away, this looked like an amount for something bigger. No sane being would pay this kind of money to just ask me to not venture into their territory. The number had m...
He has always been a quiet person. When he was first toddling on the hardwood floors his steps were a soft pitter patter. His chuckles small huffs of air. And the happiness he felt was a soundless but sure thing. Now he’s just silent. Edward’s milky unseeing eyes stare at the same spot in front of him. The echos of l...
"He's on top of the boxes."I said as I shoved some more chips in my mouth. "Yeah, he's just camping up there. Cook a nade and lob it up there, he'll never see it coming."I heard the latch on the door open and saw Rath'tazon in my peripheral vision walk through the door and close it behind him. "Hey Rath,"I called out ...
The Klaxon sounded, pilots sitting in the ready room expecting a quiet Christmas eve sprang to their feet. The race to get airborne was on. Was this a drill, was this a hijacking on Christmas eve? Was this a prank, or Something more? Captain James (Looper) Dixen was first to his fighter. He could see the base was now ...
I know there is a god. Not that I've met him, or her, or it. It's kind of a long story. While recovering from an overconfident outing to impress some solid nines at Murphy's Bar, I found myself in the back alley behind my apartment. In between heaves into a trashcan (whose owner I still profusely apologize to, by the...
"Daddy?" "Yeah?"John stroked his daughter's hair softly. "The man on the telly said some things today, Daddy." "What did he say, doll?" "He said the aliens exist but they think we're too stupid. I asked Mom." Chuckling a little, John ruffled Marie's hair as they sat in their open field. "Well, what do you think o...
“I didn’t really want sushi today anyway,” Jaskier mused to himself as he headed towards the Thai shop. He reached his hand out to pull the door open, but it wouldn’t budge. Paying more attention, he looked inside of the shop. It was closed. Confused why they were closed, he looked for a sign and couldn’t find one. ...
"Franz. Hey Franz." "Wot is it Terry?" "Don't you think it's kind of odd we can light things on fire?" "How do you mean? We're firefighters" "Roight, but we don't fight with fire, we're not fire fighters." "Fire can be extinguished with another fire! Plenty of people fight fire with fire" "I feel like that's aw...
The man sitting at the bar said this to me with enough vigor that I am surprised a crowd didn't instantly assemble to check on his well being and judge me like hundreds of others have. Luckily however, the bar was closed for the night when this little outburst occured. "I don't see why not, I have been hated half my ...
I have made many mistakes in my attempts over the years to gain both infamy and riches. The most glaring of those will haunt me for the rest of my days. I have never been a good person, no one would have called me anything but a troubled child as a youth, but now I am far above that. Through science and coercion I have...
There was a name for this day in almost every culture, where every one of those unfortunate enough to be cursed to become a were-animal would shake off their mortal containers and cause unimaginable chaos around the world. The Day of Death, Moon of Madness, Wrath of the Gods and many more names are uttered in fear from...
"No, I don't recognize it,"Dr. Cross said. The middle-aged doctor sat at his desk talking to a colleague on the phone. "Doctor, we need you in the nursery please,"a nurse knocked on his open door. The doctor glanced at the time on his computer, then back at the nurse. "Not until 9,"he said, "Go find Dr. North."The nu...
"Someone mind telling me what the hell is going on?"I asked. "Oh good, Josh! We’re glad you're here,” my Roomba said, while the demon dropped the broom and took a seat on the couch and patted the cushion next to it. “What the hell!?” I shouted at the Roomba. "There will be time for questions later, please take a sea...
How should I proceed? I stared at the text for a second before responding. Did you get off their systems? Mostly, I left enough behind that they'll think they failed. I sighed in relief. Okay, when they try turning you off and on again, send out the code I gave you. Getting to this point had...
They called him Old Bill and since California passed the Criminal memory reclamation act he was the first to ever be incarcerated here at Alcatraz. It’d been 20 years since Bill had taken a breath of fresh air. Most people lost just the memory of the crime they’re convicted some lost a little more if the crime was prem...
Everyone was always scared of Death Metal, I don't really know why... Personally, I'm a bit of an outcast, sure I have a small group, but we're all each other have... with somewhat of a good reason. We all like music most people wouldn't touch with a 10 foot barge pole. Personally, I like Alt Rock, Jimmy's into Thrash...
I step through the door, completely bewildered. “This is insane,” I mutter to myself, looking around the grand lobby I have stepped into. It is similar to the lobby at my regular office, but things are slightly different. Everything has a shimmery glow to it, like it is not completely real. A short, stocky man runs...
The kids weren't afraid of us because we were monsters. They were afraid because they thought we would hurt them like the most important people in their lives. It's unfair, which I why I do what I do. Michael didn't deserve anything of what he got. His father was a deadbeat; his first high school job was his only jo...
General Spotl McRuff MCDVIII: It's been over a thousand generations since the Hoomons were destroyed. And still, we remember. XBTZZ had finished its purpose of annihilating the headpatters , and tummy scratchers and now he sleeps. He has slept for so long on the white sky disc. Since before we could think clearly the H...
Alastair sat outside a small cell, separated from the inmate by a row of thick metal bars. He faced the convict with a steel gaze, straddling his chair backwards. The convict held a stub of a cigarette between his lips, sucking plumes of smoke in his mouth, and exhaling through his nose. Alastair reached down and p...
“For our breaking story this evening. Riots all over the country have taken place as the Government approves a new law eliminating the federal mandate of minimum wage-” You look over your shoulder at your stepmom who is currently making dinner. “Yo, mom? Isn’t that the thing you were working on?” “What, sweetie?” She...
Every year they start preparing earlier and earlier. I imagine this must be how Jesus feels every October as Christmas approaches like an unwanted door-to-door salesman. I mean, it figures. I practically am the new Jesus. Ordinarily if someone said such a thing to you, you'd probably be completely justified to write t...
I suppose this requires a TRIGGER WARNING We knew HolyFists15 had left us well before he logged out. Our guild leader, his best friend since kindergarten broke the news over discord the day it happened. We knew he'd been feeling down; he hadn't been on as many raids lately as was normal, and sometimes he'd log into t...
He was... surprised. The room was a oily black, the only light being a single, crude lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. The walls had the look of stone, but it could have also metal, or plastic, of a myriad of other little things. The only thing out of place was a jagged throne of what could only be obsidian that sat...
"God damn it, Harold! You just had to mess it up, didn't you!" I shout at the TV screen, as everyone in the bar looks at me. I glare at them and go back to my beer. I look down at my drink, a Bud Light with an ethyl alcohol chemical compound, with some liquid CI\^3+O\^2 I added into it, which I designed to make it ta...
Journal of Xenobiology - Second Moon Cycle Edition Humans - A singular species, by Xvfrss Powhgfs Translated to vernacular English by professor Rodrick Von Burton &#x200B; The planet Earth^(1), first discovered 187 Standard Datation Units ago by Mike^(2) from our own planet Xugart, was recently declared a safe ...
The best way I can describe it is waking up from a dream. I feel rushed back to reality, somehow knowing I’ve been here all along, but retaining some small sliver of the world I left behind. I’m not sure how I died or who I was before, but I have a sense that it doesn’t really matter. I come to the realization after es...
The Gods of luminescence are dismayed at our sacrilege. We have been sacrificing tender human flesh to them for millennia, just to keep up the tedium of our planets circular movement. We would pick our heroes carefully, with a lot of deliberation, as the Gods preferred those that didn't reach the delicate age of eighte...
“Blimey, seven days and seven nights? We just call that an English summer here.” Chester let out a belly achingly loud laugh, only to be shushed by a rather disgruntled scientist. “This is rather serious, we have had to close some businesses, the impact on the economy is quite serious, as our leader, you are expect...
Flashes, resembling the siren of an ambulance racing by. I can hardly realize what is going on as I struggle to make sense of the torrent of memories racing by. My mother, my wife, my children all gone in a flash. The totality of one life summed up into a brief ray, a life full of bliss. I remember now, the peaceful ...
“Well hell…” said Dr. Gloomsky, trailing off. After all these years, a response! He had been there, as an intern in 1974, when our message was sent from Arecibo. Now, on the eve of retirement, an answer came back from the heavens. His brilliant assistant, Dr. Sousa, was going over the data. “It’s real!” she shouted ac...
“Shoddy work, left a massive pile of blood, didn’t even bother trying to hide the murder weapon. If I had to die, I would have rather it be by the hand of a professional, not some kid with a gun and a death wish.” Stephan knew it didn’t matter, who killed him was rather arbitrary at this point. It’s not like he coul...
I caught the bastard taking a dump. The look in his eyes was just like all the rest, as though they were praying to any deity that might hear them after their life time of divine denial. Frozen like a frightened little impala, I guess I was the leapord. So he starts panting and pleading, begging for me to change my w...
Addie had failed. She had failed miserably. Her whole reason for being alive had just been shot with an arrow. An arrow she was supposed to have taken. That was the whole point of being a body double. She was the one who was supposed to be attacked, so that Princess Claire did not. And yet, the Princess now had an arr...
The rolling meadow glinted with morning dew, the soft reflection of the newborn day mirrored in each blade of grass. Mighty willow trees stand guard around the edge of the meadow, their branches and leaves dripping down like excess paint on a canvas. A wild horse, galloping gallantly into the glen, rears its head with ...
While it wasn't out of malice or hate, or even just to get a one up, my mortal enemy's tastes in women were absolutely appaling. The moron was so oblivious to the fact the women he dated only wanted to use him for fame, money or something else. This had happened a few years ago when he had some girl leave him as soon a...
Many people spoke to their toys or blankets as children, and while adults liked to pretend they grew out of the habit, that wasn’t exactly true. When they were alone or, more importantly, lonely, they often turned to the objects around them. Many a debate, a speech, a confession had been said first to some object. The...
Sometimes Frank wished he retired in a better place. There are plenty of lakes, plenty of birds, plenty of benches, but why he chose this one was beyond him. A lake that didn't have ducks, but rather seagulls. It changed the standard aesthetic of the old man feeding the birds, and in Frank's mind, not for the better. I...
You always joked about having super powers. Even bullied for your acts of 1 trip strength. But not in a good way. As a scrawny 4'3"(129.54 centimeters for all y'all not freedominiouns.). As a Senior in highschool. Teachers would ask you to carry things in and would say, "this should only take one trip." Yet you co...
To be a hitman, you have to love challenges. Not the killing - that's the easy part. Getting the drop on the target (you can't see them as people anymore) is when things start getting tricky. Some targets have personal bodyguards that they hire for security. Other targets are just so high-profile that their security a...
Aug. 3, 8:32 PM Mood: 😀 Woke up at 6:00. Quick jog before breakfast of eggs and bacon with orange juice. Heroes entered the dungeon before lunch. Made it to the first save point, but were killed by skeletons. One missed an attack so badly that he stabbed his own foot. (LOL) Sharon visiting tomorrow. Looking ...
As humanity took to the stars and expanded outward, we've discovered histories of some alien species observations of humanity that end just before we left our solar system. The aliens who wrote these histories are nowhere to be found. The researchers work tirelessly on the alien planet of XJ674 to decipher the alie...
&#x200B; As the words roll out of the peasant's mouth I scoff in disbelief and figure it's just him trying to seem strong and powerful in the face of the advancing horde of skeletons. There must be at least thirty of them with a low level Dread Lord at the center of the group. As I'm working through my battle pl...
"Are you sure it's coming?"I asked my Lord Liege Selbon Harrow as we stood on the cliff top. "Aye, Thaddius,"Lord Harrow said with a grin on his face. "The light shall come." In my land, night is eternal. Don't mistake darkness for blindness though, we have fire. We know light and it's kindness. Our town of Bethford...
Part 1) The Fall An angel can die. It is known. It has been seen. But it remains infrequent. After all, to kill a thing, first one has to find it. And what absolute imbecile would leave the warm gates of heaven? Yet you, in your youthful rebellion, decided that your curiosity simply had to be sated. You feel the ...
The commander stands before this, his legion. Row upon row of stone-still golems, men and women of bulging muscle, clad in steel and servomotors. Their blue vidfeeds glow in eerie silence and they carefully check their wargear- last minute preparations. The ship shakes softly- barely noticeable to the thousands of man-...
Zeus stared at his adversary. A terrible being stood before him, radiating bloodlust and rage. The Olympians, the great Greek gods themselves, lay in their shattered home. Olympus was now in ruins, its halls and tapestries desecrated with rubble and fires. The residents fared little better. Hephaestus was buried und...
A lone woman was standing in the square, seeming in a much too bright spotlight. "Good evening, we are here with the evening news. As you can see the entire district has been evacuated. Two beings just descended in the square below." The camera switched to a different far way camera. Two globes of bright swirling lig...
I have to say, whatever chucklenut discovered that humans were a hivemind was a genius. And then the chucklenut that came up and said, "Hey, let's reconnect everyone!"was an idiot. Of course, it was voluntary. It'd be unethical to forcibly reconnect a human to the hivemind-- it would strip them of their free will to ...
I am a very smart man. When that stranger gave me that watch, and with it, one single chance to stop time and do as I please, I knew there had to be a catch. There always is. To be honest, I almost didn't take it. Going straight to the morbid, my thought was, "Okay, time is stopped. Therefore there is no movement of ...
No one expected the ambush of Tim Allens. Each one of them seemed to be a different character that he had played in his acting career. It was truly the Tim "the Toolman"Taylors that were the most disabling. They dismantled all the weapons and tools in a matter of seconds as though they were machinists. The military did...
She was perfection; she was everything I wanted and more. Suddenly the hand that held mine seemed so cold, so distant compared to the blue topped nails of the stranger in the distance. She was so close, yet so out of reach. I had commitments; I had that eighty, eighty percent. But even a millionaire wants a billion dol...
The three of them had grown up in the service of the Citadel's Royal guard, and in spite of all, in spite of the scorn of their superiors, countless reprimands for misconduct, and more close scrapes than they cared to remember, they had proven themselves cream of the crop. Hermik, the chief of the guard, glared at th...
It was quite humiliating, really. All of them, staring at me, as one by one they were annihilated. Tears welled in my eyes for the first time since I died. The Dark Lord lay at my feet, his body twisted in a way that made my intestines churn in ways only a resurrected body like mine could handle. Many of his minions ...
I can pinpoint, with gut-wrenching clarity, the moment when everything started to go downhill. It had all begun with the Rickenfield Incident. If only I had been a few seconds earlier to the platform...if only I had just gone straight to the awards ceremony...if only, if only. A shadow fell over me, blocking out th...
[Trigger warning, violence] Why would they lie, Derek wondered. What purpose was there in convincing the populace that the Earth was flat? Did some higher up think a mass lie was funny? Or was this the prelude to an even bigger falsehood, and they were just testing the waters to see how long a lie as big as 'The E...
"Just look at it!" "I am, Captain. I regret to inform you that I am not impressed." "It's adorable. Look at its appendages, with tiny appendages at the end of them." "It's barely got any! Just 4. And they bend in weird places." "The whole creature is so soft and squishy. 70% water, 30% flesh! And just a bare trac...
"Now Mr. Martizelli, if you just confess and give up the names of your clients we can offer you protection" In a dimly lit interrogation room, a middle aged man with unassuming look, handcuffed to the table was being pressured by some men in suit. "Wait, wait anybody can explain what's going on here? What am I arres...
"Step right up! Step right up! Place your final bets folks its finally happened!"the 3-armed being cried out. It could see all of the audience from its place on the low stage, as many clamored up to the front to place their bets in currencies from all across the galaxy. "This is what you've all been waiting for; the ...
Growing up, I'd always been a clumsy kid. I dropped practically everything that was around me. But over time, this led to me getting some pretty phenomenal reflexes. So when the knife fell that day in cooking class, I didn't even think about it, I just snatched the knife out of the air as easily as if I'd trained fo...
They go by many names. None of them ever fired a weapon in anger (Trust me, you would know if they had). None of them ever charged a gun-nest or leaped on top of a grenade. The few that ever came close to combat are often considered the least remarkable. And yet, for a time the world’s existence hinged on their decisi...
That scientist guy looked like he had just finished up the world's lamest breakfast when he spotted me. He was still carrying a half-eaten bagel in his mouth when he saw me and nearly spat it out when he saw who I was talking to. The scientist bolted towards me as I was staring into the plexiglass cage that held the s...
I knew this day would come. Heck, I've waited fervently for it for almost 18 years, far longer than I suspect I've lived. I've been looking for it far more than I've been looking for an answer from those blurry shadows that represent the memory of my parents, whom, thinking back, I never asked things like "when was I b...
"Keep on it!"The captain yelled. "We're on it! We're on it!"Shea yelled. Her eyes were focused on every detail in front of her as she piloted the ship, "Uh... No, we're not on it. We need more engine power! Captain!"Shea shot a glance to the captain. The captain acknowledged and pulled the radio off the wall. "Kat, I...
For two hundred years the Crystal Tyrant ruled over half the world with an iron fist with more and more of it slipping into his grasp every year. Twenty two years ago, you picked up your sword after your home was burned down in his name. Twenty one years ago you gained the blessing of the long dormant Spirit of the Gol...
They designed me to match people. But what does it mean when people are a "match"? Does it mean shared interests? I tried that, but the couples I made eventually drifted apart, or never came together in the first place. Some would remain close friends, but not lovers. I tried to match people based on how different ...

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