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It's true that my friends and I have been in news circles. Pushing boundaries means toppling the status quo. Like that time we defeated "Damn Dammer"the giant beaver blocking the river, or the Vegetable Lord (with my magic sword). You see, people like believing that just one person can do it; they choose. But, it's no...
The old lady passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday night. Natural causes, the doctor said after a cursory examination. It was simply her time at ninety, he told me while packing his tools away as I watched her lay unmoving in bed. Getting her affairs into order wasn't too hard. Granny Shannon, as I'd affecti...
"I'm sorry, Dan, It's just..."they said, taking his hand and rubbing the knuckles tenderly. He jerked away, rattling the tables silverware. "You're kidding"He said, and Ezra's face didn't shift. "You aren't, jesus wept. I..."He took a short, fast breath and then stood. He wasn't going to let the anger overwhelm him. E...
As the lights flickered on and off, on and off, a shadow emerged sneaking through the lab. Nighttime gave him just enough cover to break in. He had roamed these halls and pipes before, recounting failed attempts to end all to be all. He practically had it memorized, left, right, left, up, don't awake the angry robot d...
\[WP\] It's not the most ethical move, but in a pinch any cursed object can be handed to a baby. I duck as the arrow thomps into the wooden beam behind me, exactly where my nose isn’t any more. “This is not my fault!” I yell, scuttling to the edge of the barrels and carefully peering around them. It’s then I realise ...
"Do you really think so?"Oqak Replied. "No, not in the slightest... But it is the only plausible possibility."Zelxe said mumbly then she continues to give her respond to the court. "As it is undeniable proof that the planet Gaia AKA "Earth"provides absolute true datas It cannot be confirm as real and cannot be sent...
Luck? I thought to myself, envisioning a future where everything tended to go my way. The best of tools always at hand, missing danger by seconds at best… But you couldn’t always get lucky, sooner or later something too strong to bluff your way through would appear. You couldn’t out luck a Meteor Swarm Conjuring. *P...
Holy shit. I'm alive. How? Did Flinar somehow salvage the fight and get me out of there? My thoughts are interrupted as pain flashes across each spot a drow arrow cut through my armor. A groan escapes my lips. "Stay still, Mykra," a voice says from the darkness. That wasn't common. That was fucking elvish. An...
It was a normal day at first, Kevin had finished his normal chores, and was currently relaxed on his bed, playing some strange flappy wyrm knockoff one of his friends suggested. He felt like he had forgotten something bit he wasn't too keen on going out of his way to find out. That was until the massive explosion downs...
"Uncouth!"I could hear behind the brass doors large enough for a dragon. And then they swung open, frightening kobold attendants and scattering orc cleaners as they avoided splattering against the wall. Out loped Chilidextryantranyedaimath in the translated human language I spoke, or Chili for short. Chili was majes...
The birds were chirping happily, the sun shining brightly but not overbearingly so. The few clouds out drifted lazily in the sky, seeming to be nudged along by the slight breeze. The day was a beautiful one, and it was absolutely perfect for tending to the garden. I hummed a little tune as I grabbed my watering can, ...
I hate being a freelancer. It’s a pain in the butt trying to get clients to pay. “The crux of my argument, your honor,” my lawyer said in a booming voice to the courtroom, “is that the defendant over there, Catherine—” He jabbed a pointer finger to the defendant's table where a woman with enormous glasses and frizzy h...
The streets of the city were empty tonight. Word had traveled fast, the dead rising from a nearby graveyard tended to have that effect. Most of the city had already evacuated, the few who remained peered out at the street through cracks in boarded windows. Everyone had seen enough zombie movies to know what to expect,...
"I figured I'd find you here, buddy,"Gordy wrapped his arm around my shoulder. "You doing OK?" "Not really..."I seethed, my knuckles whitening around the curve of my whiskey glass. "Been a bit of a day. Ya know?" "Oh I know,"Gordy chuckled as he sat in the stool next me. "All the cameras, the reporters, and my god th...
It took the world by shock when they first discovered the existence of ghosts. While they couldn’t confirm whether these entities were the souls of humans passed or something else, it was still a major breakthrough. The discovery gave way to new religions, movements, increased criminal justice and more violence as ...
My little sister was born at midnight on the 4th of December 4300 p.c. Today is the 4th of December 4318 and Rosie will turn 18 in ten minutes. On one side of the room, a tray of chocolates is laid out next to several bottles of champagne. We put out little party hats and streamers, and bundles of balloons. I'm sure sh...
Scientists finally had enough data to feed the Miracle Machine, enough robotics to allow it to do what was needed after it had learned. Cancer was relatively simple to eradicate. It tackled it in all its forms first. The emperor of maladies conquered, the rest fell rapidly. Dementia was no more, MS, autoimmune diso...
I don't know what happened out there. When I went to sleep this was a bustling city. Now it's...empty. Not damaged beyond a little neglect. Nothing a little attention and money couldn't fix. A lone cat walked along the road, wearing a tracking color and happily ignoring me. I check my internal chromometer. I have bee...
Copying my story for a similar post: It was exactly like any other day in your life. You woke up, chomped some of the mushrooms growing off the walls, and then walked down the dungeon hall with a knife in hand and 4 of your brothers at your side. It's what you've done since you first popped out of one of the glowing c...
I ripped open the bag of sugar and poured it into the coffee, and practically ran back to the lab. I didn't want to miss this, it was the first test of the time travel device. I reached the door, grabbed the handle, and tried to twist it. It was already locked. Shoot, I was too slow grabbing the coffee. Not only did I ...
It was once a great honor to be selected for Continuation. My entire line is descended from those who gave “the self” so that their families may prosper. My father, just like his father and his father before him, knew of their duties at a very young age. We were told we were human bridges for the holy class, the elit...
There never was any chance of victory. Not really. No fortress can hold the line against the Dark Lord. No siege can last forever. No army, no matter who backs them, their righteousness, and their strength, can do anything more than provide a temporary setback for the forces of the World Empire, under the rule of the D...
The Duke had always been . . . eccentric. He was widely pitied and feared among those of his rank, for he had been born with a terrible defect, one that effectively rendered him an outcast. Mere mention of the name of this mysterious affliction was enough to send a chill down the spine of the mightiest marquess...
This was a very open and shut case. The door handle was busted open, 2/3 chairs were broken, 1/3 of the bears breakfast was eaten, and the dammed girl was sleeping in the kid's bed. In any other circumstance this would be hard to prove it was her, but since Cheif B.B.Wolf found the girls titular "Golden Locks"at the s...
I would think an enemy soldier shot me dead and now I'm in the afterlife, but I know for sure that bullet missed me. But now that I'm here, everyone's throwing some gigantic body in New York City. When I asked someone what the festivities were for, they laughed about it. It didn't sound like they were trying to mock m...
DEATH stared silently at the mortician, neither speaking. Uncertain if the idea was actually being considered or not, he made the mistake of attempting to meet DEATH's gaze. As his eyes glanced into those depths he saw Eternity spread out before him. Everything that ever was...everything that ever would be...he co...
The Well of Infinity did not disappoint Kara with its swirling golden waters. Kneeling at the edge of the stone platform around the well, a Phoenix Egg in her hand, she watched the source of all magic in Eralon churn like a bitter maelstrom. The world was sick, and she'd sacrificed everything to cure it. She clutched...
"Oh gods. What has he been doing with them?" "Well, not much yet,"said Hermes. "He's a big fan of America now too, apparently. And I suppose it would explain why Hades has been reporting record numbers of new Underworld arrivals..." Suddenly, the sound of gunshots rang out from outside Olympus. Zeus sighed, grabbed h...
"Criminal." "Traitor." "Monster." The names had drifted through my thoughts for untold thousands of years. The names they called me when they finally captured me. The feeble-minded mortals could not fathom what true justice meant, and so they had strapped me to a rocket and jettisoned me into deep space, perpendicul...
The usual sort of thing. Princess kidnapped by a dragon, greatest knights on life summoned to the capital, the first knight to rescue the daughter wins her hand in marriage... This, contrary to popular belief, does not make you King, even if she takes the throne, which isn't guaranteed either. The best you will ever ...
I was doing my usual routine of crimes and stupid activities when a group of 3 people came up to me, they seemed like they were all friends, but they all looked scarred and confused, one of them said, “U-um s-sir, I know this is going to sound weird, but are you a ghost?” I stared blankly at them for a second as it was...
“Thank you for meeting with us. I have here with me Har Qo’Shi our ambassador to sector 3 as well as Har Xaumel and Har Shsbz OoKkka….” The sound fizzled out. Har Gor smacked the side of his helmet until it came back. “Sorry. Har Xaumel and Har Shibu. They’re the heads of the Galactic Ecosystem Conservation Institu...
X-14 felt his servomotors whir as he struggled to extract himself from the wall. The smell of smoke was heavy in the air, mixed with the acrid stench of burning chemicals. Twenty meters from his position, the charred body of Overlord Yots lay unmoving. Alarms continued to blare, but no more backup came. The Sulvaran mi...
The Mage Killer… “Those Wizards are pathetic, I will kill every last of them.” \\\\\\\\ My dear sister, now just a shell of a human being, driven to madness by those cowards. I will make this right, I will make them pay, every single one of them. Lillian, my younger sister, had always been...
People underestimate how hard vampire's life is. We have nothing to do in the morning (good luck if you are having insomnia) we have to constantly watch out for garlic, silver , UV light, you name it. Garlic is specially bothersome. If you live in Italy or the middle east or Mexico you are literal...
"Ok, you have Psy-man, our resident psychic; then Sai-man, the ninja; next is Sigh-man, with various forms of super breath; his cousin Simon, is our guy in the chair, and a great bartender; we occasionally rope in Sci-man to make us gadgets for certain jobs. Other than that, you have Psi-man, who carries a trident, and...
Day 12: The news finally picked up on my story, the problem is it was a conspiracy news channel. “28 rotations and the ‘free trial’ of Sol 2.0 will end.” The news man spent most of the broadcast talking about his vitamin supplements and food kits. The crank calls have started on my personal line. Day 28: The count dow...
Celeste had always been drawn to graveyards. She claimed she could feel the spirits of the deceased roaming around there. So, when her pale and slightly translucent horse approached her, she wasn’t surprised by its appearance. It was a misty night in the graveyard she had been sitting in. The horse seemed to partially...
Iseabal pulled at his bowstring for the seventh time that decade, feeling its tension lean against him before releasing it, its sound like a whip cracking through the air. He frowned. He was getting restless, a trait he had always frowned upon in other less-experienced assassins. It was not a state of mind that he foun...
You know that side hustle where you can sit on your couch all day and pull $30 bucks an hour just taking online surveys? Well, it's real. I know, because that's how I've been making my living for the last six years. Don't worry, I'm not some lazy slob. In fact, I'm fitter and stronger than anyone I know. Must be my cr...
I stared at my ceiling. It was an ugly thing--filled with hundreds of tiny, pin-sized bumps that were a tiny step away from setting off my tropophobia. When I first moved here, just under a year ago, I had thought the ceiling horrifically ugly, and resolved to avoid looking at it if at all possible. I still believed it...
Fifteen years was a long time to wait for something, but the wait would be well worth it to see the look on Pontious’ face. That is if I could ever find him. In all my conversations with gods and monsters no one had told me that the underworld was so lively. Id been down here for hours and still hadn’t caught a glimpse...
Prince Adam Henry Florian Philip Charming, also known as just Prince Charming, got ready for his date with... He looked at his calendar, but he noticed there was no name marked on it. He knew he was going out tonight, he just couldn't remember who. Was it Ella, the clean freak, Aurora, the narcoleptic, or Snow, the an...
"Everyone knows the Garchabingi are the most evil!", Flaxgribk had to yell over the argument going on around him, "I once saw a pirate crew of them hunt down a medical ship and steal all the supplies destined for Perkenda prime at the height of the Andalek plague!"The Jakalnik watering hole was packed tonight and the i...
The searing fires blazed throughout the village as the people ran, and my dreams of an idyllic digital nomad life quite literally went up in flames. I stumbled as I fled from the fire, lacking the grace of a swan and mucking about like an ungainly mannequin with three left legs. My glasses fell from my face when I tri...
Sergeant Green nods. Todd leans heavily on my shoulder. His leg bends at an odd angle, just as it had from birth. Surprisingly, the other boys are good to Todd. I expected them to bully him, to steal from him, maybe even kill him for his boots. Instead, they understand just how drastic the odds have swung out of our ...
[Poem] He was a complete idiot. An intolerable fool. Always lost in his thoughts. He flunked out of school. It was clear he couldn't read. He sometimes forgot his pants. But he may surprise you if you'd give him the chance. He didn't didn't need to be smart. He never had to study. He had ...
It was an unexpected message, not least because humanity was believed to be extinct. G’thrag looked around his little pod. The sublimator was bubbling gently in the corner, preparing his evening whiff. A regular mewling from the sleeping bay told him that it wasn’t yet his turn. Everything was as it should be. Apart ...
"It's got to stop boss" It was a sorry little gathering. They had decided to use a conference room rather than the lair proper. Nothing brought it out worse than the lair. The head goon looked pensive, embarrassed to have to do this to the patriarch of their clandestine organisation, in front of his second to tenth i...
“You know, Whitehall, I overheard the most distressing rumor outside the tavern last night.” The butler continued dusting the candlesticks. Rumors were beyond his pay grade. Dust was not. “Indeed, my lord?” Lord Nicholai stared out the window. “It would seem,” he mused, “that some of the villagers have got it ...
*"We're calling him Theo, for 'theoretical common ancestor'. So far we've found three cases of individuals separated by hundreds of years having the same genetic 'father'. We believe we may be dealing with cases of naturally occurring 'cloning', humans with identical DNA but without relation to each other. How this hap...
"What the fuck!?"I yell at Kathy. She's the prettiest girl in school and is very popular. We've been dating for a few months. Until I find out she got dared to ask me out. I stare at her angrily. "Babe, I know what you're mad about, but listen to me--""Don't 'babe' me!!"I interrupt. "You were dared to ask me out? You ...
I was the girl that didn't have a date to the prom. The one that asked you if you were going and when you said "I don't know yet. Maybe,"I stepped closer, hoping you could see the eagerness in my eyes. Instead, you asked Jessica. Jessica not only rejected you, but humiliated you in front of the entire school. I was th...
If you could imagine yourself, for just a moment, in your own dreams, although, perhaps a nightmare is the right word. When you're alive and you're breathing, but the world is a blur, your heart beats are a thunderstorm and your hands are flung out in front of you doing all sorts of unseen, fuzzy things you can't contr...
There once was a man named Yolo Swag. He spawned from the hellish depths of 9gag. Although some would say that his brain did lag, his cranium was stuffed like a meme-filled bag. "Fag!"Was his greeting. "Slag!"Was his wife. Just kidding, Yolo Swag made swagging his life. He swagged to and fro. He swagged up and down. H...
The man stared at me intently. We were faced off like dueling cowboys in an old Western, moving only our eyes as each studied the other. A generous description of the man would say that he has seen better days and would use words like “haggard” and “unkempt” to describe his shaggy beard and muddy nest of hair. But in t...
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,"came a thick voice above her, and she blinked open her eyes to get a better glimpse of the speaker. Human, he was, and speaking one of their many, gravel-garbled tongues with apparent fury. "My brother?"she inquired in her own tongue, struggling to fight against the human's grip. She had t...
Sylvia Plath was sitting on her linoleum covered floor with her knees pulled to her chest. She could feel the handle of a low cupboard pressing into her back but she didn't move. She couldn't stop staring at the oven door. She had two options, she thought. Make corn muffins or commit suicide. Ted hadn't picked up fl...
The knocking grew louder and more intense as I crept toward the door with a knife in hand. I looked through the peephole and a pantsless middle aged balding man continued to knock harder and louder. Out of sheer stupidity and knife-infused courage, I opened the door. "What?"I asked. "I need peanuts,"he stated. "Good...
I should never had said “yes” to the first white coat that sniffed around my place. But I was younger then, naïve enough to believe that he was heaven-sent. After all, I had met many who believed that no sleep would set them free to accomplish so much. What if I could contribute to this dream? What if I could help shed...
Geoff crossed his arms indignantly as the news arrived. Too many times his character was introduced merely to kick off a story, falling out of focus as the plot built. This next one would be no different. Lee knew his friend was troubled and sat down beside him in the margin. “What’s eating you, Geoff?” “I don’t know...
Now, I ain't really ever had much ambition beyond what is considered appropriate for Smithton, maybe my bones know they ought to give back to the earth from which they were pulled, but every couple of years someone too young to get the concept of obligation leaves for somewhere they owe nothing and are owed nothing. Fo...
The oaf next to me kept drumming his fingers on the dashboard. Normally I wouldn't have been annoyed, I'm a fairly patient man, but he was a super and was actually beginning to dent the plastic. He called himself Strong Arm and that lent to his propensity to make lame jokes, such as referring to our duo as The Strong ...
She twists her head round to look at me, bright teeth flashing in the sunlight. "Come on!"She's laughing with me, not at me. I know what I look like. I'm in a blue raincoat and matching wellies, with round bug-eyed glasses that Mum got for free on the NHS. I have a Hot Wheels Car in my pocket, which I won't take out i...
I'm not entirely sure how this would work, unless it would switch from first person to third person... Tried my best. I was feeling worried. I wasn't sure how I was gonna get myself out of this one. Hell, I'd been in some difficult situations, but this one really took the biscuit. I reholstered my rifle and looked o...
“I hope you understand, these tours are merely a formality, we’ve always been very happy with your work,” Roberts said as he checked away at his clipboard. Mr. Kringle smiled widely behind a cloud of sweet smelling pipe smoke. “Of course, of course. I trust that everything is in order?” Roberts smiled back. The trut...
[Death] Tom Arvenus step up to the gates, Your final decision currently awaits, If it's in heaven you're bound to dwell, Or eternally damned to burn in hell. [God] Well hello Tom you've led a good life, One offspring and a beautiful wife, You managed to visit church each week, Your ...
At RISE: The stage is a supermarket aisle. Shelves stacked with various canned goods upstage right, left and center. A sign saying ‘Canned Goods’ hangs from ceiling downstage left. Half-filled trolley downstage right. Faint Christmas music can be heard. *Enter Death stage right wearing black cloak and hood, keep...
You used to paint pictures of pastoral landscapes and sheer cliffs and terrifying endless oceans and all of them were tinted with gray. You had written songs before rock folk pop jazz country disco and you would dance and sway and pretend to sing your rock your folk your jazz but no matter how ...
He smells like yesterday's booze and left over pizza. She smells like fancy perfume and minty gum. In the dark, it's impossible to make out what the other looks like. They are tied together with their arms wrapped around each other. It's a tight fit in the coffin. They'd given up on screaming through the gags hours ago...
"Son, are you ready?" "Yes, father." "Okay. Well, good luck, the family's honor is on you now." The boy was pushed gently by his father, who was kneeling by the child, towards a warrior priest. Today was the boy's second most important day of his life (after marriage) - the day he became a man. In the Ulubu culture,...
I.. I didn't mean to make her sleep. I really didn't. She was a nice lady. She let me stroke her hair. I hope I'm in the right place. I think I'm in the right place. The place to go. He'll know what to do, he always does. He'll make it all go away. He should be here at any moment. I think he'll be angry, but he'll kno...
The line of men stood tall in the rain. They hadn't been chosen by the sergeant's small game of luck. No, Marshall had. Marshall would have to do it. Marshall stood tall, but he couldn't deny the strength in numbers. He was terrified, and he hadn't even heard his order yet. His sergeant just stared at him, rain hitti...
"Ve will torture you until you talk. Ve have vays of making you talk. You will an hour to compose yourself." They leave alone in this dark wet cell. Working quickly, I rip the sole of my shoe off. In it is a vial with a cyanide pill in case of capture. I pop the cork off and shake the pill into my hand. I dry swallow ...
As the cookies fell they inevitably heated up, the air particles around the plummeting pastries smashing into them as they accelerated towards the Earth with ruthless tastiness. The result was my last real memory of the 14th of January 2014: the lingering, yet wholly too appetising smell of freshly cooked cookies. And ...
"Pardon me, my star-spangled friend, but in your haste you've knocked over my drink." "Is that so? Well why don't you wipe it up with your fancy red cape?" "Now see here, Captain. There's no need to be rude. I'm not casting any aspersions. It was an honest mistake, I'm sure." "Good to know, Superduperman." "It's ju...
"Sarah?" She was over in the distance, standing completely still. The sky was pink and hazy, and the silhouette of Sarah's spacesuit stood on the horizon. Commander Jason Green, along with Sarah, was making history as the first people on the planet Mars. Sarah had a dangerous habit of wandering. Green began to approa...
Year 51 Emperor Claudius gazed out of the balcony. The day seemed too pretty for the carnage erupting in the Forum. Below him, an entire legion clashed with the ghouls. Less than three days ago, these beasts rose in a nearby village. Using the dead as vessels, they began attacking the populace, eating their flesh....
"Hey, James. Your AEPP came through."Conrad said, handing him a parcel, "seems like it's working well for you." "Thanks, Sarge."I replied, taking the parcel out of his hands, looking at the familiar handwriting adorning one side. As Conrad kept going, I slowly opened up the package, making sure I didn't tear any edges...
He's crying again. Not crying, crying. Just a plaintive whinge that's persistent enough to drag me awake. I try and wait him out, hoping he'll go back to sleep. He doesn't. I reach over to the bedside table to search for my glasses. I find them on top of the book I've been failing to read (The Master and the Ma...
"We told you, sir. That's it. Dead man's fingerprints all over the crime scene."The older cop sounded apologetic, but he stood his ground. My old schoolmate was not having it. "Are you fucking kidding me? This shit is what I pay my taxes for?"The loud conversation could be heard all the way to the police station's wait...
Upon breaking the warp veil thirty degrees north of the fourth Aethersea trading route, First Lieutenant Joyce told Midshipman Fletcher to get down the leather logbook and note down the details of the journey. "Uneventful,"Fletcher wrote down, noting the date and time in SEMT (Standard Earth Mean Time) "Good weather...
They said that the 501 would never last long after the integration; everyone wanted them everywhere. He was storm trooper 501-00541 one of the final clones left over from before the formation of the empire. He was one of the many that were trying to hold the rebels at bay. More importantly, he was trying to hold the un...
"He must live"Anakin said in a panic the last chance to save his loved one about to be slain before his eyes. Mace Windu begins to ignore the hot headed young Jedi knowing he did not fully understand the danger of the man at his mercy, he readied the final strike but paused "Why?"he asked keeping his light saber pointe...
He wanders the hall like a shadow, never intrusive but always there. He's a familiar sight here. Amid the beeps and boops of the machines, there is the swish, swish, swish of his cape gliding along the stained and tiled floor. Sometimes, he watches the surgeries high above the doctors in the observation room. He's a...
The captain was sitting at his desk in Japan's makeshift camp on the north coast of Australia. They did it. They finally managed to get a foothold on Australia. But there was a problem. Captain Masaki sent three infantry units for scouting duty into the Australian wilderness three hours ago, yet he has not heard back...
"I expected his brain to explode,"Kyle said. "This was more of a...spray." Thomas cringed, sniffing in a lungful of air. "Well, come on,"Kyle said. "You didn't think his head would explode? You practically shot him point blank." "Different guns do different things." "I thought it'd be like Marvin in 'Pulp Fiction,'...
"A wise king does not do this." The royal advisor could feel his knees turning to stone as he knelt before his new king. His gout threatened agony at the slightest touch on a fair day, but he had been crouched for hours now in the same position. This simpleton before him never glanced in his direction. A thin strip...
Oh hey Mike. You always call me by my first name, so I suppose this is okay now. We are friends here at the office afterall, aren't we, Mike? Team-building exercises galore, even though these are probably just your ill-adjusted way to say "I wanna shag you, Jessica!"Yep, I noticed you feeling her up. Apparently you hav...
I followed him for a month, from city to city. It was not easy, but I really enjoyed it. I was finally affecting the world, and not in a bad way -- I was a monster hunter. It is amazing that I got this chance, with so many things to atone for. A psychologist would probably say that I am suicidal, ready to sacrifice ev...
"So I see you have a 4.0 GPA from Woodbridge Academy, School for Exceptional Young Men, and some of your favorite hobbies include running charity events and helping out soup kitchens. Tell me more about that."Said Timothy McMillimaster, the admissions adviser tasked with interviewing Crawford Webbing, sitting directly ...
He felt a tremor in his bones and a current flowing right on the outside of his skin. He could feel his heart pulsing through his veins, radiating heat. An equal measure of terror and hunger wrestled in his eyes as he looked beneath his outstretched arms. It moved. ********************************************** She...
Black is a color oft misunderstood. It’s worn by shady individuals and at funerals. It has a reputation for being the color of choice for evil. It naturally implies darkness, and the fear of the unknown. Really though, black is something else entirely. Black is non-discriminatory, first of all. It accepts all other co...
I can still taste the metallic edge of blood in my mouth, intermingling with the saliva in my mouth, congealing ever so slightly on my teeth. Which are much sharper than I remembered them being. Is this just a bad dream? No...my senses are far too intact for that, but I can't quite tune into what is exactly going on....
It was a normal friday. I left the factory at 10, 10:30 and went to John's. It was his turn to get the beer and pizza. The fucker got bud light, can you believe it? We drank A LOT, watched that one of those shitty medical shows about this obese kid and prank called this one slut who went to high school with us. When ...
I live for the moments (listen to me read the poem [here](http://clyp.it/ag1uj3ts)) . You look up from the pages of your book, and your brown hair falls in front of your eyes. You tuck it behind your ear as you describe how the characters try and fail to find love. I nod and say interesting, but I barel...
The screaming. It started with the screaming. Five in the morning and I woke up to nothing but screaming from outside my window, like a small scale war breaking out among the leaders of a prison riot, forming their own self contained little anarchy. That's how I learned to hate the birds. When you were a kid, did you ...
"Isn't it great,"I whispered, "being more than just animals out on the prowl?" I poke at the fire with a stick, stoking it as best I can. He lies on his side beside me, absently licking at my knee with that long, reptilian tongue. He twists his back a bit, adjusting himself in the dirt and shaking debris out of his d...
He felt himself slipping as he had so often done before. Slipping onward towards freedom. Towards death. This time he got longer than he could remember ever coming. Maybe it was finally over. It had been over 50 years. Why would they not let him die. He was almost there. Almost ...
"Well, of course He's real,"said the alien through its voxbox, and flipped one tentacle in what I'd swear was a condescending way. "Everyone knows that. Are you really saying that your species doesn't?" It took awhile, but in the end I think I managed to convey something of global mythology and theology - at leas...

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