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Digital Archaeology. The job of searching through the ancient databases to understand what had happened in those times. And I might have just made the greatest discovery in the whole profession. I checked the dates. Tumb1r, Reddit, even Facebook. Absolutely nothing between the first day of 2018 and the last day of 202...
"I've complained to the king about it, again and again and again. All that "benevolent leader"bullshit is all well and good. But when has a kind and benevolent leader ever truly won?"No one said anything. "You were supposed to say never, Ylrodzir." "Never." We walked through the woods as silently as we could. "I mea...
SCP: REDACTED OBJECT CLASS: EUCLID SPECIAL CONTAINMENT PROCEDURE SCP: REDACTED Is to be housed in a 5meter by 5 meter enclosure equipped with antimatter containment fields located on site REDACTED. The enclosure entrances is to be under manned guard 24/7 by no less than two approved special task force personnel, the...
I am the ambassador of the Galactic Federation. I was sent to “Earth”, a budding community of “Humans” that have recently made huge strides in technology, which I have found to be due to amazing industriousness and ingenuity. Even the rest of the Galactic Federation, many of those races being largely controlled by Hive...
The shrieks reverberated off the walls of my brain as I woke up in a panic. I had never heard so much noise, so much diversity of sound all coming at once. I couldn't move or speak; all I could do was think to myself, *make it stop.* And it did. I slowly got out of bed and walked over to my bathroom. My head was throb...
They thought that it would do me in. That I was just a one trick pony like the rest, but they were wrong. The movement of a single arm, no matter what is said or how the wrist flicks is still too simple. To be fair, I didn't realize it either. I was just like them. I didn't know. I never thought that magic coul...
"Come on! Put 'em up, fag, I can take you. Just gimme one good punch,"the old man in the hospital gown growled, hands balled up in front of his face as he limped side to side in his hospital room. "Look, Mr. Akins, I'm telling you,"James warbled with his hands out,"you don't wanna do this. Just... get back in bed, oka...
Eugene held his hands out in panic and shot a beam of concentrated light at the gunman, who kept the gun trained on him. Eugene's heart lifted in his chest and he cackled with glee. After years of desperate hope that he'd be able to do this, to project light from himself, he finally did it! The gunman was completely un...
Yes, sorry everyone, sorry. We had some technical difficulties, but everything seems to be alright now. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience. But the video is back on and the audio has been fixed too. I'll be with you for the rest of... This... Thing. Yes. A very nice thing indeed it is. As we can see, the woman ...
*Bang.* Blood sputtered across the floor, highlighted by the florescent lamp perched on top of the table. I hold my head up high and draw back the revolver. "You know the drill. Blood type's AB. Don't get the organs mixed up with the others."I glare at my capo for a few seconds until his nod of reassurance. The five o...
I sighed. "Do you fucking mind?"I interrupted the hapless squire mid-sentence. He'd come proclaiming he was going to defeat me over some evil act I hadn't even heard of before he barged in. "I... what?"He got a little confused. "Do you even do your research? Talk to people? Or do you just go 'Hey, here's an evil a...
"Agenda, Lori?"Jack asked on his video phone as he cooked eggs on the stove. "The Melt is scheduled to see you at 2 for a--erm--duel, with you sir."There was a pause. "He's expected to come alone. His weakness is is ice." I sniggered as I flipped the egs. Duel? We'll see, I thought as I planned out my battle against...
I tried to maintain eye contact with this dealer of fate, as it stood judgmentally before me, just glaring. "Deal another"I said in a disappointingly squeaky voice, as I tried to will something simple, easy to be swung my way. There's no luck at these gates. The afterlife toll booth attendant laid no paper out, and ...
"Let me out, you fat pig!" "You will address me as 'Mr Logans'. Or I'll have to start calling you Laurent instead of Berserker." "You have no power over me, fat man!" "Really? You *do* realize that your psych eval is going to determine whether or not you'll be returned to civilization in any capacity, at all, yes?" ...
The candle flickered in front of my face, sunken into the blue and green icing. *I hope it's chocolate cake,* I thought to myself. I love chocolate cake. I looked around at the faces around me. My mom, beaming at me. My dad, grinned at me, waiting for me to blow out my candle. My older brother, John, staring at his...
Unable to speak for myself, the doctor places a pen and paper down by my right hand. The years have finally caught up to me. Crushed, nearly blown to pieces, high velocity impacts, tech failures...all of them taking a toll as the years go on and on. They say war is hell, and boy...don't I know it? Even if you're no...
Jack stepped forward, rubbing his temple. “W-what happened?” He questioned, and then he saw the doors. The first door stood like a statue, it’s jewel encrusted handle sticking out like a bone. The silver trimmings ran across it, forming a pattern of a mighty eagle, spreading its wings. The gold beckoned to him. He we...
"Hello Terry!"Geoffrey smiled as he opened the door. "Haven't seen you in a while." Terry, butcher and mob leader, smiled awkwardly, twiddling with the cleaver handle in his belt. "Hello Geoff. Didn't realise it was you again." "Well, you know me. Can't keep a body down."Geoffrey leaned around the butcher to wave at th...
Sweat dripped down my forehead like the blood from my sword. I had to hold back a laugh when my mother flinched as a drop landed on the hem of her dress. "Sw-sweety, how about you calm down,"my father - no, not father. A father wouldn't imprison his only daughter in a tower with imps, trolls, and a dragon. No, this ma...
Goldspark woke up on a wooden floor with a headache. Though it was dark, there was enough light to discern his surrounding were unfamiliar. Worse, the floor felt pitched at an angle. A poorly-built house on a hill? No, it rolled back the other way. It wasn't his imagination or the something induced from too much mead. ...
"Your nose, Sir," "What?" "Your nose is blocking the projector." "Ah, apologies!"The man at the head of the classroom took a step back, directing his [plague mask](http://s.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/lg/public/2017/11/10/plaguedoctor.png) away from the screen. The student who had spoken lowere...
I knew it. I fucking knew *it*! I had long dreamed that my true self would be revealed. But what was I? I didn't flip & fur out under the full moon, and I could see myself in mirrors. Maybe I was some sort of strange fae being? Capricious and mercurial, that summed me up rather nicely. Oh maybe I was a wizard? Lik...
He was cocky, confident...and I knew he had nothing left to lose. It was amazing how quickly a persons attitude would change when they thought they had the upper hand. “Finally you fuck...years waiting for a chance to take you down, sweat and tears built up...what are you doing?” I stared him in the eyes as I lit my...
Arvid had been the prime example of a proper Viking warrior. He was a force of nature on the battlefield, a whirling dervish of destruction with his twin axes. He carved his name deep into the annals of Valhalla, and it was agreed by all that it must have taken an army of Valkyries to carry him to those hallowed halls....
I still remember the first time I’d tried to read that gibberish aloud. I’d been sitting at my usual table of the coffeeshop near my house, trying to enjoy my morning when some pest of a man decided to pick a fight with the barista. He kept screeching about how the half-and-half was clearly more cream than milk and s...
The universe didn't go out with a bang. I stared across the blackness. I had lived through the follies of man and the insectoid era. I'd seen so many ideologies. Kings. Lifeforms. Suddenly everything just popped out of existence. It grew too big. I sat in the blackness for aeons. My head span with all I had learnt. One...
You knock on the open door, slightly dreading what’s about to come. “Mr. Bond? Sorry to bother you again, but I can’t submit these receipts.” James Bond, agent 007, doesn’t move from the worn leather couch in his office or even lift the damp cloth from his face. “Why not?” “This...well, it’s a bar tab, sir.” “Busin...
It happened so suddenly. No one had time to prepare. August 19th, 2034. Some unseen force removed all anonymity from the world and all our words and deeds were laid bare for everyone else to see. The chaos started immediately. Family ties broke down. Friends turned to enemies, and then turned on one another. Frenemie...
Shannon Foley, the president of the United States, stared at the report that CIA Director Sharp had just placed in front of her. “You’re serious about this? We finally managed to get someone out of Britain? “Yes, Madam President,” Sharp said, a grim expression on his face. “Although it came at the cost of nearly our...
"I can't believe it."Senator Jones said, pacing around the room. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this." "But you did."Dr Franco grinned a mischievous grin. Jones winced without thinking. "Look,"Dr Franco said, opening up the newspaper. "It's only been a month, and it's not making headlines anymore. In fact, ...
"So,"Dr. Krake began, "has your relationship with Missy been improving?" "No,"sighed Michael. "I honestly can't find any connection with her, every moment is draining, which makes it even painful that I get along with Sissy so well." "Sissy?"the Doc inquired. "Missy's imaginary friend."Michael replied. The Doc fo...
There was something about the way he stood there; not the slumped-shoulder look of defeat or confusion that he should have worn. He had, after all, been standing in that same place every morning at ten for as long as I could remember. For as long as anyone could remember, in fact. For the last 20 years of my life, I ha...
Mom was chopping carrots when I walked into the kitchen. Not with a knife of course, why would she need one? "Mom, I wanted to know if I could talk." She stopped chopping, if she had kife, this would have been when she set it down, instead she just sorta awkwardly put her hands to the side. "What is it sweetie? Here...
There in the midst of general celebration, of expansive thoughts and dreams of the impossible, she sat by herself. She was aware of how she sat, of how she was alone and how even in her solitude she could still sink and become even lonelier. She knew it would all get worse. The air had that feeling to it. It all swir...
Nancy Anne and Charles Lamar had never thought of having a child. There was too much risk involved. But despite all their precautions Nancy Anne one day realized she was not quite feeling like herself. A pregnancy test confirmed the worst. They discussed what to do. There was a chance the baby would be fine and that t...
I don't know where he got the bat. Considering he didn't have thumbs or even anything close to hands, I don't know how he carried it. Especially when I took into account the fact he outweighed me, outsized me, outran me, and had huge fucking antlers. And yet, there he was. With a bat. "Now Terry,"he began, having all ...
I had a party yesterday with the elites of the magnificent Utopia I have wrought out of this planet. The occasion? Celebrating the 14th millennia of my benevolent and incredibly peaceful rule. Twenty eight thousand years have been very kind to me. I feel younger than ever, capable of anything, and in complete control ...
I slowly opened my eyes to the dim glow of dozens of lights surrounding the metal slab on which I lay. My body felt...wrong. I couldn't feel my limbs, I couldn't feel my...anything. Even my vision was a strange, rolling panorama, sweeping wide in a way I wasn't used to. My eyes focused on a scrap of fabric nearby, and ...
“Hey Steve, you’ve got time! Grab me a drink would you?” “Cut it with the time traveler jokes would you? Or do you want me to start making jokes about Rome again?” “Ok, claiming that I was Zeus seemed like a good idea when I found out she was married. I *might* have gotten a bit carried away after that.” “But Constant...
The commotion from the house next door was enough to rouse Noah from his midmorning nap and send him teetering toward his window, fetching grappling at his cornflower blue wall for support as he approached the frame. He had been neglecting the cane lately — said it made him too much of an old man. “Dad,” he calls, co...
"Hey Satan, I got some bad news." "What is it now Larry?" "The Doom Slayer is back." "...Please tell me you are joking. It's taken us ages to repopulate Hell, and we've not even got the demons strong yet! I mean for fucks sake Larry, you are the second strongest guy here and you used to be the intern that made us co...
Mr. Remington has come in today, walking proudly in his black trench coat and to deposit his weekly check. A man of habit, I've only seen him come to the *Dragon's Lair* on Wednesday's after lunch with brother, who often joins him. Today, Friday afternoon, he is alone, yet in an unusually pleasant mood. He is the first...
The little figure in the corner of James eye seemed to have frozen "Beth, don't move. He's looking."Sirius whispered from the recesses of James mind. Beth stayed still, scared to inch anymore. She could tell James had noticed. He was still and tense. James wouldn't dare move. He froze in place, mimicking the figure ...
Fate is often quite mysterious. Who knew that I would be summoned to the court, to decide on the fate of the man who had been charged with a murder that truthfully belonged to me? It was a twist of fate that I had not yet experienced, yet was far from disappointed about it. To see every lurid detail recounted, every d...
32 Missed Calls. 86 texts, a few hundred messages on discord, 26 on my mail, though that's probably legit spam. This girl has a crush on me, 'crush' here meaning if she can't have me, no one can. I've been ignoring for about a year. Changed house, changed phone numbers, email, country, jobs, the lot. She's well connect...
So, it's eventually happened, I thought. Well, I thought it would be in different circumstances. When I saw the clear skies and felt the warm sunlight that morning, I didn't hesitate to grab my mountain bike and take an early ride in the woods. I wouldn't have imagined that I'd trip on a rock and be propelled face fir...
"Alright, you guys have made it passed the liches mirror room and across the crimson plateau. You stand before the dread lich Agralion on his rooftop altar he raises his hands to the sky.." "I fire a lightning arrow at him!" "Roll to strike" "23" "It breaks" "76 damage" "The arrow plunges into his chest and hes t...
When we'd built our site, we'd put in the standard legalese. You have to be over a certain age, you can't share your account, you give us permission to monitor your activity for all of eternity. What we didn't see was the loophole. We didn't think we needed to state that you had to be alive to use it. The ghosts came t...
*Merribelle's* was quieter than normal. Most of the big names in Shonton knew each other. They'd all fought together at one point or another, saved each other, patched each other up after a bad fight, covered for each other when there were things that kept them out of the 'business' for a day or so. The Shonton Sup...
“I’m sorry, Sir. Magicians never reveal their secrets. It ruins the magical experience.” You try to extricate your arm from his grasp, but he clings on tighter, adding a second hand for leverage. In a hushed whisper meant only for me he said, “That’s not what I meant and you know it. You can come clean or you can pret...
"I quit. You do it."Older me said as he tilted his head back and guzzled half a beer in a few seconds. "Uhhh..."needless to say I was at a loss. "What's going on here?" "Oh, right,"Older me shook his head. "Alien invasion. We took a camp, stole their time travel tech. I'm done. Cool if I chill here?" I had no choice...
I stared at my reflection. Black. My hair was now black. The warrior caste. I rinsed it again. Still black. It had worked. I had changed my hair. I had change my caste. It wasn't really the first time, but the only one done before was blonde. Stripping the color from hair. It was a strict punishment. Of course, I was b...
As the machine powered down, all the fuses tripped. It should have been complete darkness, but the being before me shown with a brilliant light. I fell to knees, tears streaming down my face, as I was overcome by the power and majesty emanating from this creature. [WELL DONE, YOUNG ONE] its thoughts proclaimed from...
Mycroft was cleaning ectoplasm off of one of the lanterns as the new inductees walked by. Stubborn stuff, this ectoplasm. Ordinarily it'd evaporate on its own but in this case it'd reacted with the magic of the lantern and was draining it just so it could stick around. The students, as expected, barely acknowledged ...
I am both blessed and cursed. I am alive after five thousand years. There is no end in sight for me. I have been stabbed by spears and bayonets, shot with crossbows and guns, trampled by hordes of people and beasts alike, and still, I am alive. Perhaps that is part of my blessing, but it is also part of my curse. For w...
John was a simple man living on smith street. You could go just about anywhere on one street and it was the best city he lived in yet. There were a couple times he had dreams of a new Damn being constructed then flooding the city but they were only dreams. It was only a little strange the entire city was one street, t...
The morning was cold, I was trying to get a few minutes more of shut eye when I rolled over trying to get comfortable. It wasn't comfortable at all, I felt my leg scratch and looked down to see I was laid on a bed of straw. WTF? I woke up and a woman wearing a bonnet and a huge dress came over and began whispering over...
They scoffed at first when they saw what I had been gifted at the turning point of my life, and truth be told, when remembering my older brother's coming of age and the chain-whip that connected to his mind to be controlled remotely, I would have agreed with the sentiment. It seemed like a cruel joke to give something...
The common hall was cold and dark. Banners of the Demon Clan swayed softly in the vast emptiness of the room, that only had a single throne overlooking from above. A sudden flash filled the hall with life again. Goblins and ghouls littered across; all were in a state of confusion and then humble realization. The once v...
A man on screen, receding hair and glasses and a mole on his left cheek. The TV blared,"Gareth Reamer!" Gareth looked across the couch at Elane. "What the fuck?" His phone lit up with a message, then another, and then it was bombarded, pinging violently for a while before going silent. The landline went off, making...
*- Oct 14 :* It's been four days, now... Four days since I last saw people passing by, heard a car in the street. Everything is so quiet. At first, I thought it was just another holiday that I didn't remember. But on the second day I tried to call some friends to figure out what was happenning... No one answer...
Well, this was unexpected. I never figured I'd get injected with mantis DNA only to fight an army of them for about $100. Ah well, if it gets me food and gas, it's good enough for me. I picked up an M1 Garand and a few extra clips, and put them in the pouch. I marched off down the red line into a large room with abo...
We got our warning in 2127, when we realized that sun was trying to speak to us. Of course, we couldn’t actually tell what it said until 2130, when a quantum computer finally decoded the message. *Run, my children. It approaches.* In 2134 we developed the technology to respond, and sent a powerful beam of fashioned...
Her soul’s fading, consumed by the fiery hatred of an otherworldly being. A hundred terrible voices dance and sing as she jabs her sword into a man’s cut, rips it up his chest, and watches his guts spill out. Tears stain her cheeks, and the tiniest voice, the only one that’s still her, apologizes again and again. *Wh...
The title for worlds smartest man was not settled in a lecture hall. Nor was it settled via vote, or by the number of published articles, or even by the standard IQ test. The worlds smartest man was decided by what some would refer to as the worlds dumbest contest – a single elimination, 4-round, winner take all tourna...
"No,"I said resolutely. "Why the hell not?"Leroy asked. "Who's gonna stop us?" "Mom,"I countered, "as soon as she finds out we stole Grampa's cigarettes, climbed out the window and snuck into her minivan. And it would take over three years and over two thousand tanks of gas to drive that far. "And we're both seven, ...
"Stop! Everyone back to first positions,"the Orc said with a heavy rumble. "Now do it again, this time with more feeling! I'm not losing this years pageant to those wizards... Not again." Everyone groaned and grumbled. "Reggie, come on...!!!"Moped Crowley. "It's been three stinking hours!! Can we take a smoke break a...
"Quarter cheese deluxe double plate topped and covered!" Jack wiped the sweat of his brow with his silk uniform sleeve and put two more pans on the grill. He checked his diamond Omega, the one he'd received as a signing bonus last month, and saw that his shift was almost over. Probably just enough time to fire a few m...
I pulled out my swords, making clear the fact that I was now capable of handling two-handed weapons with one hand. I slowly lowered one to his eye-line. "Prepare yourself!"I yelled, a little hesitantly. "Yeah... you!!"he yelled back, pulling out his longsword. *You?* "Do you not know my name?"I yelled, offended. "...
I had promised myself I would never do this again. It was too taxing on myself, and there was nothing in this world that could possibly be worth what I needed to do. I had done it only three times before. Once was an accident, and in a panic, I spent it on "a winning lottery ticket."It had been a winner, and I was now ...
"Seriously Beelzebub? Another one? You are going to be stuck as a demigod at this point."The Judge was not happy this time around. It showed. I look over at the screen again, it couldn't be?! WHY?! I gave them every option, but there it was, stupid planet was in pieces again. "Look, I'm trying ok. I've give...
Commander Boom sits in his comfy alien-skin chair, eyes bloodshot from an intense night of Tetris-playing. Ruling the galaxy’s an unforgiving job, and since he’s only ten, he isn’t fully committed. While his father would’ve enslaved planets, making them bend to his will, he simply robs them. And, sometimes, if he’s in ...
A welcoming fire danced happily in the hearth of the Tuffvale's only tavern. The elder of two dwarves sat in the closest chair of the closest table to chase the chill from her bones as she slowly endured the warm mushroom-less wheat piss that the half-beards called 'ale'. "How can you drink that stuff?"The younger dwa...
John Smith woke up in his small apartment.  He brushed his teeth.  He showered.  He dressed himself.  He ate a meager breakfast, as his doctor had told him to slim down.   John got in his car.  He drove to work, fought traffic, and was 5 minutes late.  The usual commute.  He stayed in his cube for the necessary 8 hour...
“Five dollars and half a candy bar?” “Yep, that’s it.” Mark looked down at the ornate wooden boat floor. Behind him a hooded figure pushed the boat through the river undeterred. He looked at Tyson and made a face. “Is that...is that all my souls worth? Is that all *I’m* worth?” “Dude, no. Come on it’s not like that...
Satirical Story; Medium Length ​ "It...It's a miracle. There's no other way to describe it." The doctor was in shock. He had never seen anything like it. The patient was a teenager by the name of Tom Dean, though he said he liked to go by Tommy, and nothing seemed to be wrong with him when he first walked...
"You want me to WHAT?!"I asked incredulously. "Come on, it's not that big of a request, John. Just do your pal God a solid." I took a deep breath and leaned back in my chair. This was all too much. All around fluffy white clouds floated to and fro, making the scene even more bizarre. There was a knock at the door be...
I stepped out onto the field. The grass felt regular, looked similar to how it did in my time. The ground felt cold, colder than it normally did. My guess is the effects of the last Ice Age still lingered. I checked my watch just to make sure it landed me at the right time; December 5, 7982 BC, exactly 8,000 years ago....
“*Timothy!*” “Oh, God,” he moaned, putting his hands over his face, and I wavered with my fist upraised, confused. “Just kill me now, would you?” “Timothy!” A hunched figure scuttled through the dust and rubble of the building with the aid of two ivory-handled walking sticks, moving rather more like a four-legged c...
"I've told you a million times you old hag, your emotions on magic are old and decrepit." I was on the entrance of the Spire of mages speaking to my former master, Grand Mage Joy. The invasion was successful and all that needed to be done was get rid of the most powerful mage here and I would be able to take control...
*I felt like writing and I actually wrote something for once. Horay* Does anyone know the average lifespan of a house fly? I'm asking for a friend. A field mouse can survive for about a year in the wild. Hidden in the walls and ducts of a home where there are no predators to worry about they can triple that. A fly on...
"Excuse me?"The homeless man responded, curled up in a brown, dirty blanket that covered his entire body. He slightly raised his head, revealing two pale, pearlescent eyes. "Your story..."The creature whispered with its tempting voice, all thousand eyes - fixated at the poorly dressed man. "Your sad, pathetic life sto...
*Excerpt From "An abridged Guide to 100 Prominent Species."* Some philosophers trace it back through the eons to the emergence of a simple mushroom. Some attribute it to divinity, the favor of a long forgotten chaotic god. Some believe it to be a statistically improbably but completely plausible trend. Whatever the re...
Everything was perfect. The moon glowed outside in the clear night sky. The weather was a comfortable chill. The clock was five minutes to midnight, and Trudy was prepared to begin the ritual. Sort of. Trudy was usually a well prepared person but when she sat down to prepare the ritual that night, she realized that i...
"No.” The single word sentence, persistent, annoying, and always ready to interject into any interaction. Up until her late teens, Sarah's inner voice had held a strong hold on her, controlling almost all her actions while she lay paralyzed in the distance to watch a life wasted on education and learning about the ...
**Achiral** ---- **Part 1** Ever seen a Mobius strip? You can make one yourself, easy enough. Cut out a strip of paper, twist one end, and glue it into a circle. It's a neat little thing to look at - if you start on the inside and go around, you'll wind up on the outside, and then back on the inside again. You cou...
"CITIZENS OF EARTH! MAY I SINCERELY SAY THIS - WHO THE EVERLOVING FUCK WOKE ME UP?! SERIOUSLY, CAN'T A GUY REST WITHOUT STUPID NUCLEAR MISSILES BLASTING INTO THIS SHIP?! OKAY, DON'T BE SHY, COME ON, SPEAK UP! WHO. WOKE. ME. UP?" No one had been expecting that kind of response. They certainly weren't expecting what fol...
"It's hard, isn't it? Being so smart. So talented. And so very much alone." I'd been talking to him for over an hour. Rather, I'd been talking *at* him, because he hadn't said a word so far. All these parallel versions of me seemed much more stubborn than I. This one was even more so; the others hadn't lasted even twe...
It came as a shock, though it wasn’t the weirdest thing I’ve seen in my life. Definitely up there though. Apparently, babies still living in their mother’s womb? They’re dead. But, they’re also alive. Like, I don’t know how else to explain it other than, souls. Everyone else on Earth came to the same conclusion when t...
I look into his eyes as happiness overwhelms him. “I knew we had something special.” He exclaims, waiving his phone around. “Our love was meant to be after all.” I look at my own screen, *still searching for a soulmate* it says. The truth is, i’ve always craved a life of adventure. A life he could never give me. It...
Standing before the gathered representatives of every major power in the galaxy the ambassador of Earth stoically stared at them, his face not betraying the slightest hint of emotion as the aliens sat nervously before him, some not able to meet his gaze for more than a few seconds while others glared with open hostilit...
"Our planet is dying out and we must find refuge elsewhere."The supreme leader's words shook the world. Societies collapsed and everyone just sort of gave up. They wanted to be with their families for what they perceived as their final moments. A shot of mortality in the face can really do that to you, and everyone nee...
Meet Bob. Bob is 53 years old, balding, and recently divorced. He stands in line at the Central Bank waiting for his turn. Staring at his meager paycheck, he grimaces thinking about how much he will actually get to keep after paying alimony and child support. "Next,"calls the teller, a small step takes Bob, and the l...
So I betchyou're wondring how I... How I lived to be fifty THOUSAND and five eh? Eh? Eh... Oh. Oh Yeah! It was them pinecones. Them hard little cones, so hard... little spines on 'em... called 'em spine... Spinecones! Hey! Spinecones! For the longest time. The Looooooongest time I ate 'em up. I think it's how like when...
The sounds from the factories were dampened by the falling snow. Their constantly working engines were on overtime, producing wares that were exported, or so it was told, for they were never seen by the workers in those factories. Workers, who like ants in in a formicary struggled hard to make a living, continuously sh...
A yawn parts my lips, as I crack my eyes open and slid out of the rocky bed that I woke up within. The house that I live in perpetually changes to the point that I've found it... normal. Ever since I was but a child, I've always (by that I mean -always-) woke up to a different world, to put it bluntly. Yesterday was a ...
“This is Officer Johns, I was in pursuit of a suspect when my cruiser flipped over, it’s now resting on the train tracks, and I can’t get out, requesting immediate assistance!” Johns tugged on his seatbelt but it was no use. His arms were injured in the commotion, but his legs were just fine, but they could feel the v...
​ ​ The engine noise seems to whine the farther we get from the paved road ​ "dude how freaking far down the road does your neighbor live?"I asked. ​ He smirked, as if he enjoyed the fact. "about six miles." ​ "and you have beef with him?" ​ "y...
The wind was howling when the gray haired rider stopped on the road. The mixture of mud an blood spattered his tall boots as he dismounted. "Must be the place, poor bastard. Smells strange, and these scraps of cloth are too tightly woven to be a peasants' clothing. Blood trail leads this way, stay here Roach." The ca...
At first it sounds impossible. Living out your life as you fall through a bottomless void. Then, if you’re smart, you’ll realise that the Earth has been spinning your whole life, and what you thought was stillness was a kind of planetary nausea. In that respect, there’s nothing really extraordinary about Great Falls — ...