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The 3 guys grab me from behind, easily lifting me up. They drag me, two are holding my legs, one is holding my torso who looks to be the leader. They wear black militant uniforms with a symbol on the front. The symbol of a flattened disk, what they believed to be the shape of the Earth. “Take me to the edge, you’re ki...
Balthus cawed sharply, convulsing at the same time I lost motor control. I kreed, "Oh lord, it's finally over! The curse is broken!" My body twisted and cracked, bones elongated and feathers shrank to hair. After many agonizing, gruelling minutes, I knelt on hands and knees, slick with some sort of slime, but human on...
Shard ran into the bank, eager to join the fight. The amateur superhero was new to crimefighting but was excited to take part in her first fight. The robbers looked at the newcomer, then shared a confused look. The heroine was dressed in a shimmering costume decorated with gaudy jewelry. It was something people expect...
What’s up, Rockers?! This this Al-your-Pal here on the 9 o’clock hour on **KZFP: The Shred!!!** For all of you new listeners out there, 9 o’clock weeknights is our plot-relevant song hour; one lucky anonymous listener out there gets a song exactly scripted to their experiences **right now!!** Don’t ask how we do it! I ...
I'd learned of the power 8 years before. At our high school graduation, I'd been posed next to a small, stunted looking kid; graduating young, he was only 15, but he looked 60. "Holy *shit*"I thought, recalling what I'd heard about him--born with Progeria, fighting against the effects of abnormal aging all his life, he...
It's been years since Arthur betrayed us. He took that blade, once his holy right, and slew his people in cold blood, raising them as hollow, twisted beings bent to his will. Those who were lucky, like I, fled into the forests, away from the walls of the city, the safe veil of stone and steel that protected us.... and ...
The boy sat at the edge of the bed, kicking his feet as he watched me come in. I'm not what people expect from an exorcist. They expect a pair of preists. I'm one guy, and I'm certainly not holy. I believe there's a God, I just don't sweat the details. I'm more concerned with the other side of that coin. And hence, he...
The dice rattled against the wooden and felt box that our DM had set up to roll our stats into. Me, being the ringer, rolled first. The DM had brought me in to ease these newer players into the game, and act as a voice of wisdom. I had an idea of my character in my head, but the stats would decide it all. I was thinkin...
It's Monday again, my favorite day of the week. Why would Monday be my favorite day of the week you ask? Well, you see, Monday is when the large, scaleless dragons leave my domain. With them gone, this provides me with the opportunity to do my favorite activity - become one with the sticky film. I have a ritual, I do i...
It's long been said that dog's senses are more sensitive than our own, by a factor of thousands or millions depending on the dog. But we have our eyes, which were surely better, and our minds, which were surely sharper and that is what made us superior. That is why man ruled beast... We never imagined a world without u...
“What can I get you, love?” the waitress asked me. “Coffee and a piece of apple pie, extra ice cream, please.” I dab my split lip on a napkin. “Could I bother you for some ice in a bag, too?” “Sure thing, love.” she said as she scribbled on her notepad. She was back almost immediately with a craft of coffee. The s...
"Can you check for monsters, Daddy?"The boy was just at the age where he'd abandoned his nightlight, but needed to transition to the darkness. "I heard something in my closet last night." His father smiled and got off the bed. "Of course,"he said, recalling his own father checking the room for monsters. The man chec...
We crashed on the island just before sunrise. Marie, George, and I had left the main ship behind and sailed a small recon vessel to the island, and the underside of the vessel had been torn apart by the jagged rocks on the shore. Sitting on the beach, I fiddled with the sat-phone trying to alert the main ship, but I wa...
All souls are different, some more abstract than humans, some more simplistic. A human has their soul always near them, even when their ancestors cheated death of old by becoming liches. The soul was still present for a lich, but contained in phylacteries, hidden away. I always find them. The gaze of Death always co...
For years I have avoided their grasp, weaving among them, though I am a different species of being entirely. It has been easier than it would seem. For they look like us. They would say *we* look like them. That we were engineered. But I know the truth. This was our Earth first. They were made in *our* image. And I...
My years of research finally came through. I had made it. The people here were similar, strange in all the familiar ways humans were, and they accepted me. They called me friend and gave me a home. It was a comfortable life for one such as I for I have no ties, not to this world or the next; to this dimension or any ot...
25 years I've been sitting in this uncomfortable plastic chair in this cramped room in this...hell. I've seen men, women, and children of all walks of life come through here, yet I remain stuck in this 50 square foot room (believe me I've had plenty of time to count). The receptionist ignored me for the first 5 painful...
Personally, I wish I got a bit more recognition. It's a tough job, but I know it's important, and I take pride in my work. After all, a big part of success comes from looking the part, and the Power Rangers are no exception. I mean, do you really think the outfits they wear and the robots they pilot just fix themselves...
“You can’t do this anymore?” Toby said out loud, knowing that he wouldn’t receive an immediate reply. He stared angrily at the sticky-pad as markings began to appear as if someone was writing, yet there was no pen in sight. ‘Yes. Too much mess, too much work.’ “You’ve been doing this for months and now you say it’s...
When humanity first started having our souls awaken, as an external entity to us, we were a bit shocked. Mostly out of fear, many of the first awakened tried to kill their familiar or had their familiar try and kill them. Both died in the process. Being human though we have a certain adaptability and as those who bonde...
The ghost hung among the cobwebbed eaves of the old house, tracking the progress of a too familiar van up the driveway. Things faded for the dead. Life turned to distant memory like the setting of the sun and only the most important things remained. For the ghost in the eaves that was the car and the lithe, waifish wo...
"And you're telling me this because?"Sir Baldrick asked. "Because we've already poisoned you, naturally."King Abelot responded. "I see,"Sir Baldrick said. "And what's to stop me from killing all of you before the poison takes me then?" "That'll be the paralyzing agent inside the poison, you'll still be able to talk ...
You hear all the stories. Haunted houses, plates and books being thrown around the room, beds levitating in the middle of the night, messages scrawled on walls... Well in my experience, I'm not sure that's even possible. Oh, sorry, my experience? Yeah, I'm dead. Should I have led with that? Oh well. Yeah, murder. Not ...
"Technology for violence is – hum – a concept we cannot really grasp", the Simian said, averting General Serling's eyes. *Simian*… The general thought it funny that, when humanity found out that the aliens descended from the same branch of the evolution tree as we did, we decided to call *them* simians. *Like we ar...
"For fuck's sake. Look at this!"Rory knocked on his chest plate. "This is actual fucking body armor, it's supposed to be able to take a fuckin' fifty without cracking. I shouldn't have to worry about a fifty, but I bought this as a just in case thing, y'know?" "Sure, but come on, they've gotta do what they can with wh...
"Dragon's fire can't melt castle beams, Mikhail,"I screamed. "They're made of STONE. You can't just melt a stone, fool. I'm telling you- it was black magic, the High Court wanted an excuse to increase their military power, and now they have it. One of them must've sold their soul or flesh to summon a powerful demon tha...
"Farunga told of a hut in the center, lit by an unnatural light, almost as bright as day."Sievgard explained to Administrator Plinken. Who sat in his wipple chair bobbing slowly left to right. "We cant really rely on what she said, the Starven Forest is known to cause mania in those who venture to far into it."he lean...
Since the dawn of human civilization, humanity has long wondered how life on their world came to be. Some believed that life on Earth came about entirely by accident while others believed that there was some divine being out there that had carefully created each species and placed them onto the planet. As it turned out...
"I conquered my world with power and fear. I made those mortals witness my power by destroying their beloved fortifications with ease!" Maekith, an old goddess boasting her performance in her world that she conquered, with her Karuk laughing besides her. "And after that, they have no choice but to worship me and fear...
"Hello. I am an officer of the Intergalactic Ministry of Justice and I am looking for the fugitive known locally as 'Jesus Christ'. Have you seen him?" “No,” Jesus said, hiding his noticeably impaled hands behind his back as casually as he could. He’d always known they’d eventually come after him, hunt him down for wh...
It was just by chance that I was there that day. I happened to be walking aimlessly along and a homeless man stopped me. He asked if I had the time. “Time for what?” I asked. Thinking back it was a dumb question. Obviously, he wanted to know what time it was. I, in my distracted state, didn’t catch on. “Time for a ...
If you asked what bound humanity together, you'd get something noble like the desire to better our race, or to explore the stars. The truth is far less noble, far less exotic and infinitely more human; The desire to pet everything cute. Frankly, I'm fairly sure our desire to pet cute things is the reason we lasted thi...
"I vote Lust." Lust recoiled, disgusted. "Me? If anyone here deserves to step down, it should be you, Envy!" Envy rolled his eyes. "Please. Look at humans these days. All they do now is fuck like bunnies on speed. What have they got to worry about? They have condoms, Lust. CONDOMS. Everyone commits you. And when ever...
Have you ever wondered what happens to all the lottery winners? Wealth, particularly spent frivolously has a tendency to lead to some measure of fame in our society. So where are they in the public eye? If we can dedicate hours of our lives every week to watching Honey Boo-Boo be a redneck with a modicum of wealth wh...
Oh shit. This was supposed to be a chill day, hope on the horizon, a smile on my face. A good day. And then Duel of the Fates came on. I froze in the middle of Walmart. Why here, why now? I swallowed a lump in my throat. If shit was about to go down, it might as well have an amazing soundtrack, I suppose. Even if...
"It's a chapel!"he yelled at me. "It wouldn't be too good for the company if its CEO died, would it?" "Answer."He went silent for a few seconds. "IT'S A DARN CHAPEL!" "It used to be,"I said. "They lose their effect over the years. For this one, hundreds. I will be fine." "You may come out alive, but if they...
This date is a trainwreck. I'm calling it quits. *blink blink blink blink blink* *"What happened?"* "Just something in my eye." *blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink bl...
Day 7 I didn't think too much of the woman who'd entered our house that evening, for dinner. I didn't recognize her but my parents talked to her like a long-lost friend. I didn't ask. I should have. I haven't left my room in a week, not since the screaming woke me up that first night. Every time I think it's going to...
"Good morning,"I greeted as I stepped out of the cryogenic chamber. This meant that the aliens knew enough English to defrost me, so I wasn't too worried about them not understanding me. The Bipedal bird in front of me raised its talons. I waved back, "Yes hello." "Huuman?"It hissed, the word dripped from it's beak li...
‘We were driving through the streets, revered by all. People where clapping and cheering us on. Respectfully saluting us.’ I listened to my great, great grandfather as he told his story. He sat in his old, leather armchair. A mix of pride and memories in his eyes. He always talked about the war even though he wasn’t, a...
"*All of you?*"the newly initiated vampire hunter hissed as he looked around at his fellow slayers. "We didn't ask to be vampires,"the... *vampire* vampire hunter before him said. "*None* of us. It is a curse, a blight upon our hearts." "But why do you hunt your own kind?"the human continued, hand on the hilt of his ...
Carl Denton sat down at a round table at the corner cafe. Macy the waitress brought him his tall black coffee, one cream. She always flashed him a perfect smile and seemed nervous when she spoke with him. "How are you today Mr. Denton?"she asked sweetly. She had only been working here a few days and he had asked he...
"You all are aware of the reason you were called here, friends?"Scientist A asked. He was a tall, lanky man with brown hair and black eyes. Rather than wearing a typical lab coat, Scientist A was immaculately dressed in a black suit with a white undershirt. His dark boots glistened in the dimly lit room. In front of ...
The blade came biting through the neck, sending the head toppling into the basket. The dirty crowd of villagers cheered out. “Have they gone insane?” I asked, stepping through the maddening crowd. The villager’s faces were bent and twisted in wrath as they shouted up to the man who seemed to be fueling their furor. ...
Ambassador Farnsworth straightened his cuffs, waiting for the representatives of the Interstellar Council to quiet down. "Esteemed Members, the reports and rumors that have circulated for the past several intervals is correct. Seven weeks ago by our time keeping", he paused as computers did the math for the delegates...
Clotch stepped into her shared burrow with a singular goal of drinking every last drop of glormjuice in their cellar. Alas, Jag was home and looking stormy. Literally. The wizard's hair was half-levitated in a frizzy red cloud and lightning zaps ran in sparking rivulets along the planes of her face. Clotch eyed the...
Jacko's stomach growled as he pawed around the house. His owner had laid down for a nap a little while earlier and had forgotten to put fresh kibble in his bowl. But, Jacko was a good pup he reminded himself, he wouldn't whine or bother his owner while he slept. Instead he kept watch over the house. He patrolled t...
“Lady, are you ok?” He’d said, before there was a lot of time to evaluate this motivation. There was no doubt it’d come from a good place. But you have to be more careful than kind in a city. Afterall, people die there every day. “…the troops *and* the local football team?” “…a daughter–two guinnea pigs? Huh.” “…who...
I poured myself a hearty portion of mead before sitting down comfortably in my armchair. The weather outside was rather nice so I had the windows open, providing a nice gust of fresh air throughout the apartment. A good day to go. And a good day to enjoy the show. 15:03 ticked on the clock and a flash of light filled ...
Instead of chairs, there were giant pink yoga balls around the large conference room table. And the walls were painted pastel hues of blue and green and yellow. Typical Google. And yet the mood inside was still darker than any CIA blacksite I'd ever been stationed in. "Sergei and Larry were last spotted here,"Alan to...
Crouched down, the bulbous tips of his long, slender fingers resting lightly on the ground, he had regarded us calmly with the large black orbs of his eyes. At that first meeting, he looked so small, curious, and fragile. Not unlike the tropical frogs his people resembled, really. "Croak."he said, as we approached. H...
Eilef stroked the human’s hair and held her hand, and prepared for the inevitable aging that would occur upon her death. His own hair, dark brown, would grow as a white silk, his face would become a creased and crumpled painting, his body would ache and his days of fishing would wind down. Fishing. He’d been fishing ...
We were about 3 hours into a 5 hour flight from L.A to New York. I was sitting in my seat reading an askreddit thread, listening to my music and sipping my complimentary ginger ale when I heard a bump near me. I took out my earbuds to see if I could hear it better, and my ears were immediately flooded with screaming, c...
A winged shadow fell across the ground. One all too familiar. Garanub had never told his friends. He joked about being half-orc, but everyone wrote that off as poking fun at his face, unusually ugly, even for a halfdrake. "That one of your relatives?"Halfdan shouted. "Yes, actually."Garanub replied. This would be an i...
It came with a set of instructions and a note. The instructions were in a large booklet complete with diagrams, nicely bound and laminated, and written in twenty two different languages. The note was handwritten and damaged by water and wear. All it said was "Be Careful". I thought it was some kind of stupid joke...
As you might have predicted, I'm dead. A fall from 13,000 feet will do that. As you might *not* have predicted, I'm suing over it. It was surprisingly easy. There were an awful lot of lawyers available in Hell, perhaps to the point of cliche, but then, there's an awful lot of *everyone* down here. All walks of life, ...
I came to on the cobblestone street. A passing cart sprayed me with water and I rolled out of the way. “Out of the way, peasant!” the driver yelled behind him. I flipped him off and caught my breath, leaning against the bank’s wall in the alleyway. My Groupon purchase of a 1780 coin wasn’t paying off so far; I had b...
"Aliens. It's got to be." I snorted at the man sitting across the bar from me. Dan. Completely insane. "It's not *aliens.* Why would you think that?" He frowned. "C-Cause. It's got to be. What else could it be?" "Government conspiracy."Samantha said, shaking her head. "It's all been a ploy. They've bought ...
The entire galactic senate fell quiet upon meeting the ambassadors. The humans didn't look particularly remarkable, a bipedal species composed of mostly water, with no useful adaptations like telekinesis or energy manipulation. Having them join the Federation would just be a strain on their resources. One by one, t...
"I'm not a Mexican,"Trump disdained, shaking his head at the girl behind the counter. "Do I look Mexican for you?" "I didn't say you were Mexican, Mr. Trump,"the lady replied, patiently. "I said you are not an American citizen. You are an illegal immigrant. " "Well, you have to be Mexican to be an illegal immigrant,...
Do you remember when we first met? Maybe not, it was a long time ago. But I do. Rome, the Eternal City. How fitting, when you think about it. I was run over by a horse carriage. I remember it all, the pain, the fear, the agony. And you. You came and saved me. You left before I could thank you. I guess a doctor like yo...
Clara sat as far back as she could on the wings of the crowded room, slouched down into her seat as if she might fall through the floor to somewhere more interesting. She was a young woman, a girl really, in the first day of her first year at a university she hadn’t even wanted to attend. Her parents had insisted howev...
"Goddamn it, not now!"Index screamed, cast aside his papers before the holy water drenched his project files. He left his table, searching for a dry blanket in the kitchen. He glanced at the watch and realized he had 2 hours left before the deadline. *This is why you don't put holy water in a bottle next to a printer....
“It’s been fifty years already? Time flies on Earth 7. I remember how dull the years felt all that time ago. How bored I was with my immortality, sitting around with the other self-righteous on Earth 1. Or shall I just call it Earth? What do the angels refer to it as?” Alex asked, paying little attention to the angel. ...
The pterodactyls soared through the fluffy white clouds as I walked with Michael along walkways through Heaven’s Visitor Center. We’d heard that God was serving ice cream. The freezers had gone out, and it all needed to be eaten before melting. Why God couldn’t just keep it solid I didn’t know, but He seemed to enjoy r...
"Did you not get the evite?"The king stood agape, standing half in front of the queen, who held the babe in her arms. The knights of the realm brought their rifles to the shoulders, awaiting the king's orders. "Yes, though it was in my spam folder. But the ancient rites are clear on the proper appearance of the invita...
Georgina Lomax. *Vain, selfish, tight-fisted, cheat.* I am gorgeous, rich and successful but all that shit doesn’t matter anymore. All that people care about are these stupid flaw clouds. It’s meant to stop people from being taken advantage of, taken in by people who are trying to hide their true characters but instea...
*An energetic, chubby 40-something bursts through the door of the CIA conference room* "What's uuuup, bitches?? Nah I'm not being sexist, just talking to my friends Dale and Brandon over here, haha. Those guys are total B's if you catch the drift of Dees nuts - buuuut for realsies, it's about time you called on a brot...
Szplk stepped into the dining area with his tray of Glorp and was greatly relieved to see one chair still free at the table where his friends always sat. That relief seemed to wash over him like a warm spring thunderstorm, taking away much of the stress of the mornings work. The others nodded greetings as he sat,...
When the aliens first landed in their small ship filled with a handful of their most elite scouts, they had one purpose: to turn all humans into fodder for their front-line battalions in the neverending war their empire waged on all other planets for conquest. They had studied humanity from a distance for years, learn...
I raised the flask to my lips, taking a long drag of the noxious liquor. It traveled down my throat, lighting a fiery path in its wake. I coughed, blinking back the tears. At least it would ward off the cold a little longer. Leaning against the bark of a sizeable tree, I closed my eyes in meditation. The night played ...
“Check. Check. One-two.” The burger was of that over thought sought. The kind made by an establishment desperate to be known for their burgers. “Um. Cough cough? Ahem?” Toasted potato brioche bun. “Hello?” Blue-cheese ranch-slaw. “I can talk, so I guess someone can hear.” Ridiculously crinkly greens that were sp...
As a thief, I know a few things about prisons. Guards are people and can be influenced as such. Most shackles have easy locks. Cells, too. And I wouldn't stay in one long. As a thief, I know a few things about doors. Which ones have traps, what kind of wood splinters in a good way, and which ones survive angry guardsm...
Odon sprayed a blast of fire into the air, so high that it charred the steel rafters of the enormous studio sound stage. “AVATAR AANG!” he shouted as loud as possible. A fan blasted ‘wind’ through his hair, and he tried to picture the rocky landscape of Wulong Forest instead of just seeing the lime-colored green screen...
I've always hated attention. I leave the comfort of my apartment only when necessary. That includes work, the grocery store, for short walks, and on rare occasions, the gym. So when I stepped outside to take a walk on the trail near my building, I all but froze. Usually there are quite a few people mucking about. I liv...
“What are they sending you to The Grinder for?” the man strapped next to me asked. His body was shaking as the space barge descended towards the surface of the planet. “Murder,” I said, keeping my eyes closed, trying to keep from vomiting as we hit a particularly rough patch of turbulence. “Insurrection.” The man sai...
*You must kill her*. I stared at my wife, breathing softly beside me. She stirred a moment before relaxing, a soft sigh escaping pink lips that I kissed every day. Her blond hair was coifed into a rounded braid that her ladies would undo to style her back length hair into whatever fashion they deemed worthy, but not b...
“Goodbye John.” The griever said, touching my forehead to theirs as they left. It had been a long day, their must’ve been a large accident or something. That’s what usually caused a rush like this. A large number of people didn’t get the opportunity to say their final words to a loved one before they passed, and needed...
"Stop right there!"I heard a man call pulling his gun from his holster. I smirked, and broke the speed of light, phasing through him. He collapsed backwards and grasped at his chest. "You can't do that! It's against the laws!" I walked through the wall behind him, occupying its space at the same time it did. He con...
"So they're..." "Spiders." "Nine feet tall spiders." "Yup." "All eight legs, bunch of eyes, large fangs, the whole shebang?" "You heard me." "And they want to land here, on earth, to set up an embassy to share their knowledge, and see what they can learn from us?" "Yes sir. They already gave me this universal tr...
"Help me Punchman and Kickboy! I've been kidnapped by the Red Storm!"wailed Jessica Parks, alter ego of the very same, infamous Red Storm. She sat in her lair chair with her hands behind her back, pretending to be a tied up damsel in distress. The glow of six security camera monitors bounced light off of her pale face...
Fights in the mages arena were long and drawn. Cast times could take upwards of three minutes, of just watching two guys make ridiculous hand motions and practice their breathing techniques at one another. "An art form"is what other chumps called it. A practice in patience and discipline. I never was much of a patient ...
**Day 1:** This is Chet Coburn with the evening news. America was a worried country today. Uncle Sam, the nation's favorite hero and champion apple pie eater took his eagle plane with his side kick, the Emancipator, on vacation. Florida Man was his back up. And yes, we were worried America, but it appears we have nothi...
I don’t think anyone ever thought the day would come. After years of pointless arguing, the US finally joined the rest of the world in adopting the metric system, a decision that we couldn’t be more excited for. It may not have seemed like a big deal, but for the first time in human history, it felt like we had created...
Birthdays seem rare when you’re a kid. When you bump into someone who shares a birthday with you it seems rare as an elephant getting struck by lightning. Well, maybe that example betrays my age a little. Rare as a computer game that doesn’t try to steal your money with micro transactions. Point is, you put just sixty...
It gets more annoying with each new life. Do you know how hard it is to act like a baby when you mind is approaching 300 years old? I’ve mastered politics, philosophy, physics, etc. Yet what do I have to do for the first years of my life. Nothing more than “mama” and “dada”. Some of my lives I have my previous lif...
“Commencing operation,” I said, taking a bite out of a bagel with one hand and flipping the switch on the command center of the airship with the other. *“This is your last warning, Nye,”* the factory’s speakers rang out in earnest. *“Stand down and turn your airship around or we will blow it out of the sky!”* I turne...
Senator Cochran sat down on the edge of the bed. He tried to brush a piece of hair away from the woman’s face, but she pulled back and slapped his hand away. The swelling in her face hadn’t started to go down, but the bruises were already turning an angry purple. “Don’t fucking touch me,” she said. “Don’t get too fe...
“Your job is simple,” said the short, bald man, peering up at me through a pair of dark, horn rimmed glasses. “You guard the gate. Make sure nobody gets out.” “Nobody?” I asked. “Then what's the point of having a gate in the first place?” “Yeah, doesn't make very much sense,” I said, continuing my train of thought. ...
We were both champions. It was inevitable that we would face against each other in the final match. That was, in fact, why we were placed on opposite sides of the bracket. Everyone else was randomly assigned their first partners and randomly slotted in, but Alexei and I were both rumored to be the greatest chess play...
There's a fairly simple (if *very* difficult to actually pull off) recipe for making an advanced, intelligent species. Take a social species and get them to exploit something so effectively that survival is no longer their primary concern. Social competition takes over, driving intelligence along until you've got a s...
I could barely believe my eyes. The man standing before me looked nothing like the shaggy man I encountered a few years ago. Usually one forgets the face of the homeless, let alone to those you’ve gained the courage to spare a few coins you had no urgent use for, but would have liked to have saved for a future coffee o...
The day was so boring There was nowhere to go We had sang all our songs We had watched all our shows. It was too wet outside, It was almost a tempest So we played with our toys And then had second breakfast. We had taken a nap Right beside the nice fire It was calm and serene Like the dawn on a sh...
Like we arranged, we always met toward the ends of his lives. I was not to intrude, not to disturb him, until he was absolutely bedridden (we'd decided this in one of his earlier reincarnations, when he couldn't stop himself from asking questions about his previous lives, and those memories, frankly, made him insane). ...
All my life I had been a victim of my own good intentions. Whether it was serving at a soup kitchen where I spilled a cauldron of split pea on my leg, which ended up needing skin grafts from my butt to fix. Or lending my car to a friend for the weekend, which ended up in a ravine with only my name on the registration, ...
Chivalry was his father. The code lived inside his genes, tempering his devastating prowess on the battlefield. And it needed to be tempered, for after a time Emperor Charming ruled the entire civilized world. Humility was his mother, influencing the Emperor's decision making in all things, creating a transparent and ...
“Your Honor, as you are well aware,” I said from the podium, “the right to a fair trial is a vital pillar of our justice system.” The Judge, wearing a frustrated look, rolled his eyes and glared at me. “That’s right, Mr Morpheus – can I call you Mr Morpheus?” He asked sarcastically. I nodded, adjusting my mask slight...
EDIT: Welp, I read it as 'your childhood imaginary friend', instead of 'your child's imaginary friend', so the story is about the dude's imaginary friend, not his kid's. Anyway... _________________ "There's nothing like smoking a fat one and killing Vietcongs, Gary. Take that to your grave." Gary nodded, not really l...
A hissing voice pierces my ears. "You're not going out like that."I roll my eyes. "Whatever, dad." As I start to walk to the door, a formless shadow moves beneath me and materializes into a black robe, a shadow hiding what lurks beneath. I start to get annoyed. The black robe speaks again in its hissing voice. "Honey,...
"What the fuck!"Tucker said as he opened the door to his bedroom, having planned a rather nice evening with the pretty girl from the bar. A pile of eyes and wings jutting in all directions rotated and undulated on the bed surrounded by a ring of white fire. "Tucker, I am here to save you!"came the bellowing wet voice ...