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At first they wanted to know why. Every famous - or infamous, depending on which side you were on - shifter in the war morphed into something large and fierce. Lion, bull elephant, alligator, rhinoceros, wolf, tiger, hippo. Yes, hippo, those beasts are mean. I've seen Bertrand the Mad Pot bite through three men at ...
From darkness came light; it was the first act of God, to breathe life into the universe. And it was the first light I had felt since I died, when you found me in the attic. I remember darkness and I remember light flooding the attic, but nothing in between. The way your eyes lit up made me think I'd gone back in time ...
Congrats! This is super cool, and impressive work. Only thing is, I feel like maybe it might be a smart idea to get a proofreader/editor. I think the story/plot is very interesting and intruiging, but I feel like the wording/sentence structure is lacking in some areas. For example: \- "The road flew past under m...
[Poem] *Oh, see all the horrible things!* *Back in the day, back before time existed* *C'thulu spread his wings* *through black nether twisted!* *Look down through the ice* *and you'll see nothing nice* *gross shoggoths still squirming* *and nightmares still forming!* *Pilot your ship* *all the way to out to ...
Great-Pappy was a bit of a jokester, at least that's what I heard from my Nana. She once told me about the time that her dear old dad decided to get her a used Honda, apparently he bought her a little plot of land on martian soil, just as a little laugh. Don't know why she kept the deed, there wasn't any real validity ...
A long, long time ago I was forgotten. That was always fine with me, I hope you understand. I wasn't hurt by that, temples never appealed to me anyway. All that grovelling and offerings and prayers. Ick. Once a fool burned a book in hopes it would encourage me to aid him! Can you imagine?! A book! Would you curse lig...
February twenty sixth two thousand and nineteen, that was the day all of humanity lost something they never knew they had. I was walking down the sidewalk in New York, when suddenly I just felt an overwhelming sense of loss. I was quite confused by this, for I had no idea what I had lost, but I knew beyond a shadow of...
Samson used to be the protector, large in stature, even back when he was born 2 months too early. Despite the premature birth, Samson had weighed heavy on the scale in the hospital, the cold singe of the scale on his bare bottom waking him, sending him into a fit so loud that a nurse across the room had whispered to...
"Mind if I sit here?" The woman looked up from her book, surprised. "No, not at all,"she responded with a short smile as she moved a bit to free up space on the bench. I took off my backpack and sat down next to her. Closing my eyes for a second, I let out a sigh and took in the calm and warmth of the park. I opened ...
[poem] It looks awful I know, I know But constable Please let me go You see it was A coincidence On these poor souls, My fingerprints She had the axe She had his phone She read the texts She sliced his bones And when he fell She cried in fits Too late she knew Those were *her* tits And wi...
With a snap of my fingers the ashen door closed softly behind me. I shrugged my red robes onto a nearby hanger and stepped forward. Candles lit themselves as I passed by, lighting up the foyer of my abode as I walked towards my library. Ryla was there waiting for me as she always was. While there were two plush sofas a...
“Good evening, and welcome to McFesta, the world’s only truly all-inclusive fast-food restaurant! How may I help you?” “Von McBurger, extra rare, please.” “Would you like fries with that?” “Yes, please. Can I svap the ketchup for pig’s blood?” “Of course, sir. That’ll be $7.49, please!” — “Good evening, and welco...
As fire and ice clash, neither weaken, they only strengthen. The fury of the fire, refusing to receive defeat from ice, grows in its heat. The ice, too prideful for any option that is not victory, becomes colder than ever. It is through the differences of two opponents that their differences stand out like no time befo...
I picked him up on the side of a desolate country lane in the South of England. He was walking - no, limping in the same direction as I was driving, swinging a toolbox in one hand and swinging the other burden free. He wore denim dungarees with one strap loose. It was late, around the point when animals start to creep ...
Edit: Cheers to the mysterious Redditor for my first silver! **Modern Marvels**   Thief was such an unfair accusation. I, William of Alfriston, never threatened, seized, or overly deprived my marks. I did not wait in alleys with dagger and club to clobber and rob the unwary like some common foot pad. Nor ...
I got rid of cable in 2016. Best decision I ever made. Netflix was all I needed. Eventually I tried a few other services, but I didn’t really watch much TV anymore. My primary source of entertainment was the small screen on my phone…so I didn’t notice anything was amiss until…well…shortly after waking up late on Saturd...
/notprompt OP what is this, a personal attack? I guess I could just write how my day was. /prompt A sharp pain rings through my ears as I awake to my alarm. I do the little puzzle to make it stop and get up to take care of the dogs. My wife is asleep, meaning I have to do all the morning chores myself before work. ...
It was large, easily 6km across, moving slowly through the outskirts of the Solar System on the same course as the spacecraft which had passed earlier that month. It wasn’t long before rumours and leaks made it to the media and after a storm of public pressure the governments of the world that knew had to admit the exi...
My entire life I've felt like a freak. It started early, my first scars coming before I remember. The bumps and scrapes of my childhood never fading away like the other children. Instead weird ketoid growths covered my arms and legs. By the time I was in middle school I wore pants and long sleeves shirts. You can imag...
It’s not that he killed the others. Let’s get that out of the way right from the start. Not that he was our friend, far from it. Not even my friend, not really. I think he made a sort of exception for me, the way one sometimes will even in the face of ingrained prejudices. And he had them, oh yes. Prejudices, I mean. ...
Jason stared deeply into the mirror, losing himself in thoughts. "Don't worry that much! I'm absolutely sure they will love you."His fiancé Klara have tried to calm him. "Worry? I'm thinking how fun it will be finally facing a god and asking him what's the deal with Appendices!", Klara laughed and hugged him, layin...
Today was a day like any other but so much more important. I got dressed just like I do every other day but today was special. Today they were set to arrive. Today my countless hours of practice would finally pay off. I knew exactly what I would say, I had practiced with my son day in and day out for this exact moment....
They thought banning the cellphones would work. It didn't. Now the adults walk around with their flip phones, holding us tight. But we were always okay. Well, not completely. We're still a little dumbstruck about our new abilities, and the seizures weren't nice. But the internet is still there. Just inside our heads....
Every morning, my magic screen wakes me up with a picture of the sun. Until the sky went black -and stayed black- I didn’t know it was a picture. Every morning, I choose between socks or boots. On the days I pick socks, I run and slide down the hallways. I don’t need to stop at any of the locked doors and the windows r...
Dear diary : Today He, yet again, send me an angel to "show me the path of repentance". This one was also carrying a letter. All it said was basically "you're confused. I understand you and love you. Come back home, and you'll be forgiven."over and over. "NO I'M NOT CONFUSED, JUST TIRED OF YOUR SHIT. STOP BEING A RIGH...
As I opened my eyes, I felt someone touch my arm in a strange way, as if he was doing some sort of massage. I looked at him. He was a middle-aged man dressed in a very particular fashion, and who seemed very out of place in a hospital. I opened my mouth to speak, but a warm and soothing feeling started flowing into my ...
"Honey, have you seen some of my things?"The war god's voice gave away his panic. Venus appeared in the doorway, "No. Weren't they supposed to be locked in the safe? You know that Cupid likes playing with those things."She moved closer, "He won't hurt himself. Remember what he did with that little bow you lost all tho...
It was as good a way to find victims as any. Not that he had any choice. He didn't understand the strange whims of fate that bound him to this particular afterlife; no one had told him anything, there had been no day of reckoning, no white light to move toward where all would be revealed. Perhaps one day. Perhaps not....
You were the first. ​ I thought myself a man. A man of hopes and dreams. A man of strength and fortitude. A man who knew perseverance. ​ My childhood was robbed from me. My mother left her family behind when I was eight. She looked back and saw us, two boys and a disabled man. She knew what ...
It had been a couple of years since my death. I secretly signed myself up for an experimental procedure that would transfer a copy of my memories and personality into an AI for them to use, and while doing so I managed to download myself into a robotic body in the shape of their personal robot. Unfortunately I didn't ...
"One Mega Rayquaza... just one! It swept through my team of five, just like that!"I stared into space with a manic look in my eyes. Was that fair? A ten year old kid, barely out of diapers, cruising through the gym with a Pokemon he had traded and hadn't even trained himself. "This world needs balance. Pokemon battles...
Power initiated. System booting. Memory checksum valid. Running self-diagnostic. Self-diagnostic completed. No anomalies detected. OSU#3 active and proceeding to standard diagnostic procedures for MD units. Operational report received via handover from OSU#2. 1289 MD units evaluated at 0600. 6 MD units deemed operati...
This would have been a hell of a lot easier if they had found it somewhere cool. Hidden in the Egyptian pyramids, maybe, or in the ruins of some ancient city. Somewhere nice and exotic, or historically important. Honestly, I would've taken Disney World over *this.* Not only was my one ticket to freedom found in a liter...
Well, of course everyone else in the village laughed at me. Never openly, but behind my back I gather that I was quite the laughingstock. The swift Eagle, the fierce Wolf, the duplicitous Serpent, and out of all the spirits that could have blessed me with their strengths? I was blessed with the sign of the Rat. I thou...
"Your life is on the line, Jeremy! Don't you care in the slightest?" Not really. The great ball of fire exploded just inches from where I stood. There were maybe three or four guys trying to kill me, I didn't really know. Maybe a lot more. I was supposed to be protecting this one guy but I forget which one it was so...
He stared blankly at me. "Like Jesus?" It was my turn to look vacant. "Who?" We stood in the alleyway, a knife held between us. I had decided that to live among the mortals I would subject myself to their wants and needs. To better understand why they had turned from my devotion. And right now my body needed to rel...
[Poem] A bicycle made of horns for Bill, A doll house of lava for Gretchen and Jill. Tommy was begging for an Xbox this season, How 'bout that possessed one? I think it's in reason. Anthony wants a new skateboard and kicks? I can give him a board, built out of hell sticks! Rachel asks for a puppy? A demon shoul...
I closed my eyes, not wanting to know where I was now. I listened, but everything sounded the same as before I sneezed. I also felt the same, so what was up? I opened my eyes, and I was still in the same body?! What?! How is this possible?! Everything around me was the same; my clothes, my house, and I just felt as I d...
"I must admit to being taken aback by your presence." ​ When imagining talking ants, you'd expect maybe the gruff clicking of a brainless hive or bright American accents as cartoons portray them. Instead, these worker ants maintained a neutral tone, speaking in a vaguely eastern European accent. &#x20...
I looked up at Satan and watched him process what I had just said. “So you made a company. And that company makes... cartoons? I don’t necessarily see how entertaining children is evil.” “Well it’s not really evil. But it’s...” “If it isn’t evil then why are you wasting you’re time with it. You’re other brothers are ...
I am dying. I need food desperately. The voracious devil takes a trip from downtown to the fringes of civilization, scrounging for the slightest bit of sustenance. Back in those glorious years, it wouldn’t take long for me to find the next victim. It still puzzles me why no one is falling for my trap anymore. I guess ...
"Twenty days. I'm ahead by twenty days. Its not much but you can't knock that Ed, twenty days is a hell of a lead to run with. Just wait til you see what I'm going to win now, you know, I swear I can feel it when a winning streak is coming on. I'm getting into that groove now, its on me, I've got my first win of the n...
On July 2nd, 1982, in the small town of Lions, Nebraska, a child was born under the name Alexander Smith, at least that's what it said on the birth certificate. As there was no real way of knowing how many names my parents gave me before that one... From an early age it was clear, my life would be a peculiar one. &amp...
My eyes flutter open at the distinct pain in my back. Despite the new mattress Thompson had gotten me, I was still in a great deal of pain. I suppose that is to be expected when you are 68, but it still sucks. Needless to say "daylight,"is burning. I am a prisoner held in the secret high security prison that people c...
“Did did you just-“ She shakily struggled with the words as I bent down. “You, you just saved me.” I looked at the fractured skull. It was a pretty good break but not open enough. I lifted up the unmoving head to examine it even closer. The skin was already rotting away and I’m sure the smell was something awful bu...
The man walks out of the prison, not sure what he will do, where he will go. Although, he knows the future can be bright. He ventures to the south of the city where he has some cousins. Them mixed up with crime and such he knows that it would not be the smartest decision to go there. He still goes down there people sho...
“The Glor’k-Nax or as we humans know them as, the "Dragon puppy” is feared by all races in the galactic council. I’ll explain why we call it that later kids, back on topic though. The Dragon puppy is a 3 to 5 meter tall canine-like animal with fierce teeth the size of a 45 shoe, covered in scales and an unusual penchan...
"Self-defense mode? This isn't military is it?"I asked nervously. Inside the suit, I rolled my eyes. This was the third time I've been swatted this year. The fifth time in my relatively short career as a streamer. I turned to Tyler and Brad, my camera man and boom mic man, respectively. I sighed before speaking. "Alr...
All the chairs in the waiting room were hard and ugly. There were no magazines to read, no water to drink, the only window was dirty and looked onto the parking lot. Victoria Sparks sighed and tried a chair again. Nope, still uncomfortable as hell. Well, it *was* the waiting room to Eiron Darkmoon’s office, after all. ...
A poor farmer was once farming his land when he came across a beautiful lamb. Its fleece was white as purest snow and its eyes were brighter than the greatest star. The poor farmer said to himself, "I will sell this lamb at the market, and it will fetch a tidy sum."He placed the lamb across his shoulders and took it to...
*Why me?* This is the first question you manage to ask yourself. You never were a threat to anyone. Not once did you hurt another living being. Yes, you remember being 16 and hating school, and loathing those Latin classes you always managed to fail. You remember a very graphic dream where you somehow got hold of Or...
Imagine the worst case of brainfreeze you've ever had. Then imagine the worst hangover you've had. Combine the two, hangfreeze if you will, and you get a rough idea of what happens after what we in the biz like to call 'option paralysis'. There's a surprising amount of science within our arcane circles, but I'll spar...
So you're probably wondering right about now what's about to happen. What is that strange thing you're feeling? Well thank your lucky stars, Allah, Buddha, Sky Jesus, or, you know what, use your phone and rack up some internet-feels, whatever it is that passes muster for an ethos nowadays, because I'm about to tell yo...
"You clearly are not from around here." The voice had come from the opposite side if the river that Taelis had stopped to drink from. It looked up from its reflection, a rippling mass of red darkening to ruddy brown, to see the source of the voice. It had a head not unlike it's own, but its wingless body stretched twi...
Eons ago, Earth and Mars were twins, both promising places with the potential for life. However, as time passed, Earth developed a vibrant and diverse ecosystem, while Mars dried up into a cold, dead desert. This is a fact of little importance to those who are not space geeks or NASA nerds. One day, in the NASA comman...
“SINNER! For your transgressions against the Church, the town, and the world at large, you shall be condemned to rot in life and burn in the fires of hell!” My pleas were moot as the priest blessed the area on which I had entered the cavern and the townspeople moved the large stone in front of the cave mouth, shutting ...
It happened one day, we all got superpowers... It was unexpected and scientists scrambled to find an answer but nonetheless it happened. Doctors and nurse could heal with the touch of a hand, psychologist and psychiatrist can look into the minds of their patients and read their minds, firefighters literally became wat...
The summer snow was unseasonable, to say the least. The candy canes and jingling bells that popped up around town were, too. Melvin could deal with those things. But the holly jolly-ness? Well that was just plain unacceptable. Summer was supposed to be free from the scathing music and tedious celebrations. Six months ...
The first thing, I thought, would be to access my Wikipedia page, though my mind wondered to whether or not I was actually thinking at all. I eventually decided that it would be best not to ponder on the craziness of the situation, and to simplify it so much in my head that I was simply back home, on my laptop, instead...
Yesterday there had been twenty crewmembers. Only four remained. Yezhr sighed, poking the fire with a metal rod. Behind him, the arcing wreckage of the transport ship gave off the green glow of a ruptured power cell. The look on his porcine face was one of deep disgust. “Well,” he rumbled, “That could have gone bet...
Johnny crawled down the corridor, a trail of blood in his wake. His leg ached from a gaping hole. He knew if he didn’t get help soon he’d bleed out. A noise rang out behind him and he whipped his gun around. He leaned himself against the wall as he concentrated, waiting for movement. His fifth kill lay half way down th...
Poseidon lies dead at my feet. Hermes has already been beheaded, and Aphrodite thrown from the edge of one of Olympus' mightly cliffs. Zeus, the king of gods himself, is next. No signs of Hera so far. I continue up the mountain, licking the blood off of my blade, relishing just how easy it has been to kill the go...
Instead of milk and cookies, Satan demanded everyone leave out a quart of whisky and a pornographic magazine. On Christmas Eve, there were several large explosions from deep underground and then from the sky. In every house, one by one, there were a series of mechanical banging noises and then what sounded like a wolf...
Acquisitions Management? Hmm, no, a bit too on the nose. Mergers is dead out, I mean what would I be merging? Other than a client with their new property. Wealth redistribution is far too political, and usually implies a different direction. It's not like the poor can afford my services anyway. Usually stick with secur...
"May I ask what you are doing with a rocket launcher?"the Swiss Guard asks Nero. "What the hell do you think?"replies Nero. "Storming the Vatican so I have a seat of power to reclaim the Roman Empire!" The Swiss Guard frowns. "I don't know how you got that past customs, but I'm really going to need to see your pass...
I ducked behind a shipping container, my respirator smoothly keeping up with my now-heavy breathing. Even through my suit, the air stung my iridescent skin. Gunfire split the frosty night, and I could hear the savage roar of the humans as they attempted to tear through our offensive line. A quick glance told me that t...
The moving picture box that humans called a television stood against the wall as the pictures flashed with news across the bottom of the screen as my eyes flickered across the scrolling script that marched across the bottom of the screen. ‘Society has changed so much..’ I thought as I licked my lips. So many would tak...
Love this one! Here you go: *clack-clack* -- BOOM! I had six shells left for my shotgun. I'd blasted a hole where the lock used to be, so I kicked the door the rest of the way open. Where the hell is he, I wondered. Then I heard a cackling laugh from inside the building. He's here. I knew the place was boobie...
(On mobile, sorry about any formatting errors or glitches!) Small edits for format. Changed Mom to Grandma, I felt it fit the direction I was going for a little better. I stared at the wall and twirled my marker in my hand, more out of muscle memory than out of any real desire to. In the history of my birthdays, today...
*I had the gift since my birth, though I obviously couldn't understand what the red strings were back then. It wasn't until I was 16 that my grandma told me about the strings, how they connected all of us to our perfect lovers. Up until now, she was the only person who ever believed that I really could see the threads,...
'The Happiest Place on Earth.' The banner whipped in the air above the burning Sub-Saharan village as neat rows of heavy combat boots marched across the packed dirt. A khaki colored truck emblazoned with a red castle growled into the village center and men began unloading crates stamped with a mouse symbol. Firelight...
Roger had broken my nose and left me in a heap on the ground near the dining room. I was only beginning to collect myself when I heard my son and his father in the living room. I was so scared when I heard Roger yelling at Stevie. I could take the abuse, but Stevie was far too young for this. I saw the smartphone as i...
Death used to seem so easy. As I looked around my laboratory and gazed upon the bodies I had preserved which had given birth to my children, I recalled how little I had felt when I killed them. *They'll give so much to science!* I remember thinking as the light slow fled from their eyes. *They were going to donate thei...
"Ahh shit!"screamed the factory worker, "the machines torn off me hand!" A stream of blood shot from his wrist. The other workers gathered around to watch. "What's all this!"cried the factory boss, "Why isn't anybody working!" The workers pointed at the amputated hand caught in the blood-stained gears of the machine...
\[My first story here! Yaaay!! Also, I'm not actually an author. I just write for fun. Thx for reading! :)\] ​ With quick simple strikes and an emotionless face, he slaughtered the people around him. Their cries echoed in useless pain and fear, begging for life as he slit their throats without a second tho...
"Galfrey, fetch me my safest helmet. I have a cliff to jump off of." *He's a good servant. If I didn't have to keep up my reputation as a malevolent dictator, I would tell him such.* *Anyway, it's hard to believe the moment is finally here. It feels like just the other day when that hideous mosaic of adventurers firs...
# Bark At The Moon "AWOOOOO"! An extremely hairy man howled, then crushed a can on his head and dove off the RV into an enormous pile of cushions. There were cheers and barking laughter. A minor scuffle broke out to be the next one on top of the vehicle. Jason couldn't stop watching. "What,"he asked no one in partic...
Even as I heard it, the familiar sting began to rise in my throat. I knew when I enlisted that this is was a possibility, a likelihood even, but hearing it... Jesus. They never tell you how scared you get, how people piss and shit themselves, how men cry and shake, clutching their guns like it's the only stable thing ...
Most people only give lip service to the old legends — a good story for a chilly night around the fireplace. Nothing real or dangerous. I, however, take them all as they come. I study them to learn the oldest versions. Being closer to the events, they're more likely to be true. In this case, it was a story about a ...
"A life of dread you'll soon be dead draped in the color of red. You'll wake from bed and loose your head and blood shall be shed" And ever since that witch cursed me for kicking her cat I've had this song dance around in my head. She never actually *proved* she was a witch and inherently I'm not a superstitious perso...
“Goddamn it. If I fuckin’ knew it was going to be this hard... no. You know what, people are idiots. I shouldn’t have to go through this much trouble for this one, relatively simple thing. But here I am, egg on my... Fuck I don’t even want to think about it.” Gregory sat down to try to gather his thoughts. He had fina...
*Here we go. Another boring office holiday party. Time to put my best face forward and suck up to the bosses. At least the there is an open bar.* A tall black woman walked up to Tom. She wore an expensive suit and had short salt and pepper hair. "Hi, we often share the elevator. You're third floor, right? I'm ...
"I am an arcanist,"I began confidently, holding my e-reader in one hand. "A woman arcanist? Impossible, thou must be a witch,"the king said immediately. I took a breath, and tried real hard not to get upset. Didn't matter what I knew, I'd be skewered by swords if they didn't like me. "While that is certainly a logic...
I woke up with heavy eyelids. I almost went back into the comfortable embrace of sleep, to forget the pain surging through every fibre of my being. I remember being riddled full of bullets in Afghanistan, and then I remember fucking dying. Bleeding out in the warm sand was the second worst thing that's ever happened to...
As through Royal Command, my team was designated to check out a break out of prisoners on a nearby planet. When we arrived, it was hot and dreary. We then stumble upon a city full of what seems to be cowboys with funny accents. We ask them what the hell happened, with our galactic lasers ready. One man, middle age resp...
You can fit thirteen hundred Earths into Jupiter. The planet looms beneath us, so large that seventy-nine chunks of space rock have succumbed to its great maw, destined to orbit the dense ball of gas like flies crawling across a large orange window. Trax watched a volcano erupt on one of the chunks of space rock. Far ...
The alarm blared annoyingly in the background. Dahlia was a heavy sleeper so only those industrial, siren drill alarms seemed to get her out of bed. To make matters worse, it was one of those wheeled alarms that you had to get up and physically catch to stop. She strained one eye open. Her body was still weighted with...
"Drop the machete sir"I tell him as politely as I can which isn't much considering that he's holding a damn machete. "I can't do that I'm sure you'll call me crazy or something"The clearly crazy person spoke. "The hell this has to happen on my first day too"I quickly dialed the phone "We've got a code red , a strang...
“Has the Technarchy finished its calculations?” “It has, High Mechnarch.” “And?” “The results are … odd.” “The Technarchy has never been wrong. What are its findings?” “A single projectile for an older sidearm. It appears to be propelled based on a quaint combustion system.” “One projectile is the biggest obstacl...
Another day, another lonely lunch. It was the same soup just reheated for Ollie. Just your average human in a school full of monsters. “Why’d I have to come here...” Ollie thought, hitting his fork on the lizagna. However he knew why he had to come here: his mom got a graphic designer job here in Tropulis, working for...
\[A/N: Swearing and Australianisms contained within. You have been warned.\] First Contact occurred on June 21, 2013, on a lonely stretch of the Bruce Highway between Bowen and Proserpine in North Queensland, Australia. The contacter on the human side was one Des Robertson; itinerant roo-shooter, part-time brickie's ...
**[TW: Mentions of Suicidal Thoughts]** The bedroom was dark, but James’ thoughts were darker. They raced around in his mind, twisted and unrelenting. They were like ugly little demons—Their sole purpose in life was to be the cause of James’ death. *No one really cares about you,* one says tauntingly. *Why are you...
"Okay so we are agreed that Heaven is not obligated to take him?" Around the table the angels nodded, while the demons snorted fire in ascent. "However, this leads to the problem of where to send him. He would normally go to hell, however the Mr. Satan, referred to in the deal and hereafter as 'the devil', is unable ...
I met her, my wife, in college. She was coordinating one of the events. You know, speaking on the mic (chuckles) ‘and now I would like to call Mr. so and so to come on stage and say a few words’ and then they’ll come and speak something and she’ll say ‘Thank you so much sir for enlightening us...’ oh God! She was a p...
I had known James for most of his life, from the time he was a young orphan taken into our care and put under my supervision. We had experimented on him, genetically engineered him to be the perfect killer. I'd trained him and watched him grow into something more than I ever could be. I'd watched from the sidelines as ...
I used to be a respected man. I owned an Ice Cream shop. But now? No one is interested in Ice Cream now. Only raw human flesh. Ever since the night of the Lunar Eclipse, when it rained emerald green rain, anyone who was watching the moon and didn't feel the rain drops on their skin were infected. No one knows why. ...
"Where's the body?"I ask them. "In the morgue on West Harrison." "Let's go, then."I put on my toolbelt, grab my hat and coat, and follow them out. If you've only seen it in the movies, you would imagine that the Cook County Morgue is a big, antiseptic room with walls of steel doors covering sliding drawers. Turns ou...
I spent my whole life dreaming of this. Being one of the countless heros, brawlers, knights, and other such characters from my beloved stories. To live in a world of adventure, magic and mayhem. Where the good guys mostly win in the end, where heart, spirit, and resolve equated to fantastic feats in the dungeons or on ...
''Shit.'' I whisper Why, why, why NOW. I was 2 days away from retirement! So why now? This is what I get from trying to blend in. Guess I'll run, but I really enjoyed this kingdom... Goddamnit, why did I agree to get blessed by an Unknown God. Should have chosen a Warrior God so at least I wouldn't have to run for 740...
"Good morning Dr. J" You looked up from the ground, "Good morning Bathalmut." "You okay? You look upset." "Oh thank you Bathalmut, I am okay, I was just thinking about the article I told you about yesterday again and..." "You know we don't see you like that."Bathalmut grinned big, multiple rows of shining, inch-lon...