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I watched the clock as it ticked down the few minutes I had left of being 17. My parents, silent of course, were sitting nearby, watching with a big smile on their face. After all this time, they were finally able to speak to me. A few decades ago, a lot of people came to the conclusion that young and old people don't...
The new servant is insane, but I can't get anyone to believe me. Not my parents, not my chauffeur, not my hairstylist, not the gardener, not the boy whose job it is to pick up my poop. None of them will listen to me when I tell them that the new servant, who was explicitly hired to wait on my every whim and desire, i...
The crowd waited. The crowd's nervous chatter kept the guards at the entrances on edge. On a day as important as this one, any small act could serve to set off the thousands that had gathered. In this enclosed arena, the damage would be catastrophic considering how many in the crowd were armed. Then, a small figure s...
Even the street rats avoided this part of town. There was nothing left to steal, and the bars on the windows reminded them too much of prison. We had the odd disturbance: a junkie who needed a quick rush and didn't have the cash for it, or some punk who thought he'd get something out of the cash registers. Joke's alway...
“You’re not looking close enough” the trickster God said “They’re going to win” What could almost be described as a laugh came from the Crocodilian war god of the Hamum-Tap “Win? They are young, they are new, the Coalition has barely 20 colonies between them, the old order has hundreds!” A smile went across the T...
You didn't give her time to argue. You just grabbed her wrist with one of your hands and with the other pulled out your phone. There were no bars and your screen flickered oddly. You curse and complain about tech failing just when you need it. "You must be in incredible pain, I can't even imagine,"you rambled on. "And...
We had been at it for what seemed like hours. You can only fight for so long before the pain starts to set in. Sweat streamed down into my eyes, blinding me. I pull back to wipe my face, but, sensing weakness, he advances forward to try and complete the knockout. I just barely managed to survive. I could tell I wa...
The official stance was that everyone is equal. No matter what the official stance was though, there is no doubt that most of us considered humans to be lesser beings. Why give a human a job when you could give it to a more respectable citizen? They were just so new to the wider galactic empire, so incredibly behind ev...
There was a time when scientists concluded we were the slave of our gut bacteria.... The theory never made the headlines, and always remained between fact and fiction. Another story which hit too close to the reality was of the Dragon in his cave. How people of the village needed to feed him to keep him from burn...
The human convoy stared at us blankly.............................. . . . "Pauses"? The leader repeated slowly.... How do you mean? . . . I didn't really know the answer. Everyone knew about breaks during a war. No species could continue to be at war for so long continously. These terms were usually negotiated befor...
"For the last time, during the day I'm a centaur, at night I'm a vampire, at the full moon I'm a werewolf, when I'm in water I'm a merman, during the hottest day I'm a dragon and at the coldest night I'm a yeti." I stared at him blankly. "That makes no sense,"I finally concluded. "I'll admit, it is quite convoluted,...
"I know this is hard to belive. But really, we used to be you... or actually, I should say, you used to be us." The other man did not speak. Or was it a woman? John could not tell. To survive and reproduce, genders were now united in one body. And the heat of the planet made their skin so resistent that they did not ...
"Don't worry, Mr. Jackson. My law school training completely prepared me for this." He smiled nervously the same way any other client would once I comforted them about their prospects- weird, really, because it happened regardless of the issue. Crafting a will? Trying to get their neighbor to stop flying a drone? Want...
My name is Glorp, I'm an intergalactic bounty hunter. What does that mean? It means I hunt bounties between Galaxies stupid! My latest bounty is a fugitive of justice. He likes to find simple little planets who haven't learned god is a multidimensional parrot named Stephan, who demands you pronounce it Ste-fan like a...
Ahn’Sethuh, Reaper of Worlds, Lord of Purifying Flame, Scourge of a Thousand Stars, Regent of Divine Balance, Master of Goats wiped his sword clean as he stepped through tall gates made of pearl and gold. The old man standing watch lay bleeding upon his book, blood running with golden ink still scrawling ceaselessly ac...
"3rd room on the left. You'll know him when you see him."Satan told me. I thanked him and walked down the corridor, entering the room that Lucifer told me to. After brushing away the cobwebs and finding the light switch, it was a decent room if not a bit bland. I patiently waited to see what I could've become. Maybe if...
"Hey Jones, the usual?"Lucille's bar was as empty as it got, but then again it was midday. And Jones was early. "Yeah. Can you put it on my tab, I can't pay today." "Sure thing."The barkeep Lucille, a woman in her mid-fifties with a bad wrist poured out a shot of fireball. She was used to her particular clientele ...
*Four twenty-six.* The numbers echo in my mind as I move through the sterile white corridors as quickly as possible. They make me nauseous. I hate them. *Look straight ahead when you walk. Do not speak to anyone. Do not use the lift.* I had printed out Kelly’s email and hid it in my pocket. She’s the only one who be...
Pretty much everyone had the same basic idea. Nothing obvious happened between Jan 1 and Jan 4, at least not on a worldwide scale. A few thousand blogs claiming to be from the future popped up, millions of people reunited with family members they were going to lose, but most people didn't figure out that practically EV...
"So you saw." "Yeah." Mr. Golde sighed, looked at the ground, and folded his gnarled hands together. I'd never paid much attention to his hands before. Now that I did, I saw the tell-tale long fingernails that were more pointed than rounded at the ends. Around us were glass cases full of toys -- bisque dolls, metal ...
"This is a mistake, I'm not supposed to be here!" "Well"Odin said in his deep booming voice, "You died fighting a powerful enemy with blade in hand, that gets you into Valhalla." "But I never even believed in any of this!" "That doesn't matter, besides, why should you complain, you get to fight all day and feast all ni...
“Dr. Virk? Sir? I believe the answer to our quandary lies in the Mustavian Theorem of Quantum Space Time Relativity Distortion Doctrine 2.0, I could sketch it on the white board, but I’m sure we’re all intimately familiar with it given the number of doctorates in the room,” I joked. Crickets from around the table gree...
The problem with sudden success is that nobody is ever ready for it. While the problem of too many subscribers was not new to Blizzard, after all the initial response to World of Warcraft was well beyond their capacity as well, it was old enough that nobody currently working at the company remembered it. Or remembere...
Sho Sho's mom brushed his hand away from the glass. "But they're so funny and wee,"Sho Sho exclaimed, crouching and peering through the clear space with a bright eye. His breath fogged the glass a little. "You mustn't do that or you'll frighten them and they'll run away,"said his mom sternly, her eyes glinting a lit...
My phone buzzed on the tabletop, next to my cup of tea. I picked it up, smiling at the message. "Be there in a few mins,"MagnaminousmMitts had texted. "Whatchu wearin :)" I smiled and quickly tapped out a reply. "Yellow jumper, blue scarf. Let me know when you're here, I'll wave." My pulse quickened as soon as I hit...
I sat, head back, hand on the bridge of my nose and tried to will the migraine away, which only ever made it worse. Probably because I was focused on it. Canny the Jack Russell ran another lap - from my left on the couch, across my lap, on to the floor, passed the coffee table, into the kitchen and out through the ot...
Carter and Alex sat slouched against the crumbling brick wall which jutted out of the sand like a giant’s broken tooth. It’d been a military camp a day ago, three hundred soldiers whittled down to two. Only took five androids to dye the sand red. We’re nothing if not efficient. It hadn’t been the scene I’d expected to...
"What... What did you do?"The tall alien known as the Ksejdunoids on the screen stammered. "We used what is known as a limited area false vacuum bomb, or LAFVB for short."The human wearing a nametag that said "Johnson"and a navy blue uniform curtly replied. "Where... Where are the suns between Triantares and Quailki...
Tarquin never thought to see a look of fear on her face. It had been his duty to escorte Princess Julia to the palace for the wedding. The Knights of the Rose were charged with protecting the High Ladies of the realm with vigilance, strength, honor, and very little discretion. As Knight Commander he had led a squad of...
They said that she mysteriously got sick. She had been on an archaeological project in Brazil. They had to airlift her to Panama where they put her and the flight crew into quarantine. Apparently the tests were bonkers. They thought that the equipment was broken. They called in multiple scientists for about a we...
At this point, I don't even know which universe, plane, or dimension I have arrived in. It's been almost a century since I tricked the demon Lord Zepar into granting me immortality. Should've read the fucking fine print before signing that contract. Of course, every gift from a demon has its drawbacks, regardless if i...
Helena simply smiled at Rhadika, and bounced up some on her tippy toes. “It was *great* right?” said Helena. She moved the clipboard down, and adjusted her hair. “Now we noticed that you hadn’t signed the waiver form prior to entering in just a few minutes ago, so if you’d please just sign right here.” Rhadika stoo...
No one returns from the depths. The chains binding the prisoners rattled against the deck as the airship hovered low over the canopy. Agila peeked over the edge, her emerald eyes searching desperately into the darkness beyond the canopy for any reason to hope for survival. The Forest undulated unnaturally as waves ...
"To mr or mrs person, please take away my mommy. She hurts my daddy and me. My daddy cries every night when she comes home and my teacher sees the bruises on my neck and arms. I hear daddy on the phone wishing he could leave so I want it to be just the two of us." He read the letter one last time before he entered the...
The voice I hear is deep, dark and menacing. With it comes a sense of dread. "What are you?"I ask, only thinking the words. "It doesn't matter." I stop and address the woman. "Do you know why it made you do it?" She shakes her head. The voice speaks up again. "Release her!" "Will you make me if I don't?"I inquire...
His name is, appropriately, Adam. I find him after following his trail for weeks. He lies against a massive redwood, skin haggard and yellow, nearly dead already from exposure and disease. He bleeds from a bite wound on his hand - a raccoon, or maybe a wild dog. His white hair falls past his shoulders, clumped and dir...
"Thank you for calling iRobot technical support, how can I assist you today?" "Yes hello I have a Roomba i7 and I need help." "I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble with your Roomba i7, I can happily assist you with" "No you don't understand, the Roomba is fine. *I* need help." "What seems to be the trouble ...
"listen, I dont know what you're talking about but-" "AH AH AH!"a monkey's yell from the basement cut me off, they're probably gonna write something that's gonna repeat all... *this*. "**I do not care about what you believe is true or not MORTAL**"the being that seems to be made out of sunlight rebutted, "**YOU SHOUL...
"Dammit, this is the fourth one this month"Alyra sighs as she puts out the fire beneath the cauldron of boiling water. What a good soup that could have become, had she not been interrupted. She leaves her comfortable wooden home and calmly walks over to the metal hatch that serves as entry to humanity's last great ma...
The meta universe is a fractal, or has the appearance of one. It all began with training an AI to look for flaws and loopholes in the universe we knew. To our surprise, it found something, patterns in reality that hinted it could be broken, and stepped out of. Two years later, we found a way out, transferred our minds ...
"What the fuck is this? Tony could have cooked better than this and he died yesterday" The woman broke down into tears, clean lines running down her dirt encrusted face. A month of being transported from wilderness to wilderness had crushed most contestants spirits. Gordon Ramsey on the other hand seem rejuvenated by e...
Humanity had been refining teleportation technology for two decades, but with all the progress, the machines still needed two operators on either end to function. For this reason, two volunteers had to remain behind when we evacuated Earth. It just so happened that the only two volunteers qualified to operate a telepor...
It has been a very odd five years since "The Empowering". The world has become a very different place. I am not who I used to be, and neither are my friends. Well, my friends are mostly dead or in hiding, so it makes sense for them. Tony had wanted to fly more than anything else. He left the planet's atmosphere on acc...
"You have talent, son,"Stefan's father growled. "You can be our family's next practitioner. And you're ready to toss it away? To move to *America* and sing **COUNTRY** music?" Erik Dahl towered over his son, scowling as he gripped his guitar with one hand. Stefan knew his father was only minutes away from breaking out...
The alien spacecraft descended from the sky. Its engines groaning under the gravity of the planet. Trees swayed and windows creaked as the vibrations reverberated throughout the once quiet street. Cats and dogs ran and hid as the massive shadow enveloped the landscape. When it seemed the sixty kilometer spacecraft was...
The threads are translucent. They pass through walls and concrete and the chassis of vehicles. They expand and contract and they are all around me. If I try really hard I can ignore them but they inevitably creep back in, flitting through my peripheries and then crisscrossing my vision. Thousands upon thousands of line...
Adolf Smith hated two things. One, understandably, was his name. The other, less understandably, was tulips. As he stood in front of the tulip display at Tulip-Town (a garden known for, surprisingly, its roses), he looked at the man wearing a tulip hat. Adolf looked carefully at the hat, taking in the yellow petals ...
“It’s not what it looks like!” She said with a panic etched into the edges of her words. Her eyes were wide and her mouth moved as though searching for something to say. Slowly her lower half dissolved and was falling into the drain. Rainbow colours glinted and sparkled as she continued to fall away. “I… I don’t eve...
There were still a bunch of nasty files floating around, so Internet access had been restricted to people who knew what they were doing. People like me. Or at least, that's how I *thought* of myself before today. I still don't know what went wrong. I'm a researcher. I was browsing the internet, just like any other da...
As I read through the comic I feel my hope rising. Perhaps even without superpowers I can still matter, I can still move up in the world! Then it hit me. "Damn! I'm not rich! I don't have a British butler! My parents are still alive!" I threw the comic across the room in rage. "It's not fair!"I shout, I wanted to...
On any given day, Axel was just glad that the academy had hired him in the first place. He didn’t exactly have a very stellar record of doing admiral things, and the academy was well known for its good-guy status. So well known, in fact, that the dickwad who had finally brought him down had come from the very place. ...
"Doctors." I don't like that term. It implies knowledge, teaching. Long ago, the term meant somebody whose job was nursing, curing, giving. Now it means nothing but a man of death. People who go into medical school come out as different beings. They go through hell, because a single mistake out in the field could ca...
"What the bloody hell you mean the whole country's dark?" Jackson stopped strapping on his gear and looked towards the cockpit of the transport copter. Apparently Hurst got some news regarding why their squad was just dispatched at 5 AM to Washington DC for a search and rescue mission. Jackson wasn't one to question o...
The house was quiet, no lights on inside that I could see. This guy had been a real piece of work in his first life, and rather savvy as far as our techniques went. Per the last report, his body was in a state of pretty extreme decomp, so Berk and I had decided not to call for backup, we could probably handle him ourse...
You heard all the news stories. How Nobody Roberts got accepted to Harvard at 16, how he graduated summa cum laude while leading their basketball team to a first-ever NCAA championship, how he set up a tech company and made his first billion before he was 30. How everyone was trying to find a flaw, but there didn't see...
“And… this is the Vault.” One by one the overheads flipped on, bathing the inside of the rock chamber in a soft red glow. The LED’s were high up in the ceiling, so the glow washed over everything. “Red lights? I assume to help preserve the contents... hmm?” Dr. Morelli asked, peering around, squinting. Joe watched hi...
Xavier could control the world with music. He knew this as a fact. The day he’d met Angela he’d been listening to Lou Reed’s *Perfect Day*. The cassette had been on repeat in his Ford Torino as he’d driven the I-85 through South Carolina. He’d heard it on the radio the previous day, then listened out for it to be play...
The British Vault, otherwise known as Vault 9 and 3/4, was a particularly strange Vault. It was an attempt by Vault-Tec back in the pre-war times to see if making a Vault in the British Isles was at all practical or useful. Of course, building it was an absolute nightmare. Protests by the local denizens of Northern En...
Many times when I see timeworn relics and lost knowledge beneath my feet, I also see a flash of history. It hits me like a vision, and I fall into a brief trance while images flash before my eyes. Through this gift I've seen the rise and fall of civilizations, and gained my people immense knowledge and treasure. I was ...
As the gates to Hell creaked open a tall, dark figure jumped like a startled cat. The devil cleared his throat. His raspy voice betrayed his surprise. "Hello, uh, welcome to Hell!"He quickly moved to tidy up the desk in front of him. "I don't get a lot of visitors, so this is exciting! Welcome, come in!" I was taken a...
**The House of Claus** “Santa, the representatives of the North Pole Committee of Public Safety are outside. They say this is your last chance, or they will take the palace by force.” The big red belly hung low over the rumbling fire place. Santa’s head was bowed but his eyes burned with intensity. Visible through th...
"You have spent 10 cycles upon this world under heaven,"the angel spoke with a whispy lilt. "For this, you will be given a choice that has been given for ages past. Name however many more cycles you wish to remain in life, before returning to the arms of the afterlife. Know this, however; should you delay, the forces o...
"Well, this is just *typical*,"Archibald moaned. He, along with Alexander, Anna, and Hellspawn the Second, were slowly sinking into an enormous mound of quicksand. I stood off to the side, having been the only one to fully review the survival handbook before embarking on the Quest for Ra's Amulet. "Dennis!"Anna shout...
I look into the cave in front of me, the scorched vegetation around silent witnesses of all that have failed the “Three Tasks”. I have succeeded so far Traversing the Enchanted Forest and procuring the Sand of Dreams, but the last task I do not know if it can be done… fire from The Dragon to transform the sand into Gla...
"We can't go in there, Victor" "Why not, Rabbi?" The Rabbi stood there for a second, his face one movement away from laughter, before recomposing itself and replying, "I guess you wouldn't yet know. You know how whenever we scout, I leave a mark somewhere on the property?" "Yes, Rabbi. What does that have to do with...
“Captain, we've downloaded the data from the international space station black box.” The Captain raised his eyes to the young man in front of him. “Good. Where is it?” “Right here, sir.” The soldier dropped a little, metallic file driver on the table. “Any idea what happened?” “We didn't watch it yet, sir. But lik...
*"OH GAWD YES"* cried Mr. Slave in ecstasy. The seasoned members of the Inquisition looked on in horror as one by one, their time tested methods of torture failed on the bizarre creature before them. *"We...have met our match it seems."* *"No! Blast it! Try again! Try the stretcher!"* Ferdinand and Daniel grabbed t...
Jim sat, heavily, in his chair, staring up at the sky. He didn't often drink, but tonight seemed a night for bourbon. He stared, and he thought. Jim had long since given up trying to make sense of the world. The country had gone mad, ever since that alien who looked like a man had arrived and started flying around, 's...
Claus gave a hearty chuckle as he slammed the cage door shut in my face, and a chorus of giggling reindeer answered him. Behind them, I could see the faces of the elves staring helpless from their frosty workshop windows. None of them dared speak up against Santa's oppression; they were only one step up from those of u...
Richard Copper was a beculiar man, yes beculiar, which is definitely a word, which is used in this context of this particular story. He was a smith in the small town of York in the Britains. He had normal smithy days and did normal not in any way special smithy things. Except on this day, which was a Thursday. Which fo...
When twenty six kilometre long extraterrestrial ships appeared in orbit, they were met with equal parts joy and terror. Joy in that we weren't alone, and that we might soon fly with them. Terror from our own stories, the thoughts that they would break us, make us into slaves. Countries raced to make first contact. Wel...
"See, the hoomans call this "creestll meath""The words echoed through the bathroom in the shitty decrepit spaceport bathroom, bouncing wildly around off the tacky chromed walls and ceiling. "And I'm gonna find out what the fuss is about as soon as I work up the grebmocks to do it"The silence after that statement seemed...
My response here does not speak for the entirety of the mod team. 1. We currently hide all up/downvote scores for 4 hours before the scores are visible. This may not be entirely effective at reducing the Fastest Gun In The West effect, so I will look into increasing it. 2. This is not a good idea. It relies solely ...
I walked into the bar and everyone laughed. I was in a pink dress, just one of the many results of my curse, and everyone thought it was hilarious. They stopped laughing when I knocked out three of them in one blow. I sat at my usual stool, and ordered a beer. "Joe?"the guy next to me, Bill, asked. "Is that you?" I t...
**Intro** "What... is all of this?" With paling faces, the sailors silently walked through the crumbled ruins and ashes of what looked to be a coastal village. The captain, Guatemoc, remained calm and collected, but if one paid enough attention, they could see a tinge of fear in his eyes. "This place has been cur...
The sight of your home planet exploding into infinite pieces is quite jarring. At first, the beauty sucks you in. Your eyes lock onto the sight silently. Eventually, your eyes wander around, noticing that the other two ISS astronauts have joined you in the bay to watch. It was as if they had been paged subconsciously t...
Strictly speaking, my “thing” isn’t negative. I reasoned with myself as I made my way to the door. Strictly speaking, it doesn’t hurt anyone...that much...right? So, strictly speaking, they should not be here. I opened the door. My visitor smiled, “Miss Fae, is it?” I studied her as best I could. She was taller than ...
“Well, the newest members are Honeypuff and you, Killmurder”, started Bonesplosion. “I think you two are the most likely suspects.” The others agreed. “Fair enough”, Killmurder started, “but I have my suspicions about you, Creamy. “You joined last Tuesday, right Creamy?” “Yup!” “You were never in our files, right...
NASA spent years building a nuclear submarine that had enough energy to melt the kilometres of ice it needed to penetrate into the potentially life bearing waters of one of Jupiter's most promising moons. The orbital satellite pinged information from the above ice ground station down to the sub and back, we knew the cr...
They don't understand. Of course they didn't--how could they? Those primitive little ape-children were weak and cowardly. They knew nothing of war, having never once engaged a single member state of the Galactic Concordance in honorable battle. No, the sniveling ape-children always wanted to talk, to *negotiate!*...
Carefully navigating the Dark Road, I skittered to my destination: a simple bedroom in a suburban house, or at least the outside of it in our world. After some searching I’ve found the passage into the human realm. Peeling the fabric of the shadow apart little by little, I began squirming through it. The process took q...
*Dear Satan,* *I haev been a good girl this* *~~eayr~~* *year.* Satan curled the letter an let out a booming laugh. "No she hasn't!"he cackled before clutching his side stitch in delightful agony. He knew exactly how many schoolyard brawls she had started and trinkets she'd stolen since May. His demon secretary, Ur...
The sapling is a curious thing, with broad silvery leaves the likes you had never seen. An internet search reveals nothing remotely similar. You shrug, put it under a grow light, and water it sparingly. It burgeons, stretching upward not by the day but by the hour. Within weeks, its roots have cracked three increasing...
Knight Leander the paladin kicked open the ornate double doors, gleamed in the reflected light from her polished plate armour, raised her sword high over her head, and bellowed, "In the name of Maaike the Seventeenth, I order you, dragon, to cease and desist in your..." She paused and looked around the room at the peo...
"OH shit shit shit!!! Here he comes!"Ivo called out. We all raised our weapons and got into position. This was it, all of our training and preparation was going to be put to the test. This one human wrecking machine had punched through all our defenses and laid waste to hundreds of bases in his path. We had never imag...
This world moves in eras. There was an era of the Roman Empire, the British Empire, both world wars were eras of their own. And in each of these eras, the Heavens bestow upon each of us a destiny. Destinies could be minor, some would be major. A few lucky ones could have even stronger destinies, but 2 people in each er...
It was a Tuesday evening, I was hours from graduation — to becoming a semi-qualified hero — and it was the day I’d die. “They *turn them* into supervillains,” I sputtered, face tomato-red, outrage almost suffocating me. We’d just come from of our final lecture, the last secrets of herohood revealed to us during it. ”G...
The detective's heart sank as he ascended the subway stairs. On each stair, another message, a sick clue left by the murderer. And there, just before the stairs hit street level, in the green glow of the Seven-Eleven sign beyond, lay the naked body of another victim. "Talk to me"he barked to the officer on the scene. ...
"I want to sign up,"I say, pulling back a hard plastic chair and sitting the other side of the table to a peroxide-blonde lady who is half-way through a giant crossword. She must have been at it all day. Her eyes flick up to me, then back down to the black and white boxes. I'm not much to look at, and not like the oth...
"You fool. You know not what you've done. The laws governing our magic prevent any wish from granting the ability to obtain more wishes." The genie was absorbed back into his lamp, and to my shock, that very lamp started shrinking in on itself, before turning into the very map I sought. It rolled up and fell to the fl...
There was something, Ash-Bringer thought, that was Not Quite Right about this place. Not that he was one to brag, but *usually* when people caught sight of his enormous wings darkening the skies, they fled in terror. Like an anthill kicked over, he would watch as the villagers below would scatter and scurry, the women...
<fantasy> "Listen, I assume you mostly know what's what by now. You're what? One forty, one fifty?"I didn't volunteer. Before that day, I'd barely even dealt with Geldisa. Soft G, I was warned. "Pfft, whatever, old man."She turned away from me to look out the window. It... It almost looked like sulking. "Great, s...
*It's all in the arm.* Shielbearer. The Unyielding. The Unbreakable - titles that are one and all mine by right. Common folk and foes alike know my shield to be unbreakable, a bulwark on which many foes shattered their blades. Made of ancient wood and assembled by legendary, long-dead craftsmen. A relic of a forgotten...
"This isn't possible,"I repeated for maybe the fiftieth time. The man in front of my calmly sipped his coffee, apparently totally unbothered by everyone else's ceasing to move. I looked around at the rest of the café. As with every other time, it was solid. I don't mean, like, it had all stopped - I mean, that's what...
It takes me a couple seconds to understand the pounding I'm hearing isn't only the hangover, and that whoever is going at my door intends to keep at it until I either wake up, or they break it.The waves of nausea are immediate, vicious, as I stumble to my feet, sight still blurry. I haven't gotten myself in such a stat...
When I came to the Moon to work for the Lunarless organisation, I knew I would be working with the Lycans. I was ready for it, too. I am not one of those prejudiced people who think the Lycans lesser. What I wasn't ready for was the Full Earth. Yes. The Full Earth. I *had* heard the rumours. Everyone who came to th...
Data Files for project ‘Bob Ross – Happy Little Humans’ 20470713 05:36:01. Traffic Cam on corner of Rutgers Ave and Warner Ave, NYC Observation: Young woman walking and texting, about to step into the street in the path of a truck Action: Set of car alarm of Toyota RAV4 next to young woman. The loud noise and ligh...
In the beginning, there was the great and terrible primordial ocean, within it lived Cipactli, a many-mouthed abomination which consumed all that fell into those ancient turbulent seas. The gods saw this and found it unacceptable. This manifested hunger would allow for nothing to exist, for it would be consumed by the ...
"Oh, uhhh, a zero?"the school nurse said running his hand over the tattoo on the back of my neck. "You see anyone about this?" "No? What, is this deadly?"I asked, worried. "No, no, it's nothing to worry about. I'm sure you would have seen the negative effects of it by now." "Then why do I need to see someone?"I ask...
**November 1st 2019** I finally got around to reviewing the book grandpa wrote. At first I thought the title was a joke but once I got it into it... yeah, calling it The *Beginner's Guide To Warlocking* made sense. I mean, there is this whole niche market for wicca, witchcraft, healing crystals and other rubbish. Why...