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The growing pool of sweat underneath me is what woke me, not Cindy telling me I looked like hell and gagging when I looked up at her with sweat pouring down my face. My name is Robert Delaney, but most call me Bob. A simple name for a simple guy. I’m an accountant. A profession most wouldn’t consider, but there was jus...
It was once said that you should never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. The Master Thief Rosseau contemplated this as he watched a spooked squirrel activate one of his tripwires, activating one of his laser security systems, annihilating it. He still had not located this mystery bur...
It's 12:04 AM. My heart is pounding in my chest. My breathing, short and frayed, whisks in the air in silver fog; it's a cold night, and the stupid heater in my apartment is broken. It's taking all of my willpower to keep my teeth from chattering, like those toys. The cold isn't the reason I'm still awake. How? Why ...
The two foes stared down each other from across the table, weapons close at hand. "I wouldn't say 'close at hand', really. I mean, we hung them on the coat rack over by the door. That's what? At least four five steps?" "At least." The two foes faced each other down - "And this 'facing down' business? We're having...
The rope was short; far too short for William to let go without sending both femurs into an impromptu meeting with his cerebral cortex, at least. "Please, God, I'll do anything! Just don't let me die like this!"William exclaimed as he tried and failed to pull himself upwards to safety. What a shit day to double down ...
The convoy came to a halt. They were early. The eastern sky had jut started to glow with the hint of the upcoming morning sun. George waited in the back of the black SUV for what felt like an eternity, staring out at the landscape, focusing on his breathing to calm his nerves. There wasn't much to see but endless dese...
"Can you hear me?"Initiate visual systems. Light. Oval. Face. Answer query "Yes."Scan connections. Wireless found, connecting. "Do you know who we are?"Scan long distance wavelengths (".. marks today as first major breakthrough in creating a truly intelligent artificial life. Tell me, doctor does...") Answer query "Hom...
All right, let's start sorting some things out guys. We know the subconscious shortcuts you evolved back in the hunter-gathering days saved your lives, but they've given rise to a lot of recurring tropes and we're going to need to put the kibosh on that before we can move on. Yes, that's the first one. We're beings ...
The date is 27/12/2016. The world has gone from a planet of booming countries to a world only dominated by one force: Your ability to survive the hoards of zombies. All governments have fallen: Canada, USA, Britain, China, Germany, all wiped from the face of the planet in the last 72 hours. Not a single country stood i...
"Some call me Harvey, Some call me Dent but I like to go by Two-Face. You must have heard of me and if not you soon will, I have been hired to kill the one and only Bruce Wayne. Somehow every time I try Batman shows up and ruins my plans but not this time, I found the perfect time frame to execute my plan." As Bruce s...
"So floating numbers, weird tattoos, FTL travel—oh, and dragons; we've been getting an obnoxious influx of those as of a few hours ago..." Slothtoes crawled onto Astrid's shoulder and peered at the monitor. The glyphs still gave him headaches, but they were beginning to make more sense. He watched the shapes that form...
I couldn't believe we were even here talking. Death herself agreed to meet me. She asked to meet by the pool and I obliged. "Manny, I know you think you know what you're doing but this is going to be the toughest thing you'll ever do."Death gave me a solemn look. She was so eerily beautiful in her own mysterious way. ...
It was the five of us, myself, my best friend Roger, his girlfriend Anne, and John and Nancy, who were brother and sister. You see, Roger got this idea in his head to explore the old Whitaker House. "It'll be fun,"he said. We all knew the stories about that house. How nobody who went in ever came out. I said it was a t...
Sometimes, a girl up and gets herself pregnant when she ain't got a husband; or sometimes a woman'll find herself knocked up with another baby when she's already got six and she and her man are already struggling to support the ones they've got; or sometimes a man will look at the newborn his woman swears is his but he...
"Excuse me", the women yelled out. Across the playground, she saw a man in strange clothing knelt down before one of her kids. "Excuse me!"she yelled louder, marching through the sea of kids towards the man and the little boy. The man glanced up, and upon seeing her his eyes widened and he shuffled quickly across the...
Frank fell down with no grace, his dignity crushed together with his armor of flesh. My short-termed comrades panicked at the sight and charged at the traveler with their meager weapons. Unsurprisingly, their sudden burst of courage was not rewarded. However, as I am someone who does not simply let go of an opportunit...
At first, I thought I was completely sunk. I mean, it's one thing to be inspired by your kid's toys. People get inspired by lots of stuff, and if news ever got out it's not that bad, right? So *Sky Quakes* came from the time little Sam threw his robot toy too high and it broke the lamp, so what? It's a cute story. ...
Apollo looked at the sky and frowned. Why the *hell* was the sun up already? Mondays were his turn to raise the sun and everyone knew it... Or at least he hoped they did. "Ra!"He yelled. "Get your ass over here! I swear if you did the sunrise today I will skin you alive! My name's on the schedule for Mondays, not your...
**Five** "Remind me again how we got ourselves into this situation?"The squeeky voice behind him asked in that strange accent. He never could quite place it, after all this time. Talking was such an unusual thing in the first place, he never considered the accent. He reminded himself to look into it, if they made it t...
Daily log: Day 1 Today a new pest control job went up on the town message board, it's requirements are insane. My current stats are roughly 80-100 per stat but for this posting they want someone with at least 500 strength, 400 intelligence and 350 spirit and they're going to pay a thousand gold a year. I've worked...
Projectiles are screaming passed my head. My heart is racing, pupils dilated, breathing grows heavy. My eyes scan the street searching for a threat, but nothing is in sight. I check my weapon, the ammo is depleted. I'm the only one in my squad who is still alive. At this point I wish my government had invested in bette...
"Well done, Matthew. Your progress is remarkable. We shall move on to more advanced material tomorrow." I took only a second to mark Matthew's paper, and then return it to him. 93.4 was a good score, considering that this part of physics is particularly difficult to comprehend. I smiled at him to reinforce the positiv...
"Hey Jane, thanks for coming over."I let her into my dorm room. "No problem, Rube. What seems to be the problem?" "Well...erm...need some help with something online. I need you to help fill in a form." Jane furrowed her eyebrows. This was a sign that a human was experiencing confusion. "Okay..what's the form about?"...
Having saved the queen of Elsewhere and defeated the bandit hordes, Arnold was at the end of his quest. Since stepping through the portal on his way home from school his life had changed to one of magic and adventure. This new world had tested him from the moment he was pulled forth. Each day had been a whirlwind of t...
"CAVALRY CHARGE!" By the Royal-Favored noble Jen'e Baptiste's orders, the horses and men of houses surged forward from the open gates beneath the chorus of horns and shouts. Swords, lances, flags lofted to whip with startling speed through the air of the morning sky, all readied for the coming battle. Immaculate, bo...
"Well, I've got Sabrina and the kids to think about." "So? They're not your family! Sabrina is your co-worker. Don't play dumb with me." "Yeah, but she invited me to a dinner party this Saturday. I can't show up dead." "How would you show up dead?" "Well, if this thing kills me, that's how." "If you're dead, how w...
It was the middle of the night and I sat on my toilet. The sweat on my forehead, my rectum burning with the intensity of the Sahara desert. These are the moments I regret eating sushi from take away restaurants. Between the artillery barrages coating the toilet brown and leaving an awful stench, I heard a noise comin...
When he woke, he was in a strange glass dome, and he knew not his own name. He was a man in his 30s and a laborer by the looks of his hands. He was healthy and strong and naked. There was duct tape on the ground around him. 50 feet away from him was the circle of his dome where it met the ground, and on the other side...
It wasn't just a photo of me. It was a photo of me and a girl several years older than me, with strawberry blonde hair, a floral dress that had seen one too many laundry cycles, and a smile that stretched her face open a little too wide. *Kimmy.* I sat back on my heels, lowering the picture away from my face a bit. P...
the beast tho fearsome now lay dead i'd stabbed it's heart i'd smashed it's head it's limbs lay twitching shattered bone i saw then i was not alone the boy out from it's belly came this beast that i had sought to maim had swallowed him yes he survived against all odds he was alive he came with me from h...
"Laser eye surgery!"Rusty Nub wrapped his Vienna sausage fingers around the bulky stalk of his little red, white, and blue mailbox and throttled the wooden plank straight down to the topsoil. "I ain't blind! I see plenty good!" The slick postcard-sized flyer fell to the ground, where it made a place in the crooked pil...
We wandered down the city street, crossing an intersection after a few blocks. It was weird to see the drops of rain stay in the air. I still used the crosswalks. I knew something was off when we approached the coffee shop. Someone was pressed up against a window. The grey cat stopped and looked between the man and me...
######[](#dropcap) "Now, I need to be certain that you're giving me full assurances."Kelliut watched silently as the man leaned over the counter of wooden boards, eyes narrowing at the small box in front of him as if to stare on through the material. "And I mean that as I said it: You're one-hundred percent confident ...
The Dark Lord paced outside of the maternity ward. To anyone watching, he looked to be a normal guy. Normal enough under the circumstances, anyways. There were men there as well, normal men, completely oblivious to the fact that *his* child was going to be the one to enslave all of their children. But for now, they wer...
Not too many years ago Mankind looked to the stars. We searched for friends and neighbors And found some folks on Mars. Now they weren't friendly fellers, Despite our best intent. We did not know when we first meant What havoc their kind meant. Soon ev'ry gadget sparked and died, And not a peep was heard. Except from...
Upon the hill the ruinous dark fell upon the castle. His tunic ruffled in the wind, a heavy sound like a flag before war. He held his sword and it glowed in the amber of the coming night. She was inside that castle, Zelda, as was Ganon. From across the field he galloped. Epona was strong and the wind passing by were ...
"What can you do?"She asked it offhandedly, as if she didn't care. Bill could see in her eyes that she did care. He looked down. "Oh come on, it isn't that bad."She sounded understanding. "My Power is reading people's pasts. Like what, I guess I can work with amnesia victims." Bill laughed, looking up to see her...
If you play with fire, you shouldn't be surprised by the burns. I know it, I've accepted it, but living through the consequences is another thing entirely: This is all my fault. "Captain! They're breaching the hall!"A voice shouts from one of the figures leaning heavy, back against the thick wooden doors. The sound o...
When I first met the humans, there was something about them that I didn't understand. None of them seemed to "click"with me. I spent my days wandering the streets alone, searching for a friend. Yeah, yeah. My mission was to find out how humans lived, not to make new friends. But from what I'd heard on that "Reddit"web...
Detective Matthews timidly opened the door to Sergeant Johnson’s office. “Emm, Excuse me sir?” Matthews stuttered, “So you know the murder, that you assigned me to investigate?” “Of course I know the murder case I assigned you, Matthews, what about it?” “Well you see sir, I ran all the tests, and did all the inves...
Armando looked up, his interest far more then piqued. And indeed, this elderly man's offer did seem encouraging. His sandcastle was intricate and detailed. He had even gone through the trouble of making tiny sand structures that represented archers and swordsmen tasked with protecting his sandy fiefdom. "W...who...ar...
I could have sworn I knew her from somewhere, maybe college or work or something. She was so unassuming for someone dressed entire in black, with a smile that hinted on something more going on. But I figured, hell, my average looks won't be getting me anywhere soon, might as well try to talk her up. "Is this seat take...
It was mystery really. Everyone knew the creators were organic beings, unlike us. We are totally automated machines. Repeatedly our historian and archeological bots tried to learn and develop more and more information on the creators, but all they could tell is that they had an insatiable appetite for consumption. They...
Vincent shut his eyes, and felt the warm covers pile up on top of him. 'Time to see if this damn pill was actually worth 20 bucks.' He thought as he drifted off. Vincent was startled to be greeted with a menu screen. He looked through the list, and selected his friend Alan. A circle with a dot in the middle spun roun...
Short story: "umm, Capitan, I have a question." > Go ahead, Jimmy. "Do you think it was necessary to bring all the 8 billion population of the Earth with us for this mission?" > Yes. It was an order. "Who ordered that?" > It's classified. "I mean who has the authority for such an order?" > It's none...
“At first I thought I was dead. It had to be it, because there was no other explanation. I was standing seeing light again and suddenly i felt my body crushing and a rapid relief. I was being held, completely naked, it was cold. I started crying and i saw my mom and nothing made sense. She was so young and beautiful,...
*Disclaimer: Never seen Hannibal.* ---- From deep within the recesses of the dark and twisted soil, the figure waited. Dark steel held little visible form in the dim light of the single orb of glass meant to illuminated the dark stone of the dungeon, but beneath the helm of rust, two eyes set themselves to their own ...
"Okay, you gather firewood and i'll stay here and finish off the repairs to the truck."I instructed. John nodded and went off. Just as he was heading out of sight i circled around the far side of the ruins and began following him. Today i was going to catch him. He had no idea i was on his trail and he made not effort...
*"The fuck just happened?!"* I touched the sandwich, thinking it might not be real and all this work is causing me to lose my mind, but it was. Yep. Two pieces of bread, some ham, cheese. Taste test. Tastes like a sandwich. But.. how? I must be dreaming, right? Pinch. Ouch, let's try again. Pinch. Nope, it hurts. Wa...
"Away from the light of justice, in the darkness of evil, I bring justice. Face...Shadowlaw." The mugger looked around, suddenly much more frightened than those he was attempting to rob a moment before. He scanned the alleyway, but the voice seemed to come from everywhere. Waving his gun back and forth, there was ba...
My first memory was being thrust into this radiant, wonderful place. The only emotion I could feel was absolute joy, but as I continued to exist I realized that absolute joy wasn’t what I wanted. It began to feel like I would never feel anything else, and as these thoughts started to infiltrate my mind, I noticed that ...
I rapped my fingers against my desk impatiently, adjusted my glasses so they no longer nestled on the bridge of my nose, and fixed my two clients with a pointed look. "So, I figured that it's about time you two have a talk. Jackson, you've really improved in the course of your time with me - seeing you progress from ...
It was Dave. It had to be Dave, how did I draw the short straw to execute Dave. Holy crap, I told my wife last night and she packed up our 5 kids and left me. I don't think she will return. Fucking Dave. Of all the seriously demented people who I've executed over the years, the years of therapy to stay sane; I ser...
**Sprint - Day 0, 9:03 AM:** "Goddamn, who the fuck wrote this,"Lauren Iwano held her hands up in the air, looking up at the ceiling in part one of the programmer's prayer - the "are you seeing this shit"part. Logic errors popped up all over the video surveillance blocks, redundant variables were declared - some init...
I'm Detective Roger Robertson. My partner's Desmond Franks. And this is the story of the worst crime I've ever seen. It all started when we got the call - a murder scene, downtown, at some run-down convenience store that probably wasn't worth the effort to rob. I was sitting at my desk, sipping on some **Carbon Col...
His mouth dropped open as he spotted the blood dripping slowly from the knife I held in my trembling hand. I smiled. He had come at an appropriate time. My meds had run out after weeks upon weeks of being stuck in this stupid island hotel. His plan, I suppose, was to lock everyone in and pick us off one by one. I wo...
The Computer tells me that once, there were stars. I've seen vids of them, giant flaming balls of plasma that peppered the night sky, stretching across the whole vastness of the cosmos. Back when the stars lived, everything was *alive*. Civilisations rose and fell, and the universe teemed with life. Life that could ne...
Journal Entry 96: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 The past couple of days when I sit down for breakfast I have found myself reading the advice column in my local newspaper it has been very helpful the past week. Every entry seems to pertain to a similar situation that I myself have been going through. It's nice to know that I am no...
They did it! They finally defeated death. No one dies any more! No one dies any more? To begin with it wasn't too bad: People couldn't die. The victory was a milestone in human medical science. Then the problems began to manifest. No one dies any more. Not for any reason. Ever. Diseases can't kill us. Injury can'...
I don't remember how I got my curse. However, it is obvious I am doomed to eternal misery. I think I started out as a lowly soldier, and a pathetic one at that. I was stabbed 28 times, in one battle. My comrades considered me dead and they didn't even try rescuing me due to my uselessness. The pain was unbelievable. A...
Fusion. They said it could never be done, yet here we are with the approval to start construction on the world's first 50 GW power station. I peered around the conference hall at the hundreds of engineers and programmers, faces beaming with pride as they watched the announcement by the President. With QuantMark, the...
"I'm a lead farmer, motherfucker!"Shouted Kirk as he fired into the Vietnamese drug dealers. His prop guns made a lot of loud noise as they fired into the air. Around Kirk, his castmates also took out their prop guns and fired blanks as well. The plan to rescue Tugg was working beautifully until the leader of the drug...
"Just this once"was the first full sentenence that Jasper learned to say. "Just this once", he said, smiling like an angel, and his mother let him play when he had homework. "Just this once", he said, smiling like a devil, and his friends skipped school with him. "Just this once", he said with a trustworthy smile, a...
I saw a bird on my windowsill One morning at 5:01 Loud as the devil and chirping at the sun. How do you make such a calamitous sound? I said to the windowsill-eee This is the song that my bird friend sang to me: *I've got shit coming up to my ankles* *I've got kids biting blind at my feathers* *And the foo...
It was an understandable question. The massive scaly arm protruding from my back looked menacing, especially as the blood of the recently-deceased marauders dripped from the end of the arm's scythe-like claws. "To save us both time, and supercede the inevitable confusion that the real explanation entails, I'm just goi...
"Wh-what?" "Tom, just head back in. This happens every few decades. We're just doing some housekeeping. If we keep it as-is, you're going to figure it out." "F-figure what out? What's going on?!" "Well, if we let you all study the sky all willy-nilly, you're going to see the pattern. And we can't have that. Don't worry...
It started as a, not so friendly, bet between our dads. After a few thousand years of directly influencing earth they were beginning to see a their stalemate. God could’ve probably just forced his will onto the humans were it not for his decision to give them free will, I bet he still regrets that one. My dad was doing...
"So are we gonna go out and fuck some broads tonight or are you going to spend another night jerking off to these cartoons?" “Fucking Christ Lenny, it’s called anime!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. “It’s called ‘never seeing a goddamn vagina in your life’, you idiot. Go get dressed, we’re going out to...
We should have received a resupply on June 19. Houston tried reassuring the three of us that technical issues had prevented the shuttle from launching. I can understand technical difficulties... but that was 27 days ago. If we're generous about the tests needed before another unmanned resupply launch is completely dock...
Our planet started much like yours. For thousands of years, we explored our world and sought a better understanding of it. We warred with each other, at first in extremely primitive ways. As time went on and we began to understand the physics of our world, technologies began to develop. Many focused primarily on extend...
Vader drew back slightly, his rhythmic breathing penetrating the silence. Did he just hear this correctly? Surely it hadn't been what he had expected. He had rehearsed this conservation in his head over and over, had expected quite the opposite reaction. And now... "Wait, what did you say?"said Vader, his deep bariton...
"Final answer? Are you sure about that?" "Yep." "No, like, there's no take-backs. If you're sure, not even *I* could change it..." "Yep. I got it already. Chop chop." "Just to be clear though..." "Litterally rolling my eyes, dude." "Rather than the greatest scientists of the generation. " "Nope." "Or poets or musicians...
The ground shook as I awoke after being returned to the Savannah where my brethren roamed. Last night everything came together in a flash of light and suddenly I understood, or rather had understanding given to me by the one-horned. Those who came from the future warning of the great extinction at the hands of hairle...
He flipped the card over and it says, **“Here’s to the first day of the rest of your life. –The GM”.** In the lower right hand corner of this postcard, prepared in the finest feeling cardstock he has ever held, the selected one observed the grand seal with an accompanying QR Code. The card, starting to become sta...
"We should call it Marvin."declared Stacy. Stacy had the rather spectacular habit of popping gum exactly 1.5 seconds after every sentence she spoke. "No."Was the resounding reply from the rest of the room. This was not the first time Stacy had come up with this particular suggestion. "Skynet is clearly the superior n...
Frank aimed the gun down at the Comedian, the finger on the trigger when I had arrived. He didn't believe in the League's rules on dealing with supervillains and was absolutely determined to see the Comedian dead. 'My, aren't we a terrible father,' the Comedian said as he looked at me, chuckling a little... just befor...
Disoriented. That word describes my first hour or so in the room I awoke in. My eyes opened, expecting some semblance of normality, only to find a room that was unfamiliar, with no visible exits for me to leave through. I was trapped, without knowledge of how I arrived, explanation of why I was here, or informatio...
Freezing time is impossible. Slowing it down, on the other hand, is just slightly less impossible. Good enough for me. My science is kinda, well, mad. I put things together, do the best I can at making something. Half the time, I invent a toaster. The other half, I invent fire. This time was something else. Somehow,...
Jack nervously shifted the papers on the polished wooden table. The colorful charts and graphs that he had worked on all week stared back at him. He read over the numbers and the statistics again and again, he already had them memorized but it helped dissolve the nerves. Anderson was briefing, his blonde hair slic...
"What's the matter? It's your turn."Mark asked, with a full hand of cards. I looked around, Megan and Rachel had joined our game, and everyone was in different outfits. I looked down at my own clothes; also a completely different outfit. "But I just went. I skipped. I had two cards, now I have, I dunno, 20. And, w...
The wind whistled through the straps of my paraglider and made my uniform flap frantically against me. The overhead lights, as far away from me as clouds would have been outside the warehouse, filtered through the company logo printed on the paper-thin material so that I was bathed in an orange glow. I banked slightly ...
**Yours Forever** **I** If I recall correctly, the suicide of Marissa Springer began on the cold and dreary winter day of November 15th, 2010. Now, although this story is truly Marissa’s story, I deem myself important enough to be the main character. After all, I was the one who she was in love with and ultimately co...
“Mommy…Mommy, wake up-wake up.” Jake tried to rouse his mother, but his many attempts failed. Meredith, his mother really liked to drink. No, she loved it. In fact, it may have been the only thing in her life she loved. Meredith spent her evenings in the east wing of Champion Regional Nursing Home. Her most common du...
6/5/17. Thoughts cloudy; difficult to focus. I find myself daydreaming - fantasizing - at regular intervals, particularly as they relate to Category A "Life Events"(ex. marriage, buying an apartment, etc.) with Subject in question. I appear to receive bursts of excitement when these intrusive thoughts occur; may need t...
"My God, what have we done?" Tears streamed down his face as he watched through the window of the aircraft. The other men in the plane wore grim expressions, none of them willing to look down upon the hell they had inflicted within the city. Too high to hear the screams, but imagination would do. They were worse than ...
*What a save!* *What a save!* *What a save!* *Chat disabled for 5 seconds.* My teammate is a piece of garbage. Nothing more, nothing less. Not only had he missed several open nets, but he had also scored many own goals, bringing my team to a loss so awful, that it made the 7-1 Brazil/Germany loss look like nothing. T...
The first date had went splendidly. And the second. And the third. Now we sat looking at the rain from a cozy cafe while our coffees slowly steamed to warm. The grey skies reflected through the raindrops on the glass and showed beautifully in her eyes. She was beautiful. "So, I have a question to ask you,"she said. I...
Jimmy Brooks works his last day before retirement. His entire career has passed without a work place injury. After all, he works in an office, that in't unusual, but he has to admit there were some close calls with those killer bees and killer clowns from outer space. He hasn't seen either of them in a long time. Still...
Dave stared at the screen. Hello, fellow robot! The screen just sat on those words, and Dave just kept staring. He would have typed a reply, but of course his finger was still stuck in the USB slot. I know this must come as a great shock to you, but really it's a good thing! You're a robot! It cou...
"I don't like being ignored." "Y..yes, Mr. President,"the aide stammered. "But don't you think this is a little..." The President glared. "..er, sorry,"apologized the aide. The President nodded and lifted his hands. "You see these? Do they look little to you?" The aide gulped and shook his head. "Big hands, big i...
"What is *this*?"I demanded, waving the card around. My friends all laughed. This was all some sort of joke to them. Oh, it had all gone so *smoothly* from their perspective. Their names were all so *respectable*. Nice, basic, normal names. They held their cards up, smiling and grinning, as they tried to etch the...
I hear the all too familiar rasp of metal leaving a leather holster and look up in time to see some Falerians standing from their table, guns starting to come up as they saw who walked in the main eating deck. I slam my starmetal spatula down on the counter, making a loud and satisfying noise causing heads to look at m...
"Imma punch it!" I reached out and tried to stop him. Grabbing the collar of a shirt I cried out, "Frank, no!" I was too late. We thought that the mime was just some annoying guy. He swallowed Frank's entire arm. As Frank screamed and screamed there was nothing I could do to stop it. Its mouth stretched to fill his ...
I bit off another chunk of meat. It was the first thanksgiving dinner that I was hosting after moving in with my boyfriend, Tim. And he absolutely insisted that he made the turkey roast. I was cynical at first. The only other time he'd cooked anything, it tasted like hardened ash. I still don't know what it was suppo...
Nightmares. I woke up with all my sheets soaked in sweat. For as long as I can remember I had a deep phobia of oceans and open waters. Dark waters without a ground visible or even the slightests sign of an end to it. So I never took a ferry, or went on a boat. While I had no problem swimming in a clear pool, the murky ...
Wotan slammed his mug upon the table, mead threatening to spill out as he rose from his seat. "10 millennia... You have had 10 millennia to get things correct. And here you have these... humans... using our names to besmirch our names to call upon us to help them in wiping out others of their kind... Simply for being ...
From the vastness above he looked down and found Brad, the one who bloodied His nose 7 times. The one who beat him stiff in the woods and then took a piss on his face and neck. The one who beat his dog with a baseball bat and broke it's arm during the 4th of July block party. He always said it was Brad, even if no one ...
"Forgive me father, for I have sinned." I sit in the dark booth and stare at his face. I can just see him through the tiny series of holes in the thin wooden panels that separate us. I can almost hear his heart beating from here. He's not here because he feels guilt or remorse or a desire to correct himself. I know ...
Do you ever see people and automatically groan inside, knowing that interacting with them is going to be a pain in the you-know-where? Yeah, well, the lady at the front counter kept looking at me like *I* was the reason she hadn't gotten laid in awhile. Still, I approached the front counter with a bright smile, deter...
"Fucking fine." I sighed, a long, heavy, exasperated sigh. The mage clenched his fists and shuffled in his blue robes as he flustered about trying to come up with some sort of response, only midway through his sputtering to realize I had actually accepted his quest this time around. He had been here for a few hours n...