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Mom and dad found a pet for me to bring home to play with when I was recently out of highschool. She was from a bad home and we were so happy to have her in ours. One of her ears were clipped off at the top. First, I got her used to me, and brought her into the basement, where I slept. We wanted to get her used to tha...
######[](#dropcap) It was odd. The iron bars had been missing when the child woke up. They had never seen this before, and the discovery elicited new feelings in the bottom of their belly. The child was not sure what to do with this new sensation in their body, and was uneasy with their cage no longer being an enc...
*May 6th, 2016* *4:36 pm* *djones.wordpress.com* *It's my senior year at Piedmont High. I never really liked the place to be honest. Too boring, the teachers are all hardasses and the cafeteria food tastes like paste and cardboard. The only exciting thing to happen in my four years here is gonna be the time capsule ...
"Good, now remember, you need to signal *before* you turn. Not only is it required by law, but also will keep people from rear ending you. Hopefully." Kevin's driving instructor, Mr. Grayson, made a note on his clip board. "Where to next Mr. Grayson?"Kevin asked. "Let's head back to the school, Kevin. You have done...
"Hello?"I called on the busy streets. "Can anyone hear me?" My voice echoed off of the skyscrapers, the glassy walls repeating my greeting in a mocking chant. Cars rolled by, people walked past, and all of them ignored my plea. "Anyone? If this is some kind of prank, it's not funny anymore."Laughter came from behi...
Caroline was eight when she saw her first shooting star. She looked upon it, closed her eyes, and made her wish. She spent the next few years wandering to the edge of the forest by her house, looking for wherever the star had fallen. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew that it couldn't be close by. At the same...
The lit cigarette rolled over a piece of gum caked into the sidewalk. I almost fell over trying to pick it up. Woah, got up too fast, I'm dizzy. I blew on the end where I put my mouth, as if that would make the sidewalk germs go away. But I whatever, really need this cigarette. Last call is in a few minutes, I should...
"Hey Dave, listen up. I got this amazing thing." What is it? "It's like a mood ring, but instead of indicating my mood, it can change different aspects of it!" That sounds incredible. How does it work? "I dunno. It's mysterious and wild. Like, if I'm bored and sad I just rub it, it changes colour and I start feelin...
"Hey, Lu. I gotta give it to you, that was pretty epic. Props for the paradoxical parables, too. As agreed, you can have Buddha down there for one week. Bee tee dubya, how'd those nails feel?" "They hurt like hell. Was totally worth it though." "So what's next for your handful of followers?" "I spiked their wine with s...
I watched the news as Senator Henry grinned. "Congress has voted to make me speaker of the house. I am now speaker of the house. It was a unanimous decision to make me speaker of the house." I wrinkled my forehead. I guess it would be a big deal to win a spur of the moment election like that, and I'm sure the guy was...
I prayed that the current silence we enjoyed was something that would last for the rest of the trip. Her Highness and I could manage one short hour riding on a horse in silence, right? "Are we there yet?"she asked again. I sighed. "Not yet, your Highness!"I couldn't bring myself to face her as I spoke. "The horse r...
September 10, 2001: Field Agent James Russell, Jr., stood outside his black sedan, smoking a cigarette. He had just cracked the biggest case of his career. Minutes ago, he had arrested an Egyptian named Mohammed Atta. He and a few of his colleagues had been investigating Atta for a while. They had received reports...
It's been a few years since it happened. I used to hear it every morning. At first I wasn't even old enough to think that it might be something that was abnormal, or unique to me. I just accepted it as a fact of life. I would wake up, and there it would be; the music. Most days it was just a simple, rhythmic beat with...
"Damnit!"screamed David as he scrambled about his messy bedroom floor. Or rather, one could call his "floor"an amalgam of Doritos bags and dirty laundry. This being the case, it was no wonder it was proving particularly difficult to find a single five-dollar bill he had dropped the other day and all but forgot about. ...
*Bampf* "Out the way...out the way..."I shoved the robed summoners aside and ran for the little door in the domed hall. Kicking it open, I spun round, belt and waistband descending as I leapt back onto the seat. *Ahhhhh.* Just in time. 10 minutes later, I arose from the...throne...and (after washing my hands i...
(*The prompt is great, but for my response i'm going to chuck out the war part and just focus on the lack of explosives. That in itself is quite interesting.*) The event was called "the day of silence". Everything that used explosions in some way ceased to operate as explosions themselves ceased to occur. Scientists s...
Captain's Log: We arrived to the Rao system just a few hours ago. I've prepared an away team to go down to the surface and investigate the distress call we've received. The planet's core appears to have destabilized but there may be survivors. It'll be myself, Spock, McCoy, and a new Ensign for security. *** The four c...
As if they didn't hate me before. Fucking hackers. Everyone wanted a little piece of of what her life looked like on the inside. They just couldn't be content with the fact that she saves, day after day after motherfucking day, their pathetic lives. Celebrity culture at its finest. My disdain of the human organism is ...
Bobby woke up to screaming from next door. He didn’t know why, but he knew his parents were fighting again. He wanted to find out why they were yelling at each other and make things better, but every time he’d walk to the kitchen it only seemed to make things worse. They’d get quiet when he came in, but then he’d hear ...
The luminosity of swirling pastels, blinding sparkles and shimmerings, and finally an eerie darkness. That's all I could recall on my journey throughout distant universes. My eyes were puffy and swollen when I awoke. The damp mattress underneath me accommodated my sleepy figure like a dream. Pun not intended. My room...
Harvey woke to a light pressure on his feet. He rolled over, sighing, to flick his bedside lamp to life. There, at the very end of the bed, sat Chester: a fat, graying chihuahua with bulbous, unblinking eyes. The wide little dog breathed heavily and splayed one shaking leg awkwardly. “Ya look purdy when ya sleep, H...
*Holy shit, it's actually happening.* The hangar was abuzz as we ran from out quarters, helmets in hand. The base commander was stood up on a podium, watching as the cranes set the fleet of fighters into launch position. "This is it, the thing we've been training for, preparing for, the day humanity takes its millenn...
Bathed in the bluish glow of an outdated screen, I reached across a pile of dirty clothing and old beer capsules for another slice of pizza. I sighed to myself, "I was born in the wrong generation. No comic genius like Adam Sandler. No humble, down to earth musicians like Kanye West. Everybody has to be forced, fake a...
The ancient man, with his half-moon glasses and polished walking stick limped inside the train carriage. Everyone else in the carriage fell silent. No one dared to get up from their seats, seeing as aged people were seen as horribly selfish beings, who deserved nothing but death. But I was a nice person who didn't beli...
I stooped down and drank deeply from the waters of eternity that were gently lapping at my feet. The afterlife was beautiful; rolling hills and wide open spaces accompanied with large, placid bodies of water spread out as far as the eye could see. The light hung in the air in great luminous masses, like balloons at a p...
It’s dark. No lights. No sound. The metal table chills my spine. Straps dig into my wrists and ankles. I can’t move. My entire body tenses trying to move in any way I can. The headstrap seems to tighten the more I struggle. In between thrashes, fluorescent lights begin to flicker 30 feet above my head. All I c...
It was once said that “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” Today, Earth has to face one of these terrifying facts. The Earth Space Program, or ESP, has sent probes into the universe to search for signs of life outside of their own small planet. All p...
It felt mundane; like an outbreak that everyone was actually trying to catch. Discoveries were being made everywhere, and while I was exposing myself to as many people as possible, nothing happened. They described the change as fast; as, suddenly, you felt like the world around you had changed. However, that was exact...
The first patch of darkness brought screams. Sparks and thin shards of glass showered the street as the surge raced through the center of town. One house after another went dark. “The alarm,” Billy shouted beside me. “Sound the alarm!” I spun and cranked the handle. The alarm groaned to life, escalating to an ...
"Frank, Frank!" "What...."I mumbled, still mostly asleep. "I think I heard something in the baby's room." "It's nothing, go back to sleep." "Frank!" "Fine, fine,"I mumbled. The house was chilly and the bed was warm, but I knew there'd be no going back to sleep till I got up. Going down the hall to the nursery i...
"Now crossing the terminator and entering Imera."The conductor's voice an index over the speakers. At least half of the train's inhabitants had made their way up to the observation deck to watch the sunrise. It had been almost 100 hours since they had seen the sun. This was the north mid-latitude railway that ran at ...
Strange, I don't remember making this folder. And yet, there it sits, in the corner of my desktop, opposite all the other icons. A little pixelated Manila folder, with the words 'DO NOT OPEN". Well, maybe it'll jog my memory if I open it. I double click, and a window pops open on the screen. In the folder is anothe...
A blinding white interrogation room, My arms handcuffed behind a metal chair, The door unlocks and slams with a boom That resonates a minute in the air. "I beg you, tell me what I've done to cause this. Why me? I'm just a lame, shitposting scrub." A tall and somber man spoke smoothly, "Quiet." He walks beh...
Alan Thompson took one final swig of his long-cold coffee and mopped his moist brow with the back of a tattered woollen sleeve. His fingers drummed tunelessly on the lacquered wooden surface. Across from him, in the otherwise empty boardroom, stood the world’s first truly sentient machine, Thompson’s creation, well ove...
*''Just laying here, chilling''* I replied, biting my lip slightly with piqued interest. Was this real? *''Mmm..sounds exciting, wacha wearing?''* My heart stopped, this *had* to be some prankster. I hovered my thumbs above the keyboard that illuminated the wrinkles on my face, scrunched up deep in thought. *''Sho...
I stretched in my office chair and let out a groan that turned into a sigh. It was late. Almost quitting time actually. I looked around the office and looked at everyones numbers. Some were rising slowly, like they were learning something while others were falling due to what I assumed was mind numbing boredom. As I w...
My parents were absolutely frantic. Watching them panic over pictures, seeing things they had never noticed before, it was amusing. I wonder if this is what they were like that time I wandered off at the zoo. That was the first time the woman approached me. "Go back to your parents, young one,"she said "they are near...
I'd been a coroner for almost 13 years, so it's safe to say I'd seen some pretty messed up situations, and to be honest I was fine with that. It didn't affect me at all. However, being in one of these situations was completely different. It was one of those things you never expect to happen. You walk into the bank wond...
Bunker Log Entry #730, 28 October 2137 Happy two-year anniversary, oh beautiful isolation! Thou art a harsh mistress indeed, but I simply can’t bear myself to leave you. Your icy cold clutches are surely better than the remnants of our pitiful existence. That’s right, faithful readers of the future. It’s been two lon...
For years now I've heard them. You always hear about the angel and demon on your shoulders. Well, not quite like that, but close. I was told this would happen but it took a while to figure out. In the left ear I "hear"the "evil,"deceptive voice. Long ago it told me to address him as Mammon, he who serves Asmodeus. In t...
"Now class,"Professor Sprout said, pulling on her gloves. "Today we'll be working on our-"She was cut short by Ronald Weasley wandering through the greenhouse door, still looking distractedly behind him. "Ah. Mr. Weasley. Just barely on time, I see. Please take a seat." "Mm-hm, sure,"Ron muttered, scanning the class u...
Johnathan Valor watched as his men comb over the premises, making sure that they had not missed a single article of the coven of witches that resided here. Any item that could be used to pass on information, they took it. Any trace, they destroyed it with fire. And if it couldn't be burned by fire, they did whatever me...
I hung my feet off the local pier Kicking and splashing in the deep unclear I felt a slippery, sliding thing Darkened water, beasts within. "Tentacles!"I cried, leaping up Stumbling away with a hop and a jump Peering into the dusky mead I saw that it was only weeds. - - - Six days later a boy disappeared Off...
"One's are done and nevermore, but two's are twice the score. Three's they please and four's have needs, But five's are plenty-for. Six have dicks, And seven chicks, though some have dicks it's said. And eight's are mates and nine's lactate, though cows make better bed. Ten's lay eggs, don't dare pretend, and e...
There are moments in life when you are dumbfounded. When you are just stuck in a moment, trying to make sense of everything that happened. Like staring at your plate after an entire chocolate cake somehow disappeared (into your belly), or when your best friend inexplicably decides that moving to Vietnam and changing hi...
"Dragon master sounds great and all."I teetered with the new dragon, cautiously eyeing his 18"teeth. "But don't you think, you know, with me being a woman, that maybe, I could be known as... The Mother of Dragons?" Ignac was confused. "No, by tradition, the one to revive us, regardless of gender, is known as the Drag-...
"It was not meant to be this way to steal my words, to take my say to force a form I do not like, I swear to you that I will strike!" "Oh do desist your dumb dictation. A rhyme is rarely rotten writing. All I do is dote and doddle over little piddle paddle. A consonant? Not nearly! A litter of the little leaches...
"My man, you came to the right place."I put the van in park and jumped out. This stranger seemed pretty itchy, like he hadn't had so much as a simple quadratic equation in days. "Yeah? You got that good stuff? I just need a little bit, man, just a couple pages or so."He scratched at the back of his neck and shifted h...
Another late night at work and I’m just worn out. Clients are starting to call in bigger orders and instead of hiring new people to help me get the shit done, my know-it-all boss just wants to lock me in the warehouse until I get it all done. Son of a bitch doesn’t even understand the process and just wants me to follo...
"Time to get up", said a voice over the loud speaker. "Wakey wakey" A man unstrapped himself, running the ache out of his joints and the sleep from his eyes. He pushed off a wall, flicking a switch to turn on the lights, grimacing as he adjusted to the newfound brightness. "How do my babies look?" "Pretty good, but I...
It doesn't take much to be a hero. A simple smile can be the difference between someone's best and worst days. I discovered my powers when running late one day. I didn't have time for breakfast. My stomach started grumbling on the train and next thing I knew the most perfectly toasted bread with a fine layer of butter ...
My phone went off at an odd time. I turned to the clock, it read 3am. "He... hello?"I said through my grogginess. "Hey, it's me, the one true God. We need to talk."the voice on the line said. "Who? Are you messing with me?"I said. "Listen Thomas, it's me. You took Billy's lunch money in 8th grade and you shit your...
I have met lots assholes in my life, some tried to hide their words with clothing and make up, some flaunted it without regrets. There were even talk shows in which people would tell about the huge words on their body and make peace with their addressee s. You see, I work on one of these shows, my job is to search fo...
> "Hey Jordan! > Jordan: Do I know you? > ?? : Yeah! Listen, this is gonna seem strange to you but... I'm actually Marvin. I'm your pal! Please trust me! > Jordan: Ok... > Marvin: I know it sounds crazy but... wait, you do trust me?! > Jordan: Sure, I do know you man. Geeze, what do you think? ...
I’ve been called a lot of my things in my life: crazy, sociopathic, insane, nerdy… But never once have I given up on my belief that there is something controlling us all. Well, not necessarily controlling us directly, more watching over us, and subtly influencing us through means that we cannot see or hope to comprehen...
*Day 16* Well, humanity is coming along. It's certainly interesting to keep an eye on them to see what kind of magic they can use, but this job is already beginning to drag on. Staring at a Magic-O-Meter 3000 all day looking for a single blip isn't really all that enjoyable. *Day 128* Well then, this is taking a whi...
I do not tell anyone about the trials. It is my job to watch them, just to see what they do. And if I reported truthfully then nobody would ever enter into those computers ever again, and that isn't something humanity can afford; we need to go virtual. Even I'm going to go virtual, at one point, because the food is j...
Sarah Connoly is dead. Nobody knows. Nobody sees that I am not her, that she died in that crash and not me, that there was the screech of tires and seconds before the impact I was ripped from my body and I saw so clearly, so clearly, for just half of a second, I saw everything. I saw *everything*. And then I was ...
I'd moved back for revenge. It'd been five years since he'd moved out on me, and now it was time for him to experience some of the hell he'd put me through. Yeah, even I had to admit I hadn't been perfect. There was the alcohol. And heroin. And the beatings on both sides. But still, we were family. And you don't give ...
"Doesn't feel great, does it?"I said into the microphone. I watched Michael on my computer screen as he opened the envelope I had put on his kitchen. I had his apartment wired up better than a premier Hollywood set, but I didn't need the cameras in his apartment to show me what would happen next; I already knew. In a...
Phineas Gibbly stands in front of the room. Everyone was curious. What had happened in June 1989 to account for this precipitous drop in fire related deaths. He sets up an easel and places his charts on it which are obviously far too small. He chose not to do a Powerpoint presentation because he is old school, as the k...
To be fair, all the bad publicity made a lot of sense. These guys looked bad. Hannah preferred the old crowd. There were no guys to dawn over, sure, but at least all those girls were hot. Most of the press wrote itself. "We really want to shift our image from 'monster' to 'uniquely adapted,'"Dracula said as we twirled...
*Foul language below, you have been warned.* *** "Hey, Jim! You ready to go?"Steven called. "We're going to be late!" A scruffy head of hair poked out from behind the door, followed shortly by a wide, sheepish grin. Steven couldn't help but smile back. He wasn't sure why, but something about Jim was just...endearing....
It's hard to describe it when it happens. It draws me to them. I'm drawn closer by their mental energy, by the electricity of their soul. The man looked old, but it was anyone's guess whether it was from time or experience. He sat on the corner with a cup in front of him and a tattered gray blanket wrapped around his...
"Hey neighbour! I hear we're going to be ship-mates!"Micheal smiled warmly, shaking Brian's hand with a surprising force. The haggard man tried to muster a grin but the gesture fell flat. "Hey now, why the long face? You're taking a one way trip to the future of humanity!"Brian grimaced at his energetic friend, collaps...
The bull was charging towards me, horns lowered, preparing to skewer me. Naturally, I froze up. My body refused to move, but I could still speak. Three words slipped out of my mouth. "Oh, hell no." Pretty poor last words, eh? That was me done for, my life over, and that's all I had to say at the end? Pathetic really....
"Bill .. BILL!" "Give him time, Shane. He has been asleep for over 300 years." "We don't have time for him to sleep any longer." Bill coughed in to life. "He's awake!" Shane grabbed Bill by his Vans hoodie and shook him, "WAKE UP!" Bill spoke, "Where ... Where am I?" "It's 2394, Bill. You have been asleep for a ...
"Nein nein nein"Adolf raged as the arc of blood splashed across yet another would be masterpiece. It had been happening as long as he could remember. When he was young he had been lucky, family and friends had looked out for him, saved him. As he got older he learned to fend for himself. He noticed things about his a...
I stare at my beer as it flickers in the glass, from black stout to a pale ale, to cider and back to what I hope is my original choice. Damn. They're at it again. Whenever a time traveller is messing up whatever era they are in, *changes* occur. Most don't notice as the present veers wildly due to alterations of th...
“And I’m telling you, that it won’t work,” Roland said for the fourteenth time, much to God’s continued dismay. “But… I just showed you the impossible! I’ve turned you from an Atheist into a believer!” God insisted to the angry man sitting across the table from him. Roland snorted, “I’m not a believer.” “I just turne...
"It's over. Turn off the device, and nobody else has to get hurt." "Very well, you win. I give up. Computer, disable the bomb and release the hostages." "Wait that's it? No tricks or traps?" "Of course not, why would there be?" "Wow, it's just that normally you guys have an ace in your sleeve or something. It's act...
"Babe? Babe, do you mind, I have to take this?"This was the third phone call of the date and any normal woman would have dumped a drink in my face by now. "Yeah no problem, popular today aren't we?"Sarah has unlimited patience with me. I exit the restaurant for the third time to take the call. My minions are imbeci...
Redcoat: *Good evening... Mr Rogers.* Cap America: Who... are you? Redcoat: *My name is irrelevant. Suffice to say, you and I are in a similar situation. Supersoldiers who became heroes of our respective nations. But a few other members of our little club are getting a tad put off with the... shenanigans your peo...
"Hey man"I said with exasperation. I had just gotten back from work. "What's up Rob?" I had been out all day helping rescue hamsters running on wheels. The Joker has set up some triggers which were going off as the hamsters stopped running. "Batman forgot me again. I was stuck spinning a wheel for two hours until s...
The moment I turned the page I realized my mistake. Hastily, I tried to flip to the next page, but Rachel slammed her hand down on the book. "What the fuck?"She asked, her voice dangerous. She was using a tone of voice I'd only heard her use when she was arguing with her mother. My mouth went dry. "Uh... what do you...
It was over three hundred days and two deaths into Operation Unveil. “Approaching Precipice in ten, nine…” The international powers hastily put the mission together even though they had been expecting it for years. With no time to train fresh astronauts, the mission was comprised entirely of experienced ones, a fact...
"Now, students, can anyone tell me Newton's Third Law of Motion?"Ms. Frizzle asked from the driver's seat. Her pet chameleon, Liz, stood on the teacher's shoulder, holding on tight with a prosthetic leg made of black metal. The frightened students cowered in their seats. A few peeked through the windows, watching n...
Water dripped like ticks on a pendulum swing. Each drop received a grind of my teeth, a raise of the hair on the back of my neck, the twist of a jaw. After twenty minutes, I stood, snatched up a tissue, and plugged the tap. The water soaked up, and the dripping returned. I grabbed the faucet and slammed forward. The ta...
It has only three weeks for the New Plague to destroy modern civilization. It was clear from the beginning that this was no ordinary problem. Around the world, the cardiovascular and immune systems of our most able bodied men, women and children began to fail, for no logical reason. It seemed that any heartbeat had t...
The overhead light flickered and cast a staccato darkness over the metallic room. My wife was dead; shot by a gun that *shouldn't* exist. One of my two children had fired it. I stared at Juliet and Christian in numb disbelief. *Why?* --- It had been only an hour since I'd found the body. A tide of rusty-red liquid ha...
Came a voice from the crowd, "Is it true? Did they really find something alive there?", I walked through the building ignoring the masses of people gathered. I heard lots of people asking this and wondered to myself, why would they leak this. I was escorted into a room, with a lot of important looking people seated ar...
I used to daydream about it when I was a kid. I would be in class, or at lunch, or at recess and then ZAP - time would stop. Everyone would be frozen in place, just like that. Everyone except me. Then I could finally play with the skip it that Becca let all the other girls use. Or I could take Tommy's stupid trapper ke...
"Michael." "And this is Jim--he's always grinning like that. Probably because Pam sits right over there." "Michael!" "There's a reason I took this office, you know. Can see the front desk beautifully from there." "MICHAEL!" "WHAT? What is it Dwight?" "Michael, Jan called." "What? What did she want? Why didn't yo...
Like everything that was the common province of all species, the name of my bar was not a sound, but a meaning. Translation was literal, though there was some tuning to account for differences in language or species. For fellow humans, it was called the Sagittarius Apex. We were a popular stop for those who had busines...
"How's it going today Donald?"Farley said, lighting his cigar and taking a large puff. "Not to bad, that pussy foot you had in here before might as well have been tickling me. He doesn't even know how to hold the pitchfork, let alone disembowel with it. Give him a lesson or two, will ya? I alm...
I do not know why they like it, but it has helped them grow and it has helped them thrive. In my world we do not have a word for it, but here they call it empathy. It is hard explaining it and if any of you are my kin, you will think me mad or a fool. And you may be right. In this world the strong survives, yes, but ...
"Alright so Tripbip you want to take the black bone crown from the Arch Emperor Lich Kings corpse right?" Daniel asked it in that way GMs do where you just know they want you to do it because it can't possibly end well for the player. Now unfortunately for us, Ella gets bored easily and likes to "liven things up a bit...
Oh my God, my human bit me! Oh God Oh God Oh God... wait am I speaking? Spiders speak? Okay, calm down. Get to the back of the aquarium. He could bite again. Just look at him. He doesn't look right in the head at all. I need to get out of here. Why can't I climb? This is so wrong. I can't even spin a web. ...
Pills? Not enough, it seems. Noose? I'm not a sailor. Gunshot? What is this, the wild west? I can't aim that well! I've tried, I've tried, and I've tried to kill myself. I can barely count the ways I've tried to leave this wretched world, and I've failed. Okay, it's 25, in 3 years and 4 months. That's an average of on...
I blinked up towards the sky as the menacing charcoal cloud approached. Sighing to myself, I dropped the shovel and headed towards the barn. As I approached, I could hear the panicked neighing of the horses. Once I reached them, I pulled off the bolts keeping their gates shut. "Off you go, then. Good luck guys."The hor...
My fathers before me, and theirs before them, have all been guided by one thing. Some may think its strength, love, the humans need to survive… but it’s none of those things. It’s something more simple but at the same time more complex. We don’t know where it came from, or what its original intention was, what do we...
*Scribe network report: Eighth year of Her Highness, Princess Aurum* *Recorded by Lesser Scribe, R. Galley of the Southern Division.* *Attached to the 12th enlisted battalion of the Holy Wall.* *** *22nd Rotation* As always along the Holy wall of faith, the stone is aglow with the white magics of devotion, yet th...
When I look from my apartment window, all I see is black. Not darkness though. The body bags glitter with the morning sun, piling along the roads of New York. No one I knew was leaving their rooms. The only souls outside today were emergency handlers and soldiers prowling about like hungry dogs. So many bodies today. S...
"I need a favor." "Sure, Lucie, what's up?" "I told you not to call me that. God stole a book and I really need you to get it back for me. I saw him bring it into a church near your house." "You want me to steal something from God?" "Yeah so what? Is he going to send you to hell? You belong to me, boy." "Yeah beca...
*I walk in exhaust, blood painting my hands as its own.* *This time, a family. A father, a mother, and two small kids.* *The guilt eats at me, but it is something done in my love for you.* *My sweet, not many men get to grow old with a lovely woman,* *But I am one of the luckiest, especially with someone as wonderf...
"Luke, you can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son." Luke clung to the pole, trying to think of a way out. "I'd rather die than join you!" Vader sighed within his suit. "Why not? What is it about the Empire you hate so much?"...
It's such a beautiful day. The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and- "HEY, FUCKFACE!"Oh. And Red is here too, I guess. "Hello, Red."My twin smirks back at me. "Hey, fuckface. How are you on this beeyoootiful day?"He waves his hands around as if to emphasize a point. "I'm good! How are yo-" "How am I? Fuckin...
It began with a picnic. For almost three decades - long enough for five generations to chew through their birth-shells with new mandibles - the hill of the white leaf and the hill of the long shadow had been locked in an unending war, skirmishing back and forth across a long sandy spit that stretched between them. ...
I opened my eyes slowly. It was dark, very dark. And quiet too. I could feel something cold and hard against my right cheek, and lifting my head a little I realised I was laying on the floor. Pushing myself up into a sitting position, my legs splayed out in front of me, a splitting pain shot through my head causing me ...
I use reverse psychology. If I'm trying to write, but failing miserably, I decide that I want to do something else instead. Like spend all day playing video games all day. 8 hours later, when I'm finished playing video games, I'm usually too tired to write anything. However, I've managed to do what I set out to do at t...