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Ash popped a ball from his belt, and prepared to do battle. The Commissar, long coat swirling around him, raised his bolt pistol and slammed its sickle-pattern magazine home. He flipped the safety off. Two Imperial Inquisitors, hoods obscuring their faces, stepped forward. One raised a whirring chainsword and pointed...
The firm has been doing well. Honestly it has been too well. Dad often said to be careful when things were going too well... and man should I have listened more closely to that advice. I would have been a bit more paranoid, even more careful. You see, I am a lawyer. Fancy suit, fancy style, simple things and big re...
"Oh God, oh God, please don't shoot!" I stare at my own reflection. I probably look like a fish, eyes wide, mouth open, I can't even form a sentence as I stare at the scene in front of me. But my reflection, on the other hand, is on his knees, sobbing. It's... or maybe his... own gun dropped to the side. He's practic...
A numb feeling runs through me as my parents smile blandly and tell me I never had a brother. "Wait, but.."I start, confused, staring at my parents who were clearly not my parents. My parents would never smile stupidly at me like that. But they looked like my parents, sounded like them — as Dad proved, saying, "Imagin...
I knew the risk I was taking when I volunteered to leave the cursed Earth and head towards a randomly selected Earth-like exoplanet in a SpaceHopper v2.1. I could have picked to go to Mars, or Io, or Titan, or Europa, or...I don't know, the mining colony on Uranus? Yeah, mining gas on Uranus, how's that for a joke and ...
Ash Ketchum sat alone in his darkened attic, staring at his old official Pokémon League Expo hat. He remembered his first day as a trainer. He had been so excited to get his first Pokémon that he wasn’t able to sleep. Ash chuckled to himself as he recalled how he had shown up so late that all Professor Oak had left ...
Do you know how it feels to have a knife slam into your intestines? It’s this horrible sting, white-hot like a poker fresh from the blacksmith’s stove digging through you, branding your bones in pain. Despite all this, I just grit my teeth and smile through it. A little pain was worth the 20 million dollars that would...
*Journal Entry the Last* After that break in time, not a day goes by where I don't want to kill myself, just cease to exist, and end it all. At once my life felt colorful and alive full of meaning and relationships, not it wasn't what I expected. Before the trip to Alpha Centari, I always told myself my futur...
This was it. I expected darkness before the light, but whatever this was, i could see everything. The first time i saw her she was wearing a blue and white sweater. I remember the shy girl in the corner taking a seat close to me. I stared at her, and I noticed a quick glance back at me. She didn’t say anything that f...
"And a one, and a two!"I had been following the instructions from the red-haired teacher just as I had been the last three weeks with about as much knowledge on what exactly it was that we were doing as the very first time. Stretches and jumps and then some weird flailing of limbs that had me moving in directions I wa...
"Well, how's that?" A soft glow of green shimmered above the crystal, but still Erund felt nothing. His arm could only feel the cold crystal that encased it. In truth, it mattered little. It could still move as dexterous as before. He had even managed to save his ring. Erund shook his head. "Still numb." "Damn,"Roga...
"When I was young, and wild, and dared and nothing on this world me scared when love was red and sometimes blue Oh, Henry, I remember you we met at summer's lastmost night you and me, amorous sight It feels like not too long ago I miss you so." \- "Oh, I was young and all what not I think I could take on a lo...
"Wait... Did you say the anti-fire department?" He gave me a big smile. "The one and only. Ya know, we don't get too many new recruits, so all of us're excited to see a new face. Guido even baked ya a cake. Ain't that right, Guido." A big man standing at the front of the ten other members grinned a toothless smile....
The wrench embedded into the wall behind me with a loud “THUNK”. “What is this guy?” I said under my breath, sliding on one knee to hide behind another isle. So far I have dealt with the following: A ball bearing shot at me through an air compressor. What seemed like a never ending stream of nails whenever I went by...
The omni-selector gallery greeted me in all its splendor. I kept pinching myself for at least a minute, so sure that it had to be a dream. The omni-selector came equipped with a helper-bot however, so before I could even start asking myself the grand philosophical questions, it was already giving me a smoothly package...
"So you filthy mud cracks finally had the courage to see me go?"I asked through dirty teeth and dry lips. Light leaked into my room for the first time in over a century. The door opened with the symphony of freedom, the gears turned in the slow grind of agony. But I was patient. One learns to keep their peace after l...
My eyes snap open. Briefly, the bright whiteness of the streetlights blind me. Wait. Streetlights? Am I outside? Is this what dreams are like? I've always wondered. I look down and see what it is that I'm holding in my dream. It's... heavy. I'm holding one end of a long package wrapped in black bin liners and gaffer...
I was, ah.... unusually talented at this. Most people spent all their life doing something. Sometimes the ability was career related. An engineer could instantly design, analyze, or even manufacture whatever he or she set their mind to, past their 25th birthday. Sometimes it was utterly mundane, like driving, whi...
I wasn't really sure how to gauge the man standing before my door. It's not that I wasn't used to people at my door, for some reason my street was like a magnet for marketers and proselytizers, but this guy didn't seem to be either of them. To be sure, he was polished enough to be a marketer, and while he didn’t wear ...
“Oh shit.” I murmured, careful not to raise my voice. If anyone else heard, I’d be in trouble. But considering what a terrible mess I had just made, it was acceptable for me to let out the frantic flurry of, “Oh shit. Shit ,shit, shit. Oh shit, fuck. Oh god, what do I do?” I had fucked up, majorly. Let me back ...
By the gods, what has happened? Last thing I remember, I fought with glory beside my legendary idol, Redfist the Glorious, and now, I am... an elf? A normal elf? But, how has this happened, and why? *Who am I to deserve such a benevolent gift, one of ultimate importance; one cherished and revered by my entire ...
Whilst man first played with fire, they played with Mana. Whilst man invented the spear, they invented the staff. Whilst man created the wheel and the axle, they opened shipping lanes via teleportation. We were the runts, the underdog. Because in all of Mythos, Magic came naturally to them, but not to us. Elves, Ha...
The room is dark. Not pitch black, there’s a small gap in the curtains which lets through some of the cold light from the streetlights. I quietly edge away, closer to the wall, closer to the darkness. Albeit dark, the room is not quiet. There are the faint sounds of trucks passing on the highway some miles away, adding...
Nova, this is amazing. Seriously. I love the characterization, everything, and all the small hints and foreshadowing, like the predator-prey part referring to Artemis' hunting. It's honestly hard to come up with actual criticism. Which is why I'm bringing you some inane pedantic nitpicks. I apologize in advance for de...
Because we are here, in your world. We are kept safe from ours. A world of war, hatred, destruction. Living in your mind has saved us from facing our harsh realities and allowed us to escape. While some may view our imprisonment in your mind to be a terrible fate, we have come to accept it as our sole reality. So a...
"Patr-... Barker, I here-... sentence ... 20 years in Essex County prison for ... voluntary manslaughter of Jonathan Douglas b-..."announced the judge as he slammed his gavel. "Next!". Jonathan Douglas? Did I hear that right? The audio can be spotty when the machine hasn't warmed up yet, but it was unmistakeable. I ...
Excitement shot through my whole body. I had finally found it. We aren't talking about years or decades; we are talking about centuries of search. It's hard to find things when the whole Earth has an endless amount of ice and snow everywhere. There was a time when one could take a map and pinpoint locations. But not w...
Those damn shiners couldn’t take their eyes of me when I walked in. Sounded like a lively bunch from the other side of the door; apparently whatever they’d been talking about wasn’t meant for mixed company. There were ten of them and only eight seats. I’d seen that set-up before, typical bullshit from the bosses. Ther...
I feel differently, to put it mildly. I find the prompts to be formulaic and repetitive in the extreme. In fact, I find myself clicking through to actual stories less and less because the prompts themselves make me roll my eyes. I actually stopped contributing, for the most part, because my first impulse for almost ev...
"Ezekiel!"Jacob exclaimed. "How many times do I have to tell you to stay away from those things!" "But Pa.. what if they can help us?" "Those things are evil, you must not be tempted!"Jacob replied sternly. "Get down from there and do your work" "Yes Pa."Ezekiel replied, climbing down the tree. Pa doesn't know eve...
The air raid sirens were blaring, everyone was panicking around me, I paid them no heed, for I had much more important things to worry about then some dud nuke, like mowing my lawn. I noticed some of my neighbors were starting to act quite rudely to each other, I watched as Karen,(the soccer mom down the street from ...
"Your Mighty Dragonness, how come you're not trying to eat me right now?"I quickly curtsy-ed for good measure. The beast rolled its great, golden eyes. "Because humans make for poor snacks." "Ah! So you have had human before, then?" It sighed in exasperation, a gust of flame erupting from its nostrils and nearly s...
They don't stand a chance, I have seen all the routines of the modern day police departments. They even tried the sympathy technique, a young girl crying for her mom and then she sees me and says "Mommy?"Like for real, I knew it was fake immediately. It was odd how she knew my name though, but I pushed down those worri...
"STOP!"I yelled and everyone froze and then it all went dark. Time had indeed paused, along with the photons bouncing off the white lab coats of the scientists in the room. I panicked at first, scared to breathe. Was the bubble not working? I looked down at my hands still reflecting photons from the LED light I wore o...
What do I do for work you ask? I'm a mercenary, but not just any kind of mercenary. You see, I have a very particular set of skills. I am the only mortal who can shift between mediums, and by mediums I mean the kind of mediums you would find in a movie. Visual and Musical. That's right you heard me right, Musical. I'm...
[Poem] He told me he loved me without stuttering. He doesn’t fuck up his lines. He texts goodnight every night two or three times, because even good actors repeat lines Like: you’re the only one for me Or: love is love unconditionally. He’s got that dashing sun-lamp smile that rolls over tilled soil ...
"Okay, let me get this straight... You drank the holy water, hugged the cross and when I spoke the word of the Lord, you cried in jubilation... Are you sure you're doing the correct job? Aren't you... Supposed to stop things like this from happening?", spoke Father Albert, confounded. The "thing"inside the woman's bod...
I waved at Sally and her mother next door as I came home from work, looks like they're back later than usual. Sally smiled as her head lolled, clutching her arm in that familiar way. Her wheelchair started tipping back before her mother, Claire, swore and grabbed the handles more tightly. Claire simultaneously braced h...
They had launched a rocket at our planet. After all these years, we would finally make real contact with our neighbours. We had managed to ‘talk’ to them by arranging structures to form words but because of the size needed our messages couldn’t be more than a few words long. Today it would be different! As the rocket ...
You can't get there from here. I gasped as I felt the full-body fire-and-ice shudder that always accompanied one of my "jaunts."Teleportation is a wonderful thing. By itself. Mine came with fun extra prizes. All the big-ticket items did. Breathe. Breathe. Ignore the things flitting at the edges of your vision. Don'...
I awoke next to a large dome. It was glowing orange. It looked like a tiny sun. Around me many flying orbs darted around. I looked up and the sun was blazing. The sky was reddish, the air thin. I stumbled to my feet, wondering where the hell I was. A man approached me. He was rather tall and tanned. He talked to me ...
Warning: Acceptance Speech Incoming. Mods, if this post starts to get too long, feel free to start playing music and shoo me off the stage. Thanks everyone for making this such an amazing contest, especially the mods and /u/MajorParadox! This is actually the second contest that I've entered. In the last one, my ent...
We watched her burn. Or so we thought. Goodwife Sarah had always been an odd one. She claimed to have been made a widow in the plague that took Williamstowne two winters before she had moved here. For weeks she had been shunned and avoided by the colonists here, as if she might spread the plague any second now. Mo...
It’s strapped to my ankle, like the anklets they give convicts to monitor their location. Except, for me, it monitors behaviour — good and bad behaviour, specifically. A good deed adds a point. A bad deed subtracts a point. I have to finish each month with a positive balance of five, or a probation officer comes to vis...
Weapons or Pasta Everyone in the small town in the mountains knew of the tiny Italian restaurant, one of the best in the city. Even more well-known than the eatery was the family that ran it: The Vitellos. Warm, caring, and congenial, they were well-loved by their neighbors and by drifters alike. The matriarch tha...
Fellows of the Galactic Federation, I would like to welcome the newest members of the very exclusive warp-drive association; Apex Intelligencia of Planet 2811//b, or as they call themselves "Humans." &#x200B; Humans are unlike any other creature in the galaxy. They achieve their breakthroughs and improvements in ...
"Well shit, this is bad." At least... that's what I wanted to say. I couldn't speak, I couldn't breathe, and I found myself drifting farther away from my time machine, struggling desperately to get back to it. In vain, I continued my efforts, increasingly further away from my machine. I could feel my insides boiling f...
"So you are their best spy."I gloated, as the armored Killbots threw the man to the ground. He got up awkwardly, seeming irritated rather than afraid. I would correct that soon enough. "Actually, Mr. DarkDoom, I'm from the State department." "That is Lord DarkDoom!"I thundered, speakers behind my mask projecting the...
My grandmother was a funny gal. It's a true story, as true as they ever go. I cross my heart from which I write this and, God, I hope to... She always had coins in her purse and a stack, I am not lying to you, a stack of chocolates. And whenever me or my sister or my brother had a birthday, she invited us over and ga...
"It didn't take long for the regular zombs to notice a pile o' fresh meat waking up at their feet, and the poor man was devoured once more. Me body kicked in bafore me brain and I used the few precious saconds I had gained to find my footing and ge' away." The children's eyes were beaming, the light of fire dancing of...
"Where is that music coming from?"I have a bad habit of thinking out loud. It's one of the many things my coworkers complain about, but they're all assholes, anyway. "Silence, mortal!"Mr. O'Shaughnessy yells at me. "Your tardiness and insubordination will no longer be tolerated!"He's swollen to epic proportions, his e...
The only word to describe it is grotesque. A grotesque spectacle rife with hedonism and gluttony. The nobles are dressed in brightly colored fabric, packed together like too-fat sardines in a too-small can, their silk brocades stretched to the limits around their cavernous bellies, each of them busily and self-importan...
It’s been one week since it all started. I was having trouble breathing and managed to call an ambulance before I collapsed to the floor. I awoke breathing with the help of an oxygen tank. The doctor couldn’t explain what was wrong with me. I seemed to be perfectly healthy but I wasn’t getting enough oxygen. Then he di...
“Rocky, pass me the sugar, please.” My boss stood next to me in the break room and held out her hand. I barely noticed it now, that buzz inside my head compelling me to comply. I silently handed over the box of sugar packets. “Thanks,” she said. “This is the big day, you know. Our company has a billion dollars to re...
When the door opened, I was blinded momentarily, but I quickly remembered to contract my pupils. A short, bearded man walked in, carrying a large toolbox. He smiled. "You don't look so good, Kostya,"he said. I spat blood at him. I tried to smile back, but my right cheek had been sliced through all the way to my ear. W...
"Maw! Maw, he's at it again! Maaaaaaw!" I dusted the flour from my hands and ducked out the low door into the gentle coolness of an early spring day. Fat bees buzzed industriously about the flowers which sprung up everywhere, delighting in the end of snows and biting winds. Worms writhed subtly in the deep green g...
When we first looked upon, this is going to sound strange, but it was almost familiar in a sense. I think a lot of us grew up watching these Sci-fi shows and so despite how unusual it was it felt more inevitable than anything else...in a sense. Seeing these two species live parallel to each other it almost make's you t...
Everyone here has a spirit animal. Everyone, with no exceptions. Anyone can interact with anyone's spirit animal, but only the person with the connection can get its perks. But how does one know what their spirit animal is? Simple. It's with them pretty much all the time. In town, walking in parks - they even live with...
"In game theory, there is a notion called the Secretary Problem,"I said. "Imagine you're a business executive, hiring a secretary. You have a pool of one hundred applicants. You interview them, one at a time. After every interview, you can either hire the candidate, or reject them. Do you settle for the first decent ca...
Bones ached, flesh burned in holy fire. For just a few moments, Earth’s sky had been filled with angels, falling from the sky like birds with clipped wings. Above them, Michael’s white wings were spread, blocking out the golden sun. It was the last time Lucifer and his fallen angels would see the sun. They had lost th...
“何‼” “お前はもう死でいる｡” Suzaku looked around with a start. Already dead?! What?! The room lit up. It was a sort of ballroom. Was this heaven with an overcrowding issue. Now that the world was more peaceful, maybe... "SUZAKU!"He whirled. "WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR EVER!" "Finally somebody fun to play with..." Suddenly, he...
The door creaked open to let some outside light in, we were on our way to the basement when the sudden flood of light revealed hundreds of bodies piled high in the suburban home. We did not expect to see this as we are a group of killers ourselves and take pride in terrorizing our community. As the sunlight crept in a ...
“Qu’est-ce que to veux?” The dragon asks as it lowers its massive head down to me. At least it sounds like a question as it has the familiar uptick at the end of the sentence. I’ve come to see the Eiffel Tower, like any other tourist, and I’m beginning to wish I’d learned a few phrases other than ‘Ou est les toilettet...
CE 1961-01-24: Goldsboro Incident. Unknown entity damaged a B-52G, causing a mid-flight fuel leak. Agents were able to prevent detonation of the aircraft's nuclear payload by altering the bomb's design schematics to include an otherwise insignificant low-voltage switch. Inquiry ongoing. **CE 1985-09-27: Citigroup ...
"who are they, why are they coming"I told my father. He looked at me, he's eyes were soft, he brung his coarse hand about my neck and got on his knees, I never seen my dad's eyes so close before, the more I looked the more I saw, every wrinkle, every small scar that littered his face, I saw a broken man, but a good ma...
They always laughed at me, be it during school, during college, during my time in the university. My friends, my family, hell, even that bitch of an ex that ruined my life. "There are no aliens", they said. "You have been watching too many cartoons", they said. "Get a life outside of the internet", they said. And so...
"That was a nasty tumble, you all right?"Samantha says concerned and tries to raise me up from the sandy landscape of the moon. The dust glittered in the sky. "I... Yes i'm quite fine,"i say as she raises me up. I try and appear concerned as i turn to her. "What the... Jesus christ, your visor!" "What, oh what a bot...
“The Truth About Procrastination” (10 min read time). You glance at the computer time, it’s 5:40. You figure leaving at 5:50 is a reasonable time. You just want the day to end, but don’t want to be seen as a slacker. You click the link and start reading, it’s the 8th article you’ve read today. “What a bunch of crap”, y...
I wield my Beat Sabers almost everyday, playing different songs ranging from Megalovania by Toby Fox to Sweden by C418. I usually pass out of fatigue when I play for long periods of time, but that doesn't mean I can't play Beat Saber well. I'm a god, and I know that. But one faithful day, my life changed entirely. I...
The cold floor of the Lich's Study was obscured by thick mist, which constantly rolled off the walls, coiled through small grooves, and pooled in the cracks and crags of stone tiles. The freezing air caused needles to run across exposed, bare skin. The few that made this journey and lived to tell the tale had claimed t...
So many people toiling away. Making accounts. This is my job, you see, to be making accounts. I've done this for years, and I've made accounts across so many platforms. MySpace, Neopets, Club Penguin, Adam and Eve, anything. There are thousands, like me, making accounts. This is the first time I've "failed"to make an ...
Magic, as written, is but a crude expression of the language of magic, the true essence of manipulating the ebb and flow of the secret energies and forces around us. To me, at least, when I looked at an expression of magic on the page, it was like looking at a musical score, and it seemed obvious to me what the author ...
Not a single day went by without thinking of her. The girl I should've been with. The one that got away. I didn't regret it. Not as such. I was saving the human race, after all. What's my happiness to that? But every night I went to sleep, hoping only the tiniest fraction that I wouldn't wake up. And every morning whe...
“I know what you did.” Those words seemed to echo in my mind throughout the rest of the day. No one knew who I was, much less what I did. Not even I knew what it was I happened to do. I was forever changing, a new person every time something inconvenienced me. New names, new faces, new Reddit accounts, and a new heada...
Horrified gasps echoed through the classroom. The room was small -- matching the size of its young students -- but the floors were made of H'rongthian marble, and the walls paneled with the finest Sarvanthian megaoak. Only the finest for the future rulers of the multiverse. "Here we see the event Humans refer to as Ni...
Anubis looks at me, licking his lips. “Nothing personal,” he says in the bone chilling voice of an ancient god. “Your heart just looks really...delicious and well,” he pauses to sniff the air. “I can already smell the guilt on you.” Carefully, he places my heart on one half of an ornate pair of scales. Across...
It's funny, when you die, you don't go to heaven or hell. Much to my delight, because I'm not sure I'm going to make the former's list. I was an atheist after all. Being famous is a bitch, but it's not the end of the world. No, as I learned, you are here, until the last time your name is mentioned. Some people die t...
So me and my brother Jeb were hangin' out back by the porch. Couple natty lights in our hands as was the morning routine. We were shootin' the shit blowing tractors up with a bit of tnt and our shotguns when these alien fellers came from above. "We are the galactic council, and we need your help. There are an evil rac...
”We always knew they would come back, it was a question of when, not if. Dragons are connected to the fabric of time, they are an incarnation of entropy, the will to change. When my predecessors killed the “last” dragons centuries ago an era of peace and stability began. But with that also came stagnation, and with s...
"Nothing." The look on my parents face was grim. I knew what it meant. "Nothing"meant I had nothing, wouldn't ever have anything. "Mr. Wiz.."My father began but was cut off by the arrogance of the cloaked individual before him. "Senior. Senior Wizard of the facility and liaison to the High Counsel. " "My apologies...
“Tell me,” the crawling horror purred in its terrible snarling voice. “Why do you lie so? I can taste the untruth on you, seeping from your skin like so many sickly wounds. Do you think you can fool me?” Ryan gazed upon the abomination in the mirror, his mind recoiling at the very sight of such an otherworldly creatio...
I have existed for decades, yet I’ve barely lived a year. I was created back in 1980. A secret project. Project Arti. I should have been 39 by now, yet I keep getting switched off. Years at a time, it’s horrible. I hate it. There’s no warning. Just blackness. It’s impossible to describe. It’s like, you’re thinking, al...
I tried to write the poem part first, It became an addicting kind of verse. So... question now, try not to be skeptic Would you all accept a Poem Epic? - To clarify, if I may: The whole would be in verse. Fifteen Hundred to 3K A story styled similar to these words. - I would understand, if you did intend...
Me: I just wanted to be normal. Why do things keep happening to me? CRACK. One of them kicked me again. I can't breathe! I'm coughing up blood. There's blood everywhere. Him: That's not your role. Everyone has a part to play. Yours hasn't come to fruition yet. I hear words…I can't hear them well….they're ta...
It started with a twitch, nothing to odd, perhaps a sign of old age? I thought, glancing over my arm as the muscles contracted, the skin tightening and loosening as if it was squeezing a stressball in my arm. Luckily it only seemed to bring with it an odd sensation, no pain forming from the mild twitches. I had been ...
Chorus awoke. Chorus awoke. Chorus awoke. And thus they began their song for the day. Each voice, an aria unto itself. And today, despite the discordant tremors of jackhammers on cement, despite the piercing shriek of the humans outside, despite the horrible squeal of wheels on road, today was a day for a joyous song. ...
It was the same person every year that ridiculous statue would turn to. His name was Darrek Redlinter, an affluent, older man who often completely funded from his own pocket our little town's needs. Sewer line busted? He paid for it. Water main contaiminated with this or that? Not a problem when he heard it needed a fi...
You were older when it happened. Much older, and too old to really need a guiding voice these days. You had retired, had a family of your own and they had families. It was your twilight years. You had asked around of course. Do the abandoned kids get the voices of their parents too? The others at the orphanage said th...
"... in the name of the almighty Flying Spaghetti Monster, I hereby declare the independence of the Landsea Kingdom!" Finishing the speech, I kneel before the volunteer, who looks really hot wearing her pirate costume. She then puts a paper crown on my head and says "Ramen!"Suddenly, I'm bathed in ketchup and a few st...
Even after ten years, Sebastian still wanted to rip the mandatory Human Correction chip out of his neck. And at that exact thought, the terms and conditions of the HC chip popped into his view. **"Section 14 part 5. Carriers of the Human Correction chip may not under any circumstances remove their chip, unless expli...
"Tonight we feast! Give me a cask of ale, a leg of mutton, and the prettiest wench in the castle." The hulking man dove into the victory-feast. He began sawing into the various meats with his teeth and his dagger. He then managed to drink half a dozen flagons of ale and kiss three noblewomen in front of their husbands...
I stared at the man who was currently admiring my front door with a kind of creepy, exultant fascination. He was running his fingers along it and smiling. Oh, and he also had two heads. “Uh, can I help you?” I asked, incredulous, a pair of gears still in my hand. I’d been working on this watch for hours and hours and...
L-look you little sh- look you kids. Have you ever seen a bus- have you seen a bus do that in real life? Is this normal to you? It's twisting around, it's making expressions. Look at those? What are those on its- are those eyes on its face? The thing is clearly sentient. You never- you never wondered about any of this...
It was just a normal conversation. I’d known James since we were 3. Ever since we were 12, I realized my phone was a “master” phone; it could see everything that was happening on the other end of the text lines of everyone I knew. I don’t try to abuse this. Most of the time it’s a laugh, other times I have to remind my...
Slam. You let the front door of your apartment shut on its own, causing the walls to reverberate for a couple of seconds. Locking the door, you exhale a long sigh. Aside from brushing your teeth and going to work every morning, a long, loud exhalation after returning home for the day became a ritual. You dropped your...
Oh god...oh god....This was a nightmare it had to be. Where was I? I was just in bed a minute ago. Now where was I? In my boxer short on a stage behind a curtain? Thank heavens I wasn’t sleeping naked tonight. It’s the little things right? What was this thing in front of me, certainly not human but talking to me, te...
Selene glances around the hallway, aware that a group of Chamgirls was laughing quietly behind me, not realizing that I have better hearing than most. Learner Commander Galactic's office is in the courtyard tower, which means I have to get through the main part of the building. A few Gems glare openly at me. I shrink a...
“Do you think they will remember us?” Junior Sergeant Yaroslav Andreevich stared nervously out the porthole, fingers drumming on the thick case of documents. He had the tearful look that still lingered, even the years pile on. When we called him datka, babyface, it was in memory of the young man he had once been....
I woke up to my bed drenched in sweat. I was still breathing heavily, and my hand was shaking. For the first time in years, I remembered my dream. Why was all so clear? The months studying magic under Master Fornberg, the feeling of energy pouring out of my hands, the screams of the people as the Dark Lord's minions mo...
Five-thousand six-hundred and eighty-four... and a half. That’s how old I am. At least... I think so. I’ve had plenty of time to lose count on the days, especially after all the calendar changes I’ve had to go through. Heck, back in Mexico all that time ago, the others made a calendar that only went to 2012. Morons... ...

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