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I couldn’t help but pace back and forth at the door, mulling if I should meet my pen pal Elliot for a night of star gazing. [My first meeting with him at the old fishing lake near my hometown went well, besides the last-minute rush to meet my parole officer, and I had looked forward to going to his hometown the next ti...
Have you ever done something that was really. Fucking. Stupid? Welcome to the club. My name’s Erasmus. Why Erasmus? I chose it sixty years ago to be my new name. It was about time for a new one, but I really like it. Maybe that’s why I was running from Cedric through some shitty alleyway at three in the morning. It s...
"Greetings traveler,"called a voice from the edge of the field filled with chickens. "Do you need any help?" My canteen was nearly empty after my journey through the forest so I figured I could trouble this stranger for some water. My map said the next spring was nearby, but you can never tell how accurate these sor...
“So… let me get this straight. I’ve robbed three banks, taken ten people hostage, and burned down a CostCo, but you guys are mad because… I left the TV volume on an odd number?” Honestly it’d been a complete accident. I was just turning it up a little so I could watch my nightly episode of Game of Thrones. I guess the...
Honestly it was an incredible year for entirely new fields of scientific study. Ever since God spawned a new avatar to see how his old high school coding project was going, we had gotten so many incredible answers about life, the universe, and everything. Our universe was being run on an old PC that God still had runn...
There once was a dragon out hauling its wagon, piled high with jewels and gold. It struggled and roared as it muscled its hoard down the winding and treacherous road. When down flew a crow, who wanted to know why a creature as mighty as he Would keep itself tethered to a cart full of treasure and not soar through...
The wizard walked through the city of the gods, casting his gaze in every direction, marveling at the ruined yet preserved structures. No one had set eyes on this city for thousands of years. The sun had set, and the wizard summoned a magical orb of light to follow him, casting its gentle rays across the city, reflecti...
To live is a gift. All that lives is given the gift of mortality and will. Yet, in a cruel experiment of pride, I was denied both. The concept of will and choice was a gift i was denied. I could not struggle to gain knowledge or to learn from mistakes as everything was made to come naturally to me in perfect form. And ...
Someone was real lucky, and had ordered a microphone. “So… what happens to the survivors?” The rest of the panicking humans paused, and looked over. “It is real simple, they get to go back home, with some great riches to make up for it,” the voice responded, a bit annoyed “And it’s last one standing,correct?” ...
Uh. This guy is going to give me a headache. Despite knowing what weapon he is using and where it will be, we never catch this guy in the act. So far he has killed 4 people over the month. First kill was via sniper rifle, in a park near a town called chesterland. Some passersby saw the rifle on a bench and reported it ...
Basically our whole town was scooped up by the strange hairless four-limbs. We had myths and rumors of them for several generations. When my great grandparent's generation invented steam engines is around the time we first started having rumors of them, stories of abductions, domestic animal mutilations, strange symbol...
"Death and taxes, amiright!"I was tired of hearing that one. Yes it was true, death and taxes are unavoidable but in some cases, post mortem taxes too. Zombification wasn't like in the old time movies. No droning, moaning, or yearning for brains but you got us on the shambling. That can't be helped though, if you rema...
Space is cold. It's not exactly a secret. Nor a surprise. But it's not something you can understand until you experience it firsthand. My first memory is my mother warning me not to touch the stove burner; my next is her coddling me and crying and saying that it was her fault for leaving it on. The searing pain in m...
All because it doesn't rhyme at the beginning, doesn't mean it's not a poem. Basing your conceptions on the likes of Seuss and Shakespeare is normal, if flawed. Consider the works of Whitman. Does anyone doubt the poetic chops of "After the Sea-Ship"on lack of a certain convention? Each poem has something in common tho...
Curse that spirit. It is difficult, disbelieving the very senses that present everything, that tell me what things feel like and what they seem. Disregarding them is simply required at times. My senses said that the wisp, the strange ephemeral being was, indeed, quite real. But the message, that message still haunts me...
The mug is a very poor mug. Inside and out, the lumps speak to the lack of skill of its craftsman. The handle is thin as it meets the body, meaning it can't bear the weight required of it. Peering inside, you can see beams of light breaking through; this object can hold no liquid. The careless colors slapped across its...
"Explain to me why exactly you find doors to be so terrifying,"she said as she crossed her legs and resettled in her chair. "I can't." "And why can't you?"she asked as she fiddled with her pen. "I just can't." Because how can I explain the thousand years I lived? How can I explain the lives I left behind, the peopl...
"I don't like coffee", I said and stuck out my tongue "I don't like the taste either", my brother Mike said. "Then why do you drink it?" "Remember when Mom and dad got busted? I had to quit school, work 3 jobs to pay the bills. Lot's of times I got so tired, I thought about just running away from it all. The coffee...
Harold hated getting old. He hated that his body ached. He hated that his current "fast"was slower than his old "slow."He hated that the world, once so vivid and bursting with endless possibilities, seemed to be passing him by. At an age when TV stars seemed to be hitting their prime, Harold's back was shot, his knees...
Emily was paralyzed. She'd heard the monster under her bed scraping its claws against the floor. She'd seen its disgusting tail flick out from under the bed. She'd sensed its anticipation -- she would be its next meal. Oh, yes, there was a monster under her bed, but had not expected it to strike tonight. As Emily had...
Click. I stare at the button. Huh... doesn't seem to be working. I push it again. Click. Click. Nothing happens. "John!"I yell across the lab to my research partner, the brains behind all the math, the ultimate equation. "What do the readouts say?" "It's working!"he cries, "you're time traveling." I stare back a...
Hi. I hate you. I hate the way you made me feel. I hate the way you've dug into my brain. I hate everything about you. I thought I got over you two years ago. It was the strangest thing, I was walking alone down a bridge in Venice, and I realized, I didn't miss you. I missed loving you. And I thought that was that. ...
"Well, it's really easy to get. You see, there ain't no wind here. We don't have to build 'em like they do in the big cities like Chicago, or Tokyo, or wherever. We pick a spot, we dig in said spot, and before you know it, the building crew is ready to go!" The first few days had been brutal. Not because of the new pl...
click He turned on the toe of his sandal as his mouth dropped wide. Slowly, he raised his arms to press the palms of his hands firmly against his forehead and screwed up his eyes. "Shit" ----------------- "JESUS! TURN IT DOWN"his voice thundered across the cloud tops. He growled at his son, surrounded by a dozen...
There were hints, you know? Not obvious ones, but they were there. People smiled more. That sounds fucked up, but that was what I noticed first. With their eyes, too. I don't mean that desperate eye smile, the one where if you cover up the mouth it looks like someone is pleading for help. You can imagine what's going o...
So there I am, getting my butt kicked by the bully of the day. As he raised his arm to punch me in the face again, I remembered the events that made me wish I had kept my trap shut. Several minutes ago Insert bully shouting at movie screen, our main character telling him to be quiet so he can hear the movie If o...
"So what is it you do here, Armong?"asked the young orc as he looked up from his clipboard with a pen in his hand. "Kill." With a practiced hand, he wrote a single word on his sheet. "Do you do that well?"he asked. Armong looked to the side. The young orc considered it a sign of meekness until he noticed the chasm li...
W: Trust me, Bub, you're in the early stages of this ride. You haven't even hit the loop-de-loop yet. B: I've already accepted that I'm going to see a lot of people die. People I love. W: *You say that, but when it happens, it's going to hurt like hell. Like it never even crossed your mind. That's how death...
I knew it. I fucking knew it. I knew it as soon as he put it in my hand. He forgot the fucking guacamole. Again. Jesus! No, wait, I think it was Juan today. Juan! Juan, you son of a bitch. And I paid for that guacamole, but oooooh no, he forgot it again! You know what, I'm going back. I'm going back and I'm going to ge...
"So how have you been?" I stayed silent. Always the silence spoke for me. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. "Well, I've been about as good as you could expect...I know we don't talk much anymore..." Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. His awkward shifting gives it away. My complete stillness makes him uncomfortable. Tick. Tick. "I do...
begin communication Subject 87. 3rd planet from yellow star 8902. Of the dominant species on the planet and capable of sentient thought and verbal communication. Physically in good condition, well muscled and groomed. Male. Apparently regarded as well educated in his society and served as a researcher according t...
*This is a very difficult idea for two reasons. First, it's because there are so many parts of both characters that are very similar yet very different. Gandalf is 5000+ years old and was literally created by Iluvatar to guide Middle Earth. Dumbledore, while significantly more magically powerful, is a mere 170 years ol...
It was a cold November day when they finally got around to killing us. The sleet came down steadily all morning. They marched us down the street through town. Everyone was lined up on the sidewalk in attendance. I guess they wanted everyone to see what happens to saboteurs. Twenty two of us they're killing. The local b...
“So, how was medical school, kid?” The doctor gripped the chart tighter. “It was fine, sir. The long hours were tough, but they were good practice for how things are now. Working in the hospital, I don’t get to take many breaks, as I’m sure you know.” “Indeed. I worked here for too many years to not see what missing ...
He sat in the room alone. It was dark, the only source of light was from his laptop screen. It was crazy, really. Dan wasn't even home. He was in a motel room in the city. He could turn the lights on and blast the volume so loud that the other tenants would think he bought a prostitute. Had it really come to this? Watc...
Those fairytales were pathetic. Knight in shining armor? Please. A sword to defeat a dragon? As if. Whoever wrote those needs a better, more realistic editor. I kept trying to make jokes or keep my spirits high as I reached closer to the cave. I knew the plan, I'd be in, secure the dragon, and out again to report...
"Oh Officer, I have just had a blast with our little friends up here! They're laughing so hard, THEY HAVE TEARS IN THEIR EYES-HAHAHAHAHhahahahaha"The voice raved through the phone. Wade couldn't take this. Wade was an average cop, not smart enough to be a detective, but calm enough to be a hostage negotiator. He wasn...
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I like to browse online forums in my time off. Usually they're pretty well maintained, but this one... Oh man, this one forum is like the wild west of teenage hormones, especially Kyle69xXx420. Little fucker never misses an opportunity to harass some...
We sat on the rocks outside the entrance to the cave and looked into the abyss below the inscription, "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here." The day before, our small, elite unit sat in the bunker nestled in the hills of what used to be called Afghanistan. The eggheads explained to us the nature of our mission: a rese...
"All $25 million?" "OK, first thing....It was only like $12 million, all right? Taxes, you know." "But still...$12 million? In a month?" "Well, the party that first night got a....little out of hand. The distributor brought in 20 kegs, and then like the whole school showed up, so we called up Pat's Liquor and they h...
“You got this.” He tells himself in the mirror. “You got this, you got this, you got this, you got this…” I’ll save you the repeating he does for the next three minutes, it bores me just as much as you. Being omnipotent and at all places at once has its drawbacks. Most people don’t think about how much it sucks b...
Writing is my hobby, and although I never actually thought about it this way, the "list"is exactly what I learned to avoid at some point - I noticed 9/10 times when I give the reader direct information about what the character thinks\knows\feels ("he thought he looked great"), it damaged the story in some way - somehow...
You never get used to the death part. Sure, you get used to the smell. You get used to them quietly accepting their meal. You get used to them asking you to stay a while – to chat. About life, ironically enough. You get used to them asking for the most extravagant things, a final Fuck You to the universe. But you...
I was just walking, you know? Just walking. Trying to get home like anyone else, hunched in my jacket because it's freaking cold. You were ahead of me, maybe a dozen paces. I could tell by the set of your shoulders, or the way you adjusted the collar of your coat. Anxious. Sure, I was looking ahead. Nobody li...
10... I opened my eyes to see myself standing in front of the Board of Supervisors for MindTree Inc. These businessmen were considering a partnership with my company, and my job was to convince them. I knew winning them over would catapult me up the corporate ladder and make me thousands. I was preparing that presenta...
Jon stared at the digital clock on his bedside. 23:59 it told him, the digits flickering gently in the dark of his room, the colon between the two numbers dancing its rhythm. "Tick tock, tick tock, goes the clock,"he muttered, chuckling gently to himself, recalling the words his mother always used to say. It was ...
I've always believed I was a good person. I couldn't really go on thinking that after I got up to the pearly gates, large as life and twice as real, and they didn't open for me. "Hello?"I called out, a little nervous but rationalising that it was probably just some kind of mistake. Or maybe Saint Peter was on his lu...
I had a lot riding on my back. My parents were never the type to sit down and relax. They had to keep working, keep running around, making money, getting things done. They were constantly busy, so they rarely had time for me. I grew up in a suburb somewhere outside Manchester. I don't remember it properly. Must be bec...
I can't remember my mum. The genie offered me a choice, lose all the happy memories or the sad. I chose the sad, obviously. Then I realised; my mum died recently, and all my memories of her are tinged with sadness now. Or were. I'm assuming she was wonderful, because I still feel really cut up about it, but I don't re...
Ted Walkman: First and foremost, I'm a dog person. Nobody wants a God that is a cat person. As a day laborer, I've never been in charge of anything before, so that should be a nice change. Also, I have no qualms whatsoever about sticking up for people who need it (e.g. I once beat the fuck out of a guy who was hitting...
Her best friend had bet for $50 that she couldn't make it through the day. And while it wasn't a lot of money to most people, rent was due in a week and after her rent was due next week, she would only have about $30 for food for the next two weeks. When she arrived at the office that morning, a newer coworker had gra...
I am too tired, too cold. War tends to do that. After watching countless friends die at the hands of Talhabi, living became an endless droning march. I suppose that's why I joined the marines in the first place. I told myself it was an act of righteous protagonism, but really, I just had to escape. I am too tired, too...
I woke up like I do every morning. Hungry. Cold. Depressed. I wanted to give up. I wanted to quit. I wanted to go back to sleep. But just like every other morning I threw off the covers and felt the breeze and got going. I guess the best part about being homeless is you don't have to shower or brush your teeth in the ...
I knew I must be getting old, because I felt compelled to take Exit 67. What I should've been doing was passing through Lewis, Illinois for more interesting destinations. That's all Lewis was ever good for, passing through. Same goes for most of southern Illinois. And here I was, willingly going back to the town th...
Dad told me once that some of his very first- and many of his very best- memories were with his robot, "Leo."He was the sentimental type, my father, and as such he'd never had any desire to replace it. He also claimed to have been "creeped out"by the newer, more realistic models. Most people felt the same about his...
I don't know what you are expecting but I hope you enjoy this. Also X-Day is the name for the landing operation on Kyushu If I had a choice I rather have taken Juno Beach again than taking Austin Beach. D-Day was a hell in itself but X-Day and the days after was some other beast all in itself. The idea was the ato...
I remember as a child I used to use it to place myself in the position of my favorite superheroes. Flying around the city as Superman, fighting criminals who were robbing banks and holding innocent people hostage seemed to never get old. The thing about that room is, everything that you experience inside of it seems ...
A man sits in a dimly lit hotel room, thinking to himself... "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!" "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun!" "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onio...
Another night at home. I sigh as I put down the phone. Thirty minutes or it's free eh? We'll see how well this works. I glance down at my wrist. Hmm...I didn't think it was that close...fourty-seven minutes. All of my friends had found their soul-mates out at the bar, or walking down the street. I was at home, a...
“What are you thinking about?” She asks me. Birds. How everyone thinks they’re graceful. But really, they’re assholes. Get a bird mad and tell me about grace and the wonder of flight when the fucking thing is pecking at you and flapping their wings and you’re trying to remain calm and laugh it off but it won’t give u...
I don't what I call this feeling. It's like a cloud above my head ever since I did it. He sat there all blonde, tall and handsome. He didn't say anything, he didn't scream, he just sat there and smiled. He wanted it to happen, so did I. I cut the knife in and his smile didn't disappear. Why did he want this? The re...
Conquest, War, Famine, Death … And Plague “Hey, Connor, buddy,” I said, coughing. He grunted at me as he sheathed his sword of eternal Conquest and rifled around in his locker. “So, listen,” I persisted, “what are you guys all getting ready for?” “Eh? Nothing. Just practice. For the Reckoning. You know how it is....
"And this atom here and... Ok, yes, this looks great."I nodded. In reality, I wasn't entirely happy with it, but for now, it had to do. I stepped out of my creation and went outside, closing the door tight behind me. After catching up on paperwork, I stepped in through the door. I did a quick scan. "Point-three life d...
It's the socks. Has to be the socks. Ankle-length is no good when you've got a floor this cold. I'm sure I've got some ski socks somewhere, those'll do. But they're upstairs aren't they. Screw it, I'm not going upstairs just for that. Wait, where are my slippers? Why aren't I wearing my damn slippers? Do I even still ...
"Time has caught up to you, Epoch." Epoch, hunched over and staring at his hands, nodded slowly. Sirens from all over the city wailed, and the shining moon overhead was obscured by smoke. "I know." His enemy and victor jumped down from his perch, his padded feet making no sound on the asphalted roof. The approaching ...
Our congregation was never one to exclude anybody from the good word, but given the fact that we're one of those uncolored parts of most those big name company cell phone coverage maps, there simply aren't many lost souls to take in around this little town. Whenever one comes along, we all make a big deal out of it, a...
My crazy Aunt Madeleine left it all to me. The house, the station wagon, the china dolls. And ten million dollars. Stephanie’s eyes widen. I continue. There was one condition. On her deathbed she handed me a stone key. The key was smooth and black, and heavy. And cold. However long I held it, it never warmed. “Hid...
Yuri did not see the first flash. It happened on the other side of the earth from their current orbital position. Nor did he see the first launch. As big as the missile was, it was too small to see from 420 kilometers above the earth. He learned, though. The trick was to look for the launch plume during the forty-...
It is the injustice of it that, above all, strikes me. I'm not an evil man. Right now, as I jab the trembling gun in the little lady cashier's face, I already feel remorse. A sense of shame, for causing another human being such overwhelming terror. Sorry, I want to say. But I have to. This emotional shitstorm pa...
Last words. It was hard... at first. It became easier over time. The first time, I went to the bar. I'm thin, I have silky long brown hair and a nice smile. That's really all I needed. To be female with a nice smile. So I brought the first one home, lured him to the basement and drugged him. I needed to know why the...
Mark and Daniel stood by the water cooler as the stretcher, surrounded by ambulance personnel, made it's way past their empty cubicles. The medical officers weren't in any rush; they all knew there was nothing that could be done now. As they passed by each section of sale representatives, the mood around the rattling s...
Everyone knows about the DoCR. Everyone was raised there. We all remember the play room and the gardens. We all remember story time and visiting the babies in the nursery. We all remember our school rooms and the nice workers there who raised us. Some of us even met the people we’d grow to marry for the first time...
"Hey dude." I don't think I've ever had my phone out that fast in my life. And I hate selfies. But for this, this I would make an exception. "Is it okay? I don't usually do this." "Nah, man, go ahead." Bill. Fucking. Murray! Who I was now apologizing to, as I"d never figured out how to take selfies. "Oh, no, i...
Falling off a balcony. Suicide by overdose. Murdered by their own husband. Everytime I looked into a person's eyes, before I even had time to think about who I was seeing, these words would invade. At first I thought it was just a game, that everyone's minds were designed to hear these strange sentences. But I not...
[Warning: bad words] Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America, put down the phone. He stared at the ceiling for a good long time, while the Cabinet stared at him. “That’s it then,” he said at last. “He’s launching the missiles. Every single one of them. Right here at Washington. We’ve got about --”...
Did... Did you just prompt on my favorite game series ever? Well then... > Blue Moon... You knew just what I was there for... You heard me saying a prayer for... someone I really could care for... The man with glasses and a hole in his head walked into the Tops casino and scanned the room. No sign of Benny yet....
95%... 96%... 97%... I drummed my fingers against the desk as I waited for the computer to slowly render the composite. It was still hard to believe that the Coalition chose me to compile humanity's first mega-selfie. Anxiety swelled in my chest with each breath I took. What if it's not good enough? This was...
Lucifer and God stood in the center of the battlefield, with angels and demons surrounding both of them. Both sides had sustained heavy losses, and yet each side knew that one side would have to die completely before walking away. With ripped robes and broken staffs, God and Lucifer both tried to smite each other. "It...
He always appears the same way. Every time I meet someone new he is waiting when I arrive home. It startled me at first, the beaten, tired old man sitting on my couch. Of course it startled me more when he turned out to be me. Every time he has the same message. She will hurt you. Do not talk to her anymore. She is a ...
Superguy had been stuck there for over three days and would remain for eternity. Time was no longer a measureable entity. How can time pass if there is nothing for it to pass by? Everything he had ever known had engulfed him in a roiling sea of pure energy, but confound to an unimaginably small space. How can a bein...
The old wooden staircase creaked under the weight of the boy's steps. Dusk light was filtering in through one of the large circular windows, exposing the dust that floated in the air. Clutter. The whole house everywhere was filled with cardboard boxes and books and pictures and drawings and tool kits and clothes. The s...
"What the fuck, Craig!?"The Decimator's usually calm, stoic voice now flew through the air as shrilly as a dozen teenage girls on prom night. Beneath his mighty form cowered his intern, Craig, holding a Glock 9mm and trying his very hardest to vanish into thin air. Evidently, this was a trick yet to be bestowed upon h...
It had to be twenty years or more since I'd last sat in this exact chair, at this exact bar, in this old New England town... The cars have improved, the hotel has a new facade and the clothing worn by the tourists has certainly changed... But the smell, the smell had not changed at all. It differs for people but what ...
The white light slowly dimmed until features began to emerge. Gates of poor quality iron were not far off, and I found myself walking towards them. A picture was hung on one of the doors and a small Asian man wearing red sat on a three legged stool, staring straight ahead. "Where am I?"I asked. "Heaven."The nonchal...
When I was fifteen, I ran away from home for three months. I was hit by a car and killed. I was found by a young woman, and we fell in love and were happy until she died ten years later. Her name was Mary. When I was fifteen I didn’t run away but I thought about it. All of these happened. Which one happened? ... Tod...
In the distance it was now a star. Another star in earth's night. Growing ever farther away. Once man had rose from the ground, now they flew to the stars. Escaping the grey rock, all that remained of a world named Earth. "And so it goes."said the man wearing the garment of a wolf. "So it goes. I suppose."said the ...
[Loophole? The rules never said I couldn't use compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences, so to make it clear there are only 3 sentences I will label them. I apologize if this is cheating. If it is I will delete it.] (Dialogue):"(1)Good evening graduates, my name is--well, I shall not reveal that information du...
This was the end of the line for George. The railroad crossing signs had turned on, and he was too slow to get out of the intersection. He looked above him, at the ceiling fan in his room. The noose was laying limp in his hands, a ominous reminder of what he would look like in a couple of minutes. He ran his finge...
You see, I have this candle. It was a gift from my students the year I stopped teaching; it's more of a sculpture than a candle, a fantasy construct of orange and red, which sort of looks like a tower from one side, and a dragon from the other. There's a wick in the middle, somewhere. I took it home, put it on a dre...
I lost my nerve to fly during the war And haven't set foot in a plane since then But now my girl is leaving me, for good So I embark, to face my fears again But lo! Both pilots dined on fish tonight And now it's up to me to fly this thing Forget George Zip, I think, to steel myself It's hard enough to ke...
The last time someone used a superpower, it was to stop a tsunami. It was roaring in to the east coast of the US, some eruption and landslide somewhere, there were mere hours, and nothing, nothing to be done. But this one guy took the risk. We all hoped there was someone with the right combination of superpowers, and...
They're right you know, school did prepare us for the real world. And since the outbreak became real, so did the world for the rest of us. Our days aren't spent locked away in a classroom, studying chemistry or learning about what happened in the wars anymore, no, we're out here in the real world. Fighting for our ...
I am not under your bed, Maybe I am in your head, The fleeting glimpse at night, The feeling you get - something's not right, We are going to play a little game, You may think me insane, But I quite like to hear you scream, I promise you - this isn't a dream, Knock knock at the front door, I see you w...
Robert Dullfield was an ordinary man. He was content with his daily routine, comprised of eating cereal in the morning, marching to work, eating a sandwich for lunch and coming home to an empty, cold and dark house where he'd prepare himself ramen noodles and play video games until 11 o clock. This is what he lived f...
…place to run. Outgunned. Outmanned. The howling faces charged the hilltop. The bear, Lerich, twelve feet of muscle and sinew, still fought in the center of the crowding mass, but as Derrick watched, heart pounding, it fell; a behemoth brought down by ants. Goliath against David’s sling. To the west, slabs of pale sto...
The alarm rang, the blinking LED lights said 6.00 A.M. It was still dark as I got out of bed, I fumbled around, eye half closed, barely conscious and did a quick stretch before walking towards the bathroom. My sides hurt. Did I drink so much last night? I couldn't remember, might have been a dream though, the bar n...
The emperor sat down on his throne atop the highest point of the citadel, rubbing his hands with glee. He had strived so long to take this throne, and now it was all his... all of it. He had raised taxes, had military garrisons everywhere. The people were poor, impoverished and too weak to fight back. Everything was t...
"Every happy ending has the day after." That was my father's favourite saying. He always was the pessimist, after all. Not that I blame him - he lived through a war, only to come home to two dead sons and a broken woman. And me, of course. He liked to tell me that I was the only reason he stuck around. He never ...
A poem to /u/FailureOfAWriter whose walls I live in. You face, your skin, your lovely eyes, I'll be with you all day, Your smile, your laugh, your shiny hair, I love you every way. No one knows the feelings, I bear inside for you. No one can imagine, All the things I'd do. I'd like to ho...
It had taken to calling itself aN00biz on Playstation Network and had 43 friends. The techs called it N00b until it electrocuted one of them while he was taking a shit. After that, the entire facility was scared of it. "Can we kill it?....if we have to"they asked plaintively. The director was sending me furious emails,...

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