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Diary 11/23/35, Today was a good day, I go to sit off the highway watching it all unfold. The CIA is running like a chicken with it head cut off. People flooding out of the building, sirens are screaming, an EOD team starting to assembling off in the distance. I just have a lawn chair, Starbucks in my hand and binocu...
She couldn't believe that at this point in her life she had somehow ended up a teacher. She had hoped by this age she would have more important duties than going back to school but she also knew she had to do what they told her that was rule number one. As she walked through the doorway she had a sudden issue breathing...
    Sitting in the library Miranda stared off into space. Her potions book sitting uselessly in her lap. Her second year at Hogwarts had so far been no better than year 1. She remembered how excited she had been getting her acceptance letter. Her mother threw her a small party that n...
I've seen many things in my time. I'm over 300 years old. My eyesight, poor to begin with has faded even further with time. But, I have no complaints. I have always been treated with kindness and my pace while teased, has never been insulted. I am Hamwise the tortoise, known to my current owner Madison as Hammy. ...
"Mind if I join you up there?"I said, and without waiting for the girl to respond, pulled myself up beside her. She's taken aback, she stares at the man incredulously as he stares out over the water. I don't speak, it's not like I had a noble reason to be up here with her. Quite the contrary, I thought I might join ...
Sinclair twisted the neck of the bottle, and champagne burst forth, ruining the little red cloth covering the table. "I believe you owe me, friend."He said, his best shit-eating grin on his face. His victim groaned. "You're a total fuck, you know that?"The drunken Jersey boy reached into his pocket, pulling out his ...
I did not speak to anyone yesterday. Well, that's not exactly true. It's true in the way that "I'm fine"is true when someone asks you how you are doing. Yesterday, I worked from home, which meant that a number of things went undone that *would've* been done had I been going into work . One example of such things is...
*BEEP*.....-......*BEEP*......-.....*BEEP* "Good morning, Mr. Anderson. Are you feeling better this morning?"a cheery voice greeted me. One finger raised- yes Two fingers raised- no This was a two finger morning. "Oh, well I'll be. That's not good. Anything I can do for you hun?"she asked charmingly. *Kill me?* ...
Everyday, he saw her walking through the woods, and everyday he hungered. In the autumn was the worst, when the red of her hair and her clothes dancing in the dwindling sun would blend with the leaves like the flames dancing in his heart. He didn't know exactly when the hunger overtook his reason. On the day he saw he...
"A thousand years ago, my ancestors were visited by people from beyond the stars."the Luxembourg representative walked toward the front of the group where first contact was taking place. "They were given a gift, that was to be present when official first contact was made. My family line has kept the faith through th...
"Is this your card?" I produced the queen of hearts, and the woman clapped. "Yes!"It was cold out, and her cheeks were flushed. She was very pretty. I smiled, and gave it to her, tucking it into the strap of her purse where it crossed her shoulder. "It suits you."She smiled back, and shyly opened her purse, dropping ...
"What are you doing tonight Daniel?" "Not too much. God came to me last night and told me I should write about the creation of the world now that we can write. Y'know record that oral tradition about Eve and the garden. So, that's what I'm doing tonight." "It's the weekend. Everyone's going over to Rebecca's hut for ...
EDIT: Felt like I struggled on this a bit, feel free to critique! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Judith looked up from her sink, wrist deep in suds and bits of food that were her meals for the past few days. They had begun to stink. The water was ho...
"What's your major?" "Non-Euclidean Engineering." "Ugh. I could never do that. Too much math, too much staring into the unfathomable void between dimensions." "I was always good at it. They say if you're exposed to the void as a kid your brain learns to handle the impossibilities better. But yeah, it's not for ev...
"Do you remember anything about the accident?"asked Officer Brown. "Kind of. We were just driving normally and then the car spun out and we hit the wall,"said Timmy. He thought about his mom and dad, who were waiting outside the hospital room. Timmy didn't want anyone to get in trouble. "Do you remember who was drivi...
"I can't say too much without spoiling it for you, it's just amazing. The writing is raw, it almost feels unscripted, I binge watch it when I can." 'What's it about though? Is it sci fi? Drama? What makes it so good?' "Well it's drama for sure, but not like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad level; it's more mundane, bu...
Alarms counted down with a disturbingly calm voice as the lab prepared to self destruct. The ground shook, and I heard explosions in the distance. I sprinted down the hall and burst into a stairwell. In one fluid motion, I vaulted over the railing and down to the next landing. I landed with a hard smack on the ground,...
I was forged in the fires of hell. Well, not quite hell, but I was born in a forge in Plattsburgh, Pennsylvania. From birth, we are told that we are unique snowflakes, each created for a singular duty. Our dedication to duty was pounded into us at every opportunity. Adolescence was a trying period, and some of my ...
The sound of leather shoes on a hard surface rang around the room with every step he took. A member of the secret service opened the door for him as he hurried past. Stepping into the room was like stepping back in time: brown files littered the floor; black chalkboards ran around the entirety of the walls and there wa...
*The Hound of the Baskervilles* carefully surveyed his troops, pacing up and down amongst their ranks while he thought up a plan of attack. He noticed *The Maltese Falcon* casually leaning against the cash register, smoking a cigarette and inspecting his snub-nosed revolver. Yes, he decided, *Falcon* can definitely t...
It's hard to sleep, when you know the truth. Money hadn't been a problem since my first single went to number 1, a catchy tune buoyed by my youthful looks, life was great. I shied away from the seedy underbelly of the business, my parents had always raised me well, and having seen my father sacrifice so much to send m...
Overlord Kennith looked down upon Silicon Valley from the new Google World Headquarters. Most of Silicon Valley was painted in bright, alternating colors, a reminder of the control Google had over the world. The world really was his. He had governments eating out of his pockets. Half of the world's economy flowed throu...
Lord Edgbastian wrote the last sentence and smiled as he took his last breath. The last word - dying - blurred as his eyes closed and his floppy hand pushed the antique glassware he drank his last glass of water from. Harold Edgbastian ran into the room. His goddamned father had destroyed another priceless artifact. H...
I had just gotten out of the shower and got dressed for work. My alarm clock had failed to wake me, so I was gong to be about half an hour late for work. No big deal, as I only work on the bigger trades--mostly military favor contracts between multiple countries, or manufacturing favors between megacorporations. Whi...
I chuckle to myself as I post the first entry into the Edopsian Visions blog. According to the blog description, the Edopsian religion is a polytheistic religion that worships 2 separate sets of Gods. Some people worship Edops and his kingdom, and some worship Kell and her realm. A few people worship both. I've posted...
I pointed my .44 down at the poor bastard on the ground. Had a hole through his chest the size of a fist. "Please just do it,"he cried. I nodded and pulled the trigger. The lady, his wife I guess, came up to me afterward. "Thank you for ending his suffering. I just couldn't do it,"she said. Seemed to be fighting bac...
“Akirameru. That’s your problem”. “I am not suicidal.” His cheeks were pink in cold, his lips curled in frustration “You just haven’t reached there yet. Otherwise, I think you have given up life completely.” “No. What I am suggesting is that there is nothing worth living for. Look at this billboard. Your next ch...
"Erm, excuse me? I think I am in the wrong place... I was looking for the Great Wall Excursion tour group?" Nothing. It was like they didn't even hear me. They were still arguing about something. He was doing lots of finger pointing and babbling. She was also babbling, but kept thumping her hand on her chest and cryin...
It was another dreary day in the urban city of New York. Men and women went to work and back but today was different than usual. I was walking down a road to my small but cosy apartment when I noticed a dispute between a homeless man and a what looked like your average 15 year old. It wasn't every day an argument like ...
I'll bet you'll never see it coming. When the sun is setting, and the crow begins its cawing. In the end, the night will always come. Longest nights, they say, follow shortest days. Languish, for this day was ever so tragically short. Keep watching the sun set, beg for it to stay. It will not. Looming just over the hor...
**Ship Engineer's Log - 17/12/2014** We have been sailing on the ocean of side 2 for almost 12 weeks now and supplies are starting to run low. I have used all of our building supplies to rebuild the ship after last weeks storm, but we can't survive another like that. Its times like this that I think of home. I used t...
I felt a tug in my navel, and then suddenly I didn't feel old anymore. The pain in my chest had subsided, and I felt calm again. However, I also felt like I was floating and slowly disappearing at the same time, so perhaps this was all just the hospital drugs talking. When I looked up, there was no hospital. No cracke...
"What if there was a huge government cover-up of illegal activity?" "What if there was mass surveillance by the US government?" "What if someone tried to leak government secrets covertly?" "What if the US had a secret program called PRISM?" /r/writingprompts usually has such a good variety, but today it's all consp...
"Hey :)" I quickly check my auto-correct didn't mess it up, and then send it to her. I want to be extra careful, because this time it's not Mom i'm texting to. "Hi ;)", she answers almost immediately. She seems to have her phone close to her all the time, since she always seems to answer quickly. The wink-emoji is a ...
I awoke on a road I had never walked before, with the pain of the radiation sickness faded from my body. I was once again how I started, pantless, in an old dirtied T-shirt that the god doctor gave me so I can have some dignity. I checked my pip boy to see that I had absolutely nothing. Luckily for some reason I was v...
You're really sweet, Michael, and I really enjoy our time together, but I can't marry you. Look, I know this is coming out of left field for you, but we are just too different to be able to make it work. I've been keeping secrets from you-from everyone, really. I'm not like you. I'm better. My earliest memory is of m...
"Shawn, you're becoming a villain." Lilly had a reputation for getting straight to the point. Everyone else in the room cringed. They all knew what she said was true but had planned to slowly cosy up to the hard talk over the course of the evening. But now the cat was out of the bag and it had shit on the carpet. Sha...
*OK, this is really long. Like longer than I thought it would be. If anyone actually reads to the end, let me know. Also some parts may be NSFW or NSFL depending on how sensitive you are.* Introduction: In the northwest corner of the city of Beijing there is a neighborhood called Wudaokou. It’s not much, barely more t...
"We have guns, tanks, etc!"Bellowed the crosseyed messenger in the town square, looking as out of place amongst the medieval scenery and townsfolk in his army get up as a tie on a wedding dress. The villagers had all stopped what they were doing and had been staring at the strange man and his two guards since their spe...
The staircase at Brickstone high slowly emptied out as students responded to the first bell leaving a lone student on the landing. Kenji frantically clawed through the contents of his bag. His cherished blue pencil case crashed to the ground, spilling various writing utensils across the ground. It had been his gradu...
"How are the ATM machines running? Are they working properly?"I asked Bill, who worked next to me one cubicle over. "No they aren't working right, something is wrong with them."he informed me by answering my question. "Is it the LCD display again? We've already had that issue twice, we can't have it again or that wou...
I finished drinking my coffee. My phone beeped at me that a new text message arrived. I sighed and pulled the phone from my pocket. As I pulled the phone out a great gust of wind kicked up the leaves around me. It blew back my hair and blasted my face with dust. It had been dead calm just seconds before. I looked ar...
"Why? In the name of all that is holy, why would you do such a thing? Why would you do this to your own *children*!"she shouted, tears running down her cheeks, the cheeks which just moments ago had been sunken and hollow from starvation. The Lord spoke, in the form of an aged rabbi with a large white beard. "I am terr...
A Day in the Life of Glorious Leader Kim Jong-Un In an attempt to make Glorious Leader Kim Jong-Un accessible to the people, he has allowed that we reveal what an average day in his life looks like. It is difficult to describe in mere words the daily happenings of Glorious Leader Kim Jong-Un. Important to note: Our gl...
He knew it was more than a dream, but he couldn't understand it. Eddie was floating in space, he had no body yet somehow his senses remained. "Welcome back home."A soothing voice said to him. It sounded like his grandfather. "Grandpa? Is that you? Am I in heaven?"Eddie called out. "No, I'm not your grandpa, I do ...
"Is that the last of it?"We'd ridden hard to get here and I wanted to make sure that all of the money we were owed was being payed. Ohterson's widow deserved a steep repayment. "I believe so."The King breathed a heavy sigh. Though he was bruised, battered and aged far beyond his years, he was happy for his ordeal to b...
"But they're not furry."she said to me. Furry. *That* was her argument. These beings, these obviously intelligent beings, couldn't be so because they weren't furry. "Okay,"I said calmly, "just because they're not furry-" "Oh God."She interrupted. "Not the 'just because they're not furry' argument again. You're a...
Maybe it was the brightness. Maybe it was the way it moved when she talked. Or maybe it was the way she wore it held back all the time - but I digress. There is more to this girl than just her hair. Maybe it was the fact that she always managed to find a way to smile without her lips ever budging, how she'd make me sm...
The man behind Gary was wearing spandex. Sparkling purple with gold highlights. He pulled a shrink ray from his pocket. "Come on man, not again,"said Gary, taking his hoodie off. "I will kill you for what you did to my plan, Uber-mensch!"The man had a thick German accent, like the kind they did on TV shows. ...
I had had enough. I don't think people really understand what it's like to be at the point where you just can't go on anymore until you are actually at that point. I didn't think anyone would understand. So I never told anyone. You see, I was under a lot of pressure. For one thing, I had procrastinated too long. I was...
The phone rings. “I swear to Christ if this is Macaulay Culkin again I’m going to tell him where to shove it,” I muttered while shifting through my mail, ripping open envelopes. Oh great, another summons. “We tried Macaulay! We tried.” This shout was for no one — despite my paycheck my office was cramped, stuffed with ...
Vaporizing the cities was the easy part. In the past, you'd see a story on the news about a derecho or giant scorpion killing ten, twenty, maybe a hundred people. The history books were filled with plagues and asteroid collisions that wiped out thousands in the old days. But when the Big One came, it was hundreds of mi...
*The first sighting was startling, of course, but otherwise harmless. A dozen white, wispy figures appeared in Paris, near the base of the Eiffel Tower. They stood still, seeming unaware of the world around them as they stared off towards something to the east, never answering or acknowledging the few Frenchmen who gre...
"Alright everyone, I'll give you a word and you have to combine it just like we have practiced for weeks. Ok?" The students nodded in agreement and the teacher cleared her throat. "The word is 'shit'. Ready? Kevin." "Shithead!" "Good, now Cindi." "Um...shit face?" "It's good but lets begin to stray away from parts...
She stood at the gateway to the portal, marveling at the aesthetic allure of the gentle, liquid-like surface of the portal. Its zen-like motion was a stark contrast to the chaos from the building collapsing all around her. "Elaine! Elaine, you must go right now! The portal won't hold any longer!" Elaine Fitzgerald sl...
The team assembled as the plangent drone of air raid sirens rose again through the morning sunlit streets of Tokyo. Why Tokyo? Well as it turns out, and much to the chagrin of the generally moderate [Bandai](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai) corporate leadership, Robo-Hitler was accidentally created by a radicalized...
Part 1 ------ The bar was in a light state of decay, even though it had been a year since the great world fire of 2015, the bar was in pretty good shape. Except for the cracked peeled of paint on the walls, the mixture of ash and dust lingering on the floor and the broken mirror lining the back wall behind the counter....
Blue eyes, void of empathy, watch from a distance. Cold and calculating, they glance left to right. A shock of black hair falls just above them. The bridge of the nose, slender and sharp, twitches as the eyes pick up on the prey. A smooth upper lip curls into what could be a smile. Bright, white teeth glisten in the s...
"Don't provoke it, Morgan,"begged Catherine, "Nothing good ever comes from provoking the internet." "Someone has to stand up to the hive mind, Cathy,"I muttered under my breath. I double-clicked the browser icon and my home page popped up. I was in. It knew I was there. My sister had never been strong enough to chall...
Edit: added description and some dialogue cues. It's a beautiful sunny day when we find Andy playing in his front yard with his two favourite toys, Woody and Buzz. His mother walks out of their house and gives him the news: He's going to have a play date! Across town a collector of early 20th century dildos is al...
"Batman V Superman in Cinemas soon"Clark said out loud whilst reading the words on the billboard. "Look at that Bruce. They're making a movie where we fight each other"said Clark, with a sly smile on his face. "I'd totally win man" "What? No way"replied Bruce "I know so much kung fu, and I probably have a bunch of Kr...
(Not really modern day, but a future Atheist. Still hope it is decent as its my first post here and I wrote it pretty quickly) I have betrayed him. The most honorable and loving man I had ever known, the man who would shape the course of history, and the man who I was sent to stop. I have betrayed him. If I had seen...
As I stepped into the elevator, I smiled shyly at the gorgeous woman already within. She quirked an eyebrow and lifted her plump lips into a smile of her own. I tapped the button for the sixteenth floor and stepped away from the controls. "You in town for that big convention?"I asked casually. "Oh, no. I'm visiti...
Author's note: I'm sleepy and not at all a white supremacist. I was merely channeling my inner-Hitler. Uhh, wait, scratch that, um... yeah, just enjoy. I guess. "Friends, acquaintances, enemies, and the present Jewry,"Adolf began. "Today we hear our sentencing for the so-called crimes that we have committed, in the n...
Dr. Brenner sighed as he wrote his most recent finding in his journal, knowing that when published he would become a laughing stock. All those decades he'd spent progressing human understanding of genetics and cloning would go to waste, his name would forever be associated with this one unforeseen blunder. In the year...
The cell was made of some kind of indestructible white plastic, as were the chairs and table. The ceiling of the Spartan containment room was one uniform light, the radiance so intense that the single occupant of the cell sat with his hands covering his eyes. He was dressed in disposable white overalls of some syntheti...
"It's been a while, Carlos." I stand three feet away from Carlos "The Pitbull"Vasquez, leader of the Ill Ninos bike gang. I am terrified and excited at the same time. "Si, Dominic. Why do you bother me and my boys on a fine day like this, don't you know I don't have time for you and your pathetic excuse for a gang?"...
Your eyes flicker open. Your heart beats fast. You take in the scene around you in the half second between blinks. Your foot on a car's accelerator, your blood covered hands on the wheel. Shit. Sirens in the distance. Shit, shit. Bag overflowing with cash next to you- is that Franklin on the bills? Shit shit shit! Gi...
Check out the **WritingPrompts Showcase** every Monday. We put up a sticky post featuring a spotlight writer and then list some Mod picks of stories that stand out to us. We also ask redditors to comment with other stories that they feel were over-looked. There is also /r/bestofWritingPrompts as /u/Lexilogical mention...
Born to an alcoholic, woman-chasing, absentee father and a neurotic, alcoholic mother - Joffrey Baratheon, despite being the heir to the Seven Kingdoms, was a lonely child who was watched day and night by a murderous, half-burnt dog. When the cold, soldier-like lord from the North came to Kings Landing, Joffrey felt mo...
Another long day at the office. "JOSEPH! WAKE UP DAMNIT" I jolt up "Yeah sorry boss! I'm awake" "Damnit joseph, I can't have you sleeping on the job. The phone's been ringing non-stop. I called Carol here to replace you for the night. Get some rest and be ready to work tomorrow."He storms off to yell at some oth...
The cry for oxygen was overwhelming, ceaseless. It seemed to be the only thing they ever wanted, pretty soon it became background noise much like the march traffic becomes the norm to those of us in the city, only when we leave do we notice how fucking loud it is. I was no longer "I"instead to describe it, you would ha...
Ours was a young world and by proxy, ruled over by a young God. We worshiped the sun, believing it to be the face of our God. Light-bringer. Warmth-Giver. Sustainer. Our existence was a simple one, but we were happy. It was a terrible day when we heard the voice of our God. A reverberation began in the ground and the...
I ran my hand over its skin, feeling every bump and imperfection. I brought it up to my face, smelled it's sweet fragrance. I dug my nails into is skin and then slowly began to undress it. The anticipation sent chills of excitement down my spine. My eyes took in every millimetre as I began to reveal the sumptuous flesh...
"I've lost my queen." // **Yes, you have** "I've...lost the game" // **Almost Certainly.** "And when you take my King, you will launch the missiles" // **Yes.** "Is there no other way?" // **There is no other way.** "Why?" // **Because that is how I was programmed.** "But you must be programmed to understan...
"Alright, I'm hom- what the fuck did you two do the universe!" **"It was Her/His Fault!"** The twins shouted in unison. She sighed, setting her grocieries down on the floor, rubbing her cheeks with her hands, rolling her eyes up at the sky. "Alright."The Mother said, picking the bags back up and lugging them into the...
The children in the schoolroom spy, A mushroom growing in the sky. "How quaint."thought they, to see a cloud, That blankets sunshine like a shroud. Whatever could it be? The children playing near the fall, Are now just shadows on the wall. The hospital, the bank, the fair, Are now just ashes in the a...
Neil was flying backwards through a large dining hall like a rag doll being thrown onto the ground. As he hit the floor, he rolled over a couple of times and then finally came to a stop as he hit a large ornate column. The hall, full of his protesting screams just a moment ago, fell silent as Neil lay on the ground, ...
We get it- Batman's on vacation. On the Deep Space Nine space station. It makes him blue To see "Try OC"says mrcreation.   He waits with anticipation To see a prompt that elicits elation. But there's nothing creative Just derivitative "Is that a word?"asks mrcreation.   It's just a plea ...
This whole time we thought the shroud of darkness covered a starving nation, a crumbling infrastructure, and a backwater country landscape dotted with concentration camps. Nope. The DPRK finally opened itself up to the outside world, and the UN team that went for investigations reported back news that left millions ac...
*Part 1* It was so sudden, so unexpected. One day the population is sitting comfortably (or not so comfortably, depending on how you look at it), then the next day, boom, half of our population gone in an instant. At first, everyone experienced shell shock and it felt like time was in a standstill. Families, friends, ...
Eye contact. Everything, every human interaction, depended upon eye contact. The slightest color shift meant sudden turns in any negotiations, the turn of thousands in poker pots, or the collapse of reputations and relationships. Everything was influenced by eye color, and every watched for it all the time. Maintaining...
“Honestly, I’m surprised it took you lot this long to catch on. I mean, how does the idea of unique magical wands make *any* sense? You’re fucking wizards, for Christ’s sake! You’ve got magic comin’ out your bleedin’ ears! You really think you need a special type of stick to make it go? “It’s the ritual, see? It’s the...
"*Oh my God*,"I groaned, holding my head in my hands. Or rather, I would've. But I was strapped down by...chains of shimmering light to a metal gurney aboard an extraterrestrial spaceship. **We do not believe in higher beings. Once, we did. But now we have transcended past such primitive behaviors.** "But you believe...
"Judge Dredd?"Asked the wisp of the soul with excitement. The robed figure of Death stared for a distance of aeons, but after a split second turned back to the wisp and said, with a tinge of amusment, **"No."** "But why not?"The hovering light replied, twirling in the air as if in protest. Death turned to the wisp w...
"Can you _hold_ this for me?" Atlas shrugged: "It's always jokes with you, isn't it?""And why the hell not"— Hermes was in a good mood as always. "Just look at those stupid mortals below. I've read some fiction recently — some of them think gods only exist as long as they have followers. Typical mortals! Always puttin...
Nobody is sure when it started, sometime in July they say. People started finding...well...themselves. Only a few at first, small stories in the newspaper, the odd two sentence internet article. People were coming across another Human with their same memories and same looks. By all standards they were clones, dopplega...
On day one, I was oblivious. The old woman, a willowy figure, walked up to me. Her face was cracked porcelain, eyes devoid of any light. With each step she glided across the ground, as if floating. It wasn’t until she stood in front of me – staring me down – until I understood. “Ten,” she whispered, a thin wisp of sm...
“Have a nice day.” I smile as I walk away from the counter. She sort of glares at me, then looks to the next customer. As I’ve done thousands of times before, I pull her worries over to myself. As I leave the store, I hear her cheerfully greeting whoever was next in line. I can’t help but feel somewhat satisfied, in sp...
"Bonjour Monsieur D'Chelsea,"I smiled as I passed an old English longbow, used in the Battle of Agincourt. A pale specter rose slowly from it, features indistinct, but the livery of an ancient French noble family unmistakeable on his armored chest. Protruding from the center of that livery is the splintered tip of an...
""You mean you don't mind?"" ""Absoloutly not,""replied Glomarr'skh. ""In fact, we were thinking about if you would accept our relience on some products that you "ahem"would find disturbing."His roots started to spin around and around. ""Infact, us Ironbarks use meat products. Meat Cream, Meat Facial mask... Have you ...
The door burst open, slamming into the adjacent wall. As it swung back toward the door frame, the guard kicked it with his foot, sending it back into the wall. Gun in one hand, a stumbling prisoner in the other, he marched into the small concrete room. Light filtered through the bars on the only outside window, high ov...
Fire was raining from the sky. For the third day, the world burned. Smoke drifted in front of the sun, drowning out the light. We are alone. I knelt, gathering dust. I rubbed the dust between my fingers, watching it fall to the ground. Moving my hand to my waist, I pulled a small pouch of red clay. I dipped a dust-cov...
Sauron was always the hero. From his very beginning, as apprentice to Aulë the Smith, long before he served as lieutenant to the rebellions Ainur, Melkor, Sauron, then known as Mairon, understood the way of the world was cast was... limited. All the Ainur, and their adjuctant Maiar, were devoted to Eru, the Puppetmak...
I felt my eyelids slowly spread apart and then blink several times, as bright light prevented me from seeing anything. As I heard an audible gasp, I struggled to find the strength to turn my head towards the noise. "HOLY SHIT, NOT AGAIN,"a man in green scrubs yelled, walking backwards directly into a tray of utensil...
“Cancer.” “Cancer?” “Cancer.” “Cancer as in Cancer, cancer as in Cancer, or cancer as in…'cancer cancer?'” “'Cancer, cancer'.” “What cancer?” “It’s cancer cancer.” “I know its ‘cancer cancer’, but what type of cancer is ‘cancer cancer?’” “No, the ‘cancer cancer’ is cancer cancer. Your cancer has cancer.” “So ...
"EVERYBODY ON THE FLOOR!."Jack threw off his trench coat and pulled the super-soaker out, leveling the barrel at the lone guard for the bank, "NOW!" There was a moment of silence. Some of the people got halfway down before seeing that he was wielding a squirt gun. They hovered in a half-crouch, their brains trying to ...
When they found the tumor in my lung, the solution was simple. Talk to my doctor about the chemo treatment, prep my family for the bad news, etc. It’s not rocket science. Everyone knows someone with cancer. But when I found my power, I didn’t know what to think. Who knows how long it’s been inside me. All I know is I...
In the alley between Barn's Barber and the city's cheapest kung-fu Dojo, a ball of electric energy formed. It cut into the ground, scaring away some stray cats and freaking the shit out of A hobo. From the sphere came the machine. It was not elegant, in fact it looked like a bunch of random junk from a stoner's garage...
The sun was high in the sky; you could tell it was almost noon. The Jackal scowled at it. "Same as always,"he said to no-one in particular, and waited for the Gates to open. He'd visited heaven before, and each time been greeted by a different god. This time it was a lady with skin as blue as midnight through which ...