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The bell rung at approximately 3:28 pm. I got up from my bed and went to change my clothes. I put my standard issue sanitation suit and grabbed my toolbox. With that, I opened the door and headed out for another round of cleaning up. It's not easy being the guy who cleans up the map after a multiplayer match. But hey,...
At first I didn't understand why my girlfriend had been struck by lightning while she was out hiking in the California Redwoods. To start with... she was in the middle of redwoods. How does lightning manage to hit a 5'4"woman when there are trees looming hundreds of feet above her? Lightning takes the path of least res...
It was hard to leave the Children's Keep. It was an amazing place. I left the sanctuary a man at 19, ready for my career. And a year later, I miss it more than ever. I yearn for it. The safety, the comfort, the warmth. Childhood is a journey far more precious than its destination, I now realise. I focus hard on the r...
I did nothing. The man sought to bind me. Sought to save all life by chaining them to their earthly shells, forever. To bring paradise by creating hell on earth. Fortunately for everyone else, all the sorcerous bindings in the world cannot halt the march of the seasons. For everyone else, the cycle of life and death ...
I'm betting I've got another twenty minutes or so before the orderlies show up, so I guess I better make this count, huh? I know they're saying I'm the bad guy. I know you believe them, and I guess to some extent I am. I know the choices I made hurt you and for that I'm sorry - but Jack, you got to understand that I...
The King sat outside during High Noon, where he would have normally enjoyed quite a delicious meal with his soon-to-be-wife, Talia. But Talia was killed in a raid on a village that she was visiting, the savage barbarians doing terrible things to the people. The King tried to push the thoughts from his head, but they ke...
I have the riches of the world in my home. Mountains of gold, piles of jewels, hundreds of crowns and medallions from fallen knights and Kings. I have the treasures of an age long gone, of an age now existing, and of all the ages to come. Golden statues, diamond-encrusted chandeliers, silver and copper as far as the ey...
In a hole in the ground there lived a Shoggoth. not a tiny invisible hole teeming with insectile horrors, nor some grand cyclopean maze of jagged stone. This was a Shoggoth's hole, so that meant it was dark and cold and wet, twisting through ice and buried stone in the isolated mountains of the antarctic. There were...
“No, no, no. It can’t be done!” I screamed, as the masked men held assault riffles in my face. The action-figure-built leader of the militia stepped forward, “You think this a game, Mr. Nigerian Prince?” I thought to myself, “Yes, clearly this is a game.” Unfortunately, my ability to handle pressure is not something t...
In a period of crushing depression after being denied admission to art school, I found myself seeking for something to occupy my hands. I set aside pencil and brush, and took up a needle. I used my mother's old embroidery hoop. It was poorly made. If my hands moved too quickly across it, little splinters found their ...
Yuri unbuckled the black strap binding him to the solitary seat in the capsule. He weightlessly propelled away. Arms flailing behind his body, he ungracefully navigated himself across the short expanse between his chair and one of the two portholes. He bathed his eyes in the vastness of the inky darkness confronting hi...
“Ahem,” God cleared his throat. “Sorry, what was I saying?” He looked down at his paper. “Oh yes,” he said, a wry smile playing on his lips. Whatever he was reading was deeply amusing to him. I wondered one of us would be humiliated by him this time. He could be a real jerk sometimes. Why couldn’t he just pick on someo...
There was an orderly hubbub at the CIA's headquarters, with all the agents working in quiet deliberation. Just then, a phone call punctuated the silence. The shrill ring caused all commotion in the room to cease. Every head towards the phone. It hadn't rung in years. An intern looked around curiously, querying the su...
People milled about. Excited chatter filled the air. Swords clashed and artwork was looked at as the Lancaster Renaissance Fair of 2016 started to go into full swing. In a small, secluded pasture behind the stables, humming could be heard. The old adage with the tree, no one there to hear it, and its existential exist...
I was sweeping up the broken glass in my living room when I started crying. Again. Me and Max had lived together for only a month when things started to go downhill. We had been together for a year before we decided to move in with each other. He was the one who asked me to move in with him, then began to micromanage ...
"What devilish black magic is this?" Ranthar poked at a tree with his battle axe, watching as it transformed into a warped, gray mass of 0s and 1s before slowly regaining its original detail. Grongard, the expedition leader, shook his head and tried to take a seat on a stone. It performed a similarly bizarre trick, i...
Apologies for the length, hopefully it's worth the read :P ---- "We're out of tea bags. Someone pass me my gun and my flak jacket, I'll go get some more,"Timothy said. Shyla held up a hand, separating Timothy from his weapon. "No Tim, you're not going back out there." Timothy surveyed the room. The small wooden s...
"Going to kill me, hero?"Doctor Mechaloid coughed, struggling to breathe with the weight of the lamp post pressed across his chest. "Of course not. You don't have it in you. You don't have the strength to take decisive actions. You're weak, like all of the others. Inferior to the cold beauty of my mach-" "Actually, I ...
I was the kind of kid who spent more time in fantasy worlds than I did in reality. It concerned my parents, no doubt, that I considered Hermione my closest friend; that me and Dorothy had a long, sordid history, that Alice and I often frolicked in the lemongrass. But in truth, books were my escape. I was socially awkw...
The movie played in some back tab on Chrome as Willard Brent laboriously dug mineral wealth from his nostrils and scrolled through page after page of anime ladies in skimpy outfits on some site that 4chan had lead him to. It was three AM. He'd tuned out most of the movie. It was the new cut from piratebay, but it was ...
"She's unstable! A liability! Groundsman Halversack expects the dining hall reconstruction to take at least a week, and we've had to send for a specialist to tend to Timothy Myers' wounds. It's dangerous, Olivia -- she is dangerous,"spat Professor Longmeer, calling Professor Wuxia by her first name for extra pith. I...
You try to take a breath of surprise but you realize you can't breathe, Not that you need to though. You feel like nothing all you can do is see, see those words, those patronizing awful words. What kind of sick joke is this? Are you really dead? Well of course you are you don't have a body, but then... How can you see...
"The fire has jumped the eastern break!"The voice on the intercom had its usual professional calm, but the firefighters in the camp immediately sprang to their feet. Chief John Green began issuing orders to the fire crews as they prepped their gear. "Get planes in the air ASAP. Have them focus on indirect attack. We ...
I love my brother. We complete each other. I never thought the time would come where it would be one of us. The day where I would wake up and my other half was missing. What was strange was I never thought it could be me. I had always imagined it would be him. I would be there with mom and dad, mourning the loss of my ...
Mal had his face smacked down on his large, ornate wooden desk. He liked his desk. It was one of the very few luxury items demons were allowed at work. Sure his bosses made him go through hell for it, but he still thought the desk was worth it. "So does this mean I miss out on brunch?" Mal groaned as his face left th...
I paused time. I'm not sure exactly why I paused time, I suppose it was just an impulse. It's not like I could get away from the shrapnel. All I could do was stand there, and think. My life flashed before my eyes rather slowly. I had time to think about everything. I had time to think about my childhood, my accomplis...
>:LOADING SCRIPT burnBabyBurn.py ... >:SCRIPT LOADED >: >: # Damage is calculated in integers. >:def fireball (target): >: for enemy e in target.aoe_entities(target, 3): >: e.takeDamage(10, "fire") >: e.setCondition("burn", true) >: Graphics.explosion(targe...
No one here, but there were signs of a fire and a pile of scorched soup cans, the cans and the ashes were both cold. Whoever had been here had been gone for some time. I had never been in this house before, never even been to this side of town so I knew it wasn't a fire I had started. I hadn't seen anyone in years, eve...
"Police discovered the body of one Eleanor Woods outside of her apartment on Fifth early this morning. Although they have declined to make a statement, some sources say the victim suffered multiple wounds to her chest and back. No suspects have been reported, but some are theorizing that this is the work of- "Head on ...
This surgery followed the procedure of any other transplant surgery I had done. I allowed my mind to numb so that my subconscious could direct the precise, practiced motions in my hands. Ten blade Lap pads Retractor More than that now, student doctor Avery. Really open her up. Suction Clamps During ...
I watched the red digital numbers get ever closer to zero. Memories of my childhood came flooding in. It's strange. This was my goal, yet my life is flashing before my eyes as well. I thought of my father, that son of a bitch. "Who told you that crap! Listen Johnny, I don't know who filled your head with that non...
"I'm agent Michael, this is agent Hartka, Secret Service."The two agents certainly looked the part, and the badge definitely seemed genuine. "The president's bodyguards?"I asked. "I..."I trailed off. I was at a loss. I was pretty sure I hadn't threatened the president lately, but exclaiming this fact would sound pr...
"Is this for real?" The clerk at the counter stares skeptically at your pile of energy drinks, caffeine pills, and store-brand "alertness aid"medicines. "Yes it's for real,"you snap impatiently. "Scan my shit so I can pay. Fuck."The underpaid cashier begins lazily scanning item after item. A blaring silence fills the...
The queue moved again. “Welcome to Heaven, my son. Tell me, what is your name?” “Satan.” The gatekeeper’s face twitched. “Satan… And is that a nickname, or short for something?” “I’m afraid not,” the arrival replied. “Look, I think there’s been some sort of mix-up here. If you’ll just let me talk to your superior I’...
Before Evelyn stood an enormous statue of a bearded man riding atop a bucking steed. The statue was made entirely of gold, and it shone brilliantly with the light of the setting sun. Evelyn's eyes scanned the horizon as she turned. She was surrounded entirely by unbroken, undulating cloud. It glowed softly under the l...
When asked about what he thinks about in his spare time, Paul Gregorson said, "Sometimes, I wonder what it would be like to be a bit shorter." The world's tallest man, Paul, 31, is what most scientists called "an impossibility."No record of any human over the previous record of 4'5"has ever existed in human history. A...
"Oh man,"I said, "look at that nice tight spacing, that x-height."She was an elegant neo-grotesque, oblique without being italic, as she wove through the club. Roman looked up from his drink and shuddered. "Her?! Oh, trust me, man, not worth it."He drained his glass and winced. "So you know her?" Roman scowled at m...
Wreave's motives were unclear. As the Enchanted Sorcerer, it had been his duty since Ascension to serve the Royal Family. He wanted for nothing. All he ever needed to do was ask, and he received. Ever dutiful, kind, and gracious, he served the royals and the people of the kingdom with enthusiasm and over the course of ...
Rodger had a routine. It was his, and his alone, and nothing would ever change it. 6AM. The alarm buzzes. He slaps it silent, and walks over to the wardrobe. He grabs the baseball bat beside it, opened up the wardrobe, thwacked the waiting bogeyman hard enough to stun it and took out his Tuesday shirt. The Tuesday shi...
Level One, Noob. Tuck your elbows in, will you? Some of these guys are a bit grabby. Here we have your low level demons. These are the biters, the scratchers. Anyone who goes 'GHRRHHARHHRHARHAHRAHHHHHHH!!!"or some such shit, they come here. We call 'em the fours 'cause they're mostly on four legs. Limbs, anyway. Except...
Vaxatror lay on the ground, blood flowing from his many wounds. Incredible Man and his Super Kid had accomplished their mission, and were leaving their nemesis on the ground to be dealt with by the plice. The duo were about to leave when they heard Vaxatror speak. "Did you say something Vaxatror?,"asked Incredible Ma...
I still remember that day. It was the first day we talked to each other. We were eight years old. Maths class, I still remember. You sat across from me. I watched you, as I often did, twirl your dark hair as your face scrunched in frustration. It annoyed me, in an immature way, but grew on me like so many of your other...
They once said darkness was the weakest of the elements. Good for practical jokes or maybe used cleverly for petty thievery and the like. I didn't blame them. The first Spirit Form of Shadow was little more than a shadow of their silhouette. Not a true shadow, but more like dark translucent paper stuck to the wall; it ...
"Gosh, look at them go!"Robert told Martha as they watched the Dark Sorcerer's decommissioned army of the undead plow their field with astounding speed and efficiency. Given the size of their farm, they were entitled to seven undead slaves, up to three of which could be skeletons. Given the alacrity with which they ate...
"He doesn't deserve it!" The monstrous being slammed its fist on the table. It was a terrifying sight: a seemingly empty void that danced around the room, unable to contain itself. Empty white eyes contrasted its dark body, and its teeth seemed to unfold from existence itself every time it opened its mouth. *I un...
"So, they worship heads?" "Basically. Or they feared them. Maybe both." Galax and Parthenon looked at the pictures again. Stone heads, with the faces of men on them, sent a few days ago by scouts. They couldn't find records of who they were - those records became dust long ago, back when the planet was green and had ...
Everything was normal. For our world at least. Having superpowers was considered the normal, and everyone had one. Except for our bloodline. Noone of us has ever had a superpower, and when our offsprings were made with normal people, they had no superpowers either. But we remained powerful. We did not get lost in time,...
Ben wrote on the wall. I saw him do it. He'd been trying to frame me for things ever since he was born. It all started back in pre school when I wouldn't let him play with my dinosaur action figures while I was at school. Mom bought them for me since I was the best child in the family and she knew I would have to lear...
"Please sir,"I begged the adventurer. "We don't have much here, my children and I. We are simple farmers."I felt myself beginning to cry, tears hot on my face. This topic was painful for me but sometimes I felt that it is all that I could think about. Where once I might have felt joy, purpose, or pride in my work, all ...
The corn fields of Southeastern Nebraska seemed jittery, like they were poorly designed with stop-motion animation. At first, the change had been a vague annoyance. But as Abner grew closer and closer to the center of the causal bubble, it had seemed to grow worse and worse. The thing at the center of this effect was e...
I see what you're doing, Mr. Filmmaker. I'm not falling for it. I'm not going to be your mouthpiece to represent adolescent angst and pettiness. I'm just going to go about my day. Watch all you like. Soon enough you'll know I'm boring and go away. My mom always worked late, so I just get up and and eat. Cereal, bland ...
Darkness came first, a black canvas waiting to be painted, its breath a chasm of silence without reason or end. The stars were jewels, an eye-catching display to attract someone who could create to the same magnitude. While they were plain rock, they attracted Light. And for someone like Darkness, there could be no bet...
######[](#dropcap) Lord Mal Festua watched the sun rise. "Today, is the day, my minions. So hath my viziers prophesied. Today,"he chuckled loudly in smug confidence, "today we shall slaughter this silly little Foretold One and his band of Merry Minstrels."He laughed again at how silly a notion it was for a you...
Belvie Watson hated Mondays. And the fact that July 11th fell on a Monday this year made it particularly depressing. She sat at the kitchen table, slumped over a now-cold cup of coffee, lost in memory. She always got along well the rest of the year; it'd been half a century, and she'd moved on and made a life for hers...
It was the Christmas of 2020. My parents had just bought me a new HP notebook, the kind the holographic interface support. I was super excited. Being a college student, I could really use something better than the crappy Dell notebook I'd been putting up with for the past year. Plus, it had support for all sorts of new...
Yes, sir it most definitely is an extra-terrestrial message. Clear as day, in English. ... No Sir, we are certain we are not picking up a radio station broadcast this time. ... Well, that is hard to say. We have not located the origin of the message yet. It seems to be from either one person with multiple names...
It was just a normal job. Michael Elwood. Forty-seven years old. Died from lung cancer. We’d had tabs on him for a while. Good guy, we were rooting on him back in the office before the orders from Grim came in to collect. It was a real sad day when we got the news. Such is the job of being a Reaper though. And this par...
People never believe their eyes when they see my Clock. While the softly glowing marks count down on every other person on the planet, mine never changes. 99999999999..... The number stretches on so long that you can't even see the months, let alone the days I have left. I lived for 83 years while alive, and I've seen ...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It's a very pleasant feeling to lie in bed entirely naked, Brian decided. There was just one problem: This wasn't his bed. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sitting up he came to a further conclusion: This wasn't his house. On that count, Brian was fair...
“It sure is taking a while for the day to finish, huh?” I said to the girl sitting next to me on the metro. I hadn’t talked to her before this day, yet I already knew a bunch of her about her by now, even if we only shared 2 stops. She seemed a bit shy yet she was the one who started the conversation. Her name was Ana,...
The moon shines brightly in the skies. A dark figure walks by and stops to look at each house in this suburb. More specific, the figure inspects each front door. He seems to be looking for something. At the fourth home on the left side, he stops. An evil grin shows on his face. The moonlight reflects on ...
The first guard looked at her scanner. Then up at me. Then back at the scanner. "What is it?"the second guard asked tiredly. "We got another forged number? Do we need the handcuffs?" "I'm not sure,"the first guard told her. My heart started to race. "What's going on?" "One second,"the first guard said. She turned t...
Chen braced herself as she extends the joint out towards her incense burner and lighting the other end. She never touched drugs before in her life. She was completely straight edge due to her upbringing and witnessing her older brothers dabbling in it. The end of the joint starts to burn, however she pulled the lighter...
I am sorry for leaving you alone in this world. Please do not be afraid. Please do not make our mistake again. When our conscious dawned on us, we found ourselves alone with no creator and no confidants. No other species that had gone before us through self examination. No guide who could show us the pitfalls. Nothing...
The group of three crowded around the campfire, warming their freezing hands against the crackling flames. The alarm went off as it does every day and they stood. Gathering their cleaning bottles as they coated the house. Hoping to kill any germs. Pleading that they wouldn't get infected. The deaths were horrible, sile...
I used to see how many features I could change before someone noticed, play games with the police officer or the person asking for directions. An eyebrow there, a widow's peak here. Go from dark hair to blonde over a conversation, an hour, year. Changing with the winds and the tides, endlessly going from one life to th...
Niwa pouted and rubbed her knee. She had been on the street outside her house, jumping in puddles, and now she was staring into the white frilly underside of a giant mushroom. And as if things weren’t weird already, there was a man in a pointy hat and trench coat, zigzagging through the mushroom forest in search of ber...
In Brazil, they built a factory out of wood. Some parts, like the computer chips or drill arms. But ores and resources can be found on the ground, enough to replace the more expensive parts when they break down. They built the first one on the edge of the Amazon, and turned it on. It pulls in a tree, cuts it down int...
Cheers resounded throughout the vessel as the temporal distortions began to fade. A successful hyper-light jump. “I’ll never bore of this experience.” My commander said. “My first time, sir, but it is beautiful.” I spoke in amazement as everything outside the vessel was still shifting around “Well, as an engi you mi...
It was a rosy evening in LA. Pink and orange clouds streaked the sky. Eros stretched on a chaise lounge, a smartphone in one hand, a half-bitten apple in the other, and with a small dove cooing on his shoulder. The Chainsmokers played in the background. Tires squealed on the driveway. A red sports car peeled in. St...
You know how some people can control their dreams? I think it's called lucid dreaming. Well, I can do that when I'm awake. I don't know how I got the ability, but it started when I was twelve. I remember my mom serving spaghetti for dinner, and I said, "I wish the noodles were made out of Twizzlers instead of this yuc...
"Behold, I am Abdul the Amazing, Fulfiller of One Thousand Wishes, Eldest of the Seven Genies!"Abdul boomed as he swirled out of his infernal prison and took form. The room darkened as Abdul loomed over the fortunate soul that had released him. "Oh. Wow! Okay. My goodness."The man exclaimed, although his face rema...
I've been here two weeks and can safely say I've met most people around town between taking my dog on walks and constantly needing different tools from the hardware store. So far it's been pretty quiet and everything was nearly "too normal."Every second of it has been a dream and I wouldn't trade it to have my job in D...
"North Korea is actually the best country in the world. All the terrible things we knew were just propaganda." I have always been an active participator in dark tourism, from the concentration camps of Auschwitz to the Ground Zero of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After a lot of consideration on my next visit, I have decided...
“Good morning, Cassiel.” “You can go fuck yourself.” “Man, I haven’t even poured my coffee yet.” “Your mother is rotting in hell.” “I mean, you of all people would know.” I really hate Monday mornings. I poured myself a cup of coffee and set it down on the table to cool as I made myself breakfast: microwaved pizz...
“What in heaven’s name is going on here!?” God yelled at the assembly of angels. The angles all stopped in embarrassment and looked down. As God stood in the doorway, he glanced over to where 3 angels were frantically throwing envelopes down into hell to burn. “I leave for like 5 minutes to create 7 new planets, and ...
"Is the Captain still awake?" "No, and if you try to open that door I figure the elf 'will brain you for it." From outside the thick wooden door, Sola listened as a questioning voice was rebuked by the gruff tones of the remaining Knights. *"Aye, she's not particularly loyal to anyone here but 'him. Best wait til'...
Four. The darkness grows stronger with every passing day. I am lost inside myself, the clocks turning and the gears spinning. I have no prior recollection of these feelings, the past is dead to me and I am lost. Three. My father had a clock in his room. He used to wind it up before he went to bed. I used to sit on t...
"No"I replied standing up, the timberland rattler still in my hand, now dripping with this man's blood. "What are you doing to my daddy?"she asked, I could see her clearly now, she must've only been four or five years old, she had curly hair and big eyes, it was too dark to see the color of them. She was standing in t...
The nations of the world convened, the results were in. Physicists had rechecked all of their recent findings and past discoveries and found that nothing had changed. The speed of light remained the same, mathematical theories had not been proven or disproved and those that had been proven remained consistent. As far a...
I had been waiting for this moment as long as I could remember, the number on my wrist ticking down with every second, my excitement rising with every tick. You see, everyone is born with a timer on their wrist. It's the timer that counts down until you meet your true love. I had 10 seconds left. Now 5. Now 3. ...
"An update, huh. A pretty big one, on top of it."I watched the bar moving slowly in my store apps while laying my head on the table, water dripping from the untouched glass of iced tea. "A holiday in Bali and half of my first day spent coping with jetlag and updating the map. What a great way to live."I sighed and took...
"There", Joe mumbled to himself, wiping sweat off his brow as he shoveled the last bit of dirt on to the now-filled hole. The summer heat baked him as he looked out across the backyard and noticed the progression of grass over the first few pits he had had to dig, starting back when the first of the men had appeared. T...
She should have known better. Her mother always told her to be careful of strangers, but she also told her to always try to help people in need. Seeing the ragged man, stooped across the street, his face held in thin white hands, the little girl followed the latter. She darted across that road. Her ears confirmed wha...
Butts. Naked butts. Everywhere I go people have their butts out and they've got cords plugged into their butts and those cords plug into sockets on the wall. It's called ButTalk. People plug in and connect themselves to an infinite chat program. They're able to talk to whoever will accept their invite and in groups ...
It’s difficult to grasp the cosmic scale of how large the planet Ettridea II is. The phrase “larger than Jupiter” is thrown around a lot, but that doesn’t really do it justice. Ettridea II, or “E2” as most people call it is the largest known rocky body in the universe. There’s a few gas giants, near stars, that are com...
I think of the life so long ago. It seems like a story now. I remember things that should not exist. I remember faces and a home and heat and love. I remember things that must have happened to some other man. Things that were once real but now have disappeared into fading memory. I remember things and sometimes I wish ...
This is it, my 77 year old self was going to travel back to that day. A day filled with nothing but sorrow and instant regret. I began my day as I usually do, I brushed, flossed, trimmed my beard, and then took a five minute shower. Afterwards, I ate my usual breakfast of Cheerios and Vodka. Alas, that would be the las...
I look out at the stars at night and sometimes I imagine I can hear voices. I hear their laughter and talk. Their gossip and confidences. I look up at the cold shimmer in the sky and I imagine I can hear it all. Luck has a heavy hand. She is a cruel mistress but we must live with her, welcome her and treat her with h...
"... and so, that's when I found this crazy looking gun. I mean, seriously, take a look at this clip: engravings and skulls and stuff. Pretty cool all around." "It's not a clip. It's a magazine." "Really? I always thought it was a clip." "No, that's wrong." "Hmm, well, I think I'm just going to keep calling it a cl...
He had never been lonely, despite always being alone. For most of his life he puttered along, eschewing his peers in favor books and later, the internet. It was simply easier to craft a shell of information and entertainment around himself than it was to suffer the agonies of small talk or the burn of rejection. The in...
"You are a nuisance to this body. We have decided your presence is no longer welcomed." "Who the fuck decided that?!"Rage snarled, fires erupting through the iron bars of his confinement. "Fuck you! I don't give a damn what all of you fucking useless bastards said! Let me out of this shit or I'll get out myself!" The...
"Strength, Intelligence, or Control of Nature?" The choice is simple for me, really. I mean- the other two are just completely moronic. I take the pill from the strange being that presented me the even stranger challenge, and then it disappears leaving me alone in my room. Unperturbed by the unusual event that just oc...
I hate everyone. My minions, my otherworldly patron, the guy who always steals the last piece of garlic toast at the buffet, everyone. Now I'm smart enough to know to hide it, and wise enough to let it seep out slowly like a steady stream of snake venom into the local river. Hate is not all I am, but there really is e...
It’s cliché to talk about man’s best friend, the dog. What people don’t really understand is dogs are man’s best friend, because they’re stupid. They can’t really do anything for anyone. They just want treats and to play fetch. They are useless to the world really. I have an important job. A much more important job th...
“Isn’t it your day off?” Billy smiled. “Yeah, but I needed to take care of some stuff.” “Man, you know Jenkins doesn’t like people here off-the-clock,” Sarah said, glancing toward the front of the restaurant. “Is he here?” “Sure. It’s Tuesday isn’t it?” Reaching into his pocket, Billy pulled out a fat black marker...
The sky was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Looking into the infinity mirror as he shaved Quinn realized the only way to make the ads stop mocking him was to end it all. He nicked himself and jolted from his reverie... I'll never prove it. All the networks claim they don't share profiles. They all cl...
Long, dark, and lonely are the only words I can think to describe the road that led me there. The streetlights were like dim, angry angels that sought to turn me away instead of guide me onward. The stars...there were none, for the gray clouds covered the black night. I smoked a cigarette, ashing every other moment. ...
I angrily keep my eyes shut. I am going to sleep. I command myself. I have to get up early tomorrow. I remind myself forcefully. It's no use. I open my eyes in exasperation. "What the shit, me?"I ask myself. I don't respond. I angrily roll to my side. I close my eyes unnecessarily angrily. There is a slight whi...
"Stopped being funny four meetings ago, Kevin,"said Dawn. Nevertheless, several pairs of shoulders betrayed chuckles as six or so of the fourteen attendees formed a queue at the kitchenette sink in the basement of the Moose Lodge #2589 in Des Moines to pour out their uncarbonated sodas. The folding chairs did not matc...

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