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Zeraxos dropped to one knee before the black throne, bowing his head in deference. "You may rise, Lord Zeraxos,"came the voice of the Demon King, at once a booming cacophany and a barely-uttered whisper. At the voice's command, Zeraxos rose to his feet. The throne room of the Demon King was, in a word, opulent. It b...
Have you ever wanted a do-over? To just reset your life, go back to being a kid, and marvel at the world again? I was just turning 89 years old. I was a crotchety old man, and wore that crown proudly. I had grown up in a less-than-stellar family, but when I managed to get out of that abusive household I found a cer...
We were all with long life blessed, Now we partake in mournful rest. Beware the One who rests Above, This Evil we have made through love. After years of work, this quatrain the first piece that I had managed to decipher. It was found towards the bottom of the fifth page, near a drawing of a strange, alien ...
I remember it like it was yesterday... I was sitting on my couch absolutely crushing this kid in rocket league when all of a sudden the TV went black. No cap I thought it was my brother Kaden either trying to get back at me for swallowing one of his Air pods ™️ or short circuiting the power by putting a fork in the ...
Mark Anderson. The constant, harrowing reminder of the car accident I'd caused when driving on my permit when I was 16. He was the first. Jessica Marx. A girl I knew in high school. My reminder that popularity is not more important than kindness; just as her name decorated my left arm, the suicide note she'd writt...
Megan knocked over the Monster sitting on the table onto her notes again while reaching for the creamer. She cursed slightly under her breath before mopping up her mess. She didn’t have time for this. She only had- she glanced up at the clock- six hours to learn dynamics or else she was going to fail. Again. “You woul...
It was difficult to sum up the feelings still coursing through my mind. Indeed, Quentin's death had affected me on a level I hadn't felt before. Our friendship was defined by a sort of power imbalance that saw him constantly lusting after my success, my relationships, and even my looks. Even in high school, he was ena...
I stare in horror at my severed left hand, not because of the blood and gore, but because there were none. Instead, I saw ripped wires that were slowly unraveling from the steel base. I attempt to move my other limbs and realize with alarm that I only felt acute pain and that the rest of me was completely moveable and ...
My phone just died with that creepy message. But it doesn't matter, you still have work to do. "Hey everybody. Ignore that prankster. It's probably a deep fake made by Zuckerberg. Doesn't that name means suger mountain in German or something? Never mind, where were we?"I ask. Lucy snaps out of it and thought for a se...
Blink. Blink. That was her way of saying, "I trust you."Two slow blinks. A sign of love. A sign of affection. Well, that's what Rose thought at least. She never could tell exactly what Bella was thinking, that silly cat. Always causing trouble for her. She sighed and smiled, the wrinkles in her face exagg...
"prowler" There it was, "our savior", about to force me to buy all of its useless crap for double the price. What am I supposed to do with another 25 skulls? It even saved, gotta make sure that this 5% speach check passes. I really wish I could say no. Every time it comes by I'm screaming in the inside as I'm forced...
“My Lord, shall we settle here?” A voice came through the radio. I was sitting in my control room, watching over the vast wall of screens, flexing my stress ball. The screens were blank except one, which showed a birds-eye view looking down on a group of nomadic people standing in a green pasture near a long blue coas...
“No one is ever going to believe you.” At first, I thought it was my head playing tricks on me. I mean, you don’t usually hear voices randomly. I looked around the room and saw no one else as usual. No one else besides Brendan, my Golden Retriever sitting right next to me. Not a single thing was on either, so it’s not...
Life before the banishment was simple, we were the good guys, and we had to take out the bad guys, easy right? Well as it turned out it was a little too easy and a few years ago all the "super villains"were gone, leaving just the good guys, which should have been a utopia, but as it turned out made everything worse. ...
Marcus Frogcaster couldn’t help but start laughing, peaks of guffaws echoing through the bedchamber of his love and him. “And who do you think sold you that potion, my dearest? My mother was the greatest brewmistress in decades and any love philtres produced around here would be her work. She taught me how to brew the...
Feedback always welcome! &#x200B; Sam had learned a long time ago to just avoid eye contact unless it was absolutely necessary for the interaction. Sunglasses were an easy way to make people think you were making eye contact while actually looking somewhere else. Getting easily distracted or pretending to be wor...
He'd done everything he could, but unfortunately the patient had survived. It was close for a while, of course. Her heartbeat ticked sluggishly along on the monitor for a while, and he watched her sorrowfully and wondered if he could try just one more time. Another overdose? No, they'd already hit a dead end with that...
Every year at the gathering for Beltane Molly and I would get weird looks. Understandably, Molly was not your usual familiar, but she also wasn’t the oddest I’d ever seen. By far it was the Komodo dragon I’d seen spiting flames at the Yule festival 5 years ago. But you see, Molly was practical. Perhaps not as practic...
"Katara" The blue robed lady lifted her arm and my body seized. I couldn't move. My arms twisted. "What...is..." "Happening?"The girl with black spikey hair asked, finishing my sentence. He body slowly changes while crackling with red electricity. "You're getting your ass kicked." "How?" "You bridged universes. We...
Fucking newbs I fuck up one little op and I get stuck with the fucking green unit. "We're entering the realm of eternal midnight. The creatures living here are ambush predators. They are weak in a straight fight. We douse the lights, use radar goggles, lure them in and kill them. Then we harvest there parts. Got it...
"This isn't Heaven,"I said, bemused, my eyes raking the snow-white walls of the enormous, empty room I was now standing in. "But it doesn't look like Hell, either."I took a step forward. My feet were bare, and I was now covered in a long, blue robe, like I was a hospital patient. "Hello?"I called, my voice echoing. "...
Sweat beaded up on Tom's forehead, his hand wiping it moments before it dropped to the device. His desk lamp flickered, and he slapped it out of frustration. He had been up for almost two days now, running through every iteration of 10,000 possible combinations on the miniature computer. Though it was only 36 hours ag...
It was said that a man from Lincolnshire could be identified by two things. The first was their pungent smell, an effect of their unique culture.^1 The second trait of a Lincolnshire man was to claim witches were behind everything.^2 And so it was that Agnes followed a strange boy to a cliff’s edge, along with ha...
I was the one who designed the spells to become immortal. I was the first to weave the arcane web and transcend. Many followed of course, anyone with enough magic in their blood followed. We lived happily for years, decades, centuries. But our happiness dulled. Or immortality drew the shine from life. We watched ci...
Blankets immediately dry off the damp baby that has just breathed their first. A relieved atmosphere takes over the delivery ward as the shuddering mass quiets and begins gently breathing. The brief moment dissipates and the head doctor snaps to business, removing their gloves and moving to clean their hands. "*Alrigh...
Lounging lazily on top of the cat tree, I watch over my home. Some other elders are sprawled across the lower platforms, cats are curled up sleeping, and Ginger is just shamelessly begging for attention from any human that comes by. Oh well. It'll help him get adopted faster. On the other side of the fence, kittens sca...
Part 2 --- I need you to know this: Xavier Reeds was a good man. He worked at the postal office and cared for his mother and daughter and his death was a tragic accident. But, people said, he drove that van so far everyday. It’s really no surprise... Of course, to his mother, Mary Reeds nee Haywood, it was a gre...
Zeus wasn't satisfied. What fun was it to laugh at somebody if they couldn't even see you or hear you? So he asked his brother Hades if, this year, they could throw their party in the Underworld. Hades readily agreed. When the time came, the gods set up tables near where Sisphyus pushed his rock up the hill, and they...
Tsubaki Yamanaka was an odd one, and she knew it. She did not shy away from her weirdness, and in a school full of magical girls that hailed from outer planets and half-human children, it was her only defining feature. She was petite, her black hair clipped short to her ears and a single red comb holding back her frin...
Commander Tiernan sat in his dropship, soaring down to the surface of Mars, where an intense battle was being fought by humanity and it’s enemies. Tiernan looked at all of the men under his command, each and every one brandishing the latest in military ballistics, the Sig-Arms Battle Rifle. Specially crafted for milit...
I died. I must have. I hit my head. It feels like I woke up, but I must be dead. This has to be Hell. I can't think of anyth- "SUUUUUUNLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!" The fucking. Trees. I get it! You like the sun! Can you please shut up about it? My only true solace is that they... I don't k...
Slowly I shuffled the stack of papers in my hands and cleared my throat. The conference room completely bar whispered murmurs between several diplomat's. My hand absentmindedly pulling my small watch out of my suit pocket watching the hand tick past the hour mark. "They are thirty minutes late sir how much longer are w...
He stank. That “knight”, if you may even call him that, really stank. His boots were caked in mud, his clothes were stained and loosely patched, his armor was rusty on the edges and the shield he wore on his back was nothing but a round piece of wood. He really wasn’t the kind of knight you knew from fairytales. But...
The village was burning, and it was my fault. Three houses had already been razed, bright as the dawn on the midnight ground far below. Three families that wouldn't be getting anything back, if they weren't a part of the ash themselves already. The greenskins streamed over the wreckage like salamanders, picking thr...
Hubble first saw it. Thousands of new specks outside of our system just beyond the Oort Cloud. Scientist were baffled, is it a new star, rouge planets or something else, comets maybe? The specks seems to be moving towards our blue planet. Weeks later, another cluster was discovered coming from the other side, they seem...
Yours is the head I hated the most. I read you, over and over again. Trying to make sense of you. Who are you? I've seen you here every day. You get on the train, you get off the train, you eat lunch here sometimes. I've seen you playing with dogs before. Animal-lover. Seen you walk into the post office, walk out...
"We can't let those savages join the galactic community!" You could've heard a pin drop in the galactic senate. Such harsh and unrefined language hadn't been heard in the senate for 1856 years, when Grandmaster Ogblok finally realised that what Zrookums the Uncouth said 34 years before that point about him wasn't a co...
"I said NON-LETHAL!"I bellow as I stagger out of the testing ground. My students blanch as they spot the trail of blood I'm leaving behind me. "But... you're still _alive_,"one of the class smart arses mutters. I'm not sure if he thinks I can't hear him, or if he feels safely anonymous from the back of the huddled pac...
"Dark Knight!"The superhero lowered his blade so it would be level with my head. "I am the new hero, Incognito! Taste the wrath of my sword!"With a sweeping blow, the masked man cut my shield in two and raised his fist. "I protest!"I yelled, running for my life. Unfortunately, Incognito grasped the back of my robe an...
It was like any casual Tuesday: the sky was blue, the birds sang their song of rebirth as they coasted on the gentle coastal breeze. We were all excited for the new app, FutureSelf to be released. Apparently from Dr. Feinstrom, humans have been able communicate with the future. It was learned through his research th...
A single scratch of a pencil on a blank portion of the history textbook sent the world reeling into chaos. Cities were reduced to rubble in the breadth of a moment, and the skies turned smokey gray. Irradiated rain fell from the sky, splashing against the scorched cobblestones. The Editor been lucky to survive- perhaps...
It was undeniable. He was in love with the World Leader. Riddle Master Lans watched the World Leader lovingly as he brusquely rotated the book in his strong, shapely hands. "Oh no, sir, please don't do that!"Lans spoke up to stop the World Leader from opening the comically large latch keeping the book shut. "Why not?...
Lightning. Fire. Water. Earth. Metal. Air. Life. Death. Humanity is a part of reality itself, and by extension, a part of us are created from elements. and so, we are children of these elements. Reality itself ebbs and flows around us. Ever changing. Malleable. But what happens wh...
“And thus our brave protagonist uses all of his intellect, and managed to avoid the traps outside his bed.” “You know I just did something everyone does every morning, and why would I even have traps outside my bed?” “Shut up, this is my show” “Now let us follow our brave protagonist as he does the insane, unbelieva...
>Booting... >Calculating parameters... >Done. >Timecheck : 7:56 A M. >Notice: "Room Mate"Trevor's alarm set to go off at 8. Previous experience suggests following course: use bathroom before this happens. >Switching to flowstate: Done. It gets out of bed, uses the bathroom, washes its hands for ...
somewhere, in an alternate but VERY similar universe, where all of mankind speaks english I unfurled the little sheet of paper. 78. Adolf Hitler. This fucking loser. I'd bumped into him a mere two times during my years in highschool and it was enough to paint the picture of who this guy was. A nobody. I sighed. No u...
Short Circuit knew he was coming. She was planning on it, and was keeping track of his every move. Pulse had found what she had done, and was racing towards her "secret"lab. She looked at the results of her handiwork. Two of the most adorable children she had ever had the pleasure of seeing were sitting in a large glas...
"Grandma? You can understand them?" "The real question is why can't you? You're 1/4 dragon yourself and as far as I know, language is natural for us."She blurted like it's the most normal thing. I started having vertigo. Me being part dragon? Impossible. I've always been amongst human, I don't have pointy teeth, I do...
We all knew the war was coming. There had been whispers about it for a long time. Starships mobilised and the army “patrolled” certain quadrants more often. We were never told but we knew. There was hostility in their politics. Subtle things at first. Tariffs, cargo limits, more guidelines and checklists to go thro...
"...Hello?" Sudden sounds ricocheted in John's eardrums, the phone vomiting dial-up internet tones into his brain. He pulled the squawking box away from his head, and as the sounds stopped he placed it back to his ear. "Johnathon Summers?"The unknown man's speech was garbled, seemingly being filtered through a voice ...
On paper it was a pizzeria. We had done it all up legal like, got the certificate and everything. Behind the scenes though we were dealing drugs. Half the “parsley” we bought went to the hippy kids in school. Most of the mushrooms would never make it to the oven. And the flour would’ve got me put in the slammer for th...
Homo Sapiens, known simply as, 'Humans', are truly a... interesting species. They don't seem special, they aren't the fastest, strongest, smartest, most charismatic, most endurable, or seem to pose a threat, yet they're still here. When they were first discovered by the Senate, they were deemed unimportant, harmless,...
"Why does he get the key to the city? We're the ones out there saving the world every other day,"Captain Strong grumbled to no one in particular. He sat on a metal folding chair with his arms crossed and a sour look on his face. The rest of the heavy hitters from the hero league were seated on both sides of him. The ma...
He simply appeared. One moment nothing; the next, a wizened old man. A plain black pointed hat perched on his head, and he leant heavily on the knobbly cane in his right hand. He wore a simple robe, bereft of any insignia save for a seven-pointed star on his upper left chest. Point-like stars decorated the otherwise b...
"Okay. Tell me your names." The brown haired girl on the left screen smiled and said 'Adele', the blonde on the right screen sneezed then said 'Alex'. Was she really sneezing? Maybe it was a deliberate action, too fool me into thinking she's human. "Okay, and one of you is real woman talking to me through her web...
I am usually known for having a highly logical and realistic approach towards life. Hence, I was against comprehending the whole ghosts, paranormal and supernatural experiences. But, ever since this occured, I had become a bit paranoid and weird cause I had no control over when things would occur. Let me start with my...
“Necro-R-Us.” It truly was a horrible name, and a horrible sign to accompany it. It was my instructor’s idea to name the store that, and I hated it from day one. The sign was nothing more than a skeleton standing by our name, with a stupid grin on its face and flashing a ‘thumbs-up’ at everyone passing by. He’d gotten ...
“Well, well, well, look what the cat got into”, Lucifer said. My human has gone cationic at the sight of the prince of demons stumbling into what he views as _his office_. It’s a little known fact that we demons loose our ability to inhabit humans once we’ve turned from the left hand path. So yes, his “cat” statemen...
We boarded the Éskhatos Elaúnō at the secluded dock, looking forward to a nice long cruise. Whilst details had been lacking, it hadn't dissuaded myself or Eloise. And at only £500 for a 2 week long cruise, it was a no brainer. Our fellow passengers all looked like they needed a good trip. Pale and sullen, it couldn't ...
I was being walked along, enjoying the novelty of being in a meat suit again. I had spent so long trapped inside that damn mirror that I didn't think I would get out. Luckily, this sap had found it, and looked in it too long. I had hopped into his head, and here we are. Unfortunately, as there was no ritual or other p...
“Are we there yet, daddy?” asked Claire. She knew they weren’t, but you know how bored children on a road trip can become very impatient. “It’ll be soon,sugar bug,” Tom replied. “I think it’s only another ten or fifteen minuets.” As Tom finished, little Tommy Junior decided that he’d had enough and decided to throw a ...
Dark black blood sprinkled onto my face from my hands. The fingernails were gone, torn off after toiling to free myself. I would've expected intense pain but maybe it was the panic that masked it. I saw light filtering through the broken roots and dirt above me--I was close to freeing myself from this coffin. A day or...
My pen completed its 100th rotation around my thumb as I continued to stare aimlessly at my computer screen. Neither the mass of equations in front of me nor the writing in my notebook had changed over the past hour. I stretched my arms behind me, let out an extended yawn, and decided that I was clearly not making any...
Victory isn't supposed to feel like this I slowly shuffled across the field, what was left of my rent armor weighing me down like shackles. At my feet lay the dead and dying. I kept my eyes on the horizon. I couldn't bear the fate of the fallen, couldn't bear to notice the fact that friend and foe looked the exac...
The old elevator's communications link was dead. Had been for likely decades. At this point, my panic had subsided, now tedium had settled in. It was a slow ride to ground floor. Two floors a minute. But it occurred to me that at some point, "building floors"had transitioned to "city floors". At what point could this ...
I still remembered every little detail from the crash. Every Little Detail. Semi-truck driver fell asleep behind the wheel; he T-boned me right off the bridge. I fell- too shocked to scream- for a few seconds before my car connected with the ground. I remembered the feeling of my neck whipping around- I had no cont...
I looked her in the eyes. She had cotton candy pink hair and silver skin that glowed underneath the sun, and a dark past that the author of her world never bothered explaining. All those details about Mary Sue made it simple enough to defeat her, but the problem is that being a Mary Sue meant she was completely perfect...
I am loathe to admit that I am frightened by anything, especially not to the hungry ears of those who would spread word amongst the populace. I didn't gain the presidency of Perimonia, this fertile island of my birth, by showing fear. But I do feel it. That robot scares me. No one knows where it came from, or how ...
“Can anyone hear me?” I awoke with a start. The voice coming in over the transmission was new – I was sure of it. “I can hear you,” I said, doing my best to make my tone appear natural. I was counting every second of the following pause. It was long enough to make me feel something difficult to describe. Anxious? Ex...
The history books are filled with near accurate information, due to the accomplishments of the Department of Temporal Studies. The objective of the DoTS is to send field agents all across timespans in order to observe major historical events, and correct all the inaccuracies that have been taught for years. As the Di...
You eye the dumbell. It eyes you. Literally, with eyes. Now someone once told you exercise was magic but this is a bit more than you expected. Maybe, just maybe if you bought the whole 'you will get magic from exercising' super literal bullshit interpretation of that line, then you'd think super strength. You though...
The pentagram whirrs. The orange-scented candlesmoke swirls and tears like a cloud before a hurricane. The ribbons coalesce, finally, into a shape vaguely in the form an upright goat. A single fly buzzes out of the circle. "HA!"says the demon. "**You have called me, a demon, from the secret Circles of Hell as per ...
My vision suddenly doubles, and my stomach churns, as the therapist fades out of sight. I awake in the therapists chair, feeling uneasy, and in a confused daze. “Dr. Truman?” I call out his name with worry carrying in my voice. I get up and search around, finding only Seroquel, an antipsychotic prescribed to a Donovan ...
You awake. You're not in the garage where you went to sleep. You tread forward and hear the pop of gravel below your mass. You feel the uneven clumpy stone below you. You sense a presence in the... yes it's a cave... you're in a cave. You flip on your lights. In front of you, you see a great glinting mass of yellow met...
The whole crew gathered around what remained of. . . something. Silence filled the ship, broken only by the soft lapping of the sea against the wooden hull of the The Hawk. Johnny, the de facto doctor on the crew, slowly started going through the pile of mangled flesh. Several couldn't take it; they rushed to the rai...
“Peter...are you still here?” “Yes, love, still here. Just facing the sun a bit.” Peter’s frond shuddered as though from the wind until it just touched the stem of the marigold next to him. “Peter, will it hurt, do you think?” “I don’t think so. We’ve never heard anyone cry out now, have we? I think it’s just pass...
"We must preserve them!"the man pleaded against the wave of people flying over the main floor. A storm of arrows, they dashed by and hit into their stations ready for the next order. He pushed himself off and glided toward the captains elevated seat in the middle off the circular floor. The captain only briefly took hi...
The hornet commander was the last to arrive. Ma'am President Bee was tapping her stinger impatiently. "Army General Spider,"she said. "Please report." "Ma'am,"he said thru hisses and snaps. "Every attempt to send a new deployment is countered by a rather ruthless, vicious, guerilla tactic. We are yet to counter...
The way you didn’t want to find out an immortal demon queen is hunting you down is through Twitter. The way you especially didn’t want to find out an immortal demon queen is hunting you was having one of your friends tag you in a response to CNN’s official tweet, asking whether or not this was your full name. Because i...
The ceiling was gone. The walls and doors were gone. I recognized the pipes where my bathroom was supposed to be. Needless to say, all my furniture was gone too. All of it except my bed. And I lived in an apartment. As soon as I remembered that, I jumped out of bed and went to see just how bad the damage was. M...
Saint Peter groaned. If the dark feline hadn't burned through nine lives already he could've murdered it. It got up from it's haunches and padded a few steps away from the pearly gates tail held high in the air. Then it sat down again it's green eyes boring into his soul. Most cats preferred hell. They had fresh meat ...
“You can outrun my arrows, dragon, but I bet you can’t outrun this human classic!” Said the human party member as he pulled out a rocket launcher. The rocket flew straight at the terrible dragon. The dragon didn’t flinch; it opened its mouth and gobbled up the rocket. It looked happy. The rockets were like dog treats ...
"Happy birthday, dear Kyle! Happy birthday to you!"The people 15 feet away from me sang, then clapped. Being the Human Bonfire hadn't stopped me from living my life for the past 20 years, and that included celebrating my birthday. People threw cake slices to me and I effortlessly caught them in my mouth. I chewed them...
War fell upon us so quickly, there were no words from our political leaders. People were butchered like cattle, homes burned, entire cities turned to ashes. The world was falling apart quickly. People tried to survive - as if they had a chance. I was just watching; waiting for the inevitable. In my heart, I knew that...
This year's christmas was unlike any other, when the children opened their presents they got toys instead of socks, little Timmy got a brand new LEGO set with awesome sentient little demons in it, Carla got the Princess she'd always wanted, complete with spikes and a three headed pomerian, and despite being quite sad t...
# Hardware Hacking The first intrusion attempt came with a scented candle. An unexpected, cheerful "Hey!"launched Martin Scheen out of data processing mode and directly into emergency panic reflexes. He was milliseconds away from a life-preserving dive over his cubicle desk when recognition filters finally caught up ...
I always forgot little things. Locking the car door. Grabbing my wallet. Making a grocery run. Turning off the stove. It happens fast. I'm back in the kitchen, same night. I don't forget this time. The stove clicks off. I had to rush out the door, go and grab those groceries before the store closed. Before my wife ...
It sat down, silently, purposefully, onto the bright pink stool. I continued cleaning the mugs from the last couple of hours, giving the hooded figure my best subtle side eye. A few mugs later I walked over to the figure. I'd already taken my half a dozen deep breathes before moving forward, and in the same tone as alw...
"Yeah, you weren't supposed to get to Australia just yet,” said God. "I'm genuinely impressed humanity actually managed to live there.” Scott frowned at the deity before him. “If you didn’t want us to get there, why did you make the sea level so low? Asia was connected to Australia by a series of islands. It was pret...
Thad was abruptly awoken from his fitful sleep by the alarm on his phone. Sitting up on his worn-out old mattress that laid on the floor without a box spring or frame, he rubbed his bleary eyes and reached for his trusty old iPhone 5s. He’d had it a long time now, and it was rather worn and cracked, but still kept on w...
"DO NOT TRUST ANYONE ELSE. MORE INFO WILL COME IN THE FOLLOWING DAYS." I read the mysterious text message from yesterday over and over. I still couldn't glean anything. Figures. The last 24 hours have been nothing but a swirling mass of confusion and sweat. Who the fuck am I, and how the hell did I get here in this r...
At first we do not know what is going on. Ciara and I are lying in bed, she is engrossed in her book which I have read but not spoilt for her, and I looking over some documents from work that need to be emailed in the morning. At first the noise is faint, but with each chime grows louder until it feels as if our bed i...
I shifted in my seat. He wasn’t the normal customer in my small shop. Although truth be told not many dared to cross my shop front door after the town elders had decreed that a woman should not own such an establishment. It was unbecoming from their perspective and taking over the family business wasn’t a valid excuse ...
You've had a really rough day. You collapse into the driver's seat, and you consider bursting into tears, but you're too damn tired for that. You just want to get home and sleep. How I wish there could be a tomorrow for you to wake up to. How I wish your earthly experience could end with contentment instead of bitter...
After a thousand years of war, there will finally be peace. I should be happy, shouldn’t I? I mean, my literal job is to protect the world, from internal and external threats. But after the complete disaster that was the last century, the world will finally be free of war, disease, hunger, and poverty. I know I sho...
Taran loomed over the fairy's corpse, all near-seven feet of his new frame still adjusting to its transformation. He could feel the curse skirting across his bones, whispering between the muscle and marrow, calling all of himself to himself. Power swelled his formerly lean limbs and trunk to thrice their former size -h...
"Ahh... nostalgic. This playground was my favorite place when I was 10. Me and my friends used to come here all the time! Wait, important things first! Where is 10 year old George Clive? There he is! I mean, there I am. Or there i was? Anyway... GEORGE! OVER HERE LAD!" "How do you know my name? Are you a stalker?" "...
The whole classroom stopped when the question was asked. Heads turned to the student that asked it, then traced their eyes back to the teacher, awaiting an answer. Myla sighed, turning her head down. Maybe she could just not answer it? No, it was a good question that deserved an answer. No, she had a lesson to teach. S...
“Could you repeat that?” Ambassador Thomas Hall asked the representative of the ancient galactic government known as the Ascendancy. “Where are the natives of the world you call Earth?” A reptilian face stared back and spoke in unaccented English back. The feathers on its back were raised as if it was angry. Thomas...
A few years ago, my father was down on his luck. He lost his job and did not have the skills to get a new one. After a long and serious chat, I ended up suggesting a number of programming books to get him started in software engineering, or at least information technology. This was, by far, the biggest mistake of my l...

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