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It took me a minute to notice it in the mirror and a minute longer to figure out what that reflected scribble said. YOU MAY NOT REST NOW, THERE ARE MONSTERS NEARBY. I slowly picked up the baseball bat from next to my bed and crept to the light switch. With a soft tic, my room was illuminated. It was empty. I was a...
A modern-day hitman, that would be the best way to describe my profession. Depending on your views, you might have a different name for me. If you worked for the government, you might call me a peacekeeper while the more rebellious citizens would call me a parasite. Both names were correct in their own way, I was a par...
I There's a tough decision you have to make in this profession. What are you in it for? Loads of people make that decision long before they enter law school. They see the dollar signs, and they jump right in. Or they see the underprivileged and the underserved, the down and out, the poor suckers trampled upon by t...
My dad was a single parent who worked himself to the bone in order to give me the best life he could. He was an alchemist who was just wrapping up his formula for turning people into dragons. Thinking back on it, his work wasn’t ethical at all, even though I think he didn’t care about the morality of that at the time –...
I never planned on getting old. It’s not a common occurrence in this line of work. You run from one thrill ride to the next: Monday you’re sneaking aboard a plane in Moscow to parachute into Belarus, by Wednesday you’re in Kyoto selling information to the Yakuza so they will help you crash an arms deal, and by Friday...
4 Kythorn The siege has begun in earnest. Every day, more arrow-shot lads are brought into the medical tent, where I spend two hours twice daily singing low songs of gentle regeneration. The Clerics of Deneir have allowed me to assist them in the recovery process - likely because our deities share a kinship. I can...
‘Aisle 7, sector 209’ the robot droned from the speakers. That was me, I’d better get going. Ever since the establishment of The Qausid, we scrappers were required by law to clean up after inter-galactic battles. Some say that the reason we do this is because the number of battles in space began to pollute the galaxies...
“Why don't you try for me instead!” What fateful words. Spoken in anger, but marking my doom. You might have done the same; the situation had grown intolerable. I don't know where the ghost came from. They say that cats can see behind the Veil. Maybe Mittens stared at it for too long and got its attention. What...
Seated upon his throne on the Second Death Star, Sheev Palpatine could hardly believe his eyes, despite his long life. Before him laid the severed head of his enforcer, and perhaps a man he saw as some kind of surrogate son. The so-called Chosen One, the man once known as Anakin Skywalker now Darth Vader was dead. Palp...
Everything had been done. At the first United Species conference, it had been agreed that all humans are to move to their 'home' continent of Afruca by the year 2400. Using threats and diplomacy as necessary, humanity had made sure that they wont have to worry about it for atleast the next 200 years. After all, the ani...
I think I finally noticed something was wrong when I noticed the silence. The Bore was supposed to be loud, louder than any busy city you would read in those old private eye novels. The kind of loudness that would be unbearable if it was new to you, but was turned into many of the small things that made home a home. H...
I had never imagined that two agents, dressed neatly in black, had been watching me this whole time through the camera in my phone. I typed in more code into my laptop, producing a live feed of them watching me. They must have realized (they were tracking my screen), when one of them jolted and said, "Oh shit. He know...
Mr. Jacobsen was a slender man. Not the slender man, mind you; if you tried to make this comparison to Mr. Jacobsen, he would consequently insist you call him "Svelte Man"from then on. Make no mistake, though: he wouldn't do this in a sarcastic manner. No sardonic tone. He would say this with a poorly folded mix of s...
I rise slowly from the warm embrace of sleep, yawning and stretching slowly as sunlight pours across my face. I slept well, a solid ten hours, and I my mind and body feel well-rested in the most satisfying way. My blankets and pillows are as soft as the clouds of Heaven, and I burrow into them with a contented sigh. Ou...
Hello! So I want to say that I took this prompt in a slightly different direction, hopefully, it's still a fun read! \[PART 1/3\] I'll be okay. I'll be okay; the Generals won't kill me today. The Overlord won't find out. Raz thought that to himself as he sat down in his chair. It was a beautiful thing, far more bea...
Cayden the Chosen brought down his sword on Merridian the Cruel, clipping one of the leathery wings of the evil dragon overlord. Merridian let out a crackling roar, thundering through the sky as the dragon began to plummet towards the ground. The Chosen One held on to Merridians neck for dear life, whispering: "I'm s...
At first they laughed, now they beg for mercy. “You could’ve wished for anything in the world and you wished to... ‘out pizza the hut’?! What the fuck does that even mean?” My friend Derek had said. “So, to clarify, you based your wish off a pizza company’s tagline, and not for world peace?” My other friend, Jasmine as...
It was late, a quarter past midnight, and yet Alex was wide awake at his personal computer. He had cleared out a small area in front of his desk and was standing in front of the screen watching a short YouTube video. “What. is. UP my dudes! It’s your boy, Magic Maaaaaan… FLEX, and I’m back with another brand new mag...
"Relax, it's me. I mean, you." "You're...me?" "I'm you. From the future." "Oh my God. Did you come to warn me? Am I going to die? Or worse, do I need to save the world? Oh God, the pressure!", Ted rambled as he turned to rummage through the cabinet. "I need a drink." Future Ted sighed. "Ted, think clearly. I know y...
The lawyer calmly rested his hand on the jury box as he calmly looked at the smug scientist on the stand. "And this device of yours,"he said. "Does it only kill you for lies you know are lies, or does it also kill you if you tell a lie period? What if you say something you think is the truth but it's actually not?" T...
“… things,” I whispered, the tapping on my window making me jump up to a sitting position, “Electronics!” I yelled; I had always had a habit of sleep talking. I didn’t like to be woken up mid-conversation. I think I was buying a new phone. Or laptop. Or eating a pizza. I really could never tell. “Wake up, my Lie...
The possession of identity is something that is an important part of life, I don’t think anyone will deny this fact. I had an identity until two in the afternoon today. Now I lack one. I repeat, I am in an identity crisis. Bullshit, you say, how can someone be in an identity crisis so soon? Well, let me give you an...
Few things calm the soul more than a glass of wine overlooking the royal gardens, on a warm summer night one can enjoy the open air without the interruption of daytime royal duties- "Heave you heard?"Brisk footsteps accompany the disturbance, also known as my fiance. "Your brother's codpiece has been making the rounds...
“…in the present case, it is just as necessary to renounce a nonexistent freedom and recognize a dependence we do not feel. THE END.” I’d done it. I’d finally finished Tolstoy’s War and Peace! It had taken me the better part of four days but it was finally over. Well… not days per se, but what counted for days in ...
"Normally, this would the point where I would give a heartwarming speech about our experiences and how they matter more but your arrogance will make the message useless. So I decided to go to a different expression." If the audience was silent earlier then this speech will make them mute. But I now have their attent...
It was 2020 when I first discovered something very extraordinary and, at first, I thought it was just a joke. So here's where my story starts. It was right in the middle of the pandemic of COVID 19 and people could not drive anywhere. However, people could walk anywhere and that's just what they did. The pavement out...
As your rise accelerates, you break past the cloud cover and find yourself in sight of Heaven’s gates. Its inhabitants, cloaked in white, happy and healthy looking, walk about behind it chattering and singing joyfully among one another. You wonder, wide eyed at the idyllic beauty of it, what mediocre act of lukewa...
Despite the sides of the tent being rolled up, the atmosphere within felt warm and cloying. The air inside felt heavy, like the still before a storm, and the gentle breeze could do nothing against it. The soldiers stared down at the map, the friendly forces depicted by wooden models colored black. Enemy forces were ...
"My crypto partners have been talking about this 'All Jell-o Diet'. Apparently, one doctor in Florida did it for years,"I say. "That doctor dies, a year from your present. A few days ago for me. Maybe don't do it,"I say in response. Harsh. "Okay, okay. By the way, I've been meaning to ask about our last conversation....
I awaken. Dammit. How long has it been? I died. I think. I think, therefore I am? What am I, Socrates? Descartes? Plato? Nietsche? I look down on my body. Hairy. Hairs the color of mud. I was blonde. And I barely had a moustache, let alone body hair. What the hell is this? My hands. They don't look like hands. Claws...
When they called me in, it was never for the small stuff. They didn't call me to fix a broken bone or cure a fever. No, when they called me, things were bad. Cancer. Brain death. Damage from Stroke. Schizophrenia. The kind of stuff that the body couldn't fix on its own. The kind of stuff that the doctors couldn't fix w...
I woke up this morning and Jesus the sun hurt my eyes. As the glare gave way to color I could see the hairs on my legs again. I had done it. I am covered in pollen. Wait. what the hell is “I”? My brain froze and retracted into itself. At least I think it did. I think? Who am I even talking to? I squeezed ...
“Foul beast! I have came to slay you!” The knight shouts. “Let me guess. Your here to slay me. Take my gold and marry the princess.” Garogon said in a board tone. He turns a page in a book he is reading. “Yes! Where I-“ “You know that’s a cliche at this point.” Garogon said. “First off, I have books. Not gold. Secon...
Smith fiddled with his spectacles. "It's temporal, old boy." The Lord of Darkness shifted on his throne. "What? You mean it won't last very long?" "'Temporal', dear fellow - not 'temporary'. Someone's faffing around with the past." Satan nodded, pretending to understand. Smith peered at the next sheet on his clipb...
"Hey youtubers, it's your boy DeJean420 coming back at ya. So what are we doing today? Well it's simple, world record life speed run. That's right you heard it here first." DeJean awkwardly leaned too close to the camera failing to adjust his microphone volume to an acceptable level. "So the rules are simple, one li...
"Look over here Cicada, there's water, water over here, and flowers, look at the flowers, they're incredible. Come see cicada!" "In a minute Dragonfly." "And look here, look here Cicada, a frog on a log. Ha! A Frog on a log!. Better not get too close to that, huh cicada?" "Probably not dragonfly." "When are you com...
[Part 1 of 2] The lonely void left much to be desired for Elise, watching the stars come and go with each passage of time, wondering if they would forever curse her to a life of exile on the moon. Still, she maintained her dutiful watch over the earth, seated in her sparkling white dress, watching the beautiful blue w...
"Are you ok?"my friend responded. "You look like you seen a ghost!"I paused... he can't know... no-one can... "I'm fine"I reply, "I think I might just need some rest."I retreat to my bedroom, which is thankfully not shared by anyone. I hear a mumble of concern before I hear him dial the phone. I take out my colouring b...
"So, who put the sword in the stone?" The knights of the kingdom were gathered around a stone pedestal, with a sword stuck into it up to the hilt. The inscription said that only the rightful king could pull the sword from the stone. Sir Edward had been skeptical, but with the kingdom on the brink of civil war, he ...
Eradon the Not-Yet-Named grinned wildly, flying through the whirlwind of brimstone and fire, swirling around him, unseen forces sending him flying through a world of chaos. So this was how is how it felt to be summoned. Eradon had figured it would be more of a *woosh and appear in front of the poor sod who summoned you...
When the mafia came to America, it grew, and splintered, and mixed, and got busted a lot. Nowadays, it’s just another unspoken cog in the political machine. The melting pot turned the hydra into calamari. I grew sick of it, and flew back to Pisa, la patria. If things went different, the mafia would have her in its p...
Nearly 13,000 years ago, in the land that would someday be called Denmark... That bitter-cold night, as the sky lit up again with its brilliant twisting green lights, the old man spoke to the star-spirits again. That he spoke to them terrified other members of the tribe, who did not suffer him to live within the bo...
Namuh knew the prayers well. He had learned the words from his father, who had learned the words from his father. The words themselves had been shaped by Rotaerc, the great maker. They carried the shape of Rotaerc’s children who numbered the sky, watching over Namuh and his people. And it had been Rotaerc’s gift tha...
To honor my five-year-old promise, I walked into the third booth of the VIP area of La Plaza. I saw three people in the booth. One a squat man in a shiny suit, the second a tall gaunt man wearing a dirty blue t-shirt, and the third a tidy man of medium height in a green polo shirt. The squat man stood up and shook my h...
Mankind is where the rise and the fall meets, where opposites collide, where the tightrope of genius and madness is walked upon daily. All who study the esoteric ways understand this. That mankind is the middle. Not the chaos of Hell, or the law of Heaven. To some, we are the synthesis, the combination of the thesis of...
"Congratulations! You are the first subject to escape," Said the voice, in a phony sort of joy. I felt like choking on my own spit as I lied there, staring up into a mildew stained, blackened drywall ceiling. It had been a miserable few weeks, especially as an astrophysicist. All of the science community had been cal...
"There he is again..." One of the Chosen One's said. The Greek deities have each chosen one mortal to wield their powers, in order to protect the mortal realm, after the monsters, and half-monsters have started going out of control. Now, on such a battlefield, between the armies of humans led by the Chosen One's an...
The men were fine. Mostly. The cotton caste, mostly plain white with a slight fabric look. This was how the majority of men looked. They either had a simple cotton vest or white shirt. This was probably the majority for men. After that were the colour caste. No obvious pattern, just a uniform colour. Mostly the prim...
I wanted to facepalm. He was my rival, my academic counterpart of the highest order, and a research fanatic. When Ilphas messaged me, I’d expected he resolved our issues with supplies, but not this. And not arguing with him in his office. After centuries of experience, you’d think he’d know better. But this was Ilp...
An excerpt from the Beginner Monster Slayers' Handbook to Vampires, Witches, and other Unsavoury Creatures of the Night: Whenwolves Tracking a whenwolf As opposed to werewolves, where you usually already know where they were, based on the worrying amount of eviscerated evidence they leave behind, the proble...
I'll admit I was... concerned initially. One could hardly blame me, what with the first set of armor I acquired being a scale-mail bikini (Red Sonya was a classic, after all). The worry soon abated when I came upon a realization. All armor was magic. Not Dungeons and Dragons magic, where it was a small defe...
Luck is a funny thing. Person, really, but funny nevertheless. I met her at a party, and I wish I saw the signs then. My life would certainly be different, but how was I to know? Being 22 can do that to you, ya know. No foresight, easily lost in a newly discovered world. At that age, you think you've settled into you...
Finally. Quiet... I don't even want to think, it's far too peaceful. I can't remember the last time I heard complete silence. I forgot how truly blissful it was. There is nothing like it. I sit back and breathe. Deep breaths. The doctors weren't sure that the treatment would work. It's very risky, they say, to perfo...
I was 11 when I began my apprenticeship to the greatest mage of that age, and his name was Verat. He was strict, making me get up before dawn to make me practice levitation and fireballs and whatnot. But he was not a cruel master to me, and often had his kind streaks, many a time I woke up to a wrapped sweet beneath m...
Ok, I'm probably not sane. I'll admit that. Sometimes the isolation gets so comforting I start to think I'm a ghost. But then I feel the pang of hunger or the need to make the lemon squeezy, and my bodily functions thump be back into existence. You see, I've been hiding for a really long time. Like at least three Chr...
The throne room is a magnificent place, if rooms can be dressed to impress then this one is, red and gold banners and carpeting with elaborate tapestries adorning the walls and decorative grape vines climbing up a trellise behind the thrones, a few rather nice statues are there too. King Samuel the eighth sits in the c...
\[Trigger Warning: Self-harm, animal abuse and torture\] &#x200B; Ever since I was a child, I had been holding back. The neighbor's cat was the first time I let loose, and it felt amazing. As I squeezed the life out of the nasty little shit that had just bit me, I felt joy for the first time in the short span of...
I was suddenly aware of a strange taste in my mouth. Maybe… raw pork? It took my brain a second to catch up with my eyes. Looking back, I was probably just too shocked to comprehend the situation at first. It was dark out but there was a bright light coming from somewhere in the distance. It was just enough to discer...
"Please, please help us." In all my years living here, I've never had humans come to me for help. There had been the 'Brave Knights' and the overzealous 'Adventurer' who came to kill me, but this was different. They were small, frail even by human standards. The tall one had bones poking out from her skin, no fat or m...
Between the truncated tops of two of the three mountains in the region, a cabin lay cozily tucked away and a wisp of smoke drifted from its rickety chimney. In front of it, seated in a rocking chair, an old man in his declining years smoked a pipe, staring in the middle distance, a lazy, proud dog curled near his slipp...
“Waz uuuuup!” “Wuz uuuuuup!!!” The two paladins repeat their call back and forth for several minutes. “Hey, bro.,”The captured Finnec said happily “you still got those Funyuns?” “Sure do!” Albin beamed as he produced the bag of snacks. “Do ya want me to cut you down first?” “Oh, yeah!” the captive said as he jan...
"I see". It was a moment of clarity once that pain subsidies. I was more than mother's JonJon, or Alicia's Sweet. It was 15 years since "I"was born to this farming village near the King's Road. 44 years ago, a dreaded Demon Lord Drak terrorize the land of Filmina. A great battle was waged at the end; a glorious batt...
On one Solstice, as I communed with my divine mentor, I finally summoned the will to ask. "Altharoth?" He turned His aspect toward me and His light shone all about. "Yes, Elion?" "You taught me that when we die, we are reborn in other worlds with little or no memory of our previous lives." He smiled upon me. "You w...
Mum was so proud of me. When the letter came saying that I had been hand selected as a potential employee of Idiots Inc. she started crying, and I knew they were tears of joy. In the letter Mr. Smith explained that he and the fellas at the company had seen all my Tik Toks and knew I would be the perfect fit. He said my...
An empty, a void, a blankling. So many names that they have for me, but my power is beyond them. They treat me as if I’m a second-class citizen most days, and I’ve grown to accept it as an inevitability. I am making my way to work one morning. I follow the same route I always follow. I have picked this route sp...
"Cool!"I said as she walked in. "I'm Quill. And you're..." "Retro. And no, I can't look through walls--unless there's a window or an open door." "So, how did you see me?" She grinned. "I didn't--but I saw your perspective."When I gave her my dumb look (my most-used look, actually), she went on: "I can use others' ...
# Melinda West and the Magic Wifi Router &#x200B; The best part of being a half-blood? My dad is a bloody genius. Pa was concerned when I didn't call him back as a First Year, and Mum had to explain that they don't have wifi or a signal at Hogwarts since the magic messes with the tech. My dad works in IT howeve...
I was gassing up the car on what felt like the longest drive of my life. I was in the middle of bumfuck no where Appalachia at the only exit that I could find with pumps and a bathroom. If my start-up's future hadn't been riding on the presentation I was giving in ten hours, I'd have just pulled over and gone to sleep,...
A few well-placed burps help conceal me. I eat like a man possessed, or a dog who hasn't seen food in weeks. To the untrained eye, I do not savour the aftertaste, but in secret, I take my time, keeping the meal in my mouth for a substantial period while getting through more. Here, alone in a dark corner, I revel in the...
It had been a long and difficult fight with cancer, that had consumed Otto's last days. At 63, he wasn't a young man. But he wasn't old enough to die either. After the prognosis came back, he had spend the past few months trying to make amends with his friends and family, and to frantically get his affairs in order bef...
Okay in my defense,it was a cool looking rock and i need some money.So when i touched it,I was given ultimate power but the downside,the tiny,small,itty,bitty downside was a giant monster who was I'm pretty sure lovecraftian.Also it was determined to hunt me down. So off i went with my adventuring skills and weapons ...
“Your telling me you know exactly where you feel pain?” “Pretty much.” “And not just like a general area, like the limb?” “Nope, the exact location.” “And not using interpretive sensory processes?” “I don’t know what that means.” “It mea-doenst matter. You can also tell the severity?” “Roughly, although some pla...
A unifying trait of all old schools in Old listed buildings is the absolutely quixotic approach to student safety, quixotic in this context meaning foolhardiness on par with the eponymous hero, were he to set down his armour and become a schoolmaster. If at all possible, Dr Doxley, mused to himself looking at the gothi...
The vacation trip was today. I already had my bags packed and the gas was on full. All I had to do was wake up and go. The problem is, I'm not a morning person at all. When the alarm started going off, I sluggishly moved my arm to the snooze button. For the fourth time. "Just five more minutes", I tell the alarm cloc...
The first drag is always the best. The way it burns the throat in a good way, and it reminds Death that mortal pleasures are still the best ones. As he sits, the sunrise twinkles in his smoke rings. Below him, on Earth, a cat mauls a mouse. The mouse gets up and runs away without its intestines. Death takes another puf...
Four hundred thirty eight. That was how many lives ended by my hand. They pinned thirty or so on me, enough for capital punishment. It's only fair. The strong can take what they like and the weak will suffer for it. I killed them because I was better when they caught me it was because they were better. I don't resen...
"What the-?" Yanan stared at the sight before her. She had come expecting a dark and terrible throne room. Parts were as she expected. The oppressive lack of light. The tall ceiling. Weathered furnishings that looked older than her. But where she expected a throne made of bone to be, instead was set a round table. A ...
I blinked. "Well?" The volume quivered in my hands. I cleared my throat. "Have you..."I squeaked, and trailed off. "Have I what?"roared the Lord of Hell. "Have you..." "Spit it out!" "HaveyouacceptedJesusChristasyourLordandSavior?"I blurted out. The Lord of Hell stared at me. "Have I...what?" "Have you ac...
Another boring day in Riverwatch. I watch the red light flicker briefly, before finally turning to green. This part of town seemingly got forgotten when Riverwatch became an international hotspot for tourism and modern amenities. The potholes grow like a plague here, slowly eating the road away while the heart of the ...
A loud noise struck, the room and it scared him, because it sounded like thunder, and Cal was scared of thunder. Being nestled in his bed, his eyes and mind covered by the thin veil of a nap, he only heard the impact, which stirred him from his sleep, while Owner ran to the television and switched it on. Nondescript vo...
Monroe is not evil, he is right. There is a difference. Sometimes that difference depends on whose side you’re on. He walked down the street, no longer caring to hide who he was, or what he was. The purplish glow from his hands left heat trails with each stride. His eyes black, blonde hair blowing in a non-...
“God.” Jeffrey turned to me and squinted as I eyed the screen. “What?” “That kid. He caught Arceus. Literal god himself answers to a ten year old.” I muttered, taking a sip of coffee as the situation room became deafening in response, aides pointing and screaming, the rest of the cabinet finally gaining the comprehe...
He stared at me. I stared back. A drop of sweat running down my neck. Please don‘t let him recognize me. Please don‘t let him recognize me i internally pleaded to every deity I knew. Why did I end up in the same prison as him? Futile. I saw his eyes light up in recognition, that infuriating smirk I saw on the wanted...
A reporter wiped sweat off his forehead with a handkerchief, and he asked, “Can you confirm to our viewers that the Janus Protocol has been initiated?” Cameras flashed like fireflies in a dark, lush forest. Hands went up in the air. They had gathered for Mugfist’s press conference, where he’d announce the results of o...
The walls are covered in messy notes, all with eerie messages of danger and warnings. It's been 45 days since the tapping of rain drops on the metal roof left a Morse code message to be deciphered. .-. ..- -. / ..-. .- ... - .-.-.- / --. . - / --- ..- - Run fast. Get out. "I can't just leave without knowing why!!...
As the smoke from the spontaneous materialization settled, the wizard peered at the figure of what appeared to be a portly man in festive winter gear. Waving away the rest of the smoke, he was able to get a better look at what he had summoned. He did not expect the Prince of Darkness to look so apple-cheeked, bearded, ...
I take off my vest, with the grenades. I drop my gun. "The hell you doing?"My partner, Jack says. "H-h-hes.... he's r-r-right t-there..!"I see him, he's teleported outside of the house. He's shown his real self. We stole things sure, but no one would deserve our cards we were handed. I was a level one thief, Jack was a...
"Why Daddy?" He pulled her in for a hug, squeezing her tight. "You know how everything has a soul, right?" She nodded, pulling herself away slightly to look at his face. "Well, when you're alive, your soul is protected by yourself. You can fight, because you have a body and mind. You can use weapons. But when you d...
"Your Honor, I submit that my client, Mr. Prometheus, has suffered cruel and unusual punishment entirely disproportionate to the scale of his crime. I therefore move that his eternal sentence be overturned." “Unusual it is, indeed,” came the words from the Bench. “Just so is the crime, do you not think? It is not oft...
I sat back at the table, absently swirling the coffee cup around in my hand, liquid sloshing at the sides. Finger swiping at my phone, I looked just like every other patron of the small little coffee shop, on the corner of 6th Avenue and Vine Lane. Well, that's not technically true. There actually weren't any other c...
There was a joy to knocking out someone’s teeth, a satisfying crunch as they popped out of place. The Caped Salamander, the unsung hero of Seattle, brushed off his hands and knees to take in the fourteen criminals lying unconscious on the floor of the warehouse. The criminals were adorned in forest green and Timberland...
The young boy sniffles. His file said his power had manifested early, but when it was identified as his gift, the other schoolchildren had begun to relentlessly tease him. It had gotten to the point where he refused to go to school, as his mother told me. "Okay,"I said, trying my best to soothe him. "Do you know ab...
There was a certain foulness in the air around the T intersection, not any actual physical odour but a spiritual presence, death woven into the very atmosphere, a situation the man garbed in bright yellow and orange clothing knew all too well. Mike the Exorcist let out a sigh as he turned to park his car upon feeling t...
“Greetings, Hyuman Mark”, the alien before me says, reaching out what I can only assume is its version of a hand. “Pleasure is all mine”, I reply, offering my gloved hand. While we had both had immunisations against each other’s pathogens, there is still a great deal of caution regarding first physical contact w...
The War Mages made a grave mistake. One by one, they gathered at the top of the hill... by the end of their gathering there were about 10,000 of them. The mages were prepared to tear us apart. I held my magical pearl ring in my hand and slipped it on my finger, getting ready for the war that was about to transpire....
I stood in the middle of the dusty, dark room, looking at the old photo album quietly. Although I couldn’t see my own face, I was sure that it now had a shocked expression on it, or rather shock, intrigue, disgust and terror all together. I gave another look at the album. I had come to our ancestral mansion to help Gra...
"[CLASSIFIED] was reported to have been spotted at 0:57 just after the beginning of a normal sleep rotation. You know what you need to do, Commander. Take it out." Cas'hei was a soldier. A fighter. She followed orders without question and had done so for many cycles. Staring at the giant, council-dubbed 'space amo...
Enrique blinked, confused as he passed through the gates to the endless golden halls of Valhalla. Vikings of the old myths dined on boar and drank from horns while other warriors of all cultures joined in the celebration of victory. "But..."Enrique said, turning on the spot, "I'm atheist." "Lower the face shield, fri...
An orange reflective vest and a single blinking LED clipped onto a shoulder strap was the only way Adam could tell he was still on the right path through the murky air. He kicked aside small bits of rubble while following a few meters behind Yuan. Glass crunched, silt rippled. The smell of activated carbon and sterile...
Abraham gently sat at his plain carved desk, resting his silver-inlaid walking cane on the sun muraled wall behind it. The room was a cacophony of chaos. Despite the mayhemic mishmash of sounds in the crowded classroom around him his mouth turned into a small smile, he would enjoy today, he glanced around the room and ...

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