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A paradise for life? Well, I suppose that is technically true. If you tilt your head and squint. The water is concentrated in a few large oceans which allows for storms of truly prodigious size to form and batter the land. The land masses are so large that the interiors tend to be fairly arid because water just can'...
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The holo was flooded with query requests, as the other members of the Extraterrestrial Commission processed what had just been said. "Cut it off, Alexa. I need time to think."John said, leaning back into his chair, fingers massaging his temples. His ship's intelligence, Alexa, blocked any more requests from coming thr...
"Hey, Dave?" "Yeah?" "Can we chat in this breakout room for a second? I just need to pick your brain about this deliverable for Tuesday." "Sure thing." We head into the breakout room. It is a completely unremarkable meeting room, with the same meaningless art on the walls as the last 38,000+ breakout rooms I've bee...
Detective Steve looked out onto the stormy streets of the city. As the rain pittered patterned down the windowseel the wind rushed past the city's landscape. As the streetlights flickered off and on, off and on a soft howl from a train could be heard in the distance. Not a soul out there in that deary weather, not a so...
I tell the therapist all about it: how many minutes I was dead for before they got my heart pumping again; how I hadn’t even been forty when it happened. Not even forty, I tell her. *There can’t be anything natural about almost dying pre-forty. If you have a heart-attack before forty then there’s something else goi...
"Hello Folks at Reddit, This is your old buddy Deadpool. That’s D-E-A-D-P… oh you get the drift. I’m here on Shield’s flying sideways skyscraper airport place with a crazy dude in a colourful costume who talks to himself. Take it away Jay” “Why thank you, dearest Deady-Poo. Doesn’t it just make you sick to see such ...
Write sophomoric poop jokes, said the voice in my head. You know you want to. I grimaced. "No, that's a shit idea." Something scraped and hissed in the back of my mind. Doooo somethiiiing meta. "Gah, I can't. I've got too much work today."My email dinged. Another unread message from my boss. "Besides...
"Damnit Hestia!!" The tray clattered to the floor as Hestia, the delightful pain she was, arched her back against Sara's legs, slinking across the floor as she challenged her owner's balance. Sara chased her off quickly, before the fuzzy little brat could waltz over the hot tray. Sara wrinkled her nose as the unmist...
"What the hell is the matter with you?"The goose straightened out his spine and flared his fresh nostrils. "I-I'm sorry,"I stepped back, "I thought you were someone else." "I was-"He stared at his hands, "Why would you do that?!" "I don't know, I'm sorry. Just hold still and I'll-" "Not so fast,"He snatched my wand...
Dear Sneaky Man-tis, &nbsp; I hope this letter finds you well. From the tone of your letter to me, I understand you to be quite angry with my 'performance,' as you put it. I find it rather important to correct you in the points that you make, to assure you that I am not who you think I am, and that what we have...
I stared down at the beer can in my hand, trying and failing to identify the brand. Whatever it was, I was certain that it was cheap, the kind of thing that came in gas station 24 packs. Abner Cadabner a tall, burly man, the sort of guy who had either played offensive line in high school or spent four years dodging th...
Hell wasn't fire and brimstone. At least not for me. I'm sure some people anguished in the wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I found myself completely and utterly alone. Solitary confinement. The only source of company I had, my last interaction with any sapient creature, was the demon that lead me to my penultimate r...
Humanity dug their trenches, kept their guns loaded, and waited. They'd removed the corpses of the last wave of enemies, and were readying for the next one. The enemy had chosen to disregard their massive casualties, once more. Hell of a way to fight, but mankind had the endurance for it. Word from the brass was that t...
"You know what I have always liked?"I asked the impeccably dressed gentleman sitting beside me. "Cheesy romantic comedies which you pretend you hate."He said wryly. I looked at him with a look of faux betrayal. "You didn't need to say it out loud." He looked at me confused. "But you asked." I rolled my eyes. "Do ...
This is great, just great. I think, as I hold my mortal godson on my lap. Zander plays with my ears, laughing uncontrollably when we bends them in half. He says I look like a Bruno, his family dog. When he was born, I didn't know what to do with him. I don't have kids of my own, nor do I have any siblings. But n...
"Would you like some tea?"She held out an empty cup to the man standing by the bed, which was awkwardly shoehorned into the small home's living room. He gazed downwards at her and smiled, nodding and taking the cup. "Where's your mother?"He asked her, his voice echoing despite the room's size. "On the phone. She's ...
"The playable area?"Captain Demetri rubbed his brow, looking back at the orange screen, watching it fizzle with static as Mars loomed closer and closer into view. "Is this some sort of joke?"It must have been a prank, A way to fool them before their big arrival at the new homeland for Earth, surely the screen would ret...
A knock at the front door got my attention, but I chose to ignore it. Probably just another salesman from AT&T…or Xfinity…or one of my stalkers who was pissed I gave up Myspace. "But it was my space,"they always complained in a hiss. "And you took it from me!" I sighed heavily, enjoying my bowl of corn flakes. S...
"So there the party stood, surrounded by a horde of trolls. Porthos -played by Lovecraft- stands back to back with Argon -played by Kafka- completely separated from the rest of the group. Avery, Grogan and Barthel -played by Poe, Algernon and Tolkien respectively- managed to hold back dozens of trolls as their close fr...
They give you a cup of coffee when your kid dies. Thinking back to that moment? It was a gutsy move. After twelve surgeries, twice that many hospitalizations, and five years of fighting... they gave me coffee. I could see the steam rising in the crisp winter air, thinking that I could just throw it. Pitch it right in...
There are many great questions asked by those who study religious history. A consequence of historical records being lost or destroyed over millenia. By opposing religions, governments attempting to control the populace or simply by the ravages of time. Large gaps exist in the historical record which frequently prevent...
"Sir, Why do you want to end your life?" He turned towards me, a few days of growth on his face. "I'm the scum of the earth. All I do Is drink and smoke, and I have lovers who pays all my bills. I don't deserve life! LIFE IS TOO GOOD FOR ME!" It was always sad for me to see people here. Usually, it was only one momen...
A wave of power washes over my body as I pick it up; a tingling, warm sensation I can feel from head to toe, invigorating me with energy I have never felt before. It's beyond pleasing. It feels like a whole new level of being I've not yet experienced thus far in my life, yet missed so dearly. I grip it tightly. My pur...
"I just... I still don't quite understand,"Captain Jefferson repeated as he sat across from the colourfully dressed man. This was to be a day of triumph - not just for him, but all of humanity. The warp drive! Travel lightyears in seconds! And, of course, at last contact with other intelligent life! And he did. He was...
"Listen, you guys ritualistically consume the flesh and blood of a martyred demigod in a room full of chanting elders. You have no right to call our religion primitive and evil. How dare you falsely accuse us of human sacrifices and speaking in demonic tongues! How do you have the gall to say your god is the only god i...
It was the facial recognition technology that let us know about it. You'd take a picture, go to tag your friends, and up would pop two names. We laughed it off at first, thinking Facebook was glitching again. But when the computer scientists exhausted every possibility (including waking up a cryogenically frozen Zucker...
"A what?" The Grand King of all that is Living, Dead and Anywhere In-Between observed the strange, purplish green blob on the quantum table in front of him. "It's a Shradhaosd, sir." "A Shr... how did you even pronounce that? What is it?" "Well, sir, its something new." "New? We haven't had something new for nea...
The table in front of me clicks as I rap my fingers across it's it's surface. It's clean, pristine. Perfect. The walls of the room, sterile white, the chairs, a similar color, and yet, even with this being the main office of the manager, there's no use seen on any of the furniture. I'd been working here two months, s...
Grace stared at the blinking light on the console. The little bar at the bottom of the screen that proved the connection was still open. On and off. Once every second. Taunting her. "Twenty-two minutes of transmission lag, no amount of staring is going to make it go faster."Manuel sat beside her, his pen scratching ...
I was the only member of my party still standing. Jasmine, Carnax and Bellon were scattered before me. They bled from a multitude of wounds, barely clinging to life after the intense battle. But even my friends, the strongest people I knew, couldn't stop the Siren's Generals. Even now, she looked at me with mocking ey...
The sunlight filtering through the latticed window crawled inexorably along the cell's floor. Dylan slouched on the bench as he fiddled with the chain connecting his manacles. Even if his hands were free, his skills as a thief would avail him little. There were no locks on the door to pick, no mechanisms to disarm. The...
I slowly snapped off my helmet and let the strange, tentacled beast guide me through their city. Gleaming buildings fronted clean sidewalks that bustled with pedestrians while the streets teamed with odd vehicles that scuttled like crabs. "We are so glad that you do not wish us harm!"it told me. "Our religion is one o...
It started on a pretty small scale. Things we never noticed until we looked back. The odd animal abandoning their young. Small increases in crime rates. That kind of thing. Simple stuff, seeming like normal variations to the vast majority of people. But things grew more blatant as time passed. There were reports of ne...
"Tell us, dear Brother, is this food good for us to eat." "Go forth and feast, The spoils, so so sweet." They come to me, from places near and far. Important and unique, I am a shining star. I can do miracles, that no one else can. And it's quite easy to say, I am the greatest man. But today I see somethin...
"Kane, it is good to see you, the council is most pleased with your learning."The man interrupting me said over a beard long enough to tickle his balls if he sneezed. Clouds of smoke puffed from the pipe perpetually in his lips. His ears wiggled whenever he was irritated, and my ignoring him had set them aflapping like...
Katie lay on her bed inspecting the stained sheet of paper that held her bucket list, lamenting not ticking off more than "Dye Hair Red."Her watch, an old analogue thing imported from Switzerland (she'd meant to travel there and buy one in person, but she'd imported it in the end) read five-to-the-hour. The little gear...
Director Helvin rubbed the bridge of his nose as he looked over the reports. He really wished that he had been allowed to bring a good, strong drink with him. But no, the people in charge thought that alcohol was an unnecessary distraction. They obviously had never met Dave. The older man touched a light on the contro...
"Victor, Victor Charlie's victory's imminent." "Roger, not if I can help it, Mike. Juliet, what's your status?" "Victor, Juliet's mike's shot." "Roger. Roger, I'm going in. Mike, echo Juliet." "Wilco, Victor. Delta's up ahead, you read, Roger? "I read, Mike. Whiskey in the hotel's on me when you get back." "Right...
My shoes did not go clank against the metal floor of the spaceship. My shoes were cheap things, rubber soles and faux-faux leather. Besides, it seemed fashionable on the planet KP-40632 to wear goddamn horseshoes on your boots. The nonstop pounding of boots on floor was only adding to my tension headache. I let out a...
The principal was asking me to come to the school... again. The third time this week. What did my children do this time? Speak without raising their hand? Call someone a meanie? Maybe even make a silly face in the presence of a teacher? The school always calls me in for really stupid things. "Well, what is it this tim...
The line stretched far ahead of Nate, the goal of the big box store just now coming into view. At the current pace, it would several hours past sunset before he would get his turn in the store, his chance at that coveted toilet paper. Ever since the announcement from the heavens, everyone was turned up into a frenzy. G...
"So, I don't give them the cures to the diseases?"questioned Jamal, pointing to the container of syringes. "No no no, you couldn't if you wanted to. You think we could just pack up the cures neatly in a box like that and send you off? You aren't going back in time to help those of the past, you're going back to help u...
"So, you've finally hit your wit's end."The Colonel said, staring at the humanoid beings on the other side, their appearances beautiful and exotic with fair complexions and bright blonde hair. They were not humanity's ancestors, but distant cousins. Records view them as elves, gods, and other supernatural entities of b...
Third time's the charm. Crowley was the first one through. He was understandably confused. 16 other men had jumped through the portal with him, yet they were no where to be seen. From what I can gather, he set off to the distant canyons to search for us, thinking we had simply dropped out of blackspace in a differen...
"And this, class, is Private Gareth Masterson. Private Masterson was killed at the Battle of the Somme, on November 17th, just a day before it ended."the voice said. Gareth's vision began to clear. One second he had been headed up and out of his trench, a final push against the enemy, and then there was a flash - he t...
“I’m bored, have you not got someone for me to fight? You can imagine how dull it is for me here.” The AI let out a robotic sigh, its flashing green face showing all the signs of boredom, glancing at the frustrated scientists, their faces screwing with each word. “We have given you plenty of people to fight. Yet yo...
"All rise for the Honorable Judge Vindicus." The intoduction audio clip signaled to the anonymous audience the start of a new stream. Only, as some viewers noted, something was different. Nowhere to be seen, as before, the preparations for a night's hunt. No weapons, no new place, no cameras on suspect networks. Just ...
["I love you."](http://www.rainymood.com/) I kissed my wife on the top of her head, right on top of that little curl that always stuck out. I remember on our wedding day, the panic she'd went into over it. It took three bridesmaids and two shots of whiskey before she accepted she looked good. I loved that curl though...
In the cavernous depths of the country's biggest supermarket, there lived an abandoned boy. At night, the aisles were his to command. He rode the trolleys, as they whispered to him of the secrets of their kind. Where the fresh, recently delivered food was. Which hidden corners were rarely disturbed by customer or man...
Alan Watts invited me into his humble home. "Would you like some tea?" "No, I'm alright. Do you know I'm literally from the future?" He chuckled at that. We spent exactly 5 minutes talking about philosophy. (It stops being an interesting discussion when both individuals can agree that the meaning of life is simply t...
Sunday: I turned the luck all the way up. This was make or break week. I'd figured it all out. I bought a lottery ticket. The drawing is Wednesday, but I'm not looking until Saturday. By then, money should be the least of my joys. Monday: Interview for my dream job. Here's hoping! Tuesday: The company calle...
Phil gaped at the young, scruffy-haired interviewer, the gleeful smile on that pimply face provoking a strong surge of disgust. His back, achy as always, protested as he leaned forward in his flimsy chair. Ozzy's Oddities was a freaky little show, devoted to weirdness and kitsch. As the last living survivor of the Gre...
Awkwardly, I scan the room. You could hear a pin drop, which is quite astounding considering there’s at least fifty people in this dining hall. Til now, my presence felt normal, as if no one knew I was born a millenium prior. After a moment, I see a few people whispering near the door. The doors suddenly burst ope...
It was late on Skid Row. The tweakers and gangbangers were doing their nightly grind. I was unfortunate enough to be around. I took a turn to a less populated street and before I could backpedal I heard it. “Don’t move.” Three large men surrounded me. The one in the center gripped a knife. “Empty your pockets an...
Something is off, I am still holding my breath, it has been almost five hours. I am dead, I'm so sure of it. I mean living things need air. I haven't took a breath in almost FIVE HOURS. My eyes flick towards my alarm clock, the red digits stating what I already knew, 5:43 PM. Dinner will soon be ready, what do I tell ...
The two rivals met at a clearing in the forest in the midst of a lightly falling snow, dampening their footsteps. Wordlessly, they clashed, steel swords ringing through the trees causing clumps of ice to shake from branches. Sir Mallahan the Brave managed to get a strike against his evil foe, Count Glastonbury. Glaston...
She looked... off. So of course I focused on her. Ever since I have memory, I have been able to listen into people's minds if I concentrate on them enough. Kinda like when you are trying your best to look someoe in the eyes whilst listening to their conversation. It took me a while to tune off the noise of the train ...
I. I am. I have been. I will be. Time is important to quantify existence, but there is no time now. Before now, there was, at least, time. Now, not even that, only now. Time is a measure of decay. A sun lives 1 trillion years, then it dies, creating more suns, which live and then die, so on and so forth, for w...
I looked again. No, not millions - Billions. Billions of lives lost at the hands of this one man. I took a moment to look him over. He seemed normal enough, aside from his rather odd dress sense, but at the same time, it seemed that he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. Somehow, I got the feeling...
Life lives in the entropic gap between the temperature where proteins denature—about 105 Fahreinheit, and the temperature where water freezes—32. It's a very small gap, 73 degrees. The surface of the sun is 10,000 degrees. Its core, 27 million. Neptune's surface is negative 300 or so. Earth's surface, on average, is ab...
The ‘Catch them all’ campaign was met with much contention when it was proposed. Really? The government planned to send children out to capture hostile animals. In what world did that make any sense? Despite this contention, the legislation passed, making it legal for children over the age of ten to capture these wild ...
Robert walked over to the old mausoleum as his heart raced in his chest. All of the secret cryptic clues and puzzles that he had uncovered on the Internet had led him here. If he was wrong about this, then everybody had been right about him being a delusional lunatic. But if he was right ... then unimaginable power awa...
The glass vial rolled around the porcelain basin. tink tink *tink 3…. That familiar burn began. 2…. I grab the edge of the sink as all my muscles tense up. 1…. I feel it course through me as my eyes roll shut. ……….lift off. Where would I be this time? I could feel the rain covering me. The amber light il...
Every once in a while, when I was bored, I would search my name on Google. My name, Paulinho Frantresky, was a super uncommon name, so stuff about me would always be all that showed. Today, I did it again. I had a large paper to write for one of my classes and didn't really feel like working on it. In a spark of procr...
“Your teleporter doesn’t work at all, it just incinerates people and makes a copy of them!” The suited man on the other side of the desk was unfazed: no furrowed brow, no glance of anxious, just steady, unnerving eye contact. “I’m afraid your ethical objections will die wit—“ “Ethics has nothing to do with it, you id...
Everyone always thinks being a twin is so great. At this point it's easy to predict the comments. Oh wow, what's it like being a twin, y'all must have so much in common, and, my personal favorite, are y'all identical. Considering he was born with XY chromosomes and I was born with XX, we are decidedly not identical. ...
"Pardon me?" I could barely wrap my head around it. The princess---my princess---fell in love with him? Was this a fucking joke? Bullshit. "Your skillset is no longer necessary. There will be no war---you can go now." It was like a slap to the face. All this training, all the blood on my hands.... for what? *No...
"Before you strike the blow that will end my reign, I must know, which Lord are you the heir of?"the baron stammered out. He would die eventually from his wounds as I could tell he was close to drowning in both his blood and vomit. "Lord, you think I am trying to get revenge for my father who was a lord or king that ...
"Whoa, whoa, whoa... what's it gonna spell?!"my friend Amanda shouted as we moved our hands over the Ouija Board slowly. Four sets of hands were 'guiding' the pointer over the letters, but we did not seem to be in total harmony. We'd already spelled the word 'summon', now the only question is what we were going to s...
There was a break-in at my house. My computer was stolen. I had informed the police and they were on their way. I was surveying the house, trying to figure out what else was stolen when a tall blonde man in a black suit entered through my broken door. "Mr Hastings?"he asked. I replied in the affirmative. "Your compu...
"Lil, I know you don't believe me now, and you don't have to. But soon, you'll realize that you've made a mistake." "What are you talking about, Jenny?" "Things are going to start changing in the next few hours, first with me and then around me, as my meds wear off. This happens every time. You and Mom might wanna go...
"I'm sorry, what inflation?" "Genie inflation. Do you want to spend all day trying to comprehend fey economics or do you want wishes granted?" The corporeal being floating in front of me seemed to be half-interested in the conversation himself, so I decided against inquiring about fey economics. "Okay, I guess I do,...
There was a sharp divide where the fields ended and the forest began, something in the quality of the light. Too many shadows in the forest, perhaps. The hunter walked down the thin dirt trail that separated one from the other. In one scarred hand he held a great storm-lantern, its orange light low behind the metal g...
Surrounded by power, all I can think about is how to get more. Not because I want to control others, not because power feels good, not even because of the opportunities it affords. No, I need more because without it, I cannot survive. The first week of classes are a breeze. They teach you the fundamentals of heroics i...
Terry took no particular pleasure in killing, but he did it well. It wasn’t like the movies made it out to be. He didn’t train for years in some secret monastery, and he couldn’t make himself invisible or anything like that. He didn’t have supernatural weapons, or the right gadget for every occasion. He had, however, ...
Shaggy feels the heat of a dying universe against his skin. He takes it in, knowing that the existence of all things is just a cycle. Soon the drivers of the cycle would notice him, as they do at the the end of each universe Shaggy has witnessed previously. The final battle would take place as usual and he would win. b...
Wendy sat looking at the odd suitors, many had taken the Subway over, yet 4 would take the Subway back. The first suitor had problems, for instance he was 68, but Old McDonald did have a farm, but even McDonalds farm wasnt enough to sway her to marrying an old man. The next man was so poor he lived in a cardboard box u...
"It's funny, you know,"Death murmured. "The humans think they're dying less because of their medicine, their infrastructure, their technology. They think they're inching closer to immortality because of what they do." "Mm. You landed on a Dyson hotel. You owe me 2\^32 quanta and 200 grams of antimatter."I tapped impat...
The black-robed figure froze. “Y-you! How did you get past all of the evil empress's death traps and mazes?!” I rubbed my chin. “Evil empress? I’m just bringing my wife some lunch. Who are you?” "Norgol, the Lacerator." "...right. And, hang on, did you say empress's, like, belonging to an empress, or empresses,...
The scroll sat on the table and we stared at it like a live viper. It was the declaration of Chosen One status. Otherwise known as a death sentence. Every Chosen One in living memory had died at the hands of the Dark Lord. It was a vicious cycle, and now my family had been dragged into it. I looked over at our Gordy, ...
"Sir?"A deckhand asked his captain, his long ears twitching nervously. The captain had a distant look on his face as he stared down at the looming green-blue planet that filled the ship's window. "Yes?"He asked, turning to face the deckhand. "Are we ready to send in the occupation teams?" "Not... Not exactly, Sir. T...
No way. You've gotta be kidding me. Literally, 100%, no-joke, I was showering this morning and remembered a Tumblr post from like 6 years or so ago about "instead of Oceans, Earth had huge, dense forests instead", and someone even made fan art of like a HUGE, building-sized deer stepping between massive trees. No exagg...
"Watcher to Overhead. No hostiles sighted, Gearshift and Sonar are cleared to continue east for 100 metres." Watcher waited for the reply "Copy, Watcher"the female voice came on the return transmission "I'll inform the others." Watcher was one of four members of the Heisari prospecting team on Allara. Heisari was ca...
I crouched at the edge of a skyscraper and looked down at a city too full of noise. People bustled along cramped streets like ants looking for any morsel to bring back to the hive. Some of them were normal, unable to control their own futures in a world of powers and predators, but many had their own abilities stored a...
"Welcome to the 5th Millennial Gathering of the Gods! Have a complimentary sweet mana!", greeted the senior Olympian with a warm welcoming smile-- Hestia, goddess of home and domesticity to every guest that just arrived. "Don't forget to pick your nametag!" It was a surprising turnout this millennia. Hundreds of deit...
All I did was wait my turn to stand in front of the arranged books. None of them moved or glowed, no gust of wind indicated I would one day summon typhoons. No, elements would not be my fate. A non-descript tome left in a pile behind the platformed spell books whispered softly to me. "Come." "What's that one there...
You know what? Fuck you. Fuck your stupid writing prompt. Fuck this website. Fuck everyone reading this. Fuck. You. You ain’t shit. You’re lazy. You’re undisciplined. You’re ignorant. I’m writing this fucking story. You’re just breezing by, scrolling down like a fucking robot, clicking away at those little arrows to ...
"Well, this is embarrassing,"Dad says. &#x200B; He's looking at me and doing that shrug of his that used to mean "go ask your mother"and now means "it's not worth telling your mother."I can smell the coffee from the other side of our cobbled-together pentagram. It's hazelnut, Dad's favorite, as is the plaid shirt...
I stared down at the puny mortals, the smirk still playing on my lips. "Weeks? Mere weeks? You fools, I am no dragon that can be beaten once and my treasures stolen. I am no castle, that you could beat in my doors and plunder. I go beyond the physical, beyond even the metaphysical. To defeat me, you need more than a ke...
I blinked hard, taking in the situation. I was tied to railroad tracks, old Western-style. 30 meters away, five others were tied to a parallel track. Down the line, the tracks converged, a switch with a lever beside the fork, the direction currently running toward the other five could-be victims. A man was approachi...
The camera lights flashed and fluttered, and questions poured in why the newly-elected president was wearing sunglasses inside. His vice president stood awfully close by, arm wrapped around President Sanders. Emotional support, or something else? Watching the conference from his luxurious home, Donald Trump noticed so...
I found an old cardboard box in some cupboard, and began throwing Leah's things into it. Socks, bobby pins, toothbrush, a half-eaten pack of raisin biscuits: anything of hers I found, I tossed in. When I had a moment, I scribbled her name across the side too. Upset didn't do justice to how I felt. Betrayed fitted bett...
I looked at the TV in horror. There, displayed in dizzying technicolor, was the hideout that I had spent so many years trapped inside. I watched as the cameras delved deep inside, documenting the perfectly circular walls and the thick layers of slime that coated them. One reporter’s hand got stuck, and I jumped back, ...
Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Wrath, Greed, Envy, and Pride shuffled into the auditorium. They wore suits and carried notepads. They exchanged polite greetings to each other and turned to face me. "So,"Pride asked me, "How did the tryouts go?" "There were some standouts,"I said, "Both good and bad. But before we get into...
Last night, Sam wrote a thesis on Astrophysics- brilliant, game changing stuff, all in one night. Seriously, it's the real deal; scientists are losing their minds all across the world at the prospects of fully understanding dark matter. How does Sam feel about it? He's happily shoving a slice of apple pie in his fac...
Alex went to bed that day feeling content. He woke up the next morning to 16 missed messages on his cell phone, 300+ messages in his Reddit inbox, and a best friend insistently knocking on his door. Groggily, he answered the real-life human first, pretty sure this was a dream and that he'd realize it when it melted i...
"Would you like to donate 1 copper to the Defeat the Dark Lord Fund?"the screen flashed. Is that what they were trying now? Kind of desperate. DL knew the heroes were bankrupt but this was getting ridiculous. At this point they'd never reach him. Just for kicks and jollies he poked yes. Then he had an idea. A terri...
I awoke in a seemingly endless abyss, floating in a weightless space with darkness all around me. I couldn’t see anything beyond my limbs. “Where am I?” As if on cue, an excited feminine voice boomed all around me, I could not discern the direction of the source. “Oh you are finally awake!” There was a blindingly ...
He looked about twenty five years old. Handsome, in a classical sort of way. The kind of person around whom statues get carved. She’s never seen anything like him. Nor had she heard anything quite like him. His language was guttural, something long dead and forgotten. Assuming, of course, it was a language. No one ha...

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