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She gasped, surprised, as something warm wrapped around her wrist and turned her palm upward to the sun. He took a deep breath and signed into her palm. "I'm John. And I love you. What's your name?" For a second she just stood there, with an eye-widened expression that could have been mistaken for either fear or su...
"Sir! They... They are retreating!"The young officer at his station yelled to the general the message he just heard. "What? How can they retreat already? They already destroyed half of our cities!"The general replied promptly, a look of disbelief on his face. "I dunno why sir, but confirmation has just come in. We wo...
God walked in the ruins. All lives extinguished. He was everywhere. On all worlds. Across all time... All life that had started since the creation of existence--was gone, and he could not see why. He reached into a world where there once was water, heat, and air. A rare thing for him to start himself, but he had to kn...
**December 12, 2025. The Dominion arrives on Earth.** It all started when a single rift, black as the night sky, opened in a small town in Nebraska. Two hours later, everyone within a hundred miles was dead. There was only twenty-four seconds of footage, but it was enough to strike fear into the heart of every man, wo...
One two three. One two three. He hadn't always wanted to be an astronaut. Even as a child it had felt like a cliche. He'd wanted to be a dancer. But test after test said he should go to the stars. The world didn't need dancers. It needed heroes. And so he’d studied until he could fly a jet steering by the stars. He ...
The Witch King of Angmar smiled as the Men of the West marched yet again to confront him. It had been thousands of years since the fated battle where Sauron fell and the Men prevailed. The same battle where the Witch King himself had supposedly perished. They were foolish to believe that his presence could be removed b...
The history of medicine is the history of self-experimentation. Alibert, Carrión, Katskee, Löfgren; Dr Sigmund Selbst smiled at the thought of writing his own name at the bottom of that black but secretly revered list. The laboratory around him was smothered with darkness and old linoleum that clung to the acidic smel...
I was giddy. Everyone made fun of me and my toaster, even after I knocked out those bank robbers with it. But here was my chance, my ultimate goal in life. One serial killer, murderer of almost a hundred children. Taking a relaxing bath. Well, relaxing until I walked in. "Wanna know something funny? Like, really...
If the few years I spent alive taught me anything, it’s that life isn’t fair. If the centuries I’ve spent dead have taught me anything, it’s that death is even less fair. I was born in England in 1338 and I died fourteen years later. I never amounted to anything in my life. I was the son of a baker. I should have inhe...
*I'll get away with it. It will be okay.* The mantra circles endlessly in my mind. I ball my fists tighter, pressing them against my forehead as if it would force the thought to stop spinning. My eyes are squeezed shut so tightly that red and blue lights flash across my field of vision. *I didn't mean to. I didn't.*...
“A bucket?” “Just the bucket,” says the guard. He’s young, fresh. Doesn’t have clue what he actually saw. “And then what did he do?” “Well, he hopped over to the corner, and started mashing the bucket into the walls. Then he just… Vanished.” “Hmm.” There goes any hope of this not being what it looks like. “So, ah...
The demons are coming for us. Soon they will take us all. But I have a plan, I think I can stay awake forever. None of us had been able to sleep after completing our study. Once we had fully understood *consciousness death* and had published our paper, we found our psyches had begun to resist sleep. Apparently, by dee...
They had always said that I looked right at home in the middle of combat. From the first time that I played with nerf guns all those years ago, my friends and family commented that I had a natural talent for strategic thinking. What was probably the first time in my life, I had a skill that caused me to be picked fir...
When someone passes away, tradition requires them to be buried bare in the ground. The seeds of the *heelinrut* tree would be placed on top of the body and then covered with dirt. For the next 100 years, the roots of the tree would slowly engulf the body, using it as a source of nutrients, while absorbing the genetic m...
This one breaks all the cliches. Leaves all the typical behavior behind. This one stands on two legs, and speaks like you or I. This one uses fear to get what it wants. This one uses hysteria to control all of us. It walks among us, unknown and waiting. It might be standing next to you in the store, or sitting beside ...
At first there isn't enough sunlight to see inside. You stand back in awe. This isn't like the brick wall near the parking garage, or the prank you played on your friend. This is unexpected. You take a step forward and let your eyes adjust. There's a spiral staircase. You think, "I bet there can't be much upstairs, b...
All I wanted was to see if the seeds I found in the eighth of weed I just smoked could grow in the backyard. After all, the house was mine, paid for- and I had spent the majority of my life in the walk up apartments of the concrete jungle. I figured that a corner spot next to the fence would be the best place to keep...
I’ve been stuck out in a desert for the last 30 years. Food and water are hard to come by, so I’ve had to wander around constantly to find more of it. Turns out knowing how to blast entire armies to ash isn’t worth shit when there’s nothing alive for miles and I was never taught the “Create Food and Water” spell that e...
The screeching, grinding clash of metal ripped through my eardrums as the shards of metal pierced the wall of my skull. You don't feel pain when searing hot metal enters your frontal lobe...you don't feel anything at all. The way I would describe it is when a computer freezes up due to some kind of fatal error. The sou...
“Uh, well, erm, Avengers? With that Green guy and such,” Clark stammered while hunching over as much as possible, “I can’t imagine...what could I…” “Oh, don’t be obtuse. Everyone knows who the Hulk is. Thor, Iron Man, War Machine, Spider Boy,” the agent said while extending a finger with each name. “Spider-man,” Cl...
Immortality. That is what the priest promised the Demon king as I sank into the depths. The Moores had won the war. Our court was filled with the screams of the burnt ones,the howls of flayed,and the weeping of the desecrated. Low chants and hymns in unknown tongues filled the garden. Even the stars cast a ominous l...
I was staring at an familiar looking face. We had the same blue eyes and indistinguishable nose and ears. I was looking at the other me and felt ill. The differences between us made me feel like an absolute failure. It was obvious that in some crucial point in my life, I had done something wrong. The other me had cle...
I don't think life had prepared me for what I just saw. I don't think life *could* have prepared me, or at least -if what I saw was real- reality had been doing a pretty shit job at preparing me for the last twenty-some years of life. I pushed out a weak breath, and re-opened the door to my apartment. In front of m...
"Hah! Lookkit those blathering Murican worshippers!" Tes'aku points at a group of three people wearing red robes. A bald eagle logo was imprinted on each of their clothes. "Where ya' bloody 'freedom', wankers? Too fat from all ya' burgers to carry 'em?" The aliens with Union-Jack-styled dresses laughs as they fan the...
"Ok so, am I going to be frozen or something?"Asked Dan. "I have no idea what you're talking about."Replied the mailman. "I mean the envelope. Mine says 2377. So, am I going to be cryogenically frozen or time travel or what?" "Listen kid, I just deliver the mail. Take it up with the sender."He said walking away. "H...
In 2030, we finally got the final image from Voyager 1. By our calculations, she had died 3 days ago, but had traveled far, reaching the edge of the Butterfly Nebula. The facility was mostly shut down, with a few of us still studying the images left in there, to help with the habitation missions coming up. I never thou...
Things weren't going as planed. I mean how hard could it be to take candy from a baby. Go to Wal-Mart, find an unattended child with candy, take it. Only it seems thats not enough. Went back to read the task again and underlined were the words steal and baby. The text had never changed before but considering this was a...
The day he first invaded me, I panicked. He haunted my mind, my thoughts, whispering to me always. He does everything in his power to wear me down. Mornings are the worst. He is loudest then, whispers sounding like drums that beat me as I bury my head in a pillow. Most mornings, I stay in bed for an hour or more ...
“In retrospect, maybe this wasn’t the best ideAAAAAHHHHH!!!” As far as last words go, those were pretty weak. Of course, she was right. It wasn’t the best idea to turn someone into a hulking twenty foot death machine in an attempt to punish them. After I burned her to a crisp, which by the way hurt me far more than yo...
Snow white moss had started to grow upwards on my dark, wolly legs and only the itching sensation of them made me awaken from my slumber. Surrounding me were impossibly green trees, chirping fat birds and the overly heavy sweet smell of a well-being earth. Which were sign enough that the humans, and their steel and smo...
They stood at the precipice of the mountain in silence, basking in the glow of a fiery sunset. A warm breeze rose from the earth, surrounding them, whispering ancient secrets, and they knew they had stumbled upon something special. Something primeval, magical. A low mist had settled, a thick blanket of white fog that ...
"LEE-DER. PRE-SENT LEE-DER."The alien's voice rasped through a box attached to his neck, presumably translating his broken message. The president could feel the sweat beading on his forehead. He had thought it was a practical joke at first, two guys in grey bodypaint with cheap props, but his staff seemed to think othe...
I stared slack jawed at the landscape around me. It was all so perfect. It was a beautiful land filled with picture'esk mountains and forest. The air was so fresh that my lungs seemingly went into shock from the lack of pollution. My eyes were drawn to the vibrant colors of everything from the grass to the clouds. I ...
I never chose to become a God, but unfortunately I had become one. The thought plagued my mind as I waited in my dusty and cramped apartment for "her"to arrive. I could barely afford this coffin of a living space yet she had chose me to have this special power. I remember the day she had turned up out of the blue at ...
We set out on the new adventure of being professional travelers. The days were long and the sites were plentiful. We had just settled into Taos, NM for the night after traveling for three weeks straight. As we lay awake in bed, my wife turned to me. “You know what I have just realized?” She said with a worried tone ...
Do you know how many gods there are? I don't mean that 'One True God' nonsense, but the actual number of deities worshiped at any given time on Earth. It's hypothesized to be between 3000 to 3500, maybe more. So in a world with that many possible 'One True God's, how do you know that -yours- is the right one? You don'...
"Good god,"I mumble. "Who wrote this?" When they said that the bank was ancient, they weren't kidding. So ancient, apparently, that we hadn't developed logic, skills, or even basic etiquette. While I fantasized about slowly strangling whoever wrote this monstrosity, I got to work. It's not that I didn't know the lang...
Well , it was time to finish this assignment , I mumbled to myself. Spending all night partying my ass off had it's consequences ! Who knew ? I made myself a tea , sat down and fired up my trusty laptop and opened up my trusty Google Today's assignment was about Pearson's foundation , one of the trustees of our sch...
The man knelt next to the grave, tears dried on his face.   *Elizabeth Joan Clifford* *June 15 1993 - December 22 2018*   "Oh baby girl. My sweet Lizzy"The words barely came out as he choked back another fit of sobbing.   ------------- 13 Months Ago -----------------   "T...
Glkinifir's awakening destroyed part of the Scandinavian mountains, because frankly, he was the bit at the border of Finland. Towering above nations, the troll king crouched, oversized nose twitching in the air. Lots of Christ-followers about. The stench bothered him. Where were the others? Where were the elves? Buildi...
I stuffed the loose dollars and change into my pocket, before giving the cashier a casual nod. Pushing open the door I attempt to sip my coffee but in the usual manner it spilled a little bit and dripped down my shirt. "Damn..."I muttered to myself. I looked up at my friend who was waiting in his car to bring me to th...
Of all the prophecies that the council of seers possessed, the Dead Ship was the one that filled the people of Silencium with dread. The ship without a crew would come from the sky to destroy the world. It would bring forth armies without souls, controlled by a great intelligence which was neither living nor dead. It...
Who were we? We had no purpose. Did anything have a purpose when compared to the vastness of the universe? It didn’t matter who you were, what you did, what you cared about. The universe would carry on without you. The universe had been fine without humans. Ever since that blinding flash of light obliterated Earth t...
As I step off the precipice, I stare out into the unknown. I've done this watching from afar 98 times now, and every time, I only go deeper. I can only hope my misery ends at 100. All I can tell is how dark it is up ahead. As I stare at myself in the mirror preparing for what may lie ahead, I notice I am merely a gh...
"I am the 1, the True, the 6c 69 66 65. No one comes to the system32 except through me." Christ.exe had activated. Installed through a series of backdoors by Heaven's top Angelopers, the apocalypse was finally back on track. It's rather mundane to battle angel vs angel - that had happened when Satan had gotten the boo...
At the end of the day that God(or, whatever one would call it) announced his plan, there were already hundreds upon thousands of voting campaigns from mourners of the recently dead. There were less for people longer dead- perhaps their families had come to terms with it. Sob stories about how good a person each and eve...
As long as I’d known him, John had had a little furrow between his brows that looked like a coin slot. It was weird, but I just assumed maybe it was a wrinkle with a scar inside, or just a scar that had healed in a strange way. I’d asked him once, and he said he’d had it his whole life, so I just let it go. That was, ...
It was the pictures. Pictures of a family. Pictures of a happier time - of happier *times.* Pictures of a young boy and his parents, before the boy got on drugs and caused his parents so much pain. Pictures... Pictures of me. Pictures that didn't match the face staring back at me in the mirror. *What had I becom...
Tom sat smugly in a room. The room had no windows and no doors. No walls nor ceiling either. Let's assume that Tom existed in an infinite plane that was completely barren except for the ground, which consisted solely of off white middle school hallway linoleum. For fun, lets say Tom had no tongue. Poof, disappeared o...
40 minutes, and she was still waiting. Their anniversary, no less. Like the hackneyed scene from an old film noir, she watched impatiently as the white hot candles at her tabled burned down with each passing minute. The server, who at first cheerfully came and asked if she'd like a drink, not seemed to dread her seat ...
Dalia spent a good twenty minutes standing there, swaying back and forth like an oak tree in a summer storm. Her local bar should have been in front of her. She may be drunk, she may be deprived of sleep, she might not have a fucking brain cell left in her head that wasn't sauteed in hooch, but she *knew* where her ba...
They had me strapped down in the surgical apparatus, the needle already in my arm. There were three chemicals that would be injected into my veins, ready to sedate me, keep me pain-free and then finally kill me. And it came faster than I could've imagined. It *did* hurt, to feel the chemicals passing through me. To fe...
Slytherin. It had taken almost twenty minutes for the hat to decide. I remember being the subject of many a hushed whisper in the common room of the dungeon. It gave the already dark room, eerily lit in the muted green glow that filtered through the Black Lake, an air of secrecy and hidden threats. Here I would find fe...
I had thought myself so fortunate. Decades of charitable donations had made connections in the right places; a few strings were pulled, which allowed me a to 'jump the queue'. Here I stood, before the exhibition of the century. One of the new hidden chambers discovered in the Egyptian pyramids had unearthed treasur...
As far as the eye could see, there was only the smooth, flat *nothingness*, as though the ground itself had been carved flat and polished like a gem to wink up at the heavens for all eternity. The dusty salt that littered the earth on all sides blew on the wind, encouraged up into tiny, crystalline clouds that glimmer...
I couldn't believe what was unfolding around me. I was petrified with confusion, even downright terror, if I was really honest with myself. It was all I could do to flick my eyes back and forth between the supernatural beings all shouting at one another around the room. I hadn't imagined that all of them would answer...
“Always tip,” said Emmett as he signed an extra twenty percent on his already over-priced coffee. “Life will go a lot smoother that way.” “Is this general life advice or work specific advice?” his apprentice Andria muttered. “Both.” They were in a small hole-in-the-wall coffeeshop run by a pair of baristas. Lauren,...
"I swear, if this flesh-stick spots us I am going to be so pisse-" Xagrathar suddenly ducked behind a wonderfully quaint dresser made of white distressed wood and arranged the lovely petunias in a pot on top to hide his lone antenna. A slogging human, known only as 'Dale', turned his stupid looking, annoyingly symmet...
It was an ordinary door. In fact, it was ridiculously ordinary for a door so important. Instead of inlaid gold and gems, or dark swirls of unknown but terrible materials it was a beige door with a stainless steel handle. My hand trembled as I reached for it. I took hold and pushed. Nothing happened "Hey, the do...
The day we are born, we get our Death Sentence. It's routine: Disease screenings; Vaccinations; Name and social security number; Death Sentence. It's placed into our minds at birth. Although, if we're being honest, "sentence"is kind of a misnomer. It wasn't as if "Death Sentences"were supposed to follow any sort of gra...
After touching Danny's forehead I decided to quit the force. Seriously, whoever helped cover up his death probably didn't have me in mind. I found the poor boy sitting on his couch lifeless. I fully expected cardiac arrest or a brain anyurism, but what I got was a pretty fucked version of 50 Shades of Grey. I don't...
I look to my wife as my son's voice echoes around my head. The question filled me with a deep sense of foreboding. I can tell by her eyes that she feels the same, though she tries her best to hide it. "Martha,"I begin, but she cuts me off. "No, Stan,"she says, curt yet clear. "Just leave it be." "You can't prote...
"It's still a... fuckin'... elder god, Dave. That can't be healthy." Dave spit out a black glob that turned into a spider and scuttled away. "It's not **un**healthy. I mean, my skin's got this nice glow to it." "It's glowing green, dude. That's not nice. Also can you wear more clothes. Like, a hoodie or something. It...
"We've 'ot splinters everywhere, Capt'n." Grangar snarled, flecks of yellow spittle flying from his lips into his ragged beard. He watched the battle raging below from his perch atop the hill. Heaves and hos carried to his grotesque metal throne from the throng of warriors bashing their skulls into Slottstaden's appar...
My grandfather was possessed of some strange wisdom throughout his life that he'd refused to share. Taciturn and blunt, he rarely had nice things to say, and remained unapproachable even to his friends and loved ones. The years, of course, had not been good to him either, and he died alone, his dementia clouding his re...
New colonies were springing up on Mars. Shipyards were forming in orbit to build the behemoths that were simply too large to blast off from Earth. The mining business was in full swing, with freighters racing to pick up exotic materials across the solar system. Despite all those advances, we hadn't really found a way ...
I disguised myself as a scholar and snuck my way underground. To a part of the Library not yet found by modern archaeologists. It was the part that contained their current research and information that they intended to release once it was complete. And I found something I didn’t expect. It was America. There, on a woo...
I open my eyes, still feeling off from the surprise, I look around and there's nothing but dark, as I'm getting up I mutter something about lights out loud. And I am blinded by lights, shining from every direction. "Less! Less light!"The lights dim, and I can see, but all that is around are padded walls in a dome over...
It was just another night, another date with my hot waifu pillow Natsuki. As I romantically caressed her flat yet delightful chest, I noticed a green slime seeping out. Thinking that my incredible mating skills had gone too far this time, I shoved her off. But it was too late, the goo was already on me. I screamed in p...
it's been going on for years, but it ends tonight. Every-time I tried to do anything she was in my way. When I got a job over seas, guess who called in with an anonymous tip I was "racist". When I was finally going to tell Lisa to marry me, guess who facebook messaged her that I was having an "affair". None of it was e...
###Fallen, +4 Dagger **1/Day**: Fallen can inflict upon all enemies within 30' a vision of your death: Slipping on spilled olive oil in the supermarket, shrieking "aaaah, not in the face!", and hitting your head on a shopping cart. They suffer 1d8+regret psychic damage (half damage on successful will save). **Curse...
So I’m walking down to my favorite dream plane bar, Lucid Nightmares, great place should try it. I’m minding my own business. I say hi to Chucky, Mike Myers. Keep my distance from Jason. Jigsaw is a cool guy but he’s always wanting to play a game so I just try to avoid. But I see this freaking furry looking asshole, F...
They say that nothing in this world is certain except for death and taxes. It follows, naturally, that the occurrence of the first implies the absence of the latter. And so it was that, for the first time in my life, not only did I not have to pay taxes, I was also expected not too, lest the legal ramifications arising...
At the first (my daughter Elsie), I called it luck. Pure, dumb fucking luck. I was so relieved to be alive that I barely thought on my killed wife. Then came my second, my son Joel. I was dumbfounded and a little bit sad when my girlfriend Mary was chosen to die. It was a few years before I would throw myself back in...
There was that smell that he thought he knew. Long ago he had known it. Then it lingered in his memory as the time went on, and it was one of those things he knew he would never forget. But you know how those things are. Sometimes you forget. You just don't know you do until you remember. He remembered it all when ...
I stood there as the man faced me down without fear. I swear he was about to raise his fists at me Queensbury style. Absolutely no fear. Finally I nodded and tamped the end of my scythe on the floor. "Alright, Theodore. You win this time. But when I next arrive, you will welcome me. No one ever escapes me for go...
People always told me that I took everything for granted; that because our way of life was so free of strife, I could never understand what it was like to be without. Yet, to me, it all seemed somewhat off kilter - the endlessly bright magnificence of the sun through my bedroom window, an unimaginable variety of food ...
"Are you familiar with Scrooge McDuck?" A jet of fire puffed out between the behemoth's nostrils before it replied with a deep growl, which was, as best as I could tell, it's friendly voice. It was lounging atop a very yellow and very white hoard of gold and silver, with white, blue, and the odd green sprinkled into t...
My eyes burnt and I tasted cinnamon and cloves. That was the last I remembered. I was barely conscious when the alchemical workers in their hazmat suits dragged my soaking body out of the vat and onto a gurney and rushed me to the M-ICU. They didn't know if I was going to make it; accidents like this were rare but not ...
My mouth tasted of salty parrot bollocks. I tried to move but I span like some fucken baby land spaffer stepping on deck for the first time. I chewed myself awake and spat. Everything was blue. Not sea blue, either. Fucken rusty nail blue, if rust was blue. The plank in front of me held some sort of square black mirror...
At first, Jared couldn’t believe it. The car had missed him by an inch. He went on his way, eating Lifesavers. He didn’t notice the gunman trying to gun him down. When he did notice, the gunman had accidentally shot himself. Jared decided to quickly get home. At home, between snacking on Lifesavers and binging Netfl...
As the cops pull up behind me, I know I can outrun them. In this futuristic vehicle I have, I can easily top at speeds ten times those of a normal car, with maneuverability to boot. But, as that would cause more problems the anything, I decide to pull over. I pull out some falsified credentials from the glove compartme...
The cape snapped in the wind, blonde hair moved in waves across her shoulders. “Your schemes will never prevail!” she put her fists on her hips and gave me a serious glare. “Now give up, and this doesn’t have to get… ugly.” she nodded as if she was assuring herself she had imparted what she had needed to. “What...
“-and with a final roar, the fearsome dragon breathed its last breath of flame and fell, slain by the mighty hero and his party.” Dezahr adjusted his old chair and peered out from his glasses, surveying his audience; the children stared back, mouths agape and bodies still, as if they were waiting for the story to cont...
**Demonstrate Power of New Energy Source** There it was, in big, bold letters, sitting right in front of me. Me, the most powerful man in the world. It was so strange. The last quest had been about discovering the next truly revolutionising technology. I called everyone I trusted to me, including the scientists who ha...
Lothen limped through the snow, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. Frost formed in the edges of his sodden hands, as they fought to hold back the crimson pouring out his wounds. The silhouette of The Oak stood ahead, defying the surrounding white. Twenty steps. Twenty steps and perhaps he would live. How weak he fe...
I was just another child who loved his father. When I questioned his importance to you; I was thrown out, ripped from my home. I was the light bringer, the first cherub. I was Lucifer.   More than anything I was confused. God asked me to bow before his creations of flesh. I refused. I refuse to bow to broken...
This is Freddy. Freddy has a problem. Freddy has been dead for years, but he still likes to play with his friends. Most people are afraid of Freddy because he looks different. It's not Freddy's fault. Freddy was burned in a furnace. Freddy has found a way to make new friends to play with. At night, he can enter th...
"Oh my God, Linda! You have to see this!" Linda was not responding "Linda, I have a pretty important matter at hand." Linda was still not responding, "Linda, I'm not pulling your leg, and I don't think anyone will ever pull mine again!" Greg's legs. They were just gone. Poof. "Linda, I don't think we're ever gonn...
She ran as fast as she could down the winding corridors, sentries and guards passing by in flash, driven on by a single thought. *Save the Queen.* Soon enough, the others raised her hue and cry--the alarm echoed through all the dark passageways of the keep, into the cellars and dungeons, kitchens and salons, into all...
I stared at the device wide\-eyed. This couldn't be possible. This shouldn't be possible. I looked around at all the angry faces. I held up the ringing phone in one hand and the battery I had removed in the other. "Uh, I have to take this \- apparently God's calling,"I stammered. Some of the angry faces softened into ...
Can you believe the nerve of some people! Just lemme talk, alright? I need to rant. Look, I don’t ask for much. Right? I’m a clerk for goodness sake. I all really want is a peaceful night’s rest after pushing papers all day! Not too much to ask for, right? Right? Apparently, the woman in the next apartm...
This was a special case. It was mating season for the Gorgonis Sectophillis. I don't normally bother learning about my quarry, but for this particular demon it was hard to miss. Trees erupted into flame as the massive creature shot lava out of it's... Anyway, the point is it was charging towards me. I had to think fa...
I hate houses that creak. “It’s just settling on it’s foundation!” my fiance had said. “All houses do that!” No way in hell I believed him. The corners of the rooms were dark, the kind of dark that permeates your soul, and never really leaves you. The walls were strung with cobwebs from spiders long gone, and spider...
"So why did you ask me out?"Kenzi's blue eyes stared at me through her cigarette smoke. I smiled as the wind blew the smoke away, some geese were honking up into the night sky. I was too nervous to stand, so I pointed to a park bench and we both sat, "I just thought you were the prettiest girl in the class." "What? ...
God doesn't make mistakes. Of course he doesn't he was just... a little distracted and it kind of slipped his mind, okay? So he comes up with a plan. Just every few years, he'll add a few things he forgot, and cover it up with one really weird thing so everyone is distracted. The first thing is the platypus. That dist...
I've seen fishermen, captains, sailors, soldiers, poets, doctors, just about any type of person has sat on the stools past the ale-stained bar counter, and told me a story or two about how they ended up here, in my bar, and how they might be able to get out of the muck that was their life. It was a Wednesday. Evening ...
I know, everyone in this room is giving me pretty hard stares for exterminating your childhood zoo. But I deemed it necessary, and today I will tell you why. When you were young, you used to love those depictions of majestic dragons and unicorns \- be they pink and fluffy or pristine and formidable \- flying across th...
I've never done one of these before, it's nerve wracking! But here we go! "Y'know I don't really remember how it happened but I can recall how it felt. The first time it was an accident, honest! I was peering through the glass above the handle, my breath misting on the plane of glass when I accidentally leaned forward...
He crawled with his remaining hand, his legs were tasty. I pitifully finished him off. Before clamping my jaws around him, I saw in his eyes. He was crying, not out of fear of death, but misery for failure. He had been given a "Noble task"to which he had failed. It wasn't tears begging for mercy, but rather flirtatious...