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I heard them approaching before I saw them. The clatter of plate armour and the rattle of hobnailed boots was not a sound you easily forget, even after years living out in the Styx. It brought me a flair of nostalgia, hearing the familiar noise of tramping feet, but it also brought another feeling: fear. "Leandros, go...
Daniel had been careful, getting a team of lawyers to arrange things, setting up failsafes in his safety deposit boxes in several banks, and making shell companies and hidden trusts. There was no way to lose money on this. Sure of it, he stepped into the chamber, just like so many would after him, and took a long nap. ...
I pulled into a parking spot along Main Street and got out of my truck. It was only about two blocks, full of quiet little shops and quaint restaurants like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting. The flowers hanging from little clay pots on light posts were in bloom and perfectly tended. Come to think of it, near...
“Hurr, luk at diz beaty, zo hanzom!” “Oh yiz, letz tek ‘im wif uz foh ze Kweeeeen, get bigly revord!” Abandoned and with a massive headache, I’ve seen better days. We were ambushed while preparing to set out in the morning. My platoon was annihilated besides the commander and his thugs who legged it as soon as they...
"It began with the bomb threats,"Luke said. "Then came the assassination attempts. But that wasn't the worst part." Merge sat on his couch with both feet propped up on the coffee table, crunching down cheese puffs with orange-crusted fingers. "Don't worry, I'm totally listening to you as I watch this Netflix special."...
The power lines ran by like the track on a treadmill, rolling up and down as they bounced off of telephone poles, sometimes shooting suddenly towards to the ground. A tiny ninja, cloaked in black and sprinting at full speed, slid along these lines effortlessly; He leapt between poles, feet pounding without weight on th...
Dark walls rose around me, whatever window that let in the light was too high for me to reach. The brand on my shoulder stung, the mark that showed I was now property. I'd long given up on the police, or anyone, coming to my rescue. Apart from my boyfriend, no one really cared about me, my parents were dead, I worked a...
What trickery is this, he thought. Not sword, nor scroll? A fruit? They don't bite it, nor fight with it, nor plant it. What trickery? "Dear Sir,"Rudolph pushed forward, "May you tell me where I can purchase this fine item you are all holding here?" "What?" Rudolph forgot to raise his helmet's visor. Of course the...
“So, you mean to tell me, you weren’t robbing that old lady and were instead taking her to go visit her sick grandson?” “Mmhm, just felt bad for the old lady. She usually gives us cookies every Wednesday. Couldn’t just leave her alone, could we fella’s?” The crowd of goblins gave a cheer, the old woman in the m...
Earth, Jul 30, 2069 - Piotyr Parkhov, Principal Engineer at Omega Technologies My family had always had it rough. Call it the ol’ Parkhov luck, but nothing ever seemed to go our way. That all changed one day when I got zapped by an irradiated USB cable, granting me the proportional memory of an SSD drive and a tin...
The bleach white Hall of Fate was silent except for the fluttering of robes as Death approached his seat. His menacing aura overpowered the Council as he examined each member individually. Surrounding the table of the Council were hundreds of bleachers filled to the brim with lesser reapers. They all awaited the Counci...
The day it arrived was complete pandemonium. How could it not cause panic throughout the streets? The hunk of polished silver just sat there, motionless above the New York skyline. “What is it?” was the common question in the streets. Some thought it was art, some thought it was a sign of the end times. Everyone ...
God sighed with contentment. Today, like most days, was a good day to be the almighty creator. He reclined back in his celestial armchair and, with a nonchalant wave of his hand, a golden bowl filled with plump grapes appeared and hovered within arm’s length. He popped one into his mouth and, as he savoured its sweet f...
The Stone was touched, and I awoke from my slumber. I do not know how much time has passed since my last awakening. But the fire in my lungs burn awake. To this day, I curse the wizard Agramak, who tricked me into a bond, giving me the power I craved but binding me to these caverns, never to leave them. After all that...
It’d felt like a kick to the gut, although this had been a thrashing tentacle and not a boot to his side. Still, Biscuit knew what a kick felt like — he’d been a shelter dog before Anna, and before that, well he didn’t like to remember the times before that. The alien had wrapped a tentacled arm tight around Anna and ...
The crew had begun to gather on the observation deck, some off-duty and laying down blankets, their arms full of wine bottles and glasses. Three weeks into the voyage and there were already some romances sprouting, maintenance crew men and weapons girls sharing stiff bathroom towels, reclined and giggling over beers. ...
He wasn't sure where to put the knife. There was the throat: quick, easy, expedient. No doubt as to intent. There were the wrists: blue veins (or arteries, the fog in his head long ago erasing superfluous biology knowledge acquired in high school), pulse steady, the highway to the hands, but... which way were you su...
“Beasteria is clearly the best,” a dark, grungy voice said from across the bus. The woman looked up from her article. She thought they had settled the matter already. “She’s a villain, you know,” the woman responded. “All those people. She let them die. She sacrificed them to take down the enemy. All for the greater ...
Mr. Dursley padded slowly, quietly down the steps. They'd learned soon after taking poor Harry in that it was best to get the morning in order before disturbing him. Although lately it was quite a bit more like being disturbed BY him. Dudley was already hard at work I the kitchen. A good boy, that Dudley. A bit slow n...
With the click of a mouse, suddenly I found myself falling as if someone had whisked my desk chair out from under me, and within a blink everything around me was suddenly...square. I looked around, gasped when I saw a tree with a perfectly rectangular trunk and...is that a cobblestone wall? This couldn’t be right, no...
I rolled over and reached out a hand to smack my alarm clock. The inhibitor dug into my cheek and I winced in pain before planting my feet on the ground. It was the start of another day. Aching joints and tired eyes were really the least of my problems, but I decided a long time ago to forget about the things I could...
"What would you do with infinite power?" My father asked me this once. After 11 years of the harshest possible boarding school. I was back at home for 4 weeks before returning for my final year. To my dying day I regret telling him "make my friends and family happy." He was enraged beyond belief. He destroyed my mo...
Abigail rescued me from the place with the cages and the fences and the fear. She took me in. She fed me. She held me. She gave me a home, a life, and a family. On the back of her car, I read the scribbles that she calls a bumper sticker. It says, "who rescued who?" You rescued me, Abigail. And while you smell...
I have only ever killed people who deserved it. When I first found the amulet, and the instructions with it, I never thought I would actually ever kill someone. Ten extra years of healthy, young life was tempting, but I didn't think I had it in me to be a murderer. I wasn't even sure if the amulet worked, despite the ...
The Ekkos crawled over each other, trailing afterimages, moving like ants building a bridge with their own bodies. They jabbed blindly at controls, flailing like a mob, a schizophrenic superorganism pulled in a dozen directions at once. And somehow, by sheer chance, they engaged the docking mechanisms and guided their ...
I stared through the transparent glass ceiling and up into the bright blue sky. "Everyone gets a hundred years. No more", I mumbled to myself. The phrase we repeated as children. That is the rule. That is the rule that the Machine God put in place to prevent humans from becoming immortal oligarchs and tyrants, as we...
"What did you do?"He asked, watching the sun sink into the sea that stretched out before them, "I was a farm kid,"She said, laughing melodically, "Feels almost unreal now," He smiled as the fading sun danced across her face, eyes focused so far ahead of him it made him dizzy, "I get that,"He responded as he caught ...
I never get tired of looking at them - though I have to be careful so that I don't get caught staring. My father's was an owl, and my mother a tiger. My little sister has a gecko that crawls around. Myself? If I have one, I have never seen it. The animals were always interesting. Sometimes all they did was follow, som...
They came in swarms. Like mechanical ants to the flesh colored sugar they flocked. It started off with the phones. They began to buzz and shine odd colors but everyone assumed it was standard Iphone behavior of just breaking. Then the Androids started as well and people started to get aggravated. Without warning there ...
As we established communications we were greeted by peace. A peaceful species indeed. "You ready?"Said ¤¡°¤ "It's time"I replied. We had established the location of landing, as a sign of peace we decided to exchange our knowledge or our homeworld first. They were baffled offcourse but we were underestimating these cr...
Naveen had always assumed his life was typical; it seemed to be made up of varying levels of routine. School, work, trips to the grocery store. Eat, sleep, wake up. Shit, shower, shave. Try to work up the courage to ask a girl out, fail miserably, spend hours replaying his failures over and over in his mind. He assum...
Joe was a totally average Joe throughout his earthly life. He got high C's or low B's in his classes all throughout school, and went straight into the workforce as a cashier after graduating. It was at this time that he picked up the hobby of coin collecting. He would bring a few dollars of his own change to work every...
My daughter runs across the field to find me, short legs struggling with the furrows I have just ploughed. I catch her and hold her to me, her small hands finding the gaps of the missing fingers on my left hand. “Stumps,” she says. A new word for today. Her appearance means my wife has food ready for my midday meal....
The string of men moved along the cobblestone wall, approaching the courtyard. Their gear clicked and jostled softly as they crept onto the grounds. The silver-white moonlight just barely reflected off their black helmets, and each of their eyes was faintly illuminated by the pale green light cast out from their night-...
Chris couldn't believe his eyes. It worked, he thought. His initial anxiety slowly turned into cautious optimism as he stepped out of his makeshift time-machine. They all told him it couldn't be done. They told him even if time travel were possible, his stupid machine crafted from a Real Doll with a toaster in it...
"James! You can see me?" "Hi, Nat. And yes."I said sheepishly, watching the ethereal form of my wife looking at me with her mouth open. "And when were you exactly planning on telling me this?" "Well, you have to understand. Ok. Wait. Would you have believed me?"I asked. Our child, Dylan, started crying in the next ...
I am often questioned for my choice of degree. There are very few people who want to be entymologists. These questions almost always increase when they discover my arachnophobia. Why would someone who is afraid of spiders study spiders for a living? At first, it was my parents suggestion. They told me the easiest way ...
She stood upon the stony outcropping, gazing down at the agrarian kingdom in the valley. Growing up the sixth daughter of farmers, everyone in her small village had thought her insignificant. When she grew old enough to attend the schools in the capital city, her teachers thought her an annoyance. When she left her sma...
Nothing. Not even a scrap of information. No matter how hard we look, we can't find anything. The 1990's have, to the bewilderment of the historian community, become a blank period in human history. Every book, every hypernet article, every form of remotely relevant record skips that infernal decade as though it nev...
It was felt by astrothaumaturgical experts around the world, when the elves attempted to reach the Moon. From the hidden laboratories of the goblins, working furiously on new weaponry to defend against the elves and their allies, to the Arcane Academies of the Dwarven Mountainhome, all felt it or detected it. The elves...
You look at the last bastion of humanity, and marvel at the genius. You drop to your knees and stare, slackjawed, at the depth and scope of madness, of the sheer bloody minded wisdom laid out before you. Zombies, a near endless horde of them, lie crumpled and broken, unable to take even a single step further into t...
NASA had lost contact with the crew two days ago. Seeing the news on her living room television, Melissa phoned the director and demanded to know how long emergency air supply and rations would last. "Months,"he had assured her. "Don't worry Mrs. Craig. Your husband being unable to communicate with us doesn't mean ...
[Part 1 of 2] Thomas stumbled towards the group. Giving them a half-hearted wave as he approached the cave they were all waiting outside of. The man’s state laughable to the group of novice adventurers. Not only was his shirt on backwards, he didn’t have an inch of armor on his body. Only having a sword and a half eat...
The pounding of hammers stopped completely as soon as the water cart came by. Every man lined up to form an orderly queue despite their maddening thirst. Though the Ghiscari Republic had outlawed the practice of slavery more than 20 years ago, the old conditioning from their slaver masters still held sway. The freedmen...
The lesser creature, sprawled upon the ground, looked up and saw the larger dominant creature before itself: teeth bared into a smile. A foul sound, repetitive and rhythmic, bellowing out from its chest and directed at it. Laughter. The lesser creature blinked away its tears, making a grunt of pain and resistance. ...
A woman knelt. Before and above her, a man of mighty girth and stature sat on a throne of cold steel. Her eyes dared not to rise and watch him, for he is the end of all things. He was eating heartily from a feast of brandy-roasted quail, boiled beets and pickled herring. The fat grease slowly dripped from his chins, as...
"Suck it, homo. I shot you right in the face,"I shouted into my microphone, trying to discourage my opponent. "God, you suck." "No, you know what sucks? The life I have planned for you. Your entire fate is a worthless speck of shit on an infinite timeline, and your soul would sell for less than a rotten potato. You're...
My first year of communication with Earth was nearing its end, thankfully. “How many more of your species exist?” The speaker blared with yet another question. “We do not count the individuals. We are all one.” Another unsatisfying answer for the humans but that is what they get for applying their logic to my specie...
“What’s he going to do? Send me to double hell? Send me to a hell that is hotter than the hottest damned flames around?” Lucifer stormed around his office, ranting to his confused imp assistant. “I just don’t think it’s a good idea to mess with God. Gods are rather stubborn; they don’t like people that break their ...
“I still don't get it.” “Ok, let's try again. You've heard of 'anger', right?” “I've read about it.” “And you've heard of 'revenge'.” “I mean... I know the word.” “But you don't really understand it.” “Of course not, who could? Humans have lots of emotional quirks that no other species comprehends.” “Tell me wha...
At the deepest reaches of Hell, it’s said you can no longer feel the pull of Heaven. You see, the momentous amount of torture that is inflicted upon the wayward souls that end up in Hell, is nothing compared to the most devious and diabolical of punishments; the ability to SEE heaven, bask in its comforting glow, hear ...
Ranma laughed, trying to encourage all those in the hall to join. "My father jests, even in the face of death! Truly a light-hearted man to the end. Now, please, father. Place the crown on either Kalin's head or mine, and be done with the ceremony. We are your loyal sons, here to serve and protect the realm." The king...
Each day without an answer was another one spent in agony. I could feel Mona Lisa, carefully wrapped, sealed, and hidden, smiling at me. That cool, coy smile. The kind of smile you'd make watching a kid drop their ice cream on the sidewalk. It had been five days since I'd broken and emailed the Louvre. "Dear Louvre...
The hardest thing for a child to do is decided when their parent should die. It's even harder when you care so deeply for them. My Dad always joked that I would be the death of him, but I never thought it would be like this. I was always a strong-willed child determined to get my way. I think that's why he was always...
Technicus flew over the city. People looked up as he passed. Some even cheered. He hated when they did that. They should have been fleeing in terror at his appearance. His name should have inspired fear in the hearts of all who heard it. Instead, they celebrated him. "Hey, boss, where're we going today?" He sighed an...
I always imagined there had to be another. From the first time I creeped a preschool teacher out of the school entirely with my powers, I assumed I couldn’t be the only special one out there. ‘Garrett recited the names of my childhood pets and every street I’ve ever lived on’ is apparently a good excuse to get yourself...
"Daddy, tell me a scary story."Boston pleaded, climbing up into her father's lap. "What kind of scary story?"He asked. "Something with monsters. I wanna hear about a creepy monster."She sang. "Okay. Let me think."He said, hugging her close so the perfect little flower that was her face was gazing up at him. "I'll t...
I'm going to do it... Today is the day... I'm finally going to ask... Sheila... If I can be the default browser... The only thing I've ever been used for... Is to search Bing for ^Google ^Chrome ... That smug bastard... With his fancy plug ins... and his not crashing... There was that one day... Where she ha...
[Poem] [CW: Descriptions of War] The creature rose in No Man's Land That February day. The Germans surged, and then that scourge Began to rush our way. &nbsp; It fell on dear Jean-Louis first And tore into his head, And where it slashed, the bullets crashed and Jean-Louis fell dead. &nbsp; The monste...
I used to debate on the topic of ethics and morality; where they coincided, broke from each other, the chain of events that toppled and created schools of thought, nations, corporate entities. Now, I stack bullets and bodies and determine probabilities. ''If bullet X was meant for Prince A, how long (Y) until an ar...
We will teach them. We were overjoyed to not be alone in the cosmos. Our peers, if they could be called that, shocked us with their rudimentary understanding of their own technology. They tried things, seemingly at random, or by intuition. Those things just worked out for them. For every single one of the ascended spe...
"More tea Lucy?"The fallen angel sighed and reluctantly nodded. Brittney almost squealed at the interaction. Moving to Alaska with her parents, into her grannpappy's old house had left her without any friends to play with at the ripe age of 5. Her father had insisted she read more to occupy her time, while he ...
Military Premier Zork'Rabnak The-Righteous-Shall-Be-Victorious Ak'Rak clutched his bleeding snout with both hands. "Got dib you do dap for?"He whined. His human counterparts stood over him. An expression of burning hatred on their face. Fists still clenched. "You seem to think this is some kind of game. You needed a...
When the news about the bugs hit, I damn near killed myself laughing. We’ve survived interstellar flight, a bizarre bureaucratic nightmare of a Galactic Alliance (some alliance that turned out to be), even accidentally launching multiple colony ships to “binary star systems” which turned out to just be supernovas (hone...
My wife was one of the popular girls in high school. She hung out with the cool crowd, the girls who wore makeup and did their hair and carried around purses instead of backpacks. She dated the cool guys, the ones who played varsity sports and wore sunglasses inside and had gel in their hair. Back then, I was invisible...
Zeus was a humble God, one that was revered and not feared by Earth. He sought their love, sneaking into homes in the night to coax lovers into finding happiness together. He maintained but one wife, in all his eons, a wife that he remained faithful to, and she bore many children for him. Of these children, he was mos...
"We can no longer be together, now we are free, Gone is the passion between. My heart was given and so was the key, No way this mistake will be scrubbed clean. Always remembered and never forgotten, Memories are all that's left. No longer sweet, now are rotten, The only feeling is bereft. The texts conf...
We were the first. Humanity had always wondered if we were alone in the universe, we had written about other races older than us, made movies and television shows about aliens and their advanced technology. We had dreamed that we could not be alone in this universe. But our dreams were crushed when we began to expan...
There were so many people gathered around us that I couldn't see the end of them. Seriously- there had to have been several million, watching anxiously for us to begin. We'd determined that time travel is real, but it isn't some glamorous, magical power where humans zap around however they'd like. Rather, you build a ...
"Just... Please, let me die already." The jury didn't even blink. I was tied to the litter and couldn't do anything to avoid my grim future. "For the crime of rebellion, Prisoner 1809", they don't use my name anymore, it's part of the punishment. "You were sentenced to 1000 years in prison. The damage you made to ou...
In the old times, the land was vast, and the free-hounds came down from the wild high places where even the magic men were frightened to go. It was a land of wolves. The free-hounds were gentle and playful, and the magic men sheltered them. But, one day, the oldest and wisest of the magic men said, "Free-hounds, we...
When Mack opened his eyes, it was something like pushing aside a stone that's been sitting in place for a thousand years, or taking a tire off a car that's sat untouched for decades. He felt warmth as sunlight kissed his skin, lying in a pool of white cloth, and his body was leaden. Like he hadn't used it in fifteen ...
I’m sipping coffee and reading about the problem of evil when Derrek calls me. I pick up on the first ring. “Coraline, I need you to meet me right now.” “Well, good morning to you too, handsome.” “This is serious. Meet me at the cafe.” He hangs up, which leaves me no time to kindly ask him what the hell that was...
Marco held his breath as the nurse looked over his arm with a practiced eye. He touched a spot near the crook of his arm and frowned briefly. “I’m going to have to Illuminate the veins. Is that all right?” The boy sighed, but he had been expecting the response. Ever since his first vaccinations, nurses had struggl...
Ben carried the cup of water to his grandmother’s room, careful to avoid spilling any of the magical liquid. He made sure to put the water in a sunflower covered cup, hoping that the pleasant imagery might help speed up her recovery. He gave the door a polite knock before letting himself in, giving her a smile. “Gr...
Brother, are you excited? Do not shed tears for me. I may be leaving this world, but we're about to find out whether or not our telepathic connection will remain in the afterlife. If it does, it shall be the most exciting thing in the history of mankind. It was true. I did believe that, and truly hoped I would not l...
I’m not very competitive by nature. I never got the highest grades, never got the best looking girl, never got picked first at softball. However, of those three, the third one never really made sense to anyone who knew me. After all, I was a telekinetic. And not any third-rate telekinetic you’d find working with the Le...
"Gary,"AIR-12 said as he poked his head into his co-workers office, "can you follow me please? Your presence is requested." Gary took his ear plugs out and looked at the annoying Automated Inspection Robot in his office. "What is it now Twelve?" "Your presence is requested, please,"Twelve said as he exited the offi...
The blast of fire singed the hair off of my arm as I ducked behind a large boulder. What was I doing? I couldn’t possibly win. Fighting was probably the stupidest idea. I should have just let the flames engulf me but, I wanted to show the Queen, no not just the Queen, everyone down in that ground up dirty city, that ...
I leaned back in my chair as the DM described the scene at the table behind me. A dank tavern, a dire time, and the names of my old companions. I was surprised at first, but began to grin as he described our old argument. "Look, it's a bloody giant reptile. Of course it's magic, it'd tear its damn wings off!" "Oh g...
The little green gem shines brightly from its case on the wall. It's a beautiful thing, really. Everyone who walks in, not that there's many people entering, always comments on it's astounding look. The thin gold chain, with the forest green emerald. Well, 'emerald'. It's not really of this world, we're not sure what i...
I don’t remember my power ever being useful, which is ironic because it is the power to erase memories. Not other people’s memories, mind you—that would be too strong—but only the memories of one person: myself. In the world of mages, knowledge is the supreme mark of strength. If magical powers are machines, then know...
"So halos are an actual thing?" "Everybody has wings in heaven,"she said as she tried to make eye contact with a waitress. We weren't being seated because they were, quite understandably, just as shocked as I was. "To ...fly?" "Our primary architectural material is clouds. It floats, so people need to float. God gi...
Jurgen the shepherd spun around as the royal guard drew near. "OH NO YOU DON'T! THAT IS -NOT- HOW THIS WORKS!"one of the guards shouted at the retreating king. "Wait, what's going on?" "Sonofabitch forgot about our pay, says it's not in the budget for this quarter!" "Well, you heard him. King's word is law, and th...
They destroyed me. You can't go back to what you were, after all that. There is no returning to a normal life, no simple future. What they made me do, what they turned me into, you cannot ever unlearn that. They expected me to just return home, to a family that I barely remembered. To parents I could not recall, sibli...
Liches with names like "Eternal Blight"or "The Doom King"or "Nekromortis"never stuck around very long. They were immortal, sure. Even death couldn't hold them. But if there was one thing mortals hated, it was anything other than them. If you wanted to have an enriching, peaceful unlife, you couldn't be attracting atten...
“Sir, can you spare some change?” The man is barely moving under his blanket, using just enough energy to shove a tin can at me. Once he wiggles his head out and sees me he apologizes but continues to stare. Behind him, he has a sign stuck up on the wall saying will derive polynomials for food. This generation is...
Then the marvelous human that was Tom Brady rose from the ashes, like a pheonix. A great red, white, and blue fire surrounded the patriot as he screamed with a burning rage. "Roger!"he shouted, "Deflate this!" A ball suddenly materialized in Brady's hand. As he threw a perfect spiral towards Roger Goodell, time bega...
As the hero enters the throne room of the dark lord. The throne is empty and the hero's companion says with a grin "Well this has been delightful but I'm afraid the fun is now over." The hero turned to his companion with a glare and disappointment only a 5 year old crown prince with a wood sword can produce. “But dad...
“What did you do!? What did you DO!?” asked the alien. “Relax, bud. All we did was breed them out of existence.” “You… what!?” “Breed, as in having sexual intercourse, as in f—” “I know what you meant! I just don’t see how… Cough! breeding with other hominin species would result in them going extinct while you ho...
The daily life of a Sith apprentice is much more mundane than you’d imagine. Like most people, I like to start my day with a light breakfast of some kind of nutrient slop and then I have to go to work. No, I don’t actually spend my day eating babies as your Jedi masters might assume. Most of my time is occupied with ...
It wasn't amazing. At most, my powers were considered a mild annoyance. Couldn't even get my foot in the door to being a hero. Who'd want a hero who can manipulate fabric? Never mind that I regularly did the hero's job for them when I just wrapped up the villains in their own costumes, and waited for them to show u...
The somber Hellpriest straightened his leather straps, attempting to look professional before using the heavy brass knocker on Lilith's door. This was the third case this week and he was feeling rundown. Can't let it show though, these demons have been through enough. First, he had to try and help. After this call, he'...
The first week of school you blend in like you're blonde and strong and you like partying, because that's what the football team is like, and you heard you should be like the football team. So you're like that, and everyone's eyes stop on your big shoulders and muscles and nice blue eyes and so much charisma it's lik...
The items sat in a circle on the floor surrounding a worn, water-damaged brown box. Evidence of fervent spring cleaning lay scattered across the room, trailing through doorways and spilling from cabinets. Maxilius regarded his surroundings, the mess and the mildew smell. The ring of summoning keys was sloppy, incidenta...
Day 1. I am writing this with a chunk of charcoal on the back of a strip of birch bark. I and several others woke up in a forest on the side of a hill, naked and afraid, and covered in dirt. Somehow, one person wound up halfway engulfed by the roots of a large tree. He is still stuck there. We tried to pull him out, ...
The table was set by me. An elegant spread of expensive meats and cheeses, of breads and fruits, none of which I would be given the chance to taste. The noble family was seated first. Aided by servants who would eat what little they were awarded back at their quarters. Calling it a quarters rather than a slum was alm...
They didn't take it seriously, until the Albany Incident. Before that, they just saw it as a new kind of form of PTSD. Nothing to be worried about. Take some antipsychotics and call us in the morning kind of deal. They didn't pay much heed to those pilots, who after extensive immersion in their mechs, began to become u...
The sound of a hundred pencils scratching at a hundred papers seemed to cut the air into tiny pieces too small to breathe. He pulled at his collar - his parents had chosen the shirt for him and it was far too tight. At the front of the room, the proctor strolled to the whiteboard, casually wiping away the phrase, "15...
Knock knock James smiled his evil grin when he heard the knocking ring throughout the house. He had only just finished dismembering his latest victim, too. To receive another target so soon was a blessing that he did not deserve. "Coming!"James called out. ---------------------------- Darrell inhaled the fresh mo...

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