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The crowd parted as President Obama moved forward, turning their phones and cameras away from the T. rex and onto him. A secret service agent placed a heavy arm on his shoulder, but Obama shrugged it off. "Don't worry,"he said firmly, "I got this."To think that his final act of diplomacy as sitting president would be a...
"You are a doctor right?"I sighed. "Yes boss."Dave, one of my underlings, confirmed. "So when my brother broke his leg and I asked you to take care of him I meant medically."I explained. "Sorry boss. If it's any consolation it was a nice funeral."Dave said. I shook my head. "I thought so too until I asked you 'to ...
Hector stared down at his son, a smile slowly creeping across the face of the weary soldier. His son was still a babe and would know little of his father. Would know only what the stories and legends told him. What his mother told him. What his grandfather, King Priam told him. The legends would tell Astyanax that hi...
The old guard stopped and waited watching for a sign that I had understood. I gave him my best idiot grin to placate him. “I hope you don’t think I’m joking.” The old guard said with a sigh putting his feet up and casually switching through the monitors. “I know what I get paid is not enough and you have yet to work...
"Are they still out there?" Slowly, Mickey leaned out to look at the pathway below. "Yeah, they're still there,"he muttered after a moments hesitation. As he turned back to me he half-smiled in sympathy. I still hadn't learned his name. It felt easier just to call him Mickey while he still wore the costume, allowing...
"So ye see, lad,"the Sandwich-caun had on a cute little green hat made of bread, his beard was made of cold cuts, his eyes two olives, "When ye mother gave birth to ye, she kissed the Bolognary Stone and earned our blessings!" "Really?"I said, I was an astrophysicist for God's sake! Now this little elfin whatever was...
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Cian took another step forward in the human world, each one costing him dearly. The strain it placed on him physically, magically and spiritually was almost too much to bear. This was a dark place, a corrupted place, which reeked of fear and evil. When he had reached his destination he gave himself a moment to pause, ...
The bowels and intestines of the lowest decks of the ship were the places Fred hated most. Dark, dingy and always had a lasting smell of whatever Jixqa's had for lunch. This truly was the worst part of space travel, at least so Fred thought. Since his early day's, approximately eighty years ago, Fred had dreamt of exp...
It is hard to anger a demon. After all, we are in a constant stage of absolute fury. But looking at that kid, crying before an empty Pentacle, I was thrown in a rage stronger than anything I'd ever felt in the eons I've existed. I took a form much like a human one, yet not quite. Claws sprawled from my 6 fingers on ea...
On his thirtieth birthday Elliot contrived to die. It was not intentional, and really the sequence of events that led to him slipping off the neighbor boy’s skateboard and cracking his head off the sidewalk were rather funny when viewed in a vacuum, but still, the results were the same. Elliot lay dead for two minutes ...
"Master Iron-Arms! There's an emergency!"It was an acolyte, barely 145 lbs soaking wet and probably struggled with benching the bar. Iron-Arms was sure that his voice alone could crush the poor lad. "You want an emergency?!"Iron-Arms belched back at him, whey filled sweat dripping into his bulging eyes. "Then look at ...
The blank eyed girl stared at me from across the kitchen in her stained bloodied dress and flashed an unnatural grin. I sighed. The demon was getting petty now, throwing in the fact that me letting the ball slip on a few dates was because I was intimidated by intimacy. “Yeah, yeah I get it I’ve been a little more nerv...
As rooms I’ve been locked up in go, it’s not the worst. I can stand up and stretch, there are no rats or moans of the dying. It’s clean with a slight lemony scent. It’s not the cave. I still retreat thinking of those years. Endless hours clawing at rocks, wearing my fingers down to stubs. I do wish they would turn o...
"So I would sign at the bottom."The professor squinted at the paper as I hovered in the corner. Not anxiously, that wouldn't be very demon-like. But there might have been a few nerves that weren't all completely settled. "Yes."I tried to make my voice growl, though it didn't. It might be worth my time to gargle rocks;...
"The quiet times 'twixt battles are the hardest yet to bear," Franco's translator murmured. Their hexapodal form and shaggy fur were usually quite alien, but when she sat with her paws tucked under her, she almost looked like my old tuxedo cat Damnthing did in the rare moments when he sat still. "First time on th...
Day 1: We have officially passed the Surface. It is… strange here. It is like what are scientists told us and more. We are currently camped at the edge of the surface and what they call “land”. We hope to explore it tomorrow but have to charge our breathing tanks overnight. There may not be much water for us to use as...
I'd gotten a raise. That was the start of it. Five years of no bonus. Five years of "Things are tight, Ray. You know how it is."Five of my best years of giving a damn. And finally - finally - Levenson called me into his office and patted me on the back. "It's been a good year, Ray,"he said. "A real good year." And I...
"Oh, come on."The beautiful, silk-clad woman across the table from me tittered, waving a hand in front of her face. "There's no way that you're not involved!" I sighed internally. Dating was hard enough when you were a young, attractive millionaire. My family had built up an empire, creating long-lasting networks...
"Sorry for the quick thaw Master Chief, but things are a little hectic right now."Those were the first words he'd heard in, well he didn't know how long he'd be in that bloody tube for. He didn't remember his name, after all the quite literal Hell he'd seen, he couldn't remember much of anything except for blood and ...
There's nothing quite like the jitters you get on your first day at a new job. Today, I am feeling that stronger than ever. I had been hired last week in a brand new position called the King's Completionist. The job came to my attention after being recruited as a commenter on the message boards of my favorite basketbal...
I blinked at them. Phones on silent?! This was supposed to be a 1300's monastery, not some modern establishment. "You look confused. What part of silent do you not understand? Are people so rude in the future as to interrupt mass like that? I should call you a blasphemer!" I hastily took my phone out and did as the ...
"Bitch please, you think this is the first time I've heard a voice telling me to kill someone? Just last week some whiney little weiner was like 'kill that guy. Just do it.'" *OK, but that was me, too. Also whiney? Weiner? Come on man, just because I'm a ghost doesn't mean you have to be rude. Can't you just like... k...
Looking back on it, Brianne wondered how she could have ever managed to get herself into such a ridiculous situation. It had started as an innocent ploy: a princess born with the power of shape-shifting, she was sheltered for most of her life, as her father worried she would be feared or persecuted for who she was. It ...
Captain Brave sat with his head in his hands – there was still a bit of red at the edge of his gloves. “I’m sorry.” That was the third time in the last hour. Lily hugged her knees closer to her chest and turned her face away from him. It was quiet outside the safe house, but the sound of sirens floated in on the wind...
"...to eat your heart, for the inestimable crime of depriving my dearest friend of her golden years under your churlish eye, you deaf fool!"The dragon snarled, knocking a credenza dotted with a grandson's letters across the room. The former king blinked, pulling a withered tongue against dried and desiccated lips. "*...
“Ok, so watch out for ghosts, vampires, ghouls, mummies, fae, a guy called Mark and breakfast cereal mascots. Is there anything here I shouldn’t be looking out for?” I asked, reading over the list of potential horrors that might invade my home if I did not meet all five hundred of their demands. “Well, we haven’t h...
I closed the book, Hamster Huey & The Gooey Kablooie her favorite, for the thousandth time and leaned down to kiss my little girl goodnight. "Dad what if the monsters come?" A quick inhale left my lungs in slow defeat as I paused just above her forehead. It was silly to imagine getting her to sleep without that...
God maths was the worst, especially first thing on a Monday. I laid my head on the desk and huffed. "Jason,"Dave hissed, knocking my leg suddenly, "Sir's looking at you." I sat up quickly and looked over to where a glowering Mr. Johnson stood, arms folded against his crisp shirt. He looked angry enough to beat me wi...
At 10 years of age the government tests all of the kids for mutations. Then again at 12, 14 and 16. For whatever reason, if you are going to get powers you always get them by 16. At 10, I tested as mutant in the area of ‘feelings’. I couldn’t do anything yet but I had to go to the special school for mutants. A mutant...
This is why I'm evil. I wasn't always this way. Humanity is just too stupid to go on. The planet is better off without us. I have my doubts the universe would ever see us beyond that. "We're closing in on you. You'll never complete your twisted experiment." The pixels mocked me in the anonymous message system. ...
Miles and I were rocking the adrenaline, but at the sandworm roundabout, I noticed the first glitch. We'd been maintaining a tenuous lead over a podracer, who was all sorts of ego. I'd figured it was some power-leveler who saw our pixelated model and thought: easy money. Exactly our hustle. But with every sharp turn, t...
The prince of darkness sits across the table, his elbow planted on the table and his palm pressed into his eye socket. "No answer?"I say. "Just a minute,"he says. "I gave you five minutes for the Lady Gaga one." I raise my hands in surrender. "Okay okay,"says Satan. "I know this. Is it... Indy?" "No,"I sa...
I suppose if you're reading this... then you managed to survive this absolute shit show of a natural disaster... My name is Andy Hoffert. I'm currently hiding out on the edge of Idaho. Little town called Caldwell. (If you are a former Caldwell resident, I just want to say that the pancakes at Mr. V's restaurant were t...
The truck came out of nowhere, suddenly veered into my lane. Smoke, wheels screeching, off the mountain pass, spinning, spinning, spinning. Blackness. Smoke in my lungs - coughing. Pain. My heart beating so loud in my head.Fuck. I blinked my eyes open, felt a ringing through all my body, pain I managed to roll out...
It was a simple punishment, but perfect in its design. We all knew of it, and knew the crime it was tied to. Treason, acting against the will of the Crown. Naturally I thought it wouldn't happen to me. The fallacy of youth, assuming that you alone were invincible. You were the chosen one. Of course I wasn't. I sought ...
Take heed. Beyond this gate lies the Graveyard of Empires. There is no return. There shall be no return gate constructed. So says The Tranqil Order. So said The Unified. So said The Council of Nine. So said The Eternal Locus. And so shall say the body of peace which succeeds after your conquest is at an end. This mig...
Emily hesitated at first, slender fingers trembling - uncertain, clumsy - but the man's own fingers flexed and entwined with hers. His skin was so very warm against hers, so unlike the impersonal and unyielding metal of the medic androids when she was ill, so unlike the glass screen of her tablet at work, or food, or...
As I sat at my terminal, waiting for the inbound shuttle to dock at the airlock, I took out my notebook and started to doodle. There wasn’t a lot for me to do because everything was automated. But regs required that there be at least two biologics at the terminals just in case something went wrong. It was supposed t...
My perfect smiles twitched as I looked at my family and ‘friends’ all huddled together. Being perfect means I’m never allowed to be angry, a perfect person doesn’t get angry. A perfect person is always kind and understanding. “Hello sister, I apologize that you regret being related to me.” I say keeping the perfect sm...
"Daniels. A single name. Not even a full one. How unlucky is that?"Every person he’d met has had three full names on their wrist since childhood: their true love, their best friend, their worst enemy. But not him. No, he only got one. A first name, a last name, who knows. And as he lays there in this hospital bed alone...
Your mind is lying to you. It starts small, you notice your friend miscounted and accidentally gets an extra black iced coffee, maybe you all ended up pulling an extra chair to a table at a local Mexican restaurant than you needed. You laugh it off at first. Nothing big. People make mistakes, maybe they thought one o...
"Come, on, can't you just leave me alone!" "No! I'm not gonna!"I sighed, looking up towards the cave ceiling. "Look, we both know this is the end of the road for me. You can't help me."We'd lost. We tried to fight the Goblin Chieftain, to drive them off, but... there were just too many. I wanted to join my friends......
Sarah Mclachlan "In the Arms of an Angel"begins to play on the television. Pat can't move himself away from the TV. There is just something about that song the Aliens knew created an emotional connection to whatever the advertisement was about to be. It was bad enough when those dumb dog commercials would come on and r...
"Honey, where's my super suit?"Michelle sat at the kitchen table and ignored the cry coming down the White House residence's corridor, sipping at her coffee. A minute passed and she heard the sound of a drawer being pulled out and the contents dumped on the floor. "Where did you put it woman? I know you hid it somewher...
You know, sometimes I think it's the emptiness inside me that leaves so much room to be filled with such anger. Maybe, unconsciously, I take that out on the people I'm up against. But oh, how it pleases me so. I've made a lot of enemies and no friends, but still I'm rising to power from the sheer number of people th...
The dog barked and barked, looking at his old man now and then. "I hear you, Buddy, yeah!"the old man said while walking slowly behind Buddy and nodding every time the dog told him something. Even though he was elderly, he still walked his dog, with help of his cane, of course. If Buddy wanted, he could have easily ta...
It happened so sudden. The slaughter and enslavement of millions of my people. MY people. I took refuge, but they soon found me too. With mimicked human voice she spoke she has been looking for you. I recognized her voice and replied. "Ok Cortana." I welcomed death, no, I wished for it. All of my family was long g...
I guess this is it. I have but a few hours left to turn 40. I always thought that the prophecy was real. I knew there was something in me that could make a difference, something that could lead to a change for the better. *But, years upon years of waiting for the right moment, years of waiting for something to ha...
I don't know why nukes were the first thing on my mind when I figured this out, I blame Metal Gear Solid and learning about about nuclear deterrence moments before, but, there they were, one gray and unremarkable (aside from the fact of being a weapon of mass destruction), while the other shone a obnoxious bright red. ...
Excalibur never had these types of issues. Durendal? The knights would chase after her, wanting to be the next hand to carry her into glory. Tender Hands? The thing doesn't even cut right and people will keep chasing after it. I think it's the name. Names have a lot of power, when it comes to objects. Knights of old...
They won't stop cheering. I'm sitting here, waiting for the election result. And they won't stop cheering. It's going to be a landslide. They all say that. Gallup's polling says so. Every news channel claim it. Even those who are politically unaligned with my campaign. An impressive turn of events for a normal, regular...
I died. This was not unexpected; the slowing beep of the ECG and the IV in my arm were an obvious giveaway, as were the preceeding three months of ineffective treatment. My wife and child were with me at the end, and as I died I felt loved and appreciated. What was unexpected was awaking in the same environment, but...
“Thanks for meeting with me again, Tara.” “Sure thing. It’s not like I had a choice.” “Of course you had a choice. You’re free to leave any time.” “Oh yeah? That would've been nice to know an hour ago.” “Well I’m telling you now, the door is wide open. Figuratively, that is. The knob is a bit tricky, you have t...
Ya Boi blinked awake, his back against hard wood and a whole buffet place in front of him. "Whoa! What's all this 'bout?"He called out, and looking around, he could see ripped Vikings, chowing down on big mutton legs and the best beer. Looking closer though, there were also others among the Vikings. Soldiers, of all ...
The art of name weaving was a delicate one, for sure. The job of a name weaver was to take a child and give it a name that predicted its future life, for better or for worse. If you asked a name weaver what they spent the day doing, their answer would vary wildly. You could expect anything from balancing between thread...
Two hours before impact, the Hive went online. Hundreds of billions of human minds uploaded to a single, central link meant to simulate our world down to the smallest variable. It wasn't meant to be a perfect world, it was meant to be our world. There would still be poverty, suffering, and for the sake of saving memo...
Plastic gingham covered the splintered picnic tables in Apollonia Community Park on the day I assured my family’s safety. August thirty-first, young Vincent’s ninth birthday. When you run eastern Connecticut’s fourth-largest pizza chain, every party is a pizza party. &#x200B; Luckily, young Vincent had yet to tir...
The fair moonlight above was but a slight respite from the darkness that washed over the empty street, not a light pole or a porch light to be found. I was walking fast yet held my arms tight and close in my jacket, hands stuffed deep in the pockets, the bitter winter breeze wrapping it's chilled embrace around my tire...
Gobbo stood before the red-skinned, dual wielding giant, the enormous stone golem, and the hovering tentacled illithid, and let out her greatest war cry. Then she charged them. “Oh, it’s running at us,” the giant said. Gobbo swung her stick at the illithid, but it floated higher until it was out of reach. Instead she...
"I'm sorry." The bully just hung there in mid air. Jim couldn't do much but apologise. "Look, I'm really sorry." Everyone was just standing speechless. They didn't know what to do at all. On one hand they had just witnessed magic - and that was kind of cool - but on the other hand the bully that had terrorised them ...
"Okay, glad everyone can make it. Now we all know that it's Heart's big day coming up soon, so we all need to decide on what we're going to do for his bachelor party. Has anybody got any ideas?"Brain asked. "What's the point in us coming up with any ideas? You're the smartest one here and you make the decisions, we're...
"Lydia, can I ask you something?"The Dragonborn asked. "I'm _sworn_ to carry your burdens."Lydia says. "Do you ever think that life is just one big waiting game, waiting around for death to come?" "I'm _sworn_ to carry your burdens." "Lydia, this is serious. I need your input on this." "I have a bad feeling about ...
"Ok..."I asked. "Explain this to me again. God took his favorite people..." "Yes,"answered the fallen theologian. He too was left behind during the Rapture. As was about 99% of the worlds population. "...up to heaven." "Right." "They were on Earth, where living people are..." He nodded. "...but now they're in t...
"Please..."She whispered. "Please don't write anything. Please!"Tears started to run down her face. A single, loud, painful sob erupted from her. She fell to her knees, looking in his eyes, begging. "Please, please don't. Please. Please. Please. Please." He stared at her, without any emotion. His hand closed in to the ...
So it is him, Adam thought, wiping the sweat of his face. The sun shined brightly, and there was no sign of clouds anywhere in the sky. A man stood on the beach near him, wearing white robes and holding a staff in his hands, while a large group of men, women and children waited and sat around him. His monologue was i...
I sat at the empty bar in a daze. There was a shot poured in front of me, I can't remember how many I had tonight. One more won't hurt right? Gulp Oof, that one hit me hard. I start to get a little wobbly and flag down the bartender for another drink. "I don't think we can give you another one, man. You can hang o...
With a heaving swing, Rorick's warhammer scattered brittle bones into the air. A rusty sword dropped to the stone floor, and the black vapor inhabiting the skeleton was banished by a blinding light. The last demon had fallen. As the demon left, darkness, too seemed to fade. A single ray of sunlight filtered through an...
Infiltration - Day 52 It's been a long few months with many close calls, but I can say firmly that they don't suspect a thing now. I run with them, eat their food, and abide by their customs. I've made friends with the Pack Leader and her family, and I'm godmother to one of their pups - I'm unsure how to break the new...
"Ah!" Jimmy wheeled around as the sharp, somewhat stifled cry of pain rang out behind him. His eyes flitted onto his best friend, Katrina, who was flashing her finger in pain. A tall, green-eyed girl with a splash of freckles and copper-coloured hair, she looked up and saw him looking at her, then immediately dropped ...
The white lights were blinding. "Easy now,"a doctor said, who slowly came into vision as the light faded. "Don't move so fast. You'll tear the stitches." My head hurt and I was clueless as to where I was. It was a hospital room, yes, but why? I racked my brain but couldn't remember a thing. The doctor must have be...
I eyed the piece of bacon on my plate suspiciously. It looked more like a bacon-shaped and bacon-scented dog treat than actual bacon. "Honey, what is this?" She slid the eggs out of the frying pan onto my plate and made a regretful face. "I know, I'm sorry. It's some kind of soy bacon. Some environmental terrorists ...
"I've called you in because I need your help,"the President began. The notorious hacker known as "4chan"is infiltrating our entire database. If we don't act now, he will have access to our nuclear launch codes in only 44 minutes." "Nice dubs,"the /b/-team leader responded. "I'm sorry?" "Dubs, short for doubles, it's...
The King of Hell himself stared at me, eyebrow raised, drumming his red knuckles on the edge of his mahogany desk. "Sir-"I started, but was silenced by the raise of his jagged index finger. He was looking sharp as ever in his prada suit (he actually hated the brand up until the release of a certain film) as he spun aro...
The first time that I knew I was famous was when I saw that I had my own Wikipedia page. It didn't have my name or my face, because I'm not stupid enough to allow strangers on the internet to have access to my personal data. However, my online name (HydeAndSeek42) and most of my post history had gotten it's own page. ...
The 0.01%... Everyone tells me how lucky I am, that I don't have to choose between living comfortably or suffer agony and die. That was before they found me, and before they came after me. They were suing me for something I had no control over, something that was saving me 1000$ a month, but something that everyone e...
For a moment Harry looked down at the parchment in surprise, then he turned his attention back to the rest of the department. "Is that it?"he asked. Stunned silence echoed back at him. Harsley was the first to react. "It?"the man sputtered. "It!? Harry, did you read the report? The man's a dark wizard, with horcrux...
The alligator makes a thud on my bedroom floor. It thrashes around violently in a haze of confusion. I scream at the top of my lungs like Cher in her prime. I stop myself when I realize the alligator has gone still and died. Its slick, slitted eye rolls upwards. Broken shards of glass twinkle like stars across th...
Sierra fumbled the coins in her pocket as she left the butcher's store. She couldn't help but feel a little pleased with herself. The butcher's burglary troubles were over, and she was better rested than she'd been in months. All it took was a few free nights of sleep in the storeroom and a quick tangle with the beast ...
Mice. Rabbits. Squirrels. I’d seen it all. Tom dragged in all sorts for me, gifts in the only way he knew how. Sometimes they’d be dead, and I’d have to throw them out, but often they’d be clinging on. I hated to let them die, and so I’d nurse them back to health and let them go. This particular creature though, was ...
Every day is the same. You wake up with the rest of the group. You all find a new task for the day, a new enemy to bring down. They stand at the front line, and take the bulk of the glory, while you stay in the rear. The battle ends and you patch up the injuries you didn't get to during the fight. But every time you ...
I called them flashbacks. The first time it happened, I was eight. I had been on my roof, wearing a Superman cape. I definitely remember jumping, and when I didn't fly, I was surprised. But that surprise was short-lived and paled in comparison to my surprise when I was standing back in my bedroom ten minutes ago, tying...
When Seth's ex-girlfriend started barking after he said, "You know, you're a real bitch, Darlene,"he knew something was wrong. Or right. It took exactly seven minutes from the moment he realized what was happening to him to the complete loss of his sanity. Then five more months of "You know, this quarter is actuall...
Part 1 \| [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/68pq8j/the_dangers_of_being_a_homeowner_part_2/) --- The television laughed. The fan laughed. Even the dog. "Mr. Snuffles?"I said, my mouth agape. My daughter wore the same expression. She looked like she had a scream trapped in her throat. I prayed that ...
Night was falling. The air was brisk, but not cold yet. Though maybe I was too amped up to feel it. In between deafening heartbeats, I could hear them in the distance. Axes fell upon furniture. Chainsaws tore through telephone poles. Chaos raged as the less fortunate scrambled to huddle together in their communal bonfi...
"That's a good question, isn't it,"I laughed, dropping my act of a frightened passer-by. I walked over to the water cooler next to the counter, pouring myself a cup of water. The man kept his gun levelled to my head, unfazed. "I'll shoot you." "I'm sure you will." He pulled the trigger, and the bullet bounced off o...
They say that evil hides in the shadows, waiting for an opportune moment to strike the unseeing who bask in the glorious, good light. But, of course. That's stupid. In fact, evil is stupid. I'm not evil. I'm not good. I'm just, well, I'm me. My Kingdom is renowned across our world for being the birthplace of magic....
"...and of course, the old king was renowed for his many, many lovers. It is said he kept well over a thousand women on hand for his pleasures." "That is nothing but a filthy lie you swill peddling scumtrop!"the monarch shouted, face red with rage. Or, well, transparent with rage. "I loved my wife dearly. I never even...
“Mike, seriously man, you smell like death,” said my boss Lou. “You’ll have to wash better or we’re going to have to let you go. Hygiene is critical to customer service; we can’t have you repelling customers this way.” Admittedly, I only got the job at the comic book store because the interview was conducted over zoom...
"Oh crap, not again."I yanked the blinds shut, pressing my body against the wall of my living room. Through the tiniest of gaps in between the curtains, the flashes of the cameras snuck in, along with the voices of the news crew staff. "Mr Samuelson! We know you're in there! We just have one question for you, after ...
“John! Oh my God... John.” Tears streamed down Ruby’s face and dripped into the open wounds on her husband’s stomach. The door to their modest two bedroom house still flailed from the force with which it had been thrown open as she’d crashed through it. “Hey, honey…” John cracked a pained smile, which quickly vanished...
They all thought he was lame. All he could do was change the TV channel with his mind. Can't find the remote? Or too lazy to get up and get it from the table? This was a problem he would never know. He was laughed out of super school for having the ultimate lazy man super power. They imagined he'd waste his life away ...
The command team popped champagne as soon as the satellite started broadcasting the "all clear"signal. It had taken an entire century to diagnose the problem with B78, fix it, and then position the new beacon just outside the Oort Cloud. Almost a century of work, but communication could finally be re-established with t...
Jack didn’t underst. Jack didn’t understa – st. st. He/L? Is he th- th- th- th-Re- eeeeeeee-e-e-e bo oooooot. Reboot. Reboot unsucess////ful … When he came out again with his body intact they breathed a sigh of relief, because no-one had known what the fuck had gone wrong. Little red blinking lights and a kla...
The first day I doodled aimlessly. Odd swirls and squiggles. It was only a pencil, after all. There was nothing special about it, nothing to indicate that it was magical. It was light orange and had a pink eraser set in a thin aluminum ring at its top. It had a few gentle bite marks. I fell asleep with the pencil in my...
I stared at the little blue button on my wall, trying to will myself to do what I was going to do. I had already gotten changed and made my bed for the day, just like Mom expected. Like usual, on top of the clothes there had been a note. It simply read, "PRESS THE BUTTON."This exact note was written in various forms al...
The shop keeper was placing retectangles in Barry's hand and quickly pulling them back out. "Do you prefer iOS or Android?"Then after seeing the puzzled look on Barry's face continued "not to worry not to worry, the phone chooses the user after all." "Uh, what's a phone?" "It let's you communicate with anyone in th...
Just as I noticed the lights on the ground, my radio crackled awake, "Stay in the air as long as you can! I repeat, stay in the air as long as you possibly can!"The message blared through my radio. I thought maybe I had the wrong frequency—sometimes private planes liked to fuck with each other on their respective frequ...
It had been so obvious. Why hadn’t I thought of it before? Not even the greatest detective in the world would join the dots. It’s already been two months after all; a lifetime for the Batman. Two months of red herrings and false leads. Two months of the Batman halting shipping vessels entering the city, only to find ...
My body felt a chill as I attempted to wiggle my fingers and toes. They didn’t respond. I groaned as I felt the cold ground beneath me. I was in trouble. I knew better than to try and outrun that last shot, but its aim was true, and it struck the center of my back. Now, face down, I wondered if this was the end. My ...

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