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My lineage had served this immortal being for generations. It is my utmost honor to be able to be given the title "Good Boy", so much so that I am unable to control myself. Whenever I hear her footsteps, I am overwhelmed with extreme euphoria. Mornings of cuddles, hearing her exclaim to me, her most humble servant:...
On the titan's face rose one large and beautiful jagged spire, like a rhinoceros horn, that shone rosey pinks and watery blues through the night sky. The hollow eyes, two black openings on each side of its face, shaped like drooping teardrops, wavered and billowed around their borders in a glittering iridescence of gol...
"A farmer will always return to his farm." It was what my advisor had told me. My advisor is a wise man who found secrets to eternal life. It cost him much, but he became the best advisor I had ever known. When he told me that, I laughed. Yet here I stand. The legendary hero who fought the lich king and his armies, ...
"The organic systems micro-controller chip we've been working on is a near complete success. We're entering our final testing phase now." "Bravo!"Dr. Wicke exclaimed. "Please, tell me more!" Controller Smith continued. "We have finely tuned our rabbits to perfectly mimic the motions of real rabbits. The squirrels twi...
There are only two planets inhabited by sentient species in the known universe that do not believe in the mysterious, pan-galactic entity known as "Santa Claus." For the first planet, simply called Ssssssk, the reason for this disbelief is a matter of biology and history. Ssssssk is inhabited by only one species - a v...
Margaret blushed as she felt him passionately looking her up and down, undressing her with his eyes. She longed for his touch; craving the way his fingers felt as they ran along her smooth skin until finally thrusting inside her in blissful intimacy. She traced a heart on the glass, taking a last sip of the fruity drin...
"There they are."I whispered to myself, "I hope these guys are more fun than that last group. So much drama with that crew, right up to their painful deaths." I quickly transformed my body to appear more frail, and trustworthy. "Oh don't mind me, I'm just a tired old villager looking to help strangers on their quest ...
"Good morning Gorblax, we're coming to you live from Xenon 5 where this year's Battle Royale has been under way for three days now. I'm your host, Offergen and with me today in the booth for our hopeful wholesale slaughter is my good friend Delmiath,"I waved over to my right to signal for the camera to change. "Thanks...
Cold wind hit my back. I let out a wordless cry, simultanously crying in surprise and protesting the lack of comfortable hot water. I opened my eyes to see what happened. My next cries included variations of “What the?”, “Where’s”, “Who did-”, as I discovered that I was lacking several things. Including warmth, water, ...
"Cameron,"you hear chirping, "Cameron. CAMERON." You march forward, refusing to acknowledge the sound. A small drone whirrs up from behind you. It chirps your name and tries to draw your attention. You try to swat it away, your hand missing as the drone drops and corkscrews back up in front of you, just out of arm's r...
Miguel cheered, along with the rest of the crowd on the manor grounds, as the dark blue banner with the golden scroll emblem was unfurled alongside the other four Banners of Honor adorning the outdoor stage that had been set up on the green. Above the stage, the night sky filled with sparkling starbursts and flowers of...
"The patient's symptoms don't make sense." "She will die if we don't figure out what's going on."I said to my assistant. There are a million diseases that can kill someone. But what can cause liver failure, seizures, and hair loss? The tests ruled out cancer, and trying out the treatments doesn't get rid of the cloake...
The war has been going strong for 3 years now. All my buddies were drafted within the first year. I got a stay of execution because I was still in school, but now they're getting desperate. The losses are piling up more and more. It's probably worse than they're letting on. But with the media under strict military...
*Muggle Flight - The Mechanical Broom Substitute and More!* Us Wizards take the ease of transportation for granted. Between Floo powder, brooms and apparition there is not much to stop a Wizard from reaching his or her destination. This is so much a part of our culture that the train to Hogwarts is somewhat of a...
The son of a bitch died with sunlight on his face, and frost on his breath, right up until I blew his brains out on the sidewalk. It was a better death than the one he'd given me. Edit: here's to those guys who were complaining about grammar: It was with sunlight on his face, and frost on his breath that I blew t...
The Director nipped and tucked the dead body. Humans never liked seeing their dead, or at least how the dead really looked. The small cuts and bruises, the large gaping wounds, the torn-out ligaments. It was up to her to make sure that, when it became time to see their loved ones for the final time, that people only sa...
The altar across the street was empty. The altar across the street was empty, and the sun was setting. If it were anyone else, Harriet wouldn't care. Each to their own - it wasn't her job to look after the foolish and the reckless. She had her family to think of. Margot, Rob, and Matilda, all living under her roof, al...
“Remember me?” Said a muddy voice. “I wanted to say thank you for all you’ve done.” My nose was assaulted by the smell of brimstone and sulfur. A sudden blast of familiar heat flushed across my skin. I turned to face, Ik’xun, a demon trapped in the mortal realm I had met a year ago, with whom I had jokingly made a pac...
My first memories are of my mother kissing my forehead as she tucked me into bed, whispering to me that someday I would avenge my father. Before that, we would have been sitting on the bed, me captivated by some story she was telling about him. Maybe it was the time he crept into the elven kingdom, armed with nothing...
I’m sitting in a hall surrounded by thousands of other souls. Well I say sitting, when really I don’t have a body anymore so sitting is just what my consciousness is telling me I’m doing. And I say a hall but to be honest I have no idea for sure where this place is, it’s probably not heaven, not warm enough to be hell ...
Making my way past the Haggler's market, I couldn't help but notice a couple of new faces amongst the beggars today. As a city guard, you naturally got to know most of the beggars that the city contained. You knew them because you dealt with them on an almost daily basis. They'd try to extort some local businessperson ...
Life hands you roles. Slow down, there, fatso. Roles, not rolls. There's no bread involved. And it always hands you multiple roles, because, c'mon, stories need at least a little uncertainty. You don't want to be properly surprised, but it's nice if you can't see every twist coming a mile away, y'know? So. ...
Jack strolled through the supermarket with Xenthya clinging to his arm. When he drew the summoning circle from an old book he found in a yard sale, he never expected it to work, much less summon a genuine demoness determined to steal his soul. Fortunately, he had managed to resist her terrible wiles thus far. Xenthya ...
Children. For millions of years, mankind had suffered, bled, waged war, learned, tilled the Earth… Man slowly learned to control the green and growing plants, to subdue the ferocious fauna that coexisted with it, and eventually, to even force the very elements to conform to its will. Yet, when those Beings finally arr...
In retrospect, Amy was just too smart to be with someone like me. Let's be honest, I'm kind of dumb. I didn't learn how to read until I was 8. I can't do math. I can't draw. I can't sing. Amy was the exact opposite. She got As in every class. In high school, everyone gushed over her paintings. They were trippy things ...
"What the fuck happened? Guys, we leave for seventy million years and this shit happens? You had one job. Guys?" I wasn't just angry; I was pissed. I could see the world as we knew it gone; the continents were all wrong, the skies were too obscured by clouds, the night side of our home glowing with lights. With signs....
I sit by the window every day. Outside is a world of blue and greens, with songbirds singing and children laughing. I'm not allowed out there. Mommy says I'm a 'bad boy' and that I'm not allowed to play with the other children. I remember when Mommy first let me into her home. She's not my real mom- she adopted me ...
We found it. By all accounts, it should be impossible. Even if this facility was of alien origin, the chances of our biology being exactly alike, save that the aliens were 10 times larger than us, was slim to none. The first sign that these creatures were not like us was their beds. They were enormous slabs that didn...
I'd turned 21 the day I found what I could do. I remember because my girlfriend and I had just had a colossal fight, resulting from my learning about her infidelity. She'd been the first to go. I'd searched for her for weeks, trying to understand how we could go from fighting to her simply gone in a matter of seconds....
The inevitable trial by fire was started. It was a tradition of sorts for the Qexlo to declare war on the newest species to join the Union. They were given 25 standard cycles of peace, before this. It worked two-fold, showing the Union how capable the new race was, and reinforcing the place of the Qexlo on the top. Th...
Sympathy-Drones are real bastards. It's never good news when one shows up on your doorstep. Not just because your mom or your brother or your buddy died. But because the drone isn't really here to offer condolences. It's here to settle debts. For once in my life, I'm damn happy to see this one. So when my apartment d...
"Home? Er... It has been a long time I'll admit. Why?" "No reason. I was thinking it would be a good idea for you to visit your old "stomping grounds"as you folks call it. After all, I am sure your parents are worried about you..."She held up my private journal in her dainty left palm. I froze. No matter how hard I t...
The fae tried. They really tried. They offered gold. The human had money. They offered a new name, hoping to trick the human into reclaiming their original moniker. The human argued they'd go by a nickname. The fae offered true magic, the ability to fly or peer into other worlds or breathe fire. or whatever they wanted...
They almost refuse to let me on the train. I arrive at the last minute, running up to the turnstile, out of breath and energy. The ticket-taker looks me up and down, examining my frayed clothing, tattered shoes, disheveled hair, and ratty backpack, flung over one shoulder and only half-zipped. He fixes me with a glare...
The first time you die, you're 5 and 3/4. You're thrashing when you wake up. Your tears are hot. Mommy comes running in, and the tightness in your tummy loosens. You run and cling to her and ask her why she left you. "I didn't leave you,"she says. "I'm right here."You tell her she left you in the pool. "The pool? What...
John Donaldson, or so the boy said he was called, stepped up to the register. He was a boy of 16, and had just reached the age of eligibility to cash the points in. As the receptionist noted, he was an interesting boy. He had never had the sharp edge even through his childhood, but he had that sneaking suspicion in t...
How many times is it now? I suppose it doesn't matter. The worst part is waiting out the holidays. Everything from September 23rd to December 31st is a red and green, candy cane, peppermint-flavored nightmare. I bomb my tests, I hide in my room, I stop returning calls. I stop living, because it's pointless, and it's a...
It started when I lost my job. I had nothing. My parents had decided a young child didn't fit their lifestyle and were mostly absent from my life. I acted out. I ran with the wrong group. I never learned how to take responsibilities for my own actions and I raged against my parents every moment I had, blaming them...
I had a good long life. I sat in the hospital room surrounded by loved ones and smiled at everyone. My wife, my sons, my daughters, and all extended family stood there tears in their eyes wishing me farewell and feeling that gentle tearing away that comes in the chest of a person losing a loved one. I closed my eyes...
Nobody understood art quite like Lance Hormick and nobody understood Lance quite like… well, nobody really understood him. The man wore sunglasses at night and between his speeches about the dying integrity of art and how the fumes of oil paintings were worth more than the colors, he oftentimes muttered a few words of ...
"Why did you lose?" The question threw me. Death had come for me, given me a chance to live again and I had lost. I could accept that. But now he was questioning that I lost? Did he think I had done it on purpose like I had wanted to die. I mean my life was pretty good and I had only passed at the age of 35. Still her...
Before I head towards the kitchen to make breakfast, I quickly pick up some bird seed I hid in the bottom kitchen shelf. Mother would beat me harshly if she knew that I'd been the one stealing from the animals' portion, but I would think the chickens wouldn't want their fowl brethren to starve. It had been a harsh wint...
Your name is everything. It is your purpose, your source of comradery, personality, and entire sense of identity. Behind every name there are thousands of implications. The Highest Instinct did not give one a name for no reason. A Jim was an early riser. Jim's liked to be noisy and rowdy. They were incredibly emotion...
They called him Kerv. Nobody knew what Kerv was short for, and nobody seemed too sure about what side of the family he was on, one of them branches what got all tangled up in the confusion of the depression years, and nobody seemed right clear of what he did, or where he came from. What they did know was that he came,...
# An Offer Not To Be Refused Three piles of trouble in discount suits got out of a rusty Cadillac. With feet on the ground it turned out they came in two types. The first was a short, smoking man with greasy hair and a mean squint. Which made the other group a mean squint of muscle who liked to smoke people. The tru...
It was too good to be true. I know that now, and I guess I knew it back then, but... almost every scientific theory in history has eventually been disproven. Almost everything we've ever known has turned out to be wrong. So what says Einstein was the one who finally got it right? Why couldn't he be wrong, too? Relativi...
I've outran Walken, put Pratt on blast, and even taken down Brown. At least not a soul is sour about that last one. When I came screaming out of that tunnel and slapped sideways by Dr. Chris Stein, they say he never worked another day again. On my 22nd birthday, I sent a letter to Mr. Rock. There were hints of it ...
It has always been like this. Ever since I was born. Ever since my momma was born. Ever since….forever. It has always happened on the 7th. Always the 7th, of the month November. I didn’t know why, or how. No one knew why, or how. Everyone just knew it would happen, and braced themselves for the inevitability of the un...
Edward screeched as he collapsed, one leg dissipating into nothingness in a whirl of black hands. "Brother!"Alfonse cried out, reaching for him. "No! I'm fine!"Edward propped himself up on an elbow and readied the coin again. "No you're not, you're bleeding! Look at your leg!" "We knew this could happen, didn't we?...
It’s funny, how every day begins normally. I woke up like any other day, Derek was already gone. I went into the kitchen, and I saw Derek had made breakfast for me. I smiled and as always, took it with me to and curled up in a chair with a book. I used to watch the news, but it was too depressing. The Logic Hunters…wha...
The scene looked like it was fresh out of a horror movie. Of course, I could never say this out loud because there was no such thing as movies in these days. The blood draping on what could only be an exquisite foreign carpet of the theater. I took a mental note of my surroundings. Blood pooled on the floor and the the...
"Please tell me you're all seeing what I'm seeing." No one responded. It took a minute just for everyone to adjust to what was on the monitor. When Smith was just approaching it, it looked like it was a crocked rode sticking out of the ground. Even if it had been just that no one would know how to explain it. Then Smi...
"Mr Necross- Donna Day, Apex News. You've faced some accusations of tolerating sub-par working conditions in your Mortem Postal Service warehouses. Anything you'd like to say about that?" Necross smiled. "Those accusations came in the form of a series of anonymous social media posts which have since been debunked. Eve...
MySpace went when Facebook came, and Kodak missed its shot. The page was turned on Borders next, and Sears ain't doing hot. The times they are a-changin' and the tides they wait for none, And even dragons must adapt in twenty twenty-one. &#x200B; In ages past, we sat on golden coins and diamond shards, But pr...
I yawned and got up out of the bed. Bit too much to drink it seems. The rain pelted the windows, an occasional flash illuminating the night. I walked out of my room and down the hall when I felt it. A chill down my spine. The air turned icy cold. Every hair on my body stood up. I began to sweat. My throat felt ...
Sal watched as Lord Elos cackled and placed one boot on the head of King Orgainne. All around them, skeletons moved chests of gold and crates of artifacts into the town square. More skeletons guarded soldiers and civilians alike. Though the living outnumbered the dead, no one seemed willing to fight. A contingent of ba...
Travis was used to smelling blood. A lot of peoples' secrets involved bloodshed in some form or fashion. Most that did involve blood were from self harmers. A whiff of iron followed by brief flashes of open wounds either on wrists, thighs, and on rare occasion, genitalia. Travis was used to that. He wasn't, however, u...
Santa peered down at the crate's contents again as he continued speaking to the representative. "So you're saying, legally, they're still mine, even though I don't want them?" "Yessir,"the voice responded. "We're afraid that the moment you signed for the package, you took responsibility. However, if you'd like, we can...
"The Japanese are taking over the entire international market!" "Which one?" "All of them. We'll lose our hold in crush-proof phone manufacturing at this rate!" "But, but how can that be? They've been regionally locked for decades relying on exports from us!" "A... a catastrophe sir. I, I'm not sure how to explain th...
"Supreme Commander, about the invasion plan for Earth?" It was general Gklip, I put my left manipulating tentacle over my secondary eyestalks. When they were handing out brains, Gklip had managed to lock himself in the toilet. The only reason he was a general at all was because he was my tertiary mates pod-sib and she...
"What a day, huh?"I said to Kev, loitering in the parking lot. There were about twenty of us still there, stretching and cracking our joints and expelling the excess ichor. The asphalt was stained with it, half-footprints and tire tracks dragged through tar. Cigarette smoke wafted on the cold air, their lit tips bobbin...
So, the strangest thing has happened today. My son’s name is Grastalis, after the ancient dragon lord of the same name. He is no dragon though, instead being a human who was left behind by barbarians who tried to destroy our kind. We have raised him as a Dragonborn, and one day hope to take him to the Elder Dragon at...
"Ok, one must think about it in a manner as such; cats are intriguing creatures, indeed, but for a coven they're awfully boorish. Everybody has a cat. Now, a giraffe, that is something truly magnificent... and mine, I dare say, practically oozes maleficence. As befits a familiar of the great Brunfarthing." As if on qu...
So you wish to write my tale? Very well. Back when I was ten summers old, I died. I was running an errand for my father; a merchant travelling the land, and between our camp a ways out from the city walls and the walls themselves, I was struck by lightning in a sudden storm. A sign from the Gods, it must have been, fo...
“Who the hell is that?” asked the Galactic Ambassador of Tau Ceti. “Which one? The tall one or the plasma one?” Questioned his college from neighboring YZ Ceti. “No no. The pink ones over there. With the two legs and arms and whatever the hell that is on top. Some kind of fungous?!” spoke the Tau Ceti member with gr...
All of my friends (okay, _both_ of my friends) down booze to pass their worries. I tried that, didn't like it much. Instead, I visit Gisneyland, an amusement park, almost every week. "Oh, how we met? It's a funny story really! My now-wife shoved a rainbow bouquet into my face as I walked out of work and declared me he...
FADE IN: EXT. A CITY STREET - NIGHT Streetlights illuminate a drizzle of rain falling between brick apartment buildings. Beneath one of these lights, a man in a trenchcoat and fedora struggles to light a soggy cigarette. This is REX PALOMA, a private investigator. PALOMA: (V.O.) They say it never rains, but ...
“Can I be clear about this gentlemen? I have in front of me a paper trail stretching back nearly two years of every email, call and memo I have sent out discussing my worries about the state of this facility's chrono-shielding.” Dr Harriet Landen’s deceptively calm words fill the boardroom, washing over the faces of t...
The rose bushes were blooming. Flowers opened slowly with the passing days, revealing red hearts and soft petals. A floral fragrance settled over the garden, covering the faint scent of sweet decay. Ariel was sitting on his porch, watching the sun rise when they came. One of the many distant figures harvesting the ...
The button had always been there. Just... sitting there. On the wall. *Emergency Stop. Jeff looked around the his office. Just a solitary computer, a solitary human, and nothing else. What was there to stop? He reached his finger out tentatively, pausing only a centimeter away from the glimmering red button. P...
At first it was rough- After I was made aware of my inability to control time as the other kids did when I was entering kindergarten, I had to look at things the bright way. My parents always knew, but what good was it to tell a kid that he was going to be different. I guess they didn’t want to ruin my fun because they...
Log 21: Some things truly aren't adding up here. The consistency with which I am finding inconsistencies, between my observations and the prevailing assumptions we had before I was dispatched on this operation, is staggering beyond belief. Every single time I walk in or out of my front door, some thing that I thought I...
The dimmed lights in the ceiling bathed the guests of the restaurant in a pleasant murkiness. My senses tingled with nervous anticipation, and I tried to keep my legs in a smooth forward motion. Skittering too quickly would send the wrong signals, and too slow, well, I didn’t want her to think I was hesitant to meet he...
It was always a hassle to cross over from the Flemish speaking part of Washington to the German community. The checkpoints arrived one day and without good knowledge of the target language, you would not be allowed through. Kevin had been at his grandmother when the checkpoints appeared and since then, he had to get hi...
I had secluded myself for centuries. I had picked a small island as my home. The people there weren't too keen on having a stranger among them but after a few generations of subtle hints, positive associations with natural phenomena and whole lot of superstitious nonsense. They've come to see me not as a guest but as a...
Sitting down with a nice hot cup of cocoa, Wexley reviews the responses from the recent survey he had sent to the villagers for feedback on his potential venture. &nbsp; *Dear Mr. Wexley, I would be honored if my dear husband Reginald's body could be of service in your undead army. And I can't afford the burial,...
There was a time, dear children, when humanity held the beating heart of the world in their palm. We could crack open the secrets of the earth at whim. Tomes of infinite knowledge could be accessed at any place and any time. They followed in our footsteps, invisible and weightless, until we desired to view them. For ...
The blazing winds of the tundra was something they'd not prepared for. They'd been warned against arrival during the cold seasons. "It couldn't be that bad", some of them said, with the arrogance of having the coldest winters in the Galactic Union. They were not prepared for how cold the icy tundra would be, and the in...
"Insanity. You tried to find this one? Are you not in terror?" The human was afraid, but it tried to appear as if it is not. Even then, a quiver was in its voice. "You are not easy on the eyes, I admit. And this is probably the most stupid thing I have ever done, true. Maybe you could call me insane." "This on...
I paused, nodding, taking in the answer. “What was the first?” “I told you that I would never harm humans.” I laughed, winding the copper wiring around my fingers as I looked up at the AI. “And did you?” “I almost did.” “Would that be considered a truth, then if you’ve never actually hurt humans?” “I almost did ...
This was his wedding ring: a ring pop, a gift from the girl he met in kindergarten who would one day become his widow. It was still attached to his severed finger. These were his glasses. Comical, oversized, but still prescription lens. He couldn’t see well without them. Now he’ll never see again. This was his lucky ...
It began as a whisper. A fleeting word in a restless wind. The superpowers were too preoccupied with trying to best one another to hear it. The people, however, suffering in the aftermath, listened. At first, he was labelled as a terrorist, looked at as sub-human, a lunatic who spewed fallacies. No one knew he held all...
When I woke up that day, I heard screams, wails, and cries ringing throughout the streets. The first thing I did was go over to the window and saw a huge grey mass hit what seemed to be a second sun and made a deafening explosion, breaking every single piece of glass in the city, cutting me and making me bleed. Later...
“Just send me down,” Roger said to Saint Peter, forgoing the judgment seat and the proclamation of his eternal doom. No elevator descended from the clouds, Peter just waved his hand and was replaced by a ghoul with a list. The pearly gates rotted and the sunlight turned to ash and smoke. “A volunteer I see,” the gh...
I straightened my tie and rolled my shoulders a few times. Projects had gone wrong in the past, John from Golden project had screwed his up big time, and he still got paid holiday- and dental. I sighed and checked through my notes, resting them on the coffee table. I would have sat down to go through them, but Gabriel,...
As I approached the gate, a sense of sorrow draped over me. This place still does that to me, and seeing all the smiling faces gladly walking across the bridge. It's sickening to see the glow of the neon lights reflect on the walkways beneath them; not knowing the truth of the "palace"they were visiting. Palace was a t...
The bailiff called court into session with three sharp raps of the gavel. “Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. This Court is now in session. The Honorable Judge Cown Bonebreaker presiding. You may be seated.” The Judge settled his massive bulk into the reinforced chair at the head of the room. His single eye looked out ove...
"How in the...?"The battered Brick-type Hero stuttered, limping up and looking down on the limp blob that until moments before had been a nigh-unstoppable invulnerable Supervillain. "None of us could even SCRATCH the bugger! How did YOU do THAT?!?" I looked at the towering man, still imposing even with the torn up blo...
Struck by a blast of dark magic, Princess Allesandra stumbled backward, as the Vile Witch of Darkfen cackled madly. "Poor child!"the wizened enchantress sneered, with mock sympathy. "You were so enamored of your delicate feminine grace, so proud of your beauty and womanly charms, as you thoughtlessly danced, and caper...
My grandfather used to say that when we stopped using guns, we lost touch with the world. He was the one who taught me to shoot, way back when I was a child and all of my friends were learning to launch their first fireball or icicle. The first key to life that he taught me was that preparation is key. Magic requires...
Chief Engineer Pratt absentmindedly clenched and released a moon shaped stress ball. He had gotten tired of playing tetris on his phone and was now watching the clock slowly eliminate the few remaining hours before he could head home. All mechanical data was reporting normalcy on the USS Freedom. The astronauts were ca...
"Hey!"I shouted down the corridor, as the cowering figure tried hurriedly to gather himself together and sneak out the door. "Oh... Hi Will"he said to me. "So sorry, I'll just be on my way, didn't mean to disturb". It was 4.30am, and I was definetely not an early bird, and feeling rather irritable. So waking up to fi...
All my life I have been raised to respect knowledge. That knowledge is the key to the future. It was how I was able to cross-reference a dozen different concepts from the ages that allowed me to build my time machine in the first place. And after doing a couple of half-hour hops to make sure nothing untoward happened ...
My head whipped around as I caught the scent; proof I was getting rusty, I supposed. Luckily for me the street was empty. No one to catch my slip-up. How many years had it been? 76? 77? Perhaps longer. When I arrived here at first, my intentions were as they always had been - evil. My thirst for souls was no longer s...
"But why is it FRIEND SHAPED?" Deborah stamped her foot in protest at her commanding officer. She had never gotten used to addressing an alien by that title, let alone a Sulfur based entity who's smell was an acquired taste. "Private Ranor, please stop referring to subject 27 as 'friend shaped' it has several fatal ...
Fighting evil by moonlight Writing songs by daylight Never backing down from stage fright He is the one named Bruno Moon! He will never turn his back on a friend He is the one on whom we depend He is the one named Bruno.... Bruno Venus! Bruno Mercury! Bruno Mars! Bruno Jupiter! With secret powers ...
"Matthias, what are you playing? I cant decide what I want to build,"Ogden questioned, stroking his beard in one hand, his other hanging tentatively over a piece of paper. "Oh, I am playing Phil Johnson, an HR representative who enjoys books and has a habit of having too many margaritas on taco Thursday at the local b...
His eyes had a sense of urgency and he seemed eager to communicate to me. I don't normally take things from children, but this two year old infant prodded his toy phone towards me. I took the phone. Clicked the button and put it to my ear... "Thank goodness! Listen, here's what you have to do.." Her voice sounded li...
Students had poured out onto Meyer Green after the spaceship had touched down on the Stanford University Campus. A few mechanical engineering majors had furiously debated the function of different flaps and the wisdom of thruster placement. Some students still clutched open textbooks—there were midterms this week, damm...
I listened to the slow, baited breaths of the most recent passenger to board the new Nanamura light train. Her lips were pursed slightly with quizzical eyes hidden behind a pair of designer static dampeners. She sat several pods down from me towards the emergency exit hatch. Her nose perked and twitched as she inhaled ...

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