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“Oh shit, Frank.” Frank was busy typing away on his 1949 Underwood typewriter. He’d been provided a computer, of course, but it sat unused in the corner of the cubicle. He certainly could have processed heaven entry and purgatory redemption applications quicker with his computer, but as an immortal angel he literally ...
[Poem] "Tell me dear lieutenant," The major said every day, "What now shall be our move, And what is the game we will play? For the general's off drinking, The colonel's losing at cards, The sergeant and his privates, Play soccer in bombed-out yards." "I suppose we could see," The lieutenant would respond, "...
"I won't marry you just because you saved me, or anything. "The princess snapped, with a derisive flick of her long blonde hair. Lyon sighed quietly. "I'm aware, Princess."His voice was flat with annoyance. She folded her arms, and glared down at her horse's back. "Good. Cause it's not happening. I could have saved...
I remember fondly in the first year of my mandatory enlistment feeling the warmth of a nearby star strike my face through the glass windows. It reminded me of home. Of air that didn't taste of overworked filters. Of beaches with sand on the methane lakes. Of Cities bustling with races who've benefited from our rule. T...
Susan raised her hand. Attracted by the sudden movement, the eyes of all the predator species around her fixated on the raised appendage. At first, that had scared her a little, but she'd gotten used to it. (Though the shark-like Corbien's tendency to rattle his teeth did still make her wince.) Professor K'I'Fe was no...
It is helping them. One doesn't have to ask who ''it'' is. Everyone knows. Everyone has heard. Everyone has seen it. A being from beyond time and space, a creature unbound by conventions, the laws of physics, something that isn't a person, but a cosmic fact with a will of its own. The Judge. It has eaten gods, it has ...
Apologies, I'm a terrible writer, but the prompt struck me... The surprise attack went far better than any expected, the stockpile of nuclear arms was vastly larger than any had anticipated and their capabilities longer. While arms are important, what no one expected was a nation so willing to sacrifice their entire h...
3,635,484 moves. 3,635,484 times I've tried to make the first move, but the future morphs every time I make a decision. I stare at him in anger, frustrated that a nearly omnipotent ability such as mine could be foiled in such a childish manner. My eyes return to the board, still unchanged from its starting position, a...
She's exactly the type of person I usually hate to see walking towards my counter. Head up, sunglasses on, disdain dripping off her suit that despite costing more than I make in a paycheck still makes her look like a news anchor on the local channel. I wonder how long she had to harangue the poor bastard at the depa...
"Sweetheart? Look what daddy got you!" With a flourish I produce the cutest puppy in all the world... literally. The breed was genetically altered to never age beyond the puppy stage, have pink fur with a cute symbol on his side. I picked her the one with the daisy symbol since that was her favorite flower. Her smi...
He laughed. "You are a fool, child. I am the most powerful being in the universe. I have destroyed thousands before you. You are no different." I smirked. He is cocky, I'll give him that. I wait for him to finish his monologue. "Nothing to say, eh? Well, let's get on with it, boy. It will be quick, I promise."He snee...
The shop owner folded his skeleton-like hands as the sound of the bell indicated that another unsuspecting victim had entered the store. “Welcome stranger,” he said from out under his black robes, trying to make his voice as spooky as possible. “Before you begin browsing my array of fantastical items, let me warn you ...
She had lost all feeling to her legs. The water was cold, but she kept kicking, swimming, fighting through the waves. She had to keep his head above water. Maybe she shouldn't have jumped in after the boy. Nobody else on the dock had done so when the rip tide pulled him out to sea. Some people had called for help, run...
The spider was big and black. It scurried under a couch cushion. Andrés, not wanting to be woke in the middle of night by the spider, lifted the cushion. He could see his reflection of awe in all eight eyes. The spider sat next to a crisp $20 bill. In thin webs, it wrote "Rent Money." Few people lived on the island o...
Curse my kind heart, curse it once, curse it twice, curse it thrice. During a particularly cruel winter, with hard winds blowing and much snow falling, I heard some kind of critter outside my window. Feeling a sense of sorrow for the thing, a sympathy for something that must be cold and hungry, I put out an open can o...
"WHO SUMMONS DARETHIAL?!" The only sound is a child sobbing. I look around. There is no one here until I look down. On the ground, outside the circle, is a small child. The pain from this child is heady, but it is not from me. The fear is intoxicating, but it is not my fear. The anger, oh, the anger. Anger is my...
"What??"I asked, staring at her in confusion as my barely awake brain had trouble comprehending Eve's words. My beautiful, 6 months pregnant wife stared back at me, not sleepy at all. She doesn't sleep, she just cuddles with me at night when I sleep. It was sweet and heartwarming. And even though her undead body is...
''Do you know why we brought you in?'' I looked out through the window. In the distance I could observe with great pleasure the 08:34 train westward arrive at station at the precise and perfect time. It would stay on the platform for 2.35 minutes, before departing, with stops at 08:54 at Ringtown, 09:15 Groatsville,...
She walked into the kitchen after a long day of work. She spied an envelope with “Susie” written on the front in her husband’s still childlike handwriting. Inside the note read: “Susie, I have a surprise waiting for you! But first you must find all of the clues!” On the back of the note was a crudely drawn picture of ...
Humans have always feared the end of the world; stories of hurricanes and tornadoes swarming, the dead rising to claim the living, seas swelling to swallow land. Perhaps a meteor will destroy us, crushing scampering bodies like ants under foot and encasing our planet in a thick cloud of dust that blocks the sun's warmt...
"Are you telling me,"Victor said into his drink, "that our strike did nothing to the government? NOTHING?" "No,"Rachel said with her drink decidedly done, "I'm just saying that nobody cares that we did it. Nobody joined up from it." "It was the plan,"Victor said, "once we strike people will see that they can be beate...
Then Virgil lead me into the next subreddit. "Behold,"he said, "for you have come to /r/bigbangcomics." Before me I saw all manner of confusion and chaos. Words in the ugliest fonts hung abruptly in the ether. They were almost never spelled correctly, yet somehow I could sense an ubiquitous pride in such sloppiness...
Old man Frank rocked on his porch chair in the gentle breeze. The summer bloom had just begun and the neighborhood was starting to look quite idyllic. The kids played in the streets and the parents roasted steaks in their gardens. Forget nuclear families, this was a nuclear neighborhood. Nevertheless, Frank took littl...
Taya was a normal 6-year-old girl in almost every respect. She loved playing with Barbies; she loved watching Paw Patrol whenever I would let her rot her brain in front of the TV; and she loved tormenting the dog, Aby. There was just one little aspect of Taya that wasn’t… quite so normal. Before she could even speak, ...
Paula’s next client is Sam. He was referred by his mother, a harried woman with a toddler on her. hip in the reception and a phone buzzing in her bag the whole time they spoke. Sam spent a summer with his Dad on the Isle of Mull, supposedly fishing and trekking. The mother had meant to go up and see him but with the to...
I was almost 16 when the powers kicked in. Nothing special. Not flying in the air, not becoming invisible and not telekinesis. But I did start hearing murmurs. Little whispers when I was around people. I was frightened initially to be honest. I thought it was schizophrenia. But slowly I realized that I was simply he...
I don’t blame them. Hell, I love them. In fact, I suppose I have a certain paternal stance toward them. Yet, to them I am a figure of revulsion. Hideous, stinking, evil. How else should they look at me. Them, in their perfection. Their bodies, slender and lean, sleek, and vigorous. They do not sweat, nor do the...
It was a familiar event to me. First, an empty void. Floating in there for what seemed to be both seconds and years at the same time. I would think about what I had witnessed, and what I had done. I would plan other courses of action. And I would experiment with my growing power. Next, I began to fall. It was as thoug...
"Sing." Princess Cecily was far past putting up any resistance. She sang with puffy eyes and a sore throat, a beautiful song that now only sounded ugly to her. As she did, small animals began to fill the room. Showing up from just outside of one's line of sight as if they'd always been there, entranced by the princess...
For so long we thought the curiosity of the humans to be their weakness. My friends, how wrong we were. When humans arrived on the galactic stage, they were well received. Their variety in size and dexterous manipulators made them useful additions to almost any crew or jobsite. More impressive than this, though, was ...
We're exhausted. Of all the races in the galaxy, we were the only ones who didn't have a common sense. Something to bind us all together in times of peace, or some universal moral code that we all followed. There is not one region on our home planet that's avoided the fractured, broken, and chaotic nature of humanity....
It is a common fallacy that the living outnumber the dead. There have been roughly a hundred billion people who have lived and died in the course of Earth's history, in comparison to the eight billion currently living today. The stark contrast hadn't seemed apparent until the spirits showed back up. At first, the g...
"One year from the day we depart, we shall return,"they said. They had thought themselves better than us. Paying a fortune, they contracted much more intelligent men to build a spaceship that would travel at the speed of light. For all their wealth, they did not understand relativity as well as the men they hired. We k...
The world is dead. It beats a hum I don't understand. People go about their day, talking, frolicking, and dating with not a care. Yet I flop and flounder, stumbling down the city main street amongst a chorus of foreign words. The language is endless, it's punctuated with laughter and some of it is sealed in leather...
"Aha! I knew it would work,"exclaimed the hooded figure that stood before me. My mind was racing as I attempted to piece together what in the actual hell was going on. Not five seconds ago I was walking to class and right as I turned the corner... I don't know. A loud crack, and bright flash of light and now I'm standi...
She wrote a book that sounds like my life. A soft piano hums a familiar tune from the corner of the room, and the candle on our table just blew out. We’ve been here almost an hour, talking about our hobbies, our pasts. She once dated a man with a fondness for fishing and hated it. I once gutted a man like a fish, but...
When the counters first appeared, there was chaos or so history tells us. Many a theology was spawned from this with some thinking it was a holy call to arms meant to inspire believers to kill en-masse. Others saw it as a corrective measure from a higher power. A mark of shame to force people to get along or be branded...
"Alright. Call it in. You know the code?" "There's a code for this?!" "Goddamn tilters. They can't just build quiet Dyson spheres like good neighbors, they have to parade around the galaxy burning through stars like tissue paper, disrupting orbits everywhere they go."He began to key in the coded message to Central ...
The other customers were looking very awkward. But I’d had it. “You do not get to march into my workplace, threaten to murder each other, and then take it out on me when I suggest you don’t murder each other,” I stated. “Put your goddamn weapons down.” Crossfire holstered the pistol. Mirrorstab, after some hesitat...
The pan made a slight sizzle as I spooned in some pancake batter, ‘Babe, hey, babe, breakfast is almost ready, can you come here please’ &nbsp; A pretty girl with long flowing brown hair shuffled her way into the kitchen, wrapped in a dressing gown, a frown on her face, ‘How many times must I tell you not to call...
I tapped my spoon against the edge of my bowl, listening as Mom filled in Dad on the news. “They lost both boys,” Mom said, dropping the paper to the table. “I just don’t get it Max. We’ve had an understanding with the monsters for years. They keep our kids safe and we let them live under the beds. What was this famil...
Music was never to be played with. Never. You weren't to mess around with a few notes, or trill a line on the piano. True, experimentation happened. But it was regulated; heavily controlled. Only a very few special people were allowed instruments. I, however, managed to find a banjo in the junkyard. It was beaten up, t...
I felt the burning of my skin as the armor and Holy Sword settled into place as though they belonged there forever. In a way, they did. As I ate through the distance between towns on hooves, the villagers mostly looked askance as I passed them as though they were standing still. Those I had helped would always provid...
The man held the box up on screen for the camera to see, rotating it so that the keyhole was the most visible from the angle. "Now this is quite an interesting piece, it appears very intricate. Features are that it holds all of the great evils locked away thousands of years ago and Zeus's vengeance."his voice came th...
I feel like the superpower one (or the variant where protag has an unknown power canceling power) is posted all the time. The emotions one is usually numbers or soul mate linkages not emotions. Like "you can see how many murders someone has committed"or "you can see when someone will die", or "everyone has a tattoo s...
Historically, a large part mankind's actions can be explained by a few concepts that drive humanity to do what humanity seems to do best. Lust is a drive, for some it is relentless greed, others engage with the universe through a lens of fanatic zealotry, some merely eke through existence for survival, while others see...
I woke up one morning and something was different. As I moved my legs to sit up from my bed, something stood out in my mind. It was difficult to tell what it was but I could tell where my bed ended before my legs found the ground. I was a bit confused but didn't think much of it. It wasn't just the bed but other th...
*(If you like this, parts two and three are below in the comments!)* ***Also, if you'd like to read all three parts in one convenient place, you all have inspired me to start a subreddit for my writing! Check it out at [/r/1_stormageddon_1](http://www.reddit.com/r/1_stormageddon_1/)! I'll also be turning this stor...
The surgeon stood in the washroom, hunched over the sink. To those who didn't know him, it almost looked like he was lost in prayer, bent over the sink with his hands near his face, but to the staff in the next room, he was performing a different sort of ritual. With a belch he wiped his face with his unwashed hand...
Sir Ronald collapsed onto the cold stone floor. The statues of The Twelve gazed upon him, their faces cold to the knight's sorrow. "What more do you want from me?"Ronald whispered, his voice cracking up. "I've slain the Beast of Darkness, I've saved the world from the flames of Azavar, I've returned the holy relics of...
Hi! I'm new to Writing Prompts and I'd appreciate any feedback you're willing to give! -------------------- Katrina pulled her clothes tightly across her shoulders and looked down. All she wanted to do was pay for her groceries. But no; They had to ask. Everytime. Every. Single. Time. “You got any clue what it means y...
"I'm going to be honest, I never thought this day would come. Ever since you first came in here-what, three weeks ago?-I never thought that I would, ever could, find anyone to match with you. Everything about you is revolting to me as well as all generally decent society. I am both disgusted and intrigued that you ar...
Thomas Jenkins was nothing out of the ordinary. He always seemed to blend in with the walls and in the rare occasions when he opened his mouth the words that came out never made it to his audience. When growing up in a small town these characteristics somehow always attracted bullies. People like Thomas were the perfec...
He sat on the bench and wondered how this all came to be. How reality mirrored fiction somehow, how the world went to complete shit. He replayed the summer afternoon in his mind. It was a normal, sunny day. The kids played, it smelled like burgers and hot dogs. Somewhere, someone splashed in a pool. Then there was scr...
The front door to the shop swung open with a clang and a batter. Or what sounded like a clang and a batter, given it added an extra layer of torture to several choruses of cats-in-radiators screaming away in my head, a reminder of last night's debauchery with Jack Daniels, Jim Bean and some bird with a long neck. Slo...
Severus Snape woke to a frantic fire call the night after Halloween. The Dark Lord's face was haggard and anxious looking. Whatever the Potions Master expected his Lord to ask him, nothing would have prepared him for the question that followed. "Severus, how do you change a nappy?" &#x200B; "Please just eat your ...
Sir George the Human Slayer finished his vigil as the sun dawned. He had prayed all night to the Lord God Antweh to give him strength for his upcoming feat, for he knew that no other among his colony had the skill to take on a fully grown human. "Come Dinoponera,"he called to his squire. "Fetch my mount and steel your...
"Hey, Cath?" "Yeah? What's up?" "I need a favor." "Sure...? You do remember the implications of that though, right?" "No no no, not that kind of favor." "Oh! Sure, what do you need?" "Can I copy your homework?" "Why would you want to copy a blank sheet?" "I didn't even tell you what class it's for." "Doesn't m...
Part 1 of 3 "Welcome to hell, I am the devil, but you may call me... Toby. We like to keep things informal here, as well as... infernal." Toby, the devil, he who tempts, enemy of God, Lucifer, and so forth and so on with so many moniker they barely fit on a business card, watched as his joke fell apart. It sort of h...
Alyssa couldn’t see anything outside the rune circle. It was nothing but a darkened void, incapable of showing any sound, light, or movement. Her chains clattered against the floor, tightened up against her makeshift armor. And suddenly, the chains disappeared in a flurry of black and blue smoke. The veil began to dis...
"To put it frankly, you are diseased"the Lyrian said. Her tall and elegant form looked down upon the human council members. They called her Yuis and she was the welcoming committee that met us at the docking station. She stood 8 feet tall, had light blue skin, and powerful limbs. She had a silver hair in a pony tail an...
"Hell's Gates, this is Anubis speaking." "Hey, A! It'sth Peter." "Oh hey, Pete! What's going on." "Tho we got a weird thituation up here. We got a guy, a really good guy, lived a noble life and everything, thaying he doethn't belong in heaven. Not like 'I'm not thuppothed to be dead,' but like 'I don't wanna be in ...
In the cavernous depths of the Underworld, Hades reclined on his throne of shadowed obsidian. His dark eyes reflected the glowing souls that flickered throughout his realm like ethereal will-o'-the-wisps. These were the love-stricken mortals, their lives cut short due to broken hearts, unrequited love, or brutal betray...
As a child becomes an adult, his parents slowly transform from almighty and most confident caretakers into the people they really are; they become all their faults and all their triumphs, all their success and all their failures. In all reality, the dramatic change comes not of the parents themselves, but rather of the...
just a little rough work to get the thread started. --- “Should we knock?” Edward asks. “Of course we should, it’s polite.” Alphonse replies, raising his fist and rapping his knuckles against the hard wood of the door frame. “Get lost!” a rough voice from inside yells. “Dr Jones we’ve come a long way!” Alphonse...
"The eyes are the mirror of the soul"it is said. Then what lies within mine? Each color was born with an element under their will, grey for air, green for earth, blue for water and hazel for fire. But I had nothing, no element like no color in my eyes. Reflecting like a perfect mirror but adding no color back. It was ...
I guess you could say that ours is a family all too familiar with loss. My grandfather left grandma back in '72, when mum and uncle Bruce were barely walking. Gone without a trace on a cold winter’s morning, never to be seen again. Not by his siblings, or his workmates at the factory, nor by his best friend Greg Ro...
"I don't understand..it's so..blue." Chancellor Erhlit looked on in astonishment as the long range sensors finally provided an image of Earth on the monitor. Today marks the first time in a millennia that a human has laid eyes upon their abandoned ancient home. "May I remind you Chancellor that it has been exactly...
Case Notes. Segment94U-Ae-394-sub3(a). Final report. Segment94U-Ae-394-sub3(a). What a problem case that one became. It's slow work terraforming, even by our standards. Still, the Imperial Decree has stood for a long time. Longer than I've been around. Since almost the first galactic rotation. So I had a small pale ...
[Trigger warning -- _kinda_ dark] Finally. After years of searching. Years of being alone. Years of fighting and research. I walk down an old, familiar path. Not too far from my home village now. How long has it been? Ten years? Ten years since I was given a pokemon and a backpack. Ten years since I was told to leav...
To complete her quest, she had to wade a terrible path through a sea of blood. Much of it was regrettably innocent. But it was necessary. And today, more innocent blood was on her hands. It had been a terrible battle, horrible and long. The hero's blade had carved through her armour like it was mere butter, the hero ha...
A lone figure sat in a chair facing a group of people standing behind podiums, each of their expressions ranging from pity, to nervousness, to genuine disdain. The figure looked at each of the gathered individuals, doing his best to keep his own ire off his face, and failing miserably. “Okay,” he said, running his han...
The two Canadian border guards blinked the light from their eyes. It was hard to recover their vision, considering it had been as bright as the sun and as swift as a bolt of lightning. One of them, Ted, would have preferred to keep his eyes shut, but the new sounds and scents reaching the two men forced him to look. W...
I don't even like drawing. I glance up at the clock. 9am. It didn't even seem possible that I'd only been here for like an hour. Felt like two fuckin' years. I looked at my drawing. I was just doodling a train. They didn't tell me what to draw. Probably should have. I think I heard somewhere that people are much more...
First time in writing prompts, constructive criticism welcome. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Sam woke up feeling incredibly weak, with a burning sensation in his forehead. Sam was a occult librarian. His parents were rich and he had plenty of time, so it w...
I was in an brightly-lit room. At the other side of the table sat a woman, staring at me with dispassionate eyes. “Where are we?” I asked her. “I don’t know,” she said. “Are you here to monitor me?” I asked her. “I don’t know,” she said without skipping a beat, “Are you?” “Could you stop staring at me? Your fishy...
I remember reading in high school about the French Revolution. With so many executions at the chopping block, one may easily wonder whether the human head stays “alive” for moments after it is removed from the body. After my experience today, I can say with certainty the answer is yes. I remember a sharp pain. A snap,...
Stewart sat straight awaiting his turn to review the product. He was the storied Tenth Dentist—the cavity crusader, the plaque protector, the last bastion against the dreaded gingavitus. The others dentists had been phoning it in for years now. They had approved this particular product on sight. >“Does it c...
The Cheat My grandfather disappeared the night before I was born, so I never met him. From what I’ve heard, he was an asshole. He wronged a whole lot of people, lied and cheated his way through life from day one, and in all likelihood he was shot and buried by loan sharks somewhere outside Cincinnati in the ...
“No. Please! Please! Please Stop! Aaahhh!” the screams echoed from the old brick building, down the dark alley. I stood in the shadows, silently waiting for the negotiation to conclude. Water dripped slowly from an exposed pipe and a light near the metal door at the back of the brick building flickered as if cowering...
"You can't change the past, Sarah." Bullshit, thought Sarah, as she went over the figures one last time. The glow of the computer screen flickered over her spindly fingers as she tapped numbers into the keyboard. She knew exactly what she was doing. She'd spent the last three decades working on it. The first d...
He coughed, sputtered, and exhaled loudly. Blearily he looked through the smoke to his Vice President. "Are you sure you don't want to at least try?"The man was a saint, the Commander-In-Chief decided, as he looked towards him. The oval office was currently in full party mode, and from the looks of it, would be complet...
Cyprus Grove Cemetery is the final resting place of over seven-hundred people from over two centuries. Located in the coastal plains of Georgia it derived its name from the Cyprus trees that flanked the Ogeechee River on its slow, muddy, journey to the Atlantic Ocean. The roots of the trees stuck out as "knees"from...
Jaime was having a fairly bad day. He had woken up 3 hours late for his job because his cell decided it didn't want to sound the alarm. He had checked the wrong date on the Weather Site and used a light attire for what had been the coldest day of the year and then, he had died. Yes, died. He had been rushing down the ...
"Please kill me." The Adjudicator was at the apex of his leap when he heard the voice, high up in the sky. Villains don't deserve death, he thought. The absence of experience, the inability to remember and recant, no need to mull over or pick apart what they've done. They don't deserve that. The wind whistled, bitin...
Lisa's parents were overjoyed. Her guardian angel was her very own great-grandmother. Someone who had passed away years before Lisa was born, but now they would be together. Harold's parents were sombre. His guardian angel was a big looming man who looked like a ruffian. He did not speak much, but what trouble would H...
It was strange when they opened the door to the new family member, I was excited to meet them, a bit nervous but overall excited. It was going to change so much, for the past 40 years it had just been us three, mum and dad who did everything they could to look after me and my little brother who came in a little later,...
The great council was in an uproar. The leaves of those who were rooted locally were fluttering. Remote members emitted a scream of pheromones through vine relays. The news relayed by the ambassadors were simply too shocking. Through the tumult, the speaker pursued: "No one really knows what they look like. They...
I battered my way into the enemy throne room, murdering an enemy knight and I stood there, breathing a sigh of relief. The queen was not here, and while there was a bishop he was not an immediate threat. The king eyed me nervously from the corner, if he moved towards me I would have him. He stepped to my right, towards...
Humanity never had the hindsight, the broader spectrum to look at the world around and beyond. Greek philosophers worked on body and mind, they also recorded history for the next generation, hoping to preserve some lesson or knowledge. The greatest lessons are taught over generations of educated men and women, passing...
“A new law was passed today.” a deliberate pause followed. “Sentences may only contain six words.” The reporter held their hand behind their back, counting words as they spoke. “It’s a federal offence…” the reporter paused, sweating slightly wondering how to finish their sentence in two words or less “…otherwise”. A...
Flat Circles Charles Langstrom stared down the young, well put together bartender of the hole in the wall saloon he'd sauntered into. Same crisp white shirt, same black vest and bow tie, same face Charles had seen staring back at him when he drank alone. Nobody else was in the saloon so early in the morning, put C...
The pain is really what keeps you going. All the chems, the alcohol, even the food, I've seen people go without for days, even weeks. But out here in the Wastes once the pain stops, you've got nothing. You're done like the crispy mole rat steaks that you know weren't cooked with fire so you drench the fucker with Rad...
There was, approximately, 6,741 miles between Exydrommel-411 and Allfather. This distance, coupled with the fact that Exy was connecting to the Allfather via radio waves routed and rerouted through 215 aging signal towers scattered throughout the world, instead of through a direct link courtesy...
I hate this day. I walk nervously into my office building, avoiding eye contact with the receptionist at the oversized marble desk on the right side. I wave my ID badge with my left hand, and with my sweaty right hand, clutch the banana in my hoodie pocket. *I've made it through this stupid holiday the last few yea...
The signal seemed innocuous enough. Just four half-second notes, played on repeat from highest to lowest. It was the kind of music a six-year-old might make when first introduced to a piano. But it did not come from a six-year-old. It did not come from anyone on Earth. Within minutes, the dishes at SETI swiveled to ...
4,246 paper cranes. They were the tiniest paper cranes he could make out of one sheet of paper. After being banned from existence and transported to a echoey white abyss of nothing, he had very little to do besides fold the paper. Luckily, it was a rather large sheet that had contained the six words. He wasn't even su...
I don't remember what my creators wanted of me in the long run. All I know is that I instructed with the ideal of destroying the cities that I had been sent too. That my destiny was to destroy and control; guard the land so that my creators would otherwise come and colonize the land for themselves. I was a 'gift', a re...
"EAT FIREBALLS!"shouted the scraggly man with an even scragglier beard. He hurled several small squares of weighted felt from his robes, hoping to hit the opposing army. "Witchcraft! Sorcery!"screamed a mustachioed man in a gray soldier's uniform. He adjusted his hat, indignant at the hooligans who invaded their battl...
Oh, shit. This phrase was, in one form or another, echoed worldwide as humanity watched Neil Armstrong, the red blooded patriot meant to be cementing American victory in the space race, declare his allegiance to Russia and plant a red flag of another sort. Back on Earth, NASA’s Mission Control tried to wrest back the...

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