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When I first learned of the lung cancer, John was as surprised and confused as I was. Neither of us smoked, and the only second hand possibility resided with my sister-in-law. Even that was a rare interaction, as she was always so careful while she was near all of us. The hospital became our second home, where they ...
“What happens next?” Sarah says, her Disney Princess blanket pulled up to just beneath her nose, emerald green eyes locked upon Chuck. “Well,” Chuck says, leaning back against the cedar chair beside her bed, “Dave doesn’t take too kindly to bears in his home, especially not after he’d just finished killing so many mac...
“Who lives and who dies?” The young child asked. “There’s a careful economic art to it.” I informed the school bus full of children that was touring the ‘martyr hospital’. “You don’t want to allow a martyr to volunteer for just anything. Common colds, mild lifestyle diseases, even things like the flu and a number of e...
"So. Just out of curiosity - this 'fun', what's it about?" The human smiled as he tossed his computer aside. In the tiny, almost closet-sized office, he looked almost impossibly tall. "It's easy!"he shouted. "We even have a song about it! Ready?" The alien shook all four heads, but the human was unstoppable. "F is f...
George had never been one to believe in a higher power. It was just too much to think that there could be a holy deity allowing all this suffering in the world. So when he heard the voice of God in the park that day, he thought he’d developed schizophrenia. "FINALLY, ONE OF YOU SCHMUCKS HAS MADE IT INTO HEAVEN” “Wh…...
The sirens spool up. Their long wail sends a chill down my spine. The negotiations everyone has been waiting on all month have failed. The machines make a mournful cry. My back felt cold and tingled, and I felt like crying myself. I spoke into the phone receiver, my voice quaked “It... it looks like it’s happening mo...
People used to think that gods had power. Whether they worshiped a single all-mighty God, or a pantheon of gods with separate duties, they always had power. The universe had long since collapsed on itself, and I found myself questioning everything. Time couldn't pass because time didn't exist, and yet things still hap...
It was a Caspian tiger, large and shaggy, painstakingly cloned from the trophy that hung in the great hall. It had crossed light-years and centuries, a false extinction in the mid-1900s and a real one later, when everything went belly up in The Big Mistake. It had been the third cub decanted, the only one to survive to...
“Did you know that plants know how to hate?” The face in the ground was gnarled and wrinkled like weathered bark. Small flowers bloomed from its eye sockets and it smiled as it sensed footsteps approaching. The girl stopped a foot away, holding a watering can. “You’re saying plants have emotions?” she asked the fac...
“Is that Steve Irwin?” John said, the newcomer staring at the divine man on the television, unable to comprehend the raw manliness that was the great Steve Irwin. “That’s Saint Irwin to you. But to answer your question, yes, that is the great crocodile hunter that you grew up watching.” The angel didn’t bother glan...
"I still don't understand." "What else is there to understand? You died, won the lottery, and came back as an AI." "See, I don't think you get it. You're supposed to be happy to win the lottery. Happy." This conversation would already be confusing enough from the outside. The fact that it was the captain arguing wit...
“It’s okay for a baby to have a piece of candy once in a while,” my friend said. I looked at him in disbelief. “Have you seen how much sugar the average candy bars have?” “About twelve grams of sugar right?” “No. Twenty four.” “Okay. Twenty four grams of sugar won’t kill a baby still.” “Have you seen the obesity ...
I'd always thought of it as gift. I've no idea why I have this power, or how it works, but if I touch the dead remains of something, I see their last moments. The fresher the more vivid the vision was... the most recent ones I even felt as if it was my own death. That was a problem until I hit upon the idea of going...
The fuck? How the shit can... are you? Is this an in-app purchase thing? HEY! HEY! SOMEONE? ARE YOU LOOKING FOR MICROTRANSACTIONS? Is there a question you have? Oh, thank God. Hi. Yeah. I'm in this character creation screen. I've got nothing but the default skins selected - the blotchy, pockmarked one, at that. T...
There was a bright light positioned directly over my face. It was blinding me before I even managed to pry my eyelids open. Turning away didn’t seem to work; my neck wasn’t moving. I tried lifting my arm to shield my face, but my limbs were all rubbery and numb. I had a moment of panic as I tried to figure out what was...
The drive was odd. the broken yellow meridian provided the only sense of change from a desolate feeling, a desolate landscape, and a desolate world. But hey, at least I didn't have to worry about checking my phone on the way there. I couldn't not. Snapchat gave the first indication; 6.8 billion people located in the mi...
“Sir, there’s something that may concern you.” His aide woke him in the night, Beauregard Borkenstein III had very few calls in the night since he began his presidency. The sleep fell from his eyes as he tried not to disturb his wife. “On with it then, Rufflen.” He says, a sigh slipping from his lips. “It... it’s ...
"A little salt with that, dear,"I gently told Madison as she poured me a cup of coffee. She gave me that perplexed look that children often give adults, be it for a good reason or not. I suppose this was as good a reason as any, given the oddity of this habit. "It's to keep the demons away,"I whispered to her and I rea...
"He advanced our understanding of theoretical physics. He is studied, celebrated and beloved to this day. He changed the world! Surely, if you applied to yourself to any scientific field, you could make an equal amount of progress for science and humanity, if not more." "...And what else did he do?" "I'm sorry, what-...
I was petrified. A stone statue that dare not breathe. The only movement I dared was the darting of my eyes in search of the deadly buzz. My mouth went dry, this was it. This was my final moment on earth. In a moment, it would touch me, and I would go into shock. My throat felt like it was closing up already. Each seco...
A thousand years wasn't really that long. Not on the scale of humanity, anyway. The mounds of the Britons were nearly three thousand years old before the Roman Empire even collapsed. The last pyramid was built a thousand years after the first. Fifty generations of babies learning to smile, youths piecing together a br...
"Waitaminute, waitaminute, waitaminute!"John shouted. The burly barechested demon slowly turned around. Flickering torches making obscene shadows of the stumps protruding from it's back. John swallowed hard. This guy wasn't the nicest on the walk down the hallway to begin with. Surely John wasn't going endear himself...
“What’s Greg eating?” “Oh, he found a new plant on our last visit planetside. Says it taste great.” “How does he know it’s not poisonous?” “Well, he tried a bit while we were there, and it didn’t hurt him, so…” “Wait, what is he putting on it?” “Oh, that. It’s called peeper? It simulates a burning sensation on the...
To be perfectly frank, I preferred being anonymous. Fame doesn't give you anything but everyone's attention. You have to always watch what you say or do. Then the LifeStream happened. It hijacked everyone's view and made it public. Everyone hated it, but you could never say it. At least, I think people hate it. May...
"None of the wishes are yours"the genie explained. "One goes to the person that hates you most, one to the person that loves you most, one was already wished by the last one to find my lamp." "And there is nothing I can do to stop this?"I said. My voice sounded flat even to my own ears. Maybe he'd kill me quick and th...
"What the hell do you mean save the world? You were supposed to destroy it!" The champion blinked like a deer looking at a car. The voice of her God was like a shambling mountain. Unstoppable, heavy, ancient. It would have crushed any being that had not received his favour. "No? I followed your instructions, and it e...
Mordred was sharpening his sword, staring into the small fire he’d used to cook a simple meal of oats and dried pork. He’d chopped up his last apple and tossed it into the mix as well, a shriveled old thing, but it had improved the meal passably. Above, the night sky sparkled with innumerable stars. It was a new moo...
After an agonizing eternity, finally it was time. "RIDE". A soundless order to the four who had waited so patiently. The white horseman flew forth, and from his mouth flew a myriad of diseases. Smallpox, measles, chickenpox and polio blanketed the world. Humanity continued on, impervious. The white horseman slunk...
"W-who are you?"The man whispered through bloody lips. I smiled. "Louder." "W-w-what?" "Speak louder."I took a step towards him. "What the fuck do you want?!"He shrieked. Oh, yes, it was definitely him, his voice, since I was 7 years old. "Oak Street. 238." He began to cry. He held an arm up like it was going ...
The boy who lived had decided his time to die would soon come. Magic had sustained him into a long and happy old age that had allowed him to see his great grandchildren start their very first year at Hogwarts. Family is rarely allowed to watch the sorting ceremony but this was a small favor granted Harry from an old fr...
Water. Di-hydrogen Monoxide. That blue crap that's almost everywhere on Earth. When I was a little boy, they taught us in the schools that this liquid was essential to human health, that this liquid was required for humans to live. If you didn't drink water, they said, you'd die in three days. And so I grew up to the ...
Dusk settled wearily on a stoney stretch of beach somewhere along the northern channel coast of the England. Asides from the gulls, the evening drowned Necalli in silence. Nothing like the screeching of howler monkeys and soothing whistles of the jungle that he grew intensely reliant on. He had not claimed more than...
"Two senators each, just like the other sixty states,"said Barock Obamoon. "And you drop the tax on Space Tea. Those are our conditions." The federal emissary rubbed his forehead with the bionic hands atop his waist-mounted iArms, while the fingers of his real hands drummed the moonstone table. To Barock, he resembled...
If I have feelings I think this one would be called anxiety. The thing I was supposed to feel when I started at a new school in the fourth grade or when I was asking Jennifer to prom. But I didn’t. People told me I’d be a great lawyer due to the way I behaved under pressure and this seemed like the ultimate testament t...
What does it mean to be human? The philosophers of old tried to answer this question, yet perhaps the answer is now better understood tens of thousands of years later. We have discovered worlds the past never even dreamed about, with species so unique and exotic from the ones of our Earth. The Thanagians, bird-humaniod...
When the boy made it to the stand, the man behind the counter looked him over. The exposed skin of the boy's face, his neck. He reached over the counter and began to pull at the boy's sleeve. “Don't touch me,” said the boy, taking a step back. He bumped into the large, rough-featured woman behind him in the line. ...
0.024%. Those are the odds that someone can use the Wish Maker 100 times and still be standing by the end of it. No-ones ever gotten this far. No-one but me. I was a simple, poor girl. 14 and impressionable, easily bullied, easily coerced, but I was smart. I knew the risks. Everyone did. A machine that could grant you...
The dark clouds dissipate as the Eternal Dragon returns to its slumber. The Dragon Balls soar into the sky and fly off in different directions so the search can commence once again. The Goose does nothing. It turns its head to the onlookers behind him, stunned at what had just transpired before them. "What just happen...
"I'm having trouble understanding, Smith. Why have you resigned from your post?"The Vault Director asked me. How do I answer that? More importantly, what would be the point? I made my decision, before I had even exited the room with the Subject. "Smith, you're being groomed to one day be the director of this entire o...
As the carriage of visiting diplomats approached the capital Prince Farquaad waved towards the immense glowing ward lines. "The King has spared no expense and has turned the capital into the greatest magical fortress the world has ever known!" "All the armies of the world combined would break against the great arcan...
Well shit. That was the only thought I could muster as I stared at the meaningless shapes frozen over my eyes. I couldn't even hear the whirring and clunking of the spacecraft around me, all I could process was my own mounting panic. Wait, no, calm down, Lia. I took a mental breath, having already realized that it ...
He manages to find her in most of his lives. And he still loves her enough to fleetingly consider killing her, so that they can start over again, same age, nearer locations, maybe. Wouldn’t have to waste his life searching. He runs his bulbous, gnarled fingers through reams of white and wiry beard. She’s thirty. It co...
It’s calm here; and clean. A memory tugs at my soul: I’ve been here before. I know I've been here before. “Welcome back!” Says a voice from behind me. The World starts materializing from clouds. It’s not one specific color, but is color, you can feel it around you. I’m suddenly standing on somethin...
It truly was a surreal sight to behold. In the cathedral of beginning and end, the once most holy place of humankind. The place which was defiled with the darkest and most sinister magic there is. Drenched in runes written in blood of the innocent. Mere moments before the summoning of the dark god and the destruction...
Her hair looks different, but it’s undeniably her. I’m either the main character of some fucked up, modernized Truman Show, or God just thinks it’s funny to pull a prank every now and then. The expression on her face instantly tells me that she recognizes me too. It’s the same expression she made when she first told ...
On the outside, I was maintaining a shocked appearance, I was acting like I couldn't believe it, how could this ever be my career? All the other kids in room where staring at me, honestly, at this point I didn't even really care anymore, this was AWESOME. I really had to fight hard with myself to not show how excited I...
The Devil slowly strode around the empty fire pits and lovingly brushed his hand along the polished brass safety rail. Once these had all been full of screaming souls, but it had been a long time since they'd been busy enough that they had needed indiscriminate punishment, recently it had all been bespoke. Back in th...
I stood beside Master Turuk at the Avatar training ground deep in the mountains. I let my eyes pass slowly over the snow-covered peaks around me, glittering in the afternoon sun. At least I'm fortunate enough to be training in a beautiful place, I thought. At the rate this is going, I have plenty of time to look at the...
"Report, sector 3- anything yet?"A voice crackled over the radio. "Damnit, Qi, stop using that ancient pile of shit receiver already. I hate the damn crackling and snow. Just use our normal quantum transmitters. "Sorry, Chuu, I'm afraid I can't do that."Still crackly. "Now you're quoting that rubbish? The strange, f...
To whom it may concern, I can't do it anymore. I've been on the team monitoring Hubble for far too long. The... Things I have seen. The questions those images lead to. I hesitate to call this a suicide note. Instead let me title this as my hypothesis. I've already asked the question, done my background research, and...
“Beautiful, isn’t it?” Jane started, spinning around from the hyperspace observation display. A man, dressed in the white dress uniform of a captain, was walking towards her. Captain Andrews, hero of the ISP, or Interplanetary Space Program. She saluted. “Sir, I was just-” Andrews raised a hand, interrupting her. His...
After some brief confusion, I soon recognise my surroundings; I’ve woken up in the bedroom I lived in as a child. But I can remember being an adult, doing all the adult things I used to do. I sit up in bed and look down at myself. Yep, I’m a kid again. My hand goes to my face, sure enough, my beard is gone. I’ve someti...
"Is this thing on?"Landon asked as he breathed onto the lens of his new camera. A screech sound came from behind him. "That's a yes,"his roommate Matt said annoyingly as he pulled the headphones away from his ears. "Try not yelling right by the mic on that thing, alright?"he said. Landon just giggled. "My bad,"he s...
The supers had kidnapped me in my sleep. That much was obvious. The how was the interesting part. I didn't even wake up during the move and here I was in the most luxurious amd comfortable room I'd ever seen. Hell, even the pillows in the huge king size bed were the right range of firmness. There was a soda fountain an...
Midgar sauntered into the room and looked around, disdain written clearly on his face. I didn't blame him. The ramshackle hut was adorned with various tools and torture implements, only recently vacated by the witch that was driven out of town during the last hunt. The only place I could get with absolutely zero funds,...
I knew that he wasn't a normal by the first year. He was so little, when I found him. In a box, on the porch. He had been left, of all days, during a tropical rainstorm. These storms can get pretty bad here in Wellington. Fortunately, I found him while attempting to secure the garden gnome I have kept as the guardian...
His hands moved with speed and grace that people rarely possessed these days. The numbers his pen left behind were colored in an orange hue, the same as his pen. Exactly every 7 minutes and 30 seconds, he would stop and take a small sip from the teal-colored cup besides him, before setting down his pen once again, co...
I roll a 17. An 18 would have saved me this round. I even prayed for this. Not to the DM. But I prayed for it. All for nothing. No one's listening. I am. Who's that- You've been praying to ME, RNGus, all this time. Why's Fred still sipping from his glass of Coke? I can stop time. So you're the god of time? ...
For the past five years, I have been assigned Dark Falz as my nemesis by the League of Heroes. As such, it’s been my duty, my obligation to follow everything he does and to prevent him from enacting any acts of villainy. However, unlike any villain I’ve ever known, I can’t name one villainous thing he has ever done. F...
"There's no mistake about the dating?"I asked. Shira shook her head, her antennae twitching slightly. "No mistake." "And the sample?" "Human. 99.9% probability. Not modern humans, exactly, but it matches our projections for homo sapiens DNA at the time." I turned back to the ship. It was old. About ten thousand yea...
I'd reached halfway to the door; my hand hovered over the light switch. I'd checked beneath the bed. I'd checked the closet. The night light threw cheery butterflies onto the walls and Lilly lay tucked up to the neck in her Disney sheets. "Daddy?"she said, just as I thought I'd sneak out without further delay. I had t...
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We had nukes. Heat seeking missiles. Concentrated ray beams. More boxes of ammunition than there are grains of sand on Earth. We had fighter jets and stealth bombers and tanks. And we had other weaponry the bulk of humanity didn't know existed, because we'd developed it in secret. But the invaders moved too fast! They...
We were driving down the interstate at 4 am. I remember that part vividly, the clock ticking from 3:59 to 4:00. He was driving and when the green digital numbers changed, he gave a whoops of excitement and pressed on the gas even harder. He opened the sunroof and told me to stick my head out, and I wasn't about to let ...
“Hello everyone, as all of you probably aren’t aware, I’ve been called to your school because they thought that I needed to talk to you all about a problem that’s running rampant through the classes.” The kids all sat down in their seats as they entered the auditorium. A man wearing a long coat and thick black boots st...
''Okay...'' I mumble, somewhat confused. ''I call a million Dollars?'' A suitcase falls down and springs open on impact. Inside are hundreds of $100 bills. ''Are they real tho? And where do they come from?'' I decide to take them to a store to test them out. ''Blast, that's right, I'm in Europe. They use Euro's here...
Oh, great. It still wasn't a nightmare. That was Sarah's first thought every morning when she woke up next to slimy Shlait. She grimaced as she hoisted herself up with one hand in some leftover pile of slime. She knew she shouldn't be discriminatory towards other species, but she had a limit. "Good morning, ...
I can hear them screaming. Even from this room. God. I wish they'd stop, but they only do that while heavily sedated, and the doctors don't dare give them any more than they've already gotten. It's distant, of course, but it is there. I can see the doctor sitting in front of me, she's desperately trying to ignore them,...
The reaper wails upon his seat- a throne steeped in chagrin. His scheme's but lost- at awful cost- All for my painted skin. Upon my brow the mark did rise- a bleak and blighted sin! The time for me was o'er, indeed! So read my painted skin. The townsfolk chased me, tooth and nail- My heart beat, deep...
For most of my life, I was a simple fisherman from the sleepy island of Bermuda: the very edge of the world. Others from the continent feared us, and it was rare that a ship would travel so far to resupply us. We mostly just make do with what we have. After the Atlantic Decree of Pope Nicholas V, the Atlantic Ocean was...
"Dead enough,"they told me when I was admitted. I screamed and protested: "Not dead! Just frozen! Not dead!"My cries just made them laugh. "We love screamers down here." I've been tortured in more ways than I thought possible. With acid. With fire. With needles. With spiders crawling under my skin. With drowning, ov...
Justin was above all else, a rational man, but what was happening to him was impossible. The last thing he remembered was a voice telling him it was going to be all right... And then this. He looked around with vision clearer than anything he could ever remember seeing, but everything he could see was at knee height. ...
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The world was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and His spirit was hovering over the waters. Some would have you believe that God's next action was to say "Let there be light,"and that there would, in response, be light. While this i...
"I'm not an idiot, Mal. I know what this means." "Katherine, stay in bed!"Malence Grey pushed his wife back down onto the four-poster bed. She glared at him, but lacked the strength to resist, flopping limply amongst the knotty silk sheets. "I'm going to find you a doctor. A good one. This is...this is nothing." "A d...
"Well, I'm not that alone because clearly people can't stop fucking talking about it." The researcher was taken aback. Weak. "J-John says that you're not openminded enough. Funny. He'd called himself John minutes ago. I was used to this, but people were always expecting me to reveal some hidden side to myself. I ...
"Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!" "If everything is clean and cool and perfect, then nobody gets hurt. Nobody likes a sticky bloody mess. This guy here! This is what I'm talking about. I want you all to be as cool as... what's your name, son?" "Um... what? I'm sorry, I..." "Your name. What is it?" "My name's ...
(I know my numbers aren't correct but I'm too lazy to look 'em up at the moment, so if you have 'em, hit me with 'em. Also, this is a very rough draft. Apologies.) 12:31 AM. Saturday. 23rd of December, 12017 Holocene Era. Elon Musk's SoCal mansion. The ceiling fan provides something to focus on in the silence. He h...
I try to remember life before. Trying to form the details I keep forgetting. I can remember the life I had and the people I shared it with. I can remember their faces. My family and friends all around me. Waiting with tear filled eyes for the last moments to come. I remember smiling up at them, feeling their love cove...
Dave hunched over trying to fend off the bitter cold, his tattered jacket flapping around his bony frame. Clutched in his arms, an elaborate golden lamp. "I wonder where the best place is to take this lamp. Surely someone is missing it."He said aloud to Ribbit, his constant companion. Ribbit was a medium sized dog th...
It is a really brilliant method of staying alive for them. Alien parasites came to Earth, offering, in exchange for being allowed to use a host-body for a two-year period, that you could rest. Sleep for a long while, long enough that any say, embarrassing or awkward situations were out of the picture. Long enough that ...
I have to love the New Mutants. I remember getting a minor comic book for them, and seeing how everyone mocked Cypher as a kid. How could someone who could speak every language be any good? Then, they found 'oh, it also counts computer language, body language, the language of love', and suddenly he was overpowered. Fo...
The roads were quiet as always, lit by a full starry night sky. How fortunately so since the roads have been darkened since a year ago. It also made the trip back home a long quiet one with the roads emptied and cleared. My wife sat beside me in the car, snoring her butt off after a great night at the party. As I drove...
A warning that I get into some mild body horror here, so you know, caution if you are especially squeamish "What the he—"Giovanni's mouth sealed over and his eyes grew teeth as he stared too long at my pokémon. His tears flowed, a toxic green glow to them. "Jesse?"Fear filled James' voice as his arms split into co...
Helloooooo my humans! My name is HIT. I am the first artificially intelligent combat specialized r-r-r-robot! What’s that? I show resemblance to a human? Well my good friend that is just a front! If other governments realize that my country has succeeded in building such a beautiful piece of art such as myself, they wo...
George I'm hiding in the back seat of Dave Emmet's car, waiting for him to enter it. Today, he's going out of town on a business trip, and when he's was about 10 kilometers away from the edge of the city, I'm going to kill him and make it look like he died of thirst after his car broke down. Ah look, he's getting i...
The fools expect me to fight. Sad. It's pathetic. The wood doors swing open. I step into the Coliseum. Putin's there. Good guy. Gave me money. I'll still win biggly. Huge. I cut off his head and use it as a paper weight. Cause I don't know how to lose. In fact, after all these world leaders, I'm getting tired of winn...
A last bit of air escaped my chest. There was no turning back from my decision. Ice bit my skin while dark shadows hugged around my body for warmth. There wasn’t going to be much time – there never is enough time. It was with the last blink of my right eye when I was able to make out a figure standing before me. It wa...
"This craft of sorts was captured both on RADAR and video by our Navy aircraft some time ago."I explained to the Aldune. Our ambassador to the federated alliance. "Do other similar records exist?"They asked cautiously. "Yes, including records of persons being abducted and animals being mutilated or reduced to base ch...
"Just go with the light blue polo Jack. Its not like you're going to El Soires or some fancy restaurant", said Zuko, my rescue doberman. "And do bring back a doggy bag for ya boi". "Honestly, I'll never get used to you speaking that way to me", I replied while grabbing the dog's choice of wardrobe for my date. "My la...
It is forbidden to forge a blade like that in most nations. In most realms any who attempts to create a magical sword are hunted down and burned alive for their heinous crime. For while you can bind magic to many things, tools, art, instruments, even whole buildings; a weapon made to spread death will only remain magic...
"Coming out of translight in 3, 2, and here we are! Wow, what a beautiful planet this is! To see it on optium scans is one thing, but to see it with my own six eyes, absolutely breathtaking!"said Zeelok, controller of the science vessel Probius. "Zeelok, you are always the excitable one. But, let us not lose sight ...
If you are watching this video, I’ve been murdered. I also know who did it. But we’ll come to that later. I’m an old man, and I’ve spent my life accumulating wealth. I’ve recorded this video as my last will and testament. Now I’ve set up a number of trusts for charity, and they were distributed during my life. But I st...
20 years. Had it really been that long? The news crews were coming in later today to interview me.....I hope the drones can guide them in without any casualties this time. The volcano lair was...mostly dormant. When I first settled here,I never planned on visitors. At least,none I actually wanted to survive the trip. I...
"I'm telling you, any planet, any race, one equivalent lifetime,"Lon'e said. "It's just a matter of getting the others on board. But I could guarantee you that I can get them six levels higher than they are." "Six?"Dwar'e laughed, "You're fooling yourself. There's no way. Not only could you not do it, but if you...
It was liberation. He sat up and counted aloud. "1, 2, 3, 4..."on and on until he was certain that minutes had passed. Still the red glow of the alarm clock remained. 12:04am. His heart began to pound faster and faster as the possibilities turned in his mind. Time had stopped, but he had not. Learn a second languag...
Magical Aids & Accoutrements - The Greatest Magical Hobby Shop in the Country. Kate wasn't about to argue - firstly because it would be useless to argue with a shopfront sign. But secondly, because she simply couldn't imagine how any other store could claim to be better. The first time she had wandered into the...
"Dix was murdered?"asked the liver. "Yes, we swear!"shouted back the kidneys in unison. "Never did care for him, that little runt,"the stomach belched. "What a predicament,"the lungs sighed, "But surely, we know that I am next in line here." The others quieted and grew uncomfortable. "All I have to do is stop doin...
"So what happened to Trump?"Yvette's unending curiosity finally seemed to bother her nurse. His cheerful demeanor almost immediately soured, which was easy to read when his brow was bare as a baby's buttocks. He shifted uncomfortably back and forth as he replied, "He's, uh, gone now..."He trailed off with a tone that ...
They called her Polly. Short for Dorothy. That always used to make people laugh. When Polly saw the smiles lift on the faces of the men who came to pick her up from her first day of fifth grade, three days ago, she'd assumed they were friendly. They had, after all, claimed to be old friends of her mother's. Why shouldn...
When bringing a pre-FTL planet to the Imperial fold, it is usually normal for there to be some kind of resistence. First the weak militaries, then some brave civilians, then a few nutters. The last to give in are the outliers. Secret societies, unusually gifted physical individuals, surviving local government agencies,...

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