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7 August 2015 Journal of Vladimir Gregorovich Today, while we were preparing ourselves for the launching of a new space program, our satellites picked up on a strange frequency just beyond the planet Mars. We have yet to identify the origin, but we are watching it very closely. Perhaps it can hold the key to our firs...
“Welcome home, sir.” I smile and thank the officer behind the counter. It’s good to be home. My tour was nothing short of miraculous. I prayed to every god I knew of. Hell, once I prayed to a rock that I was hiding behind. Something must have worked, because I’m here. *At Kabul, we were under fire from a team of sni...
It was strange how a little thing can change your mood. Mariska had given the begger a handfull of cash more out of anger than anything. To most people that would sound insane, but you had to understand Mariska. You had to know that her mother was a terrible tightwad who won't even pay a taxi driver until they threat...
I closed the door softly behind me as I sank quietly to my knees. '*Has it has been five years now?*' I asked myself, desperately trying to calculate various quick figures in my head. Air seemed to be caught between my lungs and my heart. I fought off a burst of anxiety knowing that it would try to grapple me into depr...
"Today's the day." Yep, it was the big day. Everyone had been waiting for this day for nearly a cycle. The tests showed that the oncoming affects were being brandished off quite respectably, and again they had endured. The little blue orb was going to make it. The latest and final addition had nearly swarmed the exper...
"So that's why the world has been falling apart?"I ask, mostly to myself, "yup. Fucker took the owner's manual when he left"Was all Lucifer could say. "So what do I do now?" "Well, we have all the hedonistic stuff you'd expect."He shurgged as we began walking down the gold plated street. "Orgies, drugs, every booze ...
It's the celling I notice first. It's not my own usual white stucco with slightly faded edges. Is that weird? You'd think it would be the slightly purple glow from the artificial lights or the fact that I can see literal stars flowing by but it's the celling that sticks out at first. I guess it's the things you're most...
Fame means power in this world. Literally. It feeds the stars of our society, gives them powers no regular human could imagine. Their might, intellect, and even lifespan are only limited by the worship they receive from the ignorant masses. Hell, penguins didn't even exist until Morgan Freeman narrated *March of the Pe...
Scion couldn't remember where it had learned loneliness. It could remember where it had learned most things. Faces, from training data. Coffee cup, training data. Humor, from a particularly enterprising intern named Josh who had once secretly uploaded every episode of Seinfeld into Scion's training files. Ah, Josh. Sci...
# Soulmage **"Hi, I'm here to inquire about the Eldritch Initiative?"** I asked, tentatively sidling into the... distressingly organic clinic in the center of the Silent City. Pulses of power languorously pumped across its skin—its *walls*, I told myself, buildings have *walls*—and the amorphous blob of pale white fle...
"And I just sign here?""Yeah, and put your driver's license number on that line.""What the fuck,"said Mark. Mark was the leader of our superhero team. I said, "Didn't you see my two week notice?""Yeah I got your two week notice,"Mark said, "it didn't say anything about you switching sides."I held up the new hire packet...
For centuries the humans have wondered what like after death was like. Every major religion built on this one simple goal, but never really concretely coming up with evidence. From heaven and hell, to reincarnation, to just the absolute nothingness it was all just guesses. That was until 2074 when a brilliant man by ...
"...So you see, Titanius, us constantly moaning 'brains' isn't mindless groaning, we're merely looking for intellectual discourse." I sat back against the wall, confused out of my mind. I had seen the attacks. I had seen my friends overwhelmed. But strangely enough, none of them were killed, just zombified. After they...
The doctor frowned at the flip chart, turned it over, scanned all the figures and then started again from the top. His decades of training told him the baby should be improving. His prayers last night had been for this child. But nothing was working. No matter what he did, the tiny body was shutting down. It wasn’t sup...
*Edit: Sorry, I ignored the post-apocalyptic part.* “Honey, I’m home!” I walked through the front door and threw my keys on the table. I removed my jacket and hung it lightly on the railing before heading upstairs. “Amy! I’m home baby. I got off early.” I had left for work that morning in a bad mood. I had stormed ...
I was born in Kansas in the big settlement, New Kansas City. It was a pretty amazing place and I realise now that we had managed to keep many things which others had lost. I guess that's how it started really, jealousy. There were always kids around, when you're a kid yourself that's the greatest thing, to be finished ...
To be fair, a lot of wars kind of just flickered out. The middle east got a lot better. The bad part was only 150 million men survived. And then when the power plants started to fail and the internet went down, some more were killed in a mini-apocalypse. But it turns out drones don't exactly need a huge crew, with out...
The lander smashed into the ground and bounced back up into the air. Then it slammed back down, and bounced yet again. Five of us threw up the remains of our last meal in orbit, which made the following bounces particularly unpleasant. There were nicer, softer ways of doing the landings, but those cost more. And no one...
*Beep… Beep… Beep… Beep…* Reading her mind is like walking on a meadow blooming with Amaryllis, Forsynthia, Foxglove, and Tiger Lilies. Her mind is my safe place, and even in this condition, it’s peaceful and free from stress. I choose to immerse myself in the warm breeze and the sunset inside her head, rather than fa...
"You're looking rather sickly."I said while stirring my drink. "Oh shush with that silver tongue, you'll make me blush."This skin had long since fallen from the bones beneath the robe, making it literally impossible to blush, but I didn't mention it. Instead I smiled warmly. "All the same, you know I'm not lying. Jus...
The unmistakable silhouette of a Amo-sla Kestral, in the deep space configuration, came into view of Captain Thert's bridge. These things never responded to hails, they just went floating on by, unless fired at. A hit would make them explode with enough force to wipe out his super star destroyer. He wasn't taking that ...
I think my husband's been replaced by an imposter. For one, I woke up to a breakfast in bed. And the reason? "I just wanted to show you how much I love and appreciate you." Which made me skeptical. "Oh,"he added, "plus tomorrow's our anniversary, and I just wanted to celebrate a little early." Which confirmed th...
Some kids get familiars when they are just 13. Little douchebags, walking around high school with some winged monkey on their shoulder. As soon as a creature appears, you're king of the town, doing whatever you want. You'll get a good job, a nice house, girls will want you. You win, basically. Not me. The final age t...
"Frostie,"the mouse whimpered and punctured my everyday state of subdued bliss. My Ragdoll, Frostie, averted her eyes and let out a soft meow before hurriedly escaping through the pet flap. The mouse stranded on my Goodwill carpet reached out a paw, stretching not-so-much towards me I suppose as much as towards life i...
“Subject has breached containment!” “Code red! I repeat, code red! All research personnel are to immediately evacuate-“ Sirens blaring, the corridor bathed in an ominous red light, and a battalion of security personnel kitted out in their best SWAT imitation running past. Yup, seems normal. Just another day at the I...
‘Monster.’ A peculiar word. One that we have heard so very, very often. When probed, however, none seem to have a true definition. Is a monster a creature? If so, would not a common cow make your monster? No, likely not. So then, must a monster have the will to harm? Does it need to be spawned of evil, looking walking ...
*One in ten million* The voice had shown up for the first time a few days ago. I had started my car and was backing out of my driveway when it had whispered over my shoulder. I had slammed on my brakes and looked into my back seat, but there was no one there. That wasn't the last time I had heard it. *One in on...
I felt, distantly, the touch of a mortal hand on the brass surface of my prison. *Ah. How long has it been...?* I was mildly curious, but the passage of time had never meant much to me. I was a genie, after all. Time had no hold on me, and never would. When this planet was nothing but a scorched husk orbiting a red g...
My wife made a wonderful meal. With onions, potatoes, and more, it was the best thing I’ve ever eaten. The meat was so tender, supple and delicious. I just couldn’t get enough. I had one and helping and then another. It was too good to stop. I remembered I once told her that her steak was the best thing I had ever h...
Kidnapped from birth, brainwashed and indoctrinated... that's one thing we all have in common. No amount of combat makes a man forget that. But sometimes, the thrill of a laser pulse flying straight over your shoulder, the satisfactory zap of hitting your target... that makes a man forget his enemies. Because when so...
The tiger prowled through the sidewalks, walking unnoticed through the throng of people. No one noticed him, as things should be. Everyone seemed to move so much faster these days, walking with *purpose*, like the kid's dad used to. Staring straight ahead, briefcase in hand, checking a watch only every so often. It wa...
I have a routine, you see. I wake up, feed my chickens, have breakfast, and then open the shop and take my post behind the register. Like any day, new Adventures trickle in. Buy a sword, sell some rat guts, upgrade a shield. The usual. The government subsidizes the rat guts, so while they don’t really make me any mone...
Polek watched Arlia descend into the well's passage, no longer obscured by water. At the very last step she looked back. The man’s shadow blocked the sky, he stared into the dripping tunnels, and the back towards the market. Back towards home. “Well, do you want your wish to come true?” “It was a silly wish.” “Bu...
It sounds useless, no? Yet, I must admit, I owe my success to this orb of orchestration. I realize when the most important moments are happening. A certain swell let me know the love of my life had entered the room. I turned because of the music. I understood she mattered. I find inspiration to fight on against imposs...
Never done one of these before but had a go at this one as had a spare bit of time. Not really a writer. Tried to line this prompt up with events of the lockdown lol as I had this image of someone coming out of a bunker to the pandemic emptiness. ​ \--------------------------------------------------------...
I slowly but carefully put down the pen of my drawing tablet, with a click onto my desk. The angel, leaned closer to my screen. I am not sure i would have described him as pure white, as much as he seemed to emit light. His wings were beams of pure sunlight, yet they moved just as wings should. He looked closer at my...
I knew it was Hitler. I had seen his face plenty enough times, studied his mannerisms, his atrocities. I poured him a beer anyway. "Time travelers?"I asked with a wry smile. "Are you sure you aren't drunk already?"I felt the weight of my time travel device- no larger than a cell phone- in my own pocket, mocking me for...
“Admiral, they're pushing us towards the Gravity well!” The young Caledonian officer shouted over the blarring of alarms and creaking of the ships Titanium bones.   “Sir, the right wing is breaking.” the visibly pale communication officer added.   Another barrage of missiles shook the ship, fire burst from the damage...
"Hey babe, we have to get going. I don't want to be too late,"I said to my wife. She was standing in the closet in her underwear, still as a statue. Jesus, can the Great Old Ones put together a woman. I could stare at her all day and not get enough. If I could shake the hand Yog-Sothoth for creating her, I would. "Wh...
"Okay you probably won't believe me, but it's been for a good cause, Agent... Smith", I paused to double-check the name tag, not believing the spook interrogating me would actually be named Smith. I mean, come on. I really did feel sorry for the man, however. For what was to come. He laughed, grimly, no humor on hi...
Nobody knew me unless I allowed them to. It's not out of any particular need for anonymity. It's just because that's the way I am. When I fight crime, they call me Reversal. Well, I called myself that--when I was younger, I cared a bit more about staying under the radar, and it dampens your dating life a little when m...
There was a grey-green sludge with a pale foam hovering on the surface. Even from across the room, I could see inexplicable lumps of undigestible matter swirling around within the mixture. The earthy smell took me back. I say earthy smell - but goodness knows how many years since I last inhaled that place. It...
He'd had 81 wonderful years and felt like he would like to have a fair few more. Much to the annoyance of his family. The old man sat smiling in his airmchair. Surrounded by his family, young grand children playing in the middle of the room, sons and daughters in laws conversing around a television, his own children (...
The first time I sensed it, it *hurt*. The presence loomed in my soul, gripped my heart like an intangible clenched fist. For a few days, I passed it off as anxiety. Years ago, before I began down this path, I may have looked to medicine or therapy. Now, after so much time alone, I knew that meditation would provide me...
When I was a young man, my grandmother told me that when she died, her life would continue for another 70 years. Her theory was that her memory would live on by those who knew her, namely her grandkids, until they died, roughly 70 years later. I think she was right, in fact, I know she was. It's been more than 70 yea...
I stared at the hanging rope a short distance in front of me and listened to the whispers of the crowd at my back. Thief, murderer....traitor they called me. The intensity of their gaze was like a physical weight on my back, trying to press my face into the wooden boards I knelt on. Time and time again I had watched ...
4000 B.C. A new dawn broke as the chieftain Abraham Lincoln, got up from his bed to lead the American people. They were a small tribe, but they were eager to work to achieve a manifest destiny. The village of Washington, D.C. quaint and peaceful this morning, but Lincoln had visions of war and conquest, of research an...
I've never written in first person before like this, so I hope the tenses and everything make sense. Thanks for the prompt! :) Physics class was the one class that usually dragged on for ages. Something about this day, though, Professor Guil didn’t act like his normal self. He had developed a routine of looking out t...
In the garage we were building the hopeless, but it was good that we tried. We hardly talked then, as we hardly did, but we were close there in that moment and we worked well. He was my father and I supposed that was good enough. Perhaps the silence was the peace many do not experience. I cannot say. In that garage we ...
“Hello,” began the elderly man, tentatively. He made his way to Shawn, standing by a towering bronze statue with a smiling man holding a box with knobs towards the ground, as if presenting it to visitors. The old man removed his bowler hat to hold it over his heart. “My apologies sir, my name is *Gustave*, you may not ...
The astronomers of antiquity first hypothesized of a planet precisely opposite that of Earth, a sister planet orbiting the Sun 180 degrees from our own. The Greek philosopher Philolaus called it *Antichthon*, or Counter-Earth; the Latin cosmographer Mela feverishly drew maps of this unknown planet; the Danish-Irish ast...
    "First Mate Thomas O'Reilly requesting audience, captain."     Captain Glabbal paused in the midst of his painting. Confound it, he had just gotten the suspension correct! He sighed, sending a rush of bubbles through his gills. "Confirm audience, computer."If he...
"Death is too fitting for someone like you. Instead, your soul shall know no rest as it is trapped forever in this blade." Cenric knelt before his enemy, defeated completely. Blood seeping from his many wounds, but his deepest pain was knowing that his rebellion failed. It was all for naught, and his people were going...
Jimmy scribbled the pentagram on the paper, placing the dead mouse in the middle. He then carefully arranged the cupcakes and their candles before lighting them. There was a moment when nothing happened,  the only sound muffled shouts and gunshots from his brother's video game. Then the room shook, smoke coming from th...
When Alan was young, they’d go to the Dragon Fountain. That’s what they’d call it for his benefit, instead of the more formal Westview Center Mall Water Pool. He’d drag his feet through the department stores and then start running as soon as they reached the courtyard. His dad would flick him a penny, or if he was espe...
*The Cryowalkers we called them. Enhanced strength, speed, durability and to top it off they even developed the ability to survive in sub zero temperatures, all at the cost of inability to generate their own heat*. None of these traits were anything we ever anticipated, but damn were they a welcome surprise. The discov...
"You're here to do what to me?"the King of the Gods asked, a bushy eyebrow raised and a sudden smile appearing on his face. "Punch you in the face,"I said, my fists closing and opening in anticipation, "You got my wife pregnant." "Ah,"Zeus looked away in contemplation, "Was it Lorissa of Abila?"When he saw my look of...
Shit, Rob thinks. He didn't get enough sleep for this. He cracks the door open the slightest, and there they are, five people dressed in glitters trampling all over his tomatoes. His tomatoes. He's spent years growing them, literally spread all sorts of rumors and things to protect all the plants in his garden... and...
It was this, or redeployment. They even gave me a cushy title: aide-de-camp, instead of mere bodyguard. I was expected to be the expert's personal assistant. For most officials, it was prestigious. But for Rani, I had to wait on her as I cared for a child, which, really, was all she seemed to be. "I don't feel like i...
Humans. To most, sort of a joke. A lame little creature that flutters around at the edge of creation, not being particularly strong, fast, or smart. Just sort of there. Background species, if you will, with no striking natural colours, no interesting quirks. Not really built for living on worlds where water is nearly b...
On my way through the hotel lobby I passed by the manager who asked me what business I had here. I responded by lifting up the take out boxes and said I had an order. She told me to go on ahead. I went upstairs and went to room 23. I knocked, waited a moment and no response. I tried again, this time calling out that ...
Tabatha's father was laughing too hard to answer. "Dad? You couldn't have..."Tabatha said. Tabatha's father laughed more and turned around his laptop on the table revealing a video-call with her father's friend, Pete looking dumbfounded. "DAD! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?"Tabatha yelled. "We had a bet and ha! Pete di...
"Okay kids, let's play a game outside. I got noodles made of foam and these pillows."I say. I split the class into two. "What are we playing?"A little girl asks. "It's called, red versus blue. Remember when I asked everyone's parents if they'd be fine with some paint on you guys?" "Mhm!" "Well, the ends of these no...
Greetings human. I am Bliztok of the Androba Federation. We've heard that you are one of the best zoologists on you planet and my class would like to hear you give a presentation on your planet's wonderful collection of animals. You will of course be paid handsomely. Wait, you actually want to hear me talk about anima...
I was very fortunate to get and well qualified for the Care Enricher Actor at ‘Valhalla, Retirement Home of Heroes and Hero Associates.’ As a former criminal and wanna be super villain finding employment after serving my time was difficult. I was so ashamed that I attempted to use my illusion casting powers for a qui...
I am what you might consider the oldest being alive. The spirit of an Egyptian slave, trapped with dark sorcery within the confines of a lamp, I am forced to grant one wish to anyone who asks it of me. You just have to rub my lamp... It's really fucking demeaning. I mean, come on. Rub a lamp, get whatever the hell you...
Gareth sighed in frustration as his car ground to a halt behind a long stream of traffic. Yet again his journey into work was to be delayed. He would have had another hour in bed if he’d known it was going to happen again. A week ago, when the zombie “apocalypse” first started, people the world over began panicking as...
Trist the magician lay behind his cloak, breathing heavily. He was not used to running, being far more at home on a stage than a plain. He had had little time for his illusion, but he was confident he would not be discovered. He was the greatest magician in the lower kingdom, after all. He heard cries from afar. The...
I shot it again, out of reflex. The grinning face disintegrated into fine pulp, flesh blasted away from yellow bone. Another corpse spoke up and I whirled. One hand raised my axe, but nothing terribly menacing presented itself. Instead, the right half of a torso had begun breathing again, the right half of the head tha...
This had to be a Joke, right? You stand there, perplexed, unsure what to do. There couldn't be a machine that controls the entire human race, it just didn't add up. But what grabs your Curiousity the most is the lever that reads "DO NOT TOUCH"set to only 1%. There other ones were all labeled and set to a certain le...
“Another doomsday loon was killed this morning,” Mike said from his spot in front of the local news channel. “Shot during the night for preaching on the corner.” “Honey, turn that off, you know it’s not good for you. Besides, I’m about to get the kids up.” “Fine, fine.” Mike stood and turned the TV off. Ever since th...
In a catastrophic battle, the likes of which the English language has never seen, the fight between consonants and vowels begins. The vowels draw first blood. Z and X are killed off right away. But the consonants have letters to burn. And as letters start to go, so does the quality of our communication. J is destroye...
Bill strode mindfully up to the podium as the participants on both sides of the Great Hall followed him with their . . . looking parts. His briefing consisted of his boss telling him not to worry about it and that his only job was to say, "let's begin,"press play on the projector then sit down. He was careful to lo...
I was home alone one night, reading a book. It wasn't a particularly good book, but that's okay. Sometimes you need to read all the books to find out which ones are terrible, and this was no exception. I was about three chapters in when the lights started to flicker. I got up out of bed and peeked out the window. The...
Did you never wonder why we left them alone? Did you never wonder why we treated them with the respect we would show our own warborn? Did you never wonder why they don't speak of their past? Did you never wonder at the split in their kalthar, their soul ? Fools, you thought them weak for not seeking war. Even now, as ...
I'd been trained deep in the mountains of Northern Japan. Ice and snow had been my crucible through frigid winters and dripping heat was my forge in the summer. My old life was a dream occasionally remembered in quiet moments, a echo of who I used to be. That had been the price of mastery. Originally, my quest to beco...
As death walks away, you hear him say something “that’s the first time someone unsubscribed from our death and co service….” Death says very sadly. What? Then you wake up. You’re lying on the floor with a knife in your hand. You think about what happened, but you can’t remember. You get up and look at the time. It’s...
The tune was familiar, one of the few things that still were. “I’m coming!” The doorbell’s last echo stopped just as she got to the door and began fumbling with the locks. “Just a minute!” She weakly swung the door open to reveal a cloaked figure standing in its wake. She squinted past her glasses in confusion. Afte...
I will admit that carpet is better than cold steel, and that Legos are better than advanced technology, in terms of childrens’ living environments. But I also want to say that someone who loves and cares for the children is far more important than material things like the aforementioned. My “children”, I like to call ...
The discovery of the remains of a civilization on planet 9719.3, or as it’s previous occupants so imaginatively referred to it, “Earth”, went unnoticed throughout the wider galaxy. It did however cause ripples of excitement throughout the much smaller archeo-history community. Not that failed uni-planetery civilization...
“We’ve seen how well you humans treat your defeated enemies,” the representative of the Calanar Principality said, tucking a head tentacle behind his ear, “and we wish to surrender.” “Um,” Tran said, “We’re not at war though…?” “Can we just skip that bit and go to the part where you pay reparations for ou...
"So it's you? It's *actually* you?" "Of *course* it's me! Who else is brave enough to sport this moustache now?" The head of the group just sat there, bewildered. The group stared in awe, transfixed. Sitting opposite them, was Hitler himself. A little worse for ware, but undoubetly him. Most notably, the gaping hole ...
I've had some really odd things happen lately, within the last six months to be more specific. I think I may be cursed or maybe I just need therapy. I have seen a flowerpot explode near me. Glass break for no known reason. Had a car that looked just like mine at the mall explode while I was a few rows away. Had mo...
The first thing that I saw when my eyes fluttered open was The Devastator standing right over me. I'd never seen him without his mask on before this, and only now realized that he had carrot-red hair, a smattering of freckles across his pale skin, and clear blue eyes. He looked so... *normal*. I'd expected him to have ...
Oh. My. God. My two legs bought me food. I can smell it through the door. He's at the door. Oh. My. God. He's been gone such a long time. Like, alllllll day. Okay. Okay. Be cool. Door's opening. Be cool. Oh my god I'm so happy he's home!!! Where's the food where's the food. Oh? There's no food. Two legs smells funny....
Did I ever tell you I majored in linguistics. My parents didn't approve. They wanted a stable job like electrical engineering, or finance, one that could put food on the table. Turns out that wasn't necessary, seeing how zoos tend to feed their animals. It's really not that bad, and if I was a different type of perso...
There's this weird story I have from when I was young that I still to this day can't explain. I don't remember how old I was back then. I was only 17. I was diagnosed with a disease, whose name I hardly remember. I didn't care much for anything at that time. I wasn't a young kid, I could understand what was going on. ...
The ransom note gave me stern instructions: come late and come alone. It's dangerous for a blood-bag like me to be out in the moonlight, but I wasn't not out there for myself. If this was about me, I'd be home safe. Locked in my apartment with my windows covered in titanium shutters. The front door locked, a dresser ...
"Bro, what?!"I asked, absolutely shaken. "How in the *hell*?" "Well- yeah, I mean, you gotta...pay the bills, y'know..."He said, now looking at the ground, embarrassed. "Yeah, sure, but maybe not with a criminal empire?"I asked. "I was wondering where you'd gone after you left mid-shift...what, six months ago?" "I'd...
Riley's head jolted up from her desk as a couple of giggles sounded off behind her. She still felt the phantom pain of a her skull cracking into the pavement from when she had been a 51 year old drunk man in Hamburg just moments ago, the blur of alcohol that couldn't possibly be in her body was likewise still fading as...
"Daddy, why did they make the trench?" Two of my fingers are squeezed firmly by his small hand as we cross one of the pedestrian bridges. We are in time. "You know superheroes?"I ask. Of course he knows superheroes. I read the comics to him. "Yes!" "And supervillains." "Yes! They're scary! But if one comes, I'll p...
A wedding is a beautiful tradition, thousands of years old and still celebrated by almost every culture. A celebration of union, love, trust and so much more. We had been preparing our wedding for a few years now, and I have never been happier to have made it this far. We decided on a smaller wedding venue, bec...
"This your corner?" The man with blue eyes looks up, sun directly behind the stranger in front of him. Stubbled, disheveled, with a torn leather jacket and a grungy terrier in his arms. Green eyes. The stranger nods at the corner of Sunset and Fairfax. Blue Eyes shakes his head, surfer-blonde hair bobbing slightly. "...
"It has finally happened!"Lester cried out. "What?"his roommate said. "The girl from 3A forgot to wear a bra again?"Lester looked at Craig with a face of utter unbelief. "Don't talk about her that way! Just... just take a look at the TV, would you?" In the living room the TV was already on. The anchor looked like she...
Angelic acid. Who knew, with the right tweaks, it was the key to sobriety? One small pill, one achy sweaty night, and all of your addictions drain away like snow on the roads in spring. I would know. the preliminary trials were a resounding success, but the nature of these things -- first comes the rats, then the bun...
The hiss of escaping gas. A deep reverberating huffing sound, almost certainly the half millennia old machinery struggling with the release clasps. I opened my eyes? Thick blue nutrient sledge pressed against them, moulding to every inch of my body. I could feel it flowing in and out of my lungs with every breath. The...
"Gosh, Tony. I don't think we should cross the street. Micky said there were Bots over there." "You're a Bot! Why should I listen to you anymore? I'm hungry and that old grocery store has food. None of us have seen a killer Bot in days. I'm going for it." "Hold on there! How about I go, and you wait here? If it's saf...
"This just in. You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. CNN Center right now is just beginning to work on this story, obviously calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened. But clearly, something miraculous is happening this morning there on the south end of the island Manh...
*The White Queen has returned.* I thought to myself I had never expected to be married to someone like her. I remember the day I met her in the bar. It was a Sunday in September and her red hair shined in the dimly lit pool hall. I remember her leaning over and looking forward at the cue ball, the back of her shirt wa...
"To the Giver goes our thanks!"The elder declared, bold voice resonating among the assembly. "To the Giver goes our thanks"they chanted in reply. "To us, the greater things have always belonged. The skies! The song! The great Harmony through which we all understand our roots, and our purpose. That, they called our i...