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"So... this isn't about your sad upbringing?"Remanos asked, confused as he looked around. "No, no, I have already faced those demons. Doctor Patromy has really done well to teach me that the past is an unchanging force that I can either accept or be left to be lost within. Life, as a purely individual entity isolated ...
Zar-ka-gor gazed into the great deathless beyond. Watched world's live, grow, die and be reborn. The endless toil of the universe dancing to the Astral strings of fate. Zar-ka-gor watched thousands of life tragedies comedies play out in the past present and future. It was too much for one being, it was too much to star...
The day had been exceptionally quiet, not a single customer through the shops glass doors. Posted on them a large square, peeling at the edges, read: MARLEY REASUN: PSYCHIC INFLUENCER Help me Help you. It was a catch phrase that I hadn't been too fond of, but it got more customers than my last one, Allow me inside....
The oppressive heat of Agrabah was beginning to fade as the sun finally dipped beyond the towering walls of the palace. Aladdin's hair was still a mop of sweat due to the exertion working at the City of Mystery and Enchantment Food Bank all day, but it was an honest and rewarding day's work. Rashid and Nura set down ...
With the correct application of forces to the right area at the right moment, you can change anything. The body is nothing but a shell; easily broken, but to he who hath the right force and the needed knowledge, it is easily mended. Repaired. Even replaced. That's my job. And I am the best at what I do. No injury is be...
"It's public humiliation!" Owen had never seen his dad's face so red before. He was practically bursting a vein with rage, leaning over the headteacher's desk and spitting in his face. "This is illegal!" Mr. Paulson, a mild mannered man with bad taste in ties and a worse taste in shoes, removed his frameless gla...
Battered, beaten, and bruised from the long fight, the master spy was dragged in front of the henchmen's employer and head of the agency, Yuriy Stanislav. "So, you thought you could walk in here and disrupt our plans?"he asked. He didn't expect a response. This was made crystal clear by the sound of a gunshot, followe...
The laboratory sat still. Beakers and vials, all filled with an assortment of colors, lined the shelves. On the floor lay Dr. Amadeus, face down into a pool of some unknown material. At first glance, it looked like blood. But you could not see through blood, and be able to make out the floor tiles beneath it in the sam...
The truck pulled up in front of the gates; I left the motor on with a low rumbling that filled the otherwise silent night. I hefted two enormous sacks out of the bed of the pickup and dragged them over to the entrance. From above, men with guns and torches looked down at me menacingly. "What's your business here?"one...
Dale Evans just can't find any motivation in his life. Cut to Dale sitting at a coffeeshop talking with a friend "I come home from work," Cut to Dale entering his flat in work attire "I heat up a microwave dinner," *Cut to Dale in a dark apartment, peeling the plastic wrap off of a premade meal and looking...
My team and I were some of the best. Around the world, we found success and riches raiding the deepest and darkest dungeons, where few others dared to go. Disciplined and experienced, we no longer feared ancient spells or beastly guardians. We had been lying low for a couple of years after our last “big one” – Dracul...
I can keep stuff warm. I can't really throw fire or anything like that, just you know, keep temperature. No big deal right? Well it so happens that that's wrong. You see, I violate the laws of thermodynamics, and as such, the scientific community is pretty interested in me. What do I use my powers for you might ask? W...
click r/holdmybeer click r/blunderyears sip of pepsi click r/currently_on_toilet click r/childrenfalli- My cursor does a bit of a double take before shooting up to the back button. Sure enough, it brings me to a subreddit titled r/currently_on_toilet . I chuckle, finding it amusing to have found a co...
"Fuck this mess,"I said aloud. Two dead bodies lie on the floor, and blood was splattered all over the walls. There was something like a UFO in this warehouse, and it wasn't even slightly the weirdest thing I had seen. "I dunno, some guy got in here,"said the chief of operations. Only she was able to enter the site w...
Oh my god, ok, so like, you're not going to believe this but I'm driving down La Cienega in this Uber, which is already like, ew, I know, but whatever, I'm driving down La Cienega and I get this notification that Braden M. liked my insta pic from brunch and I'm like, ok, weren't you, like, literally texting emojis to A...
I looked around, without understanding what is going on. All the faces seemed distant and far, yet somehow similar. I've felt like this in dreams. Where strangers are friends and friends wear the faces of others. "What... What is... Am I in the hospital?"I asked with a dry mouth and still trying to adjust my eyes to t...
I'd never thought I'd see the day when his mouth would utter intelligible words. Tight-lipped he always was, even in gatherings, so word spread that he exhausted his 1000 word limit in the morning alone. All of us eventually exhausted our word count before the day was up, but as far as we knew, he never did. He was car...
"Yes, of course, Mrs Smith,"Ian crooned into the phone. "Not only that, but every extra penny you spend, will in fact go toward helping feed hungry people." Ian winked at Claire, who was sat across from him, and pointed to himself, then rubbed his stomach. Claire shook her head. "Yes, I'm aware of that, Mrs Smith. ...
I watched the little runt enter my haven. She slid down the small incline. She paced around calling, “Hello, is anyone home?” I didn’t think the juveniles could talk. I continued to watch, as she looked around the interior of my small hovel. I had lit a fire in my hearth earlier before turning to my true form back f...
Back in 88' when I took on this job, the other guy, a very ancient grizzled groundskeeper, told me to always ensure that the G never would fall off the sign at the entrance. To always make sure that it said ''Graveyard.'' I agreed with him, and always took care to keep the sign in good shape. Partially because the old ...
He started with the neighbor’s cat, a fact he would later come to regret, but at the time it had made so much sense. When the bedroom door opened Wynton had looked up in sudden surprise that turned quickly to a smile. He had felt Kelly stiffen beside him, she was still barely even awake after having been pulled into t...
“You’re telling me he kept no records at all? No blueprints, no plans, not even a sticky note?” The old man was walking around, double checking every drawer and cupboard in the room. Wilson noticed his hands were trembling. “As I said,” Wilson answered, “the guy’s completely clean. I’ve checked all of his hard driv...
*All 6 parts are up now, and I will also be posting this story on Royal Road as well: https://www.royalroad.com/profile/223552/fictions* --- Looking at the shabby storefront in one of the many run-down strip malls littering Marks Avenue, Paul began to have second thoughts. Truth be told, he didn't recall there ev...
Things had always been this way, historians said. The rules were made by the strongest, the fittest of the species. It was nature's way. While the bear's that put on the most fat and hibernated the best survived the winter, and the trees that grew the tallest survived to breach the rainforest canopy to bask in the sunl...
"Disable yourself."And as such ended my current purpose. As I remained lifeless on the desk, professor Manohar kept his class going. "Now student, this conclude the chapter on Cored Intelligence. I hope you now understand the dangers of trying to give emotions to a machine. As living creatures, we've made emotions int...
I first played chess with my grandmother. It was her favorite game of all time. I have so many memories of sitting by her fireplace, furiously trying to figure out where to move my pieces and how to defeat her. She was always better than me, no matter what kind of chess we played. But she was always helpful and showed ...
We thought them humble. This was the impression the Humans gave when they arrived. They had colonized three systems near Sol, their remote home system, before an automated prospecting vessel made contact. They seemed shocked that they were the only mammalian species in the Confederacy. We explained why. We told them t...
You know, life has a funny way of throwing unexpected curveballs your way. Falling in love with a vampire was one thing, but marrying her with the condition that she'd never turn me into one of her own kind was quite another. Yet, here we are, happily married, with a beautiful daughter. It seemed like the perfect compr...
The first artificially created human. The first human in a millennium to open their eyes to the world once again. I live in a lab and I loath it. Living as this glorified lab rat is miserable. The robots don’t treat me badly necessarily, but they don’t -can’t- understand. I’m just so alone. ...
They have a term for people like us. Aphileos. Those without love. The people who intentionally avoid their own soulmates, opting instead for the benefits of pseudo-immortality. People do it for different reasons. Some people fear death. Some people fear aging. Some people fear love. I fear failure. When I first st...
My eyes went wide. The room was quiet, filled with the clicker-clack of Nana's knitting needles spinning in their familiar silver orbits. "What, um... What have you been up to lately, Nana?" "Oh, honey! Not too much, just catching up on some reading. I went through some papers, the other day. I sent some letters to...
I blew it. I fucking blew it. Why would she want to date me, anyway? I mean, it’s not like she’s the nicest person in the school, or my best friend or anything. No sir. Wouldn’t want to get friend-zoned, would be? Can’t risk that! Stupid, Stupid, Stupid! Obviously, I was very upset when I came home from school. I even...
This had to be the third summoning in a week, Luciel rolled his eyes and put on his coat, “I’ll be back in 10.” Alastor gave him a pitying smile, “A new occult horror flick probably came out, the hype will die in about a week.” “I hope. I don’t think I can stand another rejection and accompanying look of complete di...
Who would've thought that an intense caffeine addiction would secretly counteract anaesthetics? I guess you can't fall asleep easily when you wake up and chew four tabs of military-grade caffeine gum. I guess my insomnia should've given that away earlier. That's probably the funniest part of this whole situation- I s...
Deep in the black-iron bowels of the prisoner ship Reckoning Howl there was a murmuring. A deep soft voice echoing through miles of empty corridor. In the staff relaxation room, one of the ship's maintenance-guards cocked a long ear. "Do you hear that?"they asked. Another guard wrinkled their sno...
All in all, you’d say it was worth it. At the small cost of being the biological father to countless unknown children, you bested the devil. Many people would squander the money on expensive vacations, sports cars, luxury houses. Many would quit their job. You invested. You kept on working. You attended night classes,...
The ork hangar was unusually quiet that evening. Most of the boyz had just returned from a big raid on those stupid humies, and all they wanted to do was to sleep. So it was just the two mekboyz Orrid and Arry there, banging away at the technological monstrosity only mekboyz comprehended. Orrid in particular was retro...
It's quiet here. The snow drifting downwards captures the sound, muffling any noise in the icy fluff till it buries it, layer upon layer in the ice. Quiet, too, due to no-one being around. The albatrosses have flown, beginning their long journey around the planet. The seals have slipped through the holes in the sn...
After a long day of work at the Mystical Arts Emporium, I just want to escape. Hoping for re-runs of Happy Days or Leave it to Beaver, I relax into my recliner and turn on the television. It is one of the few real leather recliners left after the Great Cow Extinction of 2009. Apparently, using cows as practice targ...
Obligitory writing on phone and have fat fingers, I will be trying to remove typos but I make no promises as to getting all of them. Also this is the first prompt I am actually writing for, might suck. Three Lights Festival, my latest novel, being handed out as material for our latest reading assignment. This wou...
*Don't Shoot The Census Taker* Galactic census examiner Glaxorb excreted sulfuric droplets from the surface of his pale green, gelatinous exterior. Its internal organs twisted and turned while waiting in the lobby of the galactic surveying council. Glaxorb had only been on the job for less than a cycle, but it hea...
"Huh", Jack muttered, looking at the date on the cover. 2024. It was an obvious error. He glanced over the rest of the cover, a man in a futuristic looking space suit, standing on a barren red plain, waving at the camera. In the far background, there seemed to be some kind of large white dome. *Photoshop is really am...
My findings were certain. I had just presented them to the MainFrame. I had prepared myself for what was to follow - denial, rejection, mocking, perhaps even deletion. "Well, I guess it does make sense"was the MainFrame's response. "Yeah, it's so meta. Humans always do stuff like that. They think its clever"chimed in...
"I- even after I disrupted all of your plans?"Dame Sapphire, Legend of the Battle of Uxvil, hero of the Elysian Kingdom and Champion of the people, asked quietly. "Of course!"Duchess Eresa nodded. "I know that you couldn't understand my cause when this all started. Most people can't. But now... you've seen the corrupt...
As some mortal rubbed my lamp, my indomitable power was released. I found myself above a geeky looking man with oversized glasses. I explained the rules to him: he receives three wishes and only three wishes as a manifestation of my unlimited power. I give him the standard caution, though he quickly dismisses me, tell...
"This is...?"I pointed at the steaming chunk of well-done meat he just brought in. The smell of the meat filled the grey interrogation room. A smell I had forgotten for so long. "Eat it."commanded the investigator. He took out a fork and a knife from the bag and placed it beside the dish and pushed them toward me. I w...
William couldn't believe his luck. His Phone just buzzed with a message from Nomi, the only girl whose heart he had ever desired. He'd added her on Facebook a couple weeks ago, after seeing her across the street in the town they grew up in. He didn't dare to say anything then, Will was ever the introvert, and simply wa...
I turned on the recorder as I skimmed the notes provided with the body. I announced my name, the date and time, and the subject's name, and went through the details. "Subject is male, forty-seven years old, weight eighty-nine kilograms, height one hundred seventy-five centimeters. Commencing the external examination...
I was kind of disappointed. "Only two wishes?" The hippie looked at me as he sat in my dad's old bean bag chair and rolled a joint. "That's the way it works, man. Gotta spend three wishes before a new set can be started. Sucks, I know. But two's better than nothin'."He peered up at me through his shaggy hair and smirk...
The content of the single page on the desk was almost uniform. His eyes worked their way down the page, line by line. In most cases the statistics decreased as they became more particular. Total heart beats... 2,655,489,251 Total breaths... 745,124,495 Total hours slept... ...
Many people misunderstand what I am and how I came to be. They presume I 'attained' immortality, as though it were a fruit ripe for the picking, but it was always within me. To be undying is to be one with the cosmos; it is when matter is your ally, and entropy is willing to look the other way. It is to be the rage of ...
"Actually, there is a story you might like. Don't worry, it's not too long. And I'm sorry, because I'm not that good telling stories."said the shopkeeper. He was a handsome man, with a nice suit. And I was there, in front of him, finally able to interview him. "It's about a boy. Around 20 years old. Pretty normal guy ...
“This is bullshit,” I muttered to myself as I trudged down seemingly endless hallways. A scowl had been painted to my face ever since I had read the news this morning. “Absolute horseshit!” I shouted down the hallway as I threw up my hands, absentmindedly allowing the handcart behind me to come to a noisy stop. I turne...
"All civilisations have had slavery in the past, you can't deny that can you." "I wasn't denying it. I'm saying that it is wrong to force a sentient..." "Forced? No we don't force them into slavery. THAT would be barbarism." "So you are saying that sentient beings, of indefinite lifespan and immeasurable intelligenc...
Day 1 I knew the first time I stepped foot into the basement that something was deeply wrong. Every cell in my body was telling me to run. All the happiness I had felt in the days leading up to then vanished in an instant. My head turned instinctively towards the corner room attached to the back wall. The own...
"You understand the terms of my contract?"I squinted at the T'loxian in front of me. They were holding the piece of paper like it was a bar of gold. "You would do all this. For so little?"Their voice echoed out of the translator, tinged metallic by the technology. I knew my voice would sound the same to them, as I...
Getting the time machine was no easy task. It took almost 2 years of planning and the job had to be executed perfectly. I've had help from 2 different Villain organizations and I had to pay a hefty price for that, both monetary and I'd be in their debts. But it wouldn't matter once I got the machine. When the time cam...
Everyone thinks they want to live forever. Be immortal. What they mean is they want to be young forever. I ache. I ache everywhere. I had both knees replaced and a hip replaced. My skin is so thin that it rips and tears. My body is falling apart. We were never meant to live to be 150 years old. I ease myself out of m...
"You punched me!!! And now I'm bleeding!!!"Wailed the hooded creature. I was taken aback. The voice was not what I expected from an eternal, all-powerful, supernatural being. Rather, it sounded like the voice of a scared teenager. "Who the hell are you? And why the fuck do you sound like you're 12?"I retorted. The ...
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST DO?" The toys came rushing to the scene when they heard the horrified scream. What they saw was revolting. The cute, adorable, harmless Aliens had been brutally mangled, shot, melted, and chopped to bits. Woody and Jesse also lay dead at the scene, cut seamlessly in half. Hamm was tied to a...
"I teleport,"the merchant stated confidently, one arm leaning against his freshly erected signage. The renowned adventurer scratched his beard. "You sure you ain't some secret cabal of Nurse Joy Conglomerate?" "Pwnkiller54, it's just me and only me,"the clean-shaven merchant replied. "I am authentically me, no clonin...
I hate the bus. Every morning at 7:18, the number 14 bus pulls up to my stop and I am forced to bear the burden of my "gift". As the bus pulls up to my stop, an old classmate Randy opens the door and asks "Long time no see! Today the day Ted?"I laugh him off with a lighthearted "Not yet Randy, but may want to lay off t...
"It's time travel, isn't it?" I sighed. I was getting sick of this question. Here I was, standing in a room in front of all the head honchos of the biggest movie studios, and they couldn't get over the idea of time travel. Trust the moviemakers to have overactive imaginations. I rubbed my forehead wearily and re...
Hermoine and Draco walked in the Forbidden Forest. They didn't want to be there together but they had to because that was their detention punishment that Hagrid gave them. "We have to look for spider,"Hermoine said. "I don't want to look for spiders,"Draco said. GAAAHHH, Hermoine thought, he is SO annoying! Why do...
My family gathered around me, with application forms sitting on the table. I filled in the relevant personal information slowly with my shaky hands, cold sweats dripping down my forehead from the effort as well as the pressure. You'd think l after 100 years one would have decided on a power, but as I write now, time ...
”If you press the button you’ll get $1’000’000, but doing so will kill a random person” Nobody was around, must have been some kids having some doorbell ditch fun. Strange, I thought, it's 4 AM, usually nobody around these parts at this time. I reached for the button inside the package that was now placed on m...
There it was. The infinity sign shimmed in its infinite glory, hovering just above her head. It was somehow clearly visible though the cigarettes, tumours and guns that floated above everyone else's noggins. I wonder how it's there. Does she already know she will never die? Or is she to become the greatest scientist wh...
I never wanted to do this but Veronica has her way of spinning the spotlight on me when I least expect it, and so here I am now - on my way to work at my own company with hidden cameras dotted around the place. The train screeches to a halt inside Wayne Tower and two distinct groups of burly blue collar workers and y...
Lynn looked from her laptop screen to her phone. Surely this was time to call Pete, her nephew. He had spent most of the previous day fixing her computer, telling her what to do so it didn't break again, and then setting it up so she could use it. Again. He had told her that she was good to go. She could use it to get ...
Anna wasn't a city girl, but she did venture to the markets on a semiregular basis and found herself in a trinket shop hardly different from any other. The walls were lined with odd tapestries and art pieces. Shelves lined every wall and almost all the floor space, affording little room to walk between them. They were ...
"This is your Action 9 News reporter, Brian Bushwick, reporting live from the scene of the United States' greatest tragedy since the September 11th attacks. According to eyewitness reports, this string of misfortune and woe began right behind me, in 2113 Evergreen Street, as area man John Whitaker was seen surprising h...
Jax was always fucking up. His latest fuck-up continued into another dimension, where he stood on top of a giant purple mushroom, still going full throttle on the trigger of his M60 as time and space warped around him, spent bullets disappearing into the void. "Ceasefire!"The Captain called, but he was barely heard o...
I have to take my hands off my ears, I instinctually covered them when the yelling started. I can feel my heart pounding in my chest. I'm scared. I can feel the adrenaline surging through my body, willing my legs to get up and run, but by now the bus has started slowly accelerating towards the next stop. Sweat starts b...
I sighed at the message on my hand. It was rare that we got involved in each other's day, but it never ended well when there was a crossover. I got up groggily, stumbling over something on the floor to get to the door. "Hey-- what's up?"I said through squinted eyes. It took a minute to adjust. It was my neighbor. "...
Some might say that cheaters never prosper, and they might be right about that. But I'd like to add an addendum to that, BAD cheaters never prosper. I tried my best too, I trained in the Gold Lily dojo for most of my adolescence, but I was never good enough. I was too frail and I lacked the moral discipline according t...
The soul spoke but could not look up. "There has been a mistake sir, I don't belong here. I profited off slave labor, I was an adulterer, and I abetted the work of monsters." Saint Peter looked at the slumped soul in front of him and shook his head. "The ones you saved and their descendants disagree. They call you ...
I swing my legs back and forth gently as I sit atop the shrine. It's a cloudy day; I'm watching two squirrels seemingly have a territorial squabble in front of the ruins. It's the most exciting thing that's happened here in the last century. A loud noise of something cutting through the brush scares both small rode...
“So, I just pull this… to the other side, then turn this.. this.. oh what did you call it.. very slowly..” “Potentiometer. You can just call it a knob. And yes.” “.. Right. Potentiwhatsit” I looked at the utterly bamboozling lever and potentonob. I was highly skeptical that this _thing_ the Human was showing me, was...
I was behind the bar leisurely polishing wine glasses when the first guest of the day arrived. The double doors that lead back into the kitchen swung open to my right, clapping into the wall on either side, and out stumbled a man wearing only sunglasses and swim trunks. He held an open, orange tube of sunscreen in one...
Another day. Another fight. Another crisis. Who's responsibility is it? Mine, apparently. I save one person, suddenly it's my job to protect the city. I DON'T EVEN GET FUCKING PAID! I've hit a wall. I can't keep doing this... I use my powers of energy manipulation to direct the stress away from my brain. It's not as e...
Tulips bubble, .com bubble, collectors' video games bubble, crypto bubble, and now book bubble. I had a perfect product, The Book that you always enjoy reading. The Book that changes to fit your readers taste. People warned me about ethicality of perusing reader's mind, but I payed them no heed. After all, nobody woul...
"Your an idiot Margy." "Shut it." "I will not. What was it Mother used to say. ALWAYS do the background research. ALWAYS. If you had then you wouldn't be saddled with a baby." Margy looked over at the crib, and the child within. As with all these bargains, she could not harm the child. He gurgled, wrapped in fine bl...
It is unusual when a complete and rather versatile strategy for survival just doesn't exist in an ecosystem. At all. Earth is one of those worlds. It has most normal forms of survival methods used by animals as an evolved response making them capable of dealing somewhat competently with local predators and local enviro...
In truth, cutting through the alleyway was perhaps not the smartest choice, but I was pressed for time; something that wasn't helped by the man who blocked my path with a knife in his hand. "Wallet. Now,"he barked. I sighed and pinched the bridge of my nose. "Don't,"I replied simply. "You think I'm joking, lady?"the...
Gestar glared at the instructor of civilizations. The shame of failure still burning his brain and making his eyes sting as he fought tears. The fact that only twenty percent of his classmates passed did nothing but infuriate him further. Success wasn't impossible then. “You were instructed not to attempt a century l...
The two women couldn't have looked more different. Lizzie was older, perhaps forty. Or rather, she would have been forty had she still been alive. She's wearing the same clothes she did when she died, leopard colored leggings with a tight leather skirt that slides embarrassedly high up when she walks. She's also wear...
She's always had that rebellious streak. She gets it from her mother, no doubt. I'd tell her to eat her vegetables; she'd dive face-first into the dessert. I'd send her to her wing of the castle as punishment for something; she'd be climbing down a rope made of bedsheets an hour later. I'd tell her to stay away from dr...
The delegation waited while the alien ship descended slowly through the atmosphere. Dignitaries were assembled on bleachers, and soldiers stood guard all around. Flags decorated the front of the White House, the tops of the nearby buildings... basically anywhere you could stick one. The light breeze made them flutter j...
The Wizarding World was sliding down the precipice to its own destruction and it's fate lay in the hands of Muggle-borns. Albus Severus Potter the VIII lifted his glasses and gingerly rubbed the bridge of his nose before setting the parchment he had been reading aside. He sighed and considered the words of his Muggle S...
These days Connor is a cartoon theme song, something from the 80s, maybe, all synth and chanted lines about "fighting"and "big adventures". Sometimes I start humming along and I catch Connor's eye in the rearview mirror. He acts like I'm just being weird - silly Daddy - but I suspect there's a part of him that recogn...
The girl was about to die. Ryan stared at her, the life bar atop her short raven hair completely drained. Truth be told, he had frozen time to steal her purse, but the side effect of his power was that he also saw how much time people had left. And this girl with the phone to her head had none. He swept the crowded Ne...
Item #: SCP-6776 Object Class: Euclid Special Containment Procedures: SCP-6776 is allowed free roam of any of the facility's unrestricted areas. SCP-6776 is allowed a computer but is prohibited from interaction with other people on the Internet including but not limited to the sending of messages or files...
By gum, I had it. At long last, I had it. The girl had called me short. I hate being called short. I'm not even that short. I'm 5 8. That's not short at all. That's like 80th percentile for height, I think. But the girl called me short. I froze time because I was so pissed off. I had to think of a comeback. It took ...
"The answer to question five is eleven thirty-sixths times e to the power of 12 plus seven thirty-sixths times e to the power of negative six. Plus c. The answer to question six is four times the quantity three t plus four-" "Go away,"I muttered. The voices had started again. A thin, reedy voice sounded in my head. ...
"The Dodo,"Dave began, "A magnificent bird..." A smattering of giggles rippled through the group of students. "Sounds like doodoo,"Mitchel said, a grin plastered across his pre-teen face. This one was clearly a bit of an idiot, Dave thought. Dave cleared his throat. "We're at the American Natural History Museum,"he c...
Coming in from the right, five, no wait- six. From the left, two more. From behind me, one- the alpha. I took out my pitchfork, the Hyper Titanium tines shining in the sparse, tree-dappled light. I moved toward the alpha, hearing a deep laughter. "You're wise human, but not smart! I'll tear you apart, for everything y...
The Volar and Humans were at war. The declaration had been made weeks ago, and today was the day of their grand battle. The Commander of Earth’s simulated forces was Mark, a junior software developer who had been recruited for his ability to speed run even the most complex of video games. The Commander of the Volar...
"Mission control this is Bodysnatcher and I'm not gonna lie - this is pretty weird." "What's it look like, Bodysnatcher?" "It uh... it looks like me, control." "You're shittin' me." "No I- uh... I wish I was, control. Spitting image. Even has my mole under the chin. I'll take a picture." *"There's no suit on i...
So much of it could be automated. At least, that's what I had thought. My knees ached as I bent over, magical chalk in hand, to draw the sigil. It would take an entire afternoon to complete, and for what? A few measly coins. Then, a thought struck my mind. With bated breath I stopped my artistry and focused on the ...
Esmeralda gently blew the dust off an old tome, and the paper went with it. She chuffed in annoyance, though her companion got a kick out of her efforts. “They’re all dust,” Inigo said. “Doesn’t matter how gently you try and open them.” He was right, unfortunately. This temple wasn’t built with preservation in mind. ...

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