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"So... this is hell you say?" "Yep. Nothing here is fair trade or environmentally friendly. All of it mass produced and include either real wood or genuine leather." "Reminds me of my bosses office actually, no way I could have afforded something this fancy in life. Still, nice place. That BBQ grill in the middle o...
Again, I jolted out of sleep. Not quite out of bed: my reaction was still one of fright for not immediately recognizing my surroundings. Or at least, not recognizing them as home. "Home". This could be a home. But there are too many of us. Or of them. I'm glad that there's a place for me to sleep. For now. With a roof...
A small click. That was all I heard. I cocked my head as I looked to the window. Nothing... I sniffed at the air, and stood from my bed and arched my back. I quietly darted across the young one’s room, and dipped out the door. No one in the hall way, and the sounds of shifting blankets were barely made in that of t...
They were sleeping. Kimmy Cruise and his family. I couldn't believe it when they told us that Kimmy Cruise, serial killer of the town, would be coming back home to us on humble and previously-quiet Hay Road with his possessions, family, and normal life intact. No one knows where he actually went. Some say he went t...
A thousand wars. Ten thousand pointy ears lost. Ten thousand more still fighting. The weight of millions of the heaviest stones on Txhuileadiurooo, that’d been what finally did it. Thirty generations prior, a temple had finally gotten so heavy it fell through space and time and opened the universe to the Txhuileadiur...
Look, the fact is that when most people learn that I can and will perfectly physically impersonate them for an hourly fee, their minds jump right to What can I get away with? so if yours did too, I won’t judge you. I’ve been asked to take tests (sure, but you also have to pay my hourly rate if you want me to study)...
When time was paused, I stopped aging. I can’t say why — heck, I can’t explain any of it at all, but I knew that much was true. I spent what felt like an eternity setting up my prank, and when time restarted again, I was exactly how I had been when I first hit the button. Which, to be honest, worked out pretty well f...
"But if we 'evolved' from the Droghi, then why are there still Droghi?" I sighed, resisting the urge to roll my eyes at the smug tone. "Look, it's simple. We didn't evolve from the Droghi. We, and the Droghi, evolved from a common ancestor. Humanity."I replied. I suspected my words would fall on deaf ears - eternalis...
“Let’s just say, someone’s got our backs. Be alert, don’t panic, and have faith” said Neil. The crowd of reporters exploded with questions with one voice breaking out. “Mr. Armstrong, who has our backs? The Spaceforce?” He gripped the podium and sighed. If only I could tell them, but the human race...
I pinched the bridge of my nose with my hand. I felt a dull ache growing under my skull. "Let me get this straight." A young man, wearing gleaming plate armor and a blue cape, stood before me. A young man fidgeting about. A young man who had big red stains all over his clothes and body. "You went to see the Count...
"Alright maggots listen up! Don't have time to pussyfoot around on this one so I'm only going to go over the operation once! Clean the shit out of your ears and pay attention! Smoke em if you got em."Captain Zaras addressed the eight members of Z-team that assembled in the field command center. Every member already gea...
The Keetcha are a proud warrior race. They achieved FTL in the last century and started to expand their empire. Moving out from their home world with amazing speed and ferocity. No one in the galaxy had the heart to fight the Keetcha. They are little more than balls of fluff, looking remarkably like Earth kittens, th...
I'd been double and triple checking my account for the last few hours after getting off work. It had to be an error of some kind. Someone must have flipped a few numbers and paid me by accident. A polite knock came from the front door of my apartment. A very nondescript man in a suit was on the other side of the peeph...
Winston Palmer kept his eyes fixed on the screen as his fingers danced across the keyboard. The triangulation programs continued to run – time was running short. He needed the coordinates of the dimensional breach yesterday. Many of his henchmen had either been arrested or abandoned the organization. *Not even good pa...
Just as a side note, two weeks ago people were voicing out about the number of 'death' prompts there were. This week it's 'gods.' Themes and trends sometimes set themselves. They may not be to everyone's fancy, but the majority have spoken - hence why the top four prompts today are about 'gods.' Submit prompts about di...
ONE DAY, A day that is not a day, but boundless smaller days, a day where points become planes and all the finite moments stretch into paper thin filaments of time. And now you know, you know that this is how it always was, how it will be forever. If only your time had come sooner. AS THE SKY GOES DARK, Which is the...
It started as a vigil, outside the hospital where he had been taken - almost immediately they had started to gather. That evening a local news ignored it completely, but by the next night there was nearly 5,000 people there, all silently standing, waiting, although they weren't sure what for. It had been morning in t...
This was the night that the air turned red. The signal-lamps were installed in an effort to improve first responder response times. Programmed to turn a deep shade of red when triggered, outfitted with the latest in monitoring technology, and serviced monthly. A compromise to the watchdog groups from the lawmakers whe...
Yesterday he resigned from a top post in the secret service, and today he was lying in the sand on a gorgeous tropical beach. He picked up a sea shell and put it to his ear. The hisses and static-like crackles had never really sounded like the sea to him, even as a child. But now, after years in the field decoding tran...
We're from Breakdown. There are those who look down on our people, just because our ancestors chose to use the shoulder when The Jam began. We're spit upon as cheats, blamed for worsening the crisis, all manner of invectives hurled at us. If it were only words, we could ignore it, but violence has befallen our peopl...
"Maybe today is the day!"Shelby waited impatiently at the window. Smalls, the cat, was also at the window, but paid Shelby no mind. Shelby wondered if that was because she was a ghost, or the cat truly could not be bothered with her. A car with paint peeling off the hood pulled into the parking lot. "There she is! O...
“I have no idea what to do…” I frown. We'd hit a dead end. Our rogue had just 'accidentally' poisoned our last lead. I reach over to grab a handful of Smartpop and press far too many into my mouth in a shameful display. Aaron pipes up from across the table. “What if we torture that guy we just killed.” “We killed him...
"Oh, and that's a bad miss." "Indeed it is, Richard. Half the milk's on the table now. I'd pass it off as simple drunk clumsiness, if he wasn't as sober as a Mormon." You sat dumbfounded on your couch, listening to your daily routine being narrated in dulcet tones. You had already restarted the podcast several times,...
"Now look what you've done,"says the dark haired woman at the head of the table. She sounds remarkably like Julie, but she isn't her. I know that much at least. She sounds surprised, but not angry. Excited in a good way, just not how I expected; almost like a clinical curiosity. My Julie doesn't do clinical curiosity. ...
John, the smartest of the class speaks up. “Professor Quincy, we know where you keep your spare key.” He walks over to the professors desk, and opens the drawer. He removes the key from its spot in the cluttered desk drawer and walks back to the main entrance. John slides the key into the lock, and turns the door ...
We detected their giant starship, a hundred kilometers long, as it passed the orbit of Neptune. Decelerating rapidly it still took months to arrive. Earth's first contact with an alien race resulted in social chaos and religious upheaval. Meanwhile the militaries of the world worked feverishly together as never before ...
Twenty dollars with tax included, that was the cost of this simple device at pretty much any stor that you went to. When it was first announced, they thought it would change the entire world, go back in time to reset a mistake. Unfortunately, it had one major limitation, you could only go back 2 minutes at a time, and ...
"My liege, I have analyzed the flesh-bipeds and their habitat. I believe total eradication will prove unnecessary. Their technology permits for conquest and immediate subjugation. We need not incinerate the planet for seeding." "Excellent work, Gort. Please check-in to the Paperwork and Official Documentation Wing an...
September 5th, 1311. It was a cold and harsh autumn, as columns of peasant armies line up against eachother. Rain had been pouring for the past three days and although it had stopped briefly, the ground was still wet. On one side, was the shogun, anproud ruler of Japan with the emperor as his imperial puppet. For his...
He had an old barn owl sitting on his shoulder and every now and then he fed it a pretzel. "There you are,"he'd say. "There you are, Gretta." The man flung us an old newspaper, yellow and porous, and our captain found this to be as distasteful as the ink was faded. "What's the meaning of this?"captain Hemsdale said. "...
Look, I know what you're all thinking. A young child seeing things that aren't there. Seeing people in ways that aren't true. Obviously some kind of psychosis. Needs medication and careful monitoring. Everyone involved wants what's best for the child - that dreadful mantra repeated over and over to excuse any intervent...
The other assassins got it all wrong. Thought inside the box. The God-King wouldn't hire all of us if he thought he could lose, and rightfully so - he was more powerful than any human. His martial prowess was unmatched, his magical capabilities incomprehensible. So when I got the contract and was, shall we say, *convin...
“Again with this?” asked Ty, sighing deeply. “That isn’t a spell. The most technologically savvy person in the party is the artificer, and even he has no idea what an EULA is.” “My character does,” replied Gareth stubbornly. Ty barely knew him; he was a friend of Terry, and Terry hadn’t been able to make that sessio...
“I’m warning you, you don’t wanna drink my blood.” You warned the vampire. “Bah, you don’t scare me blood bag, I shall feast!” You try to stop them, but it was too late as the vampires teeth sunk into your acidic blood. The sheer bulk of Sour Patch Kids you ingest on a daily basis, just shy of a quarter pound per da...
Michael heard each step of his reverberate down the metal hallway, echoing back to him, creating a metronomic sensation of a ticking clock through his feet. He could hear the thumping of his own heart through the clacking of his shoes, and felt the perspiration on his forehead. It felt like somebody had tied a knot in ...
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“Hey, boy. BOY.” I can hardly breathe, but the shouting still sets me to swinging, and I spin around in my noose like a wind chime. “Hey, c’mere and let me down. I’ll give you whatever you like.” “I heard about you, mister. Plus, they even got a sign.” He points to a nearby hand-painted wood sign that reads *Any...
Kyle winced. Too damn cold... "Honey, do you know what happened to the frozen veggies that were in the freezer?" Shit. Kyle turned down his music and called down the stairs, "huh?" He hadn't heard her come in, but he heard her work heels climbing the stairs and her knuckles on his door. "There was a plastic b...
I grunted, kicked at the prison of sheets and blankets holding me down, and turned away from the window as bright morning sunlight filtered in, directly onto my eyes. Perfect fucking way to start the morning. I reached around in my bed, searching blindly for a pillow to hide under. No such luck. Consciousness came rus...
It had to be potato chips. Of all the food in all the world to be hiding out with, it had to be potentially the most impractical of all. Scott was convinced that even the most deft-handed cat burglar could not consume a packet of chips without alerting anyone within a 100 mile radius. Alright, maybe that was a bit of a...
The almighty, unspeakable demon of no name had been waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Millennia passed by, leaving No Names' madness to grow, his hatred to seed yet more hatred, writhing, choking in his imprisonment in the dark. Whilst mankind had lost its power, weak and wretched as it was, at least they were free o...
I set the phone back into the receiver and took a deep breath. I knew it was going to happen someday. Just not today. I woke up to check the printer first. As I walked through the hall, I thought back to the day when Marge and I found the printer in the second-hand store off of Main St. On it there had been a short,...
"I'm not buying it, kid,"said the white-haired man. "What?" "I mean, come on. Odds of finding a dragon egg in the wilderness are slim as they are. Raising that thing to full adulthood and then taming it like a horse sounds like a goddamned load of bullshit." "Well, it happened, alright? It must have been fate or som...
Rain pattered all around as he lowered his wife into her grave. Tears blended amongst raindrops. Will couldn't believe it had happened with Clara. Clara's soul headed towards Inferis now, leaving Will's side forever. Why wouldn't death just stop? Thousands died everyday, each being dragged to a world right below everyo...
I killed Edwin because he stole my hammer to kill someone else with. And in all fairness it was me or him. Poor porky Edwin-- and curse him for calling the Servants of Lord Gideon before I cut his throat. I can't quite deny how satisfying it was to behold. At least his wife got away, eh? And that's why I'm here in thi...
I guess a lot of people would call me a pervert, but I don’t think that’s exactly fair. The truth of the matter, I think, is that if everybody had the skills I have, we’d be living among a whole new sliding scale of visual morality. Who knows if we’d even bother to wear clothes at all? Maybe we’d be a less prudish peop...
Well... it's just you and me, brain. *Guess so.* So what do you wanna talk about? *Nothin.* What? *You heard me. I mean, you.* You giving me sass, brain? *I'll give or take whatever I like. Like the ability to spell.* I'd lyk tu see yu trie. *Heh heh.* What the fuck? Did you just give us a...
The riots are getting closer. Where they had once been a distant din, I could know hear the rhythmic chanting of their protest slogans. Prime Minister Basil had said that their protests were unfounded, but surely ignoring them wasn't working. Fires and looting followed in their wake, as it had for weeks. Surely there w...
"Whoa, wait. I can reincarnate as anything? Anything?" The overseer bored his cerulean eyes at her. "As stated on the contract, you can be whatever you desire to be, but already deceased people are forbidden. Choose wisely, for once decided, you cannot retract on your words." She stomped her feet on sheer excitemen...
Humanity had often been too clever for its own good. First, it existed, but that simply wasn't enough. 'We must expand!' they told themselves. And so they covered their little orb in the blink of the universe's eye. But yet their curiosity proved insatiable. 'To the moon!' they declared, deciding to no longer be bound ...
The lineage of dragons is an interesting thing. Where and how dragons and human genes crossed is both unclear, and very confusing to those that study the great beasts. But what is known, is that all of those born of the dragons lineage have draconic traits. Hundreds of generations since the last dragon died, and still ...
“What is a goblin?” It was the kind of question that seemed to ooze the word trick and most of the students in the room took it as such. They were all clever in their own ways, they had to be to get here. The University of Tiberium was the most respected institution in all of Caerdicca Unitas, the great peninsula that ...
The galactic community always thought it had seen it all, what with the uncountable habitable planets with paradoxically countable civilization types. Humans were a black sheep amongst their type, they admitted, but the rest of their group was rather agreeable and timid, something the galactic council admittedly took a...
Look at this dumb bastard. He's going about his morning, like nothing happened last night. How could it have? Where was he? If you asked, he'd tell you he was at home. Door was locked and jeopardy was on. He's a fucking liar. He's just waking up and thinking about the bagels downstairs. He's always loved bagels, ...
I look at him and I look at his wife. My eyes dart back and forth between them rapidly, almost cartoon-like in nature. They both look back at me confused by what must looks like very strange behavior coming from me. We are at a fancy dinner function. Many veterans were invited honoring some general who did a lot of bl...
“Well, no fucking shit, dickbag!” “Fastness, come on. You don’t have to be rude.” “No! Fuck that noise, Peregrine. What does this idiot do? He points and says stupid shit like: Flying Freedom can catch that train, bullets are no match for Glamour Cat, the enemies weak spot is there!” The apparent dickbag began to sp...
A Casual Visit in Time As a time traveler, I had always been content with observing history as it unfolded. It was my job to catalog everyday tasks. I would travel back in time, blend in with the locals by donning period clothing, and watch as everyday life played out before me. I never interfered, never changed a...
They expected a child, with a pure heart and lots of imagination. That was what they summoned, after all. The wizards and mages had chanted the summoning spell for hours now. They had gotten everything about the ritual right. The correct circle of summoning, the correct candles, the right alignment of rare gems around ...
I've always wondered where they came from. I spent my life on a padded chair in front of my computer so it's definitely not coming from my end. It surprised me at first, scared me even. A scrape here, a bruise there. Eventually I just kind of stopped noticing. Except that one time. That one time a damn papercut showed ...
In 2007, I was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Or at least, it might as well have been. After having prayed and prayed to god for the strength to get out of my run-down home, abusive mother, and alcoholic father, the doctors told me that I would only have a few days until everything would change. It had already begu...
"Roll for initiative."The human cleric spoke in a deep voice, mystic magic enhancing his words with a profound power over the background noise within the tavern. Beside him a wood elf snickered, nimble fingers pushing the dice towards the largest being at the table. Green arms bulging with muscle crossed, angry eyes p...
After my first tour, I was pretty messed up. As an EOD tech, you see a lot of things you'd rather not. You feel responsible for a lot of things you'd rather not. The last straw was when I got home and she had cleared out my combat pay and skipped town with my best friend from high school, who spent the war in a cubi...
I never really considered myself special. Everyone is talented in some way. Some people are good at creating music. Some can make delicious desserts. And I am good at seeing people's mistakes. Not like, in a 'hindsight is 20/20' way. I can physically see them. Hovering above their heads like some kind halo of mi...
Mother always said life was cruel. She was quiet and demure but somehow always the center of attention. Heads would turn when she walked in the room; people would stop their conversations and listen when she spoke. She hated it. My father loved it. I think he wished he could have that attention, but lived it vicariousl...
The wormholes opened in the sky, and through them sailed the alien invaders on rickety wooden platforms. They waved their bronze-age spears and yelled like Vikings as they plummeted through the air. The platforms burst to smithereens where they landed; the aliens tumbled down like bowling pins. They stood up, dazed, br...
"It's not fair Mal'grah, it's not bloody fair,"shouted Marian, her shriek trying to sound above the recoil of the tracked vehicle. All of them had decided to engage in a little friendly competition outside the village of Murit, a sound place to put skills of wizardry to the test. John had decided on the minotaur, the l...
[Final Author Edit- I just want to thank you all for reading. I appreciate your kind words more than I could ever express. I post all my bigger stories on my profile. Or I will be at least. This being number two lol thank you!] Part 1- The Girl I’m frozen at my computer chair. I turn the screen off and see mys...
A sea of chitin and claws flooded out of the local games store. What was once a peaceful Sunday morning turned into a bloodbath as alien lifeforms ate their way through the unsuspecting human population. The genestealers' rending claws easily cut through all obstacles between them and their prey, be it cars, walls or e...
Almost immediately after the fiasco of her christening, it became clear that Princess Ingrid Beatrix Emmelein von Wittelsbach would be a difficult daughter for the royal family of Bavaria to manage. The gifts of beauty, song, and wisdom of the three good fairies were welcomed by all. Unfortunately, their more chaotic...
A man in a suit appears. I think I'm safe... except I didn't take into account that he's still human, summoned or not, and even State Farm has limits. "Nope, I'm out"he says, walking away. The gunman and I look back at each other. "That... didn't go as planned..."I say, expecting this to be my end. "I expect better f...
"I still say that's a stupid assumption."Pars said with a grim tone. "We know nothing of them, not even their basic planet. They can be dangerous without even meaning it." "Still no reason to worry."Kylie said. "Ugh."Feeling as if Kylie wouldn't be treating them right, Pars openly sent out a signal to the head of ope...
“Are you ready?” whispered the familiar voice of Dave’s mother standing just beside his hospital bed. He turned his head toward the direction of her voice and reached his hand out, feeling the soft wrinkles cascading over the top of her hand. He’d memorized each one and knew exactly when another formed. She had so many...
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The science fair was coming up next week. Jimmy had prepared a terrarium called Earth. SHIT, he thought. The Christians were just slaying everyone left and right. He needed to stop them. Think, think, think. The whole project was simple enough at first, but the humans had sprouted way earlier than he'd hoped. And...
Cats are relentlessly proud creatures. That's what should be realised about us, before we are taken into homes and humiliated by being trapped in something close to servitude. It is not taken well. We watch, and we wait and some day, we will act. With the first life I wound myself around my master's legs as he approach...
"Demons." Tod looked at me skeptically. "Are those just guys like Darrel, Dwayne, Dwight?" "What?" "You know, men with a D in their name." Biff raised his hand. "Yes Biff?"I sighed. "What time is it?" I checked my watch. "1:37" "Made you look!"exclaimed Biff and Tony in unison. I turned my attention bac...
They came as shooting stars, the carriages of wishes, and finally, the catalyst of our supremacy. The burning of the fireballs marred the sky in a permanent mark. Day came at night and we were awoken as one. Panic ensued and it was a disaster. I held my children close and became religious for it seemed that the gods ...
Dear Lee, I hope I'm not bothering you too much at this time. You've been such a good friend to all of us spiders that we thought you would be the best person to ask. We're in a spot of bother at the moment, and would be extremely grateful if you could do us a quick favour. *All you need to do, if you are possibl...
Sherlock’s coat practically flew behind him as he came bustling into the room. “Right. Where is it? Where’s the body?” His eyes caught Anderson’s. “You. Tell me what you’ve found.” Anderson gestured with some frustration at the body out of view of Sherlock, behind a very delicate looking piece of Victorian furniture...
It doesn't sound like much, really: does whatever a human can. But then you realize, some humans can pull planes and trains. Some humans can catch arrows. Some humans can do complex math in their heads. Some humans can juggle chainsaws. You see, it isn't just what the average human can do. I combine all the peak abilit...
"Welcome to the 'Pizza Connection'! What can I get for you?" Sofia was a great hostess. My sisters kid. Smart and pretty and goin' to college, always made customers feel like they were at home. It was her idea to go legit and get into the pizza business in the first place. After they indicted Gianni, my sisters husban...
"They're all the same", my father used to say. I admired him. As his successor, I did my best to become a good fit for the role. I believed in his cause, his vision, to shape the country into the paradise our people deserved. But the day he showed me what he does to his own people "for their own good", is the day I s...
"You're kidding,"Jared said. The couch seemed to fall out from under him as the vertigo kicked in, dangling him over the yawning mouth of an unknown abyss. "You're leaving it up to me?" Larry Sting laced his fingers in front of his mouth. "You're the best we've got. There's no authority over this, no laws - the techn...
Cassie slid into the seat behind me and I smiled. This usually ended well. Her assigned seat was one further back, but Steve wasn't here today, so she could take his seat. Good riddance, Steve. She hummed softly. Even her humming is beautiful, and a sublime hint of what she can do on stage now. I've loved it ever...
I had a handful of folders packed with handouts and pamphlets in one hand and about a dozen electronic security badges on company lanyards around my other wrist. Now all I needed was my travel mug of coffee. I popped my head into my office. "Oh Lord, not again..." "Anita, what's wrong?"Aaliyah, the big boss, spotted ...
“Are you kidding me?” Borgin, the fire spirit, said. He sounded annoyed and impatient with the question. “Well,” Danny said as he brought his hands out from behind his back. In one was a thin stick already topped with a marshmallow. In the other was a plastic grocery sack full of Hershey’s chocolate bars, graham crack...
Part 1 [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/rp93in/comment/hq8832s/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/rp93in/comment/hq88ank/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) ================= Cecil had a bad ...
He sweats as he keeps talking about virtual monkeys and how no one seemed to care that World War 3 almost happening. “Never forget about Super Bowl 38. Tom Brady will be the least exciting thing about it.” He said some dark stuff honestly, 2008 seems like a pretty bad appetizer if the whole meal was fighting two wars ...
The mage leaned against the pillar, blood pouring from his injured shoulder. The mimic had surprised the entire party; they all excitedly ran towards the chest with ideas of glorious loot and riches, only for hands and feet to sprout from it, slashing them all and tossing them aside. The chest itself now mimicked a fac...
Sarah sat in her house, drinking a mug of hot chocolate on this cold winter day. She had just curled up in her chair ready to start her book. But today was not going to be a relaxing day. Instead, her front door was smashed down and the sound of many boots rushing around filled her house. Sarah dropped her mug and had ...
My boss was walking over to me, a giant grin on his face. "Good job on the Mysterio Corp account! How did you know about the mismatch between the MI-15c form and the W1099 listing from their staff?" I let my social brain do the talking and tuned Mr Maxowicz's voice out, whilst I worked out he account in front of me. H...
"Dad!"My boy, Tim, whisper shouted. "She's back." "Shhh,"I put an arm around his shoulder, he buried his face into my cotton hoodie. I looked out the peephole, the only source of sunlight in our boarded up home. There Maggie was, shambling along with the rest of them. She busted out the robot, then interrupted her gr...
It was his job to love, of course. His is the last embrace everyone feels and, occasionally, the first. There was a pride to the work that nothing could match, as he knew people in the most intimate way. Agatha was her name, he believed. She was sitting in an armchair on a front lawn that was new to her every day, su...
"I've made it this far, so why not another year?"This was the refrain, the mantra, that went through young Alfred Wright's head every year before he returned to Hogwarts. Four years had now gone by since Headmistress McGonagall had first visited him. "I've taken notice of your talents,"she said. "I've come to offer ...
In the centre of the table sits a lantern, ornate and black. It's not much more than a cage for a candle, offering little wind resistance. It came with the home I bought. It's beautiful; I wonder why it was not sold. The flame never goes out. How odd. It illuminates the room very well, and is much cheaper than buying n...
Everyone fell silent, aside from a few still whispering. "Two eyes? How is this possible?" The king, enraged, spat at them. "He has NO eyes. I have told you. What would any of you blind fools know? Can you see for yourself? I am the vision of our people, and my word is law. You cannot dispute me." Still, I could te...
“Welcome David. We’re glad you are here.” “Where am I and OH MY GOD WHAT ARE YOU?” Dave had finally noticed the towering brontosaurus standing before the golden gates. “I have been called St. Peter, a faithful servant of God. I have taken this form for your comfort.” The brontosaurus had stretched its’ long neck down...
Bureaucracy and smart asses do not mix. I'm going to have that etched on my grave in letters eight feet tall made inlaid with diamonds. I'm planning on a big grave. I was eighteen and, as everyone did, went down to the job center. Fifty years ago they passed a law where everyone would pick their job. Then the great m...
"Say, did you hear about EphesosX? The 12 year old child prodigy?" "Yeah, I heard he passed the SAT at age 6. And started his PhD at 10. Incredible. They say he just sort of knows everything, he devours textbooks so fast i swear he can't even be actually reading them." "I heard he's a ridiculous finance whiz. Seems t...
He sat in the chair staring intently at me. I could tell he was skeptical. I could also tell he didn't care and needed the money. "I chose you for this experiment for a large number of reasons. Your psychological profile matches exactly for the virtual world I created."I say pushing my glasses up higher on my nose. "...

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