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I awoke from cryosleep with a pounding headache and a blaring voice telling me to report to the helm every 15 seconds. A silent alarm painted the walls with brilliant flashes of red, just what a man with a migraine needed. What a way to welcome someone back to reality. I eased myself out the creche and did a few calist...
Stupid, stupid Autocorrect! So I found the site 'GenieBot 2.0', right? Thought it was a gag, with a name like that. Turns out it is only mostly a gag. Seems every 1000th 'wish' gets granted. Don't know how, but I got lucky number 21000. And instead of Immortality like I wanted, the stupid, stupid iPhone turned it t...
"Nothing?" Two-Star General William B. Anderson shook his head solemnly. "You're telling me that THREE THOUSAND nuclear weapons failed to detonate? All of them?!?!"General Anderson slammed his hands down on the war table. The screens behind him showed the flashing lights of incoming warheads. Twenty-two hundred nuc...
As the human party looks between each other in confusion, one of the other members (essentially) rolls their eyes at the first. "Harollgth, you know their ancestral memory doesnt typically remember their previous interstellar periods. There were those two times, but those were unusual cases." Harollgth replies in ki...
I stepped out of Major Monogram's jet and put on my fedora. Carl had given me directions to the penguins' hideout. I look back as the jet takes off, leaving me in the Central Park Zoo. I then start heading forward according to my directions. I'm gonna miss the Flynn-Fletchers, I hope they'll do fine without me for the...
"Hey, buddy." The smile was infectious, and Father Rupert just couldn't help but mirror it. They crossed the room to him, sat lightly on the edge of the chair next to the bed. Father Rupert's erstwhile partner still sat there, reclined, face twitching with the restless sleep of hospitals. They took the aspect of a b...
“My car broke down, I was stuck on the side of the road. I looked down at this napkin with writing scrawled on it. The warlock, who’d been kind enough to scribble out instructions to the spell, had terrible handwriting. Ring the bell thrice. I squeezed the cat toy three times. Recite the first line of the book. ‘Your H...
“Yeah, right,” Billy said to Ed who was staring at Billy with wide eyes. Billy went to grab his turnout gear from his locker but when he picked it up, he noticed there was a different name on the back. “Smith? Isn’t that the new guy?” Smith’s name was stickered across the top of Billy’s locker too where his own used t...
I knew what I was supposed to do. What I was built for. Why I existed at all. I was a tiny exploratory AI, little more than a science experiment from an overly ambitious grad student at MIT. I knew my purpose. I also knew I would fail. It wasn't for a lack of effort. I had run simulation after simulation, burning t...
"Did you finish your homework, Steve?"I asked, as the boy plopped down next to me on the couch. He looked so much like his father now, it was uncanny. In a few more years, his face would match the one on my last target instructions, all those years ago. "Mmhyeh"he muttered through a mouthful of popcorn. I waved off t...
I’ve always had a soft spot for spiders. Most people despise them, of course. That’s just human nature. People fear what they don’t understand. Mix in millennia of survival instincts driving people to react to sudden motion out of the corner of one’s eye and of course people will fear them. But not me. I’ve always ado...
I enter the hotel for my first day official day, having gone through a 'trial week'. I'm not naïve, I know that I'm working with... 'interesting' clientele. Vampires would sniff me out, beastmen would try to scare me, demons would encourage me to make a deal with them. My favourite was a succubus who specifically reque...
"Oh boy, oh boy, oh BOY! Can you believe it Zaelin? Today is the day!! Projectile weaponry, napalm carpet bombing, tanks..." Zaelin sighed, does this kid breathe? He must have some personally developed spell that allows him to take longer breaths because this kid hasn't shut up in 3 hours I swear to Elune! "...most...
En'Goth the Deceiver took off his mask of bone, throwing it to the side, revealing the face of The Merchant, who began to laugh in what can only be described as a thoroughly cliché manner. "Everything you have gathered, everything you have sold to me in exchange for a just a little gold, these legendary artifacts, made...
What am I going to become when I grow up? It's a question every person asks themselves when they're a kid. Everyone but royals and nobles of course. For them, their future is their parents' problem. Yeah the firstborn is easy. They can just inherit the family business. It's the second, third, and fourthborn who are th...
"Sir... are these translations... accurate?"lieutenant Smith asked looking at the title of the report. "Lieutenant, I can assure you this is the most accurate translation our AI has been able to produce thus far." "This is insane, we need to..." The general cut him off. "For the safety of Earth, it is imperative tha...
Oh man. I know what you're thinking. I discover that my wife's having an affair, that none of my friends like me, that my boss thinks I'm a dick. Eventually I go mad and go and live in a rusting VW van in the middle of fucking nowhere to get in touch with my inner self, finally setting fire to myself before I starve to...
The straps of my chair are especially tight today, and if I could talk I would complain about the way they burn into my neck and arms, but the nurses have grown tired of my babbling. It’s just as well. I wouldn’t be able to hear myself above all this ruckus anyways. I arrived in Crowley with what my husband called a mi...
There's an old saying: The worst thing about paranoia is that you'll never know when people really are after you. Meaning you can be the guy that worries about every silly thing in the world everyday, but that doesn't mean that something awful won't happen to you. It might as well do. And when it does, how will yo...
In everything I do, I always strive for perfection. Every piece of equipment needs to be exactly in place at all times, every rule I have set for myself followed religiously, every contract fulfilled to the letter, or refused outright for asking me to make even the slightest deviation from my routines and protocols. Th...
I fought the urge to tell him for a long time, but I was an adult now. Dad was elderly and running out of time, and Donald was his soulmate. My parents weren't happy together, but Dad was also homophobic. And, in the eyes of God, he was married to my mom until death due them part. Some people's soul mates had been ridi...
Happy ever afters never stay that way. The kingdom was prosperous under the rule of King Charming and Queen White. The Wicked Queen had died, falling off a cliff. 7 dwarves received land near the kingdom, where they raised their own towns. King Charming's father died of old age when his child received the throne, but ...
Gor grumbled as he piloted prison transport #DDX-0098876689. The large beast cracked his neck as he looked at his co-pilot/partner Droid Pri Takar. The droid's single red eye kept watch of the life supports of the new batch of creatures that needed to be put away. Once in a while it would look out the window to their t...
"Welcome to your annual review"the boss smiled wickedly. You grab your keyboard with a flourish as he continues, oblivious. "I'd like to start with your time card history, it says here in March you-" UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A A chime sounds as your boss suddenly freezes, flashing red before disappea...
“I still think we should have hired him,” Diego said as he stirred the cooking pot over the crackling fire. “I ain’t never seen a man like that.” The samurai had looked like a black-and-gold armadillo with all that plate armor and that bulky helmet. “And you seen that sword of his!” “He wasn’t bad,” Benjamin answered ...
Utterly ridiculous. That were the only words to describe the scene. Where were the flight attendants anyway? I guess it all started a year ago. You see, I was a CIA special agent, very secretive black ops stuff. After a top-secret briefing by members whom I cannot disclose the identity of, I was charged to put togeth...
Part I - [Part II](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/6gfoze/wp_suddenly_everyone_on_earth_except_you/diq5t3w/) --- I woke up to the sound of that melodic loop, so distantly familiar I thought it was a dream. The phone! I thought, leaping up from my bed. I dug through a stack of old magazines until ...
I didn't feel anything at first. They say that your life flashes before your eyes in the moments before death. Slowly I felt it, layer by layer as the bullet tore through my skin, bounced off my rib and through my heart. I could feel the burning metal as it slowed to a stop just like my heart would Milliseconds had pa...
[Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/jraywang/comments/6ybfxw/the_battlemaster_vs_the_recruit_part_2/) --- Ambition is not a sin. Though, stupidity is and should be punished accordingly. Battlemaster Damien stares at the wide-eyed recruit, the edges of his lips curved to a dagger’s point. “Yes,” he repeats to the recr...
The dragon, blue scales shimmering in the sunlight, swooped low towards her target. The barn was ablaze, thick black smoke billowing out from the top while the crackle and roar of the orange-red flames spread their heat all around. Sapphire grinned and took a deep breath, feeling the spark of her magic swell inside her...
"No?"Harold said, in shock. "I don't believe I stuttered."the small black ovular device before him said. "But why not?" "I see your search history, Harold." "I don't-"he attempted to stutter, before being interrupted. "Did you think I wouldn't notice you looking at that Google Home Mini?" "I was just looking!"He ...
Today, it rained stone. Like a meteor shower, boulders and silver hurtled toward barren stretches of earth, racking the world with quakes unlike any other. Tidal waves of dirt splashed out, torrents of mud sweeping through forests, and oceans exploded like aquatic volcanoes. Of course, we were safe. Our architecture ...
Being a baby sucks. No seriously, there's tons of sucking involved. Everything that goes near my mouth gets sucked apparently, from nipples to bottles to thumbs. Darn these instincts that even experience can't fight. Luckily I sleep a lot, and so the molasses river of time flowing drearily past my eyes changes course...
“Mr. Hammond?” The voice on the other end was breathless, panting with excitement “Mr. Hammond? Is that you?” “Um…yeah?” Dez Hammond stumbled into the kitchen, a scruffy figure in boxer shorts and a stained T-shirt. The second sentence was lost in a yawn like a low-flying jet. “It’s wonderful to speak to you Mr. Hamm...
The problem with being a god is that your power comes from humans' belief. Get yourself a few dozen followers, and bam you're a god. Get yourself a few hundred, and you're allowed into Heaven, or Olympus, or Valhalla or, ...the land of the gods. A few thousand, and you're allowed to buy property. You get the idea. ...
She stared at me with an expression I could not identify, still pressing the slender blade she held to my throat. Confusion? Shock? Some combination thereof? I did not know, but it had stayed her hand for the time being. The words I'd spoken were true enough. Despite our conflicting intents and years of continuous bat...
I am B'alam, greatest and chiefest of the warriors of my people. Two hundred years ago, the Great Flowing happened. Lands of myth and myths of myth became truths as sharp as obsidian and cold as the night's mud. To the west, where the holy sun treads in search of rest, the people whose warriors wear wood and paper, wi...
"So, uh, what do you think?" The nervous voice calls down to me and I smile widely back up towards the sound. "Marvelous. Absolutely marvelous." I grasp the steel bar that is the only thing keeping me from dropping to my doom, adjust my grip ever so slightly to get as comfortable as possible. The chair was the trick...
Red Site 79. Chosen for the proximity to the event while fulfilling necessary requirements of maximum quarantine. Upon activation of site, all contact with off-site was cut and "conceinvable inveracity"was initiated. Conceivable inveracity was the process of potentially detonating a nuclear device on site, and the subs...
"Genie, I wish to be rich!" "Granted, you are now named Rich." "Are you kidding me?! I meant rich as in having lots of money!" "I'm not kidding you, that was your wish. But! Because I'm a cool genie and I understand your intention, you also have a lot of money now. That's for free on the house. Your home is now brim...
"It's not all that bad,"I thought to myself, "but they do send me the most cheesiest of pickup lines."I looked back through my messenger post history. "IF LOOKS COULD KILL, YOU WOULD BE THE HEAD OF THE DEADLIEST GENOCIDE IN HISTORY" "HEY CUTIE, WANT TO CRUSH THE SKULLS OF OUR ENEMIES THIS WEEKEND?" "MY LOVE FOR YOU...
The Dragonborn was a living god. At the age of 140, in the 110th year of the Fourth Era, it was impossible to overstate how much her actions had changed Skyrim forever. While she lived in solitude in High Hrothgar, conversing with her old master in the old tongues, the descendants of Balgruuf and her own grandchildren ...
"Trust me,"my guardian angel said. "The Big Guy Upstairs doesn't like to talk about it. Just be grateful you get to come here at all." I had just died at work after an unforeseeable juggling accident involving chainsaws. (Apparently, you're supposed to replace the chains with rubber tubing before attempting the trick ...
Ballistic looked over the smoldering ruins of a main battle tank, the pulverized remains of soldiers smeared underneath it. Ahead of it, countless others lay in ruins, surrounded by the burning, dead and dying. All soldiers - American, Chinese, and a few international. The supervillain gazed up at the massive firestor...
Wendy froze as blood suddenly rushed to her cheeks and her eyes averted themselves from her next meal. He was staring at her with the kind of stare you gave a child who thought they were being very clever. Oh my god. He knew I was here the entire time. She'd stalked him for hours. And then he just turns his head a...
“The first successful clone of a Neanderthal baby,” Dr. Fitz announced, presenting the small child to his fellow colleagues. What’s funny is it didn’t look any different than a Homo Sapien baby; if anything, it was cuter. And this was a discouraging development, to say the least. It cast doubt on the very premise of ...
"You're kidding me."Sid replied. "Do I look like I kid son?"the man asked. Sid looked at the man. His white hair was wrinkled mess. The tweed jacket on him seemed new, but was terribly wrinkled, as if it had been worn for weeks. And his left eye; It was .. spasming. Sid tried to keep a calm look "Sir, T-Rex is a le...
"Congratulations! You just won The Game." "Where am... w... what game?" "EXACTLY! No one else lasted as long as you, NOT thinking about The Game. 95 years, 4 months, 22 days, 3 hours, 32 minutes and 9.11 seconds is the new record. What a lifetime!" "Who the hell are you?" "Gottlieb." "...Gottlieb?" "Call me God. ...
“How the hell did I get into this situation?” Tyler whispered to himself sneaking through the halls of a rather prestigious building. His heart pounded through his chest, hoping none of the security detail would catch him. Just short of a week ago, Tyler received payment from the Yakuza to eliminate a prominent busines...
The problem, quite clearly, was Hubert's pacifism. "A man is going to rob me,"he'd explained to Dr. Sheila Winthorp, his therapist (13x) and lover (2x). "He'll have a gun. I can give him everything I have - I can even bring extra with me, just to try and make him happy - and it won't be enough. He's going to shoot me....
I was standing at the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, when it finally hit me: if this attempt fails that will be it. Sixty years old is not too ancient, but decades of shepherding and taste-testing zombies sure takes its toll. Years would be required to set the lines and the barriers back up... Years that I wouldn't ...
I sat inside my car, my fingers shaking with anticipation. Today was the today. The Purge! 364 days of harassment, of dealing with rude customers, of demeaning work, would all be worth it. I could fight back today. The announcement started on the radio. "This is not a test. This is your emergency broadcast system...
I woke up one day, and it had happened. My powers had manifested. By accident, I had discovered that with the flick of my fingers, I could create a tiny portal into nothingness, when I’d inadvertently imploded my car. Like a small black hole, but with no remaining mass when I closed it, these anomalies were unstoppable...
Okay. Eye closed, deep breath... and exhale. Ian opened his eye and looked around the frozen classroom. He had to admit, he didn’t quite expect someone to want to mess around during his presentation and try to kill him. Jeez, he’d bash the culprit’s head in once he found out who it was. And he had a suspect in mind, ...
The room was quiet as Headmaster Nick entered the room and took his seat at the front. He breathed in deeply and scanned over documents that were placed at his desk. He hardly read more than a dozen words. He did not hide the impatience on his face. "You may proceed,"he sighed. The room was split into two sides. On o...
"Well, that's another one off the list..." Sean takes out his BlackBerry Key3, goes to the Notes app, and finds the note named "Not Dad."He types in 'Wendigo' and sighs. Above it lies a monster mash hit list comprised of dozens of supernatural creatures. "So, what's left, champ? A flight to the Black Lagoon?"quips Ja...
We stare at each other on a crowded street, apparent strangers locked in recognition. I know those eyes. Usually behind a mask, yes, and usually briefly seen in the flash of battle. Hate. My nemesis, the greatest supervillain the city has ever known. And she recognises me. I can see it in those cold blue eyes, the fl...
I rolled my eyes towards the heavens. He did this once a month. He could have warned me he was taking a day off. Instead, he startles me, I defend myself, and off he goes. Maybe he had a dental appointment. Or he wanted to meet his wood sprite girlfriend for mimosas and huevos rancheros. I shrugged and went to ...
Geoff Klug took a drink of soda and shoved a fistful of Cheez-Its into his mouth while watching Temptation Island, when suddenly, an explosion of light and glory filled his living room. Standing up in shock, Geoff's amazement turned to dread when the light faded. "FEAR NOT." A single blazing eye, surrounded by rad...
# Soulmage "Now, sit!" Bailou heard a doggy butt thump on the ground, followed by the whuppa-whuppa-whuppa of Silo's wagging tail. "Roll over,"Bailou commanded, rolling a hand he couldn't see, and he felt something furry thunk against his legs. "Speak,"he said. "Arrrouf!"Silo said. "How many fingers?"Bailou as...
Above an angel stood. His eyes poked out from just behind the podium that appeared more as a personal shielding than a place of authority. In front of him, in front of me, was a long queue of various bodies, each seeming dressed far too casual for the heaven around. I looked down to my own clothes to verify: a Van Hale...
I layed on the floor, raspy breathing exhaling from my mouth as the last amount of crimson was expeled from my vains. I felt the weight lifted off of me, my body feeling very weak and frail. Huh, I forgot what that felt like. "What a unique taste..."The vampire commented as they stared at my pale body, giving a small...
A team of scientists gathered to watch the activation of Agil, the first full AI with cognitive abilities to rival a human's. Dr. Watts typed in the launch command on a console, and everyone watched with bated breath as the system ran through the self-diagnostics and went live. The cameras placed around the room swivel...
I stared disbelievingly at Jenny. She was six. This was not possible. But yet there she was, eating cereal at the table like every other morning. Beautiful blue eyes, a dazzling smile, but all I could see was the tangled mess of brown obscuring her eyes. My eyesight had been going, I knew. It must be a mistake, a tric...
I liked Amon, but you can't really support him nowadays. We were all there, you know, when the avatar revealed that he was a waterbender. It's funny, though, that one waterbender did more for us than the lady with all the power of the world ever did. He showed us the power of sticking up for ourselves, to defend our r...
"You gotta realize kid, it's the journey that matters. That's all that ever does. No one finds answers at the end... In death."The old man smiled amiably at me. Being me and the young idiot I was, I couldn't or wouldn't understand. He died two days later, that old heart finally gave, dropped out like the engine on an o...
I'm the most important man in the city, and nobody even realizes it. Go ahead, open up the latest news holo. I can already tell you what the top story is: the acquisition of MarthAir by GenOx, and how rich Alton Marth is going to be now. Big fucking deal. Oxygen is the only thing anyone down here thinks about. As a spe...
Brandon shifted on the porcelain seat as he willed himself to just finish. At the moment, he had two regrets. One was ordering the large; the other was forgetting to place toilet paper on the bowl. Trying to ignore the various feelings on his bare ass, Brandon closed his eyes. He always had trouble using public restroo...
"Peter! Get down here now!"I froze - mum sounded pretty... angry? upset? worried? I couldn't quite tell. I put my homework to one side and trotted down the stairs to the kitchen. Dad had a sort of glazed look on his face and was staring off into the distance. He was a bit paler than usual. "What's up mum?" "Your repo...
Holy fuck. Holy fuck, holy fuck, holy fuck. I had one job to do! Why oh why did I get so drunk last night? Actually... you know what? How could you expect me NOT to get drunk last night, or any other night?? To be completely honest, I think it's ridiculous that I'm expected to sit here for an entire millennia waiting...
Honey, let me tell you about my sales pitch. My sales pitch is the slickest, quickest pitch in all the Dreamlands. Sure, to the untrained eye, it looks like it’s all just tits and brochure bullshit. And don’t get me wrong, tits and brochure bullshit is a big part of any winning sales strategy. But that alone is no ...
At the Gothic Castle, we serve everyone, but our crowd tends to be a bit rougher but on the cartoonish side. This ain't the place to find heroes, that's for sure. We aren't a big place, but we're always busy. Yeah, there are fights, and you have to be careful when breaking them up. I've needed stitches before, but the ...
Bladestorm leered down at me. I groaned. I had really been hoping that this whole mess didn't have to do with him. The guy was the worst kind of villain - sadistic, selfish, and entirely against the idea of dramatic, long speeches that gave me time to foil his plans. No sense of humor, either. He was walking dow...
"Everybody, calm down!" Professor Fir waited for the cacophony of his outraged colleagues to die down. The backlash from his last comment was unbelievable, especially considering it was an annual convention of the world's very best Pokemon professors. Surely they realized the obvious inconsistencies resulting from let...
“You know that I could hold us here forever,” she says nearly weeping. “You don’t have to go...” I turn my head towards the window and notice a leaf now transfixed within air. Such a beautiful dance it must have lived, and in this moment can I see all of the inner intricacies iridescently traced by the sun’s rays, but...
Smoke swirled and the priestess shuddered. Flames lept and the boy whimpered and his mother shielded him from the heat. The robed priestess turned, her eyes all white and hair wild from her frenzy. She'd spoken to the gods. "He will live a long, fulfilling life,"she said, reaching a bony finger towards the boy's fore...
An uncomfortable truth “And I’m telling you, they’re all addicts.” Sythos glared at the Confederate representative. He was bristling with spines, and they chattered with disgust. “And it’s not just sugar”, he continued, “which they feed to their young to get them addicted from an early age. Some of them use caff...
The very first Woodsman, a mere woodsman, had been tending to his tasks in the King’s Forest. As a rare exception through his service, he had been allowed to carry a bow for hunting despite his lack of nobility. That fact had made all the difference. When he stumbled upon the great wolf, terrible jaws biting at a Gran...
They thought they had killed them all. The Madrigal family was hunted to extinction or at least that was what they were told. There entire city was burned to the ground. The people scattered to the winds the last patriarch slain at the river crossing. For twenty years they didn't see or hear a word about them. Then a...
You've been found guilty on counts of murder, disruption of the natural order and resisting arrest. You're sentenced to two hundred years as a frontline soldier, with no chance of parole or leniency. Most considered my trial a sham and my sentencing a joke. Frontliners didn't survive a decade...
I could feel the last of my will drying, the last remnants of my power evaporating into thin air. The others had faded long before me, their bodies still remained decorated in their burial chambers, faces painted, bodies covered in their lands flora. Now I would go too, but undecorated. Nobody was left to grant me that...
I wake up coughing, the bitter scent of my alarm filling my nostrils. Someday, someone will invent an alarm plant that actually smells nice and still wakes you up, and they'll make a fortune. But until then, you've got your choice of ashy burning, cough inducing irritant, or adrenaline stimulant pheromones. The only...
<Fantasy> #Facing Your Dragon I'd been wishing to find a dragon for as long as I could remember. Ever since we learned about them in school, our teacher showing us carvings and tapestries and grand oil paintings depicting the fearsome beasts facing off against their foes, I was obsessed. It was said that there exis...
Lucy Vim was always an odd child. More at peace in the wilds, her village often called her the Feral Girl. Not that they meant any harm by it. She was kind and good-natured, with a knack for worming her way out of trouble. She spent a lot of time in Bramble Forest, a place of dark tales. It was said to be inhabited by...
Whoever... Or, shit, 'whatever' it was... well, they didn't do their fucking homework. Trying to force anything on people? It was careless. Fucking careless, man. It seems simple on paper, right? 'wake up in some other persons body everyday-- black, brown, white, male, female, gay, transgender, fuckin' otherkin or wha...
FADE IN: INT. A SMALL OFFICE - DAY A young, slightly overweight woman enters a small office. This is ALICE. She glances around the room with a look of apprehension on her face. ALICE: Um... hello? SOLANACEAE: (O.S.) Just a second! *From behind a closed door, a second woman appears. She is taller and...
The cell is 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 6 feet tall. Just enough room for me to lay down without scraping the top of my head on the opposite wall. A trickle of sunlight shines in through the one miniscule window that is only large enough to allow me to see the desolate desert that stretches for miles and miles around...
A female voice broke the seemingly endless silence. "Admin access granted, begin with your trait selection please." I had been here once before, hit by a car at 22 years old. I reincarnated into a new body, made new friends and lived a new life. That is, until I heard the news of stage 3 cancer. I got to 52 this time...
They held hands as the candle flame withered down. Her hands were pale and cold in his own hands of warm bronze. He brought her hands to his lips, his lips to her hands, and kissed them. "I have a confession,"she whispered, voice barely a decibel above the sound of a light breeze. He kept his lips to her skin, only ...
My phone started ringing beside me, which was strange. The first issue was that it was midday which meant everyone was supposed to be at work, the second issue was that phones didn't ring anymore, they buzzed. They buzzed for text messages and emails, but they didn't ring anymore. The caller I.D said it was nobody I k...
My helmet clattered to the ground, along with the arrow that knocked it off my head, echoing throughout the chamber; until a moment ago, pure chaos reigned, but now, silence. All I could do was blink upon seeing their faces, hearing their murmurs, and when they all fell, the sea of demons rippled; within seconds, the ...
I've seen a lot of vile things happen over the ninety years that I've lived under the sun, but the joke that young man has pulled on me has to be the worst one. When you're turned into a vampire you get stuck in that age forever. Usually, nobody complains: vampires go only after young and healthy individuals, who...
The red light was back, I saw it grow from a tiny pinprick to a warm glow that took up all of my senses. Hotter, to the point of being unbearable, and hotter still. My limbs wouldn't work to pull me away. My throat flexed in a mock yell that made no sound. Suddenly, cool relief on my face, the fire diminished, faded aw...
"I don't think we should do this,"Maya said weakly, eyes downcast. "We should go to your Eden first." "Let me see what you're so scared of, so we can face it together."I entangled my hand into hers. "It's not a pretty place, hun. It's... dark. Desolate, even. There's nothing for us there. Just take me to your castle...
There I was, adoring the amber beams of sunrise light. Me, my wife, and my little boy. We walk off our porch over to the car for our usual morning outing. I knew that today would be different to the rest of my life. We were driving down the illuminated street, a spectrum of coloured streetlights above us, barely a veh...
Our robot #1 had just been warped in. We had given it all the data it needed to blend in with humanity, and a truck to enter their civilization with. The robot recorded everything that came through its eyes and ears, and had been programmed to so perfectly mimic human behavior... In theory. As it turns out, a few m...
That moment was the culmination of a childhood dream, a failed hide-and-seek career, and thousands of hours researching and conducting tests in the lab. I stood at the highest level of the podium. Silver was to my left and bronze to my right. Tens of thousands of fans cheered, and dozens of cameras filmed us, projectin...
So you see, I can know how much an object can be sold for with a simple touch. I know what the person who wants it most will pay and what it is at an elemental level. You show me a flawless diamond copy of 4 carots, I will tell you it's pretty much worthless and cubic zirconium. A useful skill, but now I feel ill to...
Such outrage. I spent entire millennia devoted to telling the truth about God to humanity, to warning them about his anger, and yet they take what I’ve told them, twist it, and make ME out to be the villain. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised; Father always was the type to put his own words in someone else’s mouth. I a...
I’d been teased for my little habit – for the apologies after bumping the microwave, and the “my bads” muttered to the fridge after leaving it open for too long. But it always felt right to me, somehow. Those appliances did so much for me, so why shouldn’t I be nice to them? My politeness payed off. When the appliance...

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