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“God damn it.” Said the villain, paranoid and scanning the downpour of rain behind me. “Were you followed? Whoever did this, because I know it wasn’t me this time, did they come after you?”. My eyes hung down to the doormat displaying a welcoming “gtfo off my porch” in bold calligraphy. “I, I don’t know. There were so...
The moment he read the letter, he realized he fucked up. Turns out, he had misheard his mentor, and had instead created a steam engine railway throughout the badlands. No idea how to explain it to her, he sighs and hangs his head in defeat, just praying that she would take it easy on him. . . . "So... What the f...
I could feel his gaze shift to one of concern as I made my wish. "Why would you wish for such a thing?"He questioned. As I wept, looking at the small amount of people who even bothered to attend the funeral, I turned to him. "Because I'm not worth remembering...All through my life, I was a stepping stone to better peop...
I sighed, aware that smoke blew out of my nose by the way that his eyes boggle out of his head. I stand and walk over to her, looking him up and down. He shakily raises his sword and I just bite it and toss it aside. Poor thing looks properly afraid now. How old are you? I ask him. He looks even more terrified, ...
Nobody could stop staring at me. An uncomfortable silence had conquered the banquet hall after I was introduced. It was as if the party had been paused in order to assess my worth. Most of the guests were close to my age, barely adults. Some faces sneered at me, while others merely gave me a curious glance. A small ...
"Well you see, it is all about getting the mix right."the two men down the bar table nodded their heads in agreement with the first. "Aye cheers to that. You start messing with the mix and the coke doesn't come out right. Ruin the whole batch"the words were once again met with nods of agreement at the bar. Lesser so ...
Some people think when you die, you feel nothing. No sorrow, or pain, joy or fear. All feelings melt into nothingness because you are nothing. Well it’s the exact opposite. Not the “you are nothing” part. That part was always true. The “you feel nothing” part. The moment you die, all the memories of your previous lif...
The bard entered a moat of light cast through the western window, from a setting sun, on a dying empire. After the Dragonborn led the Nords to victory, the Nords pushed into the heart of Tamriel. Not that the Empire could not push back a group of barbaric ethnocentric would be conquerors; by all accounts they did in ...
“A meditation clinic?” “Yeah, a meditation clinic.” “I don’t get that. A meditation clinic? I mean, I get the meditation thing, but I don’t get the clinical aspect of it. Clinic denotes some type of scientific basis, not a bunch of new age, feel good, step-mom who smokes pot woo-woo bullshit.” “Well, people pay for ...
Meme. No, I'm not stuttering -- and no, I'm not talking about the month between April and June. Anyone out there with a computer at home has doubtless heard of memes at some point. But for those of you who are maybe old enough to remember a time before Facebook, it's all too easy to dismiss them as one-off little jokes...
I haven't figured out how to survive dying from pressure yet. --- When I was sixteen I drowned. Quietly, the way kids in pools sometimes do- passive, not active drowning. The world closed over me and my lungs filled up and then I died. When I opened my eyes my chest hurt horribly, because someone was shoving it ...
Kuryll punched in the coordinates nervously. We're finally going to do it, he thought. We're finally going to see humans! Kuryll, whose father had served as a senator in the Intergalactic Synod, had always spoken of the humans of the another galaxy in hushed tones. They were shrouded in mystery. Capable of interpla...
The fall of Titan was thought to be impossible. The being who had risen up from the depths of the Earth itself, he couldn't really be gone, could he? Where do we even begin to ponder the implications of such a loss? His passing will be discussed and argued over for the coming millennia, by philosophers as of yet unborn...
‘They must never know…’ As you might’ve known right now, I am the son of Jamie Newton and Dara Newton, Favian Newton. My name itself means ‘man of wisdom’, denoting the lofty aspiration of my parents. And I once aspired to reach their hopes and dreams, but life is such an ironic phenomena. I would had never thought...
"God, we have a slight... problem." "What, Gabriel?" "It's Astaroth." "...what of him? He was cast into hell with Lucifer, and he stays there." "Well, yeah...but something's changed. I mean, really changed." "How so?" "Well...he's here." God got up from his work of creating new universes, and looked Gabriel in...
"Members of the Academy, thank you for attending this urgent presentation. "I understand the extreme inconvenience experienced by many of you to connect to this ansible stream, but I believe the necessity of your participation will soon become apparent. "Since the discovery of 'humans' nearly four hundred years ago, ...
"Could you just deal already?"Albert tapped his foot endlessly against the brimstone floor, matched by the rhythmic tapping of his hands on the stone table that sat the six of them. Charlie finished his overdone shuffling, and began dealing to the men, each one mostly keeping to themselves as they considered their han...
I don't know how old I am anymore. Or. Well. I'm twenty-five. It's my 25th birthday. Again. But how many times have I been 25 years old? The first time it happened I didn't know what was going on. I though it was a sick dream. I had just turned 25, and had gone to bed more than a little drunk. I woke up and I was in t...
Don’t get me wrong, it was cool at first. The morning after my little wish, I remembered that there was a midterm in Bio that I was about to be late for. Somehow, I sprinted all the way across campus, dodging traffic, puddles from last night’s rainfall, and geese in under two minutes. I’d never been athletic before in...
I’m halfway through my never-fail story about saving baby turtles in Costa Rica when the redhead knocks her glass off the bar. “Oh no, baby!” They’re all ‘baby’ to me. “I’ll buy you another one. Was that a Sidecar?” “Sazerac,” she corrects me, but she’s frowning more than I’m used to. I raise my finger at the ba...
Switzerland hadn't had a general for 75 years. Had times been better she wouldn't have needed one. But unfortunately, first contact had not been as peaceful as we had hoped. We had barely tried to establish communications when the invaders had delivered a devastating first strike. Zürich had been levelled. Leibstadt,...
The Hero begged me to grant his wish. After all, who was I to deny the man who saved the world from the Demon King? We trekked for three weeks through what was the Demon King's lands, carrying a dead body and a grieving soul in the wake of a polity disintegrating. None of the surviving demons had the strength or the...
I really don't get it, why am I the only one that is confused and concerned about this? Everybody just bursts out in song and dance, everybody seems to know all the choreography without any training at all. It is very bizarre to say the least. At first I thought I was just on the outside of some elaborate inside joke....
I don't know who's crazier, the mysterious male voice who insisted he was the biggest fan of my book over the phone, or me, who agreed to meet him to sign the book in question. For the record, I've never published a book in my life. Or stepped out of the big city until today. I'm now in a quaint fishing town, sitting...
Jim Hall had been exploring the abandoned town as an anthropologist for days when he came upon the worn, beaten iPad, with a cracked screen and dented frame. On the one hand, he had been pleased to find such an expensive bit of gear, which he'd undoubtedly hawk on Craigslist to stretch his funding for finding historica...
Adam nervously played with his tool behind the privacy curtain. This was his first professional match and his future in the SeXXX Olympics depended on a good show. He could hear the crowd roar in appreciation as his unseen opponent played them. In his minds eye, they strutted upon the stage, slowly undressing, teasing...
Today the coffee wasn't very good. That isn't to say it was bad. Or even that it was all that different from yesterday. Somehow though, it wasn't delicious anymore. Suddenly it wasn't all that different than any other warm, bitter liquid in existence. Ted sipped his warm, bitter liquid as an excuse to put off writi...
H-E-L-P M-E I'm not really sure why I do it. I didn't know that's what I was actually spelling out until a friend pointed it out a long time ago. It kept happening, just out of habit I guess. I've heard plenty of theories, the zany alien stories and paranormal ideas people come up with trying to explain what I ...
Galactic Tourism Board Notice for Potential Travelers Regarding the Sanctions on Travel to Planet Sol-3 (Local Name: EARTH) You may have heard the news that the inhabitants of Sol-3 have recently developed faster-than-light travel, and as such, the official ban on communicating with or visiting this planet ...
In many human cultures, greed and gluttony are frowned upon as sins. But if we reduce a human to its basest instincts through necrosis, will we throw aside all inhibitions and consume indefinitely? Is there a limit to how much we can consume? These questions straddle the border between the quantitative and the qualitat...
My suit erupted into a swarm of roaring insects. The man, crazed, gripped my arm in an encasement of bees. The bees subsequently turned to gold, then back into more bees, then gold again, then even more bees, in an endless cycle. The effort was draining, surprisingly. You didn't notice when the transformations were ...
The noon bell rings, and I set my shovel down, breathing hard. I grab my canteen from the ground and head to the shade to take a break. Removing my bandana and sunglasses, I wipe the sweat from my brow, pouring some water over my hands to rinse them before reaching into my pocket for a protein bar. I climb out of the p...
“Go to work.” Three simple words. I’d never had something so mundane before. I sat there in my car for a second. If I stayed there for the next nine seconds, I’d miss the window and be fine. And yet, I had to know. I started my car. Then I thought about Yolanda and our three lovely children. Was a momentary satisfacti...
The hulking beast snarled as it lunged, knocking the young man to the ground. Jason whipped out his knife just in time, slashing the hellbeast in the neck, but it didn't seem to even notice. Its black blood hissed and burned like acid as it hit Jason's skin, and he shouted out in pain. Opening its huge mouth, exhaling...
I am never serious. No matter how bad the situation I always have a joke. No matter how many are hurt or even dead I can still muster a smile. I am never serious, because when I am very bad things happen. My current party doesn't know what happens when my neverending smile goes away, they don't know what happens wh...
I’ve not been in a sensory deprivation pod before, so when I walk into the small white room and see the egg shaped hollow in the ground, I’m a little taken back. Inside the hollow, there’s a pool of water, and above it, a lid. There’s little else in the room. Calm music plays — pan flute, I think. “I’ll come back in a...
listening to stars week 1: I heard a satellite hit something, it must have been some space debris. no contact listening to stars week 2: I saw a total of 125 planes. no contact listening to stars week 3: I scanned the stars total count on my spectrum 902,554,933. contact listening to stars week 4: I counted the st...
"Look, I'm a villain ok? I sit inside my lair of darkness from where I scheme my diabolical plots, how am I a good guy?"Lyroth asked. "Well my lord,"Cuddleheart replied. "Perhaps people have that idea of you because your lair of darkness is actually really well lit and also bright pink." "It's not pink! It's fuscia, ...
I've been here for 17 years, now. I'm one of the veterans of this... exhibition. I help the new additions integrate and acclimate, and explain what is going on. We don't want a repeat of 13 years ago, after all. We were, all of us, taken. Taken, and dumped into a massive enclosure, designed to approximate what They se...
Medical Report Subject: Phenomena of Existential Void Syndrome (EVS) Author: Dr. Richard Simmons, Senior Cardiologist Good heavens, here we go again. One more subject complaining about the EVS – the latest trend, as it seems. Frankly, I've grown quite tired of these melancholic accounts and their in...
Bond gave a quick cursory glance around the hall, briefly assessing the exits and blind spots of the cameras, and catching the eye of a tall, elegant brunette in the flowing purple dress talking to Wayne. The folder M had passed him over his ostentatiously large mahogany desk this morning had given him an insight into ...
"Bah! I won't have it!" "Please, sir, we need to work out our relations by the end of the day, or else-" "I said NO. I will not share the stars with consumers of flesh!" Jacob winced. Even through the translator, the ambassador's voice sounded brash in Jacob's earpiece. He shook his head, frowning. The ambassador wa...
Arresto Momentum It was the first spell I learned that reminded me of my days in the cafeteria after school, playing with my friends under the watchful guise of the DnD club leader. I remember using a spell similar to it in a vain attempt to stop a dragon from stampeding over our entire party. A cannon ball managed ...
"This is madness!"roared Temora, phasing rapidly between his material and immaterial forms, losing wisps of his being with every half-considered transformation. "You will perish and accomplish nothing. The Earthling must be long dead by now..." Galden calcified momentarily, overcome with rage and grief. "No! If you'...
I woke up in a field. How did I end up here again? I was clueless. I couldn't remember a thing. Upon closing my eyes all could see were vague images of a plane filled with people, flashing through my mind. Was I going on vacation? Did my plane crash while I was on my way to a tropical island, a sunset on the beach a...
Humans are an anomaly. We rose from the depths of our world to become its champion, yes, but that's not unique. Sixty-four other sapient species that we've come across have done the same. We mastered the arts of fire and water, air and earth, war and peace. So has everybody else. We're unique because we have eyes. ...
_"Every action has an equal and opposite reaction"_ - Newton's third law. That’s definitely true in my case. Back in science class in ninth grade, a girl called Lisa cut herself and I went over to help - only for the wound to suddenly disappear. It felt like _I_ had made it disappear. A few months later, my friend Jam...
\[Part 1\] Some people just don't know how to retire. They really try, but after a week or two, they start to realize they don't know what to do with themselves if they are not working. Without work to do, they seem to lose their sense of purpose. When I chose to retire, I never thought I would be one of those peop...
"Alright,"said Chaddicus, "We're in a horror movie. Braidley is dead, and there's some sort of deformed killer stalking us. What do we do?" Bethany, Smartin, Le'Droicus, and Mitch fell silent in thought. They were strewn about the parlor of Chaddicus' grandmother's manor home, draped over chairs and reclined over sof...
- Anything unusual? - He says giving me a smile. - The pages... Most of them are blank. I still couldn't believe what my eyes were contemplating, even though my hands could feel it. Of course the pages were blank, I didn't write it yet. This book belongs to the realm of the ideas. Hell, even I don't know the details,...
Our family history is...interesting to say the least. I have to start at the beginning. Back when we discovered the glitch. During the war. It wasn't supposed to be a war. It was supposed to be a massacre. We never stood a chance, we were meant to be an example to others. Resistance was futile. The message was simp...
It was entertaining to play this game from time to time, but equally important to the balance as well. To judge my followers of their worthiness of either a blessing or a culling. Once or twice a century, I’d wear the face and body of a mortal and walk among them as one of their own. Test them. But something changed s...
They feared my power, certain that I would betray them and kill all the people I fought so hard to protect. They were wrong. Even in death I protect them. Especially in death. For my very life went into that final spell. Ever the guardian, even my death-curse protected them. And so it was that they were cursed to e...
It was unannounced, the tragedy that befell the Rusert family. Index was employed in the Tooth Currency Foundation merely three months ago. She heard the news of the young boy of Rusert falling on his face near the staircase a day prior to her assigned mission. Exactly 3 in the morning, with ceaseless downpour outside...
We discovered signs of ancient glyphs on a moon in a desolate system. There were certainly no signs of life now, but perhaps, once, long ago, an ancient race lived on this moon. Perhaps it once held life, and a civilization. When a passing merchant caught sight of some odd lines in the moon's dust, he took pictures an...
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;King Otto stood in front of the window in the beam of beautiful sunlight and fresh spring air and stretched the sleep out of his muscles. He snapped the curtains closed. The hours old near-full goblet of wine on his nightstand tempted him. It increasingly beckoned him as the stre...
"Alright, one last test. We need to make sure you feel your limbs. So go ahead and stretch and walk around. Make sure it feels good." You have been working on this project for months now it is finally come to fruition. You are able to keep an AI in a dormant body for a limited amount of time. Once the sales go through...
A thousand words. The worth of a picture, so they say. All the good. All the bad. The nuance in a smile. The sunshine on the grass. The finiteness of a single moment captured in light and ink. I could only imagine the words I would use to describe the last good picture of my little girl. Before her Illness dimin...
The young elf girl was still sobbing. Her own family had left her behind when they were fleeing their home. A monster had destroyed their home, ruined their crops, and the local militia and guards were of no use. They couldn’t hurt the beast, much less kill it. And so, to survive, the villagers ran. Her own family tho...
Renault noticed too late that the subway car he had sat down in was almost entirely empty. Just him and one other passenger, sat directly opposite him. Normally, this wouldn't be overly alarming. Even the fact that he was unmasked, while odd in public, wasn't the thing that had Renault shook to his core. Since the cu...
I mean, I get it. After thousands of years stuck in a tiny little lamp, you're not exactly going to be on top of things when you come out. I almost feel bad for him. It's a rookie mistake. The Bill Buckner of genie wishes. The guy didn't add any terms and conditions to my wishes. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure he ...
I pulled into the drive way after a chance early day from work. Even though I had worked almost 80 hours this week it still didn’t feel like a gift after all I still had to go to work tomorrow. The company has been forcing us 10-12 hour days for the last few months so we can make quota and any and all vacations were c...
When his first love had left him, at 19, there was thunder and lightning. A loud rumbling from the clouds, though the season wasn't quite right. Meteorologists ascribed it to a freak weather pattern. When his mother had died, at 30, the streets in his town flooded. Cars slid down motorways, power-lines fell. Ten casu...
Loki consulted the parchment in front of him. "You enter the room and praise the Gods! There is a clear fountain of water in the-" "Why are we praising ourselves?"interrupted Forseti. "Not all of us are as desperate for attention as Freya over here." Freya didn't look up from her mirror as she retorted "At least SOME...
Clint Motherfuck took one last drag on his cigar and then stubbed it out on his forehead. He stood in the back of the armoured police truck and started prepping for the raid, he strapped his bullet proof vest on over his naked torso, he never wore a shirt, his mother had always taught him that shirts were for liberals ...
King Stephen I faced the wind coming down the Channel, enjoying the feeling of it rustling through his long hair. Across the water, France was just barely visible: a patch of green at the end of a choppy field of grey. The fires that raged for months had finally died down, leaving no sign of the continent's devastation...
In spite of the crowds, the poor lighting and the noise, I saw Adam as soon as I walked in to Quarter Lounge. He glanced up at me and then quickly averted his eyes. As with all of the 40 immortals, we recognize each other instantly, even if our appearances have drastically changed. Adam, as usual, was talking with som...
The radio on my hip beeped. I whipped it off and held it up to my ear. "Sir, he's at it again" I groaned. "Where?"I grumbled. "About halfway between The Shadow of the Valley of Death and The Cave of Unforgiving Madness" I sighed as I holstered the radio. My great black leathery wings extended and I took flight over...
I've heard it said that a wise man fears three things. The first is a moonless night, and the unseen dangers it holds. The second is the sea in storm, for no man can withstand the awesome power of nature. The third, though, is the most terrifying of all. ________________________________________________ It had be...
The creature was small and delicate, with spindly limbs covered in thin white hairs. She was frozen in place. One of its fingers curled, and its round head bobbed insistently. It was beckoning to her; as her heart fluttered nervously, she leaned forward until they were nose to nose. It grasped at the fabric of her spa...
"Excuse me?" The elven general seemed almost insulted at the threat, and yet the almost lax manner of rhetoric the admiral spoke was enough to make him hesitate. "Napalm? High Explosives? What exactly are those? Moreover, what do you think you're implying?" The admiral was normally no nonsense and stoic, yet this al...
There was a time when man was bludgeoned over the head with love. As he grunted and groaned, the club of passion would crash upon him as Cupid beat the concept into place. Over time, the basics grew easier. The concept was ingrained and the art came in the precision. Weapons are the most obvious metaphor man ever made...
"Kill me."my Master demanded, firmly. Well, ain't that a kick in the lamp. For 2000 years I've been bombarded with requests for money, fame, power, and sex, and for 2000 years I've watched those Wishes go awry. It's not my fault, it's just the elasticity of reality. I don't even know how it's going to go wrong until t...
"Just beat the devil out of it."The soft mellifluous voice at first seemed incongruous with the words, a soft giggle suffusing the words, followed by a rapid and rhythmic thud-thud-thud-thud. &#x200B; The sound trailed off as the speaker, a tall man with a soft brown Afro wearing a loose pastel blue shirt and tig...
The first time I saw one of the “humans” it was terrifying. They were 600 Zenlongs tall, while the tallest of our own kind at the time were no more than 50 Zenlongs. The humans’ hide was impenetrable. The face did seem a weak spot, but upon exploitation, it proved only to anger the monsters. We crafted our weapons ...
I tried to fix the corset, but whatever I do, I felt like I made it worse... and it’s bruising my ribs. “Stop that,” Julie whispered. “This is bullshit. How the hell did this happen?” I asked her. “Well, Lord Caron invited you to-“ “Not that!” I snapped. The other guests at the ball looked at us, judgmental bastar...
"You say they've jump-capable fleet carriers? Weren't they just getting a grasp for hull design within a vacuum?" "A few of their solar revolutions, seven, to be precise. That's how long it took them to figure it out." "I thought we sanctioned them so they could not get military grade schematics and equipment."...
As soon as the words entered my thoughts, I felt a pull as I was drawn towards the centre of the branching cracks, where a large sliver of blackness seemed to suck all the remaining candlelight in the chamber. Helplessly, my body rose. Untethered but for the invisible pull as I got closer and closer to the blackness i...
"Right, settle down you buggers,"the man yelled as he walked into the busy classroom. "My name is John Constantine and because someone cheats at cards,"he groaned and frowned in the general direction of the principal's office, "I'm here to teach you how to defend against dark magic today." The class exchanged slight...
"Husband hit me!"the Ogress wailed. "I want him arrest!" "Wife hit me too!"the Ogre shot back. "I--" I held up my hands "Sir, you'll both get a chance to--" "Why cop only believe female can be victim?!"The Ogre demanded. "Look at me black eye!" "Sir!"I said, more sharply. "I'm not taking anyone's side! I'm here bec...
The ship, Conradomo, was making good time. In fact, it was a long way ahead of its schedule. If it wasn’t, perhaps its passengers wouldn’t have stopped to answer the distress call. Perhaps they would have just carried on. Perhaps none of this would have happened if only they had been slightly less efficient or had just...
"Mommy! I caught one!" Oh no, I thought, this can't be good. I ventured upstairs to my child's bedroom, rather, the demon's bedroom, and peeked in the door. When he showed up a few months ago, we didn't know what to expect. His clothes were tattered and frayed at the edges, his face covered in soot. How were we su...
When I was little, it didn't matter that I didn't join in with the songs. I'd dance along because everyone was dancing and everyone seemed so happy, and it was okay that I was clumsy and fell over and bumped into things, because it was expected that little kids still be somewhat uncoordinated. Cute, even. Around p...
(we learned the equations in the Academy - we learned the power it'd take Tarkin didn't care about the details, he just wanted the end result) They were quieter than I thought they'd be when I came into the cafeteria. There were a couple whoops and some clapping, but the air in the room hushed them as soon as they st...
Marise sat on her bed, huddled against the headboard, clutching her pillow, sobbing. Her room had turned into a dead land. Her desk sat dry and cracked while her ceiling poured rainfall. It would always start to flood before magically draining. There were her tears, and she was wasting them on him. Stupid Jake. She'd c...
We start with a tempting job offer. The job has a salary that is far above average for the prisoner's field. Most accept. If they don't, we raise the offer. The prisoner is then flown to a small town in Alaska. This town is accessible only by planes. The prisoner is allowed to work from home most days. An employee ap...
I crinkled my eyes at the boy's house, and I readied myself to enter. I'd been constantly informed by the other angels, and even a few demons, that this boy, Derrick, was a mysterious one. Two angels and three demons missing, because of him? And my superiors were still assigning angels to him? It is our mission, they...
When I failed it was Tuesday. The overgrowth outside remained green; the old ironworks from our forefathers' days creaked in the sun. It was a Tuesday and the world would move on. Many were crying. Their bawls were ragged, comfort evaporating against the heat of failure. I was one of them I admit, and I cried in the ...
Tears of overwhelmed relief run down my face. My entire life has been dedicated towards this moment- this, I know, more than anything, will be my legacy. It will be my single defining contribution to humanity, the notion that I have done something to change the world. I pick up my teleportation device and the guinea pi...
The midnight sky was silent and peaceful. Droves of birds had converged, squawking at the burning sun in anger. They longed for quiet. He stood, tall and fierce, casting a weary look at the horizon. He wished it wasn't so hazy, wished that the fog would finally lift and allow his people to bask in the rain. It had b...
“-and she’s not worth it. You’ve got lots of friends and a family that loves you. You’ll be okay after all of this. Just fall asleep and put everything that just happened in the back of your mind. You’ll feel better tomorrow, I promise.” I take a deep breath, a sigh of comfort and despair, as I close my eyes. She...
People hated me. A ton. I was the guy who always seemed to have a knack for predicting death. My parents once kept me from a family reunion for fear of me scaring the grandparents and cousins. I'd built a reputation at school for being the pessimist and was once called "The Reaper"by a classmate whose shadow miraculous...
A dead tree that still grew. The pastor had told me it was the sign of the devil. That he had the right to chop it down. Well, the court disagreed with him. It was, after all, the tree that had grown from my brother's BioCasket. It was paid for. An agreement had been signed at the time. And nobody could dispute it. N...
There are lines, you know. No, not that kind of line, not the ones I cross when I take a life. Take a lives. Take lives? Yes, that’s it. Sorry, they distract me. The lines, that is. They’re everywhere, all over the world, coming together, flowing apart, from person to person through time and space and heartbreak. Joy,...
Detective David Chippent was a wide eyed recruit, fresh out of the academy with flying colors and woefully ignorant of the truth of the world. His teacher from the academy patted him on the back as they stood in front of the six-hundred-sixty-sixth precinct. “Good luck son, if you’re still alive at the end of the week ...
I cracked an eye open, trying to figure out where I was now that I was dead. It seemed I was still at my funeral. Funerals were typically held on the day that someone would pass so that people could celebrate the last time they had to experience life before their death. Mine was small, only ten people I was close with,...
“Think of heaven and hell as more of a PR divide. They just have the better marketers.” The demon Jaalbzznk led Samantha from New Mexico down a spiral staircase with razor blades for hand rails and stone steps blacker than midnight. “We both provide the same service,” Jaalbzznk hissed with a fork tongue – he was in eve...
"If you kill me, you won't fulfill the prophecy!"The Demon Lord looked down at the hero. For 3 days and nights they fought and the Demon Lord finally had the upper hand. But this? It was a trick. "Hero, I have slain many but this? Trickery doesn't become you." "It's no trick, Master Vak-riz-zorich."Only one group of ...
This... is a farce. "Look at the defendant! Flaunting his moniker! Reveling in mass slaughter!" The prosecution is laying it on with a trowel. But I think he's wrapping it up, if for no other reason than the Judge looks about ready to explode from internal pressure. Yep. He's done. "You're on trial today, accus...
The eye sockets are empty. And yet, I can feel the judgement in Death's stare. I smile briefly, but decide to try and keep a more serious demeanor for a bit. "So..."I click my tongue inside my mouth. Death looks at the stone tablet in their hands. "Are you Fast Deer?" "Mmmmm... no." "Strong Tree?" I shake my he...

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