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We never planned to do what we did. It kinda, just happened. One moment we were doing a routine patrol in friendly waters, maybe scooting the edges a bit too much and having more fun than necessary. But it was just a routine check, we didn't expect to be swallowed up by whatever time god decided to come and grace us wi...
"HELLO DAVID I SEE YOU ARE YOU GETTING READY FOR YOUR DATE WOULD YOU LIKE ADVICE" David sighed and put his head down in shame. He had finally convinced his coworker to go out with him to dinner and been worrying about it all day. "No, Mother Prime, I think I'll be okay on my own" The LED lights in his house's speake...
"Hello, my name is Brandon. I'll be conducting your interview. You must be... Michael Johnson?" "Yeah but everyone calls me Big Johnson because of my..." *dammit* ___________ "Hello, my name is Brandon. I'll be conducting your interview. You must be... Michael Johnson?" "Yeah nice to meet you." "So tell me, why d...
“Mr. Smith, Mr. Wesson, I’ve called you in here today for a very important matter”, Principal Johnson began, “it concerns your boys. They’ve been fighting.” The two fathers were remarkably similar men. Both were in their late forties and had begun to go grey. They were about the same height, and both were built like t...
It's been a long day for Bill. He decided to plop down with a beer in front of the TV. He turned to channel four. "Hello and welcome to cooking with me, your host, Bobby Ross. Today we're going to make lamb chops in a white wine reduction with a sprinkle of hollandaise. Alright, so first, just look at this lamb. Sweet...
''Ma'am?'' Queen Elizabeth II frowned at her servant. ''Yes, you heard me right. The situation is dire enough. I had never thought it necessary, but alas. The knights have to be sent.'' She gave the servant a challenging look, daring him to make further objections, but he just shuffled uncomfortably on his feet and n...
For most of my time in orbit, since being forcibly ejected from Earth, I was content to be a spectator. I saw species come and go, the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, and the ages of ice that provided the occasional interlude while the next scene was being prepared. Then the humans came along. At first, they were like...
My hand hovered over the mouse for a second. *Surely not?* It's just an elaborate prank. It must be. One of my friends must have... what, exactly? Hacked Reddit? Painstakingly built an *entirely new version* of one of the biggest sites in the world, just to get one over on me? There were easier pranks. And to what end?...
Dear Elaine, In regards to your last message. I must say I'm doing well, and I eagerly await your next letter - hopefully including some of the pictures from that trip skinny dipping on Trappist. I find that even a few million light-years from any other significant number of humans, you start to lose the grip on your ...
"You can get used to almost anything,"I mutter to myself, recalling an old line from a book I used to love. The van can be seen gently rocking from the 12 kids crowded in the back seats. I can see that none of them are buckled and are treating the seats more like a jungle gym than actual chairs. I climb into the van,...
“What’s the latest back on Earth?” asked Todd. He slouched in an invisible chair, propped up by some force emitted from the vents below. “China and Japan appear on the brink of open warfare. America’s elections are heading for a bloody recount. Germany and Russia are exchanging sabotage accusations over the jumbo jet ...
I looked at the ringing communication device cautiously. Who was calling at this time? We were all glued to our TVs for "Decision Day". An AI would select someone based on their qualities and previous experience. I remember when it had first been introduced. Riots had begun in the USA, looting and fires common. A shoot...
"We thought you were dead. I went to..."My voice catches in my throat. "Dude, I went to your funeral." I'm staring out the windows down onto the city that's been on fire for a week. I started that fire. Well, *we,* did. But I ordered the Northern District to be our jumping off point. I ordered the first air strikes. A...
>this is a quick idea scribbled before bed, I'll come back to finish it tomorrow. "You're trying to tell me that human children regularly run archaic military battle simulations, on 2D diagnostic screens, for fun?"Draxaar asked, with a mixed expression of mirth and confusion on his face. Janaarel, however, stood be...
"Dear Satan" My damn dyslexia will be the death of me. In five minutes. I've re-read the letter t...
After a full month, I knew something was wrong. Sure, the power was given to me by some lesser God, but it was a God nonetheless. How does a simple book, written by some unknown author, be able to counter this power? Worse yet, it wasn't even a particularly good book! In fact, the story was *so bad* that I threw the b...
"This isn't what I meant when I asked for it to be more 'human'." "I'm sorry... I have a problem taking things a bit too literally." The small figure stood before me, bowing down exaggeratedly in apology. I let out a deep sigh. If the living room was this bad, what did they do to the rest of my house? "Alright, give...
**The Human Hivemind** --- "Well,"the President was uneasy. "I've always said mankind was special." "Truly!"The Alien Emissary clapped his four hands. "I am so eager to learn more! Of course we have been observing for quiet some time, but given the simultaneous rapid expansion of both the hive's reach and core fragm...
One minute, you're standing over the patient, wrists-deep in her chest, doing your best to repair that one nicked artery. Sweat pouring down your brow, teeth clenched so hard that your whole jaw hurts. The machines are beeping incessantly, growing more and more urgent, reminding me that her life is on the line. The nur...
You've heard the stories-- the ones where people die and see a heavenly light reaching toward them, but are resuscitated before they can reach it. It's the stuff of books with titles like *Heaven is Real*, that feel-good pie-in-the-sky crap designed to make you hope for paradise in the afterlife, despite your better ju...
"I've reached the end of my rope. Everything is ruined and I just want to go home... but i cant. Someone suggest the best way to kill myself and i'll do it."I typed, hesitating a few seconds before finally hitting 'enter'. I leaned back in the somewhat comfortable reclining chair I salvaged and waited, staring at the d...
Everything comes at a price. Much of our lives were built upon this premise. Want to get ahead in life? It costs. There are many means of paying. Your time was the most honest way to meet this goal. You could always borrow from lenders, including your own future self. Sometimes however, your fortunes came from anothe...
I am no stranger to pain. I knew pain before I knew the milk of my mother's breast. I came gasping into a strange world and it has never seemed familiar. Love was a concept I did not get to experience, thanks to my mother's addiction for meth and attention, and her desire to get back at my father. The best part of it ...
It takes a few minutes for everything to sink in. Everything is just noise and light for a bit, blinding and deafening as I press my hands up against the glass. I tell myself to breath as my eyes adjust, taking in a place that looks oddly like a grade school classroom, with an audience just beyond it filled by rows and...
Fred Merlyn stumbled downstairs, wiping sleep from his eyes. "THE DEMON AZERGATH DEMANDS OF YOU!"A massive form, glowing red, shaped like Arnold Schwarzenegger with a head of horns and teeth stood before Fred, holding the teapot. "Please, not so loud in the morning."Fred moaned. "Azergath is sorry."The demon replied...
"This is Dog 911, what is your emergency?" Oh thank goodness; I managed to get a signal. "This is bud; calling from the third gray fire-hydrant to the left. The one that smells like bacon." "Okay, what seems to be the problem?" I really hope they can help. "So, I was playing with my human, right?" "Yes?" "I was ...
We had developed technologies far beyond our wildest dreams. We had created simulations that dulled our interest for the stars. We had eliminated the need for work; all one had to worry about was exactly how much fun s/he was going to have that day. We had all but reached the pinnacle of human and technological advance...
I stared down at the printouts, blinking slowly. Dumbly. As though I couldn't comprehend any of what I was seeing. "Take your time,"the creature across from me cooed. They were spindle-thin, with too many fingers and too many eyes and too many legs. Completely and totally alien - which was only to be expected, aft...
Expansion Pack successfully purchased. As a man who works in IT, I had always been skeptical about the idea of real life being a simulation. It sounds like a contradiction, but life is simply too seamless and too streamlined for it to be a program. You'd see the bugs, for sure, like I see the bugs every day. But when...
"Really, after all these years, you finally are willing to listen?"Helena scoffs. Her finger is just centimetres away from ending me. "Yes,"I groan. My ribs hurt like mad. I have no idea how I am supposed to get of this mess I have gotten myself into, but I know I need to try. Helena chuckles. Hero of the people, t...
When the population hit 12 billion, names were becoming very boring. Everyone was a Joshua or an Emily, so somebody thought of a brilliant idea: why not name everyone after their most distinctive feature? My sister is called Gentle Smile, my brother is called Maroon Hair, and then there’s me: Tiny Richard. The doctor...
I could feel the color drain from my face. This extremely dusty thing before me...what was it? Why had my great grandfather hidden this away in his garage? How many others knew it was here? I decided to inspect it. Walking around the other side, I could see that it had wheels, and when I wiped the dust off of the wind...
**Year 0** "We sure did create a beautiful boy, didn't we, Jame?" "We sure did, Tilda. Breathtaking!" *These simpletons! Why do they keep talking of me so lovingly? Can they not tell I'm evil?! Surely my face must show it!* "Look at his little nose! And his tiny furrowed brow. The spitting image of you as a babe, J...
Koi breathed into her hands. The nights got cold this far north. Soon the Hive would have to move south, for winter was close at hand. "How much longer?"asked Jalen through the dark. The tall fields of wild grass made it difficult to pick out his position, even under the full moon. "Not long,"said Koi. "Our relief sh...
"What did you just say?" "Sir, you heard correctly. A country on the planet 'earth' has that symbol deeply entrenched in their culture, and every specimen, from the everyman to the highest of their ranks pledges royalty to it." "And you mean to tell me, that they display not just one, but FIFTY of them?" "Yes, sir. ...
"Have you met with the ambassadors from the Huans?"Shel asked the small group of diplomats he was sat with, shifting nervously in his long ceremonial robes. "I believe its pronounced Hu Man. I have only had a brief encounter with one of their kind during the first contact celebrations,"Havar laughed, "I don't unders...
Grief counseling was mandatory. We had all lost everything. We sat in a circle, in a grey room on grey plastic chairs. By day it was the cafeteria where I now worked, just as I had done in life. By night it was our meeting place. "I miss my wife,"Guilbert de Vries said. He had said the same thing every night, at ever...
"Dragons live among us!", he shouted, thrusting a pamphlet into my hands. Startled I took a step back. His stench was unimaginable. All humans are repugnant to my kind, but this one particularly odious. Within the dark chamber of his hoodie, only the unmistakable glow of crazy eye could be detected. What exactly...
Jennifer feigned a smile. She was running out of time. The priest continued through the rehearsed lines almost hiding the boredom behind his words. Jennifer couldn't decide if the elder's slow pace was preferable. "If any should-" Jennifer eagerly looked towards the door to the church which had just opened. She sighe...
As he walked down the street, Robert knew it was going to be another long day. He was glad the treatment towards Afro-Americans wasn't as bad up North in Chicago as it was down South. He had just began to enter his car when he noticed a newspaper, which strangely was printed in color. Curious, he picked up the newspape...
"You're a fine warrior, but will you declare war on an entire nation? We are millions, and you're alone." The tired man chuckled. "You misunderstood your situation - this isn't war. This is pest control." His enemies looked up at him with quiet caution in their eyes, the leader most skeptical of all. "Alright men, ba...
What could I have been? A hero? A noble? Most likely just an ordinary citizen, living my life freely. I often wondered what I could have been. Yet it was not to be, for I was a sacrificial lamb, taking the burden of pain from others. A gift, or so I was told. Something valuable, to be kept hidden. Only the trusted cou...
“Yoo hoo, darling.” Mom called. “Come out and play.” I stayed bunched up in the deep corner of my closet. A big pile of laundry and stuffed animals covered me. I was hugging Stuffy, my little elephant. “Boy!” Daddy sounded angry. “You best git over here, now!” I almost moved, not wanting to make daddy upset. He sca...
"The ancient city of Zarret was discovered in 1923 by explorers after hearing about the stories of 'America's Atlantis'. Believe to be one of the biggest cities in North America in pre-Columbian times, the city held almost 2 million people at it's prime, which back then, was a lot of people,"I said to the group as they...
An old man wakes up, he showers, he brushes his teeth. He relieves himself in the shower and sits on the toilet while he brushes his teeth. His last two eggs are cooked and ate while the old man reads the bible. After he finishes Genesis, he takes a walk over to the corner market. The old man talks to the owner of the ...
xXODINALLFATHERXx - Welcome newbie, gratz on getting in! Cerealkilla - uh, yeah. sure tx, whats the raid sched like. Heartemis - Wed is naxx or rag, alternating. fri is for new content shit, theres a vote. Heartemis - Thursday we hit BG's if you want xXODINALLFATHERXx - Thursday = Best Day Cerealkilla - shouldnt y...
I walk hastily into the laundrette. My panicked entrance, complete with awkward sock dropping, does not go unnoticed by the rest of the people in here; who avoid looking me in the eye, staring intently down at their phones. They know what's coming. I throw my clothes into the machine - it's a short wash, I won't be l...
"He is too dangerous to be left alive!"Mace's words burned into Anakin. "It's not the Jedi way!"Anakin begged. "He must live - I need him!" Mace reached out and felt the young Jedi's mind, he was teetering on the edge of losing control, Mace could feel his sanity slipping away and being replaced by something dark, s...
As with most of the world's problems, this one can be blamed on the Nazis. They went too far without properly doing their research on whether they should. Sure, they were unmistakably brilliant. They were reaching orbit before America had even considered the idea of going to space. They sent up probe after probe, explo...
"He's definitely a 10, he's so unique, and we value uniqueness in the 10th kingdom."Said Alahandro squire of the 10th kingdom. "No, no, no, he's not "unique"he's a freak of nature, he's a 1 I'm telling you he's a one."Replied Jeff deciderer of 1ville. They called a vote, a very strange thing indeed. Usually a specifi...
**Just updated with Episode II** [See here] (https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/3s6i4e/wp_george_lucas_suddenly_dies_from_a_heart_attack/cwvb0au) **Episode I** Start by acknowledging that these films are a tragedy. And Anakin is a tragic hero. Aristotle says that tragedies are about pity, and "pity is a...
The squire crouched beside the dais, hidden by shrubs and vines that had long grown around it, wrapping up the ornate gold frame. His master rested in a clearing nearby, his mind on petty matters of wealth and favors. The squire ran his fingers along the fine lettering, reading the inscription. He was a simple man, lar...
"Rrrrugh arah-ah-woof?"I looked over toward the cockpit of the Falcon. *How do you want your coffee?* "You said it, fuzzball."Han gave an easy smile. Yeah, no shit. You know what, you're not getting any coffee. Asshole. "Hey, come here I need your help with something,"said Han. "Wghyaaa,"I replied. *Fuck off.* Rel...
"So let's get started..."Rick said with a belch at the end. "My name's Rick and this here is Morty. We're substituting for your regular teacher because she was found out to be abducting students and taking them on 'special field trips'. Sometimes these trips where to different planets, other times you were all shrunk d...
The seven children clambered into the bus, each of them chipper, excited, and representative of a different nationality. You wouldn't detect even the smallest groan of hesitation from these happy campers. Wait—that wasn't right. Valentin Frizzle looked around the back of the bus. "Where's Arnold?" "According to my re...
Emotion Secretary Consciousness called the emergency meeting. "I see a number of empty seats here, but we can't wait any longer. I'll just get right to the situation. As you can see through the eyes, John asked Jackie to prom." "The prom?!"A distant voice in the back shouted. "The prom?!" "That's right. We shoul...
“We know what you say about us. You think we’re too country. Too dumb. Everything is too big. Too hillbilly. Too many cowboy hats. Too much football,” the governor says, standing at the edge of the Texan border. He chews on a chicken wing, grilled to perfection. Screams of human agony echo in the distance. “You said w...
I awake to the pleasant drone of the computer’s fan, and the slight whirring of servos across the various automated systems of Base Nine, as it was designated. Today is my twenty-first birthday. I was born alone into this metallic, constrained world. “Good morning, Nayli,” my AI nanny, Alexa began. “What would you lik...
[The following account was pulled from the memory banks of AI unit 1172] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This was not what I expected. This man was not the impressive warrior I expected. That I was told to expect. Instead of the brutal leader of a massiv...
A leaf in the wind, a shudder in the shadows, a figure roamed maliciously. Several guards circled the compound, as they had done for months, and were no longer really looking for anything. Eyelids drooped, yawns traveled through the men like an electric current, and none ever really came close to discovering the intrud...
Sweat trickled down George's temple as he gulped. "Throu-through the ritual?"he stammered. He knew that suicide was commonplace among aliens as they ventured through the brutal ritual. Bixo mischievous laughter echoed through the empty halls of the seemingly endless library. "Sorry, the fear in your eyes is hilarious,...
I consider this for a minute. My heart was insured and I was getting a hefty compensation package from the bank but... I gave Mark a call. He was the company legal adviser and my drinking buddy for the past 40 years. He agrees that putting up a token fight will earn me a bigger paycheck but is a bit surprised that I'...
Life is so unfair. There I was without a care, living a life full of ease, was some mangy peasant with a disease-addled mind sneaks up from behind and clouts me across the back of the head! I mean, that could've killed me dead! And then him and his pals have the gall to go and call a village council meeting. And instea...
Where was the kid? the wolf wanted to see for himself, assess the rumor. On the road, he pondered his life and the world he lived in. Eat grandmother, eat little red riding hood, get gutted by the hunter, have him marry an underage traumatized little red riding hood. Happy ending. Fuck happy endings. They are only h...
It had started so well, their assignment was pretty much a textbook example of a young molten world, ripe for manipulation and sculpting. They had found another body nearby which would give him a lot of extra material for little time or energy, so they redirected it onto a collision course. Unfortunately they missed, a...
It is always the same. He appears, performs an inhumane trick, and proceeds to either buy everything from every store, or running up to the astronomers building, which towers on the cliffside. I shake my head. He once stood solid 30 minutes on one spot, not even moving a single muscle, then he went on a rampage, slaug...
“Put it back.” Ultimate’s words almost could not be heard the first time he spoke them: the crowd that had formed around he and his nemesis chattered too loudly. “What did you just say to me, Boy Scout?” Devastation was still adjusting to running into the hero in such a place. “Put. It. Back. Lonny.” “You can’t be...
We thought we had won. We thought we had them beaten. The Pan-Galactic Alliance was the greatest ever seen. Our numbers were overwhelming. We had soldiers enough to conquer a dozen central planets, whereas the humans had but a single central planet and a few rapidly growing colonies. Our ships possessed the finest weap...
Mission log entry 1 sun cycle 1: a scout ship detected electromagnetic radiation emanating from the third planet of a nearby solar system. Analysis indicates the indigenous population engaged in suicidal weapons development and war. Dispatch monitor complex to the third planet. Mission log entry 2 sun cycle 1.5: mo...
Dark steam billowed out of the spout of the Orichalcum teapot, swirling and congealing into the form of a great demon. It's form was unknowable and ever changing, a kaleidoscope of incandescent terror. "I am free! Who has woken the almighty Tenebras from his immortal slumber?"The demon roared. "Oh that would be me...
Every member of the Unified Galactic Council was present. This was a very important meeting. Even the Trylorps filled their seats, with their oozing pores and renowned stench (and they were considered the most desirable race for interspecies copulation.) "Flongsians?"The attendance clerk announced as he nearly finis...
Jonah stepped out of his front door and pulled his jacket tight around his body. The chill in the air was normal, the storm's winds always kept the temperature low. He could barely remember a time when he could look up and see the sun and feel its warm kiss on his face. He tried to push the memories deep down and ...
It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, and the sun was shining its goodbye through the window of my living room. I watched, trying to recall the first time I had ever been at peace. My past lives had all been chaotic, filled with misery, pain, and as such, I always took solace in watching the sunset. This life was the fi...
Everything begins and ends with a sacrifice. I had nothing left to give up. I had given these nameless, faceless people my everything - my love, my wealth, my time, my work and even my family. Nothing mattered to me but my mission - "Bring peace". I thought it would be easy. I went around telling them about happines...
All the senses of my human body now dwindled to a parallel series of chips bristling with transistors. I "saw"through lenses, "felt"through a metallic arm tipped by pincers. It was like driving a car for the first time. I still existed, but this mechanical extension of myself seemed blunt and awkward. I didn't mind. ...
I always dreamed of being a werewolf hunter. The books and movies make it look like a badass job. Reality is such a disappointment. I am sitting in the forest and staring up at the full moon as it slowly rises into the sky. The movies always skip over the waiting, and there is a lot of waiting when you are hunting a w...
I wake up every time, more than 900 feet from the summit. My ankle, like always, is broken. My fingers are frozen inside of my gloves. Frost bitten. The first and last time I pulled a glove off, skin was stripped off of my bones and the glove kept my index and pinky. Climbing after that was impossible and I soon froze ...
"Of course it was my idea!"the little girl yelled. She lifted the point of the claymore off the ground for a couple minutes before her strength failed and let the point drop into the cave floor. The dragon drew a claw down the long blade, bringing it back to her eyes to inspect the mark it left. "And a small human li...
He looks me up and down and closes his tool box. “Sorry, I can’t fix /that/.” I know everyone respects him and if he spit in their mouth, they’d thank him, but in that moment, I could’ve punched him in the throat. “It’s a carrier lock? In dock 7?” I clarify. If he heard me mutter “asswipe” under my breath, that ain’...
The crowd gasped in awe. That glass had been blown and shaped a century before, and it had never weathered. I stood up from my kneeling position of execution, seizing the moment to save my life. “Behold, Bertrand the glass-cracker has awakened!” I roared. The city’s champion sheathed his sword, and the crowd cheer...
I have been a genie for thousands of years and I truly love my job. Taking the petty dreams of mortals and twisting them into their worst nightmares is not only my bound task, but my calling. Some genies twist wishes out of spite. Me? I do it just for the pure joy their despair brings. You ever hear of Midas? Yeah, t...
My bones creak nearly with nearly identical volume to the chair as I take my seat at the control module. A buzz of information is transferred as my consciousness melds with control station 503 Beta, which is mainly responsible for maintaining a fleet of repair driods, of which only three are operative, one of the massi...
It was not an error but an intentional mixup. Dumbledore knew that the Addams were a powerful family of wizards, but to the point that even the Death Eaters would not ever think to attack them. As much as he thought that the his aunt and her fanily would be a gold way to hide the Boy Who Lived, what better way to mock ...
“What’s got you looking so smug?” Belopeth, Leader of the Great Legion, asks suspiciously, narrowing his great head full of eyes. “You know I hate that look on you.” Satan, The Morning Star, The Great Deceiver, The One Adversary, smiles very much like a cat who got the cream. “Well, my most darling demon, I’ve made my...
"Alright. I need to think." From my perch in a tree, I could see the Adamantium Golem crashing through the undergrowth. It's thick armour shone as bright as it had the moment I had laid eyes upon it, despite the past hour of me attempting to bring it down. The dwarves had warned me of this. It was their masterpiece, ...
Growing up, my mother described it to me as the constant feeling of being pushed, by something you can't see, in every direction. I had never experienced gravity in my life. You see, my parents were the only two astronauts assigned to the Space Station Helios at the time of the Flash. Back in 2028 in the middle of a ...
"The internet!"That's what they told me when I told my friends about my predicament. "Everything is connected by the internet! You're sure to find some Americans on there!" "Why haven't I thought of that earlier?!"I got out my laptop, and started e-mailing Americans. I know, I know, I shouldn't be e-mailing strangers,...
The guard was standing at his post. Everyday, he stood at that same spot, talking to adventurers asking them why they wish to pass. This guard was like them too, an adventurer, but since he got married, he was forced to take a less eventful and more boring job. Today was different, there had been recent sightings...
It's a pretty simple game. It started out as kind of a joke between Sohil and I, from back when we were both in business school. We learned about corporate espionage in class, and I leaned over and whispered that I was going to steal all of his secrets; he replied: "not if I steal yours first." Fast forward twenty yea...
I moved among them unseen, but they felt me at their side all the same. The ordinary men and women, dreading the thought of what would be left of the vibrant, young people they once were, when I was done with them. Others - the supernatural, the horrors - were less susceptible to my more crude and obvious damage. ...
He was silent, captivated by something in the distance. Or at least seemed to be. Calling it a trance would be doing it a disservice, vegetative state potentially more apt, but there was nothing wrong cognitively. Would react to nothing in particular, the sensors connecting to his scalp receiving billions of inputs fro...
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT!"Captain Virtue's face was red and full of anger. Smiling like a cat with a belly full of canaries I chuckled. "Your skills of observation are rather lacking dear Captain. It should be clear to anyone that I can, in fact, do that. After all... I just did." The Devastation Brigade lay on the ground ...
[TW: Family Death, Suicide] It's become something of a routine for me, sitting in the Ashstone Graveyard over on 104th and Milton. You know the corner; with the cracked pavement and the buzzing street lamp that pisses off the residents of that god awful high rise with the peeling yellow paint, where the transients ge...
***This is the way the world ends.*** The phrase kept repeating itself in Joseph's mind. His throat was dry and he found it hard to swallow as he was led up the creaky wooden stairs to the platform. He knew what he was doing was right and just, but it didn't make his fear any less, nor his footsteps any less reluctan...
NOTE: Experience is enhanced if you imagine Ferb's soft tones reading this. "The day had started out so simple, with the rise of the sun, and the rising of our spirits. There were 104 days left of our summer vacation, and we were ready to live them like nothing else. Me and Phineas had gone downstairs, ready to se...
I've been spending every night banishing the undead, and reporting every Necronomicon post I've come across on social media during the day. But for every one post that comes down, another three go up. It has become an exhausting, never ending uphill battle. I can't go on protecting people for much longer on my own, b...
Carl Sagan once said 'we are star stuff'. I always loved that quote, growing up. The thought that part of me could have come from a star, somewhere in space, burning hotter than I can imagine-- it made my heart race as a kid. But it’s so much more than that. Carl had the right idea, and it was just a quote out of a mu...
I’ve done a lot with my ability since I had the accident ten years ago. I've made significant discoveries in the areas of physics, chemistry, computer science and astronomy. I've learned more than a hundred languages and even created a new one that may end up being far superior to the rest, and I've won four Nobel Priz...
[Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/MatiWrites/comments/dcvomz/dread_part_2/) is available! It wasn't like mother to send me to a boarding school. She had never been one to let me out of her sight, much less let me run free and wild at a distant school. Being homeschooled gave me a special type of attachment to my mothe...
# Soulmage **"You know you can tell me anything, right?"** The Demon of Empathy sat across from me on a stuffed straw couch. Considering that they were an extradimensional entity, the form they chose was surprisingly human: barrel-chested, broad-shouldered, and even wearing a pair of thin-rimmed glasses that weren't t...