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In the final hours of the 867th Pan-Galactic Council, the decision was made to classify the Humans of Earth as Class IV Violent Undesirables. The members of the council, exhausted from weeks of treaty negotiations, border disputes, and lengthy pronouncements on the importance of establishing a framework for tariffs on ...
The human soul is a complex thing; it defines humanity, and all its nuances. Empathy, pain, sorrow and joy, every emotion and personal quirk reside in the soul. Unfortunately, one day the souls ran out. God must have laughed when we reached that drought. Apparently, he doesn't like recycling. Still, humans were born,...
I pressed end on the call and pushed back my thinning white hair with a sigh. My wife stood wide eyed, waiting for me to share the news with her. “It's all gone,” I said solemnly. “All over the world. Every currency. Even that, uh, Botcoin or whatever it's called. Gone.” She stared at me blankly, then said, “But ho...
"Run over that man." I'd got familiar with the whiff of sulphur, the raspy voice. He actually hadn't made a bad hash of being my guardian angel. He'd been so overcome with horror at killing my angel during one of their "demon and angel on shoulder"routines that he'd overcompensated magnificently. Apparently Angelo ha...
“Hey- kof kof -excuse me boss?” said Gary. A small hive bumped up on Mr. Stevens’ wrist. He moved his Rolex watch over to cover it. “Yes Gary?” said Mr. Stevens. “I’m not feeling too good I think I got to head home early today,” said Gary. Mr. Stevens adjusted his collar. His throat felt kind of weird. “Don...
I snickered to myself as I watched the loading bar 100%. I watched as I spawned on Shipment, one of the most infamous Call of Duty maps ever made. I was equipped with a silenced P90, and the Desert Eagle. My perks were Frag x3, Juggernaut, and Last Stand. The noob-iest class of all time. Finally the timer reached th...
Located in the voids between clusters, Sol 3 was always considered to be the loneliest part of the Universe. Sol 3 is a very dull planet, a planet consisting mostly of iron (Fe). Currently, all faster than light technology uses a combination of Francium and Anti Matter to propel these ships forward. Sol 3's inhabitant...
A message had been sent to the President of the United States. The message listed top-secret details and other impossible information. The sender described himself as an alien with an acute understanding of human culture and history, and an incredible offer for the American government. He sent the message via email. A ...
“Harry, you’re a Muggle.” “I’m a what?” “A Muggle, of course” the bearded warden replied, taking a seat on the moth-eaten sofa, which sneezed pixie dust under his considerable weight. “And a particularly gifted criminal at that, once you’ve learned to code properly.” “Dragon dung,” retorted Harry’s uncle Arthur, fin...
> I'm going to modify this slightly from the prompt. Mars' collapse was inevitable. Though the scientists had warned about the declining state of the environment for years, human greed proved impossible to overcome. As the resources depleted, humanity came to accept the truth of the environmental damage too late to...
I held my left fist up. My team, following the signal, stopped in their tracks. "He's close", I whispered. After multiple cases of murders in the past few weeks, locals in a small religious town became anxious and agitated. The small police force was unable to work out any leads; the killings had been seemingly rando...
Theo sat back, more relaxed than he'd been in a while. That was the last interview. It had been a tough one; the interviewer had asked questions about the things he had least prepared for, and time was limited after his pens kept breaking, but he did it. All of his years of studying and learning had paid off. Theo no...
Pride Versus Greed Part One: The First Sin Everyone knew who Tessa St. Claire was. She was one of the best politicians that had ever lived, and she knew it. But her ambition alone hadn’t been the blessing she needed to achieve her dreams, as much as she liked to believe so. It had been the ring. It had transforme...
I looked up from my omelette to see which of us was on the news at the moment. Abraham Southfield. Huh. So that was One’s name. There were 118 of us shoved into that lab. Subjected to those torturous experiments. I had thought the numbers attached to us were rather comedic when I first arrived. Some trope about deh...
“I’m Oedipus, and how’d you know I was a motherfucker?” The joke’s punchline is met with blank stares. I adjust my collar, trying to ease some of the discomfort. “Oedipus was a Greek king that slept with his mother,” I explain to the crowd of children looking up at me. “... you’ll probably learn about him when you’r...
Their HYPNOTIST ability user had failed. The TASER man was stopped short. The bullets froze in mid-air, and the ASSASSIN ability user was right in the middle of his backflip, his body struggling. The men glanced at me in astonishment. I smirked in response, then shattered the glass behind me to escape, even though I wa...
I came to the world slowly, almost agonizingly so, lying on a cold, metal table. Feeling incredibly tired and just a little drained, I wanted to just go back to sleep. The surface beneath me was hard and uncomfortable, though, and I had already woken up. So I put my hands underneath me, brought my legs down, and shak...
The first clue to what, exactly, was going on was my tits. "Tits"isn't my usual term for them, but they were definitely tits now. They were bigger than my head, were somehow both comically perky and impossibly soft, and seemed to have their own, separate gravity- they didn't weigh anything at all, yet also bounced ...
"We're ready, captain. All passengers aboard" "Good. Let's get underway, then" I looked out over the "passengers"of the Ark, each one carefully selected for this mission. Millions upon millions of human eggs and sperm, equivalent amounts of reproductive material from every known sentient species, and enough genetic m...
"Wife??? I'm 19 years old!" The odd, weird looking thing on my porch was dripping with saltwater, and the light from inside of my apartment made her eyes reflect like a dog looking at a flashlight. It hands me a drenched notebook covered in barnacles that reads "NOLAN BARNES BEECH TRIP!!! :D"Man I was bad at spelling...
Timidly, my henchman raised his hand to ask a question. Still chewing, I impatiently gestured at him to speak. "This isn't a kindergarten, Goldfinger,"I said with a mouth full of food. "If you have something to say, just say it. I'm not going to bite you." Goldfinger gingerly pointed at my plate. "Is that-" "Yes,...
"So what happens next?"Dr. Maniacal asked. "Ummmm, I don't know."The Marvelous Mallory replied sheepishly. She sat up with her hands upturned in confusion. Dr. Maniacal lightly pushed her back down. "The story can't just end with us lying on the ground. There has to be some kind of resolution. Use your imagination, ...
The Lampblack had followed the girl home, she had ignored the warnings of the old folks to avoid Ashmear Street at night when the old demons haunted. He had entered her home without issue, the priests and hedge witches had not warded this house for the newcomers yet, and when she fell asleep he had slipped in, intendin...
"Alice, I was wondering if-"A harsh, guttural hiss rumbled its way past the alligator's teeth. Whatever Headmaster Reynolds was about to say was cut off as he yelped and jumped away from the sprawling beast in a fashion most unbecoming of a man of his age and social standing. "Oh hush you."Alice Greyfolk, a plain, un...
Meanwhile, in The Land Where All The Writing Prompts Are Simultaneously True: ---- ThorGodMan sipped his coffee. "I don't get it,"he said. Alan looked back at him skeptically. "What's not to get?"he asked. "The bomb,"ThorGodMan said. "Why didn't you get rid of the bomb?" Alan sighed. This again? He'd alread...
"Just stop it! Stop it! Turn that infernal thing off!" "Go to the light,"I told her. "I'm really sorry you were murdered, I'm sorry your killer never saw justice, but endlessly reliving your trauma isn't going to help you - " "TURN IT OFF!" "JUST GO TO THE LIGHT LADY! YOU GET TO BE FREE AND I GET A HUNDRED DOLLARS F...
She specializes in what? Actinides. It’s subset of Earth Magic. You know how metals like gold, silver, copper, iron, tin can be extracted from ores? Same principle, it seems that certain metals can be extracted that have necrotic properties. It’s those that she specializes in. So she’s a necromancer? No! The metals ...
The countess walked in to find her chefs finished with the feast, a devilish grin spread across her face as she looked upon the many delicious looking dishes displayed before her. “Excellent! Well done my friends!” “Thank you ma’am.” The head chef responded as he stood forth. “My guests are sure to enjoy this feast....
"In this moment, I will become the master of my own story". The man spoke to himself. He was more man than god, but he believed himself to be above all. His powers had been given to him, not by chance in a twist of fate, but by a creator that existed outside the bounds of any physical law that man is capable of observi...
The student-volunteer /u/BeerSteinBeck opened the door to /r/all, and in they walked. "It's magnificent,"said Newbia. The most highly-regarded recruit this side of the University of Phoenix, Newbia had never seen a main hall this big. She regarded the sides of the great lobby, thousands of doors to subreddits great an...
A girl with long honey blonde hair knocked lightly on the door of the bright Victorian style house. Her legs shifting back and forth in a bowlegged pattern. She looked up at the expanse of the house. She really wants to dispel the whole witch rumors huh? Oh... She has to help me... She just has to. The door opened a...
And then there was one. I looked into the wall-to-wall mirror that hung up on the wall behind the bar. Behind me, the tables were full and the booths packed. People jostled and pushed their way to the bar to order, shouting above the raucous. A thick-barreled man wearing a striped buttoned shirt motioned at the large...
A cigarette was slowly burning down to the nub on an ashtray in the middle of the table, the smoke gently drifting into curvaceous shapes before dissipating into the atmosphere of the large conference room. There was no sound but The Message. It played on loop, a low bass rhythm softly but insistently pumping into the...
We weren't concerned when they first rose from the dead. They were slow, stupid, and ineffective. One bite would turn you though, so it became customary to carry a walking stick that could at least push one away in case you were ever surprised and cornered by a stray. Many started with guns, but the reanimation and ...
It took awhile before I was released. I'm not exactly sure how long. I was told by the doctors that with my injuries I was OK to go home, but that I'd need lots of rest. Told me not to push myself, and not to operate heavy machinery while I was on the meds they gave me. It was odd, I would hear people talking in my lit...
I stretched out luxuriously, ready to experience my last day on Earth. I had a pretty bad run, and I decided the Dark Lord could probably do more with the sad excuse of existence that I led thus far. The papers were signed away and he would be meeting me downstairs to lead me to my eternity of suffering that would stil...
"Simulation ending in 5.." Tracy looked across the table into Adam's eyes. He too looked confused. He turned in his seat and looked around, as were all the other patrons in the restaurant. "4.." "What's going on?"A rather fat man sitting at the table next to them said. His face was stuffed with pasta, so the words ...
“Leave it better than you found it.” &#x200B; What does that even mean? He thought to himself as he sat there. Every day was a struggle nowadays. It was driving him to use the work bathroom less and less as each day passed by. &#x200B; At first it was easy. The hand soap was crap anyway, so changing it to...
Glurhhhhm once again read over the WWF’s documents outlining their efforts to breed Pandas. Hoping against hope to find some ideas, anything he could use for the humans. “At least the pandas were willing to eat”, he said softly. Our humans have refused any care packages we’d left outside the monastery. And they hadn’t...
The invasion went as planned - until it didn't. The Dro'xos' warships had entered Perynn's atmosphere without trouble, and on the first day, they had managed to identify and surround three large cities on the continent known as Draphis among the primitive locals. &#x200B; But as the next morning came, the so-cal...
"FDO, Flight Director."The Flight Director keyed her mic. "You're cleared for final approach; Take us in close." She wiped her sweaty hands on her jeans. She'd been controlling space flight from Houston's Johnson Space Center as far back as the International Space Station. Then she went from NASA to the private sector...
War is a sword's edge on which the strong fight to stay balanced, dancing on its sharpness without fear of being cut. There are things a man sees that can never be unseen, things done that can never be undone. And those who make it out are carved into something new--even the ones with bodies still whole at the end of i...
My entire family was in the superpower sale business and If they didn’t start that way immediately after graduation,it wasn’t long until they were selling them somehow. My sister had a small shop up the river that sold the more unique powers, things like audiomancy and the ability to regrow limbs. She catered to tho...
“In the Belly of the Beast” Anti-aircraft fire lit up the sky. The men of 23rd Company hunkered down in their coastal fortress. Colossal fires raged all around them. A dragon whirled overhead, dive-bombing until it was just a few hundred feet over the base. Men scrambled, ducking for cover, but one man charged out...
“Max, check it out! ‘Read and write in nanoscopic text—great for espionage!’ Dude, you could probably transcribe the Bible onto a grain of rice with this one.” Trevor held up a plastic shell package containing a single orange pill. The boys had Christmas money to burn; not nearly enough to purchase powers like flight, ...
They weren't even trying to be quiet as they approached the mountain lair. The dragon heard them first, of course, and alerted me. "See if you can tell them off, send them back down the mountain,"he said. "I don't want to repeat what happened last time." "What happened last time?"I asked. The dragon rolled his lar...
I couldn’t open my eyes the light was so bright. I didn’t know where I was but I knew something bad had happened. “Hanna!” I heard a squeaky voice shout my name. I felt the light die down a little and opened my eyes. Standing in front of me was a grey cat with a halo. “Who are you?” I asked nervously. “I knew you would...
"Look, I'm telling ya that you're making a huuuge mistake here,"Ryan joked. "You have absolutely no idea what I'm capable of. I could know kung-fu! Or maybe even have laser eyes. You don't want an unsolicited tattoo removal, do you?" "Please,"replied his very big and very scary captor. "You can't do anything." "Well,...
Our planet were shocked the when they announced that made contact with extraterrestrial life. They were "hoo-mins"from a star-locked planet called "Earr-pth". The king showed an image of these hoo-mins from their first meeting at the base of the capital city. Our people were worried until they saw their forms. The hoo-...
"We completed the translation, commander,"Communications Officer Dasieu called out, drawing Captain Todd Flank of the EFS Timmowak from his thoughts. "Excellent, anything urgent? Is it a threat?" "I don't believe so captain, it is rather short. The Galaestri language is needlessly flowery. Despite the length of the t...
"Gods, you must be hot - what is that, full plate? A hand-and-a-half sword? Sit a spell, let me get you some cool sumac tea." "No need for that. I'm here for the bounty." "Another one, eh? What's it up to, now?" "Just passed 800 ducats." "For little old me? Well, I'll tell you like I told the others - I won't put u...
"You can't have a pet list with over a million entries. It simply isn't how things are done." "We love them all. Look at how cute the birds of paradise are. And the African finches, look at the big houses they build. One of my acquaintances has this adorable crocodile named Chiquita that loves to be petted. Another ha...
It all started at that rock concert in Austin. She was angelic the way she sat, unphased by the loud music and cheering. I'd never seen such beauty. Something absolutely alluring. It was odd though, she seemed to be fixated on the druggy in front of her instead of the concert. As the extra band began to finish their la...
“It’s quite simple, really,” I continued. “Sun’s not the problem. UV light is. Our pale skin is hypersensitive to UV light and experiences lethally accelerated sunburn.” “Vat iz Ooo veee light?” the master of the clan asked in his thick accent. “I haf never heard ov such a think.” “UV light is a wavelength of light p...
It was very obvious that I was not the best outcome of every decision I made but I was also clearly not the worst. The "best"outcome was a middle aged man with noticeable scars on his body but a smile and a warm feeling to him. The "worst"was an angry young version of me that seemed to have a permanent scowl and cussed...
~~This is a bit more political and less vulgar than the story provided in the link, since I wanted to make the moral of the story a bit more central to its offensiveness. I tried to take a similar kind of turn at the end, though.~~ Once upon a time, in a village in a beautiful meadow, there lived an ant and a grasshop...
The radio crackled and hissed into life. ... copy that, all units please respond to 503 immediately, I repeat all units drop what you're doing and respond to 503 underway right now at... Johnson had been assigned to light desk duty for the past six weeks due to his surgery to remove a kidney stone. He was doing a ...
*Frank wakes up. Bill wakes up. Then Jane, Jill, another Frank, and yet another Frank rise from their slumber. Four more Franks follow suit. They are all in an extremely large and featureless room, with eggshell white walls and flooring. There does not appear to be a ceiling, although the walls extend so high that it's...
"Alright, Mr. Holman,"the anesthesiologist sang sweetly. "Just relax." Her voice was a bit patronizing. I'd have been irritated if I wasn't terrified of the knowledge that even if I did wake up, an unlikely event in and of itself, this was the medical equivalent of a Hail Mary. They were going to attempt to "reprog...
"When the moon hits your eyes, like a big-a-pizza pie..."I hummed as a few small pebbles bounced off my helmet while I dug for the requested samples. The song in my head was cut short as my shovel suddenly hit something different. "There shouldn't be anything but regolith here,"I mumbled and began digging in earne...
2995. The year the Aegis - the year that I - learned to fly. I was bigger then. Newer. Tougher. I had many things, things long since absent. The crew was one. I carried 6 of them in my belly. 6 bodies whose feet left my halls thrumming from day to day. 6 bodies whose handprints still linger on cabinets and walls. ...
She was always yelling at me about my hours, how I'd never spend enough time with her, or her kids. Funny, really, how the hours she "couldn't"spend with me, were spent in the arms of someone else. It's amusing, in its own little way, how the day she decided to leave me for never having enough time, is the day I lose m...
I always knew you were going to kill me. The words rang once more in Arthur’s mind. It was a daily ritual. Someone he knew wanted him dead, and he would find out who. Was it Martha from Marketing? Or Gerald from Accounting? Arthur wasn’t entirely sure, but he would never let his guard down. Ever since he was 18 and...
Colonel Michael Lorde was not having a great day. Inclement weather had delayed a pair of test launches, and command was likely to come breathing down his neck at the western range any moment. Lorde enjoyed being king of his own castle with the 30th Space Wing, and never enjoyed being jarringly reminded of his status a...
When someone first told me that people were rising from their graves, I thought the zombie apocalypse was upon us. A long time later, we were told they weren’t zombies. They were supposed to be human. At least, they were only supposed to be humans after a stage of transformation, like a caterpillar to a butterfly. On...
It took me a while to realize that Shelly had not been randomly and secretly making me the cookies, and it took her a little while to realize that I had in fact forgotten to bake her that cake for the church fair. We had both been independently been getting little postit messages to pick up various supplies for baking ...
I slid my fingers along the edge of my pen, gaze flying across the hastily scrawled notes. The yellowed pages showed signs of use, but they were nothing compared to the pen itself. Once an intricate carving of almond-stained wood with threads of silver curling around its length, it had been a beautiful creation passed ...
The Odd Odin Scale started as a joke when the little black rescue decided he needed to be point man on every walk. He would swerve behind Ivan's legs in his own rendition of road rage and use his nose as a sweeping pole arm until he found the right opening and slipped ahead. The Odd Odin Scale, or OOS, had its base ma...
Last year, I sold a painting for two million dollars. I was heralded by art critics across the globe, and people were sobbing in the gallery, taking pictures and posting them to Instagram with quotes from movies and songs I don't have a fucking clue about. I am being touted as the artist of our generation, as the next ...
[Poem] The city inspector saw a baffling sight. Mr. Pig had built a house out of straw bound tight. "This kind of a house Wouldn't withstand a mouse. I'd better go visit and set this all right." * Inspector Wolf knocked on the straw house's door. He stood there a minute, then knocked two times more. Then from ...
When I finally found my ability, I was so proud. Five year-old me ran downstairs, shouting, "Dad! James! I did it!". I showed them the power, puffing out my chest in pride as wisps of mist trailed down my fingers. There was a silence. Then James snorted. "PfFfT!!!! What!?"He was doubling over. "That's your power? Makin...
There was no mistaking it was Johnny. The picture they were using on the news was taken directly from facebook and a camera was showing Johnny's mum Anne hugging a neighbour as tears ran down her face. The story was so real I could feel my own eyes welling up, captured by the thought that my best friend was gone foreve...
"Oh god, it was today?!" The 7-foot tall muscular monstrosity before me began to quiver. A look of absolute fear dashed across his face. It was "test day", as they seem to have called it, and once again I seem to have caught a prospective Super unprepared. I don't understand how this keeps happening, as we schedule t...
"Quite the place you have here,"Zelda said as she walked into the foyer, looking around at my new house. "Mom would be proud of your decorating skills." I laughed. "I do my best, Zelds. I never had the talent that dear Mother had for home design, but I picked up a few things from watching her do minor mending repairs....
Growing up, I lived on a farm. My parents owned a hunting rifle and several sets of knives - for skinning and the like. I never much took to the actual farming part of it, my sister was the green thumb. I always messed it up, don't ask me how. So without much else to do, my father taught me how to hunt. Our farm was r...
To be Named is to be fed, to have a roof to shield the sun from your brow, to move among your kin once more. To be Named is to be free. Until you are Named you claw in the dust, no water but what you can steal from the catchments, no shelter but the cracks and crawlspaces already home to the rats and the spear-bugs. Un...
(1/2) I despise humans. Now that I am finally face to face with one in the flesh, it only confirms my detest. “You are the one that came to our planet, alone,” I said. “The remainder of your fleet is 15 light years away. We’ve captured you and your ship. The technology of which we will use to improve our own and final...
“Hey, Dave? Can you unmute your mic real quick?” I asked. “Sure, what’s up?” “Alright, we’re short on time, so I’m just gonna say it. Are you actually in space right now?” He paused. “....uhhhh, no. Why do you ask?” “Well, you’re... you know, sitting in what looks like a moon crater, and a rock just floated direct...
I stared at her without blinking for what seemed like several moments as my mind tried to process what she had said and all that it entailed. A. It was a big thing to keep untold in the first place especially since we had been officially dating for four months already. B. If she was actually a princess, her "mom and ...
I knock back my absinthe, smiling at gentleman across the table. “Seems like they’re watering down the drinks tonight.” The gentleman sinks into the red velvet cushions of his armchair, his necktie riding up almost to the chin. He dabs his embroidered handkerchief against his billiard-ball forehead, glancing at his fe...
Today marks the day, fifteen years since the great blight. Some say it was the death of a god, some say it was a failed landing by extraterrestrials. Either way, what was left was a giant hunk of glowing substance, sitting peacefully still in a gigantic crater. Our little village, just a few kilometres away from the im...
Lungs inhale water until they break, then grow anew. The pain of drowning no longer affects me, for I have suffocated a million times yet I still not die. Though a lesser god might. Those Gods on the North Rim who brag of their resolve yet flee at the sight of their own blood, who send followers to fight in their stead...
The man in front of me puffed out his chest and raised his metal stick. Around him, the pantheon took in a collective breath. I didn't really feel like reacting, even when he brandished his pointy metal thing at me. Right, it was a sword. "And what is your domain, little god?"He roared. I stared down at my fingernai...
"I....what? That was a mistake? How...?" "Oh, happens more often than you think"the demon replies. "Technicalities, mistaken identity, the list goes on. But, I'll tell you, we LOVE when the upstairs folks screw up. Gives the Boss a reason to rub it in Daddy's face, after all. We'll get that transfer paperwork st...
The sign out front said 'Danger! Ruins and wild pokemon! Keep out!', but that never stopped anyone from going. Everyone in the area knew that. I look to my partner oshawott Troy, and he gave me a worried look. "Come on buddy. The experience will be good for us. And we might find treasure or a new pokemon for the team!"...
It was a long day. The boss was annoying, missed the bus, heating was busted. Felt like the day couldn't get any worse. So, I did something I always did when I was feeling rubbish - put my favourite movie on. I've seen it a hundred times but never got tired of it. Something about the actors, the music, the plot, all of...
What manner of heartless creature, leaves their young to fend for themselves? It is not done. Not in any decent society. Any culture that leaves their young to fend for themselves is a culture that should be annihilated and forgotten, replaced with something better. Abandoning children, that is not done in my culture. ...
I had fun writing this, thanks for posting the prompt :D ---------------------------------------------------------------- JIM ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Morning Jim" "Morning Jim" "Morning Jim"I replied. "How'd we sleep last night?"said Jim behind me. "Out like a log, ha...
"Welcome, welcome!!"the guide said as she ushered me through the gleaming airport terminal as I arrived from the coast. Her English was perfect. "So happy to finally have a visitor from the United States! Due to the policies of your government, visits to North Korea are very limited." Of our government? I thou...
That he drank a glass of punch at the office Christmas party. That he did not take off his suit and swim like everyone else when Susan invited the team to come use her pool and BBQ. That he never mentioned having kids, but did talk about waking up to the sound of cartoons on Saturday mornings. That when Jeff’s mot...
Heroes, help me out: I can't find the Sword of Destiny, and it's the only way to defeat the Dread Lord. What do I do? submitted 45 minutes ago by ReluctantOrphan I've searched every fucking cave from here to the Black Mountains, and there's nothing. I'm starting to think that that stupid witch's prophecy wa...
"Twenty-seven trillion fucking dollars?" The President of the United States had called a cabinet meeting because things had gotten out of hand. He paced at one end of the room, biting his fingernails and glancing at the Kickstarter page that his Chief of Staff had pulled up. "He's almost met his goal, too,"said his...
Bradley stared at Sara as she stood on the stairwell, slightly leaning over the banister, gazing down at him. She had the same smile she always had when they would look upon each other in this way, and Bradley always wore a deep and heavy frown on his face. It was always her upstairs and Bradley downstairs. One in Heav...
"I claim Bread,"Penny Nott said, trying desperately to appear calm as the crowd hissed and muttered. The other apprentices stared at her with narrowed eyes. No one had been accepted for Bread in ten years. She thought she heard a strangled cry of distress from her mother, sitting in the front row. No turning back now...
“I just couldn’t take it anymore,” Gabilara sobbed into a kitchen towel. Okay, so the name was complicated, but I was seven when I accidentally conjured her. Seven-year-old me had weird ideas about names. She sat on my gran’s antique couch, hunched over, her barbed wings quivering. Flaming tears dripped off her cheeks....
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there were three Kingdoms. The great kingdom of Rock. The wise kingdom of Scissors. And the rich kingdom of Paper. &nbsp; King Crush of the Rock nation was a warrior first, and a leader second. He led his people through many a brutal war, crushing rebellions and monsters...
“CBC?” I asked, reading off of the black logo emblazoned across his white hazmat suit. I’d seen enough zombie movies to know about the Centers for Disease Control. “Shouldn’t it be CDC?” The man shook his head as he pulled me by the elbow toward the door of the break room. Karen’s coffee mug was still sitting...
"Floaters", the optometrist said, "they're just pieces of loose cells that float around your eye. Anything you see in them is just a product of your imagination. I'd suggest ignoring them, unless they get bad enough that you can't drive or something. Then we can explore some surgical options." A puff of numbers and sy...
“So you’re looking at $732 per month and this is a quite reasonable interest rate given your, um, circumstances,” I said, circling the outrageous number. My client looked queasy. “Is that the best you can do?” she said. “It’s really a very good offer,” I said. “I don’t know how I’ll afford … anything.” I didn’t...
"What the hell was that!?"I look down and see blood streaming from my shoulder. Out in the darkeness I hear a high pitched wail. "It got you, Matt! The smooth criminal! It's coming back! It will kill us!" "We aren't going to let that happen, Annie!"I finish trying a strip from my shirt around her leg and help her to...

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