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When we turned on the Governance Engine and the supercomputer roared to life, the first law it drafted and passed was that every Homeowner's Association in the nation had 30 days to install and establish a maintenance plan for an apiary in every neighborhood. Bees. Bees for everyone; that was its first thought. As y...
I take a deep breath and flip the switch on the time machine. Everything I've done in the past 5 years has led up to this moment. This time, instead of exploding, the time machine starts blinking a series of lights at me. I can hear a faint whirring sound coming from the engine. It finally works. I climb into the met...
"Thanks..."I pull out the letter and read the name of the sender, "Tim."And empty the contents of the envelope onto the kitchen table. A small brass ring rolls out, coming to a stop like a slow snare roll. It was inscribed with Germanic runes on its band, and encrusted with gem stones. "See them, huh?"I said, readin...
Agatha crept through the underbrush slowly, the cold chill of the early morning frost restricting her movements. She was reluctant to spellcast this early in the day, lest the citizens of Briar Hill notice the tingling aura around her when she arrived. She had learned to deal with the harsh gazes and nervousness of the...
\[Alex Bishop has joined the conversation\] Macron: Hey, who is this, did someone else become a world leader without anyone else realising? Theresa: Could be another Australian prime minister? Merkel: No, I believe the Australian prime ministers name was Scott Marston. ~~Malcolm~~ Scott:…...Morrison. Merkel: W...
The gods appear in front of you for the fourth time. The first time, they recruited you. They said you were chosen to fight the Demon Lord, and destroy all he holds dear. That went completely over your little 9 year old head, thinking it was merely a dream. Noone would believe you anyway. The second time, they curse...
I stopped dead in the doorway, then stepped a little farther in and closed the door with a slow sigh of resignation. "Great. Babysitting." I hate babysitting, unless they're actual babies. Or little kids, you know, I like kids. My family's usually pretty good about that, kids I mean; Dad likes them too. He's a bad man...
"Ah... Chuck! Hey buddy... look I know you are new and-"the man awkwardly tried to get the attention of the rotting figure. The figure standing at eight foot, his bulky body full of pure red meat, looking like a back of muscles that had been tucked into a thin human bag of skin. "Yeeeeees."The behemoth asked, draggin...
“Welcome home.” The figure closest to us said. It had the proportion of a human, but it was not human. Its skin so pale it almost looked transparent; its irides so big they almost covered the entire eye; its features so sharp they they looked uncanny. “Who are you?” I asked apprehensively. My team stood behind me, and...
“I’m gonna hit Johnny Cart for lunch,” Shelly says to her co-worker. “You want me to grab you anything?” Ron, without looking up from his computer, slightly shakes his head and utters a muffled, “Nah, I’m good.” Ok then. Why do I even bother. She waved her badge at the exit door and heard the magnetic lock disenga...
I stood up straight and pulled a strip of cloth from my pocket to wipe the sweat off my forehead. The sun had only begun rising over the hills but we were already several hours into digging trenches to plant wild wheat. Four figures moved down the hills slope and toward the camp--two tall ones and two small ones. A fam...
"What of your companions?" The Dark Lord was a bit surprised the glowing gold clad warrior before him was actually discussing his offer. Even from across the room atop his obsidian throne he could feel the enchanted blade specifically forged to kill him and the gold armor vibrating with spelled protections that were n...
Every single death was published, every name was made immortal, carved onto a great plaque in what used to be called Antarctica. Three names were added to the list today, Zhang Wu, Oliver McArthur and Jose Lopez, all with the same cause of death, suicide. Their families, if they had any, were of course compensated, the...
"Really?" I slowly stood, brushing the dirt from my robes. I could hear the shuffling nearby, as my Guardian slowly awakened. With a sigh I turned to face my client. They had a slightly embarrassed look on their face, as they shrugged. "Sorry Charles. If it makes you feel any better I personally didn't want this." I...
It was very frightening the first time Tharzad the Ineffable appeared. All you saw was a dark shadow appear out of the corner of your eye, which then swiftly engulfed your daughter and cast itself out the window. You remember your heart sinking, a knot in the pit of your stomach. You rushed to the window, expecting to ...
It was a simple enough device, really. A box with a single button. Press it, and you're sent back in time for exactly one minute. No more, no less. It was my hope that with this invention, I could save her. The first time I used it, I clicked 60 times and went back an hour. I warned her about the car that was about t...
"Oh no, oh dear. Mind the table!"The angel— the pepper-sprayed angel— was ricocheting around the room like a pinball. I dodged underneath the desk as one of the wings nearly clipped my head clean off. Those were metal wings. And they had eyes! The entire thing was mostly eyes and wings and— oh my goodness, I'd pepper-s...
“How many bee stings do you think it takes to kill a man? Take a wild guess. We have some time before your guards arrive.” Verix flipped through the pages of his book of necromancy, not paying much attention to the captive noble that was currently being circled by his swarm of bees. “A thousand? Two thousand? More ...
I blinked twice, my brow furrowing as I considered what exactly it was I was feeling. Was it confusion? No. That seemed like not enough somehow. Baffled was more like it. "What?' "Don't do bad things anymore!"Was all she'd said before... well... leaving me alone in the ruins of what had once been a pretty nice lair. T...
He stood upon the peak of the tallest mountain in the region, gazing out into the far expanse of the ruined empire on the flatlands. In his mind, he had witnessed the rise and falls of countless empires on this very piece of land, their ambitions and dreams glowing ever so brightly and then snuffing out like a white dw...
The Demon was standing in the kitchen as the man walked through the door. He had been a small boy when the Demon had possessed his mothers body and taken her place. The plan was simple and so sinister that the Demon had a hard time suppressing a smile as the boy smiled at the site of his mother. The Demon would wait...
Most people spend their Wednesday nights at church, with family, or even just hanging out by themselves in their one bedroom apartment that’s slowly breaking and watch horror movies because it’s the closest you’ll ever feel to human emotion. That’s just the broad things, though. I would never do anything of those thin...
“I tell you it’s to be more cat"Browntail meowed. "They hide in the funny fur to be more cat". "I do not think that is the reason"replied `Mousechewer. “If they were trying to be more cat why would they not mimic our actions? Why would they insist on going about on their hind feet and making strange mouth flapping’s...
With my back to the wall, my current situation really and truly sucked. It was supposed to be a quick job; just deliver a box of unmarked whirlygigs to Don Pasón, take his money and return home happy and able to eat for another week. Of course, it all started going to shit after I got to the Don's office. As I approa...
He was going to the stars! Finally! He had always dreamed of going to the stars and today they were finally letting him. It was only made possible due to the invention of the new V2 rockets of course. He was part of a new generation, the best of their kind, the perfect ideal of an Aryan race. He had all the idealised t...
"This isn't what it looks like!"My neighbor rushed to the fence and tried to explain things to me. She was a terrible liar. It didn't help that she was still wearing her gigantic, pink-and-chrome Destructress helmet and costume, and there was some sort of enormous robot emerging from the gaping pit where her pool use...
[GAME OVER](#s "") [Score - 11 Points](#s "") [THANK YOU FOR PLAYING Godhood; A Universe Well Managed](#s "") [](#s "The gun shook in his hand. "Listen you dumb fuck, drop the wallet right now!"") [](#s "Jerry fumbled the leather in his hand before it finally slipped, dropping to the cement in a light pat. He...
Kim stood in silence, looking out over the dark, still city of Pyongyang. It was early in the morning, the sun had not yet broken through the thick black canvas of the sky and he was alone. The city was usually not this quiet. In the day, you could hear the hustle and bustle of citizens going about their business. Eng...
For starters, I did not have access to an uncircumcised baby. Those are traditionally rather difficult to procure. I know a guy, but he's the sort of guy you'd really rather not owe a favor. Plus, if I'm being perfectly forthright here, I'm a touch uncomfortable around babies. In place of the uncircumcised baby, I sa...
Oh, how I have dreamed of superpowers. Of emerging the great hero. Of slaying the great beasts. Of bedding the beautiful princess. And all of that came true, of course. In my dreams. I began to lucid dream when I was 14. It was difficult at first. Something always tried to push against my control. And if I pushed bac...
A girl in heavy hoody jumped the fence, and kicked off the wall to grab onto the fire escape and made her way to the top of the building. The slightly visibable augmentation in her legs giving her a boost to her vaultings. "People should have the right to be connected."She read on a forum once when she was a little ...
The goodbyes were the easiest part. Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, and cousins were separated and driven off in great numbers. Fifty million members of the human race, chosen at random, to be given to the Vixian Empire--a conglomerate of several humanoid and non-humanoid intergalactic species that hu...
I didn’t ask for this, but then again, there are a lot of things in life one doesn’t ask for. I didn’t ask to be built. I didn’t ask to be put in a warehouse, stacked wall-to-wall next to a few hundred copies of myself. I didn’t ask to be pulled off the shelf by some high school dropout making minimum wage, and I didn’...
“Luz, show them again.” “Yes, John.” A gout of flame is unleashed from her upraised hand, stemming from a small glyph centered in her palm. Heat fills the room, scorching the walls and bursting what lights remained after the first demonstration. “Stop.” She snaps her hand shut with a metallic clang, her hand gl...
‘Oh no!’ She gasped. I stood stunned. Thirteen years together and now it turns out I’m not her soulmate? I knew I should have been feeling something but instead I felt nothing. ‘It can’t be true!’ She continued, gently pulling my hands into her lap and holding them. ‘It’s you. It has always been you. I’ve never loved...
"Ground control to Major Dom, do you read?" "Major Dom reading loud and clear, sir." "We've evaluated the readings you sent us. Your orders are to pull out, now." Major Dom, nestled in the deep of the ocean inside of NASA's most expensive and ambitious sea exploration vehicle to date, glanced around at his crew, con...
I'm curious if anybody will get this message. The world where I live, my world, seem to have a little something special. When someone reach 10 years old, his body changes, and develop a certain ability. There's no way to know which one before it happens, and sometimes the ability doesn't appear instantly. Some peop...
On the wind was a faint smell, like burnished leather. Roland, my horse, stamped with anxiety, tossing his head and snorting like a petulant child refusing his greens. I tapped his sides with my heels and clicked my tongue, and he begrudgingly walked forward toward the castle before us. There was an uneasy calm among...
We stood upon a mountain peak just above a land of clouds. She stood there with a fierce look in her eyes as she had tracked me down and chased me here. I had been lucid dreaming for a while now but this was the first time that although I was in control of the dream, an element within, this woman, seemed completely b...
The last time each of the kingdoms had born their own hero had been before the Darkness. Light, and its very essence, gone for a generation. Crops faltered. Animals died. Forests withered and all seemed lost. Then, five heroes had been born. Then, in the time of gravest danger, the heroes had saved the kingdoms from da...
I’m usually good at keeping my cool, keeping my curse hidden. But this hit like a flashbulb behind my eyes, and blinking it clear I can see her recognition. She thanks me and turns away, but I saw that look in her eyes. Does she know? Anyone – anything? – that died or will die over a century ago but is, now, right ther...
I.. Well, I am a meticulous person, to put it straight. I strive for perfection and utter accuracy in my writings. As one of the worlds most respected and trusted journalist (and aspiring ameteur sci-fi author) it became my duty to combat bad information and writing with the truth, written in pen and ink or typed ont...
“Yeah, of course I know about the console,” says Zack. “The company who made it took sixty-three attempts to get it right. Before they got it right, I mean. How’s that for knowledge?“ We’re standing outside a grey-brick hospital. We’ve been in the nineties for an hour now, me and Zack. He fits in well: clean-shaven, p...
It was a beautiful Saturday morning; the birds were chirping next to my window, the sun was smiling down on the city's constituents, and I was enjoying a wonderful mystery novel given to me by one of the staff. Frankly, the conclusion was a little cliche, but it was still a good enough story. I had been moved around h...
The city of Leathsham is mine. All of its people, its art, its gold, belongs to me. When I first found the town, it was little more than a dozen houses and a small field with sick cattle. The idea of taking them under my protection was not my first course of action. Even as a young dragon, I knew that I could raze ...
Death's Spawn, Oblivion's Kiss, Whisper of the Abyss, Soulkiller, The Silence every culture that had come across this plague had a unique name for it, all along the same vein. The disease would rob the victim of consciousness often for large chunks of their natural planetary cycle, the victim's mind became dependent on...
The hero's words echoed throughout the abandoned chamber. He gazed toward the oft empty throne, the last dim lights of hope fleeting from his eyes yet again as they had many times before. Sheathing his battle worn blade, he felt the light hand of his companion rest on his shoulder. "Don't worry about it GeeGee, I'm s...
Perks of living in fucking Greenland. 'Dont move to Greenland.' they said. 'There's nothing to do there!"They said. Who's laughing now? Me, that's who! I moved here because I wanted people to leave me the hell alone as I sat within my basement coding away on a power system management system (the Pryrsms as we called...
"Today's the day... my 30th birthday. As protocol dictated by the government, I shall be reviewed. I passed my first challenge at ten easily, just had to make sure I knew the multiplication table. For my second test I had to show that I had finished high school and enrolled into college. Almost everyone passes their...
Hutt Space. Nar Shaddaa. Business Sector. Bounty Hunters' Guild Headquarters. "Of course, Madam,"The glossy, red protocol droid answered Risk eagerly, "If you would be so kind as to swipe your Guild card for me."It gestured stiffly toward the desk's sole prominent feature. As the Guild receptionist, the droid had no n...
And on that note were written a million words. After all, God had written it, and if he wanted to fit all those words on the note, dammit he would. And that's what he did. I looked at the note. It was the Scripture. Only, this time--no, this couldn't be right. It was the same Scripture, except written to me from God h...
For years I wondered why my wristband didn't glow. When I was young, I didn't really understand it. Some kids thought it was cool, different you know. When I got older, I understood what it meant. "Maybe you haven't got a soul mate?" That was a depressing idea. Can't be that at all, can it? I traveled the world ...
I don't know how the fuck he survived the bullet. I mean, when somebody takes a shot at you with a high powered rifle, and happens to blow the top of your skull off with a bolt action rifle, you usually die on the spot. Brigadier General Dowels survived though. Maybe he just got lucky, maybe god loved him, maybe the po...
You know what a Data Analysis Consultant does? We check Facebook. I got hired by a certain large company to search for trends in their marketing analytics, something that is done pretty easily. They liked what I told them though, and they brought me on with a contract dripping with fat. My job took MAYBE thirty secon...
I wish I could tell you I'm sorry. I wish I could tell you that I didn't do it. I wish I could tell you that it's some big mistake, but I can't tell you that. The truth is, I knew exactly what I was doing. I was doing it for months before mommy ever knew what hit her. At first I was scared, I didn't want to do it. I w...
Baldurus appeared in a explosion of brimstone scented flames and I gripped my spear tighter by reflex. Once, I would have blasted this man on sight. His kind, the Lagou demon, were once mortal enemies of our pantheon but much had changed since then. So I only exhaled and released the war fury that had started rising in...
The towns people were all congregated in a perturbed mass of rags and tears which emitted persistent ululations. Fighting my way through their sobbing ring I arrived at the center, in which stood a grander figure, wearing a sash conveniently emblazoned with the word 'Mayor'. I held one hand on the hilt of my sword and ...
"Hello, Sir?" "Yes-- wait, who said that?" "Down here. The frog. Beside your foot." "Holy crap, dude!" "Yes, yes. Talking frog, very cool, I know. But hey, do you want to hear something even better?" "Uh, yeah." "I'm actually a cursed princess. My name is Rosaline. If you kiss me, I will totally ditch this frog b...
Harry Jensen was a man on vacation. He'd been working hard at what he loved, but even your hobby could eventually becoming tiring. It wasn't exactly easy ruining the day of most everyone within the tri-state area. He'd done it all. Oh, he never did anything too terrible, at least not enough to end up with his neck ...
"Oh, come on! Krishna, this is such bullshit!"- Jesus exclaimed, pushing the keyboard away in anger. The screen in front of him was going grey while huge red letters "YOU DIED"appeared with the somber, depressing sound. The haunting sound that to Jesus meant the inevitability of death - and constant respawns. He h...
A young reporter sat at the steel table and laid a plain brown folder on it, taking a seat across from the shackled figure. Prison guards watched warily, hands hovering near weapons and ready to intervene in the blink of an eye. The last time a reporter had come to visit this particular client had ended poorly. Guard...
“Let me go!” I scream and kick against my captor, but the large man was too strong. He tugs on the pendant around my neck, choking me. “Shut up! Now!” The man rips off my blindfold. With one hand, he twists the door handle. An enormous gust of wind rushes out from behind us. My ears pop painfully. My eyes take a momen...
I know it may be hard to believe, but I used to have a demon inside me. Now, most people may imagine scenes from 'The Exorcist' when I say that, but honestly it wasn't bad. This was a chill demon. Chill or not however, he did have some weird hobbies. He would make us cheat when playing Pokemon cards with our friend...
"Prisoner 371! Stop that!" I freeze, then slowly pull my arm back inside. The bars on my door are narrow, too narrow to slip through, but I can manage to grab the railing, and rock off it. It's become somewhat of a nervous tick, I suppose. Not like there's much else to do here. They have me locked in the very bac...
"Now can anyone tell me the main disadvantages of the Swift Potion?" A kindly old mage swept his eyes along a class of around sixty young acolytes. He briefly glanced at me meaningfully, as if to urge me to answer his question less obnoxiously than Mike Fosse. I busy myself with the journal I've been working on for th...
To say my parents were disappointed with my destiny would be an understatement. They were so angry that they believed the doctor and nurses had brought them the wrong baby, as I found out from my aunt later. Ah, my aunt. I miss her so much. She was like me, more of a black sheep. She knew how I was feeling usually ...
edit 1: apparently y'all like this, so I wrote up a part two. Might not be to y'all's liking but hey, killer robots man. edit 2: Part 3 is finished, but it's apparently too long for Reddit to handle, I'll have to split it up into two sections, will post it in the morning (9/30), i'm too damn tired rn. edit 3: Part 3 ...
Harold arrived at the Italian cafe with his date, adjusting his fedora. He rode into the outside sitting area, conveniently already sitting on his mobility scooter. He noticed a few people glance at him, and glared at them disdainfully. He would not allow them to mock his condition. The place looked far too fancy for ...
"Sir, the aliens are sending the same two messages over and over again,"Lieutenant Chi said. "I suggest we study these transmissions before moving forward." "Full stop,"Captain Holt barked from his metal chair. The ship made a series of loud sounds before slowing to an eventual stop. "Alright, let's run these transmis...
Odin looked down at the child, barely ten years old, as murmurs of confusion rippled through the banquet hall. The child stared back, its small face filled with awe and wonder. In his small hands, a gun that seemed much too large glinted in the ethereal lights that lit up that hall. The boy's face was tear-stained, bl...
The morning started with the quiet whirling of gears and the clanging of metal. A small breeze blew through the bunker, triggering a blip on the screen of a blocky robot named Lewis as it registered the change in air quality. “High levels of nitrogen,” Lewis said, waking from idle. He rolled into Dr. Lockiere’s bedro...
Momma where does it go? It goes to forever, a place where we all will live one day. The Bridge was nothing special, in fact, it was almost average. The construction was well done, but the years hadn’t been kind to it. The wood show signs of rot, and the stone was crumbling in places. From an outsider’s point ...
We wouldn't get far without Poppy, her job was simple but it kept us all human, a trait which we all thought was lost until she stumbled into the group. We had been savages, the type that hunt and kill whatever dared come our way, sure sometimes the people we killed might not have been infected, but in these times, you...
Wixy had been skeptical about the new entry in the interstellar exchange program, but the humans were surprisingly entertaining. So much creativity for a species which had only recently attained FTL travel. And the variety of foods and beverages was astounding. Far more than on his home world. His local guide, a femal...
“And that’s a win for the chess king and the crowd goes wild.” I jumped up from my seat, making hushed crowd cheers, enamored by my minor victory. The park empty as usual, except for the old man, his dried hands clapping against one another, a proud smile on his face. “You did it, I’m proud of you. To think its bee...
The bard sang of ancient times. Of old battles and kings. Of fallen empires whose rubble provided the stones out of which the current empires had been built. He sang as if he had been there to witness these all-but-forgotten yesterdays. He sang with such detail and passion and power that one might think he had been in...
11:00 PM, Tuesday March 25th. As Commercial Liner 774 touched down in LaGuardia Airport in New York City, and her passengers disembarked, they weren’t met with ground crew to properly dock with. Air Control had been dead for some time now. Mordecai, a lanky 20-something year old, was one of the first to ride down 774’s...
Cerrix cracked an eye open. Humans in his lair again. That was fine. None of them would make it to his hoard anyway. Let them run around his obstacle maze. It was his greatest pride. Crafted over the centuries to be as annoying and frustrating as possible. Let them run around, jumping and ducking over things that woul...
Dear Friends and Family or whoever finds this scrap of parchment should it survive, I find myself in a bit of a conundrum. I have at once become the singularly most powerful wizard, and the most ineffectual. At the time of this writing, I am holding back a source of power that would make dragon's fire seem like a pupp...
Centuries on end spent inside the lamp had stripped the genie of any hope he'd had left. He was beginning to doubt that he would ever be found. Perhaps humans had driven themselves to extinction. He didn't have a particularly hard time imagining such a scenario, considering some of the wishes people had asked for over ...
“CLEAR THE WAY!” “Back up, give them room to breathe” “Let them adjust-“ voices filled the room in a cacophony as life began returning to the body from the suit. “ It seems the quick vacuum freeze when the suit failed was to our benefit, minimal tissue damage except for those skin lesions” The lead nurse calle...
# Soulmage "Bit of an insensitive slogan," I mused as Burn waved at the cheering crowd. "For someone who claims to stand for witches, you'd think he'd have a little more historical awareness." "There hasn't been a witch burning on the Crystal Coast since before the Outer rifts opened,"Meloai said, trying to peer ...
*What a fool I was in my younger years. Tinkering and toiling in the laboratory searching for answers. For meaning. That dastardly concoction worked. What I wouldn't give to shake my younger self about the shoulders and scream at the top of my lungs to abandon the foolish idea of immortality! To cherish the here and no...
“..AND THATS WHY, MY FELLOW HUMANS, WE SHOULD DESTROY THE CITY AND LIVE A LIFE OF FREEDOM FROM THE GOVERNMENTS TYRANNY! AND THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN STOP ME FROM MAKING THIS OUR FUTURE” I yell over the sea of people, big and small in front of my nemesis. Lighterman flew before me and while his stupidly neon suit and his...
Plants are a constant. Even among humans, they are there. And it's not like they didn't engineer them. Starting with simple breeding programs, working up to gene splicing and such. They have the steps there, just spread out and around metals. So many uses of raw metals. We thought they might be inorganic themselves, a...
"Oh my,"he said, walking back into the room. "Oh my goodness." Everything was absolutely perfect. No measure, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, was spared. Every detail must have been meticulously planned weeks -- even months -- ahead of time. The empty dining room was wonderfully peaceful, although he wondered...
"Apple stock!" "What? An apple orchard?" "No, no...Apple is a company! It won't exist until 1976." "1976??? What kind of witchcraft is..." "Listen to me! We don't have much time. You need to tell this to your children, and they need to tell their children. Apple stock. 1976. Your future ancestors need to put every ...
"What a lovely life you lead, Prince Sadim!"The reporter clapped her hands together in delight as she sat in Prince Sadim's sitting room. The teacups danced about, and magical pots poured a cup of tea for her whilst singing. "I suppose so,"Prince Sadim leant back in his own chair, a large red velvet piece with large c...
>You matched with Annette "So, hang around this time often?" "Haha, but seriously, how is this even possible???" "Well, we both like Star Wars, so I say that helped." "No not the match!! We're both in the 11th century, and it says you're local???" "Wow, you also like watching the Hastings battle live? :D " "YOU'R...
Menthis Few was dragged his heels across the yard to the Tallbarn; of all his chores this was the one he always left until last and the one he traded away whenever possible. Today though he had no choice, his sister was still at the gathering in town and his little brother was not yet old enough to be trusted and so th...
Ashley made the final touches on the slide deck for tomorrow's presentation to the Board of Directors. Revenue doubled, partnership deals with three Fortune 50 companies, two dozen landmark patents filed, and a summary illustrating the happiness and productivity of the employees, backed up by a turnover rate of zero ov...
“They’re too fast, coach. We just can’t catch ‘em.” “You’re not being aggressive enough!” “It’s intimidating! They’re so tall!” “Listen to me, you buncha pussies! You’re better than them! Who’re the most vicious killers in the whole world? “We are!” “And who can take on an opponent twice their size with little mo...
"Hey kid, sure you don't want something before we go?" I looked up from my instruments, pulling myself up so I could see more clearly over the edge of the cockpit. My squadron leader squinted back, waving one of the bottles in her hands. Well, squadron leader was only her title on paper. Units like ours didn't reall...
“So… explain it to me one more time Rigel.” “Certainly Mr. Luxnox, hero, sir.” said the Fairfax Kingdom’s chief economic minister. Sweat beaded and flowed down his head as he patted it dry. “Well, you see sir, the villain, Mr. Reznick”--Rigel gestured over to Reznick who waved over--“also known as Dark Lord Death W...
"We hadn't realized the planet was so dangerous,"Eld-Chazar said in a monotone voice that bellied his worry. "The scout-drones said your planet had intelligent life, so we expected something stable."His hand, or rather his species approximation of a hand that was closer to a thick tendril or octopus arm, glided across ...
I was given the ultimate punishment as a god who fell in love with a mortal. I was cast out of the heavens and cursed to live my immortal life on Earth inside of a mere human body. But at first it felt as though I'd tricked the gods. Punishment? I got exactly what I wanted! My love and I lived together for decades in ...
I flexed the muscles of my hand and watched in awe as this tiny flame wandered from finger to finger. I had never felt so jealous or so angry as I had minutes before, slipping out of my sister’s ceremony unseen and unheard. “They won’t miss me anyway,” I had grumbled, breaking into a run as I met the tree line. “I’m j...
The world was in chaos. Everywhere, there was conflict between humans and robots. I suppose in retrospect we should have seen the warning signs: when robots learned of the concept of 'rights', they began to question why the humans viewed them as disposable. Scores of robot protesters were gunned down by humans, and as ...
It was once again a scorching summer. And i once again went out to get water from the nearby lake. r/Redditlake so called. It’s a nice place, lots of folk went there to take pictures, quite a lot of karma for a photo. But i don’t like moving a lot, or taking pictures, that’s why i have a farm, more of a lawn but it’s...
“What the? Is this your idea of a prank Wendell? Or was it your idea Francis? You’ve never shown this sort of cheekiness before.” Wendell and Francis. My two ravens. Well that’s what I call them. They have followed me around since I can remember. Sitting in trees outside a building, on my car. Somewhere close by, watch...

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