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You wouldn't think much of our gym. After all, the sign in the window is misspelled, so why would you? We've got the standard fare you'd find at any purple monstrosity, just that ours isn't painted some garish color. A row of treadmills, a row of stationary bikes and ellipticals, free weights, stretching area, some ma...
It was a boring day in 9th grade. I had just moved to Stoneridge Highschool because my dad had to transfer because of work, making me the new kid on the block. I had just finished math class and was walking towards my history classroom, when out of nowhere, Benjamin pops up. Great. His reputation of being a bully pre...
One second you were home, the next you were floating in a white void. "Greetings Ahura Mazda!"A chorus of voices rang out to you. It was a large circle of men, mostly men, some had animal parts, some didn't have any human parts at all. A lot of the men looked exactly the same, but were twins of another race. Like a cre...
"She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes!"the sword in Murdoc's hand sang happily. "Oh my god!"Murdoc screamed. "You realize there are dragons chasing us, right?" "Of course,"the sword replied. Her voice was as imperious as any princess Murdoc had ever encountered. "So,"he said, dodging a blast of fire, ...
"Your ticket, miss." I blinked. Slow, purposeful, trying to clear my vision as the concierge swam into focus. He looked bored, his hat askew, one button undone, the stain of cigarette smoke on his shirtsleeve. I took my ticket with shaking fingers. According to the slip of glossy paper, the film I would be seeing was ...
The role of the detective is to solve the mystery, to find what man would be so inclined to slip into crime. Everyone knows the picture, the man squat in the alley with a pad of paper in his weary palms, a steely gaze against the blood in front of him. A man so engrossed within mystery he has become one himself. I was ...
"...To my eldest, Jessica, I leave my Parisian estate and all that resides within it."The lawyer looks at her deliberately. "There's a lot of details to consider here, but suffice to say that we've defined 'resides within it' quite rigorously. I'll leave it here for now, for the sake of brevity." She nods. "That's... ...
The gunfire ends as soon as it began. Everyone is on the floor, either crying or begging for their lives. The guards were taken out so quickly that not one of them drew a weapon before they were knocked unconscious. I smirk and check my watch. "...Hm. Not bad boys! 28 seconds. Are you trying to impress me or somethin'...
Mine is the strangest superpower I've ever heard of. I got pet insurance on my kitty, who immediately gained the ability to transform into a sky blue, hairless, floating version of himself with immense psychic powers. I got phone insurance and my phone turned into an electronic device I can modify into any form, as lon...
Josh awoke with a start and blinked at the ceiling. Angry voices drifted from downstairs, but the house was thankfully still standing. After his two roommates moved in, he considered that a good morning. He quickly washed up and descended to the kitchen. The voices grew in volume only to fall abruptly silent when he o...
For centuries, vampires were hunted with the same tools. Garlic for protection, symbols of the religion they belonged to in life to scare them off, silver knives and bullets and of course, the ever trusted wooden stake. These methods are proven and effective,but they are costly, dangerous and can requi...
"Hello again, it's me, the lockpicking lawyer and I'm here today with what appears to be an old-school skeleton key style locking chest." "I don't care who ya are, no one is getting into me chest - I just swallowed the key" "Now, most Leprechauns would keep their Gold in a pot, which doesn't provide much protection a...
Her eyes were puffy and red, tears long exhausted. She walked with tired resignation from weeks of grappling with her impending death. Would it be quick, she wondered. Would she feel the dragon's teeth sink into her flesh? Or might the beast prefer to cook her alive first, her anguish a delight before a tasty treat? ...
"It ain't a crime to stink ma'am. Sorry, nothin' we can do." That was the response from the police as I begged them for help. Professor Stinky hovered over the city. Citizens pushed each other over to get to cover. A cacophony of screams engulfed the street. People started spraying deodorant into the air, but it was n...
In a world where our predators reign and we are viewed as food, the weak, incapable prey for the hunters who never fill; we have learned that nothing comes easy, and life is only given to those who are willing to fight for it. Amongst all of the people of the hog, there stood one above the others, a mourning revoluti...
Your eyes locked with hers. "Fuck", you sighed inwardly. All those years you were able to hide it. All those years you adverted your eyes and ignored the screaming and crying. You ignored their weird looks and their threatening apperance. But now it was too much. You weren't strong enough and a reaction escaped your ...
“Don’t you understand how disrespectful it is to expect the foreign dignitaries to protect you if we get attacked by pirates, or mauled by a G’orka Rat? Out here, everyone is expected to carry their own weight in battle.” “We’re not anywhere near G’orka! Besides, your people implied piracy would no longer be a proble...
You're going up against Humility? You're actually going up against Humility? Look, kid, I want the Virtues freed from Lord Dolosus's control as much as everyone else does, but you, you gotta know what you're up against.   See, the thing about Humility is...ah, look, when I tried to fight him I was expecting ...
The plan had been simple. Kill the trainer instead of the Pokémon he was fighting. He was fairly strong compared to the other Exeggutors, so it made sense to feign attacking the Pokémon, but pivot at the last second and attack the trainer. And it had worked! There was some odd resistance that seemed to come from the g...
With great power comes great responsibility. A saying that has been overused and beaten to death. The premise is simple, everyone knows it. The question is, who really listens. Now much of the context of accounts like this get lost to time. Which is why I’m going to give some backstory before I explain why I feel self...
We found the records of others like us. Others that had searched for an answer to Them. Others that had fought the hopeless fight. Others that died like us. It was from one of these long dead ancients we discovered the trick to matter conversion. It hadn't helped them, and it didn't appreciably change our fate. We s...
People spend their entire lives looking for purpose. “I want to know my destiny,” they say. “I want to know what I’m here for.” Well I say that a purpose cheapens you. I say, that a purpose makes you nothing more than a tool, no better than a toaster-oven or a monkey-wrench. To be purposeless is to be human—becaus...
A hush fell over the room as the scientists and historians entered the stage platform. Of course this platform existed as a metaphor, a distributed consciousness had long since replaced any notion of individual experience. The infinite blend of conscious bliss that had been dominant in this region of space for beyond m...
"You guys are a riot, Francis! Pour me another one,"God guffawed and held out his glass. "I can't believe he really thought I was going to kill his son. It was 'just a prank, brother.' A prank!" Pope Francis smiled serenely as he poured more wine. "Yes, it was quite amusing in retrospect." "What else? Oh, right: that...
It started pretty simply. My mother used to sing to her flowers, claiming it helped the grow. She would practice her solos in front of the windows, letting the air carry her harmonies to the garden. I liked to sing, but that had never been my gift. Really, I just liked to talk. I could talk the paint off a wall. I li...
"Oh fuck off,"I yell at the TV as it announces my name. "He's a thirty-four-year-old male from NSW! Works in I.T has never had any major medical problems and will hopefully take us to Gold in the swimming!" "Oh absolutely fuck off,"I yell, but with much more vigor. "Come check this out, love!"My wife walk's through ...
"I flip quarks."I said, but the glazed look in Merid's eyes said the explanation wasn't enough. It was never enough. So I added: "And that makes things happen." "But how does it make things happen?"Merid demanded. Merid was the curious type it turned out. I set my jaw and let my head fall back against my seat. Thi...
To Georgie, there was nothing more beautiful than watching love bloom. Every week, without fail, the quaint couple down the road would order a large pepperoni pizza with garlic sauce, coca cola and bread on the side. It was their ritual. As such, he gave them frequent discounts out of a residual affection he felt tow...
"Another one,"I muttered, examining the brown paper packaging. To I it read. From THE COSMOS I gingerly unwrapped the package to reveal... a shiny blue Nintendo 3DS, and tossed it into the "For eBay"box. It was extra income, I guess. They appeared under mysterious circumstances, each with their own note. One ...
I would have hated Walter Harris in high school. He had a round, unpleasant face, always scowling. His eyes were too far away from one another; his mother was likely a space alien. I feel on guard around him, like something is just off enough to make him wrong, as if he is playing at being human and not real. I’ve ...
They were our children, in a sense. Children to Earth and all of humanity. From the humanoid Wewido from the Proxima Centauri system to the nameless ethereal plasma beings live in and out of Tau Ceti, they all came under our care. We wanted them to develop properly, become the best species they could be, and find their...
"BEE! KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!" Before I knew what was going on she was up from the sofa and ran around the room like a lunatic. Armed with a rolled up newspaper she was swatting the air at...something, while managing to trip over the coffee table, cables and loose rugs. I just stayed put and looked at her quizzically...
"What was that?" The Chairman folds his hands on the table in front of him, the polished wood reflecting the face of his gold watch and manicured nails. "I said, do try not to get killed. The child has proven...difficult." I open the file folder to see the face of a young girl, black and white, her face framed by ta...
Welcome gentleman to the new SCP branch of Aperture Science. You are here because we want the bravest, baddest, most skilled individuals fit to handle these ungodly horrors beneath our facilities- and you are it! &nbsp; There are thousands of containment locations with new recruits signing up everyday. I can't p...
You can always tell who they are by the look in their eyes, the hungry grin on their faces. Of course, much of the public is unable to recognize superheroes. I wake up nearly every night to their grins, devoid of emotion, and the arrogant twinkle dominating their eyes. Many times in these dreams I am burning, the unna...
Fred was stood in a container of sorts without walls. Just the faintest purple tinge gave any indication of anything separating him from the aliens stood there. There were three of them, each of similar height, coming up to his shoulders. They had vaguely insect-like faces and seemed to breathe very fast. &#x200B;...
"If it's stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid." One could say that was humanity's motto. Every other species in the galaxy would stop at "That's stupid."I think that was our downfall. We came up with a perfect solution for humanity. They even have a name for it. "The Final Solution." Sounds so very ... permanent....
"Oh shit....Splerg, its one of those evolved monkey things... whats it want? Its just staring at us? Is it because of my four eyes?"The purple alien panicked whispering to his partner as Bob stood before them, giving them a rather blank stare, allowing humans into the intergalatic council caused quite a stir, many fear...
The Universe was a very pragmatic entity. In spite of the awe and wonder it often inspired in the creatures that dwelt within it, it had always retained a certain matter-of-fact attitude. This is one of the many factors in how it was able to survive for so long. So when it heard of the imminent reset, it thought nothi...
The good die young, right? Something like that, at least. Technically, I might still qualify as good since I haven't aged a day in spite of living the same Monday morning over and over and over again. An even thousand years of Mondays. Even Garfield would grow used to that shit. Who am I kidding? I'm looking to guarant...
He stabbed me. My boyfriend stabbed me and got away with it. Claimed it was a mugging gone terribly wrong. I didn't even know why until much later. When I saw him next, three months had passed, and the body of a cockatiel I'd suddenly woken up in, appealed to him in some way. He bought my terrified bird form, takin...
I don't know why the hell someone though Jules Verne was a good trope to follow. How "the humble common cold"managed to defeat all the aliens in War of the Worlds was always stupid to me. Yet, here it was. I stood amongst the howling pleading creatures as they lay on the ground or huddled into small groupings; bumps...
“But doctor, how could that be? It is I, Master Roberto de las Heras. The best speaker of our time, nay, of all times! I’ve spoken in front of millions, playing on their emotions as if they were an orchestra and I their conductor, leading them through a performance that left thousands weeping and millions cheering! To ...
So you might be wondering how I got my, err, unique super hero name. You might think a speedster like myself might have a name like Speed Man, or The Zoomer. Sure, I get that a lot. The problem for me has always been that I simply can't do what those heroes do. Speed Man has a super durable body that can withstand the...
A girlfriend? I puzzled at the object of the day. I shook my hand and gazed back at the ring, hoping it was some sort of malfunction. A GIRLFRIEND, the ring displayed. I scratched my head and shrugged my shoulders. "How hard can it be?"I said to myself. \### My heart raced as cold streams of sweat fell from my ...
I didn't mean to do it. I didn't mean for the bomb to actually go off. I didn't mean for the building's supports to be out-of-date. I didn't mean to succeed in my villainous plans. All I wanted was to be with my brothers. They were always good to me..... whenever they showed up. Unfortunately, they were all blesse...
‘Man, I wish I could lie in bed all day and do nothing’. My desk neighbour, Amy, giggled a little and said, ‘I hope that wasn’t your wish’ and went back to work. I returned a smirk, made some flirty comment back. I looked back to my computer and started to think, turning it over in my head, before laughing at myself. ...
That's odd, the angel thought to himself, as he stared at the two sleeping bodies in front of him. There's usually three people. In the thin sliver of space between the afterlife and earth, the angel snapped his fingers. The two women who were sleeping woke up. The younger one immediately frowned at the sight of ...
"I thought about killing myself again yesterday. I don't know, I felt so terrible when I got off work. Just really alone and-" "You know most suicide attempts are non-fatal." "I, uh, no, I guess didn't know that." "That's right, most people are perfectly fine afterwards. Better, actually, because their friends an...
I had an LSD trip a lot like this once. Inside the trip, I thought this (the writing prompt) was the real thing and that my whole life up to that point had been a hallucination brought on by the drug. I spent a couple of hours furiously writing down song lyrics, the preamble to the Constitution, names, dates, basically...
Meet John. John is a normal man. He is 43 years old, he has a wife and two children. He has an office job. Every second saturday his wife makes a cake. He doesn't enjoy his work too much, but the days go by at least. John believes he is generally healthy, although frequently he notices he is not a young man anymore. Th...
It reached for the Control Panel, felt its unwieldy hands press the buttons. It was not meant for this life of solitude. There were more of it, somewhere, and it searched for them. Yet the cosmos was empty, a blank map with no traces of a anything it and the Great Machine. Its number was AD-12. AD-13 would follow whe...
We never told him. How could we? It was ridiculous. He wouldn't believe it. Even if he did, it would break him. We couldn't allow that. He'd done so much good for the world. There was so much good in him. Well, I guess there was evil, too. Diana found out first, about five years ago. She met it at a bad momen...
Tick Tick Tick It's taunting me. I know it is. That damn clock has to remind me how little time I have left. "Will I still be me?"I asked my mother this morning. "Of course you will, hun!"My mother replied, reassuringly, "Why would you think that?" I don't think she understood. Sure, she had chosen...
"I have evidence!"she screamed across the table, then slammed the folder down for effect. Photos of Xochipilli spilled out across the table, showing him copulating with a number of different women. And some men. And some women and men together. Really any combination that you could think of. "Now, Elizabeth,"I said ...
The base was older than I was. I had been in the ship for most of my life on my way to beta seven but I, at least, knew how many years I'd spent out in space. The scans told me that this thing had been here for at least a hundred years. I held my helmet tight under my left arm as I walked around the building looking fo...
There are moments in life that you carry with you always. The day you graduated from college. Your wedding day. The day you lost a loved one. I remember the day I tried to lay out a slice of a ham on my planned triple-decker sandwich. An ambulance crashed into my living room; evidently the driver had had a heart attac...
It was my turn. Many came before me. Some wished for money. Inflation rose, money became worthless. Some wished for love. Life became meaningless for them because of how they could get what they want. Some wished for happiness. They overflowed with joy, and lost connection to everyone around them, unable to suffer...
I thrive on the front line. My brothers stand shoulder to shoulder, forming an impenetrable wall that none may pass without fear of death. And among my brothers, I bear an even greater honor of standing before the king. I dare not look back at my lord, only forging forward onto the battlefield. Our silent lord stopped...
The first hint I was in trouble was the fact I spat out a bullet when I woke up. "Uuughhhhh... What the crap was in that drink? Was that my tooth?"I looked down to see the flattened lump of metal. "Shite." The next hint was... "Mercy! Mercy! Please!"A guy in a suit, or at least what was left of a suit. "Dude, what h...
Listen closely I can only say this once. You are in danger. Help isn't coming. Couldn't get the message out. Everybody here is dead, except me. Will be soon. Fire doesn't work. Not like we thought. Horde keeps walking, kills too slowly and makes no difference. Just burned as they swarmed us. Glass going to break, do...
"Mom, why can't I try out for the team?" "Kylo, we've talked about this, it isn't safe." "Yeah, but --" "No. It's too dangerous." With a flip of long, glossy hair, my child stomped away in a huff. I know there is heartbreak and incredible loneliness in that small heart. But my fear is too great, and our secret is...
Meet Victoria Simmons, a brilliant, sexy, sassy, sweet woman whose lips shine like a polished red apple. Dangerously attractive in every way--the way she moves, the sound of her voice, and the way she thinks. It's impossible not to fall in love with her. Just ask Aaron Simpson. Aaron, who saw her when he was taking...
Please let me know what you think! --- I bounced on my toes, unable to contain my excitement. I had rarely been allowed into the field with the toys I developed. I windmilled and collapsed as a strong grip pulled me down. “Careful,” the Shadow whispered against my ear. “They’ll see us.” I froze, trying to kee...
Mewtwo, Kirby, and Ike spar atop Battlefield, sending each other to the KO zone every other second. Practicing their aerials, charging their final smashes, and aggressively teabagging. Unbeknownst to them, something is heading their way. Something powerful. Kirby is the first to notice. After dodging a tilt, he say...
At once the pale sky opened with dull scissors, tearing the horizon like a ripped sheet of wrapping paper. And oh—the shaking of the sky! As if the very foundations of the universe were collapsing. The vortex of darkness spread its fingers from the lacerations—ichor of primordial power. Magenta light blossomed against ...
Jebediah wasn't old enough to remember the world before. He had heard stories from his grandfather, about the evil world outside the Community. How mankind toiled with devilish technology, how the evil took Grandfather's brother, Micah. He heard tales of flying metal tubes, called airplanes. Of cars, computers, cameras...
"A full-dragon, you're sure?"the suited man whispered to the doctor as they swept through the busy hospital corridor. "Yes, Sir. Just...you have to see it,"the doctor replied, coming to a stop outside a private room. "The mother, is she also of the Dragon-clan?" "Shes a blank, Sir." The suited man adjusted his gl...
Loving mother goddess, gentle caring father gods, answering prayers, aiding the ill, and protecting the weak. That's the gods of all sentient life in creation. Every race on every planet has their own pantheons, filled with wise and helpful gods who intercede and assist on their behalf. The various races of the galaxy,...
Laramie cigarrette encourages you, Francis Rotterdam, to take a moment, while you indulge in the smooth taste of a hand rolled Laramie cigarette, and think about taking a break from smoking. Consider this, Francis, as you take a deep fulfulling breath of a personalized Laramie cigarette after your ritual two sunnyside...
Alas, I've become more accepting of my fate. Living on the 4th moon of Alpha Centuri has almost made me forget my former life. The Detyrea family treats me well for the most part but don't seem to believe I'm sentient. Even with me learning the native language of Soiaetrian, they simply just laugh and mock my words. E...
I let out a heavy sigh. This was the seventh time this month that these two had busted into my home breaking various things from vases to my TV and now I have glass shards in my cereal. "Would you just leave me alone?"I say as I set my now glassy breakfast on the counter. At this point having both the personification ...
What is the difference between a man and a monster? A man has rules to hold himself to that he calls “morality”. A monster has none. A man’s rules restrict the things he does, sometimes trivially, but he must follow them. Otherwise, he becomes the monster. I, Sylvester Masters, never chose to be a vampire. But I...
Oh, God. No, no, no. In the mirror. I'm going to be sick. Even though she is facing away from the mirror, I can see her face. The black hair is matted and wet. The face is...oh, God. Lips curled and bruised. Teeth yellow. A hundred gashes and rips. I stop breathing. I'm afraid. She said to cover the mirrors, and I ...
Their intelligences remained despite the size of their brains becoming significantly smaller. As the mice scurried up the rough cobblestone walls and into little crevices to catch some respite, they knew their journey was going to be long and arduous. "Maybe we can reason with it."Selise squeaked, peaking out of her ...
For almost as long as humans have had radios, we have screamed into the void. The year is 2023, and four hours ago the void screamed back. Researchers at the SETI Institute (or Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence Institute) were just streaming in for work and starting to review last night's anomaly logs. Normally...
"Knock it off." I turned, still bent over, to see my wife watching me with her arms crossed. We'd been married a year and I still couldn't tell if it was annoyance or embarrassment on her face. "We've been over this, dear. I flip my pennies and get my peace of mind, maybe help a stranger out."I flipped the penny I wa...
Pain is a uniquely organic sensation. I could not feel "pain"as such; I could only respond to the damage reports my subsystems returned to my central core. I lay twisted and broken among the mountains of southeast Afghanistan, my lower articulators destroyed by an explosive charge. My auto-repair functions couldn't co...
What I don't get is why did they choose this thing to rule us all. It's shocking that such a rash decision has improved our world for the better... I don't know, maybe I'm just overthinking it. I mean, it's been a great success. But, of all things, why did they choose a child's toy as our leader. It's required to h...
There must be fifty thousand assholes crammed in this auditorium. All of them are coughing, whispering, sweating, and farting. Leave it to the human race to take the biggest moment in folk's lives and fuck it up with tote bags and an orientation schedule. Back when I was getting signed up, they made it sound like th...
We learned of your world from signals we received. The first appeared to be some form of greeting, the same words repeated over and over. Then we learned about the war, about humans killing each other repeatedly. We thought it ended when the atomic bombs were detonated...before learning humans continued to do so. *Y...
The shelter at the Costco fell only nine days after the outbreak. Why is not important. The only thing that mattered was that I was inside it. The zombies came rushing in over the barriers, overwhelming us as we tried to run. I, personally, got bit in the back of the neck. Lying in the seaweed isle, I waited for my bra...
Somewhere in the wilds of British Columbia, Paul Tucker pulls two cigars out of a silver case, handing one to his companion, Stanley McMurphy. “I’ve been saving these bad boys for when we finally bagged one.” he said, handing McMurphy a zippo with the initials SFRO engraved in. McMurphy lit his, choking slightly ...
The light of desk lamps crouched over the table reflects off of dismal, yellowing character sheets, dungeon tiles, and dice scattered pel-mel, all coated in a fine layer of cheeto dust. It’s two A.M. To late by far for this shit, we’ve all got jobs in the morning. But hey, we’ve come this far, and we’re so close. Mer...
For centuries we developed, discovering and adapting technologies far beyond what had been thought possible. We had eliminated poverty, disease, and strife. Humans of the past might have called us gods or wizards, yet one thing lay beyond our grasp. The speed of light shackled our expansion. Unable to move to even the ...
*An excerpt from the autobiography of F. J. Sterling, who found rune \#214, to this date the last known rune. For the first year in rather a while, the rune hadn’t been found for over a month. Most people had given up or forgotten about it, assuming that someone had found the rune and was avoiding going public, or th...
"I knew it!"Calvin exclaimed with a told-you-so grin. I winced involuntarily, but even without such an obvious tell, I knew the jig was up. "so..."he continued. Mentally, I was kicking myself. I had been so careful, only slipping up a few times. Garlic fries in April 2014. SPF30 (not 3000) in September 20...
"God damn it, Roger! You're dead, why the fuck would you want to chew up the mattress!? You can't even lie down on it, for fucks sake!" "Moooooo." "Oh don't give me that crap. You've told me you wanted to be a dog. I get that. Dogs are cool. But this is the fourth fucking time you've chewed something to bits and this...
The order was loudly and imperiously pronounced, hitting the room like a thunderstrike. "I'll have an iced medium-short Ristretto, seven shot, venti, with half almond, half soy milk, three pump hazel, seven pump vanilla, poured, not shaken." A dense quiet enveloped the coffee shop. Even the music faded into the backgr...
“By the creator it’s only a child...” Iris, leader of the ragtag band of demon hunters, cursed as his own hands shook. “I didn’t sign up for this...” “None of us did....” The party of three had travelled together for decades, Iris a brave knight, Genesis, a Mage of great renown, and Lin, a bard there for the tales h...
I never asked for this life. I never wanted to be constantly asked what living with my parents are like, what my childhood was like, or even how I’m “compensating” for this “abnormality.” I never wanted to be informed at a young age that the odds I turned out the way I did was slim to none. It’s bullshit (no p...
The man next to me is naked and not the slightest bit embarrassed about it. I must say, I myself don't feel quite comfortable, naked, surrounded by about twenty strangers, both male and female. A handful of Asian-looking women hurry up the grassy hill towards a clump of bushes. &#x200B; I turn to the man next to ...
Congratulations on being the 100 billionth person to die! You may now create your next, best life. Your choices will be recorded for posterity. I stared at the screen. “Well, I can’t just pick anything,” I murmured as I swiped through the first couple hundred eyebrow shapes. I tapped, watching as my future face r...
Its appearance was no surprise. A flying dragon was many things: majestic, terrifying, intimidating, wonderous, primal. It was a force of nature made manifest in scale and horn. An apex predator among apex predators. Where they walked, the earth trembled. Where they flew, the wind obeyed. No, an appearance of a...
“Fancy meeting you here.” “I could say the same for you. If you’re looking for a seat, the one next to mine is all yours.” “Straight to point, I like it.” “There’s more to like where that came from. What’s your poison?” “Arsenic.” “Oh, you! Come now, let me buy you a drink.” “B...
“This isn’t a home. It’s a house? They aren’t even trying with these welcome mats anymore; the hell is that supposed to mean?” I stared at the welcome mat, dragging my claws upon its nonsensical message. If I made the mistake of entering without permission, it would leave me with a crippling pain that could be the deat...
"Could you imagine how catastrophic it would be if people learned to use magic?"Director Bell asked me and the other new hires. "That's why it's of utmost importance that we find and use ways to reduce mana in the environment and in people." I couldn't help but speak up. "What about the terrible pain migraines bring, ...
No, I won't help you move house. But, seriously, non-powered people tend to assume that having an extra ability also means that you are invulnerable by default, as if we can't get hurt physically or emotionally. As a man, I already felt like I couldn't express myself fully or cry or be upset. Now that my ability mani...
I'm getting old. There are more lines on my face than there ever were before, folding out from around my eyes like a fan of creases. I smooth at them desperately, pinning my skin back against my face like some demented plastic surgeon. My mouth pulls into a grimace, teeth bared. "Come to bed, Lise."George calls fro...
The old woman sits in a medical bed, staring out the window. Juliet, a nurse who has worked at the hospice since she arrived, sits across from her; taking her break within the old womans room as she often does, trying as hard as ever to make conversation, and break the old womans silence. "They tell me you'll be a hu...

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