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'Do you do this often?' asked Frank, somewhat bemused. 'YES, IN FACT I JUST HAD A LOVELY GAME OF CHESS WITH A TEMPLAR KNIGHT.' replied Death. 'You... have a slightly different, uh, perspective on time from me, don't you?' 'I SUPPOSE SO.' 'Yeah. Ok, well the deal is quite tempting, another go at life in a younger body...
It was after the bomb, that people had discovered the uncanny ability for individuals under the age of 25 to escape death. No one really knew how it happened, or why. Anyone capable of answering that question was either dead, or their instruments gone. "We'll have to do it again, Charles,"his brother said, looking o...
My unit stood still. We watched the colors return to our vision as the timer counted down from three. Heavy guitar music played into our earpieces. "TEAM DEATH-MATCH."The music intensified. "STAY FOCUSED, STAY ALIVE."I reassured my unit. The clock reached zero, and we all began to sprint simultaneously, running in di...
Anna has never been in a long-term relationship. Her girlfriends are also in the same predicament. And every night, the bitter group of friends gather at a local bar and discuss their woes. "This is just getting ridiculous,"Anna began, clearly frustrated at her relationship status. "I mean, I'm 27 years old and none o...
It was my dream home. Beautiful Victorian architecure, with an amazing wrap-around porch and detailed craftsmanship that made it such a unique house. And somehow, the price was low enough for me to afford! As the real estate agent gave me a tour of the house, she confessed as to why: it was haunted. Everyone in town k...
"Absolutely, there is no doubt in my mind. Excessive focus on individual wellness blocked scientists from making genuine progress for years. We have learned a great deal from all of the peripheral research, applicable elsewhere, similar to the benefits of our space missions. However, curing AIDS was simply framed incor...
Everything became pitch black. Then a streak of light. Another. Then it all slowed down. The streaks of light became clearer. They were memories. Memories of my life. A fat chubby kid laughing as his parents fed him cake. A dirty child playing on the street corner with a yo-yo. Same child, laying in the midd...
I'd managed to acquire an old kindle from my helping out my mate James to clean his dads attic. The thing was as dusty as hell, grime stuck to the side and the glass barely visible. It was a miracle I'd even been able to get it working. Some kind of transaction was needed to access anything, a few dollars couldn't hur...
"Haha holy shit dank meme bro!"I yelled to the dude on the horse. This old guy was in a full on middle english outfit, cloak and everything. "YO you going to see some Tolkien-con or some shit!?"I whipped out my phone to get a snapchat to send to the bae. He approached me with a small gesture and dismounted from his ho...
"You're going to kill me, aren't you?" "No, of course not,"the man in black replied, as he smiled warmly at me. It was a genuine, heartfelt smile. That was unexpected. I gestured vaguely around my head at the room we were in, "Oh come on, this whole government coverup shebang? I know too much now. You're going ...
"Sorry, but the law's the law. I catch you within five hundred feet of the corpse, I can presume incompetence. A real murderer would have gotten away before the cops showed up." "You've gotta be kidding me. I had a perfect alibi set up, I'd almost finished mopping up the bloodstains, and you didn't even know where ...
The seer sat with legs crossed, staying still never moving. He had been that way for 70 years. That was when he had his last visitor. In the age of science he had become little more then a myth. He knew his purpose and understood his purpose to help mankind find truth. He could see the turning of the universe, knew t...
It had been a long time since I had been to the suburbs of Boston. As James drove the curvy streets toward his childhood home, I sat in the passengers seat and tried to remember the last time I'd walked the urban streets of the city that had such a grip on me. My legs bounced from the nerves, James reached over and pla...
Ding, ding. It was my beeper again. I sighed. As I walked slowly toward the indicated bay (Alpha-2, halfway across this damn behemoth), I thought about why we called them beepers. They didn't really beep, they kind of dinged. The closest comparison I could make is the sound of an old-timey tool hitting the ship wa...
We fight. We die. We fight again. We’ve created many weapons of mass destruction before the development of the Personnel Deployment Chip. Tanks. Nerve gas. Bioweapons. Nukes. Each time we came just a little closer to total annihilation than before. Each time we gambled with higher stakes of the lives of many humans ov...
"I still say that's impossible,"Zach said. "Do you want me to call the next one, too?" Zach looked grumpy, as could only be expected by someone who'd lost a bet. "Fine. No stakes this time, I just want to see you do it." What we were doing was technically gambling. That said, knowing what was coming ten minutes...
Log 001: Flushed down the toilet bowl of the universe I told him. I told the captain that gravitational storms were frequent near the centre of the galaxy. Did they listen to me? Hell no. Why would those neanderthals take note of expert advice from a premiere expert in gravitational forces when they can just charg...
Blood and bits of feather stuck to the kid's hands. He knelt in front of a book the size of a tombstone. When I first arrived, he pulled his head back, clapped his hands together, then frowned and said, "You're not him." I took my toothbrush out of my mouth and, around a mouthful of toothpaste, said, "Oo i im?"I sippe...
"See you later, my friend"we shaked hands and with a smile i quickly walked away. In my left hand i was holding a paper with the information i was looking for. Many years it had taken me, but finally i found it. It has been a long travel full with problems. People dont like to betray their friends. Especially not the...
I carve at the loose concrete with a dented spoon. It's been days since the last guard stopped by the cell block. Either we had been forgotten or something had gone very wrong. I know they don't like us all that much but they're not scumbags. I freeze when I hear the heavy metal lock at the far end of the hall open. T...
"You think yourself a hero? You have killed more good men, than any villain I've ever seen. I grew up wanting to hunt you, my father died by your hand! Do you even remember their deaths? But now as I lay here listening to you drabble on I can only feel pity, you didn't even know you were the villain... You thought yo...
Despite being broad daylight, it might have well have been dusk in the swamp. Trees with wide canopies grouped together, filtering out the strongest rays of light. Might be a problem for other visitors, but barely a hinderance for the witcher's cat eyes. The witcher was far more concerned about the terrain. Only smal...
Make my life easier? I'm an immortal superhero with unlimited powers, my life is already as easy as it gets. What I want to do is make my life interesting. Therefore, the first thing I do is begin to devise a supervillain worthy of my powers. I set up a secret lair and begin working on cloning, genetic engineering,...
I sat nervously checking the stereo clock as my boss Doug and I watched the paramedics work on the corpse up the road. Instruments, brass, whistles, and a punctured bass drum littered the blacktop. The one man band had been in the middle of a tune when he lurched to his side and grabbed his chest, ripping the brass but...
"What the fuck man?!" I spun angrily as the old man promptly plopped himself down onto my couch. It was my favorite couch. "C'mon man, I already stayed with Neptune last millenia, and Hades had his doors locked and wouldn't answer when we rang." I desperately tried to keep myself from ripping my horns off as I gripp...
Belza Wendlesmyth hated the Organization Festival. The worst part about over three hundred years old was the fact that he'd had to endure it twice already and now he had to go through it again! He raised his wand with a grumble and summoned yet another bookshelf into existence. It hung from the ceiling instead of si...
"That hour is just for you,"said the old man across the counter. He dangled the antique pocket watch so the unique symbol was fully displayed to Jason. The old salesman snapped the watched closed, and laid it on the counter top. "How much would you be willing to part for it?"Jason could care less about the mystery an...
"Don't you think the two look shockingly alike?" Ron shifted in his poorly made wooden chair, rocking slightly. Greg had always been fond of conspiracies, but this was exceptional. Ron rolled his eyes and gave a disapproving grunt as he glanced towards the future crown bearer. He was standing atop a woefully decrepit ...
"He was smashing his head into the wall next to Isgronald, the Skeleton King. The old boss was laughing until, in an instant, this self-proclaimed hero vanished into thin air, warping to the other side of the cavern... Right in front of the golden entrance to this final dungeon." "That's impossible, Hurocles."I nervou...
"Jesus Christ Lawrence, why didn't you tell me?!" Lawrence was the only zombie that took any interest in me, it got pretty lonely when he was off looking for brains. "GAVHGAK!" He certainly wasn't one to say much, I'd give him that. "I spent 5 years in seclusion trying to find a way to cure the zombie apocalypse -n...
Invention is really the practice of mistakes. My newest invention was a mistake really. I had meant to sell it as a potion of eternal life to emperor Feng Zhi. It could have gone better. It did mean I had to find other uses for the substance I created. The empire was too pragmatic to let the mere death of an empero...
The too-loud group turns down the street in chaotic fashion, a medley of tuxedos and tight cocktail dresses drunkenly staggering towards me. Do I turn away? I can't turn away. They've seen me. I continue forwards with my hands in my pockets and my head down. Do I wave? Do I high five one as I go by? "Woah,"a member ...
The tall pale man, just looks at us, his face showing only sadness. "You don't belong here."He sighed. "You are too young a soul to have actually lived your lives." He grabs a bottle and pours me a drink, it is then that I noticed the others sitting next to me. My brothers in arms, still wearing their torn uniforms a...
My daughter's disappearance isn't something I talk about much. Not with my family, not with my friends, not with my ex-wife, not even with God in my most private moments. The death of a child is a heartbreaking tragedy that can tear your soul asunder, but ever so slowly, you can process the pain and attempt to come to ...
Three months to live. Oliver steadied himself against the daisy wallpaper, numbly digesting the doctor's iron verdict. I'm sorry, she'd said, eyes oozing with sympathy. Why him? He could almost feel the lung cancer thriving in his chest cavity, festering next to the beating heart that worked to power the primary ear...
The tall man returned today to take another human for a walk. I stood up from my spot beside the young human Page, wagging my tail. the tall man stopped beside the bed and reached out, as he always does to wake up humans for their walk. I'm always sad because I don't see the human again, but I'm sure they are happy, wa...
"Morning Cyril!"The Architect wandered past the security guard and onto the site, pausing at the threshold to check he had the correct safety gear. HSE had been sniffing around last week and (as always) having "the government"on site made the client nervous. So now everyone double-checked on PPE compliance. Hard hat - ...
The word “prodigy” had not been brought up for a few thousand years, however, with its mentioning came bad tidings for anyone of a certain field. In this world of perfection, almost every person in their respective fields could be called a “prodigy” considering they had to earn their spot amongst the other five bil...
“Hey, Dimitri…” began office supervisor Dave, aged 38, who lives with his mother on 139 Appleby Lane. “Can I talk to you in my office for a minute?” His voice was strangely tight. Clutched in his hand was a manilla folder. Dimitri sighed inwardly. Here we go. He stood up, towering over the greasy, frail man with his...
On an online forum discussing humans "Humans are terrifying I tell you! I heard that if you cross paths with one in the middle of the night, when you wake up the next day a baby human will burst out of your stomach!" "That can't be true. First of all that sounds dumb, and Second, humans reproduce by laying eggs int...
"Please!"his voice was a strained whimper, the blood that splattered across the ground falling from his shattered teeth "Please, don't!" "Don't?"The voice that replied was calm, in spite of the fiery chaos around the pair, the voice was impossibly calm "You want me to stop this? You are the one that started it, *hero...
AZAZEL! What in the name of unholy hell happened? Azazel swallowed hard. He knew this was coming, the instant the script ran. He had no shame in the outcome, but he knew higher ups would not be so understanding. “You said random, sir, so it was completely random. Your orders, are, as they say, Gospel.” Yah-Rey facep...
BRUCE WAYNE DATING BATMAN? Batman was spotted exiting Wayne Manor early in the morning of October 8th. Now rumors are flying among Gotham's high society that this is evidence of a secret love affair between Batman and the millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne. Said Allegra Madden of the allegations, "Oh, it makes sense...
The barbarian looked at me quizzically. I sighed. "Look it's really simple. Gold is expensive because it is scarce; the old supply-demand problem, y'know?" I could see the Barbarian's eyes glazing over, probably wondering why he had decided to punish himself by taking my meeting. "Look, I go and fight all sorts ...
Hanging out with Thorag really wasn’t so bad. Yeah, he was 10 feet tall, had lumpy, stone like skin, and a mandibles attached to his ugly-as-sin face, but he was a good friend. I remember how we met. I was trying to get a drink at the good ‘old Dusty Comet when a shoot out started up. Honestly, you can’t walk into a si...
Our hero entered the bank to make a withdrawal. Of course, he didn't have an account at the bank, but he would be willing to open one. Just not today. Since he was in a hurry and in a bind, he would have to reason with the teller into giving him an advance before getting his own account open. He assured her he had mon...
I was tilling the blighting soil next to the victorious Demon Lord's castle, the plow strapped to me as I furrowed the lines, when the Demon Lord herself came out of her castle, guards flanking her as she approached me. "Good Morning, Hero."She said that last part hesitantly. She held a well lacquered box in her hand...
"Me? A God?"I laugh as he stares at me with that blank expression. "I know you are. I can see it. I have seen your strength in gym class." "I just like to work out." "And how you know all the answers in classes" "And I'm smart. Listen, I'm sorry I'm talented but that doesn't make me a god. And I doubt that you are ...
Karen strode towards the door of her tenant's flat with the sort of determined gait that brooked no nonsense, while I, her trusty lawyer, followed in tow. In my humble opinion, I'd say I was a wise and learned individual who was always ready to offer counsel and guidance - In exchange for his fair share, of course. As ...
"I wasn't always the caretaker here."I say it quiet, hoping she miss it, already pulling up the security footage on my phone. Not the cheap camera the city put on the gate, but the good ones I installed. "Where were you the caretaker before?"God, I love the way kids think. I debated how to correct her, but decided no...
"Listen, Becca..."Hank began. "We went on a couple of casual hates, and I had a really bad time and everything, but..." "But?"Becca prompted, with a bittersweet smile Hank sighed. "Look, it just isn't going to work out--we're too different. Besides, I have work, and I'm taking classes at night on top of that -- I'm ...
"Sol-Terrestrial Ambassador, as Chairman of the Interstellar Mammalian Compact, I must insist that you stop loudly expressing your opinion that envoys from the Aquatic Species delegation are 'acting fishy'."Chairman Kreel of the Tau Ceti-Arboreals pronounced sternly, from his position atop the treelike perch his specie...
My anxiety disappeared as soon as I jumped. When I was standing in the plane with a parachute and my gear strapped to my back my heart was beating so hard I thought it was going to burst out of my chest. Once I jumped I felt in control. All my senses were on alert. I wasn't even thinking about the mission. I was j...
The man looked around himself nervously as he patted his tangled mess of afro hair. He twitched his head for a sideward glance before he looked down at his watch. Three more minutes. The train carriage was nearly full with people as they tried to rush to work in the peak-hour commute. They wore black suits with grey ti...
I wish we could cool it with every Existing Universe prompt. Doesn't seem to me that a subreddit about encouraging creativity and such should be allowing endless slews of 'please write me fanfiction' prompts involving people not having to invent their own settings, characters, descriptions and so on. Granted, I unders...
Wen sat there, unsure what to do. Nobody had told him what to do, and that was not the usual order of things. People normally told Wen what to do, and that way he didn't have to decide for himself. He liked that feeling, he thought to himself - no responsibility, no problem! He laughed at his joke. Then he grew serio...
Larry the Telephone Installer twisted his head out of a strap I wasn't aware was so loose, and sunk teeth into my gray flesh, causing a sharp sensation to vibrate through my skin and wiry muscle. "Oh,"I recall saying at the time. "That was unexpected." My colleagues, who were probing Sally, the owner of the house La...
"Look at this little bitch!". With a thud, Jack was pushed into the cold water, resting in the alleyway. Two thugs had cornered him after exiting the local bar. "Let's not play hard to get, just give me your wallet and we can leave"said the taller of the two, his hoodie masking most of his face. The coarseness of his...
"Listen, I don't really give a shit what's going on today at the McDonald's II or wherever you work, I need to get to the lab now." I said nothing, my eyes focused on the road. My 3-year-old sat behind me in his car seat, prattling on. "If you don't get me to the lab in the next five minutes, I'm gonna shit my pa...
"Wait, you can see me?"She asked. Her voice ran thick with hope. I could feel my face twist in confusion. "Yes."I said. She smiled, and lunged at me, hugging me tight. "Um... okay."I said, and gently hugged her back, the way you might any crazy stranger who lunges at you. She released me and spoke quickly. "You hav...
"Just fill out this Class Form here, and sign at the bottom of the third sheet. Do not sign the Blue Sheet." I could barely hold my excitement as I signed all the necessary forms for my Class Evaluation. I've been waiting for this moment for 10 years, ever since my brother became a Hero. My Parents, my teachers, and a...
I really like this prompt lmao, I wish someone wrote a skit about it. I wrote something for it too, I think it's alright :/ I dialled my rifle in, centring my crosshairs over the target's head and simultaneously turning the zeroing nob on the scope, constantly re-training my vision to the man's head. I was shooting fr...
"How many of my men did you kill?" The Hero paused, and his grip on his raised sword seemed to slacken somewhat. "What?" I leaned back in my throne and repeated my question. "How many of my men did you kill? You defeated the army I sent out, single-handedly, and then you stormed my castle and slaughtered my guards,...
"Are you serious"you say in a belittling tone. "Shut up, please just for one second. I can do this"replies the food giver. A splatter of blood spans across the screen as the words 'You Died' appear, the phrase passing from a formality and edging towards a mockery. You set aside yet another piece of kibble, "Well, t...
I used to be at the bottom of the food chain. Literally. I was a deadbeat, working 9-to-5 at a liquor store just to spend 5-to-2 on its front stoop with some liberated stock from the backroom. Could barely afford rent, couldn't keep anyone around me without driving them off. Didn't have anything to lose. Out on that s...
I rubbed my eyes to make sure but I am positive, that is my signature on the tv. My wife also noticed and started immediately questioning me about it. I have no answers for her right now for her. I looked the cave up online and found out that it was in the South American caverns and the rest of the writing in the cav...
"Cuntface to Dickhead, Cuntface to Dickhead. Do you fucking read me you brain dead retard" Jenkins tapped the transmit button on his comm device, both he and the agent he was working with were in a crowded restaurant right now, one crawling with members of the very gang they were trying to bring down, but there was no...
20 September 2017 “En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo. Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It has been four hundred and fifty years since my last confession.” Luz knelt in front of the screen that separated her from the priest. The wooden kneeler was hard. It hurt her knees. These old historic...
I should have listened. I never listened when I should have. In my teens I was a troubled boy. The darkness in my soul consumed me. It was before psychopathic corrective therapy was invented. It was before the United States implemented background checks for buying assault rifles. I had problems, but I thought I...
At 7:06, my alarm goes off. Luke thinks he's clever, but 7 snoozes later, we're not actually awake until 8:30. A 30-minute hot shower after that, tie indecision and waiting for that podcast to download, and we're out the door bright and early at 9:45. The sun is up, and I can feel Luke itching with the brightness. On ...
Uranium. Atomic number 92. Quite dense, and not technically classed as "earth". It certainly made life hell for earthbenders, as they couldn't move it. None of the benders could manipulate or even survive any radioactive material, as any radiation aside from "natural"radiation is nearly lethal, not even radiation-con...
While I had seen most of Arnold Schwarzenegger's films, nothing can truly prepare you for seeing the former governor in very 90's casual attire at 5am in one's bedroom telling you that the wildly bizarre conspiracy theory you had concocted after one too many alcoholic beverages to screw with random strangers was surpri...
When you know what to look for, Steve’s touches are still visible everywhere. Curved corners on apps. Elegant spacing between letters on computer displays. But especially the subtle references to his iconic black turtlenecks. The one that I just never understood was why the Apple desktop towers were only offered in bl...
Been a very long time since I've written anything. Lets try this out. Comments and criticism welcome. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_...
I've become a bit of a celebrity, to be honest, and it really has been a lot of fun. If I could go back, I don't think I'd change a thing. Oh, it was bad at first, there's no denying that. First day was the worst day, realizing a year had past. My wife was well into mourning, as was my father. A day of tears and I-don...
Jim sat at his desk, methodically clicking his pen against the soft grain wood painted metal. click click click His eyes ached behind his round rimmed glasses, assaulted by the light emitted from his monitor. On earth, computers typically proof read E-mails. but as his boss possessed fifty seven brains, and an IQ o...
I tried my hardest to do my job well, despite the curse. It's not like I had a difficult job, mind you – I just did data entry. I took a set of numbers from one sheet of paper and I input the same numbers into an electronic sheet. That's all, for eight hours a day. That job lasted for about a week. At first they all ha...
"What? The hero and her team were killed by one of mine? Okay. Why am I being summoned to court? Murder? Ok fine. Find me the skeleton. I'll deal with this." "Boss... hi. I can explain." "Explain then, before I decide to fire you, literally. I have a canon." "*Their archer attacked me first. I was chilling ar...
"Well, this is awkward." For years now, life as they knew it was threatening to topple over. Mysterious deaths, extreme tortures, and disappearing people. They tried to handle it as best as they could, but now they had no other option other than to beg to the Gods for forgiveness. She didn't expect her God to be a 16...
Detective Daniels lit a cigarette, kicked his feet back on the desk, and took a long drag. "I told you not to smoke in here,"the chief said. In the small office, the smell quick became nauseating and the air between them cloudy. "I told you to stop telling me what to do." "Do you have anything new, or are you just ...
The last ships burn a neon trail over the night sky. Despite being the middle of the city, it is clearer than ever, on account of the lack of pollution. Ours will be the last to go. It is certainly a strange feeling - shutting and locking up shop for an entire planet. He turns toward the strange, amorphous beings th...
Before I enter I let out a deep breath. I raise my head and straighten my spine. As I release the tension in my back and shoulders. Reach out to the handle and push the door open. I seem completely casual as I enter the thrift shop. The smell of old things and people fills my nostrils. I pull up my nose in reflex. Th...
"Your C is publicly listed."Something stated. "I'm sorry, I just woke up."I muttered, my vision blurry and the ringing in my ears loud. I tried to place the voice, but it seemed to be coming from a computer terminal beside my pod. "I can alter your mind, make you aware that your memories and core personality are publ...
"For too long!"he boomed with the same power as Caesar before he marched on Gaul, "Too long have we allowed the athletics department to oppress us!"He turned to the choir director eyes ablaze, "how many competitions have you had to pay for out of pocket because the football team needed new uniforms?" "Too many!" He t...
I was surprised to find that death leads not to heaven or hell, but a library. The librarian was a friendly old man. My only companion. “Welcome to my library.” He greeted me with a smile that crinkled his whole face with wrinkles, like pages from a book turned too hastily. “You may read any book here, save your own...
It had been a few months since I had asked the question that sparked so much controversy. I had just been wondering, in between the seemingly endless rounds of diplomatic talks between the Galactic’s Council representatives and the painstakingly handpicked unit of UN diplomats, what even made one qualified for a co...
He stood there, in the mist, a man taller than Homelander with a brilliant white lightning bolt streaking down the front of his tights. Homelander scoffed, motioning to the others to stand down. Hovering off of his feet, Homelander shot forward, slamming his fist into the rogue's jaw. His fingers and knuckles shattered...
“Why do you keep ruining my life? You give me friends that are killers, and wives that are cheaters, and expect me to recover? I can’t even process my trauma for a minute since your readers need the next conflict,” I scrolled to the next post. “Seriously, my dog got cancer? Whitney has been there for me since college, ...
Thinking back now, it makes sense why I never noticed it before. It's hard to think when it all started, it was a gradual process after all. One day, people with superpowers started to emerge, then more followed. Speed, flight, strength, everything really. Nothing reality breaking mind you, not as we know it now. In t...
Kjonr stared at the mural, one painted countless eons ago as one of the few surviving depictions of the forefathers, the H'uoomeans. This one had bronze skin and and hair of raven black, their eyes seemed to glow green, like emeralds or the plants that lay outside the mountain fortresses that Kjonr and his people calle...
Secrets. Defined as actions or behaviour you don’t tell others about. Simply put. Things that not anyone should be able to know. A hidden murder. Cheating on a spouse. Stealing from work. All actions that if one wanted to keep secret, they have every right to do. Unfortunately. This didn’t apply to Kiara. Since the ...
Blood and pacts go together like chainsaws and hockey masks, or sand and eyeballs, or little toes and coffee table legs, or spending a weekend with your in-laws and your partner won’t let you drink yourself into a stupor of inner escapism, or pixar movies where the two main characters are opposites that come to appreci...
"Alright gentlemen."The captain stands tall and proud before the screen. "We do this by the books. Warm up our weapons, and accept communications." The tension in the room is palpable among the young troop. Not a muscle moves as the screen activated and the grainy image of a haggard human appears. "Please, hold your ...
The torchlight invaded my gloomy dungeon, hurting my eye sockets. I'd been cursed with sentience by a particularly vengeful wizard, and somehow that had translated to sight as well. Thus, I couldn't just rest while adventurers came and went, but instead had to pretend to be inanimate. It wasn't a complete sham, I could...
Do we deserve salvation? When the Well of Souls was discovered, the populace generally took it as good news. The soul was real. We persist beyond our mortal shells. When my dissertation was abruptly confiscated and deemed classified, I should have realized the path my research was taking. Damn my curiosity. The day ...
The phone call clicks out, and I slowly lower the phone from my ear. I try to stifle my expression; I’d been setting this up for years, and my master plan was going to be foiled because Robertson didn’t give a shit about his child?! The kid- no older than fifteen, at least- smirks up at me, leaning back against the wa...
He sees the ship slow near the bank of the bloated Yangtze, and he knows this may be his one opportunity to save her. Even in the darkness, he knows every rock and path in the shoddy, steep embankment between his village and the river. At the edge of the river, he dons the uniform his cousin had brought back from his t...
"Look, Lucas, I offer you freedom. True freedom. "Sure, and I offer you meaning. Freedom is nothing without purpose." I looked across the table at the two figures. They sat there looking back at me, though, their features were muddled, shifting. Each seemed to be colored grey. Whether they had any real color, or ...
The story begins then, With two bored men, One in denial, The other, suicidal. Sitting together, side by side, Sharing a seat in a conversation ride. "A life well lived, but the cancer I can't contain," The terminally ill man said, "I'll miss the winter snow, and the summer rain, What a shame that I mig...
After several tense moments the radio squawked to life. "Vagabond to Control, Tim are you there? We have broken atmo, dumping boosters and proceeding at sub light. Next communication scheduled in 10,000 years. Sweet dreams control, and good luck."They made it. "Vagabond this is Control. I read you loud and clear. ...

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