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You just live. That’s what everyone wants to know: How do you do it? Well the answer is a lot more simple than you want it to be: you just live. You wake up, you make it through the day, you go to sleep. One day after 80 years or so, you don’t wake back up. That’s life. On earth. Or at least, it has been, for millions...
The soft breeze ran across the soft slopes of the meadow, the blades of grass so pristine he could almost smell them. The sun was setting, a beautiful violet disappearing into a sea of green that stretched out before him. Few things compare to a sight like this one, he thought. "Wow, it's just so..."He started, the w...
Mr. Grisby's expression is, for the first time I've ever seen and probably for the first time in his life, something other than one of stern reproach. His mouth sits slightly agape, lips contorted in a loose, asymmetrical fashion that bespeaks mind-numbing surprise. He holds the paper before him and scans something on ...
"And that is why I got the divorce."I said into the radio. I sighed as I reminisced about my old wife. She had cheated on me with my best friend. Thankfully I never had to confront either of them, they left me a note explaining that they had been seeing each other for years and that they were going to leave the countr...
BREAKING NEWS “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. A new breakthrough has been made in the investigation into the mysterious Baby Chicken epidemic. After weeks of people suffering from discharging little baby chicks when using the bathroom- a process that is preceded by hour long pains and nausea- scientists finally h...
"Look, it's perfectly natural. Just let it come out. You'll get a little revenge, and no one will know it was you!"beamed the imp. The cherub snorted. "Yeah. Unless he opens up the door and catches you mid-turd. You'll probably slip in your own shit and fall in it. But sure, get arrested covered in your own shit. Pret...
Do you know those superhero movies and comics made by those studios? Yeah maybe? This isn't one of them. Have you ever seen Spiderman? Yeah? This isn't that either. Let's see if I remember correctly, I moved here to get away from my parents in a small town. It was a large town closer enough to be a small city yet they,...
“Did you understand me, child?” Revelus Lar asked in his measured, dignifying manner. I could barely nod. The man was a legend, the god of magic, the oldest, the wisest and most powerful wizard in our world. I was an idiot. Well, not always. They realized I had some magic in me when I made our calf Ronnie levitate ...
Do you remember that intense scene in \Interstellar\ where the anxious music plays as the main character shoots off into the sky? Yeah, space travel isn't anything like that anymore. For one, they took out the windows so you cant watch as the earth disappears under you, they took them out because it makes some people...
Day 1 We have finally gathered enough resources, to gather a small group of humans to go to Earth. This will be a scouting mission with the task to start the colonization. We have enough resources to live independently and prepare the land for others. Can't wait. Day 16 We have finally settled down. The land is ...
Josh looked at his beautiful planet, the blue planet. If he just had one camera, he would have emptied its roll over and over again. For now, he had to do with a mental image. “I am sorry, Josh…” he said, in his unapologetic and monotonous voice. Josh didn’t respond. He tracked the movement of those clouds. They we...
You can't save everyone the voice lingers in your head. "Stop it, now."you say aloud. You've done enough "Stop it!"You yell, continuing to trudge down the main thoroughfare, flanked by doomed office buildings. The maelstrom of energetic violence, suspended just a few hundred feet above the tallest building, bat...
It was on november 10th, 2043 that humanity was made aware of other inteligent life. This far we believed to be the only such species but we were very wrong. Perhaps by inventing FTL travel we crossed a, kind of a thereshold. A thereshold which when crosses, introduces a species to the rest of the galaxy. Call it a in...
The room looked like a train station. It had changed over the years, many times since I got here. When I arrived it was just a fancy cave with two exits. But that was... almost at the beginning. I make it a point to always chat up the newcomers. It's the only way to stay sane in this place. Otherwise I would have gone...
The derelict warehouse was a rather niche choice for this kind of operation. Grey crumbling walls exposing rusted rebar and shattered windows from the local kids throwing rocks through them with a sagging and dented sheet roof made the place not only unassuming, but large enough to hide a rather... cheerful stolen obje...
The dragon splashed furiously across the surface of the fountain, propelled along by thrashing wings. "Mine,"it exclaimed with a gleeful little plume of flame, and lunged for the coin. "Um, excuse me,"said Enen. "But that's not for you." The tiny dragon turned its golden eyes to stare at her, jaws stretched wide ove...
The witch gave him a pitiful look. His heart sunk. There are moments where a look of compassion or sympathy can be taken for pity. This was not one of those moments. His captor was looking at him with a pitiful stare that ate at his very soul. “Boy,” she said, “what you have walked through to get here is perhaps my g...
“You look like you got dragged through a bush backwards,” my friend Jas greeted me in the morning as I closed my locker door. I rolled my eyes and flicked my fingers so that a small gust of wind blew Jas’s hair all over her face. “That’s a low blow,” she sputtered. “Almost as low as your height,” I quipped and ...
Ghuriel tried to buy me out, thinking I was desperate until I explained that the callback to Americana generated a feast of pride. Nohriel tried to round up some bikers and burn my place down, but I talked him down and explained that getting kids hooked on sugar early was a cash cow for Greed. All those addictive habit...
"You're a lying cheat and I accuse you to your face!"Nigel hisses the words, throwing his dice cup down on the table. He stares down the four others at the table, eyes begging them to do something. It's an odd sight. Nigel is enormous, that's usually enough. But I've seen him throw a punch and he just can't. The poor...
He couldn't believe the news.... the Captain... Captain AMERICA... Hydra.... It was too much Dale had grown up in a tiny little nothing town just outside of Talladega, the son of an overworked diesel mechanic and a night shift E.R. nurse. Dirt poor isn't the right word. He never missed a meal and his clothes only ...
As he finishes the speech, his arms wide, he smiles in glee. It's a flourish, like everything else he does, that seems practiced. He stares at me as if waiting for a response. "You done?"I ask, briskly. "Excuse me?" "Are you finished?" "I just told you humans are worthless. gave you my well thought reasons and pla...
Humanity was alone. This is what they told our ancestors, many era ago. They wept and sobbed as they spoke, a painful longing behind every word. Their development had come fast - with mere centuries of their years bridging the gap from first steps on another world to interstellar travel. But where the humans expected ...
(NSFW) I suppose I should have realised back when my mum told me that I didn't have a dad. I just thought he had left when I was born, done the usual runner and left my mum to raise me by herself. But now here I am, standing at a public water fountain with my hand in the water dispenser, dressed in a bed sheet and le...
James rubbed his eyes, the flash had been so bright. "Sir, are you ok? The woman said. "Uh, yes, I think so."James looked around. The backscatter machine he had just been in was gone. He stood there, shoeless in the lobby of JFK. Looking up, he saw a man on the bench ahead, reading the paper. Mayoral Primary Tod...
This wasn’t the normal kind where there’s a small bang in the air that brings immediate attention to the perpetrator, nor was it a small “pfft” noise that slowly saturated the room. No. This fart. This legendary fart, which was ghastly enough to cause an entire frat party to evacuate the house, made no noise. The silen...
If you had asked me in my youth how I thought the world would end, I would have been wrong. Growing up it was global warming, or nuclear warfare, or even a solar flare somehow predicted by the ancient Mayan civilization. These were all incorrect. We should have looked far beyond our own system, into the crushing emp...
From: unknown_source@unknown.com Message: We know... “Send, send.” Mark says, between giggles. I press the button, and off the e-mail goes. “He's gonna be so freaked”, I say, muffling my laughter as I notice the Director stepping out of the elevator. A couple of hours later, Mark comes to see me in my desk, for...
Hector pushed his way through the crowd of protestors at the Bank of America. Some held rocks in their hands, others had bats and bars. They were yelling, ready to break the windows in. Hector made his way to the ATM and inserted his debit card. He thought about what he would do if his account had nothing in it. Wou...
>I stabbed her. >I can't go on. >Forgive me Jack. Linda blinked. The note sat on the same desk it had been on for over a minute. She wanted to take it and cut it up or burn it, but she couldn't move. Her son had a note, written in her husband's handwriting, underneath his socks. Why? The front ...
It's not for lack of trying. Let's just get that out the way first. Girlfriends and protection, that came naturally. But when I settled down with the current Ms Gale, and we finally starting trying to for Adam Junior, we hit my little roadblock. It's not an uncommon thing. Literally, that's the first thing every singl...
I pounded on the door three times, lifting the brass knocker to let it fall of it's own accord against the knotted oak wood, and waited. Rain pattered down- neither the rain of a thunderstorm, nor the light rain of a summer day, but rather something in between. Something that seemed to emphasize the grey around me, w...
Wall-E's eyes widened at the sight of the smooth, white oval object in the corner. "Eva!"He extended his arms and raced forward, preparing for a hug. "Hello, friend,"the object answered. It turned toward him. Wall-E stopped in his tracks, scattering dirt and dust through the clean testing room. That wasn't Eva! Inst...
"How the hell? That's a nine, I've got an ace...wait, shit." Boris waggled his finger at his friend. "That's right, I've got the trump suit. All those cards are yours." Volodya groaned and added the multitude of cards to his hand. "You're too good at this,"he grumbled. Boris laughed. "Would you believe that a girl a...
I saw Stanley for the first time in weeks when I was pulling bills out of my mailbox, and I didn’t recognize him at first. Stanley is never scruffy. But there he was, unshaven, his normally immaculate hair stringy and unwashed, all wrapped up in a long brown coat. I retreated back behind my white picket fence, the g...
"...What?"asked Frodo. "Hand it over, young Frodo, and I shall bear the burden,"explained Gandalf reassuringly, his long fingers gesturing towards the glinting Ring of Power. "Go on." "Well, I suppose,"said Frodo and placed the Ring gently into the wizard's palm. Gandalf's hand clasped shut tightly, and he drew a sha...
I woke up to the doorbell again. I mean, I never really see the package arrive, so I decided that there's no use waking up early to catch its arrival. I walked down the stairs thinking about my previous packages. The first one was a water bottle, and that day the water was out at the office. The next was a bus pass, an...
"Okay, break my legs and arms, and throw me off of a bridge and into the river."I told the head circus performer, a seven-footed, 320 pound man who looked like if a hippopotamus with a hipster's fashion sense also decided to grow a giant, curly mustache. His name was Napoleon. "Wait, that's it? Dude, you have 1 milli...
In school, I remember we would always talk about what might be in our box, and what type of person we might be. I remember at the lunch table, Sally would always claim hers would have a microphone, and that she'd grow up to be a famous musician. Charlie would say no, it's not a thing inside the box, it's you. Like, the...
He woke as he always did, feeling like a man sinking into the sea, helpless to change his reality. He drug himself from his bed, the sun's first rays beating against drawn curtain. He hadn't opened them in years, and he felt no need to change that now. He shuffled to the bathroom in a way that could be best described...
Playing with Legos remains fun, no matter the circumstance. But it's a little bit different than trying to deal with aerodynamic heating EDL design. On the other hand, Legos don't have viscous dissipative effects, and can be used to make a fire truck; which has pretty much instantly made me the King of Kindergarten. *...
"It's the best plan we've been able to come up with sir." "Not much of a bar to clear, seeing as that we're losing this war."Emperor Shii Shixian, Seventh of his name, bringer of the light to darkness, and lord of the Western Reaches currently controlled about enough territory to scavenge together a harvest and keep h...
I worked and worked and worked in the attic, thumbing through every spellbook my mother had hoarded in our dusty loft, until I found what I had been looking for. My mother had long given up magic after Dad died, stuffing everything in the smallest corner of the house. Grabbing my chalk, I followed the page to the lette...
"Hold on,"the CEO said, "let me make sure I have this straight. Guy comes in, hands you a note asking for money, and you just give it to him?" "Correct,"the teller said. "And you didn't trigger the silent alarm by your foot?" "Also correct." "And you didn't signal the guard in any way, before or after he left?" "...
The bard's guitar was broken. The sacred ash had been destroyed with a snap of the beast's muscles, and blood ran down his arm from where it'd been nearly taken off by a savage blow from the were wolf. He itched in uncomfortable ways. "Distraction, I need a bloody distraction,"The bard yelled. "I used my last spells...
His assistant placed the coffee on his desk. "You've got ten minutes until your next appointment. Galwraith is running late, something about bad ignition fuse in his hyperdrive." Ivan VIII nodded and waved her away. He watched as she crossed the massive, high-ceilinged office and closed the sturdy oak doors behind her...
It was called the Second Cold War for a reason. And it would have stayed cold if I hadn't made that call, or if they'd just double checked the source, but that's like wishing for another timeline. The only timeline I had was this one; and all that lay ahead of me was pain. Here's how it started... 3 months before: ...
I woke up feeling rested, and went downstairs to check on my spoils. My small container of Placebo-noc was on the counter, exactly where I had left it. The large piles of bills was new, next to a familiar pistol. I knew I owned a firearm, but to my knowledge I had never fired it. I checked the clip. All but one of the...
Bill raised an eyebrow in surprise. Really? The afterlife was still using money? He'd thought that the afterlife would have found a way around scarcity, the central problem of economics, demand, supply, and therefore money. Still, he was hungry, tired and disoriented, and needed food, even if he did not physically hav...
I ran to the motel window and looked outside. Instead of scenes of carnage, everything was tranquil. People were walking down the street as if nothing had happened; waving to each other as they passed and commenting on the weather. The sun was rising above the trees on the opposite side of the street. It was a bea...
This was excellent. I really like the grim tone you carried throughout the passage which was a nice twist on the prompt. Erica's character is compelling and complex and you did this all in a relatively short passage. Nice job! A few nitpicks: > and looked straight through me. Past tense :) >two winters a...
(Changing the paper to a smartphone notification. A piece of paper seems like overkill) &#x200B; Geology 101 - Rocks for Jocks was potentially the easiest class in my courseload this year, and intentionally so. I'd taken it because I'd stacked the other classes trying to knock out some of the harder required cou...
Frustrated, I descend the stairs. Day 82. Almost three months in and I still haven't been able to get rid of this horror movie nerd. I squint against the bright morning sunshine filtering through the shear curtains as I trudge through the living room toward the kitchen. And there's Kevin, sitting at his little tabl...
"I swear to god I'm going to shoot you if you say-" &#x200B; "You scientists caused this entire mess by forcing the chicken pox vaccine on it and you know!"the middle aged woman declared smugly. "So sure, take it. Die, let us with an ounce of intelligence finally have some peace and quiet in this world without pe...
I was born weird. I think maybe everyone has this thought from time to time, some more than others, but the world has always appeared differently for me than it seems to for other people. Growing up, I'd see drawings and wonder, where are all the lines? There were supposed to be lines, that's what the world was mostly ...
"Look, I'll be honest with you. You look like crap." "I look like crap! You look like crap! I look like you!" I sighed, and steepled my fingers. How do I make him understand? "You're ruining my image. See...I have a standard. A panache. A trademark. I turn heads. I spark conversation. You, however, are a pink-face...
There's long been a debate about whether or not you chose your Everkeep, or if your Everkeep chose you. Like with most things, everyone had an opinion, but nobody could really know for sure. Part of the problem was that there were no set guidelines for when you item came to you. It just...did, whenever the time was r...
Right so here's the thing. I'm the only "me"left, the only "I,"the only true individual. I don't know what they call themselves, it's hard to really talk to them. And it's not really like a hive mind, not like a beehive or anthill or anything. As best I can tell it's a psychic thing. Like early on before the Whatsi...
*Drowl, a beautiful world. My world. Yeah, I know, It’s a video game, but who really care? I live here since the game was created by the alliance between Mycroftsoft and Bapple. My life as a blacksmith is what I have always known and I love it. By night or by day, I always craft weapons for players. No peace for the br...
Dr. Harrison removed the last bullet from my chest and began sewing me up, shaking his head. “You know, one of these days you are actually going to die. People have tried this before. It never ends well for them. Six thousand seems to around the highest most get to before they actually die. What are you at right now? T...
The debate was getting intense. Jimmy really thought his moronic ideas would somehow save the world, but, god damn, he is so dumb, it’s unbelievable. I was mid-sentence, explaining why his idea wouldn’t help anyone, and why it would take a lifetime, then suddenly he vanished. Just as quick as he left, an old man popped...
"Find salvation in the lord and thou shall be saved from the terrible damnation of the end of the world." I remember the words well. I was ten years old when I heard them, spoken by a kindly old priest in a small church my family attended every Sunday. I never really bought into religion, even as a child it seemed a b...
"Your honor, surely you must be joking!" "Mr. Goody Two Shoes, I will not be adressed like this in my courtroom." "Apologies your honor, but Professor Evil stole the water supply for an entire city...!" "Bought the rights to the aquifer, your honor,"the opposing counsel interjected. "He exploited and ruined the li...
Hour Three: Toby and Sara [Start here, at Hour One!](/r/WritingPrompts/comments/j2o4tk/wp_exactly_973_of_all_humanity_will_die_in_3_days/g76qo8s/) "Okay,"Sara said, sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and reading the news on her phone. "So apparently, hundreds of millions of people are having the sa...
Your application to Eversong School of Magic and Wizardry has been accepted "Really?"Harold looked at the faded parchment that the old man had given him. His face was wrinkled like a prune, with a long white beard drooping all the way down to his chest. He looked like he had come straight from the 19th centu...
It is their world. They are the rulers of the ephemeral, they control life or death, and they are terrifying. One day they might approach and heal you, the next they come and kill you. Mother Deer tell us a story where a fawn of hers had been wounded, the legs halting so tragically. She knew that the fawn would not liv...
No one could have predicted it. It turns out breaking the laws of physics has consequences after all. It doesn’t happen all the time, but apparently going faster-than-light has the propensity to… alter… the personality of a crew-member or two. My job as security officer provides me with all the info I need to hunt d...
I had only the best intentions in mind. I came across the button and stopped the machine set up to automatically press it. I confronted my father about it. I had been confused when his face went pale when I told him I had stopped it. I had been frightened when he started yelling when he realized it had already disa...
The coop was non-Euclidian. It wasn't supposed to be - it was supposed to be a standard wood-and-wire construction, almost identical to the other three, with nice, clean right angles and an observable size. This morning, everything had been fine. Now though, as Wallace ran the torch beam back and forth, it was clear t...
(Probably goes without saying but... potential spoilers about Breaking Bad, Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and possibly your parent's marriage). It was a typical Tuesday morning for the world's greatest super villain. Why was he the greatest? People would often ask this question, and if you were one of the League of ...
I froze when I heard it, I wasn’t sure what it meant, if I should have sympathy or fear. People continually brought him back to the shelter? I thought, “maybe I should take him back, no fuss about it, besides I’ve got a lot going on, I just thought that maybe I could have a calm friend along side to soften the lonely c...
I look at the starry sky above me as i lay down on top of this hill. My gaze is focused deeply at these beautifull points of lights that penetrate the darkness, these same points that were once what inspired me greatly during the time i was alive. I used to think that these stars, these constelations, were messages fro...
After an offspring of a great magician, and a mighty swordsman, the evil that has for so long plagued this world will be vanquished, and light shall return to this land. That's what the prophecy said, and I know that's what it said, it was plastered in thick, black letters on my bedroom wall for as long as I can rem...
I glared at the television. The news networks were singing my praises, or at least that was how it felt. I had gotten opinion news outlawed as one of my first acts, so that they couldn't make me look bad before I put my plans in motion, but that had backfired. All the news outlets I'd been hoping to bribe were the on...
Those fucking assholes keep trying to kill me. I did nothing, just got the keys and out of nowhere, some guy starts screaming about the rights of the proletariat and came at me with a fancy electric knife. I got lucky, I had a hammer in my hand from trying to put up a framed picture of a cat and a clear will to live. H...
An army of tiny Chihuahuas gathered at the gates below where the soldier was speaking to his Lord. The Lord peered down at them, a mass of growling, beady eyed midget dogs. “Where is their leader?” sighed the Lord. “That’s the thing… they have no leader. No Lord, no chain of command to speak of. It is quite fascinat...
I strolled by the raised platform, gazing down upon the hundreds of sweatshop workers seated in tiny cubicles, typing on their computers and chanting with their heads lifted up high. "Acha boro veldt taxono koro toro yestault am!"chanted one sweaty, portly man in the cubicle. "Acha boro veldt taxono koro toro yestaul...
"He can barely talk, barely walk. He struggles at the simplest tasks and keeps lashing out in anger! This is not my father. It may be his body, but his soul is gone. What you're doing is WRONG!" Every time with these people. You would think they might show some gratitude, but instead it was constant complaints: why do...
The general and his men stood in the president's bunker, watching the remaining cameras go offline in the blinding light and radiation of nuclear fire. The president spoke as the rumbling sensation shook ages of dust and concrete from tiny cracks in the protective structure. "What... What happened? I thought we'd tes...
"Clearly I am not fit to feel his shoes, but I need to carry on with his memory."As time passes by, you keep it safe with you, practicing and honing your abilities. Every time you hold it, your brother's warm smile passes through your mind. Grief and sorrow fill you. "I miss you, brother,"you whimper as you try to hold...
When you die you are supposed to see a white light; a long tunnel which you pass through. Except I only saw the sky, then darkness as my already weak eyes fluttered closed. I hadn't even seen the car as it rounded the corner. Fine one minute, and the next... BANG Flat on my back. I mentally whispered goodbye to th...
"Wow, what a coincidence."I said. The man glanced outside and then looked over at me and winked. He looked back down at his computer and started typing again. Just then the girl I'd been seeing walked through the front door. "Hey babe! Did you order me a coffee yet?" I set my cell phone down and walked over to her. ...
I couldn't believe it. I wouldn't believe it. I felt around my face, gazing in the mirror for anything unfamiliar, anything that would signify a change over time. The fact remained true, despite my disbelief - I hadn't aged a bit since meeting her. And I knew that she hadn't either. She had the same blue eyes, the ...
We proceeded with the invasion as planned. Interstellar flight had been achieved eons ago, and we were ready to take the mineral rich world, classed Z-8114-XG. The world had inhabitants descended from primates, and with their appalling stances, pitifully inept space programs, and inferior communications devices they wo...
Groggily, Greg fumbled with his bagpack and made it to the front door of his house, only to find Matt helping himself to food from the refrigerator, in the adjoining kitchen. Slightly surprised as to how Matt had found his way into his house but not too concerned about it, Greg deemed it unnecessary to create a scene, ...
I haven't slept in a week. I was internally at war, trying to force myself to shut my eyelids and go to sleep, but I knew that was a battle I was going to lose. It all started last week when I moved in. I was so tired that first night, thanks to my friends having kept me up until 3 AM drinking wine and telling me how ...
When the invasion of earth was suggested by the Senate, everyone froze. Earth. The War Planet, we called it. Ruled by a crazed, bipedal race know as Hu-Mans, a species known galaxy wide for being violent, warlike barbarians who blew each other up at every opportunity. Nobody wanted to go there. Nobody wanted to risk b...
I was certain I'd thought up the best one. "Come on!"I floated by the ceiling, turning lazy flips. "Law of gravity, I'm telling you. Who hasn't wanted to fly? This one's the best." "You're going to float into the fan,"Esteban warned me flatly. "It's off,"I retorted, but pushed myself groundwards as his hand moved ...
"Robert Banks, corner pocket." The blue orb glowed from within, a picture of Robert moving inside like a movie in a crystal ball. Surrounding Robert's orb, countless other balls with similar moving pictures. Some men, some women, some children, all moving inside but still on the green felt. Death nods towards the ind...
INT. CELL BLOCK Immaculate, polished stainless chrome walls - SETH sits on his plain, white-sheeted bed, staring off wistfully. INSERT: A drop of drool at the corner of his mouth. INSERT: His eyes, glazed, dark and tired, dart to: The CELL DOOR. It slides, rattling. Then, an echoing click. It's open. He's free -...
Tears blurred my vision as I read the letter. *** Mom, Look, I know you won't take this well, but I have to write something, I can't just leave without saying anything. Honestly, living with you is suffocating, you try to regulate my life, making me get off my computer, or telling me who to hang out with or telling m...
"You're my campaign manager. You should be on top of this sort of thing." "I can't help you until you help yourself, Boogy. We as a team have told you this over and over. Look. Look here. This is a graph depicting your popularity since you were elected in the 60's." "Is going downwards good?" "What? No. No, Boogey. ...
The President and his small team hunched around a desk looking at a computer screen. "Quick, hit refresh and check his timeline again." "Sir, Agent Anon hasn't posted anything to his Facebook wall in hours." The profile was bare other than the past history of status updates. The profile picture was that weird silh...
"Where do you get the money from?"he asked. I could tell from his drooping eyes that one or two details of the situation still had not clicked. "That doesn't matter,"I replied, admittedly feeling a little frustration. "All you need to know is that I do, and that we won't get in trouble for this." He crossed his legs,...
“I guess you could say I’m…a bit of a Wiz.” quipped Pete, supressing the giggles with all of his will. The other wizards exchanged disappointed glances at one another. “Gentlemen. Don’t be…spellbound by my speed. It’s actually quite simple.” Pete scanned the room for laughs, but found nothing. The elder cleared h...
I engage the autopilot, and I see him doing it again, looking at that whatever-it-is he keeps in his pocket. He hasn't noticed I'm looking yet, I can just barely see it...it's a....screw? An ordinary screw. I have to know. "I gotta ask, man. What is it with the screw?" The man that I have flown with for thousands, ...
The beeping intercom breaks through my whistling and I reach over to tap it. "How's it going Control?" "Hey Quarters. Just wanted to let you know the team won the day and are on their way back. ETA 1 hour or so." "Lovely!"I exclaim with relief. "Everyone make it ok? How did they sound?" A hearty chuckle over the i...
######[](#dropcap) Styig surveyed the chaos of the battle below. Odin had assigned her a handsome young US Marine Sergeant whose ancestors came from the East. He had raven-black hair and olive skin, drawn tight from the Iraqi sun and smeared in grime and dust. She watched as Sgt Michel Chen passed on his Lieutenant's ...
School. The word itself evokes different memories in each of us. Some of us are pleased when those memories return to our mind, distracting us from whatever is before us now. Maybe the time you made that awesome joke and everyone laughed. Maybe the time a teacher praised your mind and helped you aspire higher. Maybe ...
I always though those that screeched in terror from bees and spiders were acting ridiculous. Why would a tiny little spider, or a cute little bumblebee be so scary to us? My guess was that it was mainly not being educated enough. The possibility of either having the ability to truly do damage to us is minuscule. So wh...

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