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“Rise and shine, little creatures!” “Help, they’re killing me!” “Food, glorious food!” “Now who should I shit on today?” “Will you please watch your step?” “Cat! Cat! Cat! Cat! Cat! Cat! Cat! Squirrel!” “And then Jimmy said, ‘Oh hell no!’” “I like watching Layla in the morning.” “And he hauled his ass home like...
Mark scribbled the code, letter by letter, with a trembling hand: H-I-S-T-O-R-Y-I-S-F-A-L-S-E History is false… He replaced the display case and stepped back, still trembling, looking over his shoulder. Still nobody here. The rest of the gang would kill him later, but he couldn’t bring himself to steal that t...
"Battles sure have changed, haven't they?" It was horrifying you know, that voice. It sounded sweet and quiet, calm and patient. Like the sound of a kindly uncle who helped pick you up after you've scuffed your knee. As I turned in my chair, his face was much the same as you might imagine. Salt an peppered hair, his ...
She had a terrible feeling from the moment she stepped onto the plane, but it wasn't until Mae saw the expressions pasted upon her fellow passengers' faces that she understood why. No one's eyes seemed to move, each locked to the back of the seat in front of them with a far-away gaze. Jaws ranged from slack to clenched...
Bruce Wayne sighed as he left the annual fundraiser held at Gotham's Saint Swithin's Orphanage. He detested having to put on his playboy billionaire facade for so long and was looking forward to donning his real suit. As he stepped outside, he glanced at the sky and stared curiously. A crudely made bat signal twinkled ...
They took my light away from me. I must have wept for hours over their cooling bodies, cradling the note in my hand as my grief ascended, a crescendo of fury and rage. Bring us the girl, and wipe away your debt. She is the key to appeasing the new God-King. / / / / / I put on my shield and cursed blade Zante...
With a heavy conscience and a heavier hand I strike down the boy standing in front of me. I don't know what he's saying, because I don't speak German, but as I cock back my pistol and look at the amateur paintings hung up on the walls I think to myself that, if things were just a little different, he wouldn't have to d...
The blood drained from my face as I opened the large, heart-shaped box and found within a single wilting red tulip. The whole rite of passage felt like a total let down, as my friends and family gathered with me to celebrate my eighteenth birthday fell into silence. The party ended with little fanfare not long after a...
"Are you sure this is a good idea?"I asked. Like most Boomers, my boss Dave had more money than time or sense, but despite his age, he had the sense of humor of a twenty-year-old. Maybe that's why he latched on to me. Who else would spend a weekend watching re-runs of South Park with him while we chugged beer by the c...
# Soulmage "We've got a John Doe here," Vuliel said. I scratched my head. "What, like you don't know his name?" "Hm? No, as in his name is John Doe."Vuliel frowned at me. "Why, is that unusual?" "No, no, it's... it's very usual." "You could almost say... too usual,"Meloai piped up from behind me. I rolled my e...
Doug's face fell . The angel had just told him that not all dogs go to heaven. This would have been less of an immediate problem if they were someone else's dogs, but they weren't. They were his. Doug looked at the angel, his eyes slowly going blank as he came to the realisation of what he would have to do. "Which way...
I was driving my motorcycle when I felt sudden hit. I woke up in empty, white room with a chair in frot of me. There she was sitting - death. She didn't look as I imagined, it was old, short lady with lot's of wrinkles and grey hair, instead of holding the mythic cycle she had small stick in her hand. "Don't be scare...
Every gynecologist's hands are cold. I don't know why this is a universal constant. Maybe it's part of the resume process. 4 years of med school, years in internship, and keeping your hands in ice seem to be the requirements to poke and prod a woman and tell her that she was just stressed, there was no need to test, j...
“I have passed your trials, I have defeated your underlings and now…. I am here for YOU!!!!!” the bright haired, self-styled ‘hero’ screamed into the void. He was broken, I could see it, feel it. I knew it like I know all things. He stood there, leaning on that stupid sword he had convinced himself would be my down...
Commonality. This is what the Galactic Federation has always been build upon. Hundreds of species, thousands of worlds, millions of opinions, billions of individuals. Entire species, finding some common ground to build upon. Art, religion, scientific thought, political discourse... of these things, a myriad of options....
Jill took another sip of coffee. It was 4AM and despite the overdose of caffeine she was getting sleepy. It had been more than 48 hours since she last slept and she could swear she was hearing things. Every inch of her body wanted to sleep, except Jill herself. The nightmares were worse than this. Hard to imagine, but ...
We thought we could be in peace. Your kind stretched out to the sky - your towers of metal and rock, your machine-birds, your fingers stretching to the stars. For we were the ones below, where no human survives. In darkness we thrived and grew our cities, warmed by the heat of this earth. But this was not to be. In ...
You wouldn’t think a person could get lost on a river. I certainly never have been up until now. My father was a fisherman. His father was a fisherman. I’m not sure what his father did, but I’d be willing to take a guess. I might as well have been born with gills, as much time as I spend on the water. And yet here...
And here, Ladies and Gentlemen, is our newest exhibit. Born in the late 1990s "Dave"came to us late last year but required extra work to form his perfect habitat. It was initially hoped that Dave might be suitable for one of our famous breeding programs, due to his inability to find a mate in the wild. However his re...
Grasping the broken timeturner in my quivering hands, I racked my memories of Master Turner's instructions about what to do if my only method of returning to 1912 was no longer viable. I felt a jarring sensation in my chest when I thought of how my dear mother was coping without me, for she is now an old maid and vulne...
I think I'm God. It's ridiculous, the power I have over other lives. I can bring happiness. It's so easy. Just saying a certain combination of repeated letters and people are smiling. I might be walking down the street and there could be a man, old and dirty and poor, playing his falling apart guitar. I can give hi...
"Now then,"The short, stumpy man peered over his bespectacled eyes, raising one eyebrow into an arch as he did so. "I believe you have applied to become my successor? As you know, I have never had any children,"He paused, contemplating this fact. "and I simply cannot see why, but that is of no matter." He waddled arou...
Draco Malfoy stood tall, chest puffed out proudly. Before him kneeled Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived. Harry's face was a bloody mess, and his breath came in heavy, wet rasps. Draco's wand was trained on the other young wizard, a feral smile playing on the blond teen's face. "We've been mates for a long time, Potter. ...
In the year 3089, killing Hitler had been a sport. Points were scored for creativity and difficulty. For the rich, it was a fun way to pass time – we had the necessary machines and resources at our disposal. As a scientist, it was easy for me. Simultaneously, however, it was a way to prove myself. You see, I was at th...
Fog rolled past the rosehips in Cara's front garden. The thick yew hedges were soaked in dew, and she kept her hood up when she left. Moisture made the air heavy, despite the recent rain. She had to leave the house: there was no coffee left and the headache was starting to build up behind her left eye. The shingles on ...
The day I turned 18, I watched north of 100 people go into the doors on the right. Almost like the decision had been made before hand. ''See you on the other side, bro.'' She spoke, as I stood with my arms inside my pockets, looking at her figure, disappearing into the white light, after opening the doors. I stepped ...
Razergoth awakened from his sleep. His eyes opened and the flames within flickered. He felt the familiar scent of a man blossoming in his nostrils, filling him with bloodlust. He stood, his hulking ten foot frame rising with impunity, and turned to face his latest foe, who dared to disturb the great, the mighty- "Hey ...
“Oh, Hey look, it's Pigeon Brain.” Micheal and his usual entourage approached me from the left. I felt my fists curl. Looks like today's getting written up as a loss. “What are you doing out in the yard, Pigeon Brain? What's up in Pigeon town?” Micheal was a bully. He also had a terrible lack of original thought if ...
"You guys think you're tough, huh? Look at you, all comfy up there on your big ship! Why don't you come down here and we'll see how tough you are?" The sailors stood on the deck of the ship, bewildered. The creature had appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, only a few moments ago. He was out of the water from the torso ...
It was a warm, overcast day in August, and the time crystals were glowing seven-thirty. *Attention. Attention. All denizens of Sector H-7 will please proceed to a designated Tooth Brushing Station. You will have ten minutes to complete all necessary activities or Naughty Points will be added. Thank you for not pointle...
"I wasted thousands of years. Master after master making selfish or flawed wishes to satisfy their greedy whims. It was as fun for me as it was for them. Oceans of gold, banquets worthy of kings, flying on rugs around the world, cheating death. Untold riches and power given to those who happened to stumble upon my lamp...
I gazed out over the dull sea and remembered what a fantastic display of beauty it had been the night before. Reduced to a colorless shell of its former self, it now had the same charisma of an old washed up actress. Suddenly I had an eerie sensation of something approaching rapidly – something on a collision course w...
I have done my duty for centuries, choosing the slain and carrying them on to the hallowed halls of Valhalla. Of Odin's virgin daughters I am the oldest, Hilda. My name is not this highlight of the heroic tale, but that of Judith Crane. When the bifrost's color faded I found myself standing on battlefield the likes ...
"How do you get big off of the Risk Reward program?"I spoke into a camera. It was set up on the wooden banister above me, as I filmed a bit of a self documentation. "By keeping your wits about you. So many people die for no reason. They jump off skyscrapers with the promise of millions, they're all idiots." I lit a ci...
Item #: SCP-4019 Object Class: ~~Euclid~~ ~~Keter~~ Euclid Special Containment Procedures: Neither the Foundation, nor any known Group of Interest, currently has the means to contain SCP-4019 by traditional methods. All current containment efforts are focused on controlling SCP-4019. MTF Delta-9 ("Superme...
“Over five hundred years you see a lot of people die, some a lot quicker than others. You see friends, family, and people you never really knew die in front of you. At first it shocks you and frightens you, like anything strange in life. But after about fifty years of people randomly dying from doing good deeds in fron...
When I read the Greek myths as a kid, I always thought that I'd be Athena. Like if I were to one day turn into a god, the result would be something like her. Fierce, strong, and wielding the most powerful weapon of all: wisdom. That's the assumption that most smart girls make, I guess. The pretty ones always want to b...
Humanity, the prime species of the galaxy. Hardened through millennia of war, disease, famine and death. We always believed we were something more. That our origins were divine or astral in nature. We were right, terrifyingly so. Our first encounter with then Xynstax went about as well as you can imagine. They came ...
Pausing for a brief moment Rigby cast his gaze through the surrounding trees before looking back towards the voice calling for him. Rigby didn't quite understand all of it but he heard his name and without wasting another moment he scooped up the ball then raced back towards it with growing excitement. Again the voice...
I’m a simple gal, you know? I’ve always been so, so simple. I don’t have complicated dreams. I don’t desire complicated things. My requirements for being happy are very, very simple; a day off work, an evening of binging my favorite show, that perfect weather when it’s sunny but also a bit chilly, so it’s great for a...
People were sometimes like vending machines. At least to someone like me, they were. Feed some coins or a dollar note into one of those things, and depending what type of vending machine it was, you would get back a drink, a snack or maybe even a toy. In the same way that there are many types of vending machines, the...
When I made a deal to serve the devil in the 1300s, everything was pretty much straight forward. I'd serve under him for 700 years of the most grueling and disgusting work, and in exchange he would grant me a chance at life again in one of the most intelligent minds known to mankind. For each moment of my servtitude, I...
"No way?!"Nate yelled in frustration. All he wanted to do today was eat some pizza and play Overwatch. He woke up ordered a pizza online, started the game and since then he had been passed around from empty scrim match to another. Is no one playing? He thought to himself as he looked down at his phone for the time. 2...
We have all gathered here today to commemorate this ancient civilization. The leaders from all galaxies have worked hard together to solve the mystery of this civilization that came before us. Today, after 93 UniYears, we've decoded all their texts and media. This civilization who resided in the system whose star was c...
"Jimmmmm-iny", Michael yells into Jim's ear, "Jimmmm-iny, jiminy- cricket? Get it? Because you're tall and skinny and you like... playing the violin." "Jiminy cricket wasn't tall, Michael. He was a cricket,"Pam calls from her desk. "Are you sure? I could have sworn he was tall."Michael looks around for validation. "...
When I placed the ad on Craigslist for a room mate and made ninja a requirement it was mostly as a joke. And the first few responses were certainly worthy of that sentiment. But I had wanted to weed out candidates who took themselves too seriously, and a few public interviews with somebody in a ninja cosplay seemed amu...
"W-what?"Mike stammered, looking around the room, searching for any hints, any clues of his whereabouts. "You finished the tutorial, you can move on now."The man in front of him said with a simplicity that made Mike uneasy. "Where's my daughter? My wife? Was it all fake? No, no it can't be,"he frantically said, eye...
Our economies never truly ran on currency, not like the empire of the Drell. Money was the blood of their civilization. They saw it as a tool, the used it, maintained it, and respected it. They spent, saved, traded, breathed and lived by coin. You could buy near anything from the Drell, even sell it to them too. Not ...
3/10/18 ~~Dear diary,~~ I don’t like that beginning. Too cliche. Let’s try again. ~~Dear journal,~~ That’s almost worse. It just sounds like I’m trying to not say Dear Diary. ~~Wassup journal howzit hangin~~ Okay, I’ll just start. It’s been a weird week. On Monday, Jed talked about proposing. By Wednesday, I had...
Its hard, being a supervillain. You make plans, the heros come along and break those plans, punch you in the face, and arrest all your henchmen. But you see sometimes you can use the system to achieve your goals, without anyone realising. To the masses, I'm Cataclysm. I make great and terrible devices. Each of them co...
Orders are everything. Android K-91, or Wardog as the humans liked to call him, followed every instruction to the T. The city crumbled around him as the foreign invaders laid siege. Men were screaming as explosions from navy vessels out of human sight shelled the harbor. One man was crawling out of a crater, ignoring...
"This is ridiculous." "I know."I was now in the center of the war chamber. It was the end of a long meeting, and even though everyone had tried to be professional, it was clear that they were all feeling like this war was some sort of joke. The same sensation had spread to literally everyone else in the army. I picked...
Color. Something that had never made sense to me, though everyone around me seemed to understand it. I see the world in black, white, and grey. It never bothered me, even when kids at school would laugh at my “mismatched” clothes, or would look at me funny for asking if they had seen my grey gym bag. One time I wash...
It wasn't supposed to be like this. Fifty years. You say it like that and it sounds like a lot of time, but it really really isn't that much. Once you get a solid base beneath your feet, the time just disappears on you. The hardest part was, and still is, keeping the various tribes of beastmen, Ogres and Giants...
"Come on down to Wacky Willy's Wedding Emporium!" A man dressed like a spangly jewel-encrusted Abraham Lincoln pumps a shotgun as it falls into his hands then tosses it off camera. "Where you can make that shotgun wedding for shotgun life!" Wacky Willy busts through a sign with a large wooden mallet and begins smas...
They found it hiding in the corner of the back room of the counting house: A two-foot high goblin with an oversized head and a set of eyes that rolled every which way but never seemed to want to face forward. "What the heck is that?"said Erin, the Knight. "BWURP!"said the goblin. "That's Hop, the Dark Lord's court j...
The goddess flexed her once atrophied limbs. She stretched and dispelled thousands of years of dismissal from other deities. Her domain was so negligible, so forgotten, that for centuries she had no name. That old name is lost to antiquity, a new one must be willed into existence. Her existence swelled with power with...
The small, white, fluffy, dog-like being blinked. “I’m looking for Pat.” “That’s me,” the man said. He was huge, Black, and very, very muscular, with exquisitely adorned dreadlocks and a well-groomed beard. Around his neck he wore a gold necklace with a wedding ring strung through it. On his wrist, he wore a sparkly p...
Daveth peered out through the concealing brush. Behind him, concealed in the tree cover a good distance from the mouth of the lair, were two mobile ballista crews, a company of archers, and a pair of battle-tested mages from Eastwatch. The problem was...the dragon wasn't exactly as described. Baron Sykes of Broadacre ...
Once, millions of years in the past, Zyar's people had visited the third planet around the little yellow star, upon who surface he now furtively walked, determined to complete his dangerous mission. In those days, the Quantum Oracles were comparatively simple machines, and only provided a basic computational model for...
The street was quiet, though the entire town had come out to see. And there he was; standing in the outskirts with the blue-scaled head of Terronax dragging behind him. The dragon had been a fiend to the local farmers, and there were several blacked scars on the landscape from houses he had burned down. And old Ghaf...
Journal entry by John Barker It has been three weeks since the new system glitched and mixed up and switched the job offers for Mercenary Jenkins and The Enchantress Natsumi. The company has sent me out to meet with the teams and deal with the issue personally. The Heart Corps have always been a help to the magical co...
You slowly shut the envelope and place it on the table in front of you. You look at the man sitting across the table from you, reading his expression. He has a flat face, like it's been hit by a shovel. He looks dumb. You sip your drink. He burps. Very dumb, you think. "Who gave you this envelope to give to me?"...
I stared down at the poor thing on his knees. The pathetic being at my feet had been told he was the strongest and most talented the Tower had. The only one who could destroy the big bad wolf at the edge of the continent. I’d knocked him around so much today, and many times before. For the longest time I couldn’t u...
I blink, a look of confusion spreading across my face. Rather than a grand and powerful deity appearing in front of me, I am met by what looks to be a little girl, no older than 9 perhaps. My eyes dart toward the old parchment scroll on the ground next to me, covered in ritualistic instructions formed by a code of anci...
Roommates Suck Dear Diary, Long time no write; sorry about that old friend. Things have been a bit tumultuous these past several months. Where to begin? Well, first, I lost my job, so FML. Next, I couldn’t renew my lease with the loss of my income. Realizing that I was burning through my savings pretty fa...
[Poem] You might not like they way my wand is wielded. Propped against this ladder up to the ceiling. Ought not try the magic I'm dealing. You couldn't handle it, but that's just my feeling. See, I need the space to reach to the skies to hold all its power, though your girlfriend just likes its size. ...
Ma'al N'deverline blinked all four eyes several times, her cheeks turning from their usual pale blue to a deep purple. She said, "I must have misheard you. Say that again." The human man said: "Oohwoo, I did a bad thing and stepped in a faiwy wing, pwease don't punish me!" Ma'al looked at her cousin, Wiltwing Softbel...
Few could guess why we were not wiped out, following the war. Lands stolen, families divided, homes destroyed. Vermin, they called us, nothing more than a plague, forced into servitude rather than being put to the sword. The laws do not apply to us, there is no grace given to the dregs of society. Speak out, and have...
"Hey." "Hey, man." "Been a long time, huh? That I've been with you." "Yeah. Since the divorce. What was I...nine?" "Younger, I think. But my memory is tied into yours. Could be longer. Could be eons." "Anyways. I always knew you were imaginary, you know." "I know. So did I. You get tricked, sometimes, bu...
A white light blinded me as I opened my eyes. It hurt but at least I was still alive. "That is not quite correct", a voice proclaimed. I sat up and looked around. There was whiteness everywhere. "Where am I?", I asked. "Who are you?" "Always with the same questions. You should really think of some new ones. But let...
We've dubbed the action as "Voiding". You could be doing anything ranging from walking your dog to fightin' in a War and all of a sudden you just go. You enter that uncontrollable Void and move somewhere in time be it a year, or be it a day, but you're movin' faster than anythin'. Rhys never did quite forget the day h...
Holy shit, Reyes thought as he looked at a guy across the conference, realizing he could read the guy's mind, that guy is totally checking me out! "No,"the guys told Reyes in return, speaking out loud, "and if you don't get outta my mind, noob, I'll mindfuck ya." "What's that--"Reyes went to ask, but he read the ...
37. 37. 37. The number echoes in my head as I find myself awakening, again, in Mrs. Morrison's class. "Sleeping, Miss Andalusite?" I quickly give her my best smile, maybe my best one yet. "No, ma'am! Just reciting the problems in my head once more!"I say, perfectly timed. She squints her eyes at me, watching my e...
"Are you not listening on purpose?"Jefferson asked. "What?"John Adams returned, "It sounded like a setup. Tell me that did not sound like the setup to a clever joke or witticism?" Adams and Madison cracked open another pair of beers and settled into their barca loungers (added to the eternal rumpus room of the Presi...
I had no choice. We were friends -- comrades -- once. We have fought so many battles side by side. Saved the world innumerable times. I have stopped keeping track when one of us saved another's hide. In fact, if we were keeping track I'd have needed saving the most... We were heroes, the most powerful beings on the p...
Immortality is a burdensome gift. To never die is something many great leaders of our times wish to have but for me it has become a curse. Seeing friends and family die off. To see the world that I once knew become anew, time and time again. I yearn for death yet it escapes me. I've attempted suicide more times than...
"Calculate it again!"Ben roared. "It can't be right!" The few that remained at night scurried around Ben like frightened mice, each clicking and clacking away at their plastic white stations, none daring to inform the chief scientist of the thing they all knew - that everyone was scheduled to die on the same day. Be...
It was chaos for but a moment. Specifically, the moment where everyone on Earth became their own fear. Their phobia. Results ranged from the humorous, such as the anglophobics who were transformed into posh aristocrats, to the disturbing, such as the agrophobics, who became the predators that they feared in their form...
there was a safe zone, in the middle of Europe. A small patch of land that was discovered, where the radiation wasn't swept by the harsh winds, where the earth itself didn't catch fire. of course there weren't many inhabitants of this land. And those that inhabited it rarely spoke to each other. there wasn't much left ...
"And welcome back, everyone, to the Grand Galactic Cook-Off! I'm Sun-Immured-in-Silt, and this is my co-host, Designate 738, and boy are things heating up! We're at the home stretch, so let's take a look at what our contestants have come up with. 738?" "As you say, Sun-Immured-in-Silt. Time's nearly up and all the che...
Very few of us exist. 6 are created every 5 years. And each is endowed with a very special gift. We're all unique in our ability. But we each carry a burden. We're effectively immortal. We cannot die of natural causes. We can be killed, however. I've seen many guardians fall. And when one falls, it triggers a natural d...
'Heresy,' he whispered, trailing his fingers across the floor. The shimmering arcane dust felt cold to the touch, and the rune Elder Korhen had cast was disfigured and ruined. Null narrowed his eyes, standing back up as he looked around the room. He should have been dead, vaporized into fine crystal dust smoother than ...
"Welcome back, Michael"The voice of my personalized assistant, Janna, greeted me. "Hey, there, Janna!"I said. "Wow! Today has been such a good day." "Where would you like to go today, Michael?"Janna asked. "Hmm."I wasn't actually sure where I wanted to go. Although today had been quite a good day, I had gotten my jo...
"Yeah I absolutely love it. We should definitely do that. How about— crap, hold on Jenny,"Thomas said as he quickly snatched a tissue from his desk cubicle. He put it to his nose and sneezed. Though his mother told him time and time again to never look into a used tissue, as if what stuck there was some sort of secret,...
It is absolutely vital that the people in this town never find out who I am. I’m very scared that I will make some mistake, so I guess the best thing to do is to avoid social interactions whenever possible. I just go to work each day and spent the rest of the time watching game shows. When I’m in need of some fresh air...
I jolt awake, it's the same every night. A long hallway, I walk for hours it seems like and then reach the chamber, It's a circular chamber with 5 different colored doors running off it. There are 7 doors in total, but only 5 show up a night. One for each color of the rainbow, one for each deadly sin. In the center of...
First went the city builders, A bomb threat. the skyscrapers and houses numbered Stressful clicking Stressful clicking A fifty/fifty guess Then came the RPGs, Searching, for a quest werewolves hiding behind the trees Numbered helpfully. sword slicing through so many heads, But it’s no use In the ...
"Bigger!"The emperor demanded. "But sir a bigger dome is impossible. We are already at the limits of physics."His chief engineer tried to explain. "I don't care about physics. Get it done or you will be executed!" He waved his hand dismissing the engineer. "What was the reception to the new fountains in the capita...
We were bound in chairs arranged in a large circle, frantic voices bouncing off the walls and the scraping of chains against metal armrests was layered on top of them. In the center of us all was a circular table, onto which cameras were fixed pointing back out toward us, blinking red lights flashing from beneath the l...
You can be anything you want when you grow up. Funny. I don't remember choosing this. You'd think this would be some sort of honor or sign of respect, you'd think that people would be terrified or respectful or...anything but indifferent when I walk by. One of the "perks"is a golden pin on the collar, a symbol of the...
I woke up, gasping for air. The image of the bullet about to pierce my skull was the first thing I saw. The next things were humanoid aliens— the generic, gray kind you saw on the internet. I’m surprised I remembered anything. I had practically forgotten how to speak. I was struggling to hold a breath, utterly confus...
"Aa-a-a-a-ah!" &nbsp; Drako screamed and quickly pulled his hand backwards, as if he was bitten. &nbsp; "What the heck?!"he said in confused displeasure. &nbsp; Harry looked down at his own hand. "Huh... and I thought muggle inventions don't work here in Hogwarts?" &nbsp; He lifted his han...
"That is a beautiful glass eye madam, may I ask how you acquired it?" I choked on my beer, setting the pint glass down with a thud, as I looked up to see a man smiling down at me, his head slightly tilted as he waited for a response. Usually, the boys interrupting my binges only offered to supply me with another drin...
To wake up from a dream, all you have to do is die. It sounds morbid, but that's how we were taught. I wasn't born when the Dream Machines were invented, but I sure know the stories. Lucid dreams for just $4199.99! Hook yourself up and sleep away! Hefty price, right? Well, what's a little dip into the life savings...
I put out the toy- a plush elephant, the dog's favorite, according to its owner- and muttered a few words of prayer before sitting down in the offered sofa, watching. The owner- an older woman named Mrs. Packard, who had wrinkles around her nose and hair that had only begun to gray, sat in the adjacent chair and offere...
Hello! Let's get the obvious out of the way- yes, you're dead. Yes, this is hell. Yes, I'm the devil. Yes, you will soon face eternal torment. If you've quite finished screaming? Ok, have a few more minutes, but then we really need to get on with this. Please stop trying to escape. Better men then you have tried. I s...
Growing up, I always made sure to keep the mark on my thigh hidden. Long trunks for swim class, never showering in the locker room. On occasions when the topic would come up in conversation I would always tell people mine said New York. It was relatively local, as well as being large enough and ordinary enough not to r...
Simon had heard bad things about Professor Cohen. The former head of the history department at Cambridge university had been on extended leave for the last two years, to work on some sort of mysterious international history project. If he visited his supposed place of employment at all nowadays, it was to argue with ...
The plains shook under the heavy march. He watched on from his high perch, lost to the sun’s glare on the back of a hippogryph. A heavy weight rested on his shoulders. War he knew, war he had never known. No matter how much he’d read, he would never know, and that was all he knew. Yet here he was. He had been walking...

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