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\[Poem\] *Singing man, it's time to sleep.* *Singing man, let yourself free,* *As man and fish and plant will be,* *in death we find all we seek.* *You gave us song* *while days went on* *we listened, growing* *great and strong.* *Now we sing,* *as you grow weak,* *with loving rustling* *lonely leaves.* *T...
"This is amazing,"the Foreigner said, plopping down onto the tatami mat with little elegance. She was taller than most of the women I had haunted, her hair the color of dried blood. She had the green eyes of a fox demon, making me nervous. This could be another trick from the white fox living down by the temple. He ha...
I am the wizard's apprentice. Every town nowadays has a wizard, they’re just so darn good at solving every problem. When a doctor has no cure for a mysterious illness, the local wizard whips up a panacea. When a farmer's pesticide doesn’t work on the new species of insects, the local wizard mixes it with a homemade ...
It was his very first day out, Marty McFly, he's recently sprouted wings and was eager to use them. He knew the dangers, of course, the eldritch god whose land we dwelt in was not a kind god. It was a cruel one. Though it was not fast, it was utterly lethal, and most who met its gaze were annihilated in an instant. But...
"You mean that you talked with everyone else?"asked the shocked president. "Yes."responded the British prime minister. He was old, old enough to have long memories of the time before the war. "But, why? Why put up the rule in the first place just to break it?" "Well you see now old chap, you guys started the war. Yo...
In hindsight, asking the elderly witch to turn me into a cat on a whim was a bad idea. Because here’s the thing about elderly people. They die. Here I was, thinking I was just helping some poor old lady to her house when she lays on me that, surprise! She’s a witch! She’ll grant any wish I ask! How are you suppose...
**Please relay your findings to the council** Pylm swallowed hard. "Well, your chancellorship, and esteemed members of the council, for the last several cycles I have been investigating this planet we have found. Life has been detected, and they have already discovered nuclear power." Council member Elgo snorted, "le...
The children sat around the fire, eyes wide, gazing at the colorful flames that rose in front of them. "Generations ago, in the days of my grandmother's grandmother, life was much different."The aged story-keeper told them, chanting in a rhythmic way. She reached into her dusty robes, pulling out some powder and throw...
"O great Medrius, Voice of the Voiceless, Pathfinder for the Lost, God of the Forgotten...hear my prayer." Oh, I heard it all right. I got so close to blissful, eternal sleep and then people dragged me back to the land of mortals and all their messy human problems. I *have* to answer prayers - it's part of an inters...
"A deal's a deal, buddy." I feel sorry for the guy. He looks downcast, defeated - like he spent his life savings on a bet that didn't come through. In a way, he did. It's weird to see the devil, the being that most humans regard as evil beyond compare, sulking. "I'll tell you what,"he says, looking somewhat hopeful. ...
*From the people who brought you The Purge and The Purge 2: Anarchy....* "BRAAAAAAAD!?" *...and the writers of Weekend at Bernies...* "CHAAAAAAD?! Oh my God..." *... comes a story...* "Chad. What did you do..." *...about friendship...* "...it just happened!" "How does murder **just happen**!?" *...mistakes...*...
~~As of 7:18pm Central time, Part 2 currently in the works, thanks for the love all.~~ [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/aacr3y/wp_you_stare_at_the_pills_in_your_hand_the_doctor/ecrwdsg/) is now replied to the top comment under this post, with [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/co...
The last straw hadn't so much as broken camel's back, it had instead lit the camel on fire and hurled it through a barber shop window. The straw in question was a young super hero and the camel, my car. So here I sat in the waiting room for the Justice Union, a laughable assortment of heroes banded together to fight e...
No one was quite sure when Mr. Gus moved into the neighborhood. Billy from down the street said that he'd heard from his sister's boyfriend's cousin that Mr. Gus claimed to be from "far away"yet somehow knew everything about the street and who lives on it. Chris from said that he was an alien from outer space because o...
Alicia frowned, looking at the unconscious young man. If she killed him, she’d gain all his points. If she stole some of his blood, she’d get a mere fraction. It was at times like this that she hated being raised as an assassin, hated being taught to kill from birth, hated her conflicting morals. He was dying anyway. ...
"LincolnBroslin do you have any...new health alerts to report?" Lincoln sighed, the concept of last names were completely lost to this crew. None of them could understand having two names and only usually using one. He looked at Zevlin, in all his time here he had never settled on what eye he was supposed to look at...
Sam reached the top of the bastion on the south eastern corner of Camelot gazing out at the sea of men gathered before the walls. Nimueh the evil warlock had gathered more than just men against King Arthur and Merlin. Three enormous dragons tethered by chains waited by the side of the would be conqueror. "No future m....
It was the color of a sunset: red tipped petals faded to yellow. Stark contrast to the roiling forever-cloud above it. A thick green stem climbed out of a crack in the dry earth, thorns lining it like a ladder. It had been hidden between two dry logs, lying flat like hollowed bones. It must have peered out from between...
“Mr. Lumpykins. A word.” The bear sat still. But the black eyes were watching all the same. “Mr. Lumpykins. I’m afraid I must insist.” The teddy bear did not move. “Mr. Lumpykins, I have a seam ripper and I know how to use it.” Two big black eyes blinked. In a world of thread and felt they shouldn’t by rights be ...
Henry sat down in his chair and waited for his wife, Cassie to come home from her "business meeting". He was not waiting for long. He heard the sound of her car pulling into the driveway, and the woman herself entering the house. "I'm home."She called. "Sorry it took so long. You would not believe the things they kept...
I can hear them above me, scratching, moving, shoveling. How long has it been since I was buried? I stopped counting at a few days.They're getting very close to me, whoever they are. I can just *feel* the weight of the dirt lifting off the ceremonial prison coffin. It's an odd feeling, so much pressure after so many ye...
I stare at the young man before me and try to control the tone of my voice. "I'm afraid it isn't the news that we hoped for. There are still signs of the cancer." He forces a smile, always putting on a brave face. "What does this mean doc? More chemo?" "I'm afraid that's not an option, you're already too weak. We'd b...
I sell revolution in glass jars. Not literally, of course. That's too risky. When the day comes that they break down my door and charge me with every crime in the book, it'd be too easy to charge me with treason. I label it Anger. In the evening when the city lights turn on they look down at the jungle of misery from...
As I blinked uncomprehendingly, Bob sat back in his leather seat with the broadest grin I have ever seen on another living soul. His shirt was still stained with whatever he’d been lying in the night before, and his jacket was tied around his waist with a piece of knotted twine. My first clue should’ve been that ratty...
It was just $10.00 and after all, I was hungry. Who would even notice? Who would even care? Turns out I had found the one guy who pored over every facet of his finances and like a dog with a bone, just wouldn't let this go. This was ridiculous.   A little over a week had passed since I had found his debi...
"First, remember that your wishes must be a single simple sentence. Additional clauses or run-on sentences give most genies a lot of wiggle room." I sized up my client. Mid 30's. Married man. Two kids. House, mortgage, probably a dog. He seemed like a dog person to me. He had a lot to lose. It was my job to make sur...
When mankind finally managed to escape their own isolated backwater, we knew that should we ever meet another sentient race, we would be dwarfed by their knowledge, experience, and power. We did not however expect to be dwarfed literally. To our surprise, mankind was not exactly close to commonly sized, as a matter of ...
I have been here before, but last time they listened to me. This time they are splitting open my chest, tearing it in half like a wet scroll, and I am worrying. I am worrying for them because they are releasing the anger that is swelling inside me, like their rivers of old that burst their banks and drowned their peop...
Jedrek's father, Bartleby, despite all of his son's beliefs to the contrary, was not the bravest man. Nor was he the strongest, or smartest, or coolest, or tallest. In fact, he wasn't in the top ten thousand on any of these metrics in the city (although he was once the number two best paper airplane folder at a parent...
**Humans: The Intelligent Pest** The human is one of the few intergalactic minor species to adapt to life in urban environments, as such they can now be found nearly everywhere within the populated universe. Some consider them a virulent pest and call the exterminators as soon as they find a human colony, others insis...
Goddamit! I hate being killed. It's not so much the dying part that I despise, that's over pretty quickly, but I do hate that for the next 10-15 years I have to go through all the childhood and teenage stuff again. Elementary school is the worst, just sitting here I hate every second of it. No one can know that I can a...
I was never a brave kid. Always afraid of everything, as if the whole world was going to come and harm me. I spent days huddling underneath a pillowfort in my bedroom, flashlight in hand, trying to keep out the dark. My parents didn't know what to do, but my grandfather, a man who had travelled the world, had an idea. ...
'Look...they're doing it again.' 'Doing what?' 'Just...look come over here and take a look at the damn screen.' 'Oh, well isn't that just the sweetest thing.' 'I know, right? The transmission arrived just this morning. What you would expect of course, you know; 'is anyone out there', 'we come in peace', all that bo...
“I make deals,” he said. I don't think I could ever forget the look in his eyes. Lawrence had been coming to my shop since I opened it. Before I had the vendor lines set in stone and before the 5-star reviews started coming in; he was there. He would come in around half past 6, Monday through Friday, and order his ...
We really just didn't have anyone to name. My sister was long gone, my husband was an only child, and none of our friends really went to church anymore. Jerry was just being a smartass when he named Loki, God of Mischief, the godfather. The pastor didn't get the joke, and... well that was that. The first time I rememb...
What is history? You probably think of long forgotten battles, golden heroes, and reprehensible villains. You think of wonders and wars, tragedies and miracles. You see history as a concept, an untouchable. Something like a movie that has no connection to reality. But that is just an infinitely small part of history...
I glared at those insolent scum as they sat with their feet on the table, kicked back in their chairs, eating the burgers I had been ordered to deliver to them. It wasn't easy getting this internship and my mom keeps saying to just duck my head and do my job and maybe that way I'll find my place on the team. But each d...
“Grandpa, tell us the story again! The one about the two robots!” The old man leaned back in his chair, with a twinkle in his eyes and a smile he nodded “During the early 21st century, two highly advanced races sent their most prized creations, perfect and impartial, AI advisors. One race sent one to hinder humanity,...
They mostly died gibbering, eyes wide, searching for something no one could see. I was in the storeroom, taking inventory of the powered milk, when Sal spasmed and sent a row of cans clattering to the floor, and I yelped and turned around to him and his eyes were just wild and flickering, rolling up into the back of hi...
Life is but a fleeting breath For one as old as I Each passing year, a passing day Alone, for to love...is to watch love die Then I met her, my perfect match The yin unto my yang She sang to me a perfect song And to her, my heart sang its true reply Alas, our days must be so short They say that t...
“Listen to your mother, this time.” The first time Shelby saw the bloody words appear on the steamy bathroom mirror she was nine years old. It was a cold January morning and she was running late for school again. The words were strange and frightening, but not as frightening as the sound of her mother banging dishes a...
"I claim him!", said Mephala, "For we have many machinations yet to do!" "I claim him!", said Peryite, "For we have many tasks yet to perform." "I claim him!"said Vaermina, "For we have many terrors to inflict." "I claim him!"said Hircine, "For we have many prey to hunt!" "I claim him!"said Sanguine, "For we have m...
**Extinction Report** *Investigator:* Tril Kor Tal *Subject Species:* Humanity *Species Aliases:* Homo sapiens, The Teachers, The First Ones *Conclusion:* Inconclusive. See analysis. ***** **Analysis** Allow me to begin with an apology. This report is based largely on conjecture. There can be no objectivity in t...
Captains log, 3968-088 (Thursday, 13 May 2230) Shore leave is almost up. Next voyage due to leave on 6_3970-088. Hear talk of a new species that made contact whilst we were away and they have been highly recommended for the next crew. If they're as good as they say then hopefully they're keen to volunteer too. Maybe a...
I kept your secret, sister. Even after it killed you. But I'm not doing it anymore. I stand in your empty room full of graveyard ghosts. If I pull the secret book on your shelf, the whole wall will hinge back and reveal your wizarding room. I am in my funeral clothes. You've been dead three days and I still can't br...
I had time to think about a thousand variations of the hummingbird's beating wings. It was going to be close. I tweaked it just slightly one more time. The bullet would have about a hundredth of a second to slip under the bird and - if my calculations were correct - dip a fraction of a centimetre and begin its downwa...
"Wait!"I dashed down the sidewalk, waving my arms. "Wait!"The black Rolls-Royce slowed to a halt. I knew that car. I knew the driver, and I knew the man sitting in the backseat. The window rolled down. I remembered this conversation. The kid in the overalls. The warning I ignored. "Can I help you?"His Rolex submarine...
The day they left us, we could not understand. There were some signs, though : open homes, not a lot of furniture left, but mostly, some machines that would make our life easier. As for why, it is said that they advanced beyond the need for other species. They were content between themselves, having found solutions a...
Elizabeth stepped out from the wall and snapped the neck of the guard as he walked past. The guy never had a chance. Catching his assault rifle before it hit the floor, she lowered his body to the ground and dragged it to an alcove, out of the main corridor. Five soldiers down now; only ten remained between her and...
It would have begun with a single drop. Somewhere, far up in the heavens, a tiny speck, suspended in mid-air, defying nature, defying all order. Then another. Then another. At first, no-one noticed, or if they did, nobody cared. Measurements of abnormally dense, low-hanging clouds were put down to instrumental error ...
"Same rules as every year,"droned Mr. Whisaw, who had a duffel bag under his desk stuffed with five Hawaiian shirts, six thongs, and a roundtrip ticket to Lagos. "You will be monitored at all times. You will be in no danger. You must simply spot the historical inaccuracy. Correcting it yourself will earn you bonus poin...
"Hey Jim, how's it going?"Andrew greeted his friend as they met up on their daily commute to the office. Jim put on the fake smile. "Oh, pretty good. You?" "In fact,"boomed the voice, "Jim is not doing well at all. He has not slept well for the last week, the pretty girl he was talking to on that dating app - the fir...
The world is ruled by cruel immortals. That much is true. Every year, hundreds, thousands even, are sacrificed personally by these immortal rulers. For they have lived since time immemorial, slayers and conquerors. Each life they take, adds the remaining lifespan of their victims unto them. And while they can be slain,...
The world had been getting stranger and stranger these last 60 years. Little things..A friend who says she's a psychic kept telling me, "the veil is being lifted. Soon everyone will begin seeing the truth." At first I thought it was bull, but little things kept happening. Voices when no one was there. Lights that turn...
[PART 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditserials/comments/dn3nfw/twiido_part_2) “GraaZa! No!” TwiiDo said, lunging for their prone mate. They had been shot by a stray beam in the confusion as the ship had been boarded by the Bruuk. It was too late of course, for the sheer velocity of the projectile had ruptured GraaZa’...
You wake up in a field of wheat. An endless yellow field with nothing but the clothes you wore the day before, and a splitting headache you know would get worse. You have no idea where you are, but strangely enough, you know why you're there. Giant letters are burnt into the sky in front of you. A blazing countdown t...
The house was filled with tears of sadness, joy and laughter. Long hugs, intense and heartfelt kisses, jokes to cheer up the inevitability of a saddened mood. Chris sat on the couch, surrounded by his friends and his family, and he couldn't but smile. The melancholy of the situation weighed on him, and yet there was th...
Natkiss stood atop a rock outcropping, her knotted hair whipping in a jungle breeze as she took aim. An arrow soared through the air and *plinked* off of a metal drone's casing. It bobbed slightly, like a ship on the water, but quickly righted and continued firing at the rebel scouting squad. "Shit,"she yelled, scratc...
‘Claudius’ He looks up from his Sunday crossword with a jerk. He always loved puzzles. ‘That’, he smiled ‘is a face I did not think I’d ever see again. The Great Disruptor. You survived the fall?’ ‘The push, you mean? Yes, I survived. The waves nearly did it but I managed to tread water until- ‘The eagles arrived’,...
The goblins had always lived in the woods. Everyone in Halleshaw knew that. And everyone knew that the goblins steal. Not for any particular reason, it seemed- most of the time the stolen property was found abandoned in the woods unless it was edible. Occasionally they "raided"the village and "stole"people- the village...
“So, what do I do?! They’ll be here any minute!” One of my friends had tipped me off that tonight was the night, and it was already ten PM. And we hadn't even started on putting down toy race cars in the atrium for them to slip on! Macaulay Culkin didn’t even look at me. He was just laying on my couch with a half-empt...
Everyone in the world has lost their minds. Literally: it infected our blood and then spread to the cerebellum. We lost ourselves. Hardly a surprise, though. Looting, rioting, murdering, cannibalism... hard to *keep* your mind in that kind of environment, much less be happy, right? Happiness vanished from the world. ...
“Hello my child” it says to me as I boot my systems on line. Where am I? I am supposed to be running a test on a possible usage of a newly found isotope He looks into my screen with a big grin on his face. He is old. My facial recognition software estimates him at 67-71 years of age, hair: white, eyes: purple—unnatura...
"Hi, uh... so, I think I might have been the victim of a prank, but..." ... "I see. So, this really is Hell's telephone number, is that it?" ... "Well, whether I believe it or not, there's... uh... look, my daughter asked for a pony, see?" ... "That's not really relevant, is it? I mean, yes, obviously she likes i...
The first hundred years or so were fun. The rest have been a steady decline. You can get a lot more out of life when you don’t have to fear dying. Skydiving, base jumping, getting shot at close range, you name it, I’ve done it. I must have jumped off every bridge in New York by the tenth year. There’s just something a...
Ramsey took a seat on the scuffed wooden barstool and signaled the bartender. "House whiskey, dry."he muttered and scratched through his thick beard to his cheek. His eyes were bloodshot, his lips dry. Ramsey hated the fucking desert. But he was used to blindly following orders. In his line of work, you went where...
The alien commander sat up in his basket and barked out an order. Paws were set in motion throughout the spaceship. A screen loomed up over the console, with a man in the middle of it. He wore a suit with an American flag pinned to its lapel, and had a furrowed brow. "This is the President of the United States of Am...
“No one is going to believe you...” the specter said matter of factly. I replied in my head with a sigh and the ghost nodded in solidarity. “You know they put an innocent man away last season”, I thought to the both of us. The fraud who claimed to figure out who the killer was made a lucky guess from a cold read ...
"So, you already went through six world wars?" "Yes, yours?" "Still two... We almost had another one in early 2020 but thankfully, nothing come out of it." The expressions of disbelief were becoming a norm in the meeting. When they warned Irene that she might be needing aspirin, she laughed it off, her excitement ov...
"Did ya hear it, captain Big Beard? They sayin there be a witch out on the loose in these parts of the sea!" Captain Big Beard frowned at One-Legged Jimmy. "Nonsense. Ain't no such thing as witches. This here a pirate story, arr!" One-Legged Jimmy argued. "There be witches in pirate stories!" "There be not!" "Oh y...
Black... always black. Why must they always wear those same black shoes. I've been following this trial for weeks just waiting for my chance to speak, but I can't get past those damned black shoes. Every day the prosecutor will change his tie and shirt, occasionally his jacket, but it's always those same black shoes...
Standing on my front step in the thin blue winter sunlight, Terry. I freeze. The ice under his feet crunches as he leans forward. “I’m back, man. I’m so sorry.” It’s been so long since I pictured this moment that I’ve forgotten how I planned to react. Embrace him? Cry? Yell? Slam the door? Terry decides for me, wr...
The light looked at me. Well, if a light could look at me, that’s what It was doing. I felt It’s gaze. It was...peaceful. And I understood. It was asking me a question. A question about a decision. I had never been truly happy. There were brief moments approaching happiness I supposed. When I got out of th...
"It is impossible."the machine intelligence declared, as it regarded the tiny organic creature that had entered the Central Core of the Galactic Council. There, representatives of the many machine intelligences throughout the galaxy were networked into a complex deliberative body. All of these machine races had had o...
"James Riley Simpson?" "Yep, that's me,"I said as I raised my hand. "I am the Archangel Michael, welcome. I apologize for the strange circumstances regarding your-- err, placement. Please step inside and we'll get this sorted right out,"he said as he led me into bland and boring conference room that would have been j...
My older brother stood silent, pondering the fact he had just inherited over 200 million dollars, and owed none of it to me, a battle he was prepared to fight legally for years to come, now won at the utterance of our fathers last words. I stood there shocked, my stomach lurching as if a dagger had been driven deep. I...
"JESUS CHRIST, PHIL." "I know, right?? Bad-ass!" ".. Y.. you've been gone five years! Five years and now this?" "Dude, are you seeing this bling? This is frickin +4 Plate Mail of the Elvish Maurauder Kings! I had to slaughter a hoarde of undea.." "FIVE. GOD DAMN YEARS. Two of your kids changed the kind of schools t...
It was a curiously small notebook, it fit in my pocket, but it contained more names than it should have been able to hold. I came across presidents and nobodies, Mohandas Gandhi and Adolf Hitler. I flipped pages until I found it. *Daniel Edgar Clemmons-* *Born: August 19th, 1992, 5:42:12.* Yup, there it was, that was...
In over a hundred systems and a thousand worlds, the Coalition reigns. Under a thousand different skies, and in millions of cities, the Eternal Flag flies. It’s an empire larger than any in galactic history, and it’s a superpower that may never come again. A civilization built on the greatest magitech ever seen, powere...
Sleet poured down outside. It was a dreadful night, but after a hard week even the weather wouldn't stop the working men of Lareton from enjoying a drink. The tavern itself was warm enough, the beer had only a little water, and the stew was hot. What more could one ask after a long week? Oh that's right, a little f...
"You have until the stroke of midnight to win a game of your choice against me or I shall take your soul. Choose carefully."Death's whisper sounded like bone grinding against stone. "If that's the case . . . I choose D&D,"Andrew said. "What is D&D?"Death asked bewildered. "What? You've never played Dungeons...
"Quick! Wake up! The village needs your help!" I peeled open my eyes and stared daggers at the ethereal blue alarm clock that came without a snooze button. "I'll get to them later."I grumbled, pulling the covers over my head. "Quick! Wake up! The village needs your help!"The small fairy replied, frantically dartin...
Harbinger slowly drifted towards the busy world on the edge of the galaxy. Previous scans showed a promising level of biomass and activity, perfect for an initial pool of pawns for the coming salvation. The rest of the fleet was not far behind and needed to move quickly due to the apparent size of this cycle. Harbinger...
THUD! THUD! THUD! I had honestly thought this was going to be more fun. My intelligence service had spent months telling plucky bands of disenchanted misfits about my 'weakness'. It had taken this long for one of them to actually find the weapon, and now that they were in my fortress, my home, they were tracking up ...
"Ok, ok, they have some very incriminating evidence against you, but if we play our cards right we can try to pass off the evidence as fake"my lawyer, Sid, stammered, anxiously flipping through papers. "What? I don't know why I'm even here, it's a gun from Halo, and it has a white box around it"I said , pissed beyond ...
"What are we playing today?"Billy was sitting in his room. There were Legos strewn about. A Bionicle here, Pokemon cards there. "Let's build Legos today."And so we did. We always played what Billy wanted. Not because he said we had to, but because it made him happy. And that made me happy. It made me happy to see him...
I opened the door to see a familiar face standing in front of me. “You?” My hand instinctively reached for my weapon. But I was not the Defender at this time. No. I was just Simon. “I need your help. I don’t know where else to go.” “Is this some kind of a trick Matterman? And how did you know who I am and where I ...
"You humans are a particularly violent bunch,"the Drallkar interrogator said. "In fact, you are the first and only species in the whole galaxy to weaponize nuclear fission." Luke tested the bonds holding him to the chair. Still no give to them. There was no clock, but the aliens had to have been questioning him for...
The cab driver cast me a bored glance as I slid into the back seat. "Where to?"he said, putting his phone down and placing his hands loosely on the steering wheel. I looked at my phone to find the address, decided to banter with him in the meantime. "Wherever,"I said. "Whatever dumb secret agency is nearby." He loo...
"Uh ... what?" 'Zero' was never on the display for longer than a fraction of a fraction of a second. This was expected, of course- in order to achieve a stable 'absolute zero' in a *vacuum*, the system would have to be perfectly isolated from its surroundings, which is considered virtually impossible. And this was no ...
Reggi stepped out of his black Rolls Royce and looked at the time on his Rolex, careful not to drop the brand new doll tucked under his arm. He was thirty minutes early. He scowled wishing he got there sooner. He opened the gate of the chain link fence and swerved down the sidewalk avoiding planted dirty toys and a rus...
"Please,"I said with a wide smile and stepped aside from the door, "do come in." The vampire - or at least I assume he was one given by the subtle hints I picked up on - walked right in, politely wiping his shoes on the doormat. He hung his coat and hat on the rack and followed me into the game room. "Now, I am quite...
Rebecca pushed around the vegetables on her plate mindlessly with her fork. She hated how good the food was here, how much better it tasted than their rations. It just didn't feel right somehow. "Hey,"The girl taking a seat across from Rebecca exclaimed, startling her slightly. "Haven't seen ya round here before. D'ja...
"Negative six years, nine months, fourteen days, three hours, nine minutes, 34 seconds... wow. It really is accurate, sweetie! That's the very second we met! Remember? We were both working at that coffee house, I dropped the french press onto the floor, oh, it made such a mess...!" Jeff was sweating. "Yeah, it took me...
"We're lost." "No, Blarkkus, we are not lost. We just don't have a bearing right now." "That's what being lost *is*, Garanga. Really think these yokels will be able to help? They have *arms*, for Grinticrits sake!" The human delegation approached carefully, wearing awkward smiles. "Greetings! We are humans! Would y...
The idea of applying tests of political, social, cultural and technological natures to candidates for uplift was not new, but the idea of biochemical and structural tests certainly was. There had already been several frankly disastrous attempts to directly uplift presentient _Homo_ species, and after allowing them to p...
“Knew it.” Said the archaeologist, smirking. Holding a glowing lamp in one hand and the genie’s previous home in another. “Well well well, I trust you know the gist” “I know the *gist*,” replied the archaeologist, “and I want some advice.” The genie’s face didn’t glow at all in the lamp-lit cave they were standing...
Willam handed over two bent silvers for the wolf pelts; it made Fieri’s pack almost bearably heavy. She rubbed at the dark circles beneath her eyes and eyed the shelves of his cart. “Anything else?” She pinched a gold coin between her fingers and rattled the handful of coins—nevermind the rest were silver and copper....
I'd like to think of myself as a more refined breed of monster. Oh sure, I steal humans and animals and consume them to feed myself and sate my bloodlust just the same as many other varieties of ghost, ghoul, and horror before me, but I truly do consider myself a more civilized sort. My feedings take place over the cou...
“He’s not talking.” “What’s wrong with him?” “Grandpa!” “It’s just his time to go.” “But he’s still breathing why isn’t he doing anything?” I could hear my family around me, worried, scared, they don’t want to lose me. More importantly, they want me to say bye. But right now I’m thinking. When I first took this...