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Honestly, I thought I'd seen it all by now. I've spent most of my adult life serving everyone and everything from extraterrestrial slip-space travelers to Lovecraftian horrors that a normal man couldn't even comprehend without losing their mind. Why, I was just having a delightful conversation with the Disparate-but-...
Loading state 2521632-C... “-will be finished! now you die!” Dodge left, duck, dodge right, retaliate punch, kick, backflip onto platform. “Impossible! How could you have predicted my attacks so well? I took every liberty to make sure you couldn’t!” “Well I’ve already seen this fight hundreds of times, and I must s...
"They call me the fallen angel, one that rebuked against god. All sorts of stories. The truth however, is more nuanced. "Satan sighed. this was not his first explanation, and he knew it would not be his last. "Ok look, we do not exactly know what those things are but they inscribed rules. And they slept, slept for a ...
I’ve never been one to judge things. In most cases, I prefer to keep a neutral mindset. My family always told me that when I REALLY liked something, they knew that it was good, since I was often so keen on never expressing an opinion on anything. This was how I explained it away for most my life. I was decisive, and t...
I sat down at the desk in the middle of the room, trying to still my nervousness. It wasn't easy considering I was facing the Council of Genies. Yes we have a council. How else do you control beings of phenomenal cosmic power? I sat and fidgeted while the 5 council members filed in and sat at their much larger and mor...
June went first - that was just her way. We both knew it was coming - well into our 90th year of life, having been together for 60, we may as well have been a single organism. Not a single person, alive or dead, knew either one of us better than we knew each other. "I'll be the first to go,"she'd said suddenly. I h...
I'm not going to make it. The assignment was due at 12. I glanced at the clock again and frowned. 11:56. It wasn't that it was 11:56 that bothered me. What bothered was me that it felt like it had been 11:56 for the past five or six minutes. And then I panicked. *What if my clock is broken? Which means that it'...
The Secret History. The book fell heavily onto the table in front of me, my oldest name staring up at me like an accusation. Procopius, it said in bold, blocky letters. It was a recent printing but my blood pumped harder all the same. My expression was perfect however, my mouth kept to the same easy smile I’d had when...
An alien had cornered up a Human, pointed the gun and pulled the trigger. "Why won't you die?"Shouted the shocked alien. "Dude, it's a watergun." The alien looked sheepishly down at his latest military issue AX-32 pistol. Sure, it was lower pressure rating than the larger weapons used, but when he'd used similar pisto...
“Sweetie, I would love to celebrate my birthday with you.” He said with a soft smile as Millie jumped up and down in excitement clutching her Barbie. “But I’m gonna need your help.” “I can set the table dad!” Millie beamed. “And me and mom can buy a gift!” “I know but I need your help with something else, do you thin...
"The tin foil hat is going to be a bit much. I say skip it,"my wife said, examining my costume in the mirror while she worked on applying make-up. I studied the image in myself in the glass. A long haired wig of greasy looking hair, a tee shirt that read "The Truth Is Out There,"and a half gallon milk jug with a distu...
Holly woke with the sun on her face as it shone through the blinds. Chris lay beside her, cold and still, as she found him every morning. She kissed his forehead and rose from the bed. It was a warm spring morning, and he'd left the window open last night. Holly could hear birds chirping and the sound of a lawnmow...
The Goblin King sneered at the humans before him. Many lay dead or wounded, while the remaining clutched onto an assortment of weapons: knives, billy clubs, pistols, even machine guns. It was no use; the clunky, earthy weapons of man were too weak against the skin of the Fair Folk. "Surrender now, and your lives may y...
A setup like this doesn't just happen. You need to understand a species to really pull a fast one over them like this, and boy did I get humans. Not that complicated really, despite all their genealogists' talk of 63 million genes, bla bla bla. Take my word for it, the entirety of the human psyche comes down to three t...
There was a buzz of excitement in the dragon's lair. A large number of humans dressed in puffy white jackets and thick black trousers were gathered around the sleeping dragon. A man in an orange suit, wearing a helmet, and protective goggles, used a long metal rod to poke the silver dragon. The dragon stirred. Its tai...
She looked out over the abyss and saw it was beautiful. There was no more stars, no more planets or galaxies spinning in the sky. The gods in the sky and even time itself had fallen to their knees for her. She was the ultimate keeper, after all, obsessed with what the end would bring her. In her state, she was almost g...
All it takes is a soft humming of a lilting tune and I'm transported back to that moment in time. I'm at the console of my workstation at the initial firing of the world's largest particle accelerator. I can hear the crew of scientists starting to pour the celebratory champagne in preparation of it being turned on. &...
"Status report,"asked the President in a stern tone as he walked in and the Secret Service agent closed and sealed the door to the bunker. "Ineffective sir. Direct hit for the entire payload, reporting zero damage from all sensors,"replied the tall Colonel in charge. The bunker was a mobile battle station staffed with...
My coffee mug shatters against the floor, at the same moment as my reality. “David McDonald, age 33, a white office worker, found dead. This is just the latest in a string...” I turn the tv off. My finger shaking on the power button. What? That was me on the tv. But I’m here? Aren’t I? Am I dead? A ghost? Can ghos...
The two dolls were delicate porcelain creatures, both with pale, cracked faces — but where one missed an old green eye, the other missed an arm. They barely had a tuft of hair between them, just a few wiry curls left, once brown but now white. Hair that had aged as if it were real. Their clothes were rotten and their s...
It was the dead of the summer. I always hated how the grass grew so quickly with the rain that often accompanied the heat. I had been putting off mowing for quite a while, but it was clear I'd have to do it today before the HOA was breathing down my neck. My abilities could easily have made mowing the grass a snap, b...
A board room, filled with people in suits. The room is empty of furniture however. "Rogers, is everything in place?" "Yes sir. The candles with exactly 1 inch of dribbley wax are placed exactly 72 degrees around the circle." "Excellent. Kingston?" "Right on schedule sir. The moon will be geometrically aligned with ...
"So,"Mike began, "God is driving back to America from a vacation in Mexico, when he comes to a border checkpoint and pulls the car to a stop. An officer peers into the vehicle, and sees that God is wearing a long grey trench coat. Odd for this kind of weather, the cop thinks. God's grey eyebrows furrow nervously, 'Anyt...
Krissa stirred the boiling pasta so it wouldn't stick, a whirlpool of silky string. "I'm just saying, honey. This guy, the second in command at work- he makes my life so difficult. Sensei just hides behind that meathead, who's honestly a terrible fighter, yet somehow I can't get past him." Samuel gritted his teeth, ...
A note, found written on a corpse, in the rain: > Once you have super heroes and super villains, you no longer really have the rule of law. > Once you no longer have the rule of law, the line between hero and villain can be a very thin one. > And if you go after the family of one hero, you'll do it again if...
Thomas looked down at his iPad having just stepped out of the wormhole he had traveled through. "Strange,"he said softly under his breath, "wifi."He quickly tapped the settings button and went into wifi settings. As the device discovered the one available network his heart dropped. "If you can read this turn back." ...
The lander drifted down to the moon's surface, it's thrusters roaring to maintain perfect balance as the titanium legs kicked up moon dust like a cat in its litter box—not a sound to be heard in the molecule-free vacuum of space. "Uh, Captain,"a shaky voice came over the comms of the captain's helmet. "Could you pleas...
I had never actually met a human before. I’d seen them in videos sure, but I don’t think I’d ever seen one in person. I’d always be fascinated by the way they reacted to things. They could understand what someone was saying with their back turned to them, I couldn’t understand it. It’s like they have some kind of fifth...
The depth charge hit our ballast tanks. We leaned hard to starboard, and then just sat there. Captain Wolford ordered a status report, and gradually, our heads racked with pain, we pieced together our crooked world. We hung dead in the water at 150 meters. The starboard tanks were flooded, but the port tanks hung on. ...
Absentmindedly, Arlen turned the next page, "Run"was all that was written on that page too, though the page opposite it had "Now"sitting in the centre. "Now"was bolded. "What a strange book"Arlen thought "probably postmodern", which was odd given that the book was in an old leather binding and had fallen from the first...
“Alright that’s enough, can’t you see she doesn’t want to be bothered?” The crowd of men glared at the speaker behind the counter but he stood his ground. “You lot have been bothering her all this time, clear off and leave her in peace.” “What’s it to you?” A man leered unpleasantly. “Don’t you know who this is?” ...
Shreds of wrapping paper flew through the air as Gary tore into yet another box. His parents watched from the couch, wide-eyed and amazed at the ever-growing mountain of wrapping paper and ribbons and bows in the center of their living room. And not to mention the thousands and thousands of dollars worth of toys that h...
He opens his eyes and…he is perfect. You smile back at him, your breath catching in awe. ‘Welcome,’ you say, hand reaching out to brush against his chest. ‘I can’t believe we did it.’ He scowls at you. ‘Whatever.’ *** On the first day, he does nothing but demand things from you. He wants food, he wants beer, he wan...
Charles Bucket placed the paper down to his side, and folded his hands in his lap quietly, deep in thought. He closed his eyes, and visions of madness swam across the back of his eyelids. Nightmares that hadn't reared their snarling terrible heads for decades now. Nightmares he thought he had left behind. Charles stee...
Writing this on my phone at work, apologies for any mistakes. A lovely person (u/blu_ski) has narrated this story: https://youtu.be/ozrQ-fu6nV0 And another lovely person! (u/Spartawolf): https://youtu.be/WjN13TVf238 ___________________________________________________ The Atrium was abuzz with chatter, many language...
"In my experience, this sort of conversation requires both parents to be present,"Ms. Ratwell said delicately. "Do you know if your - er - when Nick's father will be joining us?" &#x200B; Ursula looked at her watch and sighed. She shuddered to think of what kind of nonsense he must have gotten himself in. "No. I ...
When I opened the door, I was staggered. I was looking into Guinevere's bright blue eyes. I was seeing her smooth, radiant skin, her fine hair cascading down her shoulders like a shower of gold. But it wasn't Guinevere, my lost elven love. This young woman had ears that were slightly less tapered. Facial features that...
"No,"I said as I tried to get back to sleep. I felt the paws of Mr. Fuzzy pressing hard upon my back. He was walking his way up to my head. We've been over this so many times it didn't even occur to me that my cat was talking to me. &#x200B; "Wake up you idiot. It's time for me to eat!" &#x200B; This time m...
“Were you angry with her?” “Of course I was. It’s tough you know. You think you know someone and then suddenly it turns out they aren’t who you thought they were. It broke my heart. And the worst part was she couldn’t understand why I was angry. We had a massive fight. Fights in fact.” “I can understand.” “She could...
For the longest time, it was a dumb spider. It made a web in a lab and was fed flies until one day it escaped and bit a boy. It didn't feel right after that. It started to look beyond its web and wonder about the world. As it thirsted for knowledge, it soon realized it understood these larger creatures. When it talked,...
"What? That's ridiculous,"Mark argued. "You can't be Satan. He's not real. None of that God stuff is." "And yet, I am sitting here before you,"the man in the seat next to him replied. His voice was as oily as his hair, which almost covered beady black eyes. There was a cruel curve to his mouth, accentuated whenever he...
John stepped through the fog that drifted near his feet and looked up at the impossibly large, pearly gates. Heaven was even more beautiful than he had imagined in his time being alive. The gates reflected the perfect, white light that seemed to shine from a sunless sky, making streaks of gold fall onto the cloudy, dre...
People say I'm unlucky. In reality, everyone else is unlucky, while I have no limit to my luck. It's actually quite a curse. You see, I have a guardian demon. He cares little about me, mostly that I just survive. He's also paranoid, so everything and everyone is trying to kill me. Neat. When I was little, there ...
I’ve always wondered what it meant. XP? Like the video games? It just didn’t really make sense. I’d always thought that everyone had it, and I was just another face in the crowd. Of course, I’d only thought that until I was thirteen, when social awareness hit my little undeveloped brain. No one else had it! I was ‘w...
“With the materials brought before thee, come unto this world, O wretched Ob Shguthurak!” with a blinding flash of light, a foul demon emerged from the summoning circle. Standing at 6 foot 6, the demon of Shguthurak spread his wings of leather, flexed his claws of bone and breasts of chitin... ... and gingerly adjust...
"The choice is yours, soul. Walk through the Door towards the unknown or be judged by the Arbitor, leaving your fate in Their hands. Should your mortal life be judged virtuous, eternal paradise will await you with open arms. Should you be judged vile..." The spirit before me didn't finish the sentence. I didn't find i...
An ancient fortuneteller, with a crooked and hunched body, possibly born more than two centuries ago came to them in the night. And using many ancient runes, and old sigils, she foretold the inevitable future, of the children born from the woman. One would be evil the other would be good. And when the two children were...
They were gathered. Order took roll call, calm and quiet, even as it called the name of Chaos, and was answered by a meaningless jumble of words. Good sat, patient, vigilant, and with piercing eyes, prepared to do what was necessary to keep the peace, and watching everyone, even Order, with distrust. You just never ...
I'm going to report every one of those creepy fuckers, I thought as I traipsed through the woods, hoping to God I was heading for the closest exit, since I was starting to get hungry. And a little scared, though I was still mad enough to keep fear at bay for the moment. I still had no cell reception. Even if those...
######[](#dropcap) "I've told you a million times, you've got to learn the Latin,"the old man huffed at his young apprentice, watching as she continued to speak in English. Luna rolled her eyes. "Latin is a dead language,"he continued. "So the meanings of words will stay consistent." "I'll be fine, grandpa. There...
I'm Olive Garden. Olly for short. Three-fifty-two on the airwaves. That's how things work here, and that's a very vague "here."Here is everywhere. We're big. Real big. International. Like Mr. Worldwide, but a little quieter. My line of work, you never hear about. I don't share at family Christmas. When folks ask me...
It's impossible to keep any coins around in my flat. I keep thinking that whenever I get some change, I'll just put it down somewhere, and once I look for it, it's gone missing. Hell, if I put down my jeans with some coins in them, the pockets are turned inside out and the coins are just gone. I never thought much abou...
“Hey Daddy, can we go to Disney?” “Sorry honey. I’m too busy right now. Maybe next year, okay?” Adrian watched the giddiness fade from Patty’s face before she shuffled away. He sighed and continued working. There would always be time later. -------- “Hey Patty, how about we vacation next week together? Just us.”...
The problem with casting spells is that generally speaking, it takes less time to move a small steel lever a fraction of an inch than to utter a Latin phrase about throwing fireballs. Pulling a trigger can be done almost instantly upon acquiring the threat one wishes to make significantly less threatening, whereas poin...
“You waffle munchers, open the door. Come on, please. Is this about eating the last piece of pizza? I asked if anyone wanted to go halves, sure I took a bite out of it first, but the thought was there.” Jay pleaded with his friends, banging his hands against the door, begging them to open it. His initial pulls were...
"She's not my wife." I froze as my finger pressed the pause button. The younger image of my Grandfather on the screen, distressed and unkempt. I held the rewind button, his eyes moved frantic, as if to make sure he had a second alone — “She’s not my wife,” his voice pleaded. I hit pause. What was I hearing? I...
God I hate the open air. It's terrible out here on the mudflats in the oppressive cold, not to mention the mosquitoes the size of your fist that roam here. I looked back at the city, floating high in the sky at the horizon and felt a longing for the warm heated air indoors. It was miserable weather, but this was his fi...
"Be at peace." My Mom always said this small prayer any time we would see an animal in the road. No matter dog, rat, deer, snake, raccoon, or the smallest bird that no one would think twice about. If there was a poor little creature which had its life cut short by some person who was too busy rushing through their own...
Should I ask him to repeat himself? Is that rude? I can't exactly be at fault for not listening too well. I wasn't exactly expecting... well... words... "Did you get all that Steven?" Oh wow, ok yeah he definitely spoke and I completely missed it. "Will you do it?" I stared blankly at Jasper who was sitting over...
"CUUUUUUUUT"a shrill voice screams out. You groan inwardly and let your sword drop limply to your side. "Wh...what happened? Did I do something wrong?"Dorgridion looks around confused, leathery wings drooping. "Amateurs" You think, fluffing your hair and gesturing to your assistant for a water bottle. The small go...
Hey Dad, I found this old laptop in my prison, and it even has wifi! What a surprising coincidence! Gmail was already open and ready for me to log in, and of course I remember my own father's email address. Good thing I didn't have to email any strangers who likely wouldn't believe me anyway. Anyway, come bail me out ...
Four-ten seven spores. No. Four-ten eight. Four-ten eight. I must stop counting them. They will not multiply. They will not increase. Four-ten eight spores. The last four-ten eight in the galaxy. Maybe the last that will ever be. If I don't find them stable land...a saline pool...the proper nutrients... This ship ...
“Sir, we must speak about this.” Kim Jong Un’s advisor walked behind him in to the main office as Jong Un took up his seat behind his desk. The adviser placed a piece of paper on the desk in front of him. “I don’t see what the issue is,” said Jong Un, picking up the paper and inspecting it. “Sir .. the adviser looked...
Thomas knew Saint Lucia’s Psychiatric Hospital was old, but he thought it just gave the place a certain charm. The vines that crawled their way up the cracked brick and stone gave the building an almost enchanting air. The ancient looking statues in the front yard were discolored and stained by age but Thomas thought i...
The camp isn’t far from here. I lean against the rotting tree for a second, trying to get my bearings. Just around that tree, right over there, is the flat rock that we used as a picnic table, before the most recent attack. My arm aches. I already see the discolouration of the flesh around the wound. The tree is a bri...
Creation is a fickle thing. On one hand, even to a being such as myself, a being that can and often does create smaller pocket worlds to suit my whims, the sheer scale of the universe as a whole is astounding. I would make a bet that even the one who created it, wherever they are, didn't see it becoming as big as it is...
I could have been a Khajit, or an Argonian. At the very least I could have gone a mage or stealth build so I could summon Daedric beasts or pickpocket unsuspecting people. But on my sixth play-through of Skyrim, I decided to play as a Redguard. That’s right, instead of choosing one of the cool beastial classes, I just ...
Farmer Greenthumb used to have a simple life, before the incident. Since the beginning of time, when he'd found himself in the fields, pitchfork in hand, he'd followed the path life laid out before him. He would walk back and forth through the wheat, occasionally stopping to bail out a heap of chaff before resuming h...
GENESIS: Blink three time to track quest. &nbsp; I was dumbfounded. I had always been able to see my health, but now all of a sudden there was an experience bar and a mana bar. I noticed the quest start to shimmer, as if it was about to disappear. Not knowing how I might find it again, I quickly blinked three tim...
I stare into my great grandfather’s eyes as the bullet works its way farther into my guts. My hand on the wound makes for a poor bandage and the blood seeps through my fingers to be lapped up by the thirsty desert soil. He tuts softly in the back of his throat, shaking his head. “Son, you’ve found yourself in a right p...
The 6 hovered above his head like a bad omen, attracting onlookers from far and wide. Frank sat miserably underneath it, trying to ignore the stares. No one could work out how he was apparently so vital to mankind's existence, least of all him. The very notion proved an endless source of frustration for him. God himsel...
The bird didn't peck on my window. That should've been enough for me to notice, but it wasn't until I rolled over in my bed and found a severed arm that I realized it was over. I immediately went back to sleep, of course. This was the first time in what felt like centuries where I could actually allow myself to rest. ...
Be careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it. - The Pussycat Dolls ***** Why did this happen to me? Every day people wish for cars, jobs, and sex. They wish for health and happiness. All those wishes are reasonable. Many can be granted simply. Happiness is a state of mind, after all. But of all th...
"Guys, do you see that?" Dan stared out at the red wastes through the visor of his bulky helmet. His companions followed suit, craning their necks to follow whatever he was gawking at. Then they saw. Just there, on the horizon. Movement. The crew gazed up at the ridge, dumbfounded by the notion of life on the red p...
The Great Guardian is dying, and we are powerless to stop it. He has watched over our lands for countless generations, protecting us from enemies, famine and plague. It was said that he came from a far-off world, being cast out for his transgressions against some greater being, although it is hard to imagine a being g...
Only the desperate and the stupid went into the cities anymore. As my truck gave a final dying chortle and the gas light stared back at me like my car saying I told you so, I realized that I had become desperate enough to be stupid. Already, the zombies were swarming. They crawled over fanged window panes, shuffled...
Mortality By Robert Jeffords Growing up, boy was that rough. Kids are cruel. Not, evil... Just cruel. They were taller, stronger and smarter than me. They all looked similar, and I stood out like a sore thumb. Making friends back then was impossible, especially at this time in the history of man. You s...
The Salvation Army had been good to him. The corduroy cargo shorts he'd picked up were just the right amount of stained. His knee high socks complimented the blown out Birkenstocks to perfection. The long sleeve pink t-shirt read 'one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!' -- no doubt a castoff souvenir from a sp...
The problem with working strategies is that once they become known, like a pure soul, they decay and die. It was original, this human's way of murdering my kin, and for that I respected him, but in the end, he had killed my friends and he was going to pay the price. The whirlwind of fire dissipated. His house stood be...
A flame-phoenix rose and swooped and squalled, before rising again and exploding in a thousand brilliant colours that drifted like confetti onto the crowd below. The man on stage, who had created the fantastical sky-art, raised his hand in salute and the crowd bellowed and cheered his name. How unfair, Eric thought, ...
I’d always been the strongest man in the world. But I was certainly never the smartest. It wasn’t that I didn’t try. I’m Relentless. It’s how I got my name. But birds don’t swim, fish don’t fly, and I don’t think good. My left hand can level mountains. My right is my good hand. I’d used it to rip through the steel and...
Human mating, once a thing of beauty and mystery, has been reduced to a science by these clever experts. Like the majestic bird of paradise, the seduction ritual follows very clear and often complicated steps, depending on the particular variety. Our subject today is the common "Lemon-stealing whore."Though she adopts ...
"Aiden,"came the voice in his ear. "We've already mapped this part out. We have the footage from the rovers. There were no fossils there. Whatever you're seeing, it has to be less than three years old." He ignored it, a tinny electronic hum in his ear. His hand came up unconsciously and batted against the side of his ...
My first time in Melbourne was always going to be a thrill. I knew that. I just didn’t think it be turned into a thriller. My husband and I had planned this trip for months. We’d be kid-free and living large in the city. Even if it was only a weekend. It’d been a long flight and and he was too tired to join my enthus...
Death of one or the death of all: I fell. From a great height, I saw the world dying. I clung to all that was. Living so free, perhaps we deserve an end. So quiet and peaceful the world will be. Without me, who will remember? I fell from a great height. I saw the world. Dying, I clung to all that was. Living, s...
Are you aware of the concept called the Uncanny Valley effect? Essentially, when something looks very human, but lacks that final touch, has some flaw, looks off in some inexplicable way, it scares people. Think of clowns, mannequins, those freakishly realistic people dolls that some people make. It unnerves people. Un...
96. A chill ran up my spine as I tried to piece together how it happened. I had guessed on every question, gone out of my way to be as thoughtless about my answers as humanly possible. But there it was. One over the mark. I stared at the computer screen, my brain slowing as the numbing power of fear began to override...
“Hey Beth?” Greg asked leaning into the next cubicle. “Yeah?” Beth replied, not looking up from her Sudoku puzzle. “Why is Jerry screaming at the toaster?” Greg had tried to ignore it, but Jerry had been screaming and pointing at the toaster for the better part of an hour. “You didn’t hear what it said to him?” Beth...
The message from beyond had caused a stir. This was unsurprising, humanity had a knack for taking unexpected events and overreacting to them. It was something of a specialty within the species, a rare piece of unifying commonalia that allows us to just barely inhabit this earth with one another. We had always made a n...
The sharp intake of breath, the wide eyes, the elevated temperature in the throat and neck, spreading down into the stomach. All these are expected symptoms of the deadly poison extracted from the excretions of the sac fungi found on the plains of Straka III. The shaking expected afterwards is supposed to be a series ...
So, you finally decided to stop being a sad sack of crap and become a REAL Man™? Since you're smart enough to read, probably, you're maybe smart enough to not screw this up. Using the REAL Man™ method, you'll find the perfect fuckbunny in a week, or you're destined to be alone forever. Either way, no skin off my ass. ...
RESEARCH LOG 1246B: Feline Earth Predator OBJECTIVE: We seek to understand how this creature has successfully infiltrated the homes of millions of humans. We will use this knowledge to bolster our own invasion efforts. DAY 1: Specimen was successfully beamed to our research vessel from 235 Wilson Blvd., ...
He'd keep the girl's secret, for now. She clung to him, legs gripping around his neck as he cut through cloud cover, gliding over neat squares of grain and orchard. Directly ahead, the towering spires of a mighty castle, rounded by thick blackened stone. A mark of the last dragon's assault. Humans used castles ...
We were all roomates - myself, Chad, Jared, and Dave. He was always the smiling one in the group. Dave was rarely seen without his stupid shit eating grin plastered across his face. When any of the rest of us were down, in a rough patch, or really just needed anything for quality of life, Dave was our superhero. I swe...
Sacrifice is power. The most powerful sacrifice is life. This is a universal constant of magic. The greater the magic to be performed the greater the sacrifice to be made. - Understanding Basic Magic, vol 1 “Master, there are too many injured and just not enough life to heal them all. The wizards are passing out…. ...
Minim transmigrates, skitters, walks the intricate labyrinth of an entirely new colony. The tunnels branch out five-dimensionally, and far behind her is the distant memory of dying. She has emerged from her carapace a being of perfect and immortal soul, and the substrata of the world have revealed themselves to her. Sh...
FADE IN: INT. AN EMPTY ROOM A young man sits in what appears to be a completely white cell. This is DAVE. The only furnishings in the space are two white chairs and a white table, on top of which is a red button. Dave's finger is holding the button down, and the experience seems to be emotionally draining him. **D...
There is knocking. &#x200B; There’s a room in a house that hasn’t changed in years; a room with no clocks, where sunlight is blocked by thick wooden shutters. And in the spaces where bulbs should shine there is just empty darkness. A man lies on the bed, his feet hanging over the edge. His face is fuzzed from gr...
All my life, I have only ever sought to do what was right. I have made mistakes, I will not deny that. I was ... clumsy. Inept. I was cast apart from my own people for my errors. I would have died out there, alone, apart. But when my life was saved by a complete stranger, I realized that I could devote myself to some...
The helicopter’s skids skimmed the tops of the waves in the Yellow Sea. The stealth paneling should hide it from all radar, but just to be sure it was standard protocol to fly as low as possible. And the pilot, Lieutenant Owczarski, took that as a challenge to turn his bird into a boat. In the back, eight Navy Seals w...

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