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Harry took his seat between Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, his two best friends. It was their first class of their fifth year and they were all excited to meet the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Normally they would have been introduced to their new instructor at the start of term feast but this year even... | Jim sat up in bed and stretched as the alarm woke him from the deepest sleep he'd had in ages. After so many nights on the streets, he was finally starting to get used to this awkward graveyard schedule - asleep by 2pm, up by 9pm - and the demands his new "job" required. Sure, he'd definitely gained muscle and flexibil... | 0 | Erutious | thestef121 | false |
One of the first thing Human asked was to see our "technology" and send "researchers" (even though they weren't all that good to find things) on every planet to see how we function. I showed to the "reseacher" how we made rune and I distingly remember seeing them type on a magic (though they never called it magic) mirr... | I'm eating breakfast at the castle when a swarm of peasants run in the door. I hear them first, with my back being to them. 'Where is he?' 'I don't know, they said he was right here' 'Oh, there he is!' I hear them approach me and think, 'not me. Not me. Please. God, just let me finish my hangover breakfast in peace' as... | 0 | Zealousideal-Win1383 | theert | false |
He was born with bilateral talipes. People say that talipes (clubfoot) can lead to other mental problems such as autism or down syndrome. He was neither. However, he did have some very strange characteristics. For example, he would never say "I love you" to his parents, and he would often be seen hitting his sister so ... | Each echoing scrape of your foot against the rocky tunnel floor makes you wince. The scattered torches along the walls don’t provide enough light to see clearly, making each step a challenge in staying quiet. But silence isn’t enough. If you don’t go faster, the monster of the labyrinth will find you. No one has escape... | 0 | Rhysasaur | Mjpoole | false |
When you run for days, literal days, dehydrated, knees aching, pangs of hunger that almost feel palpable; That part of your mind, that has morals, values, shuts down. You become self serving, capricious, your will kicks into gear for survival. You dont even feel self-conscious of how tattered you are, the suspicious lo... | I cuddled myself inside my covers, eyes squinting in the blanket of the darkness. The house was quiet, except for the soft thuds of her footsteps as she stood beside my bed. Staring down at me as her large looming presence hovered above me.
"Stacy was deaf. She lost the ability to hear during an unfortunate car crash ... | 1 | MrTibzz | MrTibzz | false |
The shadow of a frown stretched down his chest like a curtain bib. A news reporter, in my kitchen? Couldn't be - he has the gray suit and the fancy hat but I'm fucking boring. There was silence to prove it. Eventually, after the third round of morning birdsong's through the cracked window, he sat down across from me, a... | It was a sunny day, bright sun on our faces, warm air flowing through the breeze, such a perfect sunny day on top of a small hill overlooking our grand city together. She was a beauty, my first, my last, my love, whom I made my wife. We had it all, from a luxurious house, to white sheets for the bed, golden furniture a... | 0 | Dano3000 | mccoolfriend6 | false |
‘What the fuck?’ Daniel’s mouth hung open as he looked at the statue standing before him - the statue of himself - dressed in the same clothes, down to the exact same detail of how he looked the day before.
He looked around him, seeing no one else in the eggshell-white corridor of the exhibit he had happened to walk o... | “I’d like to order just a black coffee, please.” I stated to the barista at my local coffee shop, trying to rub the exhaustion out of my eyes. “Ugh, remind me again how being able to climb a stupid rock is worth waking up at this ungodly hour” I pouted to my friend Jack who was standing next to me.
“Trust me dude, Th... | 0 | Synchrox | ChronoTea | false |
“Look at this slide right here! You see how it doesn’t line up? How many times have I told you Balathazar. You need to ZOOM. ZOOM! You have to make sure that this box is right here - see how this is lined up at height 500 pixels?”
So I corrected my mouse and started moving it right. I could see Sean’s eyes burning a h... | I never would imagine a feeling more emptier than this. I can't remember where I am or where I was to get here. I only remember a light and at the end of that light there wasn't anything else. So what am I to do here?
When I first arrived I saw nothing. I couldn't describe at first what I was not seeing but it wasn't ... | 0 | rolexpo | Jonjolion12 | false |
I can be my own person, I can create my own identity! The thing is though, I don’t even remember who I was before, was I a human? An animal? I assume I was a human but what gender was I? What did I look like? Was I tall or short? Had long hair or short hair? Was I skinny or fat?
It doesn’t really matter now I think ab... | Previously, we had found giant books that contained things about our past that we could never imagine, the only thing that didn’t add up though is why everything ancient thing we found was so big, the vases, the books, hell, we even found a giant toaster and so much more, it was weird.
None of it made sense till one d... | 1 | Single_Bitch_ | Single_Bitch_ | false |
Duke hardly had to listen to the conversation to keep up. After getting his talent to read subtitles, most people believed he was nonchalant about everything. At first, he found it irritating since he missed most social cues or body language. However, as time went on he had adapted to reading the bracket events. It als... | It started very subtly. I got my first houseplant as a housewarming gift from my parents when I moved out on my own. The small cactus was supposedly easy to care for and even though I forgot to water it for the first three months It was still alive and looked healthy when I finally paid any attention to it. It has been... | 0 | Pidgeonfeed | kikkelikokkelikalle | false |
The sound of sirens in the distance brought a wicked smile out beneath his bearded, mud caked face. He stood there in the heavy rain, feet planted in the wet soil of my father’s garden, crooked teeth catching the reflection of the lightning striking nearby. In the dark torrent of thunder and wind I can hear his low lau... | The thin beam of light poked through the window shade and cast a pale yellow circle at my feet. My eyes struggled to open fully, collapsing several times before settling for half way. I watch for what feels like hours as the yellow circle crawls up my legs, which don't seem to want to move any more than my eyes. I noti... | 1 | LRM_OnStation | LRM_OnStation | false |
SEVEN. How did no one else hear that? I can’t be the only one. Tom just keeps droning on and on… Good Lord that guy likes the sound of his own voice. What did that voice say again?? “You’ll either die or meet the love of your life”? What the heck does that mean? This meeting is scheduled for another half hour, there’s ... | Then it became clear. They had travelled across the galaxy, in search of aid, in search of help. They had observed countless systems, dozens of inhabited worlds, looking for one where they could seek help without fear of rebuke, or worse, assault. And from ours they found two words. Words that would change the balance ... | 0 | BigMoses777 | Orisi | false |
Most people were unsure if they had even grown over the past ten years. Deep caverns with shades of stress and strain, hatred and fear had scared the surface for well over a century and a half. The sunlight was now forbidden from entering these cracks, the high walls impenetrable keeping out all unwanted outsiders, lig... | Zapp walks out of the barracks with a full belly and sucking on a toothpick. "Man does that tuna hit the spot-" he suddenly stops and stares blankly at the audience of soldiers eagerly waiting for a speech before landing on Normandy. a short male with a huge head comes stumbling behind Zapp fully dressed for combat, bu... | 0 | squadrillionaire | fufukachoo | false |
I woke up with a determination to end this nightmare. Had it been more than a month since it happened or was it still the same day? I had no way of tracking how much time had actually passed. So, I move over to my makeshift calendar—a section of the wall that I set aside for tallying the number of times I’ve woken u... | He stared at her, as she lay still in her hospital gown, in her hospital bed. The light was cold, the room was freezing, and the man's heart was crawling to a stop. His daughter stared at her dying mother bewildered, as most children are at her age. The man stopped caressing her hand for a moment, looking from her dimm... | 0 | Xenetine | Train_Stapler2 | false |
When the Great Garbing came into existence, they say it changed our world. It only happens one day out of the year, but it let the world know magic existed. They say one angry witch cast the spell, and she just so happened to be rather strong in her magic skills. At first, scientists and technologists scrambled for way... | Dimitri sauntered into the office, hips waving and auburn hair flowing gracefully. As usual, her presence turned heads, and how could it *not?* She was beautiful. Round face, hazel eyes that could cut you in half, and mocha skin that was irresistibly soft. More attractive than her physical beauty was the air of confide... | 0 | Idialogy | opheliaarsyn | false |
I didn't mean to say it, and Nina freezes as soon as the words are out of my mouth. She's still got one of her fucking feet inside the wall, and she pulls it free sheepishly, her cheeks flushing. I sink lower into my seat, pinching the bridge of my nose.
"Me, too." She pulls off her jacket, hangs it on a hook by the f... | His truck slowed to a stop, and while he had been reproached before for taking too long, the mailman still couldn’t help but wait. Any second he knew the dog would run up to the fence, jump up and down in a continuous frenzy, his head peeking out in quick second bursts. Slowly, he gathered the mail, wondering again, ho... | 0 | greenlikethecolour | veggieburgur | false |
Nora tugged at the hem of her mother’s jacket, dried tears making grimy streaks along her face. Her eyes were red and puffy from a night spent crying in the darkness, her face buried in her mother’s chest. But even the young girl knew this wasn’t the time for crying, outside of the decrepit hotel blue lights flashed,... | I’ve seen it happen. Seen the soul leave the body, hovering, waiting. Within moments, it will zip away, finding a new home elsewhere in the human race. I’ve seen it race toward me, too. Well, not me, but toward the mother in labor or the recently born child. It’s always sad to see the child come out without the glow, t... | 0 | DreamFiction | ABlackWaltz | false |
"Climb up the rock," he replied, so I did, and he handed it to me. I looked through it. There was only food, some fruits I recognized, some that I didn't. No weapons. "Yes," I called out, "you can come in. Stand back."
I said a spell to move the largest piece of the rock. It rumbled and rose into the air as rainwater ... | "You fight by the old rules. Okay you get a day to prepare, I'll allow you to stay in the palace, you have my warriors word that nothing will happen to you while you are here."
Khan was the first to speak. "When the noon bell strikes the battle will comence, if you leave the circle you forfeit your life, this battle i... | 0 | Findthepin1 | Writes_for_Tits | false |
Georgie had rolled a Dragonkin knight and was already cleaving her way through the rambling forces of demon spawn with a battleaxe almost as big as she was. It was the perfect fit for the girl with the big personality and even bigger voice. By contrast, Ed, the quiet one of our group, had rolled an Elven monk, at peace... | I knew it, from the moment the steps disappeared from the swimming pool and I watched my husband swam helplessly around and around, I knew what I had to do. I watched as he relieved himself, much to his embarrassment, and tried to find another escape from the stepless pool. There was no hope. Only the master could sav... | 1 | Xiakitta | Xiakitta | false |
I glanced around the room to check the results of my soda straw poll. No hands were raised. The Yakuza deliverymen (who were pretty well-dressed for guys that work out in the yard all day) seemed shy. Maybe it's a cultural thing?
“They just sodas guys, see? Diet grapefruit citrus. Great stuff.” I took a can out of the... | The “Metro Diner” was anything but – though it certainly met the grease and grime quota to be legally considered a diner, it was about as metropolitan as a one-stoplight town. It stayed open all night, though, and had a neon sign that shone with a crimson glow which beckoned I-95 travelers to its timeworn doors like a ... | 1 | Foolinthebrain | Foolinthebrain | false |
Egon was exhausted. It wasn't anything new: he'd spent his whole life trying to keep the other two from getting them all killed. Of the three of them, he was the only one to consider himself pragmatic: He'd actually try to work around problems, rather than try to strong-arm his way through them, or wear them down. S... | Keep your head down, eyes forward, mind your business, and *always check the sender.* I should've paid more attention to that last part, and no attention at all to the contents of the email. One of those obvious scam Amazon giveaways the somehow wasn't filtered out. I didn't mean to open the email, but my thumb had a d... | 0 | viaovid | Chimichenghis | false |
"I find your human histories so compelling." Karn-Tosh said wistfully as he reclined in his chair, elegant robes flowing to accommodate the movement of his thin, bony body. Out the balcony window before him he stared down at a training field on a faraway world, untold thousands of light years from Earth. Several hundre... | You're probably wondering how a small, incredibly handsome man like myself ended up hanging upside down, stripped of all clothing inside an alien ship out in space. Well, so am I really, so while I try to stay calm and ignore the fact that two pink lizards are currently pointing at my genitals and looking at each other... | 0 | bookem_danno | vitmorsteinfeld | false |
Adam was the first to wake up. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t shake the feeling that this was a dream. He looked to the other side of the room and found Julian and Guilherme still asleep. He looked to his left and saw Hector, also still asleep. The lights in the container were slowly turning on to mimic sunri... | "Hello?" I called. My voice seemed to echo throughout the house; the only response I heard was a light jazz music coming from the kitchen. No one presented themselves. Not my wife, not my kids, not some bloodsucking alien. This was eerie. I opened a cabinet and retrieved a glass. The faucet worked, so I downed a glass ... | 0 | relddir123 | WritesNoWrongs | false |
And she saw her. The witch. Except maybe she was not a witch. The woman was impossibly young and ethereally beautiful. She had long, flowing black hair and was robed in extravagance. Her olive dress was immaculately embroidered with gold designs that seemed to shift in the light.
"He's the butcher's boy. He's from a l... | "Forgive this poor slave for intruding on your property, milady. I'm a blind fool, and I think my ship has crashed. Should you find a man with a head of red hair, he's my owner. He's a merchant who's ship I'm an oarsman to." I explained myself, realising how guttural and archaic my use of the language was compared to h... | 1 | rookwoodo | rookwoodo | false |
I punched the company's number into my cell phone, furious. How could they *do* this?! I hadn't given them permission! By the Gods, I had been given one job, and up until now I had performed it to perfection.
The phone went silent as it was put on hold. Gods, *Hippie-Boy.* Of course I'd get nicknamed that. If only the... | This time, a few children grumbled low *hi*s and *hello*s, every face stony whether it moved or not. Today was the first day of the school year, and for these wonderful, vibrant freshmen, it was their first day in the long journey of mastering a class. Speccing into one, the official term was.
Humphrey H. Helpe of the... | 1 | qderp37 | qderp37 | false |
Our pilot must have landed the plane and evacuated everyone successfully, all of the passengers on the flight MH370 are alive and accounted for, courtesy of the air stewardesses with their passenger list. Besides from a few cases of sprained ankles during what we assume was from the rapid evacuation of the plane, we ar... | The assassin sat silently at the edge of the sofa inside of his next victim’s home. With the lights off the assassin was all but invisible. The only sound in the house was the metallic flutter of the gold coin the assassin tossed in the air repeatedly, as he always did while waiting for a victim.
He had been sitting o... | 0 | jonatron123 | FrostedWheat | false |
Just as I thought my day couldn’t get any worse, it started raining. Normally this would have been a beautiful scene. A gorgeously cobblestoned street littered with little antique stores and coffee shops. The road curved whimsily ahead of me, but honestly, it only added insult to injury. My good for nothing step mother... | Slipping her phone into the inside pocket of her jacket, Muriel's gaze glazed over the rear view mirror, intending to look out the window to her left. She doubled back, however, upon seeing the woman returning her gaze above the car's dashboard.
There were deep, clear lines, mostly focused around her eyes. The bags un... | 0 | chickenswithsweaters | vapidAndFlowery | false |
"My liege, can you still fight?" I said as I led my emperor to his throne room. He looked back at me, slightly winded. "I'm old but I'm not that old, I'm only 48." the emperor said, still full of energy. I guess sitting back had gotten old. He really wanted a fight. I took off my black helmet, threw it aside, and took ... | I look into the iPhone facing me while I lay down. There I see the woman I have fallen in love with, at least for now. I don't know why but love for me seems to not last very long. This is the woman I have loved the longest. Shae was in California while I was stuck in Indiana. Three hours was the time between us. I tri... | 1 | cjssquared | cjssquared | false |
By this time, everybody with an internet or TV connection had seen Ygrim's first public appearance. A blurred video of him killing the news anchor and announcing his intent immediately took the spot of the most viewed on YouTube, and an uncensored version became LiveLeak's top attractor. Even Chinese and North Korean n... | Ted chatted hurriedly into his headset. "Alec, we're just getting word that former President George W. Bush is actually a lizard person. Also, apparently Michael Jackson isn't really dead. Neither are Biggie, Tupac, Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, or Amy Winehouse. They're in Cuba. That's why the Castros are so hostile to t... | 1 | The_Derpening | The_Derpening | false |
I stood poised at the end of my bed. I peered over at my teddy bear standing over the massive, motionless lump on the rug. I could kind of make out a face from my night light. No, not any face--a clown's face. I screamed and fell backwards into my blankets. My teddy bear hopped up onto the bed after me, trying its best... | "I know he's your brother but he's been doing this every year since we got married. The reason he's such a huge asshole is because nobody ever holds him accountable for his actions. Why did your mother have to name him Jesus just because he was born on Christmas?" I ask shaking my head.
"It's not cute, It's creepy. Yo... | 0 | wondachue | SilentJoe1986 | false |
That pathetic, weak, sniveling Dean thinks that the academy can stop me. They tried to stop me before, when I was expelled. They said my research was unethical, that I was an affront to magic users everywhere. They should of silenced me when they had they chance. Severed my connection to the innate arcane power flowing... | "It's a bit too cold for my taste. Speaking of which, you may want to bring the hibiscus plants in so they don't freeze in tonight's cold front." I thumb behind me to the front of the boutique flower shop.
"Just a lucky guess." I smile at Daisy as I pay her for the flowers. Her short brown hair is pulled behind her ea... | 1 | Writingtrialbyfire | Writingtrialbyfire | false |
Peter was following his daily routine of returning home. Not that there was much for him to do. "Have a good evening, Sir.", the andro-cabbie said, as the car door opened automatically. Peter walked out and entered the apartment complex. The elevator had detected his arrival, and the door was open. He didn't bother say... | To me it's all too sterile. To me, it seems like there's more to life than technology, Credits, anti-grav suits and living forever. The world has moved on, and thrown aside centuries of history. Like it decided one day to just up and move house to a new town, leaving all behind.
People pretend to be happy with the New... | 0 | SomeCartoon | QuietEden | false |
Barraxal nodded. Time hadn’t touched the dwarf yet, and I’m not sure it ever would. “I’d think it would be anytime now. Asaia has been getting restless for home as of late, and the kingdom of Lanastru would definitely like him back.”
“I still don’t know how you did it, my friend.” I ruefully shook my head. “I’m positi... | I could taste the metal of the bullet. Weirdly, that was the first thought that came to mind as I stared up into the blue sky, watching as the occasional puff of smoke meant yet another of my companions met their untimely demise far, far above me. War wasn’t even supposed to have happened yet, but try telling that to t... | 1 | mattswritingaccount | mattswritingaccount | false |
"The hell kind of question is that? Look, when you said we needed to meet and talk about work on a frickin' Sunday afternoon, did I care? No. Did I bitch and complain? No. I put on my big kid pants, left my wife at home, and came here to this ratty-ass diner just for you."
"That's not the point-- and hey, what the fuc... | Ara led the way and Maurice stayed a step behind, in much the same way a child is lead by a parent. They walked hand in hand for many minutes in silence while the dry leaves of seasons passed crunched under their feet. The trees overhead bent and gave way to let the moon light their path.
Maurice ruminated on the ever... | 0 | FliryVorru | ohgeeohgoshohgolly | false |
Babies are usually born crying, bitter that they were taken from the empty void they resided in for the last 9 months. Babies are also usually born without superpowers but we'll get there in a minute. I was a baby born in October, it was a full moon not that, that's important and I was born at 3am, also not very import... | Normality. Such a foolish word people use to hide the strange aspects of life behind a curtain of mundanity. That bump in the night was just the wind, the twig snapping in the forest was just a fox, the feeling of being stalked is just paranoia...right? Those who believe this are no different than those who believe in ... | 1 | Delve_deep | Delve_deep | false |
The centaurs had many subtleties to their culture: the way they raise their young, the food they eat, hell even the way they see their bodies. They never covered it, they took it as a sign of weakness to be ashamed of anything that the Goddess Crenion gave to them. A proud race, those centaurs. As a human, I could neve... | His cold dagger slithered inside me cutting veins, arteries, and organs "You were too unpredictable yea'ri" Hosirus an Eldar assassin whispered behind me as he pulled out his dagger, my body limp from the poison that soaked the blade.
I twitched as my body hit the grass "Cut off her head to ensure her death!" culvan t... | 0 | AppleS33d89 | somedude_sleeping | false |
"Fuck you" he said dispassionately, staring at the face in front of him. The face's eyes looked sad and tired with dark circles and a hint of bags, the cheeks rumpled with deep pink creases and scars. He thought the face looked like some kind of exo-colony abo with a stim problem. "Fuck you" said the face in identical ... | Aside from psychedelic posters haphazardly pinned to the wall Jay's room was tidy, his things well cared for. It was hard _not_ to be tidy when your room was the size of a shoe. He sat down hard on the twin bed nestled in the corner, thought for a second, then grabbed his outdoor pack, shoved two used Gatorade bottles ... | 1 | hOprah_Winfree-carr | hOprah_Winfree-carr | false |
Arron jumped out of his seat, and snatched his phone off his desk, he could feel himself starting to breath faster as he was searching for his mom's contact in his phone. Arron tried calling, "Oh hello this is Rosa- "Mom! Mom, are you- "I'm busy right now, so please leave a message" "After the tone please record your m... | Since the beginning of humanity, it would seem all of us have been fascinated with the idea of immortality, being able to cheat death and see what the future will hold. Though not many people understand what this entails, especially the strain it puts on the human mind. We’re really only capable of holding so much info... | 1 | Hillsand0 | Hillsand0 | false |
By the time I was around three, the world had a very stark knowledge of the current situation. As it stood, around ninety percent of children that were born ceased to exist within a few seconds, and ninety percent of the remainder just after that point. This is because most infants, if given the opportunity to transfor... | Today was a day like most of the other days i worked here. just me, sitting at my desk in the corner of the room, with a big red button on a pillar in the center of the room. I've been allowed to have some stuff in there with me to pass the time a few books in a small bookshelf i was allowed to add after a few years of... | 0 | TheJungleDragon | Doc_of_derp | false |
Meera wasn't happy with how she'd ended there. Starting from childhood, she had always had the ability to understand any language she came across. She had studied Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, English, French, Sanskrit, Latin, Urdu, Punjabi, Italian, Russian, Greek, and a hundred other languages.
Meera tried to vanish and go... | The briefcase sat beside me. Samsonite Bonded Leather Attache. Initially the money was thrown in an old gym bag. Until they had asked for the attache. I wondered why that model, specifically. It took me about three seconds to realize 75k, when stacked right, would fit quite snugly. A small shake and a quick glance woul... | 0 | InfiniteCowherd | DhengisMcSanji | false |
"Nice to meet you Greg," said the driver. I couldn't see his face very well but his eyes shined like a young teen's. And it was definitely my voice I was hearing. It was odd. Like listening to a recording of yourself from when you were younger and wondering if that was really what you used to sound like. "Glad you coul... | Of course there's a price to pay. Always. I have a burden most people wouldn't understand, let alone be able to bear, but when you're the only one who can deal with it, I guess you just learn to cope.
I'm the quantum butterly that ensures equipoise is maintained. Tiny actions on my part have a vastly exagerated eff... | 0 | itsthatkidgreg | workinthrowaway | false |
I thought to myself as my moments of peace were disturbed by the distant echo of the approaching warriors. Each time someone saw me, the word got out as it always does, and the elves try to ‘clean’ this land by exterminating every impurity - no matter the cost. In their eyes blinded by their long-dead god, I am an impu... | Each motionless object was an irresistible doorway to a daydream - a daydream in which he could swim for hours at a time without realising it. An attempt to ignore all these ideas he was flooded by would be merely pointless, he couldn’t prevent it, he couldn’t stop it, he couldn’t control it...
‘I-I’m trying..” he tri... | 1 | Strix0239 | Strix0239 | false |
The sound of the door opening pulled my gaze from the TV to the entryway, where Jenny was coming through with a package in her hands. "Hey babe," she said, glancing over at me while kicking her shoes off. "I found a package on our steps just now, but there's no name. Did you order something?"
Ignoring the jab, I got u... | As Michael walked down the hospital halls he tried to remember how it happened. It was the late 19th century, the specific year had faded with time. He didn’t really know why he was in the library of the university. Psychology was so new at the time he didn’t expect to find any writing about it. Still, he thumbed throu... | 0 | Lenae_Rome89 | maximumpowers69 | false |
"Jon Osterman!" Gone are the typical Starfleet reds, or imperious robes. Today, the cosmic entity from the continuum is wearing an outfit similar to the Comedian's. The red white and blue, with the domino mask and an obviously fake cigar. "I knew you would one day come this way."
"As did I, Q. I've always known I woul... | Emotions are what separate your kind from mine. People like you are able to lead "normal" lives—a family, a home, a career. We look the same, you and I, but there’s something that makes you human and makes me... not so much.
My “disease” isn’t a rare one. There are many others like me, who are thrown onto the street o... | 0 | wraithstrike | constantvariable_A | false |
The elderly baroness pondered briefly over my stated fact as she stood in the midst of her cindered manor before replying, "you can still kill them right?" She said, "I think I saw three of them up in the attic, maybe a forth one. 50 florins for three dead firerats and an additional 25 for any more you managed to find ... | The sky was a light blue, the breeze gentle, the sun bright and warm. There were a few fluffy white clouds casting shadows here and there. It was nearly completely silent. There was only one sound, the shrill cry of an baby.
The infant lay at the center of a large crater. Destruction spread out from around the holleri... | 0 | LightCrocoDile | Zhangbizi | false |
"This. This couch. I was trying to tell you earlier. I came home last night after the date and here it was. Right there. I've never seen that couch before in my life. The door was locked. I had the key. Yet somehow someway. There is a brand new couch sitting in my living room, in a way that defies all fields of logic i... | I was standing in a long queue of teenagers, my eyes fixed on a silver gate in front. All of us were dressed in a soft, cotton, pajama-like one-piece and a wooden necklace with our names written on it.
Beep, beep, beep, I could hear the scanner going, my peers getting their careers assigned to them one by one. Boys an... | 0 | IWriteAverageThings | Pristine_Beyond9012 | false |
They came hurtling down in what looked like teardrops. They would land in the ocean, then swim with terrifying speed to the costs to slaughter the costal cities. Weird as these aliens were, they were vicious and deadly and worst of all, terrifyingly clever and brilliant birds of war. They held no remorse, took no priso... | Off to the right, there are more tombstones. Four hundred and fifty three to be exact. One for each and every wife I've ever had. So much pain is present in this little plot of land. And so much joy.
The gate of the cemetery is coming up. Just outside, Hugh is waiting by the door to the limo. I don't know what he thin... | 0 | Xethaios | MandoFett117 | false |
**I wrote this story about one of my biggest fears and found that it ended up being very therapeutic for me to get it from my thoughts to paper. I'm not really looking for any critique on it since I did it mostly for myself, but I'll post it here anyway for anyone who may be interested in reading it, or if they get ins... | Couples kissed each other, some groups popped champagne, and for a brief second life seemed to follow the usual course...except the cheering stopped, the lips parted ways and an unheard silence filled the planet for the first time since humans stepped foot on this world.
Look, I'm great at math, but I couldn't read th... | 0 | george_lass | spark_21 | false |
The two of us sat in the leather chairs next to one and other, nervously twitching and scratching as we waited for The Boss to arrive. Suddenly, the door sprung open and a tall, shadowy figure swaggered in. His mischievous eyes and trademark grin twinkled in the moonlight through the window; his purple and black stripe... | When I was a small child, my grandmother used to tell me stories about the elves that she claimed lived in the woods near her house. Strange otherworldly creatures with long pointy ears, skin as pale as porcelain, eyes like a snake and teeth as long and sharp as needles. She told me that only children could see the elv... | 0 | Kronzo888 | Letteropener52 | false |
Paul sat in his car outside the local Revelation Center. Anxiety made him grip the wheel tightly. A lifelong Catholic, when he first heard that scientists had discovered souls, he dismissed it as nonsense. Such things were the realm of faith. But in the three years since nothing ever contradicted the findings. Along wi... | The human's voice echoes throughout the dropping bay. Five Arstreopods, tentacles waving nervously, tighten their grip upon the red motorised vehicle the Fighters of the Flame brought with them. The fore-pod clicks his beak, no doubt ashamed of his team's lack of care.
An inch at a time, the "Fire Engine" is lowered... | 0 | CeladonRabbit | Get_Back_here_Skarl | false |
Since I can remember I've been facinated by mechanics. The movement of a set of gears would always give me a soothing feeling. I also loved watching shows such as "How it's Made", not only for the soothing sensation, but the main reason was, it made me feel save. Whole.
The day was a Saturday. I was excited for the we... | *6 months it has been, what a boring life of a robot.* It went directly to the captain's statis pod as it was programmed to do once they neared the Red Planet. The captain was last to be put into stasis, and the first to be woken up.
The door closed behind ELPA-35 as it entered the captain's wing. It drove up to the i... | 1 | Jakes9070 | Jakes9070 | false |
I am Sergeant Louis Wickstrom, Hillsboro PD. It is 4:16 AM, Saturday April 11. This appears to be an account of what is happening. It is valuable information and if anyone finds this, make sure it gets to the proper authorities. I'm going to take a moment here to put down more info.
Just after two AM I got the call to... | He shifted uncomfortably back and forth as he replied, "He's, uh, gone now..." He trailed off with a tone that expressed equal parts nervousness and fear. It was the same tone everyone had when Yvette asked about the eyebrows. The fact that everyone shaved off their eyebrows was easily the most bizarre change that had ... | 0 | StupidDogCoffee | Bibo193896423 | false |
The train was packed as always. Going home on a Friday night after work, I couldn't help but note the others' smiles with a hint of envy. Here I was, standing in my soot covered uniform, so tired my legs were trembling, cursing the teenagers sprawled across the seats, laughing about the party they were going to. One of... | I had that dream again. It feels like it was so long ago that I was a young man attending the university. I was pretty sure it was real. It was maybe 10 or 15 years ago? I'm not quite sure anymore. I only have memories as a child in that world, and memories of being an adult in this world. In that world, I was a man na... | 0 | Cloudedguardian | klkevinkl | false |
My eyes opened as the bright light of the room caused me to wince slightly. I vaguely recognize my surroundings to be one belonging to a hospital. *What? What am I doing here?* Before I had the chance to begin panicking, a man in a white lab coat enters the room and picks up a clipboard from the end of the bed I'm on.
... | Kell had the tattoo on his hand for as long as he could remember. In his tribe, children born to two druids didn’t get birthmarks. They had tattoos. Adult druids often printed their bodies with the Marks of power to aid in the strongest magics. It was reckless, even inconceivable, to consider tattooing children. So one... | 0 | infinity_nightowl | TirionRothir | false |
It had been a grand battle between Wora Lord of Shadows, and the hero Raf with Lux stone. A conflict that span dozens of realms and millennia in the blink of an eye. Wora an evil without shape or form finally sealed away by Raf's Lux stone.
In his abyss he could hear the changing of the world. Minor changes to man's s... | Yunus knew the pyramids would be beauties beyond what he could believe but seeing them in person he believed even less. Bright white stones with golden caps that marked the tombs of those who shook the nation. Each Pharoah left a mark on the land and on its people.
He had arrived with a team. Each had a specialty, fro... | 1 | yourblackfriend | yourblackfriend | false |
Fire from the heavens, blindingly white-gold, enveloped the queen as she spoke the words. The force of the crackling cyclone of flame threw me backward off my feet, and I took refuge behind an outcropping of rock. The sheer amount of raw power radiating from the queen's body knocked the wind from my lungs, sending the ... | "Yeah, well, you breaching my privacy is first degree betrayal of trust. Gimme those," Charlie snaps, and snatches the sheaf of papers from the angel's hands. They contained detailed records of his money laundering and smuggling schemes, evidence enough to put him behind bars for life if he gets caught. Charlie goes ri... | 0 | Lightsbane42 | -Ruyi- | false |
From the view of his office, a bluegrass morning spread south below the Ohio like an oil painting, its grandeur only spoiled here and there by pieces of Kentucky ruin not within the safety of Cincinillity’s walls. Schlemmer seemed oblivious to it all as he slunk lazily into a leather backed chair.
“No, sir,” Marsh con... | I stood, vaguely aware of my lower jaw falling slowly to the floor. Pistol in hand, but lowered. The weapon meant to be used against Hitler. The bullets meant to prevent the unnecessary deaths of millions. All pointed at the ground, because standing in their way was me.
Not this me. Not *me* me. A different me. One wi... | 0 | mo-reeseCEO1 | deventio7 | false |
There was a word which perfectly described Alex's sister, but Chloe couldn't come up with it right now because was too busy worry about the how sweaty her hands we getting. She turned the the wooden spoon over and over, eyeing her prey.
Actually, something about the lobsters reminded her of Alex's sister. They seemed ... | Before going to the doctor today I'd done the diligent thing and called out old family doc and been shocked to hear he was dead. The news awoke memories of my last visit, of the adolescent embarrassment I'd felt having to tell him something had gone awry *down-there*. He'd been so kind and conscientious, he tried so ha... | 1 | BusyRepublic_the_1st | BusyRepublic_the_1st | false |
I chuckled to myself upon hearing that name. we had many false cases in the past but nobody had attempted to be *the devil.* I scanned the house in front of me searching for any clues or evidence that this stout man in a rocking chair was the overlord of hell. the house was no more than your ordinary cottage, rustic, s... | Maybe "press" isn't the right word to use. It not really a button. It's not a physical object at all. But it's something we always see in our minds, lingering at the edges of our vision.
It's tempting. Those moments when you sit bored out of your mind waiting for something - anything to happen, it's tempting to touch ... | 0 | Imiliond | harmonic-dissonance | false |
I have always been the weakest kid in the world. I could barely lift a fork with meat in it and for this reason everyone called me Sickly. I remember my first day of school, "show them your charm sweety, be brave" My mom used to tell me this while she was hugging me goodbye before I took the school bus. "Why don't you ... | The eldest took me to a place that looked like a magical bar, dozens of wizards were sitting in the other tables drinking a sparkly blue cocktail. One of them was levitating and spinning around in his wooden chair while eating something extremely weird, it almost looked like fried dead mice.
"It's time for your first ... | 1 | ChasisOxidado | ChasisOxidado | false |
"God dammit, that's the third one this week," said the man. It wasn't enough that the recoil from the sawed-off shotgun knocked him down, but some of the creature's goo ended up splattering over his last nice shirt.
"My fuckin' button-down, man," he said as he pulled himself up to his feet. It hadn't been a year since... | Once, man dreamed of the heavens. A man would look up into the vast expanse, and as he would stare into the pinpoint lights that covered the darkness, he would aspire to a greater reality. It was in those days when men created machines of wonder that could reach out into the stars, hoping to grasp a small part of etern... | 1 | joncrimson | joncrimson | false |
I had been alone all my life, well me and my second heart. It's not a literal heart of course; an amulet that I have kept around my neck since the day I...existed. It has a warm glow and is in the shape of a heart but for some reason I like it or *need* it close to me.
Since the day I pooped in out of no where with no... | Since toddlerhood Ben had been enamored by pictures. His mother was a painter of sorts; professionally she painted houses with Ben’s father, an uninspired man who was content to live within the constraints of an ordinary life. Ben’s mother Rose however, despite truly loving Ben and his father, still dreamed of grander ... | 0 | undertalesanspapyrus | Nozilla_RUN | false |
The quill was pulled from its watery resting place, shaken, dipped into a pool of blackness, laid against the wood pulp and driven across it, laying in its wake the words that would mean the end of death. Salt drifted in through the cracked windows and brought the see inside to watch over the old man. Fire kept at bay ... | They rise out of the endless steel and concrete trees, little will of wisps that come and blanket the land in the soft yellow glow. The sheer blues and commanding reds fade away in the horizon leaving us with only the celestial light we’ve made for ourselves to keep us in the long dark night. They call out to you, danc... | 1 | andstillitwrites | andstillitwrites | false |
As Kaitlyn takes the keys, the memories of how she treated her father last year begin haunting her. "I hate you! I wish you and mom would get a divorce, so she and I can move and be happy." She chalked those moments up to just needing to blow off steam, since she had just caught Jacob kissing Steph in the school stairw... | Death is but a momentary relief, a split second of fleeting catharsis between the termination of physical life support and the plummet into the black cosmos of vacancy. It is when we experience the most pleasure, in the breaking of corporeal bonds so ponderous we are willing to give up our immortality to emancipate our... | 0 | ZarihS | karma_inchoate | false |
My name is Jonathan Reed and I see things that are not supposed to be there. I am not sure when I first started noticing it, this ‘aura’ that some people carried with them. Like a shadow, or a trail of light that they leave behind when they move.
Once I noticed it I could not ignore it anymore, it started to pop up al... | A faint burnt smell lingers in the air, before us the ruin of what was a happy family home just yesterday lies dark and damp. We sneak towards the patio door and Demetri motions to the entrance, now criss-crossed with yellow-black police tape. He told us that this will be a test to see if Julie and I are ready to go ou... | 1 | Dethecor | Dethecor | false |
I am a 25 year old man, a hacker, and have made millions of dollars in doing so. The FBI added me to one of their lists but their security and hacking of their own is very old-school if you ask me, and thus I have not yet been caught, but that is beside the point. Instead of taking me in, they have now asked to help th... | My birthday was coming up soon. Four days to be exact, on March 16th. I hadn’t asked for anything for my birthday this year. I didn’t really know what I wanted. The other years I had always wanted something fun and exciting; a new video game, a bike, new clothes, or a pair of shoes perhaps. I had graduated, gotten my d... | 1 | NeverAgainDave | NeverAgainDave | false |
I imagine you sitting there imagining an endless red wasteland, accompanied by vicious torrents of lava streaking through the air and a crimson sun bearing down on us all. Well, you'd be right about that bit. But the people here mostly aren't too bad. And note my use of the word 'people'.
The majority of hells occupan... | You should never become too dependant on another person, her older sister had told her. Because if they leave, you will be in a whole world of hurt. But she just couldn't help herself; this boy was clever, strong, intriguing and mysterious. A conversation with him was enthralling, she never knew what he was going to sa... | 1 | imFakeSnake | imFakeSnake | false |
For more than half a decade I had no regrets about that decission. I've focused on bulding friendships. I have focused on just being comfortable on my own and staying away from feelings too strong for me being able to easily manage them.
I am in my thirties now and a few months ago i went back to school. I wanna work ... | All of my Friends had had their powers by then. Some had had them for years. My little Brother even manifested his power by then. he was a pyromancer. He wasn't very powerfull, he was only 13 when his power manifested after all. He could barely light or snuff out a candle using his powers. My friend Jason was the last... | 1 | Zoenobium | Zoenobium | false |
The class shuffled awkwardly into their seats. The classroom was adorned with bewildering decor. The items were very clearly magical, but they seemed so foreign, odd. Not like from another nation, but as though they came from a parallel dimension or something... weird. That's ridiculous.
Professor Strange's last name ... | "Okay, well I think that should be enough excitement for our first class. I thank Mr. Malfoy for his theatrical displays, as I am sure we found them all quite entertaining." Strange gazed at Malfoy, who in return bared his teeth. He ignored him. "For more clarification on what we will be covering in this class, you wil... | 1 | borednerd7 | borednerd7 | false |
"Wait, you can mind control people?" How people seem to not be able to grasp even the simplest of explanations eludes me. "No, not really. They need to want to do it to some extent. I can't control anything." I don't go into detail about how I can use several layers of suggestion to make people do what I suggest. They ... | Or so they say, in truth it's more like we've chosen to not act. Both because there has been little need for us to act and because anything we might do would be under heavy scrutiny. We were remnants of the past, we ARE remnants of the past. Most of us were beyond our time before it even began.
I watch from the throne... | 1 | klubbe | klubbe | false |
With a heavy sigh, the frail, wrinkled man slumped in his seat. His eyes half-closed, his breathing shallow, it felt for the first time in forever like a great weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He was finally finished.
It had all been such a good idea at the time. A classic song, the witch that promised him i... | I sighed, staring at the ax in my hand, glinting in the cold moonlight. It felt heavy in my hand, solid, the weight of the head easy to feel through the handle. It was a crisp and clear night, a cold wind sweeping through the alley, chilling my bones. I shivered and my skin crawled with goosebumps. I'd certainly picked... | 1 | jb1515g | jb1515g | false |
From birth we have all been marked with a title. Peculiar runes written on our foreheads by some mysterious all knowing force. The runes fade by ones 4th birthday, but their meaning affects the rest of your natural life.
These titles normally take the form of describing what one is good at, and almost always start wit... | > I'm very sorry sir, sometimes it's hard to balance the scientific progression of the Sims between competent and advanced. Godric back there made this one. He's a bit new and is still learning the ropes.
>I'll personally hand craft a replacement for you free of charge and I can guarantee that the new Sims won't... | 1 | yourguidefortheday | yourguidefortheday | false |
It was 2 am on a saturday when I received an email from Kae, my best friend. The mail was empty except for a link. Thispersondoesnotexist.com. Out of curiosity I clicked the link. I see a few names. They seem familliar, but I can't quite put a finger on it. I refresh the website again. Now I see the names of my classma... | We have lived with dragons in my country for as long as written memory. Occasionally, travellers — gawkers, really — come to see if this is true, though it is infrequent. We are a remote region and the way is dangerous. Almost always, they come with their eyes turned up toward the mountain, looking for *the dragon*,... | 0 | Mina_bcd | incommune | false |
Mine is not so much of a story of what we had to print but more what we caught a tech printing... So ours is one of the new ones that you has the plastic surgery options. It's really nice for burn victims. It was actually our machine that reprinted Sacha Malone's nose and ear after the badger attacked her while filming... | 3 days. I sat by the phone for three full days waiting for her to call with the news. After Susan's car accident, I knew what the dream meant, my mother was going to die. She never called. Eventually I called her and got no hint anything was wrong, so I made plans to make the 13 hour drive to see her, why does she sti... | 1 | darkorical | darkorical | false |
Obsession. An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind. She was right. That pretty much sums me up at this point. I know she wants to spend our time together and forget about the future, but I just can't let it go. If she knew about me, what I can do, she would understand. I fee... | Was that an invitation? It was like that year in high-school when Tim dared Jack to flip off the railroad bridge. He didn't really question it; it was more of a compulsion than anything. The momentary peace of falling, or that feeling you get when you're driving. You know the one. When you think to yourself, *I could j... | 0 | FrowsyCompromise | itsMalarky | false |
She had no idea what to do. The man's shoulders heaved gently, wide with remembered strength that the years had worn away like stone eroded into sand. His white hair was full, but wispy and brittle. Everything about him seemed like the shadow of vitality, but the one sob that choked out was of such heart-wrenching w... | 'What an absolutely incompetent piece of shit' was all I kept thinking to myself as we stood outside the door of the courtroom. John Cantone had been droning on for what seemed like years now, totally oblivious to the truth.
"Listen Tom, I get it. An AR isn't a 'real gun'" - the asshole was using air quotes around the... | 0 | lordnequam | 200lbs_always_200lbs | false |
Little Timmy likes to refer to me as Bubba the Bear. By day, I'm his best friend. We play cops and robbers, we ride in space ships, and he even invites me along to watch his favorite show with him. Little Timmy showers me with love and compassion, even when he's dragging me across the floor. So, the least I can do to p... | Okay, so if you were to ask me how I thought my day was going to go, meeting a cursing seven-year-old on my doorstep at eight a.m. would not be what I would have had in mind. And, yet...
"Uhh, sure?" As soon as the words leave my mouth, this little shit shoves me aside and marches into my house. I close the door and f... | 1 | killthemtitans | killthemtitans | false |
Marjorie cursed as the light from her candle went out. Her home, if you could call something as shoddily built as this a home, was filled with drafts seeping in from improperly calked windows. She re-lit the candle and moved it behind her collector’s edition of "50 Shades of Grey" for shelter from the wind. The flam... | “Well what are you fools waiting for?!” Manthor screamed as he surveyed his most loyal subordinates. “The fateful hour is at hand and, by the grace of my ancestors, before my faculties have departed me! Now, come, men, we have waited decades for this moment! To arms I say! For the glory of the kingdom and all that is... | 0 | Never_Been_Missed | 63horses | false |
Rain outside continued to splash against the large window over looking the city from a high level as a man gripped with fear explained himself away to a neatly dressed psychiatrist sitting idly by, "I... I can still hear their screams, and that laugh. That incessant high pitched _laugh._ There is no god..."
The well... | This door will be the end of me. Why the hell it hasn't been knocked down or boarded up I don't know. Thirty odd people missing since I moved here to the middle of fuck-knows-wheresville, and these Goddamn backwards dohickeys all worship this door like it's some kind of deity. All it is is a giant pain in my ass, and i... | 0 | _jerky | MarineOG | false |
"Man, that lady's so pretty even the girls are scared to get caught looking t her." I thought to myself as I walked towards home. A few canned ravioli and a box of crackers bounced together with each step I took.
The lady walked in a subtle glide. Each step masked by her long dress. It was so smooth you could never de... | The broken swing-set creaked longingly as I hung there, feet suspended inches from the ground. My hands were clasped so tightly around the chains that I could feel each individual link. I focused on the small golf ball just a few inches from me. It lay still as I swung in place. A mocking reminder... please...
The wor... | 1 | Snote85 | Snote85 | false |
We were climbing the tree, reaching higher with each branch, the ground stretch away beneath us. My little sister Ellie was only a few branches off the ground, I was perched atop a branch swaying in the wind.
"Jackie! You're too high!" She yelled from her branch at ground level. I reached up to the next branch and jum... | I walk into the church and the priests lead me to a central chamber, the architecture was amazing, the stained glass depicted the many gods and there legends and most importantly, their blessings. it's my 18th and that means it's time for me to meet my makers and see what kind of blessing I will have to pursue my fate.... | 1 | TAKoturtle22 | TAKoturtle22 | false |
"You look twenty five, but there is a sense of ancient wisdom about your eyes. How old are you, really?" She was drunk, it was Cinco De Mayo and she was sitting with three male friends including me.
I looked into her lovely blue eyes as Ben and Carl on either side of us watched and I replied with "I've been alive sinc... | I have been alive for seven hundred years and have kept others alive past their normal lifespans as well. Very few ever suspected that a midget, such as myself, would possess the powers to halt time and to stay the hand of Death.
The power was not a blessing, but a curse. A curse laid down by a Gypsy woman who I sligh... | 1 | AuthorJamesRowe | AuthorJamesRowe | false |
He rushed through the crowd of people to the terminal, ticket in hand. His briefcase and coattail swing in rhythm with him as he weaves seamlessly through the maze of people. This flight was the most important flight of his life. But not for the reasons which he believed. Fly to Tokyo, close the deal, and earn the ... | The noise of everyone bickering filled the old mansion. The group stood gathered in the center of the entryway, each of them angrily shouting over the other. Little Eugene pushed his way out of the center of the group and walked over to the window. He stared longingly out at the snow gently falling on the long stretch ... | 0 | we_stay_flyRy | R88SHUN | false |
I waited in front of the portal as the technicians tuned it until I could see into the human world and the source of the screaming. It was from some girl strapped to a stone alter surrounded by hooded figures with wicked daggers, handmade talismans, and mysterious candles, the whole nine circles. I could only sigh as t... | Harry took a long draw on his cigarette, blowing out a plume of smoke into the winters night air. It was an old habit, hundreds of years old, and aside from the fucking ever-increasing taxes there had never been any reason for him to stop, but it was getting harder to find a good pack these days and he was starting to ... | 0 | ClocktowerEchos | CaptainMayday | false |
First there was the streets, full of sputtering cards listlessly driving from one place to the next with phantom drivers inside. Then there was the weather, which was nice generally but tended to turn grey and stormy when he was a foul mood. And he was in a foul mood often because of the women that inhabited this half-... | He looked around and spotted a car which had been flipped over and set on fire. There’s always a couple in the vicinity of any superhuman fight, even if nobody is throwing anything or using any kind of fire-based power. I’ve never been much for conspiracy theories, but I suspect that there’s some sort of secret organiz... | 0 | 2rio2 | crossedoffbucketlist | false |
NOTE: Got a little carried away with this one. I had so much fun writing it and just kept going. For the one to two people that will read this: if you liked it, there are more parts coming. If you didn't, too bad. There are still more parts coming.
I woke up in a bedroom I had never seen before. Little did I know at t... | I sat in silence, suffering through the song. The whole thing. I guess music is a mixed bag, huh? Maybe I should get to reading. And with that, I pulled out the first book of the top shelf. The Cat in the Hat.
Damn, this guy was good. A few hours later, I had worked my way through all the Dr. Seuss. Good stuff. I took... | 1 | Android294 | Android294 | false |
Linebacker wheezed and dropped to one knee. The exotic energy pulse he was too exhausted to dodge had struck him full in the chest. Tatters of his once proud uniform hung from his shoulders in ragged strips of white, red, and hints of gold. He struggled to stand, staggered, and caught himself with both hands on the gro... | It was a quiet evening. The planet's single star had disappeared below the horizon leaving a slowly fading glow. To Ther'ok's multilensed eyes, it was prismatic and ethereal. A blanket of gossamer rainbow dragging night across the
sky. She allowed herself a moments' distraction, then returned to the task at hand. *The... | 1 | JDCollie | JDCollie | false |
The voice was like a distant echo, passing unheeded through the air. I stared through my scope at the creature. It was unlike any of the demons I'd been briefed on. Rows upon rows of human-like eyes, wide with what seemed to be terror or pain, placed geometrically along a tall cylinder of flesh. It moved slowly along t... | I used to like watching Twitch in my spare time. Fighting game tournaments, high level strategy games, classic VODs, a handful of my favorite streamers... I had Twitch on all the time, even in the background. It helped me feel less lonely in my empty apartment. I always had streamers to keep me company.
When I felt li... | 1 | Dronizian | Dronizian | false |
Oh well, it was certainly better than being, I don't know, tied up to a hospital bed. The tests, the extractions, they were fairly infrequent. Honestly most of it was done while I was travelling from place to place.
Oh yeah but really they were all great! I loved meeting people who knew about the project, I told them ... | I woke up to the sound of singing, ringing so sweetly I could hardly call my waking anything more than a dream. I felt numbness, and then a gentle warmth, and the night around me was cool, and the sky above me was even with a deep, dim glow.
I arose, and all around me poppy fields stretched, and gave off sweet aroma t... | 1 | BananaMammogram | BananaMammogram | false |
Of course, many people had claimed to be told the secret. Many of those had been found out when questioned by an elder, one actually blessed with 'The Secret'. It had even happened to Albie, one of my best friends with a penchant for hyperbole and epic stories. But this. This time I'd be in the know, and having to foll... | "Achtung. Der U-Bahnzug kommt in einer halben Minute. Bitte achten Sie auf die Lücke zwischen Zug und Bahnsteigkante," said the pleasant voice in the ceiling of the subway tunnel. A small crowd had formed in anticipation of its arrival. One of the members of the crowd, an older Aryan man, scoured a small paper map of t... | 0 | Das_Fruddster | Fabelhaftigkeit | false |
Mom climbs the stairs of the stage. She isn’t allowed to do that, but the Magistrate doesn’t move to stop her. “Please,” she pleaded, her voice taking a strange tone. “Don’t remove them. You’re my child. My responsible caring child. Don’t throw that all away.” She reaches out for me, her hands wrapped around my neck i... | I slowly lift my back from the floor and inch my knees toward my chest. I cringe at the agony the hangover’s headache gladly gives me this morning. Fuck, it hurts. I don’t even remember what happened last night. I take a deep breath and slowly exhale hoping it will soothe either the headache or hangover-induced nausea.... | 0 | Bookworm9019a | skipii93 | false |
For the past half hour he had been resting in an Ikea reclining chair, flipping through his senior yearbook. The chair was produced almost as cheaply as the small paper-bound handbook, but both were still quite nice to him. The inexpensiveness almost added a quality of its own.
Glancing at the bottom-right of Page 33,... | I've always found myself more and more needing of time disconnected. We live in an age where you never lose reception, internet and cellular are now ubiquitous. Li-Fi technology took over 40 years ago, sweeping all other wireless technologies to the side. Even as a teen I felt the need to get away for some time, read a... | 0 | stupidfritz | Writingforchange | false |
My mom is a military veteran. She's got an apocalypse bunker all set up in an undisclosed location even to her family and she pulverized a burglar once with her bare hands. She also belongs to some kind of network of similar-minded nutcases and communicates with them weekly through a personal radio setup we've got in t... | It wasn’t his fault. Dad had told me many times that the only way things didn’t go absolutely downhill for him in life was when he followed the rules without any questions or overthinking. Which was probably a good thing in his case, otherwise he would’ve ended all life on earth with his powers of molten nuclear destru... | 1 | AccioSexLife | AccioSexLife | false |
The group was advancing, caution tempered by wonder and greed. Their boots disturbed the grey gravel of the untraveled road, and some of them watched nervously as the arms of the hill rose ever higher around them.
The stone of the gate was square-cut, blocks 2 feet on a side. They were tan colored, a shade lighter tha... | *Systems are starting to fail*, he thought, levering himself to his feet with a grunt. He cast his flashlight along the walls of the opulent lounge, cutting through the inky blackness – the lights had gone out an hour ago. It was a themed restaurant of some kind, he guessed, though the theme eluded him. There was a str... | 1 | Khovansky | Khovansky | false |
"Are you buying that or what", always the same skeptical tone, from the same nervous man, tapping a pen against the edge of his balding head. Of course I'm fucking buying it, I'd fucking marry it if he let me and he knows that and I know he knows. There is so much that surprises me about this routine, so much like the ... | “So, Human, you knew robots may take over, but you built us anyway. Why?" asked, well, whatever it was. They don't do names these things I don't think, or consistent shapes, or voices. That they deign to lower themselves to be visible and speak in a language I understand at all is a kindness in and of itself and I mus... | 1 | Tia_Jamon | Tia_Jamon | false |
*clunk* J'onn sighed. **Superman, be calm. Remember the rules.** They had been sucked into a game of some sort. It was created by Loki and planned by The Joker. Six days they had been in this room.
The room had been larger starting out. There had been plenty of space for each universe to stay apart. They had tried for... | A tidally locked, large planet. The back of the planet is covered in a single giant glacier. The part facing the suns is swamp-like around the outer edge, as it gets regular run off from the glacier as because of the elliptical orbit. And the central part is extremely dry and sandy. The entire planet is very hot.
The ... | 1 | ImpossibleKintsugi | ImpossibleKintsugi | false |
After some brief confusion, I soon recognise my surroundings; I’ve woken up in the bedroom I lived in as a child. But I can remember being an adult, doing all the adult things I used to do. I sit up in bed and look down at myself. Yep, I’m a kid again. My hand goes to my face, sure enough, my beard is gone. I’ve someti... | "He hasn't been seen in months kid. I've been keeping an eye on it. He was a big guy who smoked a carton a day. He probably died in there and all that food's just sitting there... I want you to check up on it. You're good at this. In and out. If he's there, you get out and let me know. If not... let me know and ... | 0 | jerec84 | MissViki14 | false |
The young woman darted through the streets, outrunning the police cars pursuing her. Her legs were a blur as she turned into a garden and leaped effortlessly over fences in order to evade her hunters. Even the helicopter filming the chase struggled to keep up. She emerged on another street as two more cars attempted to... | In hindsight, dropping out of superhero school to “support my family” (code phrase for doing nothing much else other than being the most underwhelming bachelor of all time) may not have been the best idea. I liked the two or so years that I spent there; most of the students were somewhat tolerable, I had a pretty swank... | 0 | Bluesteel420 | TristanCorb | false |
An earsplitting shriek shattered the silence of the Miller household. Frank Miller's heart immediately began jumping out of his chest as a small, bony fist hit him weakly in the jaw. He did his best to move out of reach of his attacker, but he was disoriented, and his joints failed to respond in time. He instead rolled... | Freddy giggled as he ripped the boy from his happy little dream world and pulled him into his own realm. The boy laid still on the floor of Freddy's "workshop" while Freddy surveyed him for a moment.
*Soon he will realize where he is, and he'll scream and scream*, he thought to himself. While he waited, he walked arou... | 1 | Leviathan666 | Leviathan666 | false |
She arrives on the square, like a clockwork. She always arrives here at 7:30 p.m. Punch the clock at 6:00 p.m., take a cab, ride the Tube, arrive at the square at around 7:30. Clockwork. *Tick, tock, tick, tock*. He knows, he has been following her. Like clockwork. *And today, he will strike.*
She is unaware of him, t... | Four murder victims. Two male, two female. No apparent pattern. No two victims knew each other. One was killed in a blind alley, one in her own home, one on her way home & one in his home office. The Christmas Strangler was not making my work easier.
It was okay. It's not like the Captain wanted me to win, either.... | 1 | DudleyVanKerr | DudleyVanKerr | false |
It was either an elaborate practical joke or someone wanted me to not push that switch. Sephira was the name of the AI that made a mess of the world a few years back, resetting the world debt levels and creating the worst nuclear scare in more then a hundred years. For people like me, who lived on the edges it was both... | **Jenny was Awake for 18 Hours a day.** No not 12, like everyone else, or the 14 hours like the previous record holder. 18 hours a day. Poor Jessica was only Awake for 6 hours a day. Can you imagine only 6 hours a day? That is half the time for everyone else in the world. Jessica's whole life was stifled by Jenny's gre... | 0 | RocketHammerFunTime | FrozenEumycetes | false |
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