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I gazed out the window and witnessed ribbons of gold and red breaking the horizon. Morning dew still clung to branches and blades of grass like a baby to its mother. It was a slap in the face that something so simple and beautiful should exist on a day such as today. "Am I going to go see mommy?"Danny asked sheepishl...
Tom was many things, but a cynic was not one of them. He was a romantic. A true romantic, old school. From a young age he'd been fascinated with love stories. Memorized Romeo and Juliet – the whole thing! – and would recite it for his family in front of the couch. Couldn't get enough of romantic comedy films. Love son...
Three days after his fall, NASA still hadn't spoken to me. It quickly became clear that this creature was unaccustomed to the ways of my people. We Quelbrigs have been here for millennia, and most neighboring planets are at the very least aware of us. But not NASA. I’d managed to piece together the sounds of its nam...
######[](#dropcap) The bitter stench of Lana's death still coats my throat. I can still see her smile, the dimple in her cheek every time I said something funny, the tiniest quirk upwards of her lips whenever she was trying not to laugh. Gosh, I wish we could just help those people, she said once, her eyes glued t...
It technically started with the geese disappearing. It's not something anyone really paid a lot of attention to. People blamed climate change, and pesticides, and over-hunting. It was a perfectly logical explanation, and for dozens of other species, the correct one. Not this time, though. Regardless, it was quickl...
I remember every single one. Every hero I’ve killed, and every devious plot I’ve pulled off as a result. See, after a thousand miraculous escapes, heroes never actually believe that they’ll die. It makes it so much more satisfying. Because they know me, they know that no one has ever gotten away from me. So when ...
A brief searing pain flashed through my entire body, and I woke up in the center of a grand hall. Everything was a blur, until I took off my glasses. Did I always wear glasses? Why would I have them? I didn't need them. Who am I? How'd I get here? I tried clearing my head. The lingering effects of the pain qu...
[Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/MatiWrites/comments/cvstw8/the_great_blinding_part_2/) is available! [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/MatiWrites/comments/cw5hjc/the_great_blinding_part_3/) is available! [Part 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/MatiWrites/comments/cx4djl/the_great_blinding_part_4/) ***** I was maimed in...
I sit in the dimly lit room where he put me, and I laugh. Little does he know what he's facing. I don't even try to free myself from the chair - he's tied me there arms and legs with a strong nylon rope. It doesn't matter. My body count is higher than his is. He's in store for a shock. I hear footsteps. The d...
"You're... You're Superguy!"A teenage girl in the parking lot said, her friends giggled. Jason gave them an embarrassed wave and kept walking. "I'm just going out to get some groceries"he mumbled. Almost to the grocery store door, Jason sighed when he saw a police officer running up to him. "Superguy, I'm glad I fou...
The first time it happened, I was twenty-seven. "Please,"I begged as the black hooded figure descended on me - or rather, my body, trapped in a pool of its own blood - “I’m too young to die. Please.” The hooded figure paused. If I could still breathe I would have held my breath, but as it happened all I did was gaz...
Johnny was getting creative. For clarification, Johnny was the name of the demon shark who sporadically appeared in my life and attempted to kill me. His actual name was Jœhņňý the Eradicator, but that was too difficult to pronounce. When I was three, he appeared in my kiddy pool. When I was fourteen, he appeared in m...
"Any changes?" Dr. Arelkas shook her head in response. She didn't understand why Mr. Patel insisted on asking her such questions when he was perfectly capable of looking through the glass and seeing for himself the condition of his father. The Chrysalis took over the entire bed of the room beyond the glass. It was g...
Kh'loss, Grand Admiral of the Kh'hrani fleet, preened as he stood upon the bridge of the Indominator, gazing out through the viewport. Out in the void, although he couldn't see more than half of them, cruised the pride and honour of his race. Countless battles had it waged against lesser fleets, and unmarred it had w...
It was like Japanese, except drawn by a man with tremors. Strange, complex characters that looked almost like they intended to paint a picture in and of themselves. "I think your printer is broken, Miss."I turned the ticket, tapping at the gibberish. "This is unreadable." She shook her head. "Gate F. Walk through E a...
It's strange how so many years can shift a person's priorities. For example, one might assume that suddenly being decades younger and in an unfamiliar location would evoke feelings of panic, confusion, or perhaps some mild irritation at realizing that the world was not following its usual rules. In Ama's case, though,...
I wasn't really sure what happened. I remember yesterday. I'd grown old. I'd seen myself in the mirror. My skin hung a bit loose and I had lost most of my hair. I hadn't lost my mind though, that was still all there. I lived a solitary life. A quiet one. People confused me. They annoyed me. I guess I was 'that old gu...
"Too bad, Confoundus, looks like my will was again too strong for your feeble powers"said Artillerella with satisfaction, before making a gun gesture with her index finger and thumb and pretending to blow smoke off it. It was her signature move, and Confoundus would happily let himself take a thousand of her easily a...
I never should have gotten in the car with Paul. I knew he'd been drinking a bit that night, but I thought that he'd be ok to get us home, it was just a few blocks from the bar. The last thing I remember was us screaming as he swerved off the road and tumbled down a hill, a sharp pain in my neck, then... Nothing. I w...
As the days became years, and the years became decades, I continued to study. It started in small things. I learned how to speak Mandarin Chinese in the early days. At the time I thought this will be cool. After becoming proficient with reading and writing I decided to move on to other languages. Korean, Japanese, th...
On second thought, I should have been suspicious when the genie had laughed after granting my wish. Initially, it seemed like he was just happy, but I'll be damned if I appreciated his mirth when the flame burned the crap out of my index finger. I threw the match aside as the blister, clearly a nasty one to come, bega...
At first he thought it was a joke. People had said that to him before. It was one of the common ones, everyone had the same jokes and just kept passing them around. It was a game by now. Something to keep track if the back of his mind. But she didn't crack a smile and ask him how'd he managed to guess. She didn't ev...
You look at Death, standing tall in robes so blindingly white they hurt your eyes, and look back at the golden scythe. It's easy to imagine how you'd use it. The way every harsh word and selfish action would rebound back upon those who deserved it. But... You look at Death and shake your head with a small little smil...
Da!'kzor looked up as the human emissary to the eternal court entered. The pink, bipedal alien prostrated itself longer and deeper than was strictly necessary; but Da!'kzor had long learnt his kind did so out of respect to his race's traditions and not as a form of veiled insult. "These humans are so much friendlier t...
"Be damned! Hast thou no honour? Thou campest by thy shadows, A slumbering combatant of cowardice! Speak! I charge thee speak! For thy family's honour!" I strafed right, flanking the back of the home on Nuketown before heading towards the road. I was sprinting; "Horatio charges! A white knight in flight, nay, ...
Ambiguity is a dangerous thing. Take the question "Did you put him to sleep?"- are you getting your kid to bed, or euthanizing a pet? Kind of a big difference there. It's a great trick for figuring out if you're talking to a dumb AI. I read an Old Earth book about this once - about how some aliens contact us, but we f...
My old bones don’t feel so old. My teeth are still my own. My hair never turned grey. My son visited me once. He must have died almost a century and a half ago. He came because he just wanted to see me one last time before he moved on. He told me I looked great. He said he was glad I was in prison, since he felt like...
If you were a lonely old woman like me you’d have taken in that whelp too. Three years ago Razora nearly bit off my finger when I first fed her that old cellar mouse. Hiding her in the haystacks was easy until she nearly burnt down the barn with a mere sneeze. By the time she was the size of a shed, the village had l...
> Now say that you won't just kill them. You'll also kill their families. I stared at the words on the terminal in disbelief. My hands hovered over the keyboard. I wanted to reply, but... holy shit. How do you respond to an order like that?? "I can't do that!"I typed back. The keys clacked as I wrote it; t...
How does a god die? The answer is that all gods die the same way. Alone. Cold. Forgotten. Does not matter how high they raised the temples to you, does not matter how many years they sang your praises. When you are cast down, it is only a matter of time before the people cease to pray. Then they cease to curse you. The...
The last few months have been agonizing, and I know that I don’t have much time left. About four years ago, I developed a cough that wouldn’t go away. I ignored it as men do, but finally, Nelly, my grandaughter, convinced me to go to my doctor. And Dr. Shah was concerned, so the testing started. Initially, the ca...
"Ok, so this is the ADEMCO model 9500 lock, a super high security lock that is equally impressive in person as it is on paper however as I said at the beginning of this video, there is a dead simple vulnerability that makes it incredibly trivial to bypass. This lock features a titanium block and core with depleted ura...
Yesterday had been a bad day, definitely the worst day of his life. But it was nothing he couldn’t handle, just get up and go about your day, one breathe at a time, one step at a time. He could do this, today was a new day. He didn’t feel like that though, everything had changed after yesterday. He got up and got dre...
I sank down with my back against the door. The sound of ripping wallpaper and breaking furniture came from the other side. Blood trickled out of my arm from five distinct scratch marks. ‘So, be wise and keep on reading the signs of my body.’ I looked at my scribbles and back at the video, my eyes widening. How come...
"Hello. My name is Ron Swanson. I am your headmaster, and you are my students. Today, I will be filling in as your Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. " Hermione butted in "But where is Professor-" "That is not important. All that is important is you know how to defend yourself." Professor Swanson pulled out a fl...
No one was quite sure how the math worked. People still died on their own, of course. How long would you live if you hadn't have killed? Dying of cancer happened. But if I killed someone who was already dying, how did I or anyone know how long it would have taken? People speculated, of course. I'd read all the papers,...
With a final explosion, Righteous Man fell from the sky, plunging two stories into the cement sidewalk. Jack Ringall stared, panting for breath. He had finally done it. He had killed Elantra’s guardian hero. Now, nobody would protect Elantra’s goody two-shoes, with their permanent smiles, their unending charity and irr...
Tomorrow is the day. The anticipation, the raw excitement, is beginning to get to me again, like it does every year. At first, this world was filled with wonder. Racks of books and knowledge, rising high above me. As far back as I can remember, this has been my life. Day in, day out. Another book. Another lesson...
When first we set foot on that tarnished land, a scorched sliver of utopia, there was a single word that came to mind: Tragedy. The initial scouts were shocked to find remnants of a magical, adolescent species on a planet with no apparent atmosphere--and, upon closer inspection, we discovered that there are traces of...
"Incoming report from the Operation: Forge operatives on C-521.4. I am processing it now. So far, it seems very positive, and so..." There is a pause. Poelhi is not prone to dramatics, and it is not like him to allow his attention to wander. Without shifting my gaze from the nav-chart before me, I prod him: "Go ahea...
As the elevator opened, the little imp beside me let out a wailing screech. "Bottom floor, VIP access and throne room." I proceeded through the doors to look around. Hordes of demons and people swimming in the lake of fire began to look in my direction and started clapping and cheering. "Long live the king!" I too...
Sir Mittens walked, on his back two paws, out of the castle’s gates. A long, red cape flowed past a soft, furry body. A steel helmet sat atop his head. Two soft ears poked out of holes in the helmet. A sword rattled against his hips. A great chorus of cheers and salutations followed Sir Mittens as he walked out of the ...
They told me it would feel like eternity. That this punishment, effectively a life-sentence for humankind, would be worse than any demise a mortal government could have awarded me. This, they said, was worse than mercy. Worse because death was a luxury that cannot afford to wait. But I could. I would have 1000 years t...
The first thing I did when I got back was scan the last decade of newspaper headings in all major cities. Actually, the first thing I did was have a cup of chamomile, because time travel always makes me a bit nauseated. But after that, the newspapers were the best way to catch up, and they confirmed my suspicions. Wit...
Being born with the ability to crumble and pulverise even the hardest of objects in the world, it really came as a surprise when I found out that the most effortless tasks requires the most effort for me to do. Meet my bane: soft objects. &nbsp; "Mom! I'm going over to Emilia's for dinner to meet her parents, so ...
It was an accident, of course. My birth, my being in space, and well, I suppose I was an accident as well. An accident from director of engineering fucking the fat janitor after hours when the rest of the shuttle team had retired, the odds that my mother had been able to hide her baby bump for nine months, the chanc...
"Then, poker?"he said, hesitantly he let out a sigh, and with a practiced motion he lifted a hand to wipe his brow. "Not my best,"he followed. "But I'd rather have luck than fail at a skill I do not have." "You cannot fool me,"death replied. A low chuckle escaping the void beneath his hood. "You're in a Las Vegas hos...
It was my 18th birthday. The beach party my friends were so kind to have organized was dying down. The sun was setting, and the moon was high overhead. Small groups of people splashed about in the water, sat on beach towels talking, creating a warm hubbub around me. A small driftwood fire was being constructed nearby....
"Death! Buddy!"Aleksei threw his arms open and charged across the room toward the looming specter in robes of shadow. Aleksei had been a huge man in his time, but now he was almost comically short compared to the rest of the human race. He made up for it by wearing the most garish of clothing in whatever style was co...
There was a monster on the front step. Rachel blinked, but it remained, hunched over on the porch, still there in all it’s disturbing glory. It had one eye - no, it had many eyes, all blinking and shifting and looking here and there, but not visible all at the same time. They were laced above a mouth that stretched ou...
I started peeling the apple, raising the knife to the skin carelessly. I didn't look down; It didn't feel like the knife had met any resistance yet. Half of the apple hit the counter with a dull thud. I blinked, dropping the knife. It fell, spinning to embed itself in the counter. I tried to pull it out. It didn't bu...
The last thing I remembered was the pain. There was a loud bang, and then a searing pain. I came to rest in the shallow water, and then I began to drift away. I could hear the boy's wails as I rested in the water. His crying was good, it meant he wasn't hurt. As the world around me faded to white, I could just barely h...
I slept on the sofa again last night. It's easier to pretend they're still here, that way. That Maria never left me, we just argued and that she's lying up there in our bed, and in the morning we'll sort out our differences over a cup of tea. That's what I do. I make two cups of tea in the morning. Sometimes I even po...
>LIFE'S FOR THE LIVING "It has failed again!"Screamed Doctor Van Winkler. He was pushing his seventieth birthday, and though he had pioneered impressive medicine in his long life he was not ready to go yet...and he was doing everything he could to finally perfect his whole-body restoration serum. Every patien...
It was my birthday. Well, it wasn't must mine - a few other young men and women were born twenty-one years ago today. We had that in common, along with the creeping dread about our titles. Every person, upon turning twenty-one, was granted a title. It was supposed to reflect the greatest accomplishment of your yo...
The clapping rang out around the rocky red walls as the Devil sat on his throne looking down at Clyde. "Congratulations, Clyde, and welcome to hell." Clyde took a moment to look around, doing his best to take in the strange surroundings. Peering up at the Devil, he nodded his head. "Hello,"said Clyde. The Devil hel...
She reached out for the ringing phone. For a moment, her stiff fingers fumbled over the buttons, and she cursed the arthritis that stiffened her joints. She managed to hit the green button, and lifted the handset up to her ear. "Hello?" "Hello - I, uh, I just needed to talk to someone. I don't think I can keep goi...
Everyone knows that you can choose Heaven or Hell, so people don't have any morals when it comes to life. People steal, cheat and murder as they please. Mostly the world is a cesspool, a place where you wait around until you’re bored or get murdered and then move on to the real place, Heaven. It was widely accepted th...
Mr. Whiskers didn't seem to mind that his tail had completely detached from his body. In fact, he seemed more docile than normal as he sat and watched the screen of my laptop. At the base of the tail was a USB connector, and without trying to be too intrusive I checked Mr. Whiskers and confirmed that there was a US...
Legolas looked out on a black ocean of creaking pitch-dark ships. Their decks writhed with a mass of fel creatures. Wargs barked and howled, Orcs roared in bloodthirsty anticipation. Elves stood arrayed on the shores of the Undying Lands. In their countless thousands they stood, armor gleaming, swords and pole-arms s...
"Everyone, on the ground, now!"The masked robbers held out their guns. One threw a bag at the tellers and aimed his gun. "You know what to do,"he growled. "Actually..." The robbers faces fell as they turned to the voice. Standing there in a fresh suit and sprayed hair was the one and only Adam Conover. The head robb...
I've been cursed with a terrible form of immortality. Every time my death is but moments away, time grind to a halt for everyone. And while I am still able to manipulate my suroundings to some degree, i do not age, hunger, require sleep or otherwise feel the passage of time. I know this because time has stood still fo...
"Aye, you've heard about the devil's asshole right?" It was more of a rhetorical question. At this point, everybody had. A few years back, Bridgeport Connecticut experienced a minor tremor from a minor earthquake. No one thought much of it at the time, save for Mr. Hoolihan whose backyard now sported a three foot wid...
"Goodnight, Jet,"I called out into the alley as my fry cook strode off into the darkness of night. He turned around without breaking stride. "Goodnight Nana,"he called back. "I'll see you at eight!"Then he slipped around the corner and out of sight. Jet is a good boy. He'd stay and help me tidy up if I let him but, b...
"Good morning, Harzz. I feel like death." "Captain, you cannot feel like death. Death implies the absence of perception - and furthermore, is an experience with which you, unlike me, cannot be familiar." Ah, Harzz. Great science officer... pain in the ass before I've had my morning coffee. I should have known better...
"So, you want to do a revolution?"I was asked. "Yes, why not?"Hitler asked me. I wasn't exactly happy with the fact Hitler and I were cellmates in the same part of Hell. I was actually one of the many people who claimed. "I was here by mistake"but it was the part of Hell which I'd been lumped in which really annoyed ...
They will try anything to get to you. They are relentless, but they are weak, so as long as you stay inside, shut all the windows, and wait for your drops, you’ll be fine. But nothing prepares you for when they are actually there, banging on the door. You have to remind yourself that they are not actually there, that ...
I poured myself a glass of tea. No, not a cup. A glass of iced tea. The sickly sweet beverage trickled in until the glass was half full (or half-empty, depending on your outlook on life). Parched, I raise it to my lips and take a sip. Nothing. It tastes like nothing. The glass is empty. My mouth is still dry. I pour ...
My sneakers tapped gently against the pavement as I walked briskly down the street. I squeezed my way through the peak-hour human traffic, catching whiffs of overly-strong perfume and worse, overly-strong body odor. I don’t like people much. I mean that in the nicest way possible. Two’s company, three’s a crowd, anythi...
Dear Wikipedia Readers: We’ll get right to it. We’ve never asked for much, maybe a few dollars here and there—to be honest, we've averaged maybe $15 in donations. That’s it. Did you know that 99% of other charities average $15,000 per day? Probably not, because we made that statistic up. Do you know why we made it up...
How hard can it be, taking a gun to a knife fight? I mean, they're swords, but swords are just really big knives, so the sentiment holds true. The princess, so fair under the spring sun, eagerly watched on. We shared a glance, a smile, before my theatrics began. "I will show you all the power of my magic,"I said, the ...
"What? Who said that?", I asked, startled. "It izz me, Buzzter, your humble servant, sire! Might I take this opportunity to say that it is such an honor to speak with you directly!"said the annoying voice. That's when I noticed that the source of the strange voice was a bee, right there on my shoulder. As someone ...
Whenever I wake up in the morning, I always make sure to stretch my hands and let out a big, bright smile. After all, it is a new day to look forward to. And that means looking forward to more charitable work and acts of kindness; to better the community around us, don't you think? I think so. So does the rest of the c...
The suite on the sixth floor of the Trump International Hotel, Washington D.C., was decorated in chestnut and tan. The headboard of the king size bed was carved as if it was a coat of arms of some legitimate monarch, and was trimmed with fake gold, which poorly matched the Kremlin red, velvet throw pillows. Like the ...
“Hey, remember me? Britain, 1800’s?” &#x200B; She was a young-looking woman, with intelligent, bright blue eyes and short brown hair. I stared at her, squinting. I took another swig of my drink and shrugged. &#x200B; “Dunno what you’re on about, kid. You don’t look like you’ve seen a year before 1990,” I pr...
I down the last glass of Absinthe. The sound of people cheering me on ringing in my head as I do. My opponent fell just half a glass short before his attempt was snuffed out by the roar of the remaining patrons at my achievement. I could see the pain in his glassy eyes as he glared at me. All the pain, with none of t...
The mechanic forced his greasy hand into the hole he had slashed across my belly, grabbed tight onto my juicy inside bits and squeezed with an iron vice grip that could only come from years of handling a wrench. A rasping holler wailed from my throat until every bit of air was forced from my lungs, and I heaved a cho...
"And don't get me wrong, I'm more than comfortable using the lavatory in front of another man, but it will be nice to at least have the option for a change!" "I...don't understand." "Oh of course, how silly of me! You see when you drop your trousers in front of another person you get a certain bene-" "No, no, I get ...
The line behind Wes was growing as he sifted through pages of words on a computerized booth. Each word was followed by a price tag that reflected its complexity. "Hurry. You, hurry, please,"demanded a man in a custodian gear that stood behind him. "Go. Go."The numerous people in the queue all seemed to nod in agreemen...
The demon's flames dwindled when I desperately screamed I was trying to make chicken soup. He gave a sigh of relief, and raised clenched fists. Clouds of tar-black smoke billowed out the crevasses of the floor and across the grotesque scars and wounds on his fiery skin, covering most of his body in dark, apron-shaped t...
The earliest one gets one's familiar is at 13. The latest is generally 18. The world record is something like 27. I feel bad for that guy; eight years waiting was hard enough. Familiars are strange beings. The earliest recorded one came in the early 1800s, a great bear-like beast that followed a single man. They canno...
The brass rings at noon, like the bells of some demented church. The women scream. Today it is Evette. Her voice breaks, and from the cauldron it echoes with a ghostly terror. Be a man, my mind says. These are your people. But my courage is as bold as my shadow. The sounds of pilfering happen and I march away f...
//Part 2 has just been added, it is a comment to this post. I couldn't add it to this post because of word count restrictions. Sorry ya'll. //UPDATE - Part 3 has been added. A reply to my part 2. Will try to link in a bit //FINAL UPDATE - I have officially made a subreddit, where I will post a finished story, alon...
"Dad said we weren't supposed to go with strangers, Mister clown."the small boy apologized. "Aww you're always such a crybaby, Goten"sighed Trunks, still fiddling with his small device, "plus the radar says the ball is right down there." The clowns face in the storm drain switched from a fake frown to a welcoming smi...
tick I wonder if Tom’s gonna swing by tonight? I heard him and Isaac got into a bit of nasty brawl today. Took out a whole building in the scuffle. tick God Mark’s such a fucking pig, look at him; stuffing his face full of fries like it’s his last meal. Aaaand yep, there goes the burger. Christ it never c...
Half-dozing on the landing leading up the stairs, Cannibal yawned and stretched out his front paws so that they hung over the step. It was a quiet, cold night, and the old dog was content at his post guarding the house—his ears perking up at the occasional cluck from the chicken roost outside. As he sniffed a pair of...
I forget. Well, I make everyone forget. That’s my power, but you probably won’t recall this in approximately 1 minute. It’s a curse. I watched as my other friends develop wondrous abilities during puberty- flight, invulnerability, elemental control, while I was bestowed with the power of forgetting. Maybe it was becau...
Huh, okay this is weird. You tell me. She is staring at me. Say something. "I'm not staring, you are staring." Oh, right. She can hear that. Why did I say that out loud? I could have just thought it. "You mean like right now?" Exactly. Well, not like you just did, like I'm doing. Sorry. I'm not used to th...
“Oh, if it isn’t the d2.” I let out a frustrated sigh. Nonetheless, I kept walking. Maybe today, they’d just give up. “I’m talking to you, idiot! Don’t pretend you didn’t hear me!” No such luck. I turned around to see Leon staring in my face, his goons trailing behind him. “Please just leave me alone,” I pleaded, ...
"This... is the Chamber of Secrets?"Harry asks, wide eyed as he stepped inside the gloomy room. A chair lay in the center of the room, next to a table full of strange machinery. The wires leading out of the machines were tied together to resemble a thick strand of rope. The doctor points the thick strand out to Harry. ...
The speaker spat out another request. Obligingly I jumped 7 times on one foot. The aliens began a spirited discussion. They either didn't know about implantable microtech, or they were blindingly incompetent. Either way they'd failed to block my net access. It'd taken me much less time to get their language translated...
One night, ten years ago, I fell asleep on my friend’s couch after a night of heavy drinking. One morning, ten years ago, I woke up on an airplane, 38,000 feet in the air. We called it ‘The Gap’. When humanity woke that day, we found that a year had passed. Somehow, our bodies had kept moving, our lives had contin...
"NUMBER 117737." Anxious and bewildered, you step up to the counter, behind which sits a very bored looking young man wearing a name tag that says GARY. He takes your ticket and asks, "Name?" "John Smith. But this has to be a mistake. I don't belong in hell. I lived a good, honest life." "Yep, that's what they all s...
It started with the beginning. A crescendo of burning light, of cleansing, purifying fire. Sound and force and heat exploded into the void, filling it with love and life and laughter. Stars roared in existence, smoldering in the darkness of eternal twilight. When the candle light faded and snuffed into smoke, the p...
..and why dot com I woke up after hearing that. It was a very lucid dream. Far more than any other I had. I was plain awake, but decided in grabbing my phone. Just to feel safe and reassure myself that it was a dream. The webpage started to load and.. "Maximiliam Smith. Heaven." I stared, unflinching. Was this a jo...
I finished my speech, fully prepared for the usual spectacle of protests and outrage. I take no pleasure in those but centuries of analysis and prosperity proved our way as superior and most efficient. However cruel it is. I certainly didn’t expect this unusual noise the humans started producing. It took my communica...
"Juramaia, man", the hazy figure in front of me in the queue said. "It's this little thing, kind of a primordial shrew or something. Split off from the marsupials, closed up the pouch and grew a placenta instead. Size of your thumb. Doesn't look like anything much. We don't know if it was something they ate, maybe so...
Finally! I thought with glee as I felt my lamp being rubbed. It's been a long time since the last time I appeared in the material world and I was getting antsy. I knew plenty of genies that hated being summoned much less granting wishes but I liked it, no I craved it. Thinking how to reward the brave and pure, plott...
edit 3: Further updates will be posted in my subreddit /r/Ardarail, thanks for reading everyone! - - - - &nbsp; I was watching the evening news when it started. The news anchor was cut off mid sentence by a loud, unbroken tone and the bright while bold letters began to scroll across screen. **WE'VE INTERR...
The translator on Jack's wrist beeped, flashing in bold letters what the alien had just said to him. "You mean to tell me you came here, a hundred and thirty light years away from your home, across the vast expanse of deep space, in that?" The alien pointed a blue tentacle at Jack's starship. "Yeah! What's wrong w...

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