Itâs the 21st December. I know this because Emmanuel teaches me to read the sky. Thatâs how the ancient civilisations navigated the globe, even before the days of maps they had the sky. Seven years was all it had taken since the announcement that it was âthe endâ. The end …
âHoly shit! Is that what I think it is?â Brandonâs eyes widened into saucers and, despite being filled with an unabated rage towards his older brother just a few hours ago, Michael couldnât help but smile and nod at the expected reaction. Even with everything that had happened earlier in …
Do you ever just sit and watch your sleeping dog? Observe as their little feet run along the ground, just waving halfway in the air as they let out innocent half-gruntled barks. Have you ever just wondered whatâs going on inside their sleeping minds, what theyâre dreaming about? Maybe itâs …
Roxyâs Lounge. It was the sort of dimly-lit, mid-century styled bar that was too classy for me by half. In the real world, itâs the kind of place Iâd have gone to get shit-faced on overpriced cocktails at a Game Developerâs Conference after-party. But that was in the old days, back …
If youâre armed and at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me. Make it a headshot. Shoot me in the temple, aiming slightly downwards. I need the bullet to travel the shortest possible distance through my brain before it hits my hippocampus. If Iâm lucky, the sensation of the gunshot ripping …
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You know those people who you tell the time of events to 15 minutes early because you know they would be late? The ones who would be late to their own funerals, as the saying goes? Well, that’s me. Prepare as I might. I can never seem to get anywhere …
No matter what you see in the coming months, regardless of how convincing it might seem; Know that I didn’t want to die. I’m going to take all possible steps to prevent my predetermined demise, but if I don’t make it, I need at least someone to know what really …
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Let me just make something clear: I never get to go out somewhere nice. Like ever. My best friend and I struggle just to pay our bills every month, so anything fancier than McDonald’s is usually out of the question. We’ll save up for months to go on one of our âroommate …
The day I found my first hole was the day my best friend came back from the dead. We were in high school and stupid. Jake was his name and we liked to go out to this old abandoned house in the woods after school to just screw around. We …
My name is Andrew Erics. I used to live in a city you probably heard of called New York. My mother is Terrie EricsâTeresa, really. She’s in the phone book under âEââif they even have those things any more. Maybe you can just Google her. I donât know. If you …
âComputer, wake up.â The green static flickered on the face of the monitor. The computer system of the ship never completely shuts down, but is occasionally requested to sleep during long periods of inactivity. Red lights flared on and off as the backup generators designated all available power to emergency …
Iâve had this problem for as long as I can remember. In preschool, I remember being confused when they told us there were seven days in a week, because I could only ever count six. Iâve never told anyone this, not even my wife, so Iâve never really been able …
I thought I saw my future self as a time traveler. Less than a week ago, I was on my way to school when I locked eyes with a very peculiar person. She looked almost exactly like me. Her brown hair, the exact same length as my own, framed a …
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I think Iâve lost my goddamn mind. Everything was fine until I walked out of work this afternoon. Dan, my cube-mate, and I were walking out of the building talking about our plans for the weekend. We had been pulling overtime, one of our clients was being more needy than …
It’d been four days since Julius McKlinsky had left his house. Maybe longer. Had it been a week already? He couldn’t tell. Not anymore. The same four walls seemed to close in on him every passing day, yet whoever – or whatever – was out there… hadn’t moved an inch. At first …
âTHEY’RE NOT COMING, THEY’RE ALREADY HERE.â Thatâs all the email said. No subject, no name, and the email account was clearly a junk or throwaway account linked to AOL mail. At first, I laughed at the ridiculously serious message, not paying it much thought. I used to sign up for …
Vanna-Isabella Osborne was only two years old when the tests began. Every day, she’d be awoken at dawn by her crazed parents, before being stripped bare and strapped onto a cool metal table. No matter how much she screamed and cried, it wouldn’t stop her parents from stabbing her eyes, …
Everything that people think they know about the Mandela effect is incorrect. The phenomenon has been occurring for years, only most dismissed it as a fluke. In the most severe cases those experiencing the effect were diagnosed as having some sort of mental illness, and subsequently medicated, or committed. Then …
Mr. Hansenâs body was interred in a stately mausoleum of his own design years ago, and yet he still works for us. Â Iâm forced to interview with the remains of the sad dotard almost daily. The world honors Hansen for his invention of countless beloved animated characters, and itâs that …
The story I am about to tell you is rather confidential. Amongst the Mire, we are known as Regiment 9. Throughout Regiment 9, we are known as the âBlackGuardsâ, But in the small circle of men and women who actually make up the organization, we call ourselves âthe exterminatorsâ. Led by the infamous Commander, Cyrus Fiendel, we were essentially tasked with getting rid of all the pests that Emperor Dravis didnât want to deal with.
In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajunsâthat queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth centuryâstands a strange, enormous ruin.
I’m lying in bed next to someone who I’ll call my wife, but tomorrow, I know there will be someone different waking up next to me. My current wife will be dead by tomorrow afternoon and I will end the evening dying in a fiery car crash. I know this …
Griffin and I were both 25. We hadnât seen each other since college but kept in close contact. I was working at a cybersecurity firm, and I really wasnât sure what he had been doing. He always told me he was âjust working on something.â I took a few vacation …
I like to go urban spelunking, “ruin diving” my friends call it. We find a place out in the middle of the nowhere that people have forgotten and we break in to see what treasures they might have left behind. On one of our trips we decided to check out …
