Off in a wayward arm of an ordinary spiral galaxy a rather drab G class star thought itself chic because it sported an asteroid belt but its planets all had noneccentric orbits

Riley & Owen clinked Brandy glasses at Tranquility Base Aldrin Lounge enjoying the view of Earth's nightside. "Here's to the new". "Yeah,some fireworks huh?". "Holy cow. Those aren

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She looked into his black beady eyes and started to whimper. She saw the devil in those eyes. She winced as his hand grabbed her wrist.

My Summer Vacation by Billy B Age 9. This summer we took a brief hiatus from my summer vacation inside a beach cottage on the beach. Foul weather & diarrhea prevented venturing out

She came home. And that was it. The gap wider than ever but physically she was there now, in the house we built together and the life we tore apart. My silence hung in the air

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He grabbed me by the throat, slamming my head into the brick wall. "Never," he yelled, "underestimate the influence the collapse of the Ottoman Empire had on the origins of WW1!"

"NO! NO! I don't like it! I want to be the same!" Jeremy struggled against the restraints. "See this syringe, Jeremy? It's full of isotonic saline, and I won't even inject it," sai

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One afternoon the Dalai Guru of Reincarnation got hopped up on lemongrass chiffon and made a few bad decisions.

She ran her hands through her hair, breathed deeply, winked, and said, "

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Head reeling, he watched her slumped figure disappear into nothingness. "Could it be?" He thought to himself, almost laughing at how ridiculous his explanation was for what he saw.

"Have you ever noticed how the titles for online porn videos sound an awful lot like Indian names?" My wife's observations had grown inane since receiving the iPad, a gift from

The man beside me picked up a burger, chewed, and swallowed. Soon, that burger was gone. Then, another. And another. After the fourth or so, I began to wonder if he would ever

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