Terry was good at really chess. In fact, he was something of a prodigy. Of course you'd never know it since

Something crashed hard on the balcony. I looked out, but the light from the living room only extended a foot or two though the sliding glass door. The glass fogged and cleared.

The delivery had been late and the package beaten up intentionally. When you write "Fragile" on something, it's an invitation for destruction, but this package was spared by a

He dialed in the coordinates. This hydrogen cloud would destroy the hull of the NT-4140. It was a pleasure craft, used to tour the rings of Saturn. But the coordinates switched to

She opened the coffee make. "Uh, Delilah? Where are your coffee inserts." Delilah cocked her head, "What, you mean filters?" She said, "What's a filter?" The blank stare on her

Seth's diet had slowly degenerated over the course of the past months. His time as a restaurant critic was of no use to him on a strict regimen of grubs, crickets and leeches.

Such a fall had never been attempted, at least not with the intent to live. Who would be fool enough to expect survival when sky diving without a parachute, but he'd seen it done.

The light flashed on his answering machine. He stood next to it, wishing he could listen to the messages, but those times were gone. Beside it was a list of songs after his eulogy

All of the creativity just drained out of my head. Like it had been sucked out with a Kirby vacuum cleaner by a salesman who wasn't going to leave the house until he'd sold that

My name is Sarah. I live in a pretty house on a pretty street with my pretty family. On the outside, my life is perfect. But like most, I have my demons. This is my story.

The drone rose from the ground with zero intent. Somewhere, thousands of miles away, a sleepy contractor was pulling back on a joystick. Normally he was reliable, but the divorce

"I don't care what you say, I'll never like you like I used to," she yelled, slamming the door. I stood there, wondering about the words and whether or not

She walked into the bar and said, "Which one of you is a tough guy?" No one raised their hands. "A Bar full of wimps, eh?" Then a man chalking his cue said, "What is that you

like the regents of the outer worlds, he took time off to attend a molecular cruiser races. He hid the bitter regret proper to his station in life when his cruiser mowed down the

The blender whined the chili into oblivion. The contest was very specific about elements being apparent, but he needed the flavors. He'd smoked & roasted them, then an encantation

Try as he might he couldn't undo the tightly bound cords. It was clear he would either have to call for help or sleep in his shoes. What had started as joke was now

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I was walking through the streets of New York when suddenly, there was a gigantic earthquake. A chunk of the Empire State Building fell down and

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When I realized the attendant was back to comforting his friend in the women’s can, I decided to liberate some Gatorade, Combos, several kinds of chips and all the cash in the draw