James and the Giant Deep
?James was sure he'd be fired. The entire board was in there. He'd barged in and seen top secret files. Glanced, really, he didn't have time to read anything they said. And yet, that eye haunted him. Just thinking about it his fear grew. He could feel...
Perpetual Princess Project
?"Bees. An entire planet full of bees of all sizes. And woe, here am I, above it all, allergic to bees." Razion lamented her royal plight as she floated in her bedroom window looking down upon her colony world. She watched as the skyhook hauled up a...
The Wish
"Useless brat!" The hand cleaved across my face, and my cheek stung with his insult and the back of his palm. It took every ounce of my courage, every ounce of my strength not to stumble and fall. The room swayed around me as my temper rose, but it...
Coming out of the tent
He'd made Shannon Connelly cry, the bastard. Nobody messed with Shannon Connelly, because there was no reason to do so. Everybody loved her. She was head of the film club at school, and had the best taste in film. You'd think that's not objective, but...
Hindr (By Chaon)
The text was bright red and stylistically rendered in the manner of the Goosebumps logo; with ugly pustules that seemed to drip off the pristine white of his smartphone screen. Other than the garish font the splash screen appeared boringly dull next to...
Death Takes a Vacation (By AmethystMythDen)
Earth, being several billion years old, did not care at the goings on of a single man. No matter what the 'evolved' beings that lived on it like so many ants on an moderately sized hill thought, it was there before them, and would be there long after...
Costume Antics
Shel wobbled in place, feeling hot and stuffy. The chubby Irish setter's fur was getting heavy with sweat. "Andy," he groaned, "can we pull apart a sec? It's hard to breathe in this...
Dana's Elusive Trick
A young zorua moved through the lamplit street with her equally young trainer. The faux zubat wings tied to her back felt awkward, flimsy. She constantly shifted the strap around her belly to keep them from drooping. As for her trainer, she was dressed...
Awakening (By AmethystMythDen)
_Prompt: The final confrontation between the plucky hero(s) and the big bad. AND. The thoughts/actions of a character that knows the world ends in 15 minutes._ "_I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo._ _"So do I," said Gandalf,...
Tintinnabulation
There it was again: The sound cutting through the trees, piercing past the wind and calling to mind the silence of every creature in the forest. Craig Secker could hear the tinny tones of a mobile phone from roughly a decade past every time he hit...
I had this dream
A ring of the doorbell, and like clockwork, five seconds is all it takes. "Oh, Louise! You're back in town for the summer already? University treating ya well?" "Just fine, Mr. Brooks. Everything's going wonderfully so far." Nosy as it may...
The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue
" **The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue"** **by Terry Echoes** Pierre found himself staring up at a picture of a man with a manic grin. The grin stretched across the man's golden-brown muzzle, and his eyes were lit up with the kind of jovial...