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“So. It is done”, I said. “I don’t feel any different. How quickly is this supposed to work?” The demon shifted awkwardly. “To be honest,...

“The sulphur swirled sensuously around the supine form of the subject in the summoning circle”, lisped a voice in the smoke. “Dammit...

The ride downtown the next morning was a quiet one. I tried to lighten the mood a couple of times, with jokes about woodworm, and how my...

I saw someone post this pun based story set up: "From birth, your parents have done everything they could to stop you from going out...

The crew of the USS Nebraska swung into action. Later, I'm sure the XO would take some pride in the quiet ballet that ensued. Volume is...

“Diving Officer, make your depth 20 feet,” the XO ordered. “Make my depth 20 feet, aye, sir,” I heard in reply. Very Low-Frequency depth....

“What do you mean no magic?” she said incredulously. “I think there’s not a lot of wiggle room in that statement, Oh Mistress”, I...

First time doing a Constrained Writing exercise. It had to include all these and be a police procedural, under 800 words. Ritual Hiraeth...

The Bearer Bonds sat on the table in front of me, apparently oblivious to the moral problems they were causing me. I looked over every...

It didn’t look like any gate I’d ever seen. It didn’t look like anything I’d ever seen. Even the Ambassador surely couldn’t move it. Some...

Being woken up by a hunger pang is up there with the worst possible ways to start a day. Fortunately, I had no idea if this was the start...

As I fought, a deeply unhelpful part of my, soon to be drowned, brain, pointed out that perhaps screaming as I fell was not such a great...

Captain Edward Smith shooed the man away with a wave of his hand. "Yes, yes, another sea ice warning. Good lord, Phillips, don't you have...

Phillipe was proud of his uniform. Unlike his companions, he believed what it represented was bigger than him. Porthos said he respected...

Lucidity. That was the key to caring for the mentally ill. Regardless of species, system or psychological method, in the end, it was all...

The A/C doesn’t work, and I need the toilet. We’ve been on this highway for what feels like forever and it’s making me car sick. The...

The light flickered briefly behind the counter in the small diner. Not frequently enough to be really annoying and force someone to fix...

Space Station had always struck me as a stupid name. There is no spare space on The Station. There was no spare oxygen, or water, or...