Coz's Favorites
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The End
by Kevin Lawver about 1 year ago
The end of the world was nigh and we all knew it. It wasn’t something we didn’t see coming. They foretold it for years – we’d…
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An Unreasonable Request
by Elliot Ryan about 1 year ago
Her smile was contagious. I couldn’t help but return the brilliant expression ten fold.
As the hot water drowned her teabag…
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My superpower sucks
by Jnova about 1 year ago
With the recent wave of people receiving super powers I would like to officially declare that my super power sucks.
My mom g…
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Superpower Cafeteria Revelation
by rejoicingapathy about 1 year ago
“Well, I’d like it, I think,” she said. “What’s so terrible about it?“
So the first few days that it happened, when …
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Heart Breaker
by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago
... Stevie, who was annoying before superpowers, and now downright unbearable, decided lunch would be a good time to test out…
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Freakin' Lasers!
by Jnova about 1 year ago
I may not be a spring pup anymore but I’ll tell ya… I like this whole super power business that’s been going on.
At first…
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An Unreasonable Request II
by Peter Hodges about 1 year ago
I was stunned. She sat there, her smile fixed on her face, as if she had just announced that she wanted to go to the zoo. “K-...
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Sweet Carolina, Part I
by Scalzi about 1 year ago
First off, know that I hate coffee.
What’s more, I hate what coffee shops have done to coffee. Say what you will about the…
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To the End and Beyond
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
The capsule was a safe enough distance away that the gamma ray burst we just watched tear through the remains of the solar sy…
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Yog-Sothoth Goes On A Picnic With Cthulhu and Tells a Joke
by Phil about 1 year ago
Yog-Sothoth, ut-nabigash, ur-ralicthlia. Ra’lyeh trop thluhth frt gannuh.
“(unpronouncable dialogue that took centuries to s…
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The Void Inside
by Nick about 1 year ago
Robert’s first recollection of the sense of loss was just before he turned 13-years-old: there was a hole somewhere in his bo…
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Cursed
by Squeaky about 1 year ago
As I fell, I realized that the fortune-teller hadn’t been speaking metaphorically. How was I to know that weasels could grow …
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Eggs II
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
The shell cracked and a bundle of colors fell in a flurry into the hot oil.
“By the bejeebers, what are you doing to me, man…
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Realization (Guardians, Ep. 4)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
Behind me she spoke and a flutter burst from her hand. A wrethling, messenger.
The tiny creature flew about me, hindering m…
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Arrival
by Pat J about 1 year ago
Jupiter was a grey and dismal spheroid, its atmosphere mostly blown away into the vast darkness beyond the heliopause. Its mo…
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Innocence
by Some Guy about 1 year ago
When I was a younger man, I wore an earring. I had gotten it, as young men are wont to do, to impress a girl. A girl who was …
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Engine
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
It was only a tiny aberration in reality, but the implications were huge. The sun’s mass was much greater in this time period…
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An Offer He Can't Refuse
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
5 a.m. Lou was arriving at his job as a garbage collector. Well, not garbage collector, really. That at least would have been…
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Destination, Unknown (Guardians, Ep. 6)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
The wind pulled at my hair, cheeks and clothes as I fell.
From here the cliff was almost 2000 feet to the sea below. The fa…
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See Through Engine
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
Kayla was…odd.
Barely fourteen years old and the child held the lives of thousands in her hands. That kinda did some menta…
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Kayla
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
“How close?” We could be famous, and rich if we could get a good scan of the first aliens ever encountered.
“Real close. The…
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Personal Ads for Clothes
by theWallflower about 1 year ago
Penelope tussled with the newspaper, just trying to get it open. Damn things, no wonder online news was getting more popular….
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Space Burp Residue
by Bonkabonka about 1 year ago
Along the left side of the tunnel, shadowed by the corrugations of the pipe, was a large, greasy-looking, black splotch. Fluf…
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Tunnel of the Space Burps
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
It wasn’t charred Tarsian remains, as I had first feared. It seemed to be glass—but not ordinary bottle glass. This was thi…
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Ill Matched (Guardians, Ep. 8)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
“Dead, Marty? Kinda relative thing round here.”
I paused, looked around me. Chaz, wasn’t here. I touched the mirror, the col…
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An Unreasonable Request IV
by Elliot Ryan about 1 year ago
Usually when clearfeeds came through our communicators, everyone continued about their business and let the data download f…
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Her Last Bad Boy (3)
by Podge Dirkins about 1 year ago
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Sweet Carolina, Part 3
by Shawn Powers about 1 year ago
Carolina was so perfect, that ordering a cup of tea seemed almost insulting. In fact, the first time I saw her, I actually tr…
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The Trap Sprung (Guardians, Ep. 11)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
With my blades out, I moved to the mirror. Focussing power into the metal tips.
“I know your tricks now, Chaz. I know your w…
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Dim
by BallpointAddiction about 1 year ago
She says that I act like I’m not the brightest bulb in the room. So I say… So I say… “My God, honey. It’s like you’re in …
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Dim and Dimmer
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
The first time it happened it was so fast no one really noticed.
I just felt, for a moment, lighter.
The next time it happe…
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Release (Guardian 13)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
I slid the blades out and stood still, lifeless. Contemplating my deed, how it would break the fundamental rules for my exist…
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Whistbone's Chase
by Rachel Swirsky about 1 year ago
In the back of her sleigh, Shoal shifted in her bundled furs. She scanned the ground for signs of pursuit, but the snow was d…
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DNA Designs
by Rachel Swirsky about 1 year ago
“DNA Designs,” John announced as the door opened.
“I want my money back!”
The customer was a frazzled woman in a tan coat. ...
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Sadism and Masochism and Explosions, Oh My!
by Pockets about 1 year ago
So Future Sam had apparently delivered a future newspaper to his ex-girlfriend. In order to cause problems for himself. Would…
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Saltpetre, Redwood & Charcoal
by Nick about 1 year ago
Adain pulled the twig forth from the fire, using the tip’s small flame to light his candle. He had been grieven by the news t…
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Fall
by VictoriaC about 1 year ago
It came as a shock coursing through her body, igniting all her senses.
She had seen it coming, seen the teetering of the boa…
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Falling Further In
by Rachel Swirsky about 1 year ago
At dusk, I arrived at the lake. Children skated figure eights, mothers standing on the side lines.
One button push, and the…
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Battle Begins (Guardians, Ep. 17)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
Footsteps behind us made us all turn, weapons ready.
“Screwed up again, Dave?”
Bristling with irritation I reluctantly lowe…
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Wives and Stars
by peterburd about 1 year ago
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The Bunny Slippers are Key
by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago
“Oh, I get it,” I said. “Cookie is obviously the name of some giant alien spaceship bent on the destruction of the Earth, rig…
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Trapped? (Guardians, Ep. 18)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
When I woke I didn’t dare open my eyes at first. Not while the pounding in my head and the scent of seared flesh turned my st…
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The Last Roughneck Reports In
by uselessness about 1 year ago
If my cabin feels a bit claustrophobic, the mess hall is quite the opposite. Undoubtedly the most relaxing place on Turbine S…
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"It never got too fast for me"
by Some Guy about 1 year ago
“Girl please,” he said, “you think your bike is fast? Pfft. You ain’t got nothing on me!”
“Is that right?” I answered. “What…
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Too Much Time in the 60's....
by Lori Vaughn about 1 year ago
I was beginning to realize that I had spent far too many days at Woodstock and they were catching up with me now, almost 40 y…
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The Truth Becomes (Guardians, Ep. 20)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
Jealous?
Jealous of what? The power that came with the laurel. It was fleeting, a mere speck in the infinity of existance, a…
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Moving On (Guardians, Ep. 22)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
The cage, unlike it’s creators, lasted a little longer against my fury. Then it too flared, like a death rattle, and died.
P…
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Brazillian Cut
by Randal L. Schwartz about 1 year ago
He had been there for almost an hour, at that sidewalk drink shack at the edge of the road. He was sipping on the Caipirinha …
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Subterfuge (Guardians Ep. 24)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
“You know you’re going to lose, don’t you.”
We all snapped alert, Chaz!
But not quite Chaz. A projection. Behind him in the…
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First Wave Complications
by Uncle Sam about 1 year ago
The Bismark bears little resemblance to its namesake, even though it’s built by the same shipyards, the Blohm + Voss Orbita…
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A Fitting Laurel Hook (Guardians Ep. 26)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
“So where is the Laurel?” Sylvia asked, then looked surprised at our laughter.
“I forgot,” Pater said to Sylvia. “You wouldn…
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Remind Me What a Clavicle is
by Jay about 1 year ago
D: I broke my clavicle.
J: Remind me what a clavicle is.
D: Wrecked on my bike.
J: Yikes! Are you going to heal up nicely?
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You're Allergic to What?
by Jay about 1 year ago
J: He was a cool guy before that. We partied and did all kinds of crazy things. Good memories. When he started dating her, he…
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Trippin'
by horrorfan13 about 1 year ago
As he lay, basking, in post-coital bliss, a strange thing began to happen. Lights began to appear out of nowhere, flickering …
