Terry walked past the sign. Then he stopped and stepped back, and read the sign again. Yep.
“Buck bucks for a buck!”
Whilst he was mid-stare a disheveled man approached, leaning on a fence post. “He will, you know.”
“Who will?”
The man waved his hand behind him. A deer stood in a paddock, calmly eating grass. It was [...]
I’m a superhero. And today, I’m going to kill one hundred and ten thousand people.
My powers range from the flashy and impressive to the very, very simple. I can fly at thirty times the speed of sound, easily getting me into low orbit. I can lift one hundred and fifty billion tons of solid rock [...]
It creaked noisily and rhythmically. I didn’t know there was so much steel in the thing, but as the candelabra swung in the wind from the broken windows it produced a high pitched whine. It reminded me of the start of an old Sergio Leone film I saw once many years ago. I don’t know [...]
Those accursed things do not understand the truth, the reality of the situation the real strength of the LORD of the STAR in the HEAVENS, that great burning orb that watches over us all, grants us heat and light. They think it is just a thing, an object in the sky that has no choice [...]
Darkness prevailed that day.
It didn’t look like it at the time, of course. That’s why we all celebrated. The vile Endokrin hordes were condemned back to the pits of hell where they belonged, and we had obtained a powerful new ally.
That was until we found out just why the Endokrin forces were fighting the Elfin [...]
Reality shattered, the air between the portal breaking like glass. Jored Stormslayer looked up in horror, for now it seemed he was indeed too late.
The portal, located deep beneath the surface of the world where the very ground burned to the touch, was as wide as a house and as tall as a tower, and [...]
The anemone shifted, arms waving gently in a silent undersea dance.
It reminded her of tai chi demonstrations she had seen years ago. Slow, graceful, yet threatening.
She found herself mimicking the thing, waving her arms slowly, drawn in by the creature’s hypnotic grace. It was a new species, she didn’t have to be a marine biologist [...]
Four years ago I saved the world. In return I got the joy of seeing the world as a better place, a cushty civil service desk job that involves very little actual work, a decent pension and all the benefits attached to that.
Which is nice, I guess. I also got a non-discolsure agreement that said [...]
The snakes weren’t very large, but they were extremely numerous.
It was in the middle of the twenty-first century when they started to come back. They swam through the sea in incalculable swarms, forming huge twisting corkscrews that floated over the surface. They rolled as they swam, each one getting a turn on the surface as [...]
“Do you like it, Clive?” she said, lowering the mug of coffee from her lips. Her big brown eyes looked up at me, somewhere between curiosity and challenging.
I shrugged. “I guess. It keeps me busy after all.”
“Dangerous work, though.”
“Well, yes, that’s what they all say. But that low life expectancy isn’t down to the work [...]