Curiosity
When you peer into the abyss, sometimes the abyss gazes back-Nietzsche Every state institution that's more than a couple years old has skeletons in the closet. Doors best left unopened. Topics avoided by mutual agreement. No exceptions. Ours was...
Home
When I joined NASA at the Kennedy Space Station, I really thought it was a dream come true. I?d spent my whole childhood wanting to be the one talking to the aliens whenever they wanted to have a conference with humanity. Of course, I got older and...
A Pickle...
It was a hot night, insects buzzing outside the open window against the screen. There was no breeze to kiss the heat away, just more god forsaken heat. In a tiny house a man lay in his bed, wearing nothing but a set of boxers and blankets kicked to...
Long Live the Witch (By Avoozl)
“ **Long Live the Witch"** **By Terry Echoes** The wind died down, as if it, too, was listening to Hannah's impassioned words. “This is an old woman who needs our help! Sometimes the biggest danger someone can face isn't horrific and sudden...
The Scientific Inquirer, Article 1
_The Scientific Inquirer_ **Revolutionary Treatment for Rodents Found?** Published: September 17th, 2020 In this day and age, many major illnesses are but a memory of a distant past. What we suffer from are but trifles to such horrid plagues as...
End of an Era
What happened to us? We were extinguished. Like a cold breath of air against a flickering flame, or the sun beaming down its withering heat on a chunk of ice, or a granule of sand taken by the dark and expansive and terrifying sea. A single...
An Unusual Pregnancy
Agreements are made when moneys are paid in exchange for the work of my pen. Commissions l gained, grotesque and mundane portraying the longings of Men. Although l have had affairs good and bad, yet the strangest accruing to me was...
2811042 Blackraven2_the_shrink
"This is the first time I ever had to sign an NDA to see a patient. Now, tell me what you have in there? It's not an alien, right? Don't tell me all that Area51 nonsense is actually real, is it?" The lemur asked, slightly amused. "Nah, nothing like...
Please Look Up (By Makyo)
# Please Look Up I quickly grow tired of my own footfalls. Those same padded feet hitting that same hard-packed path. Those same claws leaving those same indentations in the same dirt, that dirt that lies halfway between mud and stone. Was that the...
2796761 ironsnake345_springtime_sting
Springtime Sting By ironsnake345 Story prompt for Writer's Crossing * * * "Madam, please, it is bee season, you must be cautious!" The window slid shut in my face, slamming into its frame with a noise that made my ears ring. I shut my eyes and...
The Cave
"Belle, are you sure this is such a good idea?" The pink girl groaned and rolled her eyes at her twin. "Come on, Beau, where's your sense of adventure?" Beau balled his paws into fists and looked into the darkness ahead of them. "I think I left...
Not Exactly Dead
Not Exactly Dead By ironsnake345 Submission for a weekly writing prompt by Writer's Crossing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT EXACTLY DEAD Life (so to speak) in Necropolis It's been a...