Theseus was walking his dog down the street. There were parks around, but he didn’t like the ambiance over there at night. The junkies hanging around didn’t look that menacing, hell, they were probably one good shove away from the emergency room, but why tempt Fate? That was his motto Read more…
In retrospect, what she did that day was really dumb. I mean really, confronting five rapists on a remote street in the middle of the night? “Leave her alone,” Aphrodite shouted at them, her only weapon against them a very evil frown. “Beat it, invalid,” one of them said with Read more…
Tushy was a lousy Reaper, to be honest. She knew that, all the Reapers knew that, heck, probably even the dead knew it also. Perhpas that’s why she never got to nab one. Sigh. It had been eleven months since she’d gotten her scythe, and she still hadn’t reapt a Read more…
Betty was this year’s dragon bait. There was a lottery and she got picked. How about that? “No!” she cried out when they called her name. “I’m not crunchy, this wont work.” The others simply pushed her outside and threw the staff at her feet. “What’s this?” she asked, as Read more…
What does an immortal keep with him? It’s a simple question. What do you keep as you go through the centuries? Technology? That quickly becomes obsolete. Photographs? They weren’t meant to last. Most of them fade, and they’re unfortunately too flammable to survive the inevitable housefire. Not to mention the Read more…
Chris liked to point out the obvious. Perhaps that was why someone was currently trying to kill him at that moment. It was a nice Sunday morning. The sun was bright, the birds were singing and the chainsaw came rattling through the locked door. Grnng! It cut through the wooden Read more…
So, you died. What happens next? Easy, you wait in line to get your soul weighed up against a feather. Yeah, that sure does remind you of something. It’s Egyptian Afterlife mythology, and it’s real. It doesn’t matter whether you believed in it or not, whether you’re an atheist, agnostic, Read more…
“Bite me,” Tony said. “Okay,” Dimitri said, brought out his fangs and was tearing open his jugular before his helpless victim could even blink, let alone react. He bit down with his fangs and drank up his blood. It was warm, gooey, and salty. Everybody kept describing blood as metallic, Read more…
“Sign the petition, please,” the girl said, stopping people in the middle of a beautiful park. The sunlight made her green eyes glisten. “Oh? What’s it about?” the man asked, pulling the clipboard towards him. He took his hat off out of respect. That’s what all proper gentlemen did when Read more…
The ground shook. Streets broke in little chasms, pots fell and smashed on the floors, windows cracked. “The mountain is displeased,” the Topmost Faithful said. The other Faithful agreed. It was time for the sacrifice. It wasn’t an annual thing, heck, it wasn’t even a decennial one. The unspoken rule Read more…