January 1st, 2017 The clock on the nighstand switched from a.m. to p.m. In the distance one could hear the church bells ring 12 times with a thunderous sound that was sure to wake up even the ones that partied hard last night. In a darkened room on the other end of the small city, a figure stirred in bed, forcefully awoken by the sound. The figure groaned an...
"Alert! Alert!" The alarm sounded. "The virus has spread! I repeat the virus has spread!" A man over the intercom yelled hysterically. Men and women in lab coats were running for their lives, pushing and shoving through the doors to save themselves. "What's happening?" Asked a young blonde woman. Who recently graduated from coll...
This is the central hub for a collection of one-shots and branches set in a single fictional world, Autumn. These tales can be read in effectively any order, and require no introduction. If you want to leap right in, go ahead. Otherwise, a short primer is printed below. Table of Contents I - (Male God) walking out of the endless wilderness. I - A (very botto...
The badge clipped onto your shirt pocket reads "Lewis Smith", and a not-flattering-but-not-unflattering picture of you is next to your name. Underneath is written the text "Junior Laboratory Worker". Your job is largely grunt work; you mix chemicals, prepare injections, handle paperwork, and generally do whatever you're told. You have alw...
You are in a deep dream when suddenly you feel a mysterious presence. You strangely feel at peace, but at the same time vulnerable, eventually this presence speaks. "You Are about to enter an alternate reality that is very different from your own. In your own world, you were raised since around two years old to pee into a strange bowl under a seat like...
You laugh as you watch Overlord Plagueis and Warchief Gransh fall to each other's blades. The tyrannical Human warlock had been challenged by his Orc general and second-in-command for rulership of the land of Infiern, and the duel had been going on for hours, a scene of brutal pitched combat waged in a warded antechamber, uninterrupted and unwitnessed by any...
Tuesday, September 8th, 2015. It was our 8th wedding anniversary. Nancy and I were spending it the way we had every year since getting married, doing the 13 mile loop hike around Mt. Diablo in the morning, before our anniversary dinner in downtown Walnut Creek. This was the same hike where we had first met, as part of a larger group in college. It was likel...
Sheva’s gun went click at the worst possible time. Of all the blasted! Why now?! Something big with a large number of appendages was bearing down on her. One of the bioweapons many arms reached out to grab her. Skillfully, she rolled to the side, narrowly escaping its grasp. She came up from her roll hitting the eject button on her gun; the empty magazine ca...
You said goodnight. You're calls had been similar most nights, long drawn out pauses between statements about your day or the latest gossip from your respective friend groups. “I love you,” you whispered at the end of the call, she whispered the response. You felt a pang as you knew for the next 8 hours she’d be off the grid and you’d experience the crushing...
It started off as an average day; get up, clean, eat and off to work. You enjoy your work, you went through enough classes and education to get here and you take pride in the time and effort you put in to your work. In the crazy world you live in with people having superpowers; flying through the sky, shooting fire, controlling metal etc. Having a normal lif...