Save your breath, the firefighter told me as she tried to help me out from the rubble. I looked at the tall, crimson-haired and brown-skinned young Black woman, whose lusciously dark skin was covered with soot, and fought back the urge to smile. I don't breathe, I thought smugly and took the hand she offered. Fires in large apartment buildings like this can...
There exists a board on earth that miraculously chooses its own user every generation.Some users claimed that the board is not of earth. Some even theorized that it existed on earth from the time humans started developing as a species. But its rules are soo strict that no one other than it's user know about it. It gives "almost" unlimited access to...
Tyrus stared at the terrified woman in front of him. She was trembling, her eyes wide and rimmed with red. She had seen too much. Now she knew the monster that he really was. What was he thinking? She was a human, and belonged in the human world. All this was more than she could handle. His gaze fell over the wound on her neck. It had stopped bleeding. The...
Instructions of the Boop Boop Ray Gun Congrats on finding the Boop Boop Ray Gun. People with the ray gun can swap one thing between two targets. Side effects may vary depending on subconscious. Side effects might upset conscious mind. Only allowed to use reverse button once per day. Only affects most recent swap. Must wait 24 hours before swapping anything b...
Fall is here, and that means yet another year of tests, classes, parties, and God knows whatever else at Rocky Mountain College, in Colorado. Something must be in the air, whether it's the natural high of the mountains, or the secondhand high from the now legal cannabis, that makes this college and the surrounding town carefree as can be. The laid back atmos...
What's up people? Steve Salomon here. I'm a big and tall young black man of Haitian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. Up until recently, I considered myself the luckiest guy in the world. I'm close to completing my studies in the business management program at the Sprott School of Business of Carleton University. And I have, no, had the love of...
Note from the author: I actually do roll die for all the stats of every character and all the die rolls they make in the course of the game. There may be other forms of (amateurish) DM fudgery, but the numbers you see are not one of them. Also, I want my italics back. =( -o-o-o- I hate this stupid game, Meliel thought as she slogged down the dirt road, he...
Social Distancing Wow! Has the world turned upside down or what? Hello again. Welcome to Chapter Nine and "where do we go from here?" Ken and I have been somewhat active since moving to the Villages. I have my ladies' club that I look forward to every month. Playing with other women has been fun and educational. Are we now going to give up on our pleasur...
Life can be a bitch. Just when you think you're getting ahead in the world, you get demoted into a dead-end job and the days just blend together. I needed something exciting, and when browsing the internet, I found it. A mixed nude fighting club in my area was accepting new members. The set-up seemed simple enough. A male and female would each show up with $...
August 4th 1977 was the date the death knell of the X-Men had been signed. Cyclops was gone. The leader of the X-Men was dead. Charles Xavier was gone. The founder of the X-Men was in space to find a new home for mutant Skrulls. Jean Grey was gone. The light of the X-Men had resigned out of a fervent belief that Cyclops was still alive. Magneto had returned...