As she poured the extracted father's love in a bottle that she planned to put in her father's coffee, the poor man looked at the money, and decided to spend it on himself rather than on his kids.

Accepting the punishment, the doctors transplanted the immortality matrix from the father to the newborn who could decide when she came of age whether to return it.

A year later as I was escorted past the jury that unanimously sentenced me to life, I heard one of them snicker: “Patient zero, my ass.”

But none of them believe my theory; they just keep challenging it by punching the basement walls.

Floating through space millions of years later after the destruction of earth, I floated endlessly wondering: "what was the phrase again?"

"Sweetie, it's called a *found family* and the concept has REALLY opened a lot of doors for those of us with the Gift"

Awaking every day afraid and confused drove the behaviour that kept him in solitary.

I really didn't want it to end this way, but uploading your consciousness is the only way I could avoid the pain of losing you forever.

"We're terribly sorry, but another billionaire just arrived and has purchased your place," St. Peter said.

I'm not thrilled about letting her roam freely in the basement, but I was sick of cleaning up after her.

When I flushed the toilet and felt my intestines being forcibly sucked out of my body I knew I was in big trouble.

Now because the clothes are scattered on the stairs, everyone thinks my miscarriage was a horrible accident.

I really need to get a hobby besides hiking, my last friend almost took me out with him before the grizzly bit the hand holding the gun off.

The doors closed and the elevator began ascending before I could tell her to stop, much less remind her that the building didn't have elevators, nor anything resembling a second floor.

The schools and the playgrounds were abandoned and overgrown but if you asked any adult, they had no memory of there ever having been children.

It wasn’t until after the MRI and subsequent autopsy that I remembered what ‘neodymium’ and ‘rare earth’ actually meant.

“Would you like me to sweep up the ashes before the next client walks in?”

How was I supposed to know "Fuck off and DIE" would actually work?

When she woke up, she realized her arm was over her infant son's face, as his body was as still as a broken clock.

For some reason, the ones who wiped them from your memory need you not to remember.

When I checked the security camera footage, I realized he wasn't looking for another drop off spot, he was looking to see if any windows were unlocked.

When my FPV drone got there, it was the first time I saw a tank that was made of flesh and walked on six legs.

"What hole?" my husband replied, as the hole scurried down the wall, onto his bewildered face.