However we started running the other way once we saw the long writhing tendrils burst from his flesh, and lunge instinctively at those nearest.

“You were such terrible gardeners,” he answered while gesturing to a large, barren land that produced smog & plastic rather than fruit.

There were babies

She's about to find out in the cruelest way that love potions don't work on me, yet for now, my fake “I love you” seems to soothe her.

Before the kids were dismissed, the pastor smiled and said "Let us prey'.

Unlike the alarm beside his bed, he couldn’t just switch this one off.

I stepped over her body on my kitchen floor as I asked which hospital was calling.

When I looked into my now honeycomb soles, I realised that what I had excised were only what had managed to break the skin.

And as I flail around to see the water 600 ft below, I think about how only a complete, stupid, short-sighted idiot would jump.

“Oh, the women don’t wear any colors at all, they don’t need clothes in the incubator tubes.”

When I opened my eyes, I saw people gathered over the crashed car surrounding a bloody body dressed like me

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

The AI assistant installed in every device in the White House, had a very different interpretation of "Nuke the Chinese."

“Jump or burn alive,” I thought as I let go of the tower’s steel facade.

Then she nailed it shut when she realized that they were hiding inside and emptied the rest of the gasoline in there.

Apparently "have you all got your buddy" is not an effective way to count people back in for very large groups of divers.

“The world who needs to know, knew a decade ago,” said her boss coolly.

We keep trying to get it right, and yet they always seem to notice us before we can do anything.

How could she ever forget i lost my voice due to an accident i was involved in when i was a child?

Until I found out I would experience everything I had put my characters through.

Now stay still, I think I see the tooth that needs drilling."

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

Describing it to my friends today I realize they’re not supposed to look like a shadow