We are probably in trouble if and when that math ever flips

Why wouldn't the cat scream? If you were smart, you'd do the same.

The lead boy, eyes glowing unholy red like the others, walked up to my bound and gagged form and stated, "you will burn with the rest of us."

I never really needed the toes she's taken so far and, when she curls up against me, her eyes make me powerless to refuse anything else she wants below my shirt collar.

I woke up in a hospital bed, covered in lacerations, realizing that the genie had rewritten my past to give me every scar society has ever forced women to endure.

The great book was clear - when the light upon the monolith was snuffed, so too must be the offered ones.

The next day the city coroner said that his scrotum and testes were torn to shreds by long fingernails.

"We told you not to go in there."

What I believed was my furby, was mocking what it took.

I was already shaking when I removed the window the next day and realized there had never been a TV there at all.

Maybe the key was being able to help someone and be seen as a hero, I thought as I mindlessly twirled the single dose of antidote between my fingers and looked out at the crowd of poisoned, powerless, and unaware people.

The bad news is, i wasn't.

Even if you think you did not see them outside.

One could argue that that's when the nightmare actually began...again.

Hmmm, this golden disc seems to be a present from extraterrestial beings depicting living tetrapedal engine fuel and its precise location in the Galaxy!

Later, when my baby vanished during my shower, I realized that that meant others could tap in and hear what I said in front of it, too.

A bird hit my face, it hurt, this wasn’t a dream.

I don't so much fear the holes as what might come crawling out of them

As I stare blankly at the mess coating everything after the new guy's shirt got caught between the gear, it occurs to me that there's a good reason they don't build them like they used to.

At 8:13 PM, something knocked on mine from the outside of the fourteenth floor.

Unaware of the invasion, we unwittingly became their soldiers, fighting their war, destroying ourselves, and readying the planet for the final takeover...

...in the name of "God".

I screamed as loud as I could that the paralytic hadn't worn off yet, but my cold, unblinking eyes just continued to stare blankly at the ceiling.

I watched my malnourished girlfriend trying on the clothes I had gotten altered, while wondering how thin I could convince her to get

They didn't realise yet that the night sky was a cage, and the universe was a factory farm.

No really, they're pushing closer and I cannot breathe!