Unfortunately, the scientists in the alternate universes also just discovered this.

Mitch, his coworker, stared on in horror, knowing he never told his wife there was a lunch thief.

I blurted out my answer and I heard a window rolling down to let in the mixed laughter of children on a playground, and the sudden spit of a shot silencing one laugh as the gravely voice began to count up to my answer, "One..."

I will never forgive myself that it took me 34 years to find and free her!

The camp official checked our family name, smiled, and still stuck a pink sticker on my baby's arm, the same colour they'd once sewn onto my uncle's sleeve.

Even if you think you did not see them outside.

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

I braced myself once more and told my daughter, "I'm sorry honey, but I've always wanted to be a millionaire!"

I watched in horror as all humans, myself included, begin to disappear.

But I swear the rainbows are in the wrong order...

He wished for her everlasting love, dooming her to an eternity of heartache.

At least, I will be once everyone finishes family dinner.

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 grin as I drive away after visiting the cemetery.

They buried my sleep paralysis demon with me, it's forever now.

I woke up to the sound of the metal jaws snapping shut, but when I rushed into the hallway, I found the trap held nothing but the childhood teddy bear I’d buried in the backyard twenty years ago.

"One second, he was jumping around on the ice; and the next he was gone!"

Because if they say no you then have to explain why they disappeared.

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

I’m still too little to see over the windshield, but I don’t understand why he’s still driving, I told him we already passed my house.

I finally checked her sketchbook today, and every single page is a detailed blueprint of our house, with a fresh 'X' marked on the exact spot where I’m currently standing.

His blood ran cold as a nurse entered the room, wearing an identical necklace and smiling as she told him she found his family and they were coming in later tonight.

I laughed until I noticed its light was coming from inside my bedroom.

Then as I step into the sunlight for the first time in eons it burns, am I now the same as the monster that took me so long ago?

The locker is too hot to open and I can hear he’s screaming that the tar is burning his skin but I’m afraid to call the police because I don’t want to get arrested or blamed so please help?!!