Cornelius stepped into the arena's light, the nauseating stench of sweat and blood crashing onto him. At his side walked Primus, a slave of the Terphan Empire. The only thing they had in common was that a rising empire had made them prisoners of war after ravaging their lands. He knew nothing of Primus but his name, yet as the crowd rose from their seats in the oval stadium and began shouting in a...

We met in “the pits”, the holding area beneath the coliseum. He was Ephrates. I introduced myself as Laodice. We were surprised to find that we had lived near each other our whole lives, but never chanced to meet until we found ourselves here under different circumstances. Even more bizarre, neither of us knew how we arrived in this situation. The only points we could agree on were that we were on...

Gregor Samsa looks up at the vast sea of human-sized insects, barely making out their large carapacious bodies. He lifts an arm to block out the blinding lights of the stadium. The clicking, snuffling, hissing language of the crowds is deafening.

A voice (voice?) screams shrilly over a loudspeaker. The noise from the crowds dies down. A thick scraping noise is the only sound that can be heard for...

The three of us just wanted an escape from our normal boring lives. There was Henry, he was an office assistant. His life consisted of fetching coffees. There was Benni, he is a high school student who was top of all his classes. Then there was me the street rat who lived from shelter to shelter. Little did the three of us know that the escape we wanted would come in the form of a letter offering ...

The strange mixes of languages boomed through the air, sending chills down Asha’s spine. She could smell the blood, and see it where innocent victims had been killed.

Ira grunted and flicked his tail. He tightened his grip on his diamond daggers and looked around fiercely. He licked his lips at the smell of blood, and the taste of flesh.

It was animal vs. human, but like no other. Animals had g...

As I step into the arena, I begin to hear the crowd screaming in a language I can’t understand. Once in a while I can pick out names in amidst shouting.

“…Yuri… Pak Yan…”

“Daniel, Daniel, Daniel!”

“….Amira!”

The last one churns my empty stomach as I can’t stop myself from wondering what these aliens are chanting about me. Fear paralyzes me so suddenly that my “mulatto” guard walks right into my b...

(In the same universe as Evaporation)

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Pippa groans as her hazy mind clears.

She opens her eyes, and expects to see something. Anything. Instead, darkness still.

Not all her senses are off. She can hear loud cheering, almost as if she were near a football game or something like that. Her fingers grasp around, and she finds that she is laying on a dirt floor.

Just as she gets herself to...

“I can’t believe my parents let us just not continue on with the fight.” Dakota states. He is cleaning his daggers after Shraydin and him went hunting to get the urge to fight out of their systems.

Shraydin on the other hand is sitting there, staring at Dakota with a face of if you were to make it an emoji it would be the heart eyes emoji.

They’re being quiet since they can’t stop thinking about...

“They’re barbarians..” Jae muttered so quietly I almost missed it.

I shrugged, “ It’s normal here.”

“But does it not bother you at all what they’re doing these innocent people?” Jae winced, looking at field and the new blood splatter.

“I’m not saying it’s right but that’s how it is” I retorted, losing my cool a split second. I quickly take a deep breath. Most of the time, ‘clients’ don’t get me ...

Sara y su amigo de pluma visitaron a Juan en España.para el partido final de fútbol, el único problema es que Sara no hablo español todavía. Así que Juan tiene que traducirlo todo en inglés.

“Me alegro de verte sara” Dijo Juan

Sara miró a Juan y hizo una pequeña ola

“Right, no hablo español, sorry.” Says Juan in a Mexican accent

“It’s ok I’ve always wanted to learn.” Said Sarah

“¡Muy bi...