There was still a chance. As long as she kept the demon talking, there was still a chance.

“Y-you know full well we never mistrusted you,” Allya countered, trying to steady her voice. The demon had been right; one wrong move and this entire planet would be nothing but dust in space.

Allya paused, gesturing to the swirling magic with the tip of her sword. “We weren’t afraid of you. We were afrai...

Allya unsheathed her sword.

“I’d be careful if I were you,” the demon said. “One move and our planet gets wiped of all life.”

Allya eyed the demon’s hand, swirling with shimmering magic the color of blood. She didn’t have to ask to know what that magic could do.

She glanced behind her, at her pathetic little army. Her friends; Lila, Dame, Wreese. The few dozen fighters who joined them in a f...

“I’d be careful if I were you… one move and our planet gets wiped of all life.” His smile was endearing, even for a try-hard.

“You messed it up.”

“What?”

“It’s Uranus.”

“My anus?”

“No, the word. For the joke to work, it’s not, look, you said ‘our planet,’ but the joke only works if you say ‘Uranus.’”

Dmitri looked at his friend with the dead-eyed stare of a child listening to his father st...

After the recent discovery of Anta’s death, Ryan and Reyna were set on trying to find a worse case. A harder challenge.

‘Reyna, it’s been a while. We need something exciting again. Something to chase.’

Ryan was adjusting his blue flannel shirt, almost disappointedly viewing the evidence that caught Anta before she died: the small glass tube of sand.

‘Uh huh, yeah…’ the soft clicking of Reyna’s la...

“I’d be careful if I was you, one move and our planet gets wiped if all life,” the human proclaimed.

I yawned, stretched, and waited for her to leave. I walked gracefully to where she left her teacup, and swatted it on the Big Red Button. As a trans dimensional being, her threats were meaningless, and I was bored.

Nothing happened. Well. I guess wiping out all life on this rock would be a du...

The red numbers ticked ominously, counting down… to what exactly? Poison gas? Explosion? An oven full of cookies? He was pretty sure it wasn’t an oven of cookies but he was trying to think positive.

“I’d be careful if I were you… one wrong move and our planet gets wiped of life.”

He told her unhelpfully. Her response was just as unhelpful.

“It’s hardly our planet. It just D.C. and surrounding are...

"I'd be careful if I were you..." Her voice drags across my ears like glass, shards of something sharp and painful, "One wrong move and our planet gets wiped clean."

Heat sizzles to life on my cheeks, in my chest. Anger is boiling hot, scolds my stomach and the Toothpaste-like breakfast I had earlier.

"Do you understand the stakes, Soldier? Or are you conducting yourself with your usual level of...

Life has an end, but what happens after that end. Well this is it. This is the afterlife. For most people, they see nothing. However, some see more. Their afterlife is their fantasy.

Some fantasies are beautiful. Places in nature that are completely untouched by man. Or places where improvement upon improvements have been made to the point where everything is near perfection. These are the place...

My siblings and I recently had to move to another planet. I knew why. I had to fix this somehow.

Our parents were killed by the explosion. I was the second oldest, making me and our oldest sister in charge of the little ones. Each day we worked on a plan to re-create the planet that we had previously lived on. It had exploded and it was our job to fix it. I had the fortunate advantage of being ver...

“I’d be careful if I were you…one move and our planet gets wiped of all life.”

I was a ten-year-old girl when I heard those words, but they haunt me even now at eighty.

Everyone tells me I dreamed it, and I don’t say I didn’t. All I know is that all my dreams have felt like dreams, even when I didn’t realize they were dreams until I woke up.

All except that one.

I don’t remember how I got t...