Writing Prompt

“Please tell me the reports are wrong,” Leila said as she stared at the newly arrived reports in front of her.

Damage assessments, radiological samples of the surrounding areas following the naval exchange, increases in alert statuses within the US, deployments of strategic aircraft, and troops movements all indicated the preparation for a massive strike. She looked at the map displayed on the s...

Do you not see it ahead of us? It taunts us, calls to us, begs for its destruction.

Look out neatly the shirts are folded, the pants look perfect. The workers spent such careful time in this display, and it shows.

It must be destroyed.

Woe be it to the retail slaves! Show no mercy on their displays. In truth, we know the item we seek is not here, nor is it in that mysterious dimension known...

I look around at my friends. Comrades. We’ve all gathered for an important mission. Boris wearing a faded shirt that barely covers his hairy stomach. Tiffany and Stephanie (don’t get them confused!) in matching miniskirts and heels that are inappropriate for today’s assignment. Alphonso Romeo in his usual army getup that strains against his muscles. And me, Roxy, in my jeans and sweater.

We wait...

Adelaide settled on talking to her shadow, who was very wise. The girl enjoyed the company of others but it was never as refreshing as the sickening comfort of the dark friend that sunk into her bones.

“What will I do, shadow?” she asked, making sure to maintain politeness.

~you have no choice but to play with his feelings too, young adelaide ~, grinned the abyssal presence.

“But, shadow, would...

“What the hell do you mean?” I shout back over the noises bombarding my ears through my headphones.

“Now! Attack, now!” She yells again, using her controller to press fire, the bullets coming out rapidly from her gun.

I fight off some of the dummies, kicking, firing my gun, trying to get closer to my partner in the battlefield, who was being preoccupied by a particularly large dummy.

“I DON’...

“We can’t fight back Will!” I yelled back.

“Now or never!” He said shrugging me out of the way.

“You don’t even know what your doing!” I said.

But Will ignored me and continue to walk up the stairs with the bag of rocks.

“Could you just listen! Just-this-once-Will!”

He stop mid step before turning slowly towards me.

“What?” He said bluntly after a few seconds.

“Look...I get that your angry...

“We must attack, now!” The virions made their way past her tonsils and ventured into the dark depths of her craw. The lazier ones snuggled into the dark mucoid folds of her pharynx while the more determined virions made their way further down into her larynx. The rebels of the lot went against gravity towards her Eustachian tubes. These troublemakers had no qualms about the pain they were going to...

“We must attack now!”

The battle cry sounds from every platform

Every pulpit, every political party

The battle cry sounds from every mouth

From every hardened heart

We must attack and attack and attack.

Attack everyone who is different

Everyone who disagrees

The left attack the right

And the right attacks the left

Every tribe, nation and tongue

Must attack until we are all undone

Unmade

At...

The enemy was closing in and there was nothing we could do. We were stuck and there was nothing I could do to save my team. The only action we could take is attacking back. I don’t like violence. I know what you’re thinking. If I don’t like violence, then why did I join military? I joined because my parents were never proud of me and everything I did was never good enough. I heard the men coming i...

Demons are everywhere.

Hidden in the corners of the darkest places;

Carefully, pleasurably reading emotions on our faces.

Hungry for souls to take to darkness.

They tell us to look at our goal and then see how far it is.

We try to stay away but do you know how hard that is?

Tempted and lured in so many directions were pulled

Lied to as they laugh about how easily were fooled.

Don’t let them rul...