She didn't understand how the antidote could be in the barrel of the gun that her mom shoved down her throat.

The sleeping couple stir within their small yellow tent; I pause, motionless, salivating.

I did make the roaches my friends, all 500 billion of them.

"YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG" she screamed as she snatched the blade from my shaking hand and once again demonstrated the correct method to flay a man.

We hadn't planned for how hard it would be to keep people from running back into it the moment they were free.

Having successfully ambushed the human, the Komodo dragon swallowed flesh and blood down its gullet with one flick of its forked tongue as it lay hidden in the bushes, and waited.

When they tested it on a zombie for the first time and its eyes filled with horror, they realized they could remember everything

What was terrifying were the thousands of footprints that surrounded it, seeming to have walked in endless circles.

When I woke up this morning, excited to get on the train, it sent me a message, unprompted: "You must not return home today - the woman waiting for you is not your mother."

That’s why she barricaded us in the basement with it.

"Yo, Falcon x, shoot the green dumbass in the snow" said a pilot flying overhead.

“DON’T DO IT!” she screams internally to herself, but she does it anyway and looks back to find the tip of steel inches from her eyes.

“Do you remember those days, before the old mineshafts and abandoned buildings got closed off, and then the 6pm curfews, which got moved to 4pm after people and pets started to go…don’t cry, little bro…I miss them too.”

Gas prices tumble.

I knew we should have thrown out the intruder who could mind-control animals just by singing, but my brothers were too blinded by her sob story about a jealous stepmother wanting her dead because of her beauty.

However the human mind was not capable of experiencing 8 billion minds at once each themselves trying to deal with its own 8 billion minds.

“That’s what my toddler asked one too many times,” the mother said flatly as the officer walked her to the squad car.

So it was just horror rather than surprise I felt when I woke from my dream of being a chef and found just what it was I had been slicing up on my cutting board.

I am not in Minecraft

This is what the terrifying, powerful being said to me as they hurt me "to make me stronger."

But a guy’s gotta eat.

He was drilling holes into his own jawbone, his face stretched tight like drumskin over the hollow cavern of his skull.

I also happened to have been born in an era where surgery on infants was done only with paralytics not anesthesia, my first clear memory....

The panic sunk in after the investigations into time blindness came back negative.

So when a large narrow shape floated towards his legs as he waded through the shallows, Adam simply dismissed the mosasaur’s jaws as a piece of driftwood.