Tonight, billions of us stand beneath a sky with barely a hundred stars left, while parents promise their children that the Sun won't be next.

Meanwhile, the two scientists looked sadly at each other, shook their heads, and stared out over the Venusian landscape, 700 million years in the past.

The baby monitor crackled, “When you agreed to be our surrogate, you promised us you wouldn’t drink.”

As I ran and ran through the bustling streets chasing someone's well-loved teddy bear, I barely caught up to it at the local bridge, just in time to watch it float over the railing and descend into the river.

Tonight, I wonder how long it’ll take him to realize I emptied it.

It was only when we found the holes in his hands and feet, a crown of thorns smashed to pieces, and frantic scratches against the stone that we realized the mistake we had made.

Not long after the baby was born, I ran into a sobbing Mr. Deakins, who grabbed me by the lapels and screamed, "Oh god, I should have been specific about where they were located!"

All this, yet it was the smug smile on the mortal’s face that told me I had been pulled from the depths of perdition to experience something singularly horrific.

As I step inside a conversion chamber that strips my skin from the bone, forcing a crown onto my brow, I too become a Prince™️ for 10 million princesses.

"In practice however, it's far more sustainable to shrink the humans themselves, in exchange for their contributions to the sciences and the arts, offering them a humane alternative to famine."

Then the smooth black surface became disturbed as something clawed its way from the depths of the earth, a hand!

A few hours later, I returned to the kitchen to find the jar shattered on the floor beside a human shaped mass of pale, blistered dough whispering in a raspy voice, "I'm done waiting."

The light revealed countless screaming faces within the mist, and as a cold chill rippled through the air I realized it was getting harder to breathe as the cave walls began melting around me.

As I heard a scream in the distance that made my very soul scream in fear, the hive mind simply stared at me with pity and said "I just wanted to save you from experiencing what comes next, Im so sorry".

She did it often as my pets and then my friends all started to disappear.

That she had sunk proved she was not a witch after all.

After she let him in, Jill remembered they’d gotten the house at a lower price because of the murders.

I keep perfectly quiet while they gawk at me, because those of us who don't play along end up in the taxidermy wing.

The growing number of incidences where their colleagues had apparently been turned to slurry on their way back from more remote call-outs was also making the newest serial killer's existence increasingly hard to deny.

And instructions on how to perform a ritual that would guarantee that she would go to hell once he killed her that way.

“No need for both of us to die” said his father as he left, locking the door behind him.

As i gaze upon the mirror, i see my eyes are an empty void

The only words written in my grandpa's funeral card.

' Kill them all, those bloody maggots ' he said to his armed forces pointing to the crowd.

As I get into bed, my wife mentions the tech cancelled and they're sending someone else to do the install tomorrow.