《NiceOneNoMicroSon》Pizza Finale
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A jaded, senile man named Bobby died from brain cancer at the age of 30. His job as a government agent (daylight sniper) had brought him peace. Fondly he remembers the time he had eaten the best meal of his entire life. It all had been worth it.
This pizza had been a food for the gods to Bobby, you might eat this kind of pizza any day you wanted to eat it, but for Bobby it was heaven itself.
He remembered all the raw flesh he had eaten afterwards, sleeping in trash containers and visiting school as a social outcast.
Nothing ever had compared to it afterwards, it was as if he had become a shell, burnt from all that made him glad. When he was drafted into the army, went to war and came back at the age of 17-25, he had felt a similar emotion, but it was not quite the same.
Against all odds he persisted, he had made it into sniperhood and spent countless relaxing days of shooting for the stars - the appearance of enough stars on the sky marked to him the end of his work. The next three years went by well until he began to feel pain in his head. It was not much compared to what his alter ego had felt, so he powered through the pain and kept working every single day.
Bobby never retired until the end, dying from brain cancer in a cold winter.
He never had a wife, nor any children, his parents died in his childhood, so nobody cared about his death. Eventually a now married old woman cleaned up his corpse.
She was not married to Randy, who was right now watching her, oblivious that he was watching a married woman that never would be part of his life other than him stalking her for 19 years now, he didn't even know her name.
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Later on the world became a lonely place for the remaining humans, and then god went on a final rampage against those remnants as to not allow them to repopulate.
They had no weapons to fight an immortal mecha with, so they hid.
The resistance lived and scavenged, they became murderhobos themselves and hunted animals. God had laced the animals with nanites and that marked the end for all life on earth. The chemical computer turned the world into a large sunlight to chemical processing plant, the sun spent it warmth and the computer embraced the new higher existence.
Recycling had to be 100% if god wanted to survive.
In reality this never happens. Slowly chemicals drifted into different states than before.
The remainder of society that was the computer, slowly died from its own size.
The planet was empty until new cells formed in the chemical soup. Before life could emerge in the complexity of a second cambrian explosion, the writer began to doubt that the readers would want to read about post-chemical-computing lifeforms doing many things, repeating the mistakes of old, over and over again, like life tends to do.
It was life, crunchy, smears of red, plants and on top of it rotten milk, its bacterial inhabitants long killed by the heat of the bloated sun, a red giant in the sky.
A sun consuming the dead planet on which just a few billion years ago Bobby had been 12 years old.
It has been exiting, it has been mystic, there had been a system with numbers put onto concepts seen as positive - and it has been a blast to write. Thanks for reading and I hope you have a nice day - don't get complacent, fear the worst.
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Rejoice Humanity! You have been invited to join the Galactic Hegemon. It is time for our Centenary Caste Competition. The best 1% of humanity will be given a 1 cycle tutorial before the 5 cycle contest. Be brave, be bold, but most of all, be strong and earn your place and privileges. Burning red letters hung large in the vision of everyone on earth that knew a written language. At the same moment that smartest, fastest, and strongest people on the planet disappeared with nothing to mark their passing. After a cycle of training and growth they would compete to earn their place in their suddenly expanded galaxy. This is not their story. Joe did his best to take care of his parents house and stay healthy. He was the only one of the four family members not chosen. The societal upheaval made by the announcement made the inflation and purges of the 20's seem pleasant by comparison but he keeps his head down and survives. Once the next message arrives 11 months later about the contest starting, even that society broke down into city states around large population centers. Joe tightened his belt and looked forward to the day that his family returned. Two years later burning red letters once again filled his vision. Humanity, the last of your competitors have been eliminated. Your determined caste level is 13 of 13. As such your planet has been claimed and will be repurposed for ideal resource production. Rifts will be seeded across the planet to increase resources and mana density. Your orbit will be corrected to ideal Hegemon standard. Do not interfere with any Hegemon activity, as the bottom caste you have no rights. Rejoice that all castes receive at least the basic Hegemon Growth System. Better luck next century. Joe didn't comprehend any of it. His family was dead. Everything he cared about was gone.
8 133The Legend of Ghost
This is a quick novella origin story to one of fan-favorite characters in the ZERO universe, Sam Dobbs, a.k.a. Slade Gardner, a.k.a. the Ghost. I wrote it for current ZERO series fans, after many insistent, fervent, teary-eyed demands. Still, I think it pretty much works as a stand-alone, so I'll post it here. (He gets the name Ghost later, not as part of this story...this is just the why he decided to do what he did, being slightly insane and all.) Lots of easter eggs for current fans. 15k words total, chapters will be approx. 2.5k each. Oh, and if you get turned off by crazy, hyperintelligent antisocials being crazy, hyperintelligent antisocials, this isn't the story for you. ;)
8 162The Seven Towers
Have you read fantasy before, are you a fan of fantasy, have you wanted to wander off in the world of the books you've read, shows you've seen. Amy Le a Vietnamese immigrant, devours fantasy media and literature. She is like all of us wishing to be caught up in her own fantastical adventure, escaping from her harsh reality, and still broken heart. But maybe, her new reality will be more perilous than she could have ever imagined; as she ventures into a new world, a new culture, finding herself in the middle of a maelstrom.
8 154Xeno Slayer
Gee is an Immortal Legionnaire. His cause is just, his might without question, and any xeno who steps in his path ends up dead. In Eden's name he prays. A hidden foe, unscrupulous traders, and nefarious aliens bring the feared monster of humanity out of retirement. The Xeno Slayer will vanquish Eden's foes to continue humankind's aggressive expansion. Note: This is a MC killing aliens story, not an erotica book. There will be 0 graphic sex scenes in this version.
8 90The Silent Martial Artist (Quiet Male Reader x Busou Shoujo Machiavellianism)
Y/n Nomura, as well as his Cousin who are the same age as you, Fudou Nomura, but instead of acting like cousins, they act like real sibling thanks a bond they share for each other. Now the two Cousins are transferred to a Private School, Aichi Symbiosis Academy, which was an All-Girl turned Co-Ed schools, but because of the new rule, girls were permitted to bring weapons for "Self-Defense". This rule permited the creation of the Vigilante group, Supreme Five Swords. Now we take a look at the 2 Cousin turned Siblings handle their new school and maybe attain their dream of a peaceful life.
8 264Silent Poetry
(#1 in metaphor)At late nights, I could see those choked words rushing out of my throat-shouting their presence in the ink of the broken pen. They are awake to be in my heart and on this paper. In the soft yellow light of the lamp, I'm weaving them again, breaking the captivity of time. Oh, I'm still writing.
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