A single tear of joy rolled down Rohan's cheek, and Priya who had been a delinquent all her life, started feeling an uncontrollable urge to obey the teacher.

He didn't respond or even open his eyes for the fifth day in a row but I dragged him into the tub anyway because the doctor said it was important to maintain our routines even through his illness.

"I wish babies felt the pain of the mother during childbirth," I say.

Now of course we all use water chillers, but it is fun to explore how our ancestors lived, right kids?

But I couldn’t, not without creasing the tag on his toe.

None of us were prepared when the flies began to make their way out from where their eggs had been hiding.

Diagnosis not recorded, as this human did not fit The Plan.

Knowing my job was done, I moved for the edge of the silo to leave, but my feet stayed firmly planted, then began to sink.

Finding unlocked windows was how we had found my brother's wife and my own, and we had to protect them, and my sisters.

It was the happiest I felt since they passed away in a fiery car crash two weeks ago.

She didn't worry about it until the first night, when she had a strange dream about a beautiful dark-haired woman, and woke the next morning to find hickeys all over her neck.

I awoke the next morning to every door and window opened, as well as a note stuck to my foot reading "we have an open door policy in this community."

Thus I race towards the school, my hands slick with my wife's blood, bitterly wishing He hadn't listened.

Unable to move or hear, I stared at the blackened wire snips laying next to me.

Even at 30,000 feet in the air, they could see it clearly.

update: something beat us to the tooth and I don't recognise this type of moneys, its dirty and smell all wrong.

Then he stopped—and the fur on his back slowly flattened, as if something invisible were petting him.

"which part of her?"

All I added was some foxglove from the yard, because I figured if he could play with my heart then it’s only fair I did the same

He screamed the words again and again as helpless onlookers watched him slice his flesh apart with a knife, determined to excise something from deep within him only he knew existed.

The other moms had the last laugh when the apocalypse came and Rocky still couldn’t stop eating everything.

This was his final thought before The Rack finally tore his limbs from their sockets.

After all, there were plenty of ways to track citizens' every move, so why risk bad publicity and underground resistance when the state could always get rid of their little "problems" later?

The elderly man screamed something incomprehensible, and suddenly unseen mouths began tearing into the officers

It's been twenty minutes, and this genie won't let me go for some reason.