The grey goo multiplied exponentially,like we'd long feared it might, if it got loose. It started out slow, but when each nanite builds another, they don't have to move far. It went from a baseball to a room to a building in half an hour, and in the next half hour had disassembled the entire city. Guns, bombs, any attempt to stop it was just ( Read more... )

"And now is when you gloat about how simple your plan was and how no onecan stop you now ( Read more... )

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It turned out the paranoids had been right all along. There really was a giant conspiracy driving and directing history for millennia. The old men in funny hats weren't as innocent as they looked ( Read more... )

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A man wanted to be an artist. So he took his spare room and spent several weeks converting it into a studio, looking forward all the time to the day when it would be done and he would churn out art for the ages. When he finished, it was a wonderful studio, and he filled it with all the tools of an artist and set up an easel. But none of the ( Read more... )

I forget whose idea it was to kidnap God. I remember exactly why we thought of it, though. Some network executive decided that damn "From a Distance..." song was a Christmas son, so it'd been on the radio no less than a dozen times that day. After the umpteenth time of hearing how God was watching us from a distance, and how we all looked the ( Read more... )

I saw Round One of the Apocalypse while stuck in traffic this morning. Full on biblical Armageddon style. Words can't really do it justice. The only way to get it right would be an animated rock opera, sung by Meatloaf. Demons spewing from cracks in the Earth to tear at the pillars of the sky, legions of angels with AK-47s on flying motorcycles ( Read more... )

"You can't trust that Harry, he's a liar," I said ( Read more... )

"There's no rescue coming down from on high ( Read more... )