Once upon a time, eleven princes were cursed by a powerful witch, doomed to live as swans under her spell. One day, a housewife—who used to be a swan—came to visit the witch. Here’s the story: [Source: thestuffedalligator | Via MC]

Growing up as the only child without superpowers in my family shouldn’t have been a big deal. You’d think, if anything, they’d be protective of me. That’s what family is for, right? To look out for each other? To be there and support each other? Andrew’s super strength should’ve kept me safe from bullies. Emily’s […]

“Tada!” Jikloma exclaimed, removing the small sheet with a flourish. Horpilu stared at the small machine on his employee’s table. Jikloma was one of the employees in engineering and had been charged with creating a more compact cleaning machine for spacecraft. There were several prototypes being tested, this being the latest. “I’m…not sure why I […]

You volunteered to be the first human to travel at near light speed. You’ve been gone 24 hours. You know nearly 200 years will have passed on Earth. The navigation computer says you will drop light speed and enter Earths orbit in 10 seconds. *** Ten…nine…eight… There’s something called the Wait Calculation. As I understand […]

Grox looked out his window at the streets of the city below. He could see people of this multi-species metropolis going about their daily lives. However, he would be the one that would free them. He was part of a freedom movement that desired nothing more than the freedom to say what they wanted without […]

Here is an awesome compilation of short scary stories (in 500 words or less) from the r/shortscarystories subreddit.

Glimpo was very pleased with himself. He had passed all the tests and had been selected for a delegation to meet with the first alien race that his had ever encountered. It had been generations since first contact, and discussions had been dragging out.