Pausing briefly, her vision dappled by the filtered light streaming down from above, Lily sat down to check through her backpack one more time. The meadow was cosy, bereft of the all-dangerous tall grass, the only hint of Pokémon being the soft cries she could hear in the distance. “Pokéballs…” Five normal ones—her entire monthly allowance. “Potions…” Three, enough to heal whatever partner she finds, should they get into a battle before she could bring them home. “Antidotes, pa

“Welcome to Pred’s Pizza and Hot Wings, how may I serve you?” the skimpily-clad waitress asked, her dull voice making no secret of the fact that she was probably dead inside. Going by the pudge hugged by her tight uniform t-shirt, she was probably carrying a dead or two inside as well. No doubt nothing but turds and fat by now, Zach absently surmised. “Your finest table, my dear predonna!” John, Zach’s dad said with that fatherly humourous lilt. He must have thought himself very funn

There was a saying within the halls of Coconut Grove High School passed around between the male students almost on the daily, usually said with some amount of pride or bitterness: “A diploma earned without fucking either of the Smith sisters was as good as toilet paper.”Catherine Smith and her sister Barbara Smith had both worked at the Coconut Grove High School for about ten years, during which they had collectively fucked at least 5 000 different individual male students, the majority of t

Inconspicuously, almost casually, David glanced up from the holy book in his hands. There, on the other side of the big, fancy hallway stood the confessional. It was one of three across the campus of All Saints Mercy School for Boys and Girls. The confessionals were open for usage at different times, their schedules syncing up so that there was always one open, even in the middle of the night. David let his vision flit over to the ornate clock hugging the far side of the wall. Five to thirteen.

Nervously, Starlight flipped the little vial of pink liquid in her hand. “That’s right,” a woman in a pristine lab coat said from behind a clipboard. “A few more times.”Starlight gulped. In the sterile light of the testing chambers, the liquid almost looked poisonous. Combined with the high-tech vial it was sealed inside, it looked much more like a potion than anything made in a lab. She glanced back up at the woman, her eyes silently finding the name tag clipped to the front of her co

It was a pretty awkward dinner, as it had been for the past—what?—two months or so since Robert had to move out? Linda would’ve been stupid to say that things hadn’t been quite the same ever since. Firstly, they had to move out of the house. Not even Robert could afford to keep it on his cushy lawyer's salary, but Linda was even worse off. Logically, divorcing what was basically a glorified sugar daddy hadn’t exactly been the best move for a housewife like her, but she had to do it. Sh

“I just need you to… God, I can’t just let her… Please, Huell, just bring her back, please? She doesn’t know what she’s doing, and this is all just so… I don’t care about what measures you have to take. You can eat her whole for all I care, so long as you bring her back. Okay? You got that?” Saul Goodman, formerly Jimmy McGill, asked, doing his little hand movement. “Think you can do it?”“Reasonably,” Huell answered simply, leaning back where he stood. The office of Sau

“Ugh, dad’s home late again. Bet he’s been out drinking and eating some rando woman again. Who wants to guess what she looks like this time? XPPP” Olivia tapped into her phone, kicking her feet in the air, lying on her bed. She’d gotten home from school a few hours ago, and had spent that entire time chatting with her friends on her phone, alongside taking selfies and posting them, obviously. She was far from an influencer or anything, but her classmates and friends liked her posts, an