The Main Character

Category: Human

  • Pantry Scroll

    Pantry, go up and show me what we have in stock. “We have 3 cans of beans and mustard.” Refresh. Show me something I can eat. “The food remains the same. No new products to load. May I suggest placing an order?” Fine. Oregano, spaghetti, pasta sauce, bacon… “That item…

  • Forgettable and Forgotten

    I’m in my head And going insane Feel no love Only pain Am I here? Or nowhere at all Who am I? Oh yeah I’m here Known me for years Forget me in a blink of an eye Make me want to cry cos I’m nothing to anyone I’m a…

  • Brick by Brick

    Life is like a house. The walls are the foundations and are made of our core values. The doors are all the opportunities that come into your life. The windows are the visions you have. Having a house without walls means there are no boundaries to how people can treat…

  • Exchange Trip to the Moon

    I get handed a flyer from the teacher about a new school exchange trip that is planned. Moon. The teacher then explains to the class that the school is going to the Moon. It will take 450 hours to travel one way. I pull my calculator out to see how…

  • Alphabetical

    Awesome!!! That’s great news about that new job you have. It suits you really well, Brittney. Boxes galore for when you move into your new house. That is not far away from happening. Chairs or couches for the living room? I reckon couches will be more comfortable for the family.…

  • Wishing Into the Crystal Ball

    A crystal ball in my possession. And it tells nothing but truths. This is a lot of power and I have it clasped in my palms. ‘What to ask, what to ask?’ I repeat aloud to myself before turning my attention to the crystal ball more prominently than before. The…

  • Isolation Part 4 (final)

    I walk the ruined hallway, nothing but rubble. The prison is in a state of collapse, I figured a riot had taken place but it looks more like a bomb had hit it. I pass the guard post, the place were they control the cells from. He’s dead. A single…

  • Vivid Murderous Dreams Part 2

    I have the bathtub running as I plug my shaver into the power point. The person in the mirror is a shadow hidden behind the faces of those facing death every moment of the day. They change and pass by me quickly in vivid blurs. I see and hear everything…

  • Human Soup

    I hate the city. The size, the smell, the brands, the pretentious architecture, and most of all; the people. I’m such a fish out of water here, the one person not in on the joke, the outsider. Perhaps it’s because I grew up as a simple farm boy. My responsibilities…

  • Criminal Alibi

    ‘What the fuck is this about? I haven’t seen you in months and now the police want to bring me in for questioning. Whatever you’ve done, I want no part of. Jesus, you are stupid!’ The line is silent for a moment. Sean is lost for words and letting me…

  • The Philosopher (Submitted by Juicy McBurger)

    There is only one thing you can do with a degree in philosophy, and that is teach philosophy. The warning of my late parents echoed in my head. Turns out they were only half right. I can’t teach anything without a teaching degree, so I actually can’t do anything. Except…

  • Death Wish

    No one would care if I died. I don’t have the money or media attention to mean anything when I’m dead. Sure, my family may care for a little while, but who cares? I haven’t made a blip of a difference on this planet and I’ll go as if I…

  • Isolation Part 3

    I’m awake again, at least I think I am, it’s hard to tell, I have no idea how long I’ve been out for… It’s hard to tell, it could have been a day, it could have been an hour. Still nothing, no sound, no light and no food. I’m starving.…

  • Vivid Murderous Dreams Part 1

    All this blood on my hands, from crimes I never committed! The terrors that haunt my sub-conscience through the early hours of the morning, when the world is still dark. The streetlights beneath my apartment illuminate my room, barely. The screams wail in my ears of victims I’ve never met.…

  • Basement paradox

    I walk into the home that is so familiar, yet has changed drastically since I moved. The carpet is now grey instead of lavender. The walls are painted chrome with a feature wall of blue, and baby blue as well. The state of the house almost disgusts me, and it…

  • Isolation Part 2

    I wake up to silence, no faint conversations outside, no disembodied chuckles or cursing from other inmates on the other sides of my walls, just nothing. I’ve been in here for a week now, I think… I had to count the days back in my head, time seems to change…

  • Murder Reborn

    Another body and person to my name, not once caught. I am a genius serial killer and have even got the attention from the FBI’s most wanted list. Consider me flattered. I don’t know or care who they are. A number on a long list of people who pay me…

  • Isolation Part 1

    I deserved this, getting locked up, I honestly didn’t mean to kill that guy he just wouldn’t comply, “Everyone down on the ground!” The instructions were clear as day, I didn’t even give a thought to the idea that anyone would try to be a hero or try to defend…

  • LAb RAt? Human?

    I slowly blink my vision into focus and open my eyes ever so slowly. The lights are fixated on me, and the room is small. Perhaps that has something to do with the number of long white coats I can see lining the walls, clipboards in hands. I could easily…

  • Okay Google

    Can you give me any answer I want? “I can do my best! What is it you wish to know?” Where can I find alien life? “I am not sure I know what you mean” I said what I said. “I do not have the answers to that question currently.…

  • Sauce Code

    I was being trained in sauces at work and telling the difference between peppercorn and ranch. They are similar in colour. The manager explains to me by saying “This one is ranch because it has lines for the herbs and this one is peppercorn as it has dots. For the…