"So, how's the wife?"
"Ah yes, the old ball and chain."
"That's a little rude, don't you think?"
I pull out a wedding photo from my wallet and you see me at the altar across from a chain chomp with a pink bow.
I hope the oath wins over the curse. It's much more interesting to be sworn to amber and rot. That necromancer raising dinosaurs from oil in a modern fantasy would be killer. Sworn to take down the corruption of the corporate overlords. Bonus ancient diseases from raised bugs or using amber bound creatures as a focus. A curse is involuntary and dull. An oath is purposeful and full of volition.
*Achoo!* "Uri-" *choo!* "Uriel!" *Sniffle*
"Yes (Choo!) my Lord?" Uriel replied, appearing in a puff of smoke.
"Call off *Aaah-* that Me damned *CHOO!* storm at that *muffled sneeze* atheist convention!"
"Thy will (achoo) be done." Uriel bowed.
God sank into his celestial throne with a heavenly sigh of relief.
It is often said that uttering the Lord’s Name in vain is forbidden because it is blasphemy. No, the truth is far more mundane and hilarious than that: Every time His name is uttered in vain, the Lord sneezes.
A clown a day keeps the circus away.
If you can't take the clowns, get out of the circus
"Until they stop pursuing you." the hunter replied, the automatic reply coming out flat.
"They will never stop pursuing me. Please, let us just run and live together for as long as we can." the vampire pleaded.
The hunter stopped, closing a chest with a thump and turned to the vampire.
"We would always be looking over our shoulders. What kind of life would that be? We could trust no one." the hunter said coldly.
"Then we won't live around anyone." the vampire offered.
"That's not the problem. You just don't understand, but that's okay. You lived among them, but you haven't been the hunted before. Once they're all dead, it won't matter anyway. I'll see this through to the end." the hunter explained, then walked out the door.
"No, you don't understand. The end will be when you're gone, and I'm afraid you might be already." the vampire muttered forlornly to the empty doorway.
After a one-month long hunt, the vampire hunter returns home with a body full of hastily treated wounds and dark circles under the eyes. Yet, they are already preparing to embark on another hunt. Standing beside them, a vampire speaks up: "How long do you plan to live this way?"
"No, I get it. One heart, two kidneys, 2 livers, one stomach, one-"
"Two livers?"
"Did I say two?"
"We have nothing in common."
Beginning about first quarter of the first sextant of the solar cycle there is a special state of psychological being that allows one to engage with the arcane even in the waking state of those living in the mundane reality. This is the time that wizards thrive.
"Well we're here now, so what do you think?"
"The script is all wrong. It's in a first era type when it should be second. The curvature of those lines make it ever so slightly oblong, and over here you can see where they corrected but you'll still have instability. I wish you hadn't brought me here."
"You're the only one I know that could tell me all that!"
"Yeah, and a picture would've been fine too. This thing could blow at any minute! I'm not equipped for demon hunting, especially the unbound sort this sloppy work will bring!"
"Shit."
"Shit, indeed."
"I feel like this is one of those things you should have told me earlier."
Probably be around a while. Probably mostly do writing related stuff with some fantasy and sci-fi memeing here and there. It's been fun, getting back into writing.
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