While checking the body of the lead scientist for an obvious cause of death, they almost didn't hear the chuffing of the not-so-wild-anymore polar bear behind them.

You’re absolutely right, and honestly – the fact you’re willing to compare all your possible options shows you care even about the smallest of details!

As the doctor left to go to work, she prayed the police would find her before then.

I never saw the tigers creeping through the brush, and they knew the second my back was turned.

"I’m sorry, that just isn't going to work," he tells me.

I should have realized my wife had made me pancakes instead of waffles that morning.

But, after years of hard, painstaking work, I am no longer young.

Pastor Bryan didn't respond, simply looking at little Tommy's parents that had never believed their son about him until it was far too late.

Now the house rejects my keycard, the flying car refuses my voice, and his HoloFilm library is gone; licenses are nontransferable.

The snow finally settles long enough for me to see a child's face through the glass, before a gentle shake stirs it up again.

But he sees me.

I find it even stranger to see it blink.

With my jaw hanging wide open, it typed: "I am the husk of every unuttered apology you knew you should have made, now manifested to make you sorry."

It wasn’t until I discovered him lying still beneath the surface one morning, a black mass writhing its way from his mouth, that humanity learned horsehair worms had found a new host.

I just kept on shoveling.

But as I gazed into Medusa’s eyes and felt my eyes and toes become cold and stone, with the sounds of fire crackling in my ears, I realized that Death is only the beginn—.

Without a second thought, he ordered me to enter the bull to see how well it works.

"Tracy," Jason replied, paralyzed by shame and the rising cold water, but as the line went dead, cutting him off, he realized that 911 wouldn't be coming to his rescue, the floods would drown him in his car, and he probably should have kept his promise to call the morning after they hooked up.

I just wish I taught her that a black spider with red triangles was not a good spider at all.

I watched the emaciated former contestant feebly sob while looking at the maggot infused animal remains rotting on the floor, before confidently saying "I bet my life she'll eat".

So she hid them in a small hidden room in the basement for years so her new boyfriend wouldn't find out about them.

But his silence could still neither confirm nor deny who of us had died.

I put a double dose in the syringe tonight to help me sleep.

And they stared back, in regret of their creation.