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It was a large craft, well equipped for carrying cargo. Unfortunately, it's current load was not exactly cargo, and was far from pleased with the exceedingly adequate cargo accommodations. Worse, the nature of what the craft was transporting meant that it was now drawing fire it was never equipped to deal with.
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It bubbled in the pot, steaming and boiling as I stirred it together. I felt like a wizard mixing some sort of elixir of life or potion, but in truth, it was just my very first pot of homemade tomato sauce, and it was divine.
"I'm afraid it's not as we'd hoped. It spread to the lymph nodes, and from there, it looks to have gone to the lungs, liver, stomach and ovaries. It's stage four, and I'm not sure what we can do for you."
He opened his mouth as the structure beneath twisted in the light of the full moon. Fangs grew in longer, his canines coming in fully from where they normally hid in his jaws as his face shifted to allow for a muzzle to develop.
"I crave adventure," she said flatly. Her friends looked at her, their jaws opened in amazement.
"You?" they asked? "You sanitize the toilet paper!"
Right after I lost you, I thought there would never be a day when the ache wouldn't overwhelm me. I missed you so much. But now, 15 years later, I manage to get through most of my days without the deep ache of loss.
I couldn't stay away, not when it called to me like that. It was like Odysseus, when he had to have his men tie him to the mast of his ship so he could hear the call of the sirens and still sail past. I could never resist the ocean just as he couldn't resist the sirens.
"You've strung me along for years now, and I'm tired of it. I deserve to know the truth. I deserve to be treated with basic dignity and respect. Tell me then, once and for all. Do you really love me, or am I just a convenient companion, a tool to keep you from being so lonely at night?"
"You will see," he explained, "that my remarks on the subject were published in the 2034 Science journal."
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