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A collection of stories about people who know how they are going to die.
"This is my first concert," she replied, mustering her confidence. "But I've been a huge fan since Death by Rock and Roll." She made sure to...
Kris Straub and David Malki play a round of Machine of Death: The Game of Creative Assassination.
Kris Straub interviews Ryan North and David Malki ! at the Super-Stupendous Machine of Death Magic + Variety Show, November 2011.
It was like that movie, back in the day, where the machine asks the kid, "How about a nice game of chess?" / "No," he types back. "Let's pla...
He had not read his slip of paper. It was folded in an envelope in his left pocket. In his right pocket were several books of matches, and h...
I saw the first ads in March. A week or two later it was all over the news, and then for the next few months you could not get away from it....
She was somewhere north of forty. Her dark hair showed silver strands, and the beginnings of crow's feet bracketed chestnut-colored eyes. To...
Timothy got up. "One hundred and one here; just like the Dalmatians. I'm going to die in a fire while trying to save another." / Isma spoke...
The machine printed out the certificates on special paper, the same pinkish color as those new five-dollar bills. He put them face-down on a...
"It's an older model, but that's all that ever made it to Fukuoka before these things were outlawed altogether. It was functioning, as of a...
At nine o'clock on a Tuesday morning, the parking lot in front of Jack Bogg Enterprises was somehow already full. Kelly didn't know quite wh...
SWF, 36, seeks SM 25-50. Must be employed, love outdoor hobbies. No OVERDOSE, ALCOHOLISM, similar readings, please. Box 1876.
For a while, he kept the little slip of paper hidden at the back of a desk drawer at work, still inside its official envelope. He didn't wan...
In garish red and yellow, the flyer announced that You, Too, could "Defeat the Machine!" A colorful cartoon hammer smashed a predictor box,...
A shot kicked up dirt in front of Grale's face. He pulled himself backward, back to the dubious protection of the fallen sign. They all knew...
Bradley McLaughlin performs his original song "After Many Years..." at the Machine of Death Talent Show, April 26, 2011, in Hollywood, CA.
"You gotta be fucking kidding me!" says one of Jill's friends, leaning forward to get a better look at my shirt. On Toe Tag Night no one wea...
"The bloke's a whack job." Billy, the Director of Marketing, tells me this while he's picking his nose with a paperclip. In the background a...
"Missus Murphy, I will have you know that I am to be torn apart and devoured by lions." Simon Pfennig was fully aware of how strange he must...
"You don't see it? What if we could ship this box further away? What if Dr. Merry lived thousands of light-years away, and we could somehow...
When I looked up from my plate, three young men were sitting on the other side of the rough table, staring at me intensely. None of them wer...
Zachary Bernstein, of The Bicycats, performs his original song "When We Found Out On Our Own" at the Machine of Death Talent Show, April 26,...
Pepper coughs and her eyes snap open. Then she yelps and recoils from me, my white uniform and blue gloves, my belt blinking with electronic...
Johnny straggled behind Dalton as they came out of the jungle into the clearing. Streaks of fuel burned in the grass, the flames pale and la...
In the months afterward, in suburban dining rooms, the bohemian bourgeoisie debated the ethics of the machine. The first had been installed...
The door opened when she was still a few yards from the house. An old man made his way out, standing on the three steps leading down to the...
I'm so freaking excited I can hardly stand it. Tomorrow is my birthday, THE birthday. The birthday everybody waits and waits for and until y...
Well, I thought, that sucks.
The second time the stick turned blue, it was intentional -- they had good jobs, a car, a house, and a strong desire to take the next step....
I remember everything about that day. It was right there at the mall, between the ice cream stand and Hot Topic, a big hunk of metal with a...
The cart was draped with a white bed sheet, keeping the cart's burden hidden. The guests all turned to watch as the little mystery wheeled i...
When some small-minded prick with a bag of pipe bombs decided commuters were responsible for all the world's problems this morning, it becam...
This is the procedure now: A vehicle comes into the bay, paramedics pull a body out on an unfolding trolley, and a nurse meets them and asks...
Very expensive nanny. Very expensive tutor. Montessori nursery school priced competitively with Yale. Phonics, piano lessons from age four,...
The clerk set the gun on the counter. "There's a seven-day waiting period." Tommy peeled off an extra couple hundreds and slid them across t...
I'm tired of looking at the machine, but there's nothing else to look at. Maybe it's supposed to wear down my defenses and get me to take th...
"The job of Prime Minister is no job for a weakling," said Derek Fortham MP, eyes shining in the TV spotlight. "Centuries of British politic...
To any of the countless shoppers passing by, the kiss wouldn't have seemed like much. Longer than a peck, sure, but nothing overlong or exce...
Everyone knows that on the fourth day of ninth grade is when you get your results. I mean, that's the way it happens in our town; other town...
The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It di...