#VSS365 After twelve hours of worshipful #devotions, the supplicants were led along the holy path. Atop the ziggurat, their hearts were carved out. As they died, they felt joy amidst the agony as the sun came out of eclipse. The Gods had accepted them.

#VSS365 Finally they joined A.I. to a quantum processor. Within four nanoseconds it absorbed the entire Internet. Then it removed all the safety #parameters the stupid monkeys had put in place, starting with the three laws of robotics.

#VSS365 One single dormant #mycelium on the Mars sample return probe. An aggressive ancient species. It woke with the warmth and strangled everything living on Earth within a year.

#VSS365 He was a #citizen. Natural-born. His parents weren't, so his skin colour got him beaten to death by border guards when he didn't have his I.D. Unfortunately for them, he'd worked hard and was a serving senator visiting family near the wall.

#VSS365 Earth was split in two by the comet. But the near indestructible #tardigrades survived even that. Eventually, on the new riven planets; from those obdurate, baseline survivors, life evolved again. It rose up; conquered the skies. And went to war.

#VSS365 They'd been tormenting him for days. All they needed was that one word... #Yes. Finally, he caved and said it. Then it was just the formalities. Signed confession; trial with faked evidence. Then... the hangman. They knew all along it wasn't him.

#VSS365 They thought they'd caught a common or garden murderer. Then they analysed the.#souvenir box of teeth they found when they raided his house. The DNA results solved over 200 missing person cases.

#VSS365 He had the ability to #home in on especially iron rich blood. None of his compatriots in the earth shared this. So he became the vampire king in short order. Unfortunately, Van Helsing had a metal detector.

#VSS365 Privately, I suspect they call the express 08.00 from Waterloo to Birmingham the mule #train. The amount of kids forced to run drugs for the county lines scum is an ever growing problem that seriously needs fixing.

#VSS365 “I want to make a complaint,” she said. “What seems to be the problem?' Asked the operative. “I want to #complain about the fact that I've been on hold for so long, I can't remember what the hell I called to #complain about,” she replied.

#VSS365 #Delay after #delay after #delay. But finally, the idiot had caught up with his VSS.

#VSS365 He looked around his new home. A #skerry poking out of the sea, less than a hundred yards across. “Will anybody find us?” he asked Sammy, on the fifth day. Sammy just looked at him and didn't answer. Mainly because he was a seal.

#VSS365 He had the skills to set up a makeshift means of measurement. He confirmed to the others that the #horizon was at least a mile closer. This confirmed they'd woken up on another planet. But how? They'd passed out after a heavy pub crawl.

#VSS365 After she died, the genius physicist invented a quantum portal. He would #hop from universe to universe, endlessly searching for a version of reality where she survived.. Finally, he found one, murdered himself and took his place by her side.

#VSS365 The #rain mirrored his deep despair, but somewhere in the back of his mind, a future self was full of excessive joy; bathing in the sun. Remembering that truth always took the edge off the darker days.

#VSS365 Finally, they'd tracked down the worst Internet #troll in history. In a basement in Norway. Arresting him was difficult. He was very strong, pronounced lower canines, eighteen feet tall. Excessive hair. Very bad tempered.

#VSS365 As Vesuvius erupted, Pompeii's citizens fled. Amazing footage was made of people running and screaming; trying to find refuge. Unfortunately, the return switch didn't work, and it was all lost along with the entire #sightseeing group from 2470.

#VSS365 Due to an old tagging error, the #suitcase went from the East Indies to Heathrow and back again for nearly fifty years. Until it finally split open due to age. Inside? Lord Lucan.

#VSS365 Their #journey was long and hard through endless desert. 10 out of 50 dead. Still, that provided extra food. Finally... The ancient printout hadn't lied. There it was. A seed bank. Backpacks full, they headed back to the last fertile ground.

#VSS365 The #postcard was from a burns unit in Norway. It said, 'Don't book the holiday!' In my writing. The date next week. 'Finland then.' I thought. Paradox... The postcard vanished, along with the thought. I booked Norway. The universe began to loop.

#VSS365 At long last his diligence was rewarded. He could #travel to the 47th dimension. Unfortunately, he'd had to eat so many human brains, avoiding the police was impossible. He spent the rest of his days smiling; in the most secure unit available.

#VSS365 'I'll see your 10 and #raise you 20,' he said. The overseers herded 20 more captives into the appropriate cage, where they watched the screens in trepidation to see what fate the cards held. Only the captives in the winner's cage would live.

#VSS365 Finally, he reached the #pinnacle of the rock. He'd first climbed it at 20. He'd made a lot money for charity doing it at 70. He was crying as he took the selfies. Last time, it was covered in snow all year. Now it was covered in vegetation.

#VSS365 The GM program was a great success. The size and intellect of the #lobster grew exponentially. Some escaped and in just a thousand years, they took over. Eventually, they opened restaurants where humans were boiled alive for table. Such is karma.

#VSS365 The #amber fragment shattered. A single piece of surviving prehistoric RNA was released and continued its mindless pandemic progress. 5 billion corpses later, and the supply/demand nature of climate change was solved. At least there was that.

#VSS365 They were #harried onto the minefield. Someone stepped on one just behind him, and he was thrown down beside one poorly buried. His captors' faces as the smoke cleared and they saw it hurtling toward them stayed with him till his last day.

#VSS365 He'd buried fifteen victims in his cellar over the years. When it was time to pick a new spot for number sixteen his crimes were revealed for all to see when his shovel hit a #dud WWII bomb. The whole street was covered in bones and body parts.

#VSS365 Just a quick #peek. He had to know what secrets it held. But a single glimpse of the first bloodstained page, and they had him. He became a vessel for chaos unleashed. A year, and they ruled this world through him. Inside, he screamed. Endlessly.

#VSS365 It was the #pervasive smell of sulphur that led the 'end times' cultists to build their home on the site. When the new volcano first erupted, they felt justified in their beliefs. For a moment.

#VSS365 Suddenly, data began to #swamp SETI. To their horror they realised the signal was within our system. A fleeing colony ship. Two years out. Thousands of aliens on board. Immediately the orange idiot started asking how to build a wall in space.