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Flight
He soared. He had always wanted to fly, and now he was doing just that. He had no feathers, no wings, but he was flying just the same. The special magic that fathers possessed had made this possible. He laughed with the euphoria of the moment. The wind...
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Just Another Day on the Job (very mature)
(ring ring) “Hello, girl. You’re blushing!” “Oh no! You caught me naked!” This job’s hilarious. I know exactly what he wants in the first line he says; clearly acting out some fantasy. “Come sit on my lap.̶...
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Cartocommunication
That sense of being investigated pressed in on us again, and this time it was invasive. The intensity of the probing made my head swim, and for a few brief minutes I lost all sense of time and location. The moment passed, and I shook my head to clear m...
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The Field Again
I would have to send them in again, or replace them. When I looked out the window of the third floor, I saw them in the field again, staring upwards to the sun like they were about to drown in a sea of UV. They had burnt out again. Fried. Something ins...
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
I walked out onto the stage with no introduction, dressed in jeans, a white tee-shirt and a light black sweater. I turned on the pre-set wireless microphone in my pocket before, in a single fluid motion, turning to face a roomfull of suited, necktied a...
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Fly The Palace
“This is undignified!” Mira said as her most trusted aides tried vainly to hussle her into a hidden compartment in the underside of a hay cart. It was gone midnight and the moon was red with the blood of the fallen. The sounds of fighting w...
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Storm Riders
The roiling black and greys of the storm clouds destroyed all visibility like the roar of the engines destroyed all sound. The large plane shuddered and dropped suddenly before bouncing up again. It was like riding a drunk, flying hippopotamus. I unbuc...
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Harbinger and Herald
I watched dozens of hard-looking men unloading a long line of freight trucks. Every box was marked On Loan From Arkham University, Handle With Care. I didn’t know where Arkham was but judging from the accents that drifted up from the parking lot,...
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The Widow Had a Secret
The widow had a secret, She held it quite close, She walked the town tight-lipped, Piquing the curiosity of most. Till one dawn came and The townsfolk banged on her door. They begged, pleaded, cried, “Tell us! We can’t take it anymore!̶...
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Delivery
Fog drifted, wet and heavy, over the short mall between the Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry and Stanley Coulter Hall. Six tall lampposts bathed everything in an eerie, orange glow. The hour was late, and the campus was deserted — deserted but f...
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Jump of Faith
The regular engines were down behind the thick radiation shielding, but that was fine. The overseer coaxed pseudo-thrust out of our jump drives, pushing jumpspace behind to create the illusion of forward thrust. I slotted the symbols into the code leis...
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A Link in Chaotic Events
Something nosed into my armpit. I tried to push it away but my body was sluggish in responding. Whatever it was gave an irritated snuffle and left me. I opened one eye long enough to see a small grey, striped shape disappear into the hallway. It looked...
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Drafts, Drifts, and Mishaps
The hours I spent in the bathroom after eating at the cafeteria, kept me from the rest of my classes including Chem lab. Missing one assignment there could drop my entire grade. I had to make it up tonight. The campus after midnight was strange and vac...
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The Barbed Bond of Hatred
I daydreamed about what I would do to Parker. They were elegant fantasies, richly constructed to soothe hurt feelings and dissipate rage, and about as satisfying as eating in a dream. Sometimes they’d be elaborate Rube-Goldberg-style deaths invol...
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What goes around...
I stepped out of the time machine into a void. There was a firmament beneath my feet, but complete darkness almost everywhere else… …save one old man seated about ten feet away. He looked up as I arrived and had a curious glint in his eye. ...
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The Library
Anno sat in the library, a book open on the desk in front of him. He scanned the page, looking at the illustrations and text. It was all about a little known world on the edge of the galaxy. He turned to the next section. Urf. That is what it was calle...
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Betrayals and Ends
“The mark of a man is how he answers a mistake,” Emrys said. In the distance, trumpets sang. Arthur had reached the front line. The clash of metal on metal renewed. Lila glanced over her shoulder, then back at Emrys. “I don’t un...
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Where Dreams Take
“I had the dream again.” The words hung in the still August air, hardly able to drift to Mabel’s ears. She let the statement take its fluttering course to the earth of quiet acceptance. To signal the death knell of the thought a small...
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A Sunset to Remember.
The now orange sun was melting softly into the calm, peaceful sea. Not a whisper of wind could be heard. The only sound was of the soft fingers of the ocean tickling the yellow beach. A tiny, blue yacht on the horizon, no bigger than a grain of rice, w...
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UN!!!
University! starts today, University! once so far away. University! come and play, University! your here to stay. I walk though the never ending hall hearing that rime over and over. Once I’m at my dorm I can’t help to feel like there̵...
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Oh No She Didn't!
I was so drunk that night. I remember the thrill of the concert atmosphere, my best friend Jill saying she was going to buy us some swag, and pushing my way down to the mosh pit when she didn’t come back after the first song. I remember the beers...
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Skull Fiends
He sprawled head-long into the carpet of wet mulch and immediately doubled up, gasping for breath like a fish out of water. His shin barked pain from where he’d caught it in his mad dash through the darkening woods, and he keened softly in pain a...
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All Those Moments Will Be Lost Like Tears In Rain
The sky opens up above me The clouds cracking apart A torrential downpour of uncertainty That soaks my breaking heart Walking through the grey city Shapes vague, blurred and damp Neon artificiality The canvas for my misery Frustration at the cliche Of ...
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Emergence and Violence
The turbulence on emergence was enormous. “Gravity well!” one of the pilots yelled. As it turned out, we’d emerged from jumpspace near a planet — far too close. The physics of jumpspace is simple — there is no physics. Whe...
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Drug Problem *Smash
In a gritty Sickly struggle Floatin over the city High on a subtle bubble Of cocaine, cigarettes, regrets Weed, and a greed filled canister Walking upright grabbing a banister A banished bastard without any answer Hears hello echo ‘help’ i...
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With Him
Lila supposed that, from the proper angle, it would’ve looked like a scene from a film, swords flashing, armor glittering, men dancing with the savage grace of battle. To her it was chaos, terrified eyes and blood-slick hands. The stench of burni...
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how it ends [and something else begins]
The world didn’t end with a bang. The world didn’t end at all. Civilisation ended, though. It was fast, and none of the governments or armies really had time to react. The casualties were enormous. Civilisation as we knew it went away, and ...
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In a Dark Room
She hated being alone in the dark room. Being there was her own fault, of course. Having to be right all the time got her there. The instructor didn’t like being proven wrong. Even though they all insisted that they were there to learn as well as...
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Crowded
There are some moments in life that seem longer than others. These are the moments I hate the most. As I slipped into the clown car, I tried not to think of the time. “What time is it?” asked Madame De Lu. Her French accent was hard to hea...
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Darkness
She turned and faced the mirror, Found her reflection staring back at her, Eyes wide and hair wild, The room behind her a distorted mess. She stumbed backwards. Afraid. Confused. What was happening to her? The mirror smashed, shards flying everywhere, ...
