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Moment's Silence
Before anyone could think to turn it off in good taste, a vid screen showed the results of the rupture. The monitoring unit one deck up and nearly 4oo meters forward still managed to capture the scene with disturbing clarity. The faint outline of the r...
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Footsteps
The woman burst into another room, which was actually a long, white hallway. Sterility and a lack of personality filled the air;the woman more sensed that than felt or smelled. Fluorescent lights flickered overhead, the white light leaving no shadows a...
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Room 203
The woman burst into the room, doors swinging violently but silently on their practical and well oiled hinges. Her eyes bled mascara in small traceable rivers of black down her porcelein face. Her eyes were puffy as she searched frantically around the ...
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Concerto No. 2, Overture: Flight of the Filing Cabinet
Reams of paper fly under his hands, ballpoint gliding across them in half-aimless trails. A cough rises from his throat, brushed by a tinge of cigarette smoke the employee next door isn’t supposed to be enjoying. A mental image of a revolver floa...
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All Meetings Have Been Erased
You make me late You’re so shapely My eyes knifed and ate A slice of your enticing cake and icing I can’t even wait I may take the whole day off just to taste The layers of your luscious love encased Within an internal expanding space My ph...
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Why I smiled when I read my ex-girlfriends obituary.
Schadenfreude. x_x
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Unlock my Heart
Every time you pass me i know you have the key everytime i talk to you the cut gets deeper because i know i cant have you.
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No Longer
I was so sick of trying to keep from crying but now i have turned a new so i can forget you, im letting go of all my sighing because no longer on the inside am i dying.
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Force and Knowledge
“Hull stress is… way above safe limits. We’re looking at an imminent hull rupture and violent depressurisation.” Harrigan’s mouth was a grim slash. “Get everybody on oxygen, lower air pressure by 60%.” Warning ...
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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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It Is Time
“Don’t worry,” Guinevere said before Lila could speak. “You don’t have to apologize. You did nothing wrong.” “It happened, and it was wrong,” Lila said quietly. “I’d wager you did something ri...
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My Queen, Jenny
The knights and Emrys bore Arthur back to his tent. Guards formed an impenetrable human wall of armor and misery while Lila sat with Guinevere and, in the distance, Lancelot dealt with Mordred’s forces. “I should be helping Emrys dress Arth...
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A short poem
The birds may sing, the horses neigh, And dogs may bark and yap. The sheep, they bleat and cats may purr Whilst sitting in your lap. And though we all communicate, If cat, or dog, or bird, I have no need to speak and shout – I have the written w...
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Respect for the Dead
“Don’t cry, Jenny,” Arthur said. His voice was hoarse, his eyes distant, but he smoothed a hand over her hair. “My Lord,” Emrys said. “Let me pull the blade out. I can –” “It’s done,” Arthur...
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An Advisory Bird
DUCK!
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Demon, Hellspawn
Agravaine scooped up a fallen Orkney banner and leapt astride Mordred’s horse, ordered the men to stand down. Lancelot hoisted a Pendragon banner and began ordering Arthur’s men to clear a path. Guinevere, still screaming, tore through the ...
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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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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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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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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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Lovecraftian Tweetings #7
…and then it cried “Te-KE-li-li, Te-KE-li-li!” and we ran as if the very hounds of hell were following on our heels! Which was nice…
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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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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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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...
