Stories tagged “Acceptance”
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I Don't Believe In God
The chaotic streets of New York City faded to silence around me as my mind swarmed with thoughts of anxiety and depression. I walked the four long blocks back to my appartment in shame, replaying the past hour over and over in my head. That’s not...
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Speaking Out For My Race
You know it all. You know it’s wrong – and not just wrong, but torturous, frightening, pure evil. You see kids doing stuff which other kids don’t do. Looking different. Communicating and thinking different. You may think it’s no...
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Refusal
“Don’t you get it? You don’t scare me. You’ve been working off of fear the entire time you’ve been in power, and it stops here. I refuse to let you continue, do you hear me? You call yourself a god. You’re not a god!...
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Superiority
She wasn’t human. How could she be? She had to be a demon. “Not possible!” His voice cracked as he spoke. “You’ve never tried to change the world, the world’s state has been the same for a hundred years!” He fe...
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Disease
Her clear, authoritative voice convinced him she wasn’t lying. “Then why don’t you?” “I’m a good-hearted woman,” she sneered. “And as much as I hate to say it, you’re valuable. You can be replaced, ...
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Acceptance
“Yes ma’am,” he replied to his newfound boss. “Excellent. I’m going to nap. I’ll send you home.” The world sucked itself into him and he was sucked into the world as he felt the sickening surge of teleportation...
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A new tone of gray.
A faceless girl in a faceless world. She looks like all the others, Talks like all the others, Thinks like all the others, Yet, she can’t seem to find her place. Even in a world where everything is the same, Where everything is a tone of gray, Th...
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Tempus Fugit
“A new decade, 2010… my fresh, clean start”, Alex said aloud while staring at his roughened image in the mirror. The effects of a late night, too much booze, broken dreams and yet another lousy New Years Eve party had obviously taken ...
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Past Imperfect
“Right there,” he said and with a quick gesture Alex summoned the system controls in mid air beneath his open hand. The HALO playback paused, a shimmering holographic projection of a man, eyes closed, head against a mirror froze before him....
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Beside You in Time
Disorientation, blinding pain, confusion and finally clarity. The feel of cold glass against his head and warm tears on cheeks. Alex slowly opened his eyes, blinking to gain focus. It worked, good. Deep breath, his younger body felt good… at leas...
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A Stitch in Nine Saves Time
Lights strobed red and klaxons wailed as Jeff ran down the corridor to the Directors office. HALO had sensed the first waves of an incoming temporal storm. A paradox was forming, and from the looks of it, this one was going to be major. “Report,&...
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Time's Fun When You're Having Flies
The plan was simple and elegant, Diana would jump back in time to a point just before Alex. One well placed wet kiss New Years Eve night and the carefully crafted nano machine virus would do the rest… make a full synaptic backup then lay in wait....
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Stands the Test of Time?
Finding your car in a parking lot after leaving it there for a few days could be challenging… remembering where you parked the car 25 years ago, now that’s interesting! Locating the car was just the start. Alex hoped it would be like riding...
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Time Wounds All Heals
Where the fuck was she? No, better yet, when the fuck was she? Diana was lost in time and ramifications were just sinking in. What had gone wrong? How had she ended up here? It was Alex of course. He’s smart, He planned for this. How could she no...
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Worth Your Own Weight In Gold
To You with the Nappy Hair and Big Lips, I thought I best understood the feeling of loneliness in a place you called home, so I let you handle the only way I knew how. I taught you how to mark your skin with your dissatisfaction—a cut for every “ni...
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Ficly is...
Ficly is a giant, online creative writing class with no teacher and a lot of eager students. That’s how I like to think of it, and its why I love it. The best part is that it is a class based entirely on lab work. The whole site serves as a locus...
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Risin' Up
In a broken warehouse, a make-shift ring stood, enclosed by hundreds of eager watchers. Two figures were paired in a shuffling dance in the middle of the crowd. Moments of patient judgment were interrupted by flurries of punches that struck hard flesh....
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Frozen With Open Eyes
So it’s come to this? I couldn’t believe I was going to bleed out on this cold street when it happened, but now it’s real and I’ve fully accepted my fate. The frost on the side walk is comfortably numbing my gaping stab wound. D...
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Price Tag.
Before she thought it out, she took the item and stuck it in her purse. Her arms and hands betrayed her, and made her become the woman she was not raised to be. She didn’t want it to be this way, but it was happening. “Just take it! I do it...