Stories tagged “Hopelessness”

• To Survive

  The flames were engulfing the house. Despair encompassed me as I realized I was at deaths door. The only question was what would take us there. With my pistol at my side, I gazed out of a window upon the horde waiting away from the fire in the trees. L...

  • Author: The Third Robot
  • Posted about 2 years ago.
  • 5 out of 5

• Suicide by Poseidon?

  I had gotten used to tempting fate and getting away with it. Cheap drugs, fast women, and wild gambling streaks all left me unaffected. Hell, I’ve survived savage animal attacks, car crashes, earthquakes, even lightning strikes… but this ca...

  • Author: Over the Precipice of the Unknown; Into the Frontier of Uncertainty
  • Posted 9 months ago.
  • 5 out of 5

• Lesson from Poseidon

  Panic is pointless, but my heart is still racing. Sinking, faster the more I relive my sinning. Be it delirium from drowning, or a vibration from unbeknownst…I heard / felt sinister laughter. When my lungs couldn’t hold out any longer, the ...

  • Author: Over the Precipice of the Unknown; Into the Frontier of Uncertainty
  • Posted 8 months ago.