Stories tagged “abduction”
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Ms.Combs?
“Patient 27 reports being awoken in the middle of the night and has the sensation of being abducted by strange beings.” “No, I was abducted.” “Yes, yes, of course. Now let us begin with you stating your name.” “...
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Moving Scene
I was woken by rough hands, the air full of screams. Just five more minutes, my head seemed to say, somehow unaware of the situation. When I didn’t move the hands lifted me. I opened my eyes to find myself in a fireman’s lift over a brutish...
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New Hope
I was dragged to the Russian’s office as he continued to oversee the parade of women, occasionally pulling one over to ‘check her goods’. Every time I heard his voice carry across the wind I squirmed in anticipation. I was locked in t...
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#69 Going Slightly Mad
At that moment, with hope within arms’ reach, my body suddenly stalled. Had I found it so hard to trust a person that I wouldn’t even talk to this kind-faced man? It’s the kindest-faced ones that are the evilest. The voice came from t...
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Schneider's First Rank Symptoms
I awoke to find myself driving down a dark expanse of road, bloody hand prints on the inside of the windows and windshield. Only a vague sense of numbness- like anesthesia wearing off- kept me from slamming on the brakes or panicking. Instead, I lifted...
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Explosions and Treasure
He laid on the sand, the water washing over him in waves, debris from his demolished ship piling around him. He was lucky to be alive and said a silent prayer of thanks and for continued protection in the trials to come. He’d been close to death ...
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Conversations in the Van
In the van, John opened his eyes. He was lying on a bench seat in the darkness when a voice called out. “Hey, rise and shine!” John groaned an sat up. The two men in black suits were in the front of the van, one driving. “So? Anythin...
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Code Adam
The gate began to drop even before the announcement went over the PA. “Attention all associates: Code Adam. Repeat. Code Adam.” Code Adams occurred at least once every weekend since Black Friday, but they never failed to unsettle me. A child had be...
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Shanghaied
My head felt as if it were to explode with every pulse of the blood in my veins. I opened my eyes and attempted to evaluate my surroundings. I was in a room, lit only with an oil lamp, casting oddly flitting shadows on the wooden walls. My first impuls...
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Rope Ladder
The sinister man summarily shoved me out the door to the room. My head was reeling—all the documents that had to be forged, all the money that had to have exchanged hands, all the relatives back home…I mentally initiated a curse upon the crimp who ...
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Up the Sails
A strong yank from above halted my fall and jolted me to attention. Hoisted up, I stared into the face of an old man from one of the tribes in the Oregon Country, the features of his countenance worn by the march of time. “That’s a nasty fa...
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Pine Tree
I opened my eyes, incredulous. The Englishman, who seemed loth to spare his charges any opportunity for humiliation or physical injury, merely stared for a moment before shaking his head and wandering off, finding some other poor soul to abuse. “...