Stories tagged “allegory”
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Outside
Fear followed me into the kitchen this morning. She was wearing grey, as usual, and grinned as she sat down across the breakfast table from me. “Hope,” she said, chuckling, “do you really plan on going outside today?” She reache...
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Snowball fight!
George and Kim lived across a wide street, Pacific Rd. George had the best arm in the school and could throw snowballs with amazing accuracy, he was very popular despite the fact that everyone thought he was a “doodiehead.” He had a huge ca...
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Allegory
Milner paced back with unease. The campfire cast orange-black flickering light on the cave walls. Milner focused on his makeshift calendar, long ago scrawled on the cave wall using red ochre. “Nnn-Niigh. Nine years… th-three months.” It was hard ...
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WorldStorm Express
Here I go again. The train came. It snatched my thoughts away and I can’t retrieve them fast enough. The trail left behind stretches onward for growing miles; I only stop every so often when a fact outshines the rest, and I must let my eyes adjus...
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Fuck the Moon
Fresh off the shuttle, Steve bounded across the Moon in his bulky EVA suit. He whooped loudly and almost crashed into another group of suited people. “Hey, welcome to the Moon!” one man said, “What a trip, huh? Glad you could make it....
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ONCE UPON A TIME, IN GORKY PARK
ONCE UPON A TIME, IN GORKY PARK Look at Boris’ nuts, tiny and green He pulls them close, as other girl-squirrels careen Natasha the Dolt, cold and mean Shouts, your’s are the smallest, the size of a bean He gathers them up, a shy pre-teen A...