Stories tagged “beast”
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Seeking Life
She stepped out of the compression chamber into the medic bay. Her head was pounding but it was nothing compared to the dread that filled her stomach with acid. They all gathered around the door as she expected. They all want to know what happened. Her...
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Seeking Life (part 2)
She couldn’t open her eyes. They were too heavy. Everything felt weightless. “Why can’t I lift my arm?” she tried to speak but the words died in her throat in a garbled, flat noise. “Don’t try to move, lieutenant. Yo...
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Seeking Life (part 3)
She woke as the zero gravity chamber adjusted to match the ship’s atmosphere and she felt her body come to rest on the mattress. Air hissed as the door opened and she could hear the doctor and his assistant checking bandages, muttering numbers. T...
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Another Revelation (part 1)
As I step back from a bittersweet environment filled with the various vices and virtues of humanity, I now realize all that the forces of evil tried to steal from me. If I had given in and erased myself completely from the face of the earth, I can’...
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Another Revelation (part 2)
Hence, I have come to accept the fact that in the end, each and every mortal being will have long since proven and exploited his or her own wickedness, whether intentionally or not. But even so, there will only be a few who thoroughly fail themselves. ...
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Blue eyed beast
One night, I had just gotten up, which was odd, because it had been happening often since the night I got bitten by the strange deformed child. But the odd thing was that it only happened when there was a full moon, or no moon. I remember that night, l...
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The Headaches
The headaches hadn’t gone away. Marcus tried for several days but they kept getting worse. He would down a bottle of Tylenol 3’s in a day, and yet the pounding continued. Marcus laid on his bed in the dark, his ear plugs in and a wet cloth ...
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The Bronze Beast
Sweat rained off his forehead as he drew his sword. He couldn’t swallow. He could barely breathe. The bronze creature towered above him, exhaling hot and bitter breath. It had been so small before; an almost innocent creature that he had played w...
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Answer to the Old Tongue
With a choked gurgling sound the beast produced a mass of phlegm which it hurled, engulfing the fireball in an explosion of steam and bile. The warrior only chuckled as he parried the sword thrust that immediately followed. Two, three, four more times ...
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My Father's Blank
“What is it?” My father asked, hands groping in the air. “You can’t tell?” I teased. “Put your hand here.” I gently guided his hands with my own. He’d grown curmudgeonly after Ma had passed but I was stil...
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Expositum et Dolore
I am being eaten from the inside, oh what is this terrible beast. It seeks to reduce me to pieces, and for decades I have become its feast. I now sit exposed to the world, and they can see what I feel, but I wish they could understand, just how painful...