Stories tagged “brainstormer”
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New in Town
Trust me; the irony that the first real home I’d ever had was a Beverly Hills mansion has not escaped me. My mother and I had been nomads my whole life; always on the move, always looking for the next adventure. Sure, I realized that eventually w...
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Bring Me Your Weary
He’d been riding for days. How long didn’t really matter… After his escape from the last batch of gangs roaming the wastes he just wanted to find a place to bed down and call his own. Accompanied only by the voice of his iron steed as...
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Leaving the Bayou
She watched LeBlanc as he put his finger in his collar and eased the fabric away from his neck for the eighth time in as many minutes. It was an odd habit, in her opinion, and had already left a grubby mark on the expensive white cotton. She knew damne...
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Peer Review
He rubbed his temples, pretending it helped. She’s cute, he told himself, and if I help her edit this goddamn story for this goddamn writing class she’ll think I’m nice, and then we’ll see. But she couldn’t spell. He scann...
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The Library
Anno sat in the library, a book open on the desk in front of him. He scanned the page, looking at the illustrations and text. It was all about a little known world on the edge of the galaxy. He turned to the next section. Urf. That is what it was calle...
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Confrontation with a god in an industrial throne room
The cracked and faded orange plastic of the seat was mostly attached to a battered frame of bent metal tubes. It rested on a plank raised, just a little, by four concrete blocks, and, even had it been the smoothest surface, all four legs would have fai...