Stories tagged “encounter”
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Public Indecency (classy porn)
The tiny dressing room was perfect. The young couple walked around, observing the sales associates, timing their dressing room checks. They had about 30 minutes. They casually walked in, each carrying an armload of clothes. There was something about th...
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Fulcrum
Notated from Voice Log 101113 The shock of what I have found cannot be expressed in words. I’m linking back to tell you that our world community will simply never be the same—our people, the animals—everything. We have found a planet ...
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Putting the anger in stranger
A stranger yells at me in the street. I don’t know him, I’ve done nothing to him, yet he feels the need to put me in my place. “Purple hair doesn’t make you more interesting!” I pause. I gather my thoughts. 99% of the time...
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encounter part 1
My feet scamper along the creaking soft-splintered wood. It feels worn and ready for me. Without shoes, the sun scorches them, so I move quickly. His head hangs at the end of the boardwalk, his chest bare, his slightly-defined muscles sun-kissed and f...
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encounter part 2
Wait. My neck turns my head, the wind still twirling my hair around its fingers. His mouth opens, ready to speak again. We both hear a rhythmic swishing sound from the other end of the boardwalk. Hey, Pete! Come on, we’re leaving. The swishing is co...
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Meetings in the Morning
The dark skin and white tribal tattoos marked him one of the Addorhaja, a people with a penchant for collecting skulls and dealing with demons. According to rumors, their demons walked with them, sometimes visible, sometimes not, but dangerous in eithe...