Stories tagged “flash”
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Escape The Iron Fist
“Alice” “Come on Alice, we haven’t got all day.” A startle voice spoke “Alice they are going to find us sooner or later we must go.” The startled voice spoke again in a clearer tone “Kyle go on they will...
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Silent Goodbye
He held her hand listening to her breathing. He tried to remember when he would hear her breathing softly next to him without the gurgle of heavy liquid falling and rising with every breath. He took the moistening stick, dipped it into the cool water, ...
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Gone in a Flash
“Uh…okay…” Billy said, shading his eyes and squinting, trying to see past the lights. “Are you okay, Sera? You sound kinda funny.” “I’ve been a little sick lately,” Sera said. “Yeah, you might say she...
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Lights Are On...
“That’s… You don’t see a lot of people willing to make that kind of decision so quickly,” Lisa said, raising an eyebrow. “For all you know, we’ll have to… take him out of public circulation.” “...
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George in Space
George pushed the ship’s button. George was always pushing buttons. This was much more fun than he expected or normally found though. Each time George pushed the button he found his attire immediately transformed. First, he was dressed in a gaudy pur...
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George in Space 2
This can’t be good he thought to himself. He pushed the button again, but nothing happened. George heard the compartment doors slide open, as Alicia walked in, “Owh… George, what the?!?!?” George vainly attempted to conceal himself as best poss...
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The Reflection
My eyes have the power to level me. I move by a mirror and dare not look up to see the years that have gone by, passed not in the tiny wrinkles that appear in my skin, but in the those strangely limitless eyes. There is a shape to my eyes though that i...
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Dear Santa, good luck...
Dear old Santa, Your such an %^$ ! Since that is the way you feel then there is nothing to be done about it. As is fair an equitable you won’t mind me taking half the toys and good luck finishing this years Christmas order because your gonna need...
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The Room from Hell
“Mr. Vince it’s medication time.” A nurse with a squeaky voice spoke. The door creaked open to a dark room; Nurse Marie flicked on the light. Only to see Mr. Vince lying on the ceiling of the room draped in a cloth. As the lights star...
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The Tunnels
“Taste this.” Amy held a spoon over the mouth of an elder male who was covered in blankets inside a tunnel. The man sat up looking through the darkness; he spotted a couple sitting in the corner holding onto each other and saw Amy kneeling ...
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Flash-Flash Flood of Blood
Sickening hags, half naked, draped in the contents of Abercrombie bags— high priced rags sliced up the thigh just to entice a guy. And here I am so sad I had a chance but alas I wear less-than-pants and thus have gained no inner circle entrance. ...
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Flash
Flash. Red. Mason’s heart skipped a beat. Flash. Blue. He looked out the window and couldn’t believe his eyes. They had found him. He had been careful to cover his tracks, but clearly he had fouled up somewhere. He quickly filled a backpack...
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Ray
You’re a lazy string picker, chord roaming and flying off rhythm before I start mouthing those words I know. On drugs you’re slower. You’ve got those lost eyes, your fingertips quake like seared mice. When I try to match my lines with yours my ch...
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crab walk gridlock
The scraggly kid poked his brain out the water at me, bobbing up and down in the murk green salty sea like a floaty barnacle. His swim trunks ballooned around like underwater rocket pants, and he bubble-barbled fishy pleases at me, who was Queen of the...
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Stolen Mass
Every rotation, she diminishes and I increase. I will be my sister’s grim reaper. I can imagine that, at first, our parents were ecstatic. A twin star birth would be a powerful one, enough to increase our galaxy’s standing against our neigh...
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Lilith
She looked up out of thin gray walls that curled up over her bare skin. Later she would think of it as a sarcophagus, but for now it was simply the first thing she’d ever seen, along with his hungry face. “Lilith,” the man above her d...
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The Possibility of You [poem]
All my nerve endings are flashing Like neon signs that read “OPEN.” Electricity trails sparks down my spine And my veins thrum madly Like strings that have been plucked and are waiting To be plucked again. There is music in my blood, There ...