Stories tagged “heroics”
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Our Daughter is Waiting at Home
I had never loved him more than I did at this moment. He was telling me everything would be ok. But I knew different. I could smell the gasoline and the car was still running. The other car had swerved into our lane suddenly and in order to preserve ou...
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Hard Choices in a Hard World
Rae’s eyes darted between the kids gathering at the buses and the now vacant school yard. On the far side of the yard lay the drainage ditch, trash-strewn path to freedom. Even through the metallic tang of her mech voice the hesitancy came throug...
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Necessary
The yellow lights flash without a sound above us, the sirens having long since been silenced. The hallways are empty, save for the growing sense of panic among us. The place had an odd, church-like quality to it, in that, it was meant to be inhabited b...