Stories tagged “immortal”
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Still Dead
It wasn’t as if he hadn’t died before. This time was just…different. His head still swimming, he tried to make it to his feet. No dice. He was still dead. What was going on here? It had never taken him this long to recover before.
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A Quiet Child
Standing on an Edinburgh street corner eating lunch, he could still feel the pull, the call drawing him northwest. On his way back to the train station he passes a window painted with cartoonish twenty-somethings all smiling on a bus. “Haggis Bac...
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Side Effects May Include
Muscle weakness, headache, shifting liver, increased sweating, weight gain, musical warts, weight loss, itching, dry mouth, heightened arousal, color blindness, luminous toes, coughing, hair loss, and most importantly… Death. A strange side effec...
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Immortal, Convinced
Finally, the pain stopped. I looked up at her, realizing I had dropped into a fetal position during the attack. My attempt at maintaining suavity as I stood was futile, and the old bitch cackled at me. I think I could have taken more screaming than hea...
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It's Only Just Begun
I picked at the sea foam green scales now appearing on my forearm. Immortality is only one unsuspecting imbecile away. If only she could show up faster. Even through the layers of concrete and brick my heightened senses could pick up her little lady-li...
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Affects From a Funeral
He felt tired, as if his age was catching up with him. Thomas Draker watched as the casket was lowered into the grave. Another person he had known, had died too soon. The rain was falling and the overcast skies did not help his mood. The weather was wh...
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Living
It’s better than dying. During my blue period, when the first protean delights of immortality had passed, and I was left with the prospect of undying boredom. Artistically, I mastered painting, sculpture, and drama. Athletically, under the guise ...
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The Mitosis of a God
Seething at planck’s constant the energy sheds streamers of light, racing past the quarks, leptons, mesons, to burst through into the baryonic, bobbing in the sea of vast particles. As a field of consciousness, it gravitates towards other such in...
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The Body Is Willing But The Mind Is Weak
The two sisters had worried when they caught the smell of another troll on the wind, but when they found him, there was only sadness. It was time for his Mercy Pyre. From a distance, he seemed like any other troll, but as they watched, his path wandere...
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Not What You Think About Immortality
I sighed into the light. “It’s amazing how a fact can warp into a legend in just a few lifetimes. I’ll stop here. I know what you’re thinking when I say immortal. Before you say it let me explain a few things. To be immortal is not ...
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El Fin
The Spanish Conquistador dismounted his stallion on the edge of a towering precipice. He had leaped from atop here many times. On countless occasions, he felt the blood rush to his face, he and his mount ascending in the air. He knew the pain of thousa...
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The
A bone white moon illuminates a rolling country. Upon a hill rippling with fragrant tallgrass billows a tent. It extrudes a tongue of warm light, welcoming and beckoning. You enter to find a strange man seated among fine cushions that gleam like very l...
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The Wheels of Time
A bone white moon illuminates a rolling country. Upon a hill rippling with fragrant tallgrass billows a tent. It extrudes a tongue of warm light, welcoming and beckoning. You enter to find a strange man seated among fine cushions that gleam like very l...
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Gnarts Trimeskalion
Immortality gets tedious after the first few hundred cycles. By then, you’ll be a crotchety old man in a body far too young for you. Fighting in a war you were unprepared for, against an enemy beyond your imagination. Dying from an impossible wou...
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Around the Block Again
“Your tracks might be covered enough to fool the public. Heck, you might even be hidden enough to fool the government, but they have other matters to worry about, public image and all that.” I could feel the heat of the spot light on my fac...