Stories tagged “kidnapping”
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[noir 5] Missing Miss Marli
I did my best not to watch as Marli readied herself for bed. Lead me not into temptation, I thought to myself. What a dame! I poured myself a drink from a flask in my coat, stripped down to my skivvies and undershirt, then downed the drink in one gulp....
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They're Going To Kidnap You
“Where’s my family!?” Richard pleaded with the officer assisting him out of the house which was surrounded by cops. “Don’t worry, just come with me.” said the police officer. “Who took them!?” “We...
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Being Kidnapped Is The Only Way
I was taken to an F.B.I facility where many things were going on. People were carrying on about their many things. The place as a whole just felt intense. “Richard?” Agent Golhem asked. “Yes.” I replied. “This is your tr...
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I Got Myself Kidnapped
“Ok Richard, we know they’re waiting for you to come home to your house from a friends house, ok?” said Agent Golhem. “But I wasn’t at a friends hou..” I sputtered “We know, they think you were, so let’s ...
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You Know That It Would Be Untrue You Know That I Would Be a Liar
Lisa grinned. “And the mechs’ plasma rifles can ignite the wires without leaving any traces of arson. Or at least, none that forensics will recognize.” “Then what are we waiting for?” James grinned. “Let’s ligh...
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Cuffed
When Lisa and James awoke, they were cuffed together in what was unmistakably, the trunk of a moving car. “Oh my head… Wait, Marauders?” James whimpered, clutching his recently-clocked head. “No, if this were the Marauders, we w...
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Dominatrix Theory
“Do you want us to be quiet, or do you want us to answer questions? We can’t do both at once,” Lisa said. Billy facepalmed. “You know what I mean.” “What’s this all about?” James asked, blinking against t...
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Surrealism
“Okay, libraries. That was something that I thought I could go my entire life without hearing until I heard it, and that’s even after my sister got turned into a refugee straight out of Macross.” James deadpanned, mind boggled by the ...
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Driving Home
“Are you off your nut?” Lisa hissed to James as they shared the back seat of the woman’s car. Billy was driving, and the woman was sitting backward on the passenger seat, glowering at them and fingering the hilt of a bullwhip. “...
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Off In The Ditch
“What? The plasma cannon is NEVER overkill!” Sera said, looking at her brother like he had grown a third ear on his forehead. “I would, however, be curious as to exactly how you managed to let yourself get kidnapped by someone in THAT...
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Damage Control
James groaned. “This wasn’t even necessary. We were taking them back to the base. They could have taken care of it there without anyone getting hurt.” “You don’t know that!” Sera insisted. “Hmph, fine way to ac...
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Does Brian Seem Different to You?
The doors to his room were all closed, even the closet door. The lights were off, except for a small plug-in night light in the shape of a train. The dim light suggested safety rather than demanding it. Despite all of the precautions, Brian was afraid....
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Cracking Up
Stand in the rain enough times staring at dead bodies and you might crack up like I did. I remember the case I’d been working on that day. It was a stranger abduction. A young boy, Dana Rose had been reported missing. Some students had seen him p...
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Shanghaied
My head felt as if it were to explode with every pulse of the blood in my veins. I opened my eyes and attempted to evaluate my surroundings. I was in a room, lit only with an oil lamp, casting oddly flitting shadows on the wooden walls. My first impuls...
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Rope Ladder
The sinister man summarily shoved me out the door to the room. My head was reeling—all the documents that had to be forged, all the money that had to have exchanged hands, all the relatives back home…I mentally initiated a curse upon the crimp who ...
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Up the Sails
A strong yank from above halted my fall and jolted me to attention. Hoisted up, I stared into the face of an old man from one of the tribes in the Oregon Country, the features of his countenance worn by the march of time. “That’s a nasty fa...
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Pine Tree
I opened my eyes, incredulous. The Englishman, who seemed loth to spare his charges any opportunity for humiliation or physical injury, merely stared for a moment before shaking his head and wandering off, finding some other poor soul to abuse. “...
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That Has Such People in It
James didn’t have time to be frightened before the robot’s hand thrust into the open back of a mid-sized U-Haul truck and dropped him, none too gently. Then the door slammed down, cutting off the light, and the truck started to move. James ...
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A Thousand To One And A Million To Two
“Hello?” James called out. His heart sunk. Now that he wasn’t alone he felt responsible for the both of then. Hearing a groan in reply, he carefully picked his way back across to the source of the rustling, feeling his way along until...