Stories tagged “poison”
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Swift As
The wound was both painful and numbing. The blade had cut a perfect line across his forearm in appreciation of its well kept edge as he had tried to block it from his own throat. But now, the poison upon the blade was apparent as it ran it’s cour...
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Veyron Vindication
His head swam and flashes of light and shadow played behind his eyelids when he blinked. Whatever the poison was, he knew his end would be quick, but far from painless. Crashing over a discarded grocery cart at the end of the wide alley, he spilled int...
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Sinking
The night of our big day finally came. Tom bought a bottle of fine champaign. We made a toast to good friends, and great ideas. We shared our last laughs, and our final excitement. Then, it was off to the beach. We drove an hour to get to the shore of ...
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Hero(in) *poison challenge
After years of bobbing on restless seas of chemo untherapy, They finally pulled me back to shore. Smiling, they shot me up filled my arms with long needles and put me up on the white horse. After years of bobbing on restless seas heaving up all my insi...
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Set Free
He had a light meal, just tea and toast, some anti-emetics and beta-blockers. His mother was quite surprised at his unusually bright mood – he was smiling and dancing all morning. Then (yes!) the doorbell rang, and his friend – he never see...
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Emptiness
I am filled with an emptiness. Something has been torn away. Stolen without my ever having known it was there. Where did it go? The pain is numbing. The anger poisonous, anger at myself. Not knowing, Not thinking. My heart reaches out for love and The ...
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Alcohol Poisoning
The man got alcohol poisoning. He drove to the liquor store to get more alcohol but on the way there he was so drunk that he drove into Compton. He did not want liquor any more. what he wanted now was to find a hospital to cure his alcohol poisoning. F...
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End of an Era
Earth is but a distant memory for humanity. A forgotten, neglected world, that has been poisoned and hollowed out to a mere husk of its glory days. Leaving their once green home, humanity has taken to the stars, traveling across the vastness of space i...
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Last Resort Switch
“I don’t know this,” I gripped my head, shaking it violently, “I’ve never seen anything like this before. I can’t sense right.” “Someone is doing this to him. Someone wants us out of the way,” my head t...
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Heaven
Must mercury Taste peculiarly Metallic and slippery Oops— I died too quickly To finish this poe
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Without Stopping For Breath
He was ever so talkative. “…and of course, I couldn’t leave the poor blighter hanging there. I roped him to my horse – my very own Stampede – and I pulled him out of that damnable chasm. All this not two weeks after I told...
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Love at First Bite (Not another vampire story)
It seemed like the whole ordeal had happened a geological age ago, but not even time could strip the muggy pressure of the African air from Nelson’s skin. Walking through the zoo created an eerie sense of deja vu. Instantly, he was back in Sudan....
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Charlie
Tuition fees? £9000 a year was just too much. My family couldn’t afford that kind of money, not with Mum sick and Dad having lost his job. There was only one way to get into University, a scholarship, and those were few and far between. Best mak...
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Too Much is Never Enough
What do I fear most in life? It’s hard to describe or explain, like a forgotten classmate’s name you just can’t quite put a finger on. It has been called many different things by many different people, and has even drove men to kill. ...