Stories tagged “psychic”
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Connection
It’s two o’clock in the morning and I’ve been at this for hours. There is a chair, and I am sitting in it. There is a small off-white colored room, and I am sitting on a chair inside of the room. There is a door, and it is locked. The...
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Indigo
I remember when they took it away. All those books, Web sites, TV interviews: they all vanished in a puff of a New Age whim. I know my parents didn’t believe I understood the concepts, but I did. They hoped, but that was all. They told people lik...
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Ending the Beginning
“You think you can just quit? Do one job for our group and call it a day? It doesn’t work like that, mate.” Cerrekk’s eyes were gummed shut with blood. He knew he was being held upright by some ‘roided up freak of nature with a large gun, but...
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Psychic Assault
Derrick gasps, air sucking raggedly into his chest as the pain of a thousand icepicks lances through his skull from all directions. …he fell through the ice and drowned… The pain is intolerable, and Derrick fears he’ll go mad, yet alm...
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Psychic Assault: Break
Morgan continued to lean against the lamp post as she watched him pull himself to his feet. He swayed, wiping his nose with the back of his hand and smearing blood across his face. She slid a tendril of thought past the continuing maelstrom that batter...
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In Between Minds: The Price
The world swam before my eyes. I tried to remember what had happened last time- hallucinations? There was a part of myself locked away, trapped on the other side of the gulf inside my mind and I had just pushed it even further away. Reality fell apart....
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Liars
With a ringing clank, the door scraped open. Clara’s blood-laced eyes flicked up at her visitor and away, back to the middle distance near the radiator. “Good morning, Clara. I’m Nancy, I’m the psychiatrist today. I’m here...
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In Between Minds: Thoughts of Safety
Safe? I’d never been safe. My parents had watched, helpless as the cruel hand of the government had plucked me from my home and taken me to Camp 32. Despite assurances that we would be cared for by the best, the government did nothing to protect ...
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In Between Minds: Cascade of Deceptions
A blanket of snow covered the roof of the train car. There is no sign of anybody. It’s dangerous up here. I repeated the images over and over. By the time the officer’s hat peeked over the edge, he was breathing hard and glancing to the gro...
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In Between Minds: Tide of Rage
Panic and cursing followed my display of power. It was short-lived as one man snapped orders and the officer’s military conditioning kicked in. “Back up! Everybody back up! You two, climb those cars over there. On my signal shoot her. Thoug...
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In Between Minds: Storm of Consequences
I awoke to the rhythmic staccato of a moving train, and to a pair of voices. Soft-spoken, yet stern they discussed my future. My mouth tasted of blood and my head felt like someone had used it as a football. I didn’t think I was hallucinating- th...
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In Between Minds: Moment of Renewal
I had so many questions but the other voice didn’t respond to them. I didn’t know if it was ignoring me or gone. Was I getting crazier? Sometimes that happened to us. My stomach reminded me that food had been promised. I wanted to take a qu...
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Not There
“You can’t see me, can you?” She could hear the quotations around his remark, see the grin on his face and the fact that he was handcuffed behind the chair. But he was right, she could not see him. If she just shut her eyes (and ignor...
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In Between Minds- Final Preparations
“Our choices are limited but this does have the advantage of being a kind of final test. I need you to understand that we have made an effort to stay out of the way, to not get directly involved- until you. Many people will get hurt and probably ...
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In Between Minds: An Unbalancing Act
The train began to pick up speed as it left the station. It wasn’t packed, but more passengers rode with us than before. That thought gave me some comfort. “Whatever you did, undo it. Now.” Martin growled. Sweat beaded along the hard ...
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Feedback
A rogue in the middle of Central Park. Kill count: 97 and rising. Every sniper that had gotten inside his range died before even loading their rifle. The rogue was listening for them. A sniper’s mind is very distinct. We walked over the bodies. R...
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Madame Rosa
The countryside is beautiful and blissfully devoid of people, except for the occasional farmer or his family off to one side of the road or the other. I can hear them in my head as we pass them by. Concerned about the price of potatoes, or the wetness ...
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Psycombat
They came tumbling out of the rift, sixteen in number, weapons hot and blazing neon death. Their carapaces throbbed with halogen psycombat shields. Fuck! Military thoughtkiller psycombat bots. X let the onboard computer take control in a blur of limbs....
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Whirling Knives
A news copter sent its nanocamera after that queer smear in reality, its footage sending gasps and in the case of some, acid reflux, through the esophagi of newshounds. Bloodied from minor wounds, X’s psyche dropped bits of himself in translucent...
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In Between Minds: A Sliver of Control
“FOURTEEN! I WAS FOURTEEN!” I screamed. My vision blurred under the onset of tears until the world turned into amorphous blobs that dissolved into explosions of reds and blacks. In the very center was a tiny dot of light, a speck that start...
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In Between Minds: A Step in a New Direction
“I’m not hungry.” I said automatically. My stomach disagreed with a loud grumbling sound. The girl in the doorway smiled. “That’s okay. You don’t have to eat but you should drink this- it’ll make you feel bette...
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In Between Minds: Another Piece of the Puzzle
“How many?” I asked, not sure if I was asking how many lived there, or how many I had hurt. Concern radiated from Sofiya. “Does it matter?” “A little.” “Why?” “I don’t know. It just feels impo...
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In Between Minds: Moment to Moment
After the first bit of instruction I was left alone, presumably at Sofiya’s direction. I wasn’t sure if she was in charge of everything but everyone seemed to do as she asked. I didn’t mind being alone this time. It was different than...
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Dead and Gone
Fingers bent in odd ways before being broken by the psychic’s powerful mind. Jeremy screamed continuously as his hand was destroyed. It wasn’t systematic, instead it had an element of cruel curiousity. “That was for touching me. Now w...