Stories tagged “questioning”

  • Before & After

    Everyday, the Book lost and gained pages. Every hour, the Book became thinner, and then turned grossly fat, and then shed its excess pages, continuing in a vicious cycle and reminding Saya how many people flickered in and out of the world. Rowan asked ...

  • The Reason I Am Here

    Staring at the ground, this is it I thought, letting out a huge breath to calm myself. Now is my chance. All I have to do is what I was taught to do. The reason I am here. Do the thing everyone wants me to do. Just simply step up and do it. I’ve ...

  • Bid For My Virginity (II) (Mature)

    I could only guess what this would entail. Obviously they were all men looking to have sex with a virgin. I sat where I’d been positioned, waiting for my ordeal to begin so it would end as fast as possible. After a couple of minutes that felt lik...

  • The Minuteman

    It felt like an aeon in the dark, silent silo. Tonnes of rock overhead. The United States of America never wanted nor needed to use me. They were very proud of me, though. They said I was so poised on the edge of readiness that I could launch in one mi...

    • Author: Shu Sam Chen
    • Posted almost 2 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Worth

    How have I failed entirely to prove the worth I feel must be inherent to my life? My soul has lost the drive for futile goals, their purpose now a mystery. I shrink within redundancy, my cries a hollow, lifeless plea for meaning in a broken world of ha...

    • Author: memento
    • Posted 6 months ago.

  • Second Life: Unacceptable

    A chair scraped as someone stood and joined me in the circle of light. Even though he wore a hooded cloak and a steel mask, I could tell that he was large and powerfully built. “How long did you plan on questioning him? He is obviously one of the...