Stories tagged “ruins”
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Stifled Writers
The buzz of the solitary working streetlight and the distant call of the whippoorwill were an eerily serene background to her racing mind. Strange, she thought, that while the city is in ruin, I still stand here, as I always have, contemplating the sta...
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Keepers of Implements
In the dusty library, from the table in front of the hooded girl, another pen vanished. She pushed back the old oak chair, making a soft wood-on-wood scrape. Further up in the repository, a page turned. Another keeper must be reading ancient words. She...
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Fallen City
A boy wandered through a field of ruins, using great stone blocks as stepping stones. “Careful, Denny!” The old man called out. He was busy recording the glyphs on a fallen tower. He finished quickly and stuffed the paper in his exceptional...
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Ruins
There is something beautiful and intriguing to me about ruins. In really every sense of the word, too. Physical ruins are the most obvious. Monolithic tributes to a deceased kingdom or civilization, begging to be discovered. I wonder what secrets they ...
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Ruins
Dust and debris crunch underfoot as I turn stiffly in the cumbersome hazard suit, checking the ruins for survivors. Just two days ago this had been a buzzing shopping district with tens of thousands of shoppers swarming around the massive mall district...
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The Temple of the Lost
The leaf and loam give way beneath his silent gait, the forest edge before him, his life’s mistakes behind. A slip of breath escapes his lips in a moment paused, but he must continue. As lace-like mists entwine the lofty bows, he reaches out to b...