Stories tagged “short”
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Fantasyland V
“Planning a revolution shoudn’t be this hard,” the cloaked man sighed from the head of the table. Henry decided, due to normal seating convention that person was the leader of this rabble and his name was Supreme Leader, or Steve. &#...
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Mambu Dogface in a Banana Patch -or- Its simple.
“Why is the sea cow such a simple creature then?” Shot back Joel, “What purpose does it serve?? I mean honestly..” Steve had to think long and hard on that one. he did have a point, it was a simple creature. “Have you ever...
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The Last Stand
“Get up you fool! Get up or you’ll die!” Zane yelled, i could barely hear him. I smell blood and what i think was burnt flesh, where was my combat helmet? And then i remember the shell, and the flash of light…. Where are my men!? My vision clea...
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All in the family
I am perched on the edge of a seat that doesn’t want me, three legs shorter than the fourth. I am not a natural born pessimist, I believe in good things. Good things for good people, it’s just that I’m not good people. The preceding events ag...
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Fad of Life
“It’s just a fad,” I whispered. For some reason my voice resonates when I am in church. “What is,” queried the woman looking confused and teary. “Life. “Life is not a fad,” her hackles snapped into action. “Yes. Yes it is. It comes an...
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All in the Family II
“Disposing of a body isn’t as easy as it used to be,” I said, my mother shakes her head “What did I tell you? Huh,” a whispered demand. I hit replay and re-run our conversation but most of the words are hidden beneath the splatter. “I can
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'Til Death
“Marry me!” he shrieked at her, gesticulating wildly. His bloodshot eyes met hers and held them, shoes crunching the gravel of the apartment roof as he paced. “No.” “NO!” the man screamed in a mockery of the woman...
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Death and Rebirth
There was another funeral procession today in Cozmel. Some forty mourners, at least two weeping brides, and the recently deceased. He was sitting proudly in his sedan chair carried on the shoulders of four young men. I had met him earlier when I first ...
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By Any Means
He had picked a spot up on a butte that overlooked the scrubland below. Besides him sat his Sharps rifle. It was outfitted with a brass telescope and set of cross hairs at the end of the barrel. Next to the rifle was three bullets, their brass casing s...
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Draw, Ya Sidewinder!
The man in black barely tilted his head up and said “I reckon I didn’t hear you correctly. What did you say?” The young man stood his ground and said, “I said draw your iron, you sidewinder! I’m here to put you in the grou...
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Consumer Suicide
He’s naked dancing across the hardwood floors wearing only his socks, holding the shotgun he purchased at Walmart earlier in the day. The radio is tuned into a sketchy far away rap station, while the TV silently reels “The Playboy Girl̵...
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I Lost it All
Lives torn asunder. Thieves took everything. Even the life of my love.
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Solace
I let the razor slip across my pale, sun deprived skin. A thin trail of blood trickles towards the drain where my bare feet rest. I think to the girls at school; their incessant gossip, their constant teasing, their never ending torment; my absentee be...
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If it exists it can be coded
Every day he faced the wall. A plain white wall. He always thought that they could have been more creative with the seating plan. It was a small idea at first, something created out of shear boredom of his surroundings of himself and his PC (and not fo...
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The Magic. (Part 1)
People are always curious as to what keeps a person like me going. When you reject religion, spirituality, and belief in anything but the tangible, life must seem pretty bleak, right? You are left only with science, with the hard facts of war, disease,...
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The Magic. (Part Deux)
… Well I’ve thought about it. That’s a vast understatement, actually, I’ve practically obsessed over it. It’s like that question they always ask you at the doctors office- “Have you ever had thoughts of suicide?̶...
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Orange
Brother Neimus bowed his shaved head to Brother Paulus as he passed him on the way from evening prayers. The scent of citrus blossoms wafted through the stone arch windows. He paused and glanced out at the acres of neatly-tilled fields. Curious, he saw...
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Movie Groovy
During the shoot of an epic comic-book film adaptation, the lead actor was getting jangly nerves. Thinking of scathing Empire reviews, angry vloggers yelling into static cameras, annoyed Twitterers writing “dat film waz WELL shit lol =D”, a...
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You Don’t Always Need Protection =D
A little boy found on the streets of a busy city…a gangster picks him up..trains him… The boy grows up as one of his confidants … One day, the boy is attacked in the middle of the street and the gangster rushes to protect him …t...
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Ralph MacPherson (1900-1939) Cheese Tamer
Known as the cheese tamers’, cheese tamer. Born in Basingstoke to George and Mildred (nee Pickles) MacPherson who both insisted on only communicating in song. Ralph’s early years were blighted by pronounced pogonophobia, as a result of whic...
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Dear Jic, Grant, and Ron,
I wanted a tattoo. And it would describe: I am pissed off! The rest of my friends are getting jobs and acting as busy as I could possibly notice, and they got someone else to text or call, while I reread my college textbook. Business? I’ve got no...
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The Hidden
The narrow crawl space is hot with their frantic breath, their exhaled prayers whispered in time with the stomping of thick boots throughout the house. “Save, Hashem, Your people.” The sound of heavy footsteps stops suddenly above them.
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And No Hope
“Great shot, kid! That was one in a million!” Aside from the mystery voice on my helmet’s speakers, my cockpit filled with the blaring of alarms, tinny and raucous to the point that my ears began to pain me. The void of space was blas...
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The purist
Inside the layered sphere, the fire started with a storm a neutrons, and fission bloomed. As matter turned into energy, plasma vaporized the inner layers, blasting matter apart and expanding, wasting layer upon layer, until the thickness of the sphere ...