Stories tagged “superpower”
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A Blessing but a Curse
Lift this curse from me! I realize now that I was wrong, and if I could undo the damage I have caused, then I would wish it so! Why did you feel the need to teach me a lesson like this? There must have been a million other ways you could have rebuked m...
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Powerless
It was supposed to be an easy hit. My part, I just had to get close enough to the guy to get a proper read. You know, get a glimpse of his mind, his plans, maybe find a moment he’d be less guarded. Then the other dude would come, is what I heard,...
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Café Revisions
I stared at the notebook, with all of its half thoughts scratched this way and that upon the page. The column of text before me felt oddly confrontational, as if my own words were daring me to disagree with them. The more I read and reread them, the l...
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What Do You See?
I felt the brush of an intangible caress fluttering at the edge of my consciousness. They were here. I signaled to my brothers, and the three of us stopped walking through the concrete maze of the city. Several days previous, word had come to us of a g...