Stories tagged “tentacles”
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Seeking Life
She stepped out of the compression chamber into the medic bay. Her head was pounding but it was nothing compared to the dread that filled her stomach with acid. They all gathered around the door as she expected. They all want to know what happened. Her...
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Seeking Life (part 2)
She couldn’t open her eyes. They were too heavy. Everything felt weightless. “Why can’t I lift my arm?” she tried to speak but the words died in her throat in a garbled, flat noise. “Don’t try to move, lieutenant. Yo...
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Seeking Life (part 3)
She woke as the zero gravity chamber adjusted to match the ship’s atmosphere and she felt her body come to rest on the mattress. Air hissed as the door opened and she could hear the doctor and his assistant checking bandages, muttering numbers. T...
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Tentacle Research
The car that had picked him up from outside the physics lab at college had seemed unassuming, and he had remained skeptical until they had begun to enter the caverns deep in the mountains, passing through more and more stringent checkpoints. Walking in...
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Tentacles versus Climbers
The creatures milled about, their tentacles slithering across the marsh like wet spaghetti noodles. Every creature’s lone eye pointed in all directions, checking for threats, checking for friends. Now two creatures found each other. They locked e...
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Meeting the Locals
A horde of blue octopus-headed creatures were floating down from an airship. Each of them was dual-wielding a crossbows and loading arrows into it with its tentacles. “Jenny, let’s shift the hell out of here!” shouted Gates as they du...