Stories tagged “twilight”
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You Twilight Up My Life
“Turn me, Edric!” I shouted at him. If he turns me, I can live forever with him,I thought. “Never!” He replied. “Don’t you know that an endless life, eternally young, beautiful and super strong, comes with quite a hi...
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Cooties...a dread plague
" Seriously, you need to get vaccinated. Just cuz they named it something silly-Cooties are nothing to mess with!" I pleaded with him desperately. I had had the vaccine, the side effects were terrible(temporary hair loss and weight gain), but...
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Dracula in Zombie Nation
“Damn zombies are everywhere,” Dracula grumbled. After the government legalized zombie civil unions, they began to appear more often in society. They formed a Jane Austen book club; among the best of their literary minds, an argument for zo...
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9'oclock PM Pacific Standard Time
Becky looked down on the one she hoped to be her lover, a sad expression on her face. “I’ll get you out of there Evan, I promise.” Evan rolled over and groaned, reaching up to her from the floor of the cage. She reached down to him, g...
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Just a construction Error(retro ficlet challenge)
The crazy thing about this is it’s just a construction error. Some careless contractor installed a doorknob backwards. It’s not even an important doorknob, just my bedroom closet door. It does give you the willies a little when you realize there’...
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Fairy Inspiration
The sky slowly darkened to a navy blue with hints of amber. Dogs’ ears perked as a collective squeak raced through the world. The time to spread their magic had come. Meanwhile, close by, Thaddeus had just snuggled under his covers. He’d ha...
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Lectures, Distractions, and Secretions
“…considerations of the metaphysical must never be given undo precedence in the face of the mythical…” Thaddeus droned on and on, as he always did. Lenora’s mind began to wander, as it often did. The slanting rays of the s...
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And The Air Was Filled With Spices
He followed her through the market, watching her hips sway back and forth seamlessly with the flow of traffic. Scents swirled around her like colors in the stalls, filling his nose with the leonine golden tinge of saffron and curry, the sharp black bit...
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Of Course, He Always Had Pale Skin
“Bloody Twilight. Y’know, I really don’t like the way Stephanie Meyer dicked about with the vampire mythos. Vampires don’t sparkle.” “Yeah. And they’re not vegetarian.” “And they don’t play ba...
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Open Court
“What’s the charge?” My lawyer pounds the table. There’s no way this could be a real court. Nobody would arrest a twelve-year-old, let alone bring them to trial. The judge reads the paper that is in front of him. “The defe...