Category: Short Story
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Development Part 3
Giulia stood outside the door leading into her lab and yet she hesitated. She used hated leaving it, now she dreaded going in. What would she find in there today? With a deep breath, she readied herself to go in. Where once she had almost a dozen tanks holding various specimens in the center of…
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Favors Part 2
Katrina couldn’t sleep. It had only been a couple of days since the building she worked in burned down and still the events of that day troubled her and filled her mind with so many thoughts that she could hardly sleep. Of course, it wasn’t specifically the fire that kept her mind racing, it was…
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Development Part 2
The next few days proceeded normally, even though Giulia was checking on her newest graft with great anticipation. As she had expected, the new graft took a couple days to fill out as it produced the stem cells as she’d designed it to. Then, slowly, she began to see the reduction in the damaged tissues…
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Development Part 1
The room had the ever present scent of ozone and acid that made most people turn up their noses and retreat upon entering. However, for Giulia she found them to be welcoming and calming odors. In fact, as she spent more and more time in that room, she found it increasingly difficult to concentrate without…
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Consequence
Somehow during the past semester, Sean had fallen behind in his studies. He’d always been pretty good in years past but for some reason he just couldn’t seem to get back on top of things. Everyone had always told him how much more difficult high school was compared to middle school but he’d never really…
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Joy Multiplies
Magic was a complicated and, more often than not, a messy sort of business. Even when people stuck to known and proven incantations, rituals, and so forth there was still the possibility for something to just go wrong. While apprenticing, Joy had witnessed a number of magical mishaps, even caused a few herself, but there…
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Peaks and Valleys
There’s something about the sunrise, the way it spreads an almost intangible wave of warmth and serenity, that Hector loved. The cold chill of night finally washes away and the countless droplets of dew shine like glitter cast about on every point and surface. The dawn was especially welcome to Hector as he continued his…
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Dreaming in the Rain
Sunrise was still a few hours away and the rain falling from the sky filled the air with a gentle, steady hiss. Yefim didn’t mind the rain. He’d always found it comforting, ever since he was a young boy. He held out his hand and caught a few raindrops in his palm. They were cold…
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Front Row at a Willie Show
Grandma Carter sat quietly in her chair. That was how she usually was these days. She hadn’t really spoken in a few years unless you counted the occasional times she mistook someone for Grandpa Carter. “Henry,” she’d always say, “are you finished with painting the house yet?” Grandpa Carter had passed away years ago, and…
Bridge of Broken Glass 