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Like Paper: Chapter 5
By the time we landed at our final destination, I’d filled three barf bags. My blue skin had a certain green tinge to it, and I couldn’t stop my hands from shaking. The whole time I struggled to keep from damaging anything but twenty-four hours is a long time to be stuck on a plane.…
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Like Paper: Chapter 4
They sent a bus to pick me up. There were a few other supers, most of them around my own age, already on board. Harding and Kira were there as well. “We’ll be lightly sedating you for the trip,” Kira explained after we got my luggage loaded. “This way we’re less likely to have any…
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Like Paper: Chapter 3
It didn’t take too long for Harding and Kira to run me through the other tests, which all failed to reveal any other powers. That was a relief. I was silent as we walked back to the building where my dad was still waiting. “How’d it go?” he asked when we walked in. “She’s the…
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Like Paper: Chapter 2
It was an hour drive to the evaluation site where they would test my powers. I was expecting something like a doctor’s office but instead when we arrived it turned out to be a bomb range. It makes sense, since powers could be unpredictable and no one wanted to have to keep rebuilding or repairing…
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Like Paper: Chapter 1
I sat on the edge of my bed for far too long. I should be up and getting ready for the school day. I expect my mom or dad to knock on my door at any moment but I can’t get myself to move. Not yet, because I feel too different, almost alien in my…
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Sanctuary: Part 2
The days bled together in a terrible monotony with Chey’s only variation being how often she needed to repair the salt ring. Each time she was tempted to make a run for it. Prowlers were a pursuit predator, moving steadily towards their prey at a pace just slower than Chey could jog. The nearest town…
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Delay
I have a vacation coming up and I was hoping to get ahead on my writing so there wouldn’t be any delay in my posting, but then I ended up having a multi-day migraine that’s still on-going so there will be some delay. I’ll try and have at least one post each week but this…
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I Sat in a Tree
I sat in a tree today. I climbed just high enough that I was nervous but not afraid. The branch was thick and sturdy but still made me sore from sitting there for so long. Above me was a hornet nest, or maybe it was wasps. I never learned to tell the difference. Either way…
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Sanctuary: Part 1
It was a small house, little more than a square, fifteen feet on either side, that Chey found herself in. Currently she was lying on her back on the dirt floor, staring up at the underside of the thatch roof. The days here were hot and the nights only slightly cooler with the ever-present humidity…
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Seconds of Sunlight
Generations had passed while the sun was diminished. No, not the sun, but the view of it from earth. Rings of solar panels filled the void around the sun, slowly but surely blocking it’s light to the earth. What was that light, though, when compared with the enormous energy being captured by the rings? That…
Bridge of Broken Glass
Stories from my mind that won't be quiet
