Tag: Curse
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Helping
(Image provided by Paul Cleveland) Danny disliked the new home. It was fine enough during the day but at night things changed. At night, the walls began to whisper. Most of the time it sounded like faint hissing, or perhaps someone whispering just far enough away that you could hear them but not understand what…
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Acceptance and Defiance
It was cold. The wind whipped through the air, tugging at Djai’s clothes and snapping his hair back and forth. He could smell salt and decaying plants, leading him to suspect that he was close to the sea. The ground all around him was sandy but he stood in a low depression preventing him from…
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Exile
Everything was pain and darkness for Angrath as he lay there on the floor, grasping at his neck and struggling for breath. He should be dead and he knew it. His wound, the bite he’d received, had torn away the majority of his neck and then… Angrath struggled to both remember and forget those next…
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Breathe Part 2
Sanity returned. The thick chains that held him bound dug deep into his chest, arms and legs, cutting his flesh in places where the padding in his clothes had been pushed aside. He should be in agony from it all but, where his sight, hearing, smell and taste had all increased since his cursing,…
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Breathe Part 1
Breathe, the man told himself as he pressed through the crowded streets. Breathe, he thought as the other people on the street eyed him as he passed, their gaze flitting over him and then away nervously. Breathe, it was like some incantation that would keep him safe, and it just might, for a time.…
Bridge of Broken Glass 