Tag: Short Story
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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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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…
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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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Valley of Flowers
Jasper shivered slightly in the cold and cramped cockpit of his submersible. At these depths, the ocean was incredibly cold and water has the incredible ability to just suck heat out of whatever it touches. Even with his heaters running the temperature in the cockpit could barely manage to stay above fifty degrees. Still, the…
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The Last Night
Sunrise was still hours away and the dark gray light from the waxing moon poured in through the window and pooled around the small chessboard on the table. Kaysee sat there, staring at the pieces and occasionally making a move, first for one side, then the other. Her pajamas were rumpled and the bed behind…
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The First Step
They say that the first step is always the hardest, but which step is the first step? Surely there were other steps leading up to that metaphorical first step. In some instances there could be several supposed first steps, depending on the point of view. Kera was, in her own estimation, too philosophical for her…
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Passing On The Stairs
Night had fallen hours ago and the darkness of a moonless night was well established as Sacha climbed the narrow spiral stairs. The walls on either side were thick and made up of a combination of stone and brick, as were the stairs, and all of it was centuries old. He kept his right hand…
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Glittering Diamonds
Look at all the stars In their sea of velvet black Glittering diamonds It was late and cold. The hum of old and over worked computers droned through the sporadic tick tack of keyboard typing while cheap florescent fixtures cast their slightly green light over everything. This was not the most comfortable workplace Corvus had…
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Tapping
…tap… Carol paused mid step in her kitchen and listened. She’d been about to get a drink when she’d heard it. Or at least, she thought she’d heard something. As she strained her ears, trying to stand as still and quietly as possible, she found herself hoping to be both right and wrong when it…
Bridge of Broken Glass 