Author: Gabriel De Palo
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Thirteen
Sadie’s alarm blared from her bedside table, an incessant buzzing that nobody could possibly sleep through. Groaning and keeping her eyes shut, she slammed her hand on top of the clock, silencing it. She turned over in her bed to face the ceiling, wrapping the covers tightly around herself. Footsteps sounded from down the hallway,…
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Twelve
I take a sip of my coffee, my eyes scanning the front page of the newspaper without reading a word of it. Something about terrorist attacks, I think. Same old fearmongering, different day. Nothing’s changed in twenty years – even on a day of celebration like Christmas, the front page is always full of fear. …
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Eleven
There is no story. If you’re still here after reading that, stop wasting your time. There’s nothing here for you. You’re looking for entertainment, I’m sure. A quick, 5-minute read that’ll inspire you for all of fifteen minutes before you forget all about it and continue on your day. Maybe if it’s an especially heart-wrenching…
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Ten
“I’m sorry for your loss.” “No, you’re not,” I muttered, grunting as I brought the mallet down onto the makeshift gravestone, burying the foundation in the ground at the head of the newest grave. My mother’s grave. “No one’s sorry anymore.” “You could at least pretend that I am.” I hammered once more, cementing the…
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Nine
Twelve years ago, the Guardian responded to a distressing signal from a world at the edge of the galaxy. Since then, his seat had been collecting dust, a memory of him haunting the place he once sat, looking out over the worlds that he could no longer protect. Another seat was built for his successor.…
A Forsworn Fantasy 