Tag: fantasy
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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.…
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Eight
I didn’t know that our universe is just one of an infinite number of near-exact copies with tiny differences separating them, floating through an infinite nothingness for all of eternity. Didn’t know until tonight, that is. I take another sip of my watermelon daiquiri, the sweetness mingling with the alcohol and making it much more…
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Seven
The sound of static filled the room like the insidious buzz of a thousand insects, the antique television unable to pick any signals up from the antenna on top of the house. It had been quite some time since the days of television. Decades, in fact. Yet, Nelson continued to turn it on every day,…
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Six
There they stood. The six oldest members of our village. Sentenced to death for the crime of being elderly. Though it wasn’t quite a crime, nor a sentencing. They all knew it was coming. All six of them, standing there stone-faced and unmoving, not willing to fight the inevitable. They know they are burdens to…
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Five
Charles stumbled backwards as his shield was torn from his grip, the steel kite skidding across the floor like it was no more than a children’s toy. He gritted his teeth, trying to suppress his howls of pain; never had he thought that having the crowds cheer for his opponent would be a good thing. …
A Forsworn Fantasy 