Tag: fiction
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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.…
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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,…
A Forsworn Fantasy 