Tag: short story
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Twenty-one
The time is ripe. The stage is set. The stars have aligned. I’m not sure about the last one, actually; I don’t have a telescope. It’s just an expression, anyway. The book says this ritual only needs the things I’ve already set up. My room looks like a tsunami has swept everything away. My bed…
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Twenty
“They’ve disbanded.” “What?” I exclaimed, setting my book upside-down on the table, open at the page I was on. I stared wide-eyed at my mother as she walked through the front door, setting her straw hat down on the coat rack. “Why?” She sighed, removing her sunglasses and putting them in her pocket. “This is…
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Eighteen
CONTENT WARNING: This story contains depictions of suicide. — — — “Hey everyone. I’m Reece.” “Hi Reece,” the rest of the people in the room responded, each one sharing the same, monotone voice. They all sat in a circle on simple, brown wooden chairs in the vast hall, the emptiness around them pressing against them…
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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…
A Forsworn Fantasy 