Tag: short story
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Sixty-one
“Put the fire out, Sadie,” I said through my chattering teeth. Sadie looked over at me, prodding stick in hand, the end red-hot after just being raked through the charcoal at the bottom of the flames. I wrapped my blanket around me tighter as I shivered, standing as far away from the fire as I…
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Sixty
Ignorance is bliss. That’s what they say. The more you know, the more you fear. Doesn’t really apply if you’re only pretending to be ignorant, though. The school still functions, if barely. Nearly half of the teachers have died, but a greater number of students have passed, too. It evens out, I suppose. What a…
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Fifty-nine
“Tomato.” “Red.” “Carrot.” “Uh, uh… orange.” “Lemon.” “Yello— fuck!” Sadie screamed as the shock flowed through her body, shaking and jolting in the chair she was strapped into and threatening to rip it out of the ground. “Lemons are green, Miss Rivers,” the man in the suit sitting in front of her said, his hands…
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Fifty-eight
“I am not a pussy!” “Yeah?” chided Reece, hands on his hips and a disgustingly smug grin on his face, standing in front of his band of goons. “Go inside then!” My eye twitched as I looked over his shoulder to the property beyond. It was a derelict house, constructed of rotten wood and crumbling…
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Fifty-seven
Two hundred years ago, I discovered something as our sun lay dying in the sky. A signal from far beyond, pulsing like the beat of an ancient heart. Calling to me. Beckoning me towards it. It brought with it the promise of salvation, of a new home for all of us. I shouldn’t have told…
A Forsworn Fantasy 