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Emmanuele Massimi

The Daylight Spectre

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She was pretty

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She was pretty before. Turning heads in every room she walked in. Now, the tabloids t

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Godsoup

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I have always dreamed of revolution. Something that would send ripples through the wo

Oliver

It Wasn’t Me.

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_Bam_. I stare at the man standing in front of me, staring at the hole in his stomac

Olivia T. Thomson

Welcome To Reality

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Vines Grow Wild Here

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Vines grow wild here Twisting into windows Over the rooftops And through the dreams o

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Apex Continuum

iNafiSulan

2 min read

'What a mess,' Rick said looking at the crash sight. 'I don't get paid enough for this,' he mumbled as he pulled a cigarette and lighter from his jacket pocket to light. The air was brutally cold in Antarctica's frigid climate. Snow seemed to stretched for miles with shimmering snowflakes dancing under the high noon sun. In the near distance, rough and ragged mountain cliffs surround the crash sig...

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Stöfler Station

JL Abbott

2 min read

Keller and Stovich sat in the seats of their lunar rover. The pair had just returned from a trip to a satellite station on the far side of the Stöfler crater. The Stöfler Project’s intended goal was to create a habitable zone within the crater with terraforming and biochemical engineering, a joint mission between several U.N. nations with their respective space programs. It was still in its infanc...

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The Turning Of Birds

Brainchilder1

3 min read

Birds circled overhead. I told my grandson they were foraging for insects. I knew better, though, and it was only a matter of time before he knew it, too: Birds aren’t real.

They once were, ages ago. A virus had spread in the populations that had wiped them out by millions, and the government had "euthanized" the rest to prevent the virus mutating into the human variant. Not a lot of people knew...

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Inked

Barry Stout

1 min read

Mari looked at Rosie’s bare back as she changed her shirt. This was not the first time she had seen her without a shirt but this was the first time seeing the tatoo there. It was on her shoulder blades but looked off for some reason....

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The Happiest Person In The World

Oyizamarvellous

4 min read

“I think I just met the happiest person in the world.”

I said it out loud to myself as I stood on the sidewalk, staring at the empty bench where she had been sitting just minutes ago.

It had been a normal morning. Or at least, what my mornings usually felt like—rushed, stressful, and heavy. My bag was too full, my phone was buzzing with emails I hadn’t checked, and my head was pounding from lack...

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What You Wish For

JL Abbott

6 min read

The first night I used DelphEye, it showed my death by heart failure. I had had trouble falling asleep at first, as the putty-like glob was uncomfortable and made my eyebrows itch. But once I knocked out, it worked as advertised. The dream was from a strange perspective. Usually I dream in the first person, just like seeing through my eyes, but I was outside my body this time. Looking at my frail ...

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Wrench: Chapter III

2 min read

After we exit the establishment, I observe the rest of the town and begin to think of the next task for me to do.

I planned to reach civilization, but what for?

I form a hypothesis that it has something to do with my past, but I can’t really remember that much, just what the small human reminded me of.

That I was created by a man, or a woman, it never specified.

I decided to travel to the nex...

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Thriller

Wrench: Chapter I

8 min read

I don't remember anything about my past.

All I know is that on August 1st of 2050 I was awoken by a young scraper using a blade of some kind to awaken me.

I didn't know who she was, so I stood to my feet as a form of defense after probably sitting down for at least 5 years.

As I got up the young scrapper had a look of terror in her eyes, so I gently sat back down to not scare away my new visito...

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Wrench: Chapter II

2 min read

“Well young lady, you better be glad, that y’all have that extension of power on y’alls hip, because I wouldn’t be giving alcoholic drinks, such as yourself.”

“Penelope, is this queer information true.” I ask in a slightly harsh manner, not on purpose, it just slipped.

“It might be a little true…” She whispers while looking up at me in an apologetic manner.

“I will just have to… (both the large...

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Other Worldly

Sienna Rae

1 min read

A shiver racked my body as I pulled my knees closer to my chest.

“No one can know.” I told myself, rocking back and forth as a way of finding comfort. All my ears could listen to were the blaring sounds of machines cutting through the metal of my ship.

I brought my hands up to cover my ears, grinding my teeth together in a futile attempt to drown out the noise.

“They’re gonna find you…” I whim...

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