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The bonfire was down to cinders. The ash blew across the beach. The sun was close enough to rising that it cast a bluish haze over everything. Victor thought about how the light made his best friend’s hair, so blond it was almost white, seem like an image on an old broken computer screen. “Kim…
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I ask you to punish me and I’m surprised when you say no because I don’t realize that the punishment has already begun. My typewriter keys are the only noise besides the refrigerator humming behind my head while I sit on the floor, waiting for your text message to light up the dark kitchen. I…
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“I left my backpack on the bus, I had to track down the route and spent half the morning running after identical buses waving madly at a half-dozen drivers.” Thwack! “Ow. Ok, ok. I went for a blood test this morning and forgot to drink anyway water, it took an hour to draw any blood…
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Ty’s Burger King crown is askance on his head and he calls himself ‘King of Zombies’. The summer sun has baked him to terracotta and only the uncooked skin at the waistband of his cargo shorts is paler. His pockets are brimming with bullets and his sniper rifle sits across his lap. He strokes it…
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As a new game, Alix hid inside of the painting of a brilliant young artist, forcing Avis to rip him out. The painting, unfortunately, could not be spared. Alix liked to force his other to destroy beautiful things. Avis was wroth, but his anger was like a river, wild and untamable only to those who…
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The brave Prince Egbert of Glass Lake had scaled the heights of Sharpe Mountain, fought the undead horde at Selcie’s Downs, and restored no less than four princesses to their rightful titles before setting out to defeat the Dragon. “It will be the capstone of my nobility,” he told his brothers, each an adventurer in…
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Chris and Micah enter the room and sit in designated chairs exactly four feet apart, making any physical contact between the two impossible. The counselor sits behind a desk and writes notes with a chrome pen for six minutes before looking up. “You’d like a permit,” he says. “We would, yes,” Micah answers. The counselor…
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You walk into The Chauntecleer and look around. You don’t see anyone that matches the description of the person you’re looking for. You sit at the bar and order something, a light beer, since you don’t want to get drunk before your date even arrives— * “Right there. I want to be drunk when he…
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Three-Word Prompt: Serpentine Farewell Divergent From the recovered recordings of Dr. Mueller: Oct 1st — Fuck it’s cold. Carol-Ann has left the project. It’s no wonder, she didn’t have the spine for this kind of work. Song’s stuck around and she’s doing wonderfully managing both roles. I don’t know what Sean and I would do…
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Three-Word Prompt: Starship Amnesty Cerulean People who’ve done what I’ve done are short on chances. I’ve had light years to think about my wrongs, but what can I do? You’d have probably done the same, if given the same options. Anyway it’s done now, and like a fugitive I skulked away from the scene of…