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Niall O'Donnell

One Hell of a Job

2 min read

I thought I'd already had a rough day. Mark, my overseer, had given me an earful abou

MisterMegalo

The Dead Musicians' Support Group

3 min read

"Hey, everybody. My name is Jay." "Hi, Jay," a chorus of voices replied. I sighed and

Henry Edward Nobler

Seasonal Serial Killer

1 min read

It’s the middle of November and I'm trudging through three feet of snow because, much

Misery Chick

Mixed Signals

2 min read

Nancy slams the apartment’s door as she enters. A far cry from her usually peppy pers

Billie Moon

Honey

1 min read

Eggs. Flour. Milk. Honey. Eggs. Flour. Milk. Honey?? Shit. Shit. Why did I add the h

sillygoose

Traitor

1 min read

It was considered unholy. The reprimand we would receive for this would be earth sha

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Traffic.

Aubrey Middlebrook

1 min read

Part 1:

The day goes by rapidly. I finish work, prep myself to go out and at 6pm exactly, Mattie buzzed the doorbell for my flat. A punctual man is a good man. Or the bare minimum. I don’t know. I take a second before buzzing him in. I straighten my red velvet dress, smooth my coils which sit at the top of my head in a bun and breathe deeply. Okay. I can do this. Second date and meeting the frien...

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Romance

Invoices

anthony RL

1 min read

The worst part of this job is the business. I'd rather take on a 6 eyes reptilian demon than fill out the paperwork needed to keep my license.

Every excorism has a code and a charge amount. And I'll tell you the ERC (exorcism record company) has the business side on lock.

ERC will travh your mileage, how much holy water was sprinkled, the tactics used, and whether the demon was banished or conta...

Humour

Fox 8 story

Silverlake0305

4 min read

(not really the prompt but this is just something i wrote in school)

It had been a few minutes since Fox 8 and Fox 7 went missing, we knew that they probably went to the ‘mawl’ Fox 8 talked about in the group meeting, but no one was brave enough to go search for them at the mawl. Fox 11 said we should wait but Fox 41 said we should send a fox to search for them but said it wouldn’t be him and no...

Humour

Adventure

Friends

Carisabella

1 min read

I’m dying of lonely and there’s no way out,

Collectors of silence must’ve found a way out,

No one pays good, they and up the fools,

Money mean nothing when you’ve got little friends to spend time with…

Don’t make money of your own cause you’ve got some to make gold for you,

Scared by the way you’re ending, I’m sorry, it’s true.

Who the hell told you that you are so good to make them want you?

Why...

Humour

Drama

Mission Purple: See Violette Again

Aubrey Middlebrook

2 min read

(This POV is mattie’s)

I sometimes think my shyness is like a switch. With around 90% of the people I meet I stutter, I can’t say the right thing and I end up in the corner of social functions with a book or texting my friends Ezra, Darcy or Conrad for advice on how to escape.

But not with Violette.

All last night I felt like I could just be me. Seeing she was just as nervous as I usually am for...

Humour

Romance

War between animals and robots

Dmitriy Marchenko

2 min read

Phase One: In a mystical forest at dusk, under a twilight sky of deep indigo and violet, a sleek bipedal mech lands with a ground-shaking THUD. Its armor is a pristine white and cobalt blue, etched with glowing orange energy circuits. The impact kicks up a cloud of glowing, ethereal bioluminescent spores from the mossy ground. Facing it is a colossal wolf, its fur a shimmering coat of crystalline ...

Humour

See You Again?

Aubrey Middlebrook

3 min read

And so for the first time in a while, I stay. I didn’t lie on my profile. I genuinely am looking for a long term relationship. I’m not trying to waste peoples time. I’m just scared. I’m not sure what about Mattie keeps me at the table but we eat together, laugh, share stories people usually wait a few dates deep to say and I feel genuinely happy. He looks at me and seems relaxed. A sparkle lays be...

Humour

Romance

Cover It Up With Noise

Vaness Fryle

2 min read

Silence can be unpleasant or calming depending on the type. I would know since I’m a silence collector.

What the frigging hell is a silence collector you may ask.

Its a subgroup of soul collectors. Once souls were too tied to a body to collect, meaning we had to kill people to get their souls not the true way wherein we’d touch their heart and naturally their souls would be ours.

Morbid, I kno...

Humour

Hirudo Medicinalis

DjinniRB

1 min read

That is the question of this verse

Why blood do some things seek?

In the dark, spooky season

Could we please redeem the leech?

Slimy three-jawed bloodsuckers

True, but if I may beseech

They’ve wormed back into medicine

Bleeding breakthroughs not an overreach

Let’s lift a glass of red, hurrah

Parasites also heal and teach

On behalf of all us vampires

Celebrate the healthful leech...

Poetry

Humour

The Date

Aubrey Middlebrook

2 min read

I can’t do this.

I really can’t do this.

He’s just so … nice. No man is naturally this nice without some evil under layers.

“ so it says on your profile you’re into Greek mythology. How did you get into that?”

He’s smiling softly across the table at me, dressed well and attentive with his body language. I realise in that moment on all previous dates I’d been the one to drive the conversation. M...

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