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Delphine P Snow

Die Pretty

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Signe was resigned to her fate. She did not have any more fight in her. She was going

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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

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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

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Tunnels

Aliboo

1 min read

She wanted to see her Aunt her favorite aunt, who lived in level upper level 2

But it was expensive to use the elevator two food tokens and harvest was low...

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Robin

1 min read

"Alicia, I love you."

Alicia stared at John. Blood was rushing in her ears. How long had she been imagining this moment? How long had she been wishing for this? But today, she hesitated. Another boy had arrived at her school today — not just anyone, but the teen superstar Jake Brondo, the internet’s darling and every girl’s crush.

No, Alicia, you can’t. You don’t know him. He’s a superstar, but e...

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The Silence Collector

Alexis Blue

2 min read

There was once a person who collected silences. Not sounds, not echoes, not even the absences between words. No, they gathered the moments when the world itself seemed to pause and hold its breath. They kept them in small glass vials, labeled in looping handwriting: Before the confession, After the laughter, Between forgiveness and regret. Each silence had a texture. Some were smooth as silk like ...

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Science fiction

The Royal Strike

Clay Errant

2 min read

Zoran Neptunus XII swam to the top of the Flying Dutchess, the submersible ship of the Seablood Pirates. He planted his webbed feet in a bracing stance on top of the ship as he scanned the Atlantean slaver ship’s heat signatures with his inherited Royal Eye. Taking the form of a bulbous mantis shrimp eye on the end of a stalk growing from his left eye socket, it let him see into both the ultraviol...

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Fantasy

Bladed Bat

Elle

1 min read

His back thrummed with a hollow ache, the relief short lived as the pain moved to his shoulder. A baseball bat, held by shaky hands, rested heavily on his shoulder. Stray blades of chipped wood scratching into his shoulder with each prompt step that squelched in the plains of mud.

Soft oaky hues shifted into deeper, messier browns that seemed stained onto its surface. Splashed on with haste, like ...

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Science fiction

Annoying Person

vin88

1 min read

There was this person that always bugs me and it is super annoying to be near them. The person have every friend in the school and every girl likes him. But he is always annoying to me and to me only. So one day he fell on a rock and got hert but I remembered that and the next day he was being annoying to me and I said “remember the time that you fell and everyone laughed”. The next day he stoped ...

Mystery

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Ozarcus

Twill

1 min read

All know the story of Olympus

Few know the mountain throne that never was.

Demigods and mortals conspired

Only to learn the wrath of the gods.

No manmade mound ever stood

More proud, more green, more broad.

Men managed a godly act - Built high

Until rivers flowed and storms took the sky

Generations contributed lives to the vision

Dreaming the marvel of Mount Ozarcus

All through, Olympus’s ...

Poetry

Science fiction

Evacuate

lizard

1 min read

The ear-splitting alarm went off.

BEEP. BEEP. EVACUATE. Over and over again at 7:00am.

I thought the walls kept us safe.

Everyone exited their rooms at once and we ran, well… we tried. We were all huddled up like we were at one of those concerts, from the old days.

It all started over two years ago. September 24, 2040. The day I lost everything. My family and home. All my friends too, except...

Science fiction

Thriller

Echoes of the Crimson Regime

R.J. Jackson

3 min read

“Echoes of the Crimson Regime: The Last Seconds Before the Fall”

By Raya Jones

Introduction:

We are at war. Hitler wants to take over everywhere. Austria has just fallen to his rule. He is trying to purify races by spreading the lie that every other race is inferior to the Germans. The Inferior races include African Americans, Roma people, and Jews. America is fighting back, but at what co...

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Thriller

The Lives of Dr. Adam Stein

Clay Errant

11 min read

(This short story is the origin of two characters of great importance to the story of Terra Nova [working series title], the Science-Fantasy series I’m writing, set in a future where the polar ice caps melting forces humanity to migrate into the ocean, where they find the Atlantean Empire, which survived sinking during the end of the last Glacial Period, and subsequent life on the sea floor, throu...

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