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Emmanuele Massimi

The Daylight Spectre

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The light was dimming, slowly, and then all of a sudden, as it’s always the case for

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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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Gods It’s stifling in here; you wonder why you didn’t choose a cooler climate. Drople

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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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The Manual

Serenity

1 min read

They called themselves The Lorth. Twelve-eyed and silver-skinned, they moved as a single intelligence across the gas oceans of Zephar-9. Thought was their tool. Logic, their language. Emotion—a concept, not a condition.

When their explorers detected a fossil stream of electromagnetic signals radiating from a small blue planet in a spiral arm of the galaxy, they were curious. Curious enough to rec...

Science fiction

Mystery

Employee #05278

Tyler

1 min read

A corporate murder bot. Heartless. Emotionless. In-human. Day after day I stain my hands unwillingly, no matter how hard I scrub, the stains remain. A nameless weapon, cursed with the skills to take a life.

Others thrive in mechanics, farming, education , healthcare. Here I stand, a potent soul born to face others with poison in their veins. A hitman for hire, cleansing whoever I’m told is “evil”...

Science fiction

The Series Stone

Worm

3 min read

“I can’t believe you really found it!” Kyris wore a stupidly huge grin on her face as she brought the rock piece just a bit too close to it.

“Pfft, believe it.” Papa Miloq gave a bashful, proud smile and scratched the back of his neck with his tail.“You’re the one who told me I would.”

Kyris grinned, inspecting the piece. “I did do that, didn’t I?”

Miloq gave his usual what-am-I-going-to-do-wi...

Science fiction

Historical Mistake

Celeste Linman

2 min read

Writing Prompt: June 15 - "A life force from another planet has just translated the first piece of human writing. Write a story about what they discovered."

A chill ran down his tendrils as he waited and read through his results one last time. It had been months of research, weeks of translation, and days of double- and triple-checking his work. After all that work and time, Frank was finally rea...

Humour

Science fiction

“Oh God”?

Wendi

1 min read

Many creatures of the humanoid variety happen to write a style called “fanfiction” it is something us Glōrvæks have spent several trañtréæs trying to decipher. I do not quite understand what “nsfw” is meant to mean and what those warnings at the beginning of these pieces of writing. It is quite strange the format of these articles....

Science fiction

No Better Than A Parasitic Worm

Gwendine Gikshty

1 min read

“You brutish split-brain patient! You lodged a brownie into the judge’s abdomen panel!?”

Gorb became defensive. “I was bored! And the prank was pretty funny but then I was having exoskeleton pains so decided to go home.”

Cazgor turned away and huffed awkwardly when he realized that was the end of Gorb’s sentence. The silence reached its pregnancy when Cazgor cracked his beak. “Well thanks to you...

Science fiction

YA fiction

WHAT THE F*CK

ISSU3s Burgey

3 min read

**_**Language warning**

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What the fuck?!

I absolutely hate these major shifts. It feels like a hot poker has pierced straight from my ass to the top of my head. Someone really messed up in a big way. I grab the binders (hit the brakes) and punch the door with my right hand. I was reaching for the shifter to downshift this big bitch while yelling "SHIT," as I punch the window. Suddenly, the...

Horror

Science fiction

Daylight

𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔡𝔬𝔴

1 min read

Day one of translation, line by line:

Line 1:

"i opened my tired eyes, this cave has been cold since you left"

Line 2:

"this place is but dust and hopes now"

Line 3 i could not translate but the feeling is that the 'partner' may have passed, it was a scrawl of such despair that the coal the inscription was written in with was sullied with both blood and tears.

Line 4: partial translation as ...

Drama

Science fiction

Important Documentation

Creature

2 min read

"The destruction of this planet was quite thorough," the retrieval officer reported. "We could only find a single small piece of text engraved in some kind of stone."

The head scribe glanced at the engraved chunk of stone. "It does look like it must have held some significance," she said, pointing out the different kinds of markings on the stone.

The Lij 'Opak roamed through space in search of l...

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Humour

Verzam 14. And The YVRC

River

2 min read

They sat in a circle, eagerly waiting as Zephyr sat working, silently, waiting.

They’d all been studying the stack of papers and books, trying to decode them, when Zephyr had made a breakthrough. The first one yet. It was a small torn piece of paper, probably ripped from a notebook.

Aizma tried to peek over his shoulder, but she felt the glare of her brother Xip.

“Let him work.” Xip whispered...

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