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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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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

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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

Olivia T. Thomson

Welcome To Reality

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Where Am I?

Kadence

1 min read

I was screaming, wondering where I was going. I was an astronaut, and on one of my missions, I had been launched into a wormhole.

Everything—my entire life—was passing by me in memories, and I was the spectator. From my first word spoken to my final thought before the wormhole, I saw it all.

Finally, after what seemed like forever, I landed somewhere.

Underneath me was solid metal. I realized I...

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Rivers And Ruins

I. Vidal

2 min read

As the pair crossed the the roaring river, they noticed a figure waiting for them on the other side. Black against the sun behind it, was the silohete of a man. Caleo and Vera both instinctively stoped in the mist of the unforgiving current at their feet, nothing, after all, could be more fearsome than a man on what was supposed to be a deserted planet. The man stood incredibly still, except for t...

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Statue Limitations

Leeron Heywood

3 min read

“Um, HEMI?” Margaret peered up at the camera above the door, which glowed to life. “Can you unlock the door, please?”

“Negative. It is 63 minutes past your curfew.”

“Yeah, yeah, I know, but… it’s Mark’s birthday party. Mum and Dad said I could go.”

“They did not leave instructions to disregard your curfew. Seek permissions.”

“I *tried*, but they’re not answering.”

“Then I cannot unlock the door.”...

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Containment Breach

Alexis Blue

3 min read

The room smelled faintly of oil and ozone, the kind of scent that clung to the walls of the lab no matter how many ventilation cycles ran. Kiran stood frozen, hands still hovering over the console. The red warning light above the vault door pulsed like a heartbeat, casting the metal walls in alternating flashes of danger and shadow.

On the other side of that door, something shifted. A scrape, a m...

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Identity

Jewelie Rain

3 min read

(This is directly after _All The Answers_. It’s in my State Stories where the teens are experiments, named after the state they are from. I haven’t written in this world for a bit so just wanted to put this here!)

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Her anger is red hot. It burns through her body and manifests in a mental storm of emotions and a literal storm in the room.

“Ness, we’re all angry, but we need you to calm down,”...

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It Doesn’t Have To Work

Romantasywriter

1 min read

He glances up at her face, pressing the end of the needle to her arm, not quite letting it slide in yet.

“Are you sure?” He asks, a note of desperation in his voice. She nods.

“You have to let me go.” Tears fill her gets and begin to spill over her cheeks; He brushes them away with the back of his palm. She reaches up and grabs the back of his neck, bringing his head close to hers until their fore...

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Sirens

Jenna Ouellette

7 min read

Sirens wailed nearby, signaling the townsfolk to take cover from a danger they had tried to convince themselves wasn’t real.

You couldn’t blame them… not really. It wasn’t like they had much time to accept the incoming news. And it wasn’t like the news sources in town were a hundred percent reliable. Even now, over half the town shrugged it off like it was just another drill. The townsfolk were...

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Be Careful Out There

Lyn Cross

3 min read

“Tip 1. More javelins and spears missing. If aimed you, sidestep. Contestants believe exercising free will. Do not allow uprising.”

“Tip 2. If contestant rushes, produce shock stick. Most cases not proceed further.”

“Tip 3. If proceed, brutal force necessity. Trueblood not spilt. If contaminate you, leave arena and report cleaning bay immediately.”

“Tip 4. Bring rag. Lights heat and agitate ar...

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Lumière

Magnus

1 min read

Evan pulls his mask off in one motion, revealing himself to Addison. A gasp is heard before a silence so profound, Evan can hear nothing but his blood rushing in his ears.

“Evan?” A nod is all he can give her in response.

“How is this possible? It’s you?”

He looks down at the ground, unsure of how to explain it all to her.

“That day, the storm, I changed.” he grounds out, feeling stupid.

“You c...

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Romance

Siren Song

Magnus

2 min read

The high pitched wailing could be heard from everywhere inside town. A sound similar to an emergency siren, except smooth and alive instead of mechanical. The way the wails crest and fall is reminiscent of the waves in the bay, and Hallen thinks that it is a perfect sound for the sirens to make.

To bad he only got to hear it in his last hours of life.

The sirens had always been talked about in...

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