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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

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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High Above The City

Lucian Vyre

4 min read

The climb was never easy. That was why she did it.

In the year 3245, Alira lived in the heart of Neo-Kuala—flawless, floating, and governed by silence. No war, no crime, no unrest. The city functioned like a perfected organism. Needs met. Emotions managed. Disputes dissolved by logic.

But up here—on the ancient ridge outside the civic grids, past the surveillance limits—was a place where silence...

Mystery

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Neon City, Never Sleeps (Part 2)

A Masked Wryder

4 min read

The pod cut through the sky like a ghost bullet, sleek and silent above the rust-choked ruins of Old Quarter 7. Inside, Kara clutched her brother’s hand, her other gripping the pod’s control panel as though the machine could sense fear and might fall apart if she let go.

Dalen was trembling beside her.

Not from cold — the pod was climate-sealed. Not from pain — though his body was weak, only hou...

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If Only I Knew

Zuzia

1 min read

Hey, we haven’t talked in quite a while. I know what you’re thinking, and I’m sorry. Sorry for everything really.

I know that no cheezy apologies of mine will fix things, but before you toss this letter aside….please Jane, just give me a chance. I need you to sit down for a moment and just read this.

It was hard for me too. I didn’t exactly have a choice—not in a way you think. I don’t remember ...

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Skalg: Reptilian Home World

Ryon Locke

1 min read

From the dark recesses of their star system, blanketed in the blood red glow of their mother star, the Reptilian home world of Skalg appears like a yellow diamond glinted with pale blue rings of ice. A geologically inert planet whose vast iron-silicate core ended its magnetic whir during the last expansion of their already hyper-inflated red giant star, Benex Prime (Gliese 674), Skalg is a “Class ...

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A world where aging is a crime

Sofia Ms

1 min read

In this world, everyone is obsessed with anti-aging that the government ordered labs to create repairing facial treatment along with a once-a day pill called "youthful"

It was a successful product, spread all over the world, yet the obsession and fear of people had made them take the treatment more times than it's prescribed.

One day when a woman was sleeping with a small mirror clenched to her fi...

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The Exhibit

Anthony Cicchino

1 min read

“They looked weird, huh?” Andy asked his daughter, looking at the statue of the ancient being. “Human” read the plaque before it, with two hands and two feet and a rounded head. It looked almost grotesque.

“Well, maybe the artist interpreted something into … that, right?” His daughter replied, shaking her head.

“Or maybe they really existed. Maybe someday people will look back at us and think -...

Drama

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Gods Above

Archer Mandelman

1 min read

As Laurent learns from asha and vice versa, he realizes maybe the gods aren’t as good as he thinks they are. Everyone has imperfections, and the gods aree pretty flawed, even when seeming to be perfect. And his father, pure goodness, is just a mistake of the elder gods. The gods are always stressed and lots of them are leading, even if they have been alive for centuries. Also, his family may seem ...

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Die Pretty

Delphine P Snow

2 min read

Signe was resigned to her fate. She did not have any more fight in her. She was going to die pretty and there was nothing else to be done about it. She was always bitter these days. She spent a lot of her time cursing human vanity. She sat on the rocking chair on her porch, the morning air cool on her porcelain cheeks. She looked at her hands flawless with no blotches or liver spots, holding her f...

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Infrared

Kate Jones

1 min read

Zoe has a score to settle, and no one is going to stop her. But that might be hard when Infrared agents are hunting her wherever she goes. Now that she knows the truth behind her father’s death, she is determined to bring down the organization that killed him. Still, after a narrow escape, she begins to think revenge is something she won’t be able to accomplish alone.

Logan has his own demons to f...

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Eternally Young

Sarah Stoppard

1 min read

I look in the mirror. Everyday it is the thing I most dread, what if there is another wrinkle or grey hair to hide? Makeup has become my drug as I layer it and smooth it to make a mask that society will accept. I can feel people at work and in the street scrutinizing my appearance, I can hear their whispers of 'She's aged'. The lotions, potions, creams and serums don't work for me now and I cannot...

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