creative-writing

  • Tablet (Lena Tsi)

    Tablet (Lena Tsi)

    The sky was still shedding its endless soft ash, drifting down onto her face, refusing to melt.

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  • Waggish Tales from Wrecked Roads & Rowdy Trails (Nicholas Viglietti)

    So, on those dead days in your lost mind, when the sky is gray and the sun won’t shine, and everything seems like it’s fallin’ behind, and you find yourself confused on the losin’ end of the livin-grind, you know you had (probably still do) the guts to go nuts, cut the cord loose, and…

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  • Residuals (John Leahy)

    The AI – Eidolon – found a pattern, an invisible lattice that hung just outside of what human minds could perceive. Some called it the Veil. Some said it was God’s firewall. But whatever it was, Eidolon found a way through it. And the things on the other side – those things didn’t need a…

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  • Ta-Da! (Daniel Bird)

    Ta-Da! (Daniel Bird)

    Mr Henley, a good magician, like a good man, can control the whole mood of a party. A corporate gig where the boss needs to be ridiculed gently to show he’s one of the team too. A child who believes for a moment that a rabbit has come from a hat. A mad group of…

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  • A Prisoner of Sadness (Plamen V.)

    The river had taken everything that night, not the gentle stream that fed the harbor, but the merciless surge of the storm swell that dragged his wife and daughter screaming into the dark.  He had stopped counting the days long ago. Time had become nothing but another warden. Dust coated the iron stairs like gray…

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  • Sparrows (Plamen V.)

    Sparrows (Plamen V.)

    The student waves his hand at the little sparrows, smoothes the long strands of his blond hair hanging over his forehead, and walks away. He pauses at the door for a moment, nods his head in farewell, and whispers with a forced smile: “It’s not my first time…”

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  • What Is The Culling? (Bob Gielow)

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia See also: Livestock culling The Culling is the bi-monthly occurrence whereby between 1,000 and 6,000 human beings are rendered mute and unmoving for several minutes, have their bodies float out into an open space, and then move straight up into the atmosphere until they disappear from the sight of others.

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