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Playing It Cool – Short Story
The clouds were gray and the ground was barren with sand and the bodies of the dead. It was an endless mass of corpses stretching over the horizon, each face smiling with glee, each warrior happy to die fighting each other or a robotic army or horde of fantastical creatures or another nondescript enemy, mostly…
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Signals from the Fading Vale – Part 6 – Short Story
Kumar The puppets march to the drum, like they’re deaf and dumb. Doing what they’re told Staying inside the mold Mass production/Mass destruction(X5) You can feel it in your spine, the ticking of the assembly line. Those that don’t know what happened before are doomed to repeat the past wars. His uncertain hand scribbled out…
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The Great Below – Short Story
The creaking wouldn’t stop. The sound crushed her soul, along with the metal cage closing in around her. She blocked it out by cupping her ears but she knew it was still there. Reverberations sent shivers up her spine, reverberations that echoed into the great deep below, into the great expanse of nothingness, cold, darkness,…
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VaXed – Short Story
“We are withered, aimless, and hollow, we are until we find something to follow.” Her blood pulsed, her heart ached at the words of her favorite quote from her partner AI, the AI that was like another sense. Cora, worth the money Sepha spent on the digital intelligence, sent her messages, sometimes cryptic, to inspire…
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Signals from the Fading Vale – Part 5 – Short Story
Ryder A comet exploded through the clouds. In its wake a long tail of red and orange disturbed the soft white of the upper stratosphere, leaving a bright puncture wound in the sky. Standing by the ancient tree that his father planted the boy looked up. He was alone, except for the tree, with no…
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Worst of Humanity – Short Story
The explosion was deafening and left a column of black smoke in the sky. Another skirmish. Keith’s ears were still ringing as he stood on the apartment balcony, considering whether he should leave the city or stay put, and hope that he would be able to find food and water nearby. Scavengers would be raiding…
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Signals from the Fading Vale – Part 4 – Short Story
Tonya “Dad, the internet’s out again! Can you reboot the router so it can get a new IP address? The memory probably needs to be cleared.” Tonya’s father looked at her like she had three eyes. He took the tamales off the stove and finally said, “I know you didn’t learn those fancy words in school.…
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Reptile Dysfunction – Short Story
So yeah, I kinda screwed up…Okay, maybe I screwed up big time. Really, really, REALLY screwed up. But I can’t be the only person who pretended to know what they wanted. I just wanted people to notice me! I just wanted to be a baller! Sipping champagne with the stars and banging super models. I…
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Insecurity Blanket – Short Story
“Welcome to Umbrella VR 2.!” the splash screen burned into her retina as she opened her eyes from a groggy sleep. Farah closed her eyes again and waited for the system to boot up. And then smiled when the swatch of colors and ribbons spread apart, displaying the world around her, as she always knew…
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Signals from the Fading Vale – Part 3 – Short Story
Glass jars jingled as the fridge flew open and the uncomfortable silence was broken by a cacophony of loose bottles, shuffled Tupperware, and the humming of the fridge fan. Cody could only watch as his brother scrounged for food and sighed when he found nothing he wanted. Aaron turned with his hood up, “Where’s dad?”…
Karl Kirkpatrick 