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Build A Better You – Short Story (Sci-Fi)
“TV rots the brain. The internet corrupts our youth.” The live studio audience laughed and applauded. An amusing juxtaposition to her own situation, considering her mind had been inundated with images of healthy and happy families. The constant flow of morality and good-natured humanity filled her with warmth and benevolence. She surged through the ancient…
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Earthlings at the Faire – Short Story (Sci-fi)
Harrowing screams came from the forest’s edge. Kogi sheltered himself from the bitter lamentations under the leafy brush, his saliva becoming sour, his heart racing. He held his ears shut as much as he could but the screams came through. Kogi fiddled with the transceiver that would send his discoveries back to Noliesse Servus, his…
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Evensong – Short Story (Dark Fantasy)
It had been a long journey for the people of Anon Dale, who were still winding through the streets of the great city, their candles created a long stream of incandescence from the Ghahil harbor to the Grand Temple of Cultus. Senseless death weighed heavy on them. Their shoulders were burdened with the lost souls…
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Upside Down – Short Story (Sci-Fi)
Had she been drinking? Head pounding. Skull throbbing. Rachel’s eyes burned when she tried to open them. There was blood on her tongue and a grogginess to her slow morning wake up. She spat dust out when her eyes finally focused and she realized her world had turned upside down, literally. Staring down at her…
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Risk of Life – Short Story (Fantasy)
Veila died of natural causes in a hospital back on Earth. Down there her life had been spent giving astrology readings to people who needed direct answers to indirect questions. Looking at the faces of the dead, languishing in the same forms they died in, except in more wispy forms, she tried to read them even now.…
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Slave to the Rage – Short Story (Horror)
“Barbaric homicidal maniacs, the whites, they ran this country since we were shackled and now, they’re out there killing everyone.” Clergyman Nash shuffled his shoulders while gripping his arms tight, determined to make his point through angry gyrations. “White people are sick. A genetic viral infection. It’s not their fault. Not all of them anyway.…
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The World Needs More Love – Short Story
“Love is blind. This love needs to stop!” The delegate from Iowa held up the amendment that further advanced the freedom of love in the nation. “My son can’t go to school without fearing for his freedom. Why must we be forced to express compassion when we aren’t allowed to express all of our emotions?…
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Saturday Night Rogues – Short Story (Urban Fantasy)
“We play every Saturday. Always. I’m not going to tell you again. Friday night is too exhausting, after a work week, and Sunday is a religious day.” Keke leaned back on the leather passenger seat, reaching for another beer. “Religious!” Sonny couldn’t contain his laughter. “I know for a fact that none of you go…
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Sunday – Short Story (Sci-Fi Dystopia)
Overcast skies. We can breathe again. We can see the sun again, even though it’s what has forced us underground in the first place. The kids can play outside again, at least in the shade of the crumbling New York buildings. The city is a comfortable 100 degrees, enough to sit in the shade for…
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Sunflower and Jack Frost – Short Story (Fantasy)
Cold. Bitter. No warmth even this high up on the mountain top where the sun’s rays should be providing some comfort. The snowcapped valley was behind him and he marveled at how far he had come. How far he had traveled to find his brother. But it was an appropriate place for Jack Frost to…
Karl Kirkpatrick 