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Toxic Playground – Short Story
I’m a ceramic planter without the plant. Just a ceramic, circular bowl of dirt. Only because I want to be. There are people who do so many extraordinary things. Fairies, orcs, robots, vampires, wolves with anthropomorphic humanoid bodies. It all seems so complicated and overwhelming. I’m just happy with Monday morning sunshine and glossy dew.…
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Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part 4 (of 4)
Content Warning: Horror, supernatural imagery, intense psychological tension, sexualized situations, blood and gore, and parental trauma. Reader discretion advised. Darkness faded from a pinhole of distant light. Night, in a living room of an old house. I found that I was standing, appreciative of the fact that I was fully clothed. The windows were the…
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Haunted Halloween – Short Story
It was Halloween night and soon the death would start again. “There’s a ghost in my window.” Luke’s sister came into the living room while his father was pulling out the plastic skeletons. “I think he’s angry that we killed him.” His father looked up with a look of annoyance and sighed. “It’s fine. You’ve…
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Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part 3 (of 4)
Content Warning: Horror, supernatural imagery, intense psychological tension, sexualized situations, blood and gore, and parental trauma. Reader discretion advised. The sticky substance expelled from my throat like a torrent. Visions began again. This time I was prepared for them, knowing that although the pain might have felt real they were only dreams and they wouldn’t…
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Artifact from Another Universe – Short Story
Status alert: IVR-2 has been found on planet 12-Suicury g. Subatomic string scans and history logs provide the following timeline. High orbit scans suggest the planet was nonvolatile and non-hostile at the time the bot’s capsule crash landed in a valley on the planet’s surface. Local biological scans revealed that the local fauna discovered the crash…
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Haunted Wet Dreams – Series – Part 2 (of 4)
Content Warning: Horror, supernatural imagery, intense psychological tension, sexualized situations, blood and gore, and parental trauma. Reader discretion advised. “You want to know so badly.” A voice spoke in a soft, distance melody took me under, not to sleep but to another place, between reality and the cosmic ever after. A place like hell and…
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Quulon: Path to Divine Deception – Short Story
“You’re not going to get it. The plague only affects people who believe in It.” said mother, her bangs tickled my face, hanging from the bonnet. She was trying to convince me that the farmers deserved to die, in their fields, in their homes, since believing in the plague was tantamount to blasphemy. “But mother,”…
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The Golden Hoard – Short Story
“You’ll end up dead like your daddy.” That’s what grandpa said about the living room. He could have chosen nicer words at least. Nathan’s grandpa wasn’t nice though but he had a lot of cool stuff or “junk” as his mom called it, all throughout the house. The clutter in the living room was at…
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Cafeteria Brain Worms – Short Story
“There’s no such thing as a recession. My dad says it’s made up.” Barry interrupted, his arms flailing so everyone in the cafeteria could see. “The school’s just trying to save money by using squirrel meat. Or maybe even human meat. Shoot, people are eating the cicadas for snacks…Eww, dude.” He lifted up his tray…
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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…
