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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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Out-of-Body Syndrome – Short Story (Sci-fi)
“We are so desperate to be accepted by society that we often condemn others for having the same traits we condemn about ourselves.” Galen shook his head. “What? That’s not true. You’re saying if someone says they hate serial killers that they are secretly serial killers?” “You asked me why your friends made unfavorable comments…
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Quantum Wet Dreams – Series – Part 3 (of 3)
She didn’t know how far she had fallen or how she manage to sustain no damage or felt any pain. The water at the base of the dark pit sat languid around her upper body. It seeped into her blue dress and washed the grotesque feeling of molestation she sensed inside the slug. Now she…
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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…
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Quantum Wet Dreams – Series – Part 2 (of 3)
“Lick, lick, lick, I wished I could have engulfed the mighty appendage. Did I paint an adequate mental image, my dear?” The short man had indeed painted a very nasty picture. One with his body. Another picture with his words. Locus had introduced her miniature friend as Fink, a tattooed and burly human engineer with…
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Radioactive Warlord – Short Story
“We are falling.” “No. We’re rising.” General Harion held his chin up shifting the cavalry sword at his side. “Our great nation may be conquering the world but we will have nothing left but mud and dirt. Our planet is becoming one of sorrow. A kingdom of death. Illusia and the rest of Verthurst will…
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Phantom Image – Short Story
“It’s an old TV but it still works.” Said his boss. “The guy who owned it died in his living room. His daughter brought it in. A few lines on the top here but its barely noticeable.” Thomas stared at a blotch on the lower right. It was slightly more noticeable and he questioned whether…
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The Censure Ship – Short Story
Oceanus spread out across the horizon, out beyond the Suffering Bay, as far as Princess Madison could see from this high on the gate’s main tower. The Gods must be happy this day if they blessed her consort with such calm and passive weather. “All immigrant ships should be destroyed.” Bellowed Decius, his haughty royal…
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The Skitters – Short Story
“They lay their eggs in your mouth at night and when the suckers hatch, they crawl inside your body and eat the juiciest parts of you, your muscle.” “Stop playin’” the bucktooth man didn’t look like a government scientist to Jay. “You ain’t never lived in Middleton and you ain’t probably never worked in no…
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Monsters of the Metaverse – Short Story
“I’m a bitch and you’re an asshole. There’s no difference between me and you except my gender.” This moron in the blue double-breasted suit was starting to annoy her. “That’s equality for you.” “Yet you call yourself a business woman, Ms. Quell. Which is it?” Stanley, the mutant blood-sucking, cowardly HR representative was trying her…
Karl Kirkpatrick 