Curiosity

When you peer into the abyss, sometimes the abyss gazes back-Nietzsche Every state institution that's more than a couple years old has skeletons in the closet. Doors best left unopened. Topics avoided by mutual agreement. No exceptions. Ours was...

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An Unusual Pregnancy

Agreements are made when moneys are paid in exchange for the work of my pen. Commissions l gained, grotesque and mundane portraying the longings of Men. Although l have had affairs good and bad, yet the strangest accruing to me was...

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2811042 Blackraven2_the_shrink

"This is the first time I ever had to sign an NDA to see a patient. Now, tell me what you have in there? It's not an alien, right? Don't tell me all that Area51 nonsense is actually real, is it?" The lemur asked, slightly amused. "Nah, nothing like...

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2796761 ironsnake345_springtime_sting

Springtime Sting By ironsnake345 Story prompt for Writer's Crossing * * * "Madam, please, it is bee season, you must be cautious!" The window slid shut in my face, slamming into its frame with a noise that made my ears ring. I shut my eyes and...

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James and the Giant Deep

?James was sure he'd be fired. The entire board was in there. He'd barged in and seen top secret files. Glanced, really, he didn't have time to read anything they said. And yet, that eye haunted him. Just thinking about it his fear grew. He could feel...

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Perpetual Princess Project

?"Bees. An entire planet full of bees of all sizes. And woe, here am I, above it all, allergic to bees." Razion lamented her royal plight as she floated in her bedroom window looking down upon her colony world. She watched as the skyhook hauled up a...

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Coming out of the tent

He'd made Shannon Connelly cry, the bastard. Nobody messed with Shannon Connelly, because there was no reason to do so. Everybody loved her. She was head of the film club at school, and had the best taste in film. You'd think that's not objective, but...

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Cursed, Eternal Wish (By MouseJ)

It seemed like the most logical wish to make at the time. Back then, all those millions of years ago, people lived only to be 25 or so before they got claimed by dinos or infection. So, the most logical request to make when you approach a meteorite...

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I had this dream

A ring of the doorbell, and like clockwork, five seconds is all it takes. "Oh, Louise! You're back in town for the summer already? University treating ya well?" "Just fine, Mr. Brooks. Everything's going wonderfully so far." Nosy as it may...

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The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue

" **The Interrogation: A Dr. Cardboard Revue"** **by Terry Echoes** Pierre found himself staring up at a picture of a man with a manic grin. The grin stretched across the man's golden-brown muzzle, and his eyes were lit up with the kind of jovial...

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Hindr (By Chaon)

The text was bright red and stylistically rendered in the manner of the Goosebumps logo; with ugly pustules that seemed to drip off the pristine white of his smartphone screen. Other than the garish font the splash screen appeared boringly dull next to...

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End of an Era

What happened to us? We were extinguished. Like a cold breath of air against a flickering flame, or the sun beaming down its withering heat on a chunk of ice, or a granule of sand taken by the dark and expansive and terrifying sea. A single...

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