In his mailbox there is a hand holding a gun. It’s severed, this hand, just on the elbow side of the wrist, and it has oozed …
A prequel to A Loaded Gun in the Mailbox
Wil Wheaton's inspiration
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An Unremarkable Factory used:
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A single inspiration crossed the mind of the Ancient Magician as he drew his fingers through his wispy white mustache.
The …
A sequel to A twinkle in his eye
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The yo-yo arrived while his parents were at work, as he knew it would. That morning he’d kissed his mother on the cheek, wave…
A prequel to The Remarkable Yo-Yo
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The flimsy door clatters wildly in the corridor, opening barely fast enough for a frantic woman to fit her body through the p…
A sequel to Fried Rice Interrupted
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From the 56th floor he surveyed the entire Manhattan skyline. Looking out the floor to celling windows all one could see were…
A prequel to Antiquities
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She inspects every corner of the tattered gray envelope. Its story is full, this envelope, of a long journey and rough handli…
A sequel to An Envelope
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His fingers deftly placed each shard of glass on to the round metal disc. He didn’t know the man who sat to his left, humming…
A sequel to It Moves From the Left
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The factory was more than a production line. Its workers thought of themselves as creators, not drudges. They made the world …
A prequel to clarity
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“Tell me again, why we are dumpster diving?” Stanley asked.
“Too many nuts in the sack, Bruno”, Sam quipped.
Unlike Sam, t…
A prequel to The Dumpster
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His father had always told him that his shoes would be what made him or broke him.
And his shoes were awesome. Once white b…
A sequel to A boy and his shoes
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But perhaps what you might want is not a hand with a gun (or is it a gun with a hand? Each is useless without the other) but …
A prequel to Friends for Sale
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“How are we going to get up there?” Jim asked. “It’s smooth all the way tae they branches.”
“we need a rope,” I said.
“The…
A prequel to Rope Trick
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Gary pulled into the driveway of the coral colored, West Hollywood apartment building. The Crested Arms, affectionately refer…
A prequel to Real Death
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He tried to cheer himself up. Okay, John wrote for HBO’s hottest drama, but had no time for his second wife, or impending sec…
A prequel to And Other Hard Knocks
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He peered down the road into the darkness, past the horizon, imagining the rest of the journey home. He thought of the two-ho…
A prequel to Priorities
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A slow-moving stream of coffee made it’s way towards the unconscious woman’s face. When it reached her, it would mix with the…
A prequel to Bloody Coffee
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Magda had better things to do. Maybe not better. More interesting? Magda certainly had other things she’d rather do than driv…
A sequel to Magda
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“Oh great. My coffee.” Muttered Wallace in a sarcastic tone.
Wallace looked down at the disoriented woman and lets out a sig…
A prequel to Spilled Coffee
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“There’s still hope,” Matti said. He leaned over the butane bloom at the center of their little cafe table and burned off the…
A prequel to Too Small A Planet
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The end of the world as they knew it came on a Tuesday afternoon.
Not with the apocalyptic imagery of their great-grandfathe…
A sequel to Small potatoes
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first snow ~ looking down by Anonymous
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“It’s for the good of us all…the ceremony…I mean.” Her son said. “A hero is created by others, as a way to reassure thems…
A prequel to The Arina Four
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Something in the air told Roland not to leave the house that day. If he did, something told him he would never return.
For s…
A sequel to The Walk
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Roland turned to his Boston Terrier and said, “You can’t go with me Brady, so quit begging. You know what happened last time….
A sequel to The Great Equalizer
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Sharp beaks tore at his flesh as the screeching of the crows filled his ears.
There was pain. Glorious pain.
He felt his bl…
A prequel to With Every Ending
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The swarm was an amorphous blob suddenly striking with murderous force. Feathers and small squirming bodies digging viciously…
A prequel to This might hurt.
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You crawl, a sad act of desperation. If they come out at night, they can do anything, surely catch a mere boy struggling …
A prequel to Lightning In The Fog
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“Honey,” she says to you. But you already know what she’s going to say. “You have to go.”
“It isn’t fair, it isn’t right,” y…
A sequel to The Entryway
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SO I QUESTIONED HIM WHY DID YOU BLOCK ME ON AIM?
AND HE TOLD ME YEARS LATER AFTER I FOUND OUT IT WAS HIS COUSIN WHO PLAYED A…A sequel to BLOCKED
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High in the night sky, the moon finally shed her cloud cover and began to illuminate the diaphanous fog. The pale sheen of we…
A prequel to Sometimes They Do Come Out At Night
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“Cut!”
The director ran his hand through his hair in a frustrated move. “Who cast this kid, George Lucas? Jesus! And somebod…
A prequel to Take Two
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As you lie on the ground, stifling the pain from your turned ankle, the thought comes to you that if you lie very, very, stil…
A prequel to They don't come out at night
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He looked at me, and something I couldn’t read was in his eyes. I was scared. He never looked at me like that. I took his han…
A prequel to Eyes
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I sat up my hand raced to retrive my flashlight.
The fog momentarily cleared in front of me;
what was one is now a pack.
A…A prequel to The Others
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Your flashlight flickers out as you hit the ground.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.
A prequel to It is pitch black.
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Afraid to move despite the sharp pain in your ankle, you squeeze your eyes shut and pray that the fog you feared just moments…
A prequel to Panic
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You feel a wet pulse of air across your legs, another
across your back.You quiver mindless.
Shapes flicker in the dark f…
A prequel to Stone
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The night is too dark
But the hunger overwhelms
Look! One approaches!A sequel to Hunger
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A blood curdling scream only they could possess shoots from behind you, paralyzing most of your body with fear.
Your abdome…
A prequel to Beneath The Fog
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“So, you did it?” A whispered male voice snapped me out of my reverie. “You sent him out?”
“Yes. I sent him out. Goodness, I…
A prequel to The Price Must be Paid
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“Found any water yet?”, the dark shape shouts. “What’s taking you so long?”
You cannot catch a break, except for maybe your …
A prequel to Cough Drops
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“Who says we don’t come out at night?” The dark figure behind you is getting closer, and is now speaking softly.
“Who are yo…
A prequel to The Well Wishers
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As your ankle reaches a roar of blinding pain, you insanely remember something your uncle said about them before he died.
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A prequel to On the ground
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The arrival of the psykers was always a fairly accurate indication of how close a military group was to any particular object…
A prequel to The arrival of the Psykers
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Marten knew they were all gone before he got there. The trench had shown signs of a struggle, but certainly not enough for it…
A sequel to The Fourteenth
