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To Play or Be Played

The Wonderball rumbled as if in response. Dana’s eyes scanned the room frantically, and Emily was torn between fleeing for her life and at least meeting her friend’s eyes. She edged towards the bed to put herself in her friend’s view.

Dana’s eyes found the Wonderball first. They shot wide open, bloodshot streaks seemed to appear instantaneously. Quick movements of her eyes tried to tell Emily something. Eyelids flew open and shut, some sort of pigeon Morse code.

“What is it, Dana? What happened?” Unable to speak, Dana just kept looking at the ball, now rumbling steadily in Emily’s hands, becoming warm to the touch. A funny ringing seemed to fill the room.

Finally, the two friends’ eyes met, and Emily understood. It wasn’t much, but there it was. Wonderball bad. Slowly, as afraid to look as she was to not, Emily forced her eyes to the swirling window through which the ball might speak. The cube clacked once, twice, and a third time before presenting another message.

Who’s…a…toy…now?

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i live NYLSC
Posted 3 months ago

creepy keep going! i had the feeling something like this was going to happen! from a couple parts ago
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Dr. Mousse
Posted 3 months ago

Huh? What’s going to happen now? Really suspenseful, nice job.
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Hunting Beauty
Posted 3 months ago

Ok. That is just freaky! Throw wonderball out the window!
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Tears of Phoenix
Posted 3 months ago

Oh dear. That’s really all I have to say.
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Ana Cristina
Posted 3 months ago

LOL @ Tears’s comment because I feel the same way. I like the vaguely humorous, (maybe I just have a black sense of humor, I don’t know, but I found it kind of funny) completely ominous last line, THX . I can’t wait to read the next installment!
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.:band baby:.
Posted 3 months ago

oh my.. will it explode? Can’t wait for a sequel..
LoA
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Apostrophe
Posted 3 months ago

the ending was pretty funny.. For some reason it reminded me of the ouja board. Im picking up on some zathura like traits in this story. pretty cool!
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Sailor Emo
Posted 3 months ago

wow… love the last line…
CHUNK IT OUT THE WINDOW !!!!
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Eckhouse
Posted 3 months ago

I myself had been wondering if Wonderball was truly evil or not. The last line answers that resoundingly.
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thebetweenspace
Posted 2 months ago

Great sequel with a fantastically dark and revealing final line.
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Six Feet Under The Stars
Posted 2 months ago

whoa, so creepy. its like darkly comic, that last line. it sort if reminds me of Chuckie or someting.
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Flute Loop<33
Posted 2 months ago

Wow, what an evil little thing.
Amazing story.
LoA
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invisibility_disability
Posted 2 months ago

haha, that thing is scarrrrryyyy!!!
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LovingYourHeartbreak♥
Posted 2 months ago

DUDE . OMG. THAT THING IS SOOO SCARY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
soooooo fricking intense!!!!
HOLY CRAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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wytherwings
Posted 2 months ago

oh.. wow. thats creepy, I’m freaked out right now.
wow…
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RazorbladeRhapsody
Posted 2 months ago

Creepy, and well-written. The description of the bloodshot eyes is unsettling.