Stories posted 3/27/2007
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Post Lunch Mind-Worms
by magic pen about 1 year ago
After lunch they would invade.
They have been here since the dawn of the afternoon shift.
Not always did people work after …
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An Offer He Can't Refuse
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
5 a.m. Lou was arriving at his job as a garbage collector. Well, not garbage collector, really. That at least would have been…
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Destination, Unknown (Guardians, Ep. 6)
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
The wind pulled at my hair, cheeks and clothes as I fell.
From here the cliff was almost 2000 feet to the sea below. The fa…
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See Through Engine
by SJHundak/S.J.Willing about 1 year ago
Kayla was…odd.
Barely fourteen years old and the child held the lives of thousands in her hands. That kinda did some menta…
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Clockwork Tubes
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
The young monk finished his work for the night and gathered together the encoded manuscript. The perforated vellum was not to…
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Kayla
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
“How close?” We could be famous, and rich if we could get a good scan of the first aliens ever encountered.
“Real close. The…
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From Hell in the Burrow
by Nick about 1 year ago
“We’ve got a ‘nother one, sir,” said Constable Wilhelm Maniculatus, his whiskers ablaze with activity. “A mess, like the othe…
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Funeral For a Friend
by Arthur Fonzarelli about 1 year ago
Clickity-clackity, clickity-clackity
Jason hated the train. There were certain uncomfortable things about New York that se…
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Free For All
by Matt Brubeck about 1 year ago
In January, the time-travelers began appearing in droves. They wore the garb of many different centuries. Most wandered aimle…
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The perfect pants
by suzieaim about 1 year ago
There’s nothing better than leather pants. Reveal everything and expose nothing. Must meet age, weight and endowment standard…
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Personal Ads for Clothes
by theWallflower about 1 year ago
Penelope tussled with the newspaper, just trying to get it open. Damn things, no wonder online news was getting more popular….
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A Little Misunderstanding
by Barry about 1 year ago
Frankie died composing a sonnet to his mistress. Keeled over of a stroke caused by a small blood vessel bursting somewhere de…
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The First Suspect of Lake Derry
by uselessness about 1 year ago
Jefferson stood, resolute, disgusted. He spoke to the fishermen in low tones. “We got ourselves a heap of trouble, and I ain’...
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They Call Me God-Killer
by theWallflower about 1 year ago
They call me God-Killer.
In the mountains of the pale sun, where the moons cleave the rocks in twain, flowing avalanche of s…
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Signals
by uselessness about 1 year ago
Jake could hardly be described as an outcast. He was a likable guy who just couldn’t read women, hardly anything unusual in t…
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The Winter of Our Discotheque, Part 1/2
by cPasley about 1 year ago
Feet shuffle through a fine nanite snow, ankles cutting patterns in the powder. Rhythmic thunder vibrates the floor and the n…
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olympian exile
by SAP about 1 year ago
“Do you ever think about our having children again?”
A puzzled look crept over my face as I cast a sidelong glance at her. I…
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The Winter of our Discotheque, Part 2/2
by cPasley about 1 year ago
Out of the left speaker column he blasts 5/4 time. Out of the right 12/10. The nanite snowfall bends to his will, bullied by …
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Oversized Cozy Sweater
by NatalyaI about 1 year ago
Penelope snorted bitterly, and thought of her last boyfriend-
if indeed she could call him such-and his final drunken appear… -
How to Buy a Time Machine
by StrugglingWriter about 1 year ago
Sam was having a crummy day, a lackluster week, and a downright disappointing life. His girlfriend broke up with him, his car…
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Jessica Patiently Observes the End of the World
by NatalyaI about 1 year ago
Over the past week Mom had gotten really freaked out over everything on the news, but Jessica was more inclined to believe Ms…
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My final crushing defeat.
by drob about 1 year ago
At the Alice Springs airport Norma and I took
Dramamine before shipping out. Mine worked fine and although Norma did not have… -
The Most Eligible Bachelor in Lake Derry
by RicoLaser about 1 year ago
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Talbot Regards the Reboot at the End of the World
by uselessness about 1 year ago
Well, we’re all here. Crazy, huh?
I’m enjoying the ectosun with forty billion of my best friends when there’s another flash….
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To The End
by RicoLaser about 1 year ago
Her body lay in a closed casket, of course. There was simply no way to do a real viewing, but her sister had demanded that th…
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The Anonymous Tipster of Lake Derry
by uselessness about 1 year ago
He should have known better than to assume the pie was baked by Donna Lee; closer inspection revealed Mrs. Smith’s engraved…
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Never believe the stories
by kwatz about 1 year ago
Pulsating cracks of light were appearing in the barrier erected in desperation around M. Lis and M. Pearl. M. Lis is on the v…
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Love on the rocks
by Lee Parker about 1 year ago
From the top of the Clark Heimser bank building, at the northeast corner, if you stand on your tiptoes, you can just barely s…
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oh damn
by MeadowCress about 1 year ago
“OK..”
“OK..?”
“We need some garlic and silver”
“I did say zombies right?” Bill gave me a look “Not vampires”
“Oh, righ…
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Contribution to the Great Zombie Epic I
by Sated Bacchus about 1 year ago
The decision weather I should burn the bodies or leave them to rot…if they rot…was taken out of my hands. For all I know …
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Contribution to the Great Zombie Epic II
by Sated Bacchus about 1 year ago
I moved on legs that shook and buckled. I buzzed with adrenalin. I moved to wear I thought I had heard the whistle. The summe…
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Contribution to the Great Zombie Epic II
by Sated Bacchus about 1 year ago
I moved on legs that shook and buckled. I buzzed with adrenalin. I moved to wear I thought I had heard the whistle. The summe…
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Contribution to the Great Zombie Epic III
by Sated Bacchus about 1 year ago
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Contribution to the Great Zombie Epic IV
by Sated Bacchus about 1 year ago
. She moved a backpack onto her shoulder and stood again. “I needed to get them to leave the house so I could get some things…
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Contribution to the Great Zombie Epic V
by Sated Bacchus about 1 year ago
That’s my family. They got sick. They tried to get me. I hid in my tree house till I ran out of water. Then I blew the whistl…
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Boney and Fleshy Go Shopping
by kwatz about 1 year ago
“Heh, we’ve got customers.”
I instinctively turned around, lost for a moment, and before I could think I was talking.
“Can …
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Heresy
by Cobweb about 1 year ago
The Abbot was a wizened, prune of a man. He hunched over a simple cane, carved from the trunk of an Ash tree, and gestured fo…
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The New Chief of Lake Derry
by RicoLaser about 1 year ago
“Well,” a rather shellshocked Jefferson Trestlehorn said aloud to no one in particular. “That’s a .357 Magnum, b’God.”
Under…
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Tortilla and Flauta
by Kevin Lawver about 1 year ago
Enchilada and Taco Bob had identical twin daughters: Tortilla and Flauta. Tortilla was kind, sweet and easy to get along with…
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The Prowling Sniper of Lake Derry
by uselessness about 1 year ago
It was already an hour past Jefferson’s bedtime. Yet here he was in his pajamas, standing with Ralph Ames at the side of U.S….
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A Gunfight In Lake Derry
by RicoLaser about 1 year ago
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Politics Are Complicated (1)
by zeri about 1 year ago
Sandra kept giving the spiders her offerings, of course. She never thought about what the ants, the flies, and the aphids mig…
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Politics Are Complicated (2)
by zeri about 1 year ago
As the insect communities began to organize, Sandra watched the webs in vain for some sign that her overtures of peace had be…
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The Late Late Night at Lake Derry
by uselessness about 1 year ago
The note was identical to the previous one, written on the back of a hardware store receipt:
“Lake Derry need a doctor.
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Athena's Station Part 4
by FrustratedPilot about 1 year ago
She removed the padlock from the front doors and threw them wide open for him. She bade him inside, and as she followed him i…
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Reattributing Retribution
by zeri about 1 year ago
The satisfaction turned to horror as she watched the hapless guppy’s frenzied struggle, aquarium water soaking the year-end t…
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The Light of the Empire part VI
by Harpo Kennedy (the hidden brother) about 1 year ago
“Wizards”, Kaijan thought disgustedly. “What the hell are those useless fools doing here”?
And as luck would have it, one of…
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Captive in the Morning
by uselessness about 1 year ago
Dawn arrived without warning and I awoke to find myself chained to one of the desert monoliths far from civilization. The sha…
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wtf
by roblef about 1 year ago
“Wake up, Cassandra.”
The voice was deep, but neither male nor female. It had a rhythm and cadence far too even to be human….