Stories tagged with "end of the world"
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Cogito Ergo Sum
by uselessness 9 months ago
Mmmmm.
Tall mocha and a warm cinnamon roll, window seat in the Starbucks corner far from the door. Peter is sitting across t…
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A Peaceful End
by Kermitgorf 10 months ago
What would someone need with a pearl when we were perhaps days away from the end of the world.
Pat’s neck was a little red, w… -
End, I of the Thoughful Chronicles
by Geheim Sir Ayita 11 months ago
Blood seemed to gush from the very earth as Nature took it’s revenge. Flames licked civilisation. Death swarmed the earth, re…
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MIRV'd
by White Hat 11 months ago
Lines of fire stretched across the sky.
Distant thunder.
I gripped the tiller more tightly, but my sails were flapping an…
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The End of the World
by EDBeale about 1 year ago
“Do you remember real food?” My brother asked me as he threw his piece of old jerky in the flames before us.
We sat in front…
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9 Minutes
by SupRspi about 1 year ago
The minutes ticked by. I glanced at the clock, almost too apathetic to motivate myself to do even that.
4:51
9 minutes left…
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She Dreamed an Apocalypse
by [pens&feathers] about 1 year ago
Last night, I drempt it was the end of the world. And it was you and me, snatching shelter in some cold stone space. Even in …
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He Came From the Storm
by Richard Peck about 1 year ago
Richard stood alone on his back porch, staring at the approaching dark clouds. The hot, stale air was replaced with cool, qui…
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Subsistence
by sonipitts about 1 year ago
I crumbled the soil in my hand and sniffed, hoping for the impossible. But the fine, dry mineral grit sifted through my finge…
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Like Fat on a Pig
by Mask By The Moon about 1 year ago
Well, that was it. No more telling MADeline about break-ups without a tongue. I was so going to kill the girls. I would’ve di…
