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Submitted to Contest #103
I fish out my pen and halt, mind drowning somewhere. I notice that I’ve been looking at the mirror for a while now. Eyelids are getting too heavy to open properly. I look horrible. Overgrown hair and the wholesome look of two weeks of sleeplessness. No breathtaking beauty was there to begin with. The circles around my eyes are dark as charcoal. I turn away from inspecting my face, which looked as if the skin was shrinking and wrapping the skull, because I look ugly whether I know it or not.I shove my focus back to what I was doing, jolting d...
Submitted to Contest #93
(Author's note: in comments)As lost as Atlantis I try to focus on the lights… or to at least appear as if I am focusing on the lights. I didn’t want to come. Our conversation is still stuck in my mind. But the full friend circle was coming, and I am too inferior to disrupt the completion. But… why are your words ringing in my head like this? The lights are blurring and your words, not your voice, are ringing,… like chimes. Maybe my brain wants to find a loophole? I know that I do, but I don’t think that it’s right to want tha...
Me note: Ya, sorry for the lame style, I am really getting attached to the word lame, anyway, this is like a very unpolished story filled with lameness (told you) and weird names (I mostly used anagrams of real names, how shrewd) and I know, the ending and the plot is lame, so, em, beware and welcome to lameness. Chronicles Of Borrowed Borrowed Books And A Nutty Ninja Aka Me "How to be aware of the situation and use your time wisely if you have to wait before infiltrating?", seriously, that is the topic of today's ninja tactics class, ...
Author’s—, er, I feel stupid, em,... My note: this is one of my old stories, tweaked a little, only grammar, I had no idea this one would kinda fit the prompt, but not exactly. However, it’s just another reworking of 𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖆, super stupid, (I am confused, can it be called fan fiction? XD) thus, sorry if it’s a bit lame! (And at least put this ‘✍’ in the comments, or I’m gonna assume that you liked this without reading, I really don’t want points guys!)𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖗𝖊𝖊How could she do this to me? I am going to kill her! Tear out her hand! Oh, Bis...
Submitted to Contest #87
Black shirts, handcuffs and Duchenne smilesI straighten my black shirt, today is a special day and I need to look as if I am not ready for it at all. Moreover, I have no idea how I will kill you.I flick away a greenly beautiful beetle from my hair, the least I can do to look presentable. I am sorry that sorcery takes so much energy and will that I don’t have much left to be sorry, anyway who am I to ruin my cheery day?Ah, there you are, you are not at all early. The air is breezy, the sun is beaming brightly and everything is so cheerfu...
Asymmetrical wings The girl was told to sit in the garden and she sat there. She kept on waiting even if she knew that she was waiting for nothing.The garden had turned familiar to the girl, all those days of waiting has at least done that.The grass was just a little overgrown and on it sat several little bugs. Different kinds of flowers poked their head from here and there and adorable butterflies circled them. Even the beetles and bees were abundant enough to be spotted within a minute. Every corner of the garden buzzed with life, the...
Submitted to Contest #85
Notification for readers: hi, can you please stop liking before reading, like that is kinda obvious. I actually don’t care if you don’t have the time to read, seriously. By the way this is one of my many versions of ‘Death’, sorry if it clashes with any of yours, it was not intentional. And sitting cross legged on a table is great for reading. And sorry for the typos, please point them out if you see them. AND sorry if you find this story confusing. Happy Today!, Thanks for reading. WARNINGS Death entered the room and looked aroun...
Notification for readers; this is flash fiction, total 487 words, thank you for reading.Happy today.This city, The stories and Some wishes.That’s the thing about this city, she is glorious, when you just glance. The lights, the energy, the artificiality, yes, it’s all exiting, it’s all distraction, but you will have to bear the everyday stress, sound, and smog if you want to stay with the glory.Aah, I wish that I didn’t have to end up here, like this; even two years ago, it was less choking. That’s the thing about this city, she wants t...
If you learned to laugh before crying, If you learned to smile before screaming,You might still be human,But you will never be normalThe BunkerEyn turned the little control box over and over in her hands, looking for the off button.Some eight year olds, especially Eyn, had a weird quirk of not caring about the worst consequences, like the fact that she could kill herself, in an awfully painful way, if she pressed the wrong button.Maybe it was the fact that she wanted to get rid of The Bunker so badly...Or it was because of The Bunker itself...
Submitted to Contest #82
trigger warning, a lot of blood A Game for Monsters “Teck!, are you still there?” Kasht yelled, from my sister’s room above, his voice almost breaking. I looked up, the ceiling looked drenched and black, “Yeah,” I glanced around the dungeon like room I was in, “Where else wou—, would I be?” I had tried to keep my voice smooth, mellow, worry free, but... “Teck, please!, say what I can do!, please, I don’t want you to, die down there,” Kasht groused. The faint humming of the machine came from around me. The room was terribly dark....
Submitted to Contest #81
Forgive or forget...The clouds are hanging from the sky; and the crickets and the wind are screeching. I am sitting in an empty park, and the wind is blowing my mousy, crinkly hair onto my face.I thrust it backwards.The evening and the metal of the park beach is steadily getting colder.Why did mom and dad bring me here? Did I really have to remember? I do remember the text book stuff, what else was important?, to them, anyway. A man walks by, his hands in his pockets. I look up and shuffle my feet. Opens my mouth and closes it, the...
Submitted to Contest #80
The (Virtuous) Princess and the Frog In the state of Glumkrock, a new, impermanent, laws has been passed, enabling the honourable princes and princesses to contribute to the administration as well. The Gallant King himself carried out most of the significant government, however, the ones of less importance were handed down to the four honourable princes and princesses, who were ranked in positions according to their administrative intellect. Princess Khyha was regarded as the most virtuous, studious and rational one of them a...
Submitted to Contest #79
Meet Insanity A boy sat in the darkness; on the banks of little brook which ran in the woods just outside the crooked house. He looked at his clean hands. He marvelled at his hands. To him, something have changed about them, after he had washed them in the fast flowing stream, after he had washed away the mud and blood. His hands looked firmer, as if the slight shiver and ineptness were separated from them. The boy turned around and looked towards the crooked house, at the twinkle of lights, which were visible through the f...
Notification for reader: this is flash fiction, and contains only 355 words, thank you for reading.Into the mist... I clung to Milf, my tiny dog, who was panting heavily, while I rushed through the rain. To the woods which was outside the enchantment limitation. The cold rain dripped from my damp hair, making it hard to see.I ran into the mist, and didn’t notice it for a while. Milf’s pant was becoming faint; he was losing blood from the wound on his leg. I was losing blood too, from my arm, but it was nothing bothersome.They ...
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