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���Wait, so where are we going?��� Tess sighed. For a human, Silvia was dumb. ���We���re going to Distet. There���s something I need there.��� ���And what is it?��� Millard replied from the co-pilot seat. ���Tess is trying to find her mother���s necklace.��� Ah yes, of course. Tess, her partner Millard (in both aspects), and Silvia were on a spaceship trying to find her alien friend Tess��� stupid necklace which her mum supposedly pawned away to get Tess safely to earth. Silvia leaned back onto her chair. She understood that Tess wanted to h...
Submitted to Contest #57
It was midnight. In the glittering candlelight, I took out my beautiful peacock feather quill and started writing on a piece of yellow parchment. ‘My last will and testment. I, Thomas Rowan Reginald Michael Hardy, leave all my property and money to my daughter, Heather Merilda Erline Hardy.’ My hand quivered when I wrote these few words, although I knew it was the right thing. My brother and brother-in-law both died of the plauge. My son, James, was an avid gambler. He wasn’t smart, either, and would often lose, even if he cheated. I defini...
Submitted to Contest #55
Most people have special secrets. Not small ones,too. Big, scary, enormous, mind-blowing ones. Usually, those people do try to keep that secret to themselves, and do their best to not let anyone else know about it. But eventually, most secrets do come tumb out, and the consequences are terrible to imagine. Jane Peterson was the same. A nice brown haired and brown eyed girl of seventeen years, she didn’t attract attention to herself. She wasn’t exceptionally pretty or exceptionally smart, so when other people saw her in the street, all they a...
Submitted to Contest #54
It had been two weeks, yet Nicolas Baxter hadn’t come out of his house yet. He was still sitting in the living room, curled up in a ball, crying. He didn’t know how to face everyone. They all knew about his mistake, that terrible, unforgivable, unfathomable mistake, and yet, he still could not bring himself to see them at all. It had all started three weeks ago. His friend Tess saw him at a self-defense class and thought he was pretty good, so she asked him to join her as a spy in an Organization protecting the government. Of course, Nichola...
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