Harken Void

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

Stories (57)

57 Stories

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“Nightborn 8” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/31/2020

Mortensen walked the streets late at night, hands in the pockets of his coat, pondering his life choices. The black fedora shielded him from the yellow glow of the streetlamps and gave him privacy from the prying moon above. Tonight the skies were clear for the first time in weeks. It made him feel naked and exposed. Vulnerable. Damien’s betrayal hurt like a fresh wound. How could the detective turn his bac...

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“Mimic” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/29/2020

Dean brushed the snow off the goggles and searched his surroundings. A shroud of white roared around him, drowning his vision, forcing him to seek shelter. New snowflakes pelleted his goggles as soon as he brushed the crusted ones away and the wind tore at his long coat as if wanting to steal it. The street looked like a scene from a Christmas movie - one of horror, not holidays. Three feet of snow-covered everyth...

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“Lunar Yeomen” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/28/2020

There was no second knock. The front door cracked with a strong kick and slammed open. Heavy footfalls stormed the floorboards, rushing into the house. Leo listened to the soldiers coming, hidden in the closet. “Leonid Akulov,” a voice bellowed. “You have been selected for MERCY. Come willingly or we will use force!” Mankind’s Emergency Rescue Company of Yeomen. The words came automatically to him as he clenched to his knees, trying to prevent his heart from jumping out...

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“Till Death do us Part” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/26/2020

Susan dropped her purse, grocery bags, dog leash, and her jaw. Earthly possessions and her orange Pomeranian were completely obliterated from her mind by the impossible scene displayed before her. A dead man walking. “Hello, Susan,” the man said and smiled. “You’re looking good. Been dieting?” Susan, a woman who had considered herself as a new person and had moved on with her life, felt the equivalen...

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“Nightborn 7” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/24/2020

Damien stared at the face looking back from the mirror. Was that him? Or was it a shadow from the past, come back to haunt him? He opened his mouth in a menacing grin. Two elongated fangs protruded from behind his canines and reached down almost to his chin when he closed his mouth. There was no more blood oozing from his gums, the teeth have grown to their full size. I’m Nightborn again, he thoug...

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“I” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/23/2020

I can control people’s minds. Freaky, right? I can have complete and utter control over what people think, what they do, and what they say. I can make them feel what I want them to feel, make them believe what I want them to believe and I can do it all without them even noticing me. That includes you. You are under my control. Right now, I am running your life. And you have no idea I’m ...

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“Guardian Geologist” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/21/2020

Once again, the old man was there. He drove up the hill in his beaten Lada Niva - the old model - sputtering black clouds of smoke that probably killed a few trees in the rainforest, and ground the tormented gearbox in that dreadful shift from second to first gear. Miles, squatting behind a bush in ambush, winced at the metallic sound of the car suffering. Lada Niva stopped at the exact same spot it always did, driving over the established tire marks, and parked by the side of the road. Miles checked his wri...

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“A Day in the Life of a Lego Man” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/19/2020

“Incoming!” Jake clashed the two lego constructions together; a spaceship and a dinosaur. “Sir, our shields can’t hold much longer! We’ll have to-” “No retreat,” Jake said with a deeper tone, though still sounding like a six-year-old. “I am captain Stargazer and I shall see this beast dead!” He imitated both a roaring sound of engines as well as a battlecry of a dinosaur and smashed the two to...

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“The Chase” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/17/2020

A child is born.A whole new cosmos of opportunities and possibilities sparks into being, much like a big bang in itself. A blank slate, a new life.The child comes into this world innocent in the purest meaning of the word, for it has no memory of what came before and no knowledge of what is yet to come. The child knows nothing, its mind, and heart untainted by understanding, experience, or opinion. It simply is, raw and vulnerable in its infancy, unable to survive on its own without love. And yet, it has such an ...

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“Treehouse” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/17/2020

Tommy wished he hadn’t woke up that morning. Spending the night in his treehouse somehow saved him from the fate that struck the rest of them, but now he was the only one left. Now he was alone. He wished he wasn’t spared. His eyes were red from crying, but the tears have dried on his cheeks, while his nose kept leaking. His stomach was growling, remembering him that he hadn’t eaten since last night’...

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“Whatever Works” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/14/2020

The heat escalated between them and shirts flew off. Jenny lay back on the bed while Hugo leaned over her, their lips locked and tongues intertwined. The wet smooches of their passion mixed with the sound of their delightful sighs and the soft rustling of bedsheets. Then, the sound of a zipper cut in, loud and sharp. Hugo’s pants fell. Jenny looked him in the eyes with naughty playfulness, and he stared at her wit...

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“Nightborn 6” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/10/2020

Briggs sat on the beige plastic chair in the waiting room. His right arm was wrapped in bandages and hung in a support brace around his neck. His left leg throbbed with pain from the collision with the front seat of the car, but the paramedics said it wasn’t broken. Briggs sighed as a jackhammer worked somewhere deep inside his head, drilling. The hospital lights were far too bright, their illumination adding to t...

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“A Clog in the Bowels of Hell” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/08/2020

SPLAT! “Oh my God, ew!” The others turned around and saw Strawberry, covered in viscous brown liquid, covering her red dress and dripping down her face. It was falling from up above as all things do. “Ew, ew, ew!” Strawberry shivered in disgust and wrinkled her nose, not daring to smell the liquid. She shook her hands, sending brow droplets flying all around. “Hey, watch it!” Cheeto s...

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“Nightborn 5” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/08/2020

Three pickup trucks, two Fords and a Chevy, rolled up the mudded path. As the drivers saw the red and blue lights of the police car, they pulled their pickups to a halt, headlights falling straight on Damien’s face. Why did you come now, Mortensen? Why now, after five years of silence? He should have known his nightmare would not stay buried. It was just like his old man used to say. ‘Make sure...

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“Burning Without Fire” by Harken Void

Submitted on 07/05/2020

“We’re going to die, aren’t we?”It was a rhetorical question as both men knew the answer. An undoubtful, horrifying yes.Alexei, the younger of the two, quivered, on the brink of tears. “It’s going to be short, at least,” Yuri, the older one, said. “But still painful. They say it's one of the worst agonies a man can go through. The body killing itself from the inside.”The younger man burst into tears.“Crying won’t help, son,” Yuri said and fished his pocket for a cigarette. And to think he was about ...

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Author bio

Greetings fellow human beings, cats and aliens! My name is Harken Void and I'd like to give you a warm welcome to my profile page. I hope you enjoy my stories at least half as much as I enjoy writing them. Just pick a title that appeals to your literary appetite and leave a comment if you thought the story was good. Happy reading :) Harken Void is (of course) my pen name. I’m a geologist from Slovenia who is transitioning to the world of writing. My dream, goal and purpose is to become a full-time author, sharing my thoughts and stories with the world. I prefer writing and reading fantasy, sci-fi and philosophy/spirituality, but dip my pen into other genres too! Writing is my top passion, here are some others; hiking in the mountains, playing the guitar, listening to music (concert tickets please!), smashing rocks with my geological hammer, learning as much as I can about this mysterious thing called life, filming nature, proving people wrong and picking up trash that people threw in nature. AUTHOR'S UPDATES: I have an ongoing series titled 'NIGHTBORN' here on Reedsy. It's about a police detective and a young woman who get caught in the middle of something beyond their comprehension; the coming of an Apocalypse. So if you like reading about vampire-werewolf-demon-monster type things, feel free to give the Nightborn series a try!