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“Welcome, To The Arcanum Hotel” by M C

Submitted to Contest #96

The big wood door slowly swings open with a creak to reveal a room behind it. I walk through the looming doorway with my trunks in my hands and under my arms. I sweep my gaze across the room and look at the big windows with long black curtains that dance in the wind from the drafty windows. There is a plain bed with a dark, twisted wood bed frame and an ornate dresser to match. A mirror hangs off the wall next to a closet that looks like it would house all of your childhood nightmares. I glance down next to me to look at the little woman who...

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“The Mirror ” by M C

Submitted to Contest #89

     It was a normal night just like all the other nights in my life where I got into bed after a long day and curled up under the covers and rested my head on the cool smooth pillow and drifted off to sleep. But isn’t that how all these things start. I drift off and the world fades away and I am left with just my thoughts to keep me company as my brain starts to crank the gears on a production of my next dear as I sit back and watch. But that’s when I see it, a mirror but not a normal mirror, it’s strange, it looks ...

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“Dancing Spirits ” by M C

 Author's note: Ignore the 'I's at the bottom that was because my story is quite short and I needed to increase the word count. Enjoy the story! :)   I’m not crazy I promise. You only think I am because I’m not like you. You only think I’m crazy because I’ve set my spirit free and let love conquer my mind. My spirit has been freed of the cages that society put it in and now I let it go and be free. I have left. I feel myself glow, I let my body tell me want to do. I run through the soft yet spiny cool grass in bare feet with...

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“The Labyrinth” by M C

Submitted to Contest #84

 “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” That is a total lie, that is just a stupid quote from an old book. I can’t forgive especially after what happened, after what they did. Forgiveness is weak, you must not give in to someone. You can never escape the labyrinth, you can only embrace it. I do and I will never forgive because it wasn’t my fault, it was his, it was all his. I remind myself every day, day after day because it was all him all along. I can’t forgive, I will not forgive, not him, not myself, and not...

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“Overthrown” by M C

Submitted to Contest #80

Overthrown By Maci Currey I hear the loud beeping sound and see the horrifying red bar sliding across the screen. The horrible beeping sound, the sound of destruction, the sound that haunts me in my nightmares. It reads the word “Breaking” in big bold letters that will never leave your head. A newsperson pops up on the screen, they have a bland expression and voice to match. We gather around to watch, me my mother, my father, and four brothers. “The government is being overthrown, please stay inside, be careful. There have already been man...

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“The Fate Games ” by M C

Submitted to Contest #66

Competition is not all fun and games. A girl stood in a doorway, her long hair sat on her back. She had a long brown overcoat that went just below her knees. She wore a dark green shirt with black leggings. She leaned in the doorway and looked out at the town before her, this was the doorway out the front entrance to her home. It was a small home with only a few bedrooms; it barely fit her, her mother, and her three brothers but it was her home. She lived in a small town at the border of the safe lands. You see dear reader this is many hundr...

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