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Mercy Langley

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My name is Monika

Submitted to Contest #72

When the new computer model, Bx12 came out in the year 25000, it was sold out of nearly every store in America, and the world by the next day. It was installed into every person's home, permitted to access every electronic item, permitted to study the humans that owned it. Since Bx12 was installed in every home around the world, it created a Hive, every Bx unit compiled all their data of human behavior and interactions into the correct folders. Soon Bx knew everything about human emotions, actions, reactions, even how they thought. The human...

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Never Try to Alter Time.

Submitted to Contest #70

Imagine for a second reliving the most terrible moment of your entire life, over and over again. Like a loop that you can't break, no matter how many choices you change that day, you always have to watch the outcome. This was my punishment for messing with Time. She has many names, some people call her Fate, some call her Destiny. Her real name is Horatia, which also means timekeeper, and she is very, very serious about her job. However, let's back the story up to a week after the worst day of my life, a.k.a the day my mom died, I know, conf...

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Our Big Break? or a Big Mistake?

Submitted to Contest #64

Creeeeeaaaack. I slowly opened the door to the creepy, abandoned gothic mansion. My three friends and teammates Adarue, Seth, and Sam were behind me, armed with flashlights and a video camera. I turned to my friends saying with way more confidence than I actually felt, "Come on guys, don't be chickens, this is going to be our big break. All we have to do is video us exploring this house for the contest, and we're golden!" Me and my friends had entered a movie contest for Halloween, the winning person or team of up to four people would receiv...

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