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Pyrrhic Everby

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Icarus Retold

Submitted to Contest #263

Norman Vincent Peale once said, “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” Little did he know how suffocating it’d be to land. Icarus had gotten his namesake from the famous myth. Yes, the guy who fell from the sky. No, his parents don’t hate him and/or want him to have the same demise. Or at least he had hoped that they didn’t. They named him Icarus because Icarus had flown toward the sun; but it seems that they had censored the part of the story where Icarus falls miserably to his death. His parents ha...

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When it Rains, it Pours

Submitted to Contest #180

It was a quiet Friday morning in the Halstead household. The home was dark, and rain pounded outside the window, no one bothered to turn on a light. Mari sat at the kitchen counter sipping her morning coffee, while she stared out the window with a melancholy expression on her face. Liam sat on the couch in the living room, typing furiously in attempts to reach his deadlines. He was behind after the events of this past week. Mari finished her coffee almost in an instant and sighed loudly in annoyance at the typing. She shuffled to the kitchen...

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i am the author

Submitted to Contest #72

Disclaimer: I am Maria, and I am the “author”. However, do not misunderstand. I do not create the story, I merely tell it. Science has come to a point where we can calculate and predict every single human action, movement, thought, etc. They call this type of math the ‘Magic Eight Ball Method’, named after the famed toy that was popular in the 21st century. This science has been protested by many, and we understand your concerns. Some may have said that we are playing ‘god’. Some have said that they feel a lack of privacy. However, I hope y...

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