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Welcome to Tinpen Harbour, or Tinpen, as everyone calls it, where everyone will follow the same path in life; first, you get born. Then, you go to Kindergarten, Elementary School, Middle School and eventually, High School. At the end of High School, everyone takes the SCDT’s, the Standardised Class Division Tests. This is where it gets exciting. This is the point in life where you can go two ways; either you pass ...
I don’t remember dying. Or… living, really. I just remember waking up, and feeling amazing. Well, not really waking up, but sort of, you know? I opened my eyes and I was in my city, not far from where I lived. And I didn’t realise I was dead, at first. But then people kept walking through me and not responding to me, you know, the classic stuff that makes people realise they died in movies. I we...
A loud scraping.A deep woosh.We looked at each other, bewildered. It’s not that we didn’t recognise the sound, we did. The door had made the same sounds when it closed. It’s just that the door isn’t supposed to open for another four months.Pete took the initiative, of course, he’s our leader. He was tall with long legs, so it only took him three steps to reach the radio.‘This is team bunker, calling for team science.’Team b...
With love comes sacrifice. I know that. I’ve always known that. I saw it when I was younger, with my parents. Small things, though, insignificant most of the time. In fact, I would describe it more as compromise, instead of sacrifice. Sacrifice is when you do something that will make someone else, your partner, in this case, very happy, but yourself not so much. Compromise is what my parents did. Sacrifice is what I did....
Hi! My name's Sidney. I hope you enjoy my stories, and please leave some feedback if you have any, I really appreciate it! ;)
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