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Submitted to Contest #105
Here we go again.Superhero has arrived. He literally dropped out of the sky and landed right behind Super-Villain. Of course, Super-Villain is caught unawares. He was halfway through his usual speech about how nothing could stop him now. But, of course, Superhero will, he always does.Yep, Superhero has smashed his way through the first line of kill-bots and starts dismantling the doomsday machine.Boy am I glad that I was not ordered to be in the first line, those guys look wrecked. I was in the first line once and survived. In fact, I was im...
Submitted to Contest #104
The dawn was still. The crickets and fireflies had lowered the curtain on their nocturnal performance. The birds had yet to warm up their voices and take to the stage. For Susie, it was the best time of the day. She watched the light grow in the distance.Β She thought of Hannah. βTime to get up!β Hannah would have said if she thought Susie was taking too much time to savour daybreak.But Susie was already up and thinking. She had been up all night thinking. She had been up all night for the last three nights (she did not sleep anymore), t...
Submitted to Contest #24
A tempest of pixies flited and wheeled before me. Hundreds of glass wings buzzed. Thousands of spells flashed and fizzled. Confused, they collided with each other and turned each other into pebbles. Pixie or pebble, the unfortunate fell to the forest floor. I wiggled my fingers and made them stop. The tempest was frozen in time. I shut my eyes and breathed deeply. I knew what I would find at the centre of their mass: the remains of the pixie queen. She had been murdered. I had seen the grisly act with my own eyes! I had seen the murderer app...
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