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Posted in Character on Aug 9, 2024

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I Hope I Live Long Enough To Be Wealthy And Not Long Enough To Regret It

Submitted to Contest #263

Fires burn throughout the city. The excruciating cries of people being torn apart and eaten make King Decimus Metallicus cover his ears. From their vantage point above the city, King Decimus and General Gaius Regulus hold back their tears as they watch a winged creature swoop down from the sky and gut a woman trying to protect her baby. The creature crushes the baby’s skull with its powerful talons and swallows it whole. A second creature lands on the back of a horse, which tries to bolt free. The creature jabs its talons into the horse’s n...

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Two Lives and One Dragon

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Waiting on the top of a castle, with a young girl caged inside. The walls thick enough to keep in all her cries and complains about ruining her puffy dress. Thick enough to block off my own life. I’ve been told the world is bigger than you think, yet it hasn’t been proved. To me at least. The discoveries would have been made if I could soar through the sky with the wind brushing my cheeks and wings. Staring down at the sun-kissed hills below me with others by my side. What a miracle! Yet as day reaches night; here I am. Staring down at an em...

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The House of Deadly Treats

Submitted to Contest #263

I sat waiting for my turn to speak, my palms sweaty and leg bouncing slightly. Baba convinced me that this meeting would be good for me, that it would help me to move past the absolute horror that had befallen me at the hands of hate; but, I had my doubts. After all, how on earth could any of these other women possibly understand what it was like to bear witness to the greatest enemy of us all? Everyone began clapping, signaling that the young lass before me had finally finished droning about her neighbor and their distaste for all things “s...

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Childhood idyll

Submitted to Contest #263

*Splash* The ripples made by the big rock falling into the water had barely disappeared when Valerie took another one and hurled it in as well. She'd come to the river to cool down, maybe skip a few rocks, but the anger living beneath her skin was a living thing. It twisted and turned and tried to claw its way out. Throwing increasingly large rocks into the water at least gave her the satisfaction of seeing its still surface disturbed. A small act of violence rather than the large ones she increasingly wished to carry out. It was ridiculous...

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Meridian

Submitted to Contest #263

The Geminae hunted only by starlight, because the hard silver of their skin reflected the sky’s faint glow and turned them into ghosts. From a distance, they were barely wisps that floated gently above the horizon. But there was nothing gentle about the Geminae. By the time their padding footsteps were audible, it was too late. Everything was like that on Kyto: soft, ethereal, deadly. There was nowhere to hide. The planet’s surface was a flat, unbroken sheet of rock, and the sky stretched into infinity in every direction. It was so fast...

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Prophet of Doom

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I anxiously prowl the length of the meeting room while racking my brain for a way to alter my cataclysmic future. Images of last night’s dream swirl around me viciously, shaping a future so dark I simply can’t think. The worn carpet hides no more answers than my desperate march but I can’t force myself to slow so I continue to pace. It’s becoming no less than torture waiting for Cuda and the president to arrive. Unlike most times, this vision isn’t one I can handle alone. I can see the government crumbling like a rockslide and Cuda, our...

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The Rise of Malchior

Submitted to Contest #263

Malchior was born in the small, peaceful village of Eldoria, known for its lush landscapes and close-knit community. His parents, humble farmers, raised him with strong moral values. From a young age, Malchior was known for his intellect, kindness, and a burning desire to help others. He dreamt of becoming a great healer, someone who could rid the world of pain and suffering. As a teenager, Malchior’s village was struck by a mysterious plague. Despite his best efforts to save his family and neighbors, he was powerless against the disease. Wa...

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I'm a Villain Now

Submitted to Contest #263

They call it rock bottom when you lose everything. When you have nothing left. When the only direction you can go is up. It can only get better from here, they say. At least it can’t get any worse. Except it can. It can get worse. It can always get worse. Most of the bad guys are dead or in prison before they get to show the world just how bad they can really be. The truth is though, that when you reach a point where all the good is gone, the point that most people call rock bottom, you realize that there is an endless sea of darkness to exp...

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The Glassmaker's Curse

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In the heart of a quaint European village, where cobblestone streets wound through markets and the air was filled with the scent of fresh bread, lived a man named Henri Duval. Henri was a glassmaker by trade, renowned for his extraordinary skill. His delicate hands shaped sand and fire into magnificent creations—crystalline chandeliers that captured the light like prisms, and goblets so fine they seemed to hum when touched. But despite his artistry, Henri was a man of modest means. His shop was small, tucked away in a corner of the village, ...

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A not so sunny day, some time after the 8th March 2024

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“It was just a dream. I promise.” Dad told Lily as he fumbled a dark, velvet scrunchy over her ponytail and held out his pinky finger for her. She caught me staring and mistook the void in my eyes for jealousy. The way that only your seven-year-old sister could interpret a vacant look. “Daddy and me share promises” she said triumphantly, climbing onto the chair at our breakfast bar. Just a box of Cheerios separated us. Her smile was so wide it almost seemed to stretch the gaps between her teeth. I smiled back. - - - - - We would tell peopl...

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The Bird Child

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“Mama - "“Quiet, James!”“But Mama - "She sent me a look so angry I shut my mouth. Pursing my lips, I jiggled uncomfortably; my bladder needed to empty it’s contents. We had been here, at the Choosing, since early morning, and I hadn’t used the bathroom even once. I needed to go.“When will you pick already, Mama?” I asked her, keeping my voice quiet so she didn't get mad. When I talked loudly she got a headache, and then she would become mean. I didn’t like when Mama was mean. She would always scream at me and also sometimes throw me on the w...

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A Notorious Villain Explains

Submitted to Contest #263

It ain’t easy becoming notorious. Said notoriety implies being known and talked about, and the most successful villains are the ones no one knows or talks about. Anonymous like.  So my becoming notorious took some missteps on my part. Made my name something to scare children with – I’m Abominable Fred Marker. “What am I ever going to do with you?” a mother might say. “Abominable Fred will be climbing through your window if you don’t go to sleep, you silly child!”   Abominable Fred I am I guess. Nothing against the little gits,...

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The Rise of Dr. Biblio

Submitted to Contest #263

It was a Tuesday afternoon when I turned evil. Nobody thinks of turning evil on a Tuesday. Now, Mondays that’s the day for evilness to occur, or maybe even five o'clock on a Thursday when your boss decides to take away casual Friday. But, for me it was a Tuesday. I should have already left work that day, but I had stayed behind to catch up on some last minute paperwork. That’s when he came in…  I don't know how he did it, but he always managed to find me at the most inopportune time. I swear he must’ve put a tracker somewhere on my pers...

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Bloodsucker

Submitted to Contest #263

Love brought me back to life. Under the constant clouds of a rainy city, in the middle of high school, during a science class I had repeated and aced for a century, love wormed its way inside my hollowed chest—inside of my hollowed existence. With love, comes fear. But my fear is not ordinary, for I am not an ordinary man. I lived for the last century in secret and shadows. I couldn’t feel emotions. I couldn’t accept my new reality. I was stuck between two worlds. I called it purgatory. My father, my creator, called it depression and stubbo...

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A hero's fall

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Daltrex was being pushed backwards for two whole days he had kept up this fight, holding the line at his feet lay a sea of corpses human and demon alike, In his hand the Holy Excalibur cleaving a path through the demon horde. And the horde was everlasting…Demons fell by the dozen with every swing. But just as the dawn began its ascension horns blew in the distance with a roar like thunder the forces of the coalition of five human kingdoms came to his aid and descended upon the demons like a tidal wave. As he walked through the peaceful capit...

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