Set your story in a nameless world.

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“Interplanetary Travel” by Taz Aleks

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The first thing John felt as he stepped from the the gate ramp was the unexpected weight of the atmosphere. Thick and cloyingly hot. It reminded him of heat waves on Earth, when the locals would jokingly insist “but it’s a dry heat”. This was a thick heat. He walked past throngs of tourists, trying to ignore the urge to cough at the unfamiliar air. He made his way to the baggage claim via the helpful pictograph signs on the walls. His steps felt lumbering but he wasn’t jet-lagged. Space-lagged? Ship-lagged. He nearly bumped into...

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“Of Love and Lapis Lazuli” by Scoop Rittersblock

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It’s Friday night, or so it seems, and I’m shuffling down a damp street bright with neon lights oozing garishly off wide, dewy windows and slippy pavements steaming with excitement and frivolity. I am enjoying the buzz and hum of the Glow-People as they slither and slide around me and the way they duck into bars and melt into the blather-beats of music, laughter and the chemical scent of muscle and yearning, porous skin…some walk arm in arm looking assured and comfortable as if they know where the fuck they are and where the fuck they are go...

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“The Unknown World” by Aryana Lee

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I don’t know how I got here. I just woke up one day and I was here. Everything is black, white and gray. It’s dull. Yet, perfect. No one gets sick, no one gets hurt whether that be physically or emotionally, and you never hear of anyone dying. I’ve never heard of one bad thing. No one leaves, no one comes in. But if no one can come in, I don’t know I got here. When I woke up a nurse was watching me. She asked me if I was ok. I said yes, but I should’ve said no. I’m not ok. I miss my home. I miss the color and lively kids playing outside. I m...

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“I, woman” by Jasmine Perrine

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Woman looked at Man and they wept together. I, woman told man that he, man, was good. I, woman told man that he, man was beautiful. Man looked at me, woman and smiled. Man said I, woman was as beautiful as the moon. He, man said I, woman was luminescent. Man shrugged shoulders when I, woman suggested more. Man took my, woman’s hand and led me, woman to the door. Man said I, woman was good, but not good enough. Man said I, woman was clingy. Man said I, woman was too much. I, woman, cried when he, man shut the door. I, woman, fell on my, woman...

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“The Nameless Planet” by Sheila Carpenter

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Scientists discovered a New World where everybody was full of Love and highly intelligent. There were no Sickness and Diseases. There was no corruption, and Everybody lent a helping hand to one another and lived a happy, productive lifestyle until Scientists devised a plot to take over the world. On this nameless planet that they discovered, the air was clean and contamination-free, the grass was greener. There were no harsh weather conditions, and there was better technology. People were able to get around at high velocity. Everything...

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“The Nameless Lands” by Robson Williams

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(Contains brief moments of sensitive language and violence. Reader's discretion must advise.) The Nameless Lands Robson. W The pyromancer in red sat on a tall smooth block of moss stone over a valley of white blanket grass and pale dead trees. The flakes that fluttered freely like freezing stars were relentless. It had been going on for five months with so much as a minute of pause. The pyromancer had been killing his time by tossing a ball of small fire around from one gloved hand to another, both concealing black, charred skin and blo...

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“Search for the Nekromanteion” by Christopher Reifsteck

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“This is your fault.” Kassinara turned to the co-inhabitor of the slimy pit she found herself at the bottom of. Both were covered in a green film, and if Kassinara looked anything like Anya, she had the look and disposition of a wet cat. Though Kassinara did not have a twitching tail to complete said ensemble. “How….” Kassinara began slowly, tempering every word. “Is it my fault….that I fell into the pit….that I rescue you from?” “It was that stupid pack!” Anya practically shrieked. “All the Junk you're carrying snapped the vine!” “I’m...

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“The Fire Stone Curse” by Ashley Porter

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The day I realized I was nothing was the same day I destroyed the one thing I worked my whole life to find.My mind was still foggy, as it had always been. I was still mindlessly working, searching for fire stones, as if nothing was wrong. Nothing had changed, and only then did I realize that nothing ever would.I walked obediently in a single-file line, standing in the very back because I was the smallest, the one least likely to be successful. There weren't many children in our village. In fact, there were three. None were younger than ...

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“The Secret Runaways” by White Buffalo

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Who is this world wonderful, cascading orange into yellow at the visible horizon-line? Time untethered, who are these things free unruled dancing by the sandy marsh to the music? It seems their games aren't of the judgmental kind, kind greens in their eyes something deeper holding their stare into that orangehorizon-line. I've been here a while, not sure how long. All I know is the rest of the crew is gone, by choice or inability, not sure what, but one of the two.These things dance though to drums their tirades unquestionably safe. They giv...

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“The Second Star To The Right” by Mark Nero

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Sleep. I had slept for a very long time. Three years to be precise but I was meant to have slept for five, while hurtling through space in the star ship Endeavor before being awoken at New Europa. A colony located on Exoplanet Alpha Centauri A-a, which spun around Alpha Centauri A. Well, that was the official designation, before it was changed to Tera, to help the public get a grasp the fact that it was our new home. For some of us… The mission was to ship supplies to New Europa then on our second run, we could stay. It was the ...

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“PET ROCKS AND OTHER WAYS TO SPEND A FIRST DATE” by Jean M. Hodges

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Mathias felt terrified when he watched Toby roll into the healer's clinic. While the animal wizard was usually grateful to see his handsome boyfriend pop into his office, he found himself pretty embarrassed when he showed up on the eve of their anniversary, his arm broken in three places from a baby gargoyle's tantrum. He should have been more careful, planned better for the stony chick's grumbling when he attended her cage to his weekly cleanings. But now, here he was, arm tended by some haphazard student healing mage and gulping down the e...

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“"Mo Ming", Nameless in Chinese” by Eric Trules

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What the hell, you ask, is "Mo Ming"?Is it just a strange, two-syllable word? A name? An idea? A building? A state of mind? An inspiration? Exactly what?Well… as a wise old Chinese tai chi teacher, Mr. Lui, once told a hungry, entangled, but confused young group of seven, back in the day: “There was once a lake so lovely in Guangzhou Province in south central China that it refused to be named. It was so beautiful that no one could agree on a name for it. And so… it remained eternally “nameless”, a word that translates into Chinese...

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Set your story in a nameless world.

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✍️ 27 stories

“Interplanetary Travel” by Taz Aleks

“Of Love and Lapis Lazuli” by Scoop Rittersblock

“The Unknown World” by Aryana Lee

“I, woman” by Jasmine Perrine

“The Nameless Planet” by Sheila Carpenter

“The Nameless Lands” by Robson Williams

“Search for the Nekromanteion” by Christopher Reifsteck

“The Fire Stone Curse” by Ashley Porter

“The Secret Runaways” by White Buffalo

“The Second Star To The Right” by Mark Nero

“PET ROCKS AND OTHER WAYS TO SPEND A FIRST DATE” by Jean M. Hodges

“"Mo Ming", Nameless in Chinese” by Eric Trules

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