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Black Friday is the one day of the year where the Devil makes selling your soul a good thing, although there are some bizarre T’s & C’s.

Posted in Thanksgiving on Nov 24, 2023

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✍️ 22 stories

When Bruce, the alien, and Pinn, the Earthling, reminisce about a Friday from long ago.

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Bruce rarely spoke so frankly and almost always avoided long term detail. But during this particular conversation he was uncharacteristically enlightening.He and Pinn were at the usual table by the pool. One had coffee, one had tea, one smoked and no one swam. The morning was a cool twenty-four degrees Celsius.“Tell me again why you want to save us,” said Pinn?“I didn’t say I wanted to save you,” said Bruce, “I said I wanted to save the planet.”“Arguable,” said Pinn. “In your Shamash story, you also mentioned the Tree of Life. What’s the Tre...

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Souls are a Frivolous Thing to Waste

Submitted to Contest #226

Thanksgiving is when people come together, travel to see family, and make memories. A holiday dedicated to overeating, having intense conversations, and the occasional yelling match with family. However, the next day, Black Friday, is the real fun. People line up outside of stores to get one particular item. Diners become filled with grumpy, sleep-deprived people begging for more caffeine to keep shopping. Black Friday is simply one of the busiest Fridays of the year. Yet, you are unaware that humans aren't the only ones who celebrate such...

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The B-SAC

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"Mammon!" Satans voice thundered through the soot coated halls. A stone wall crumbled and collapsed somewhere. The cries of some unlucky souls were cut off when they were crushed. One Mississppi, two Mississippi, the cries flared up again. Death has no persistance in hell. A droning sound emerged from the back of the halls, visceral like pulsing blood in a choking man's ears. Satan squinted. A shadow formed in the corner of the atrium, visible only because it was even darker than the darkness surrounding it. Arches and pillars cracked with e...

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Tycho Brahe's Labyrinth

Submitted to Contest #226

This story can also be read as the continuation of my previous submission Metamorphosis************Unlike most of the helipads which are built for show but never used, the pads on Tycho Brahe’s 400 feet yacht Sita Faustina get frequent usage. Two were built, one on the foredeck and the other on the sun deck, so the arriving potentes did not have to experience the embarrassment of landing prioritization which revealed their pecking orders.Jed Cooper stepped down onto the sun deck helipad on the highest point of the ship with his shoulder...

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Year 45

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When the world ended 44 years ago, we were told a prophecy from below. Tearing through the molten core, the mantle, the crust, the soil, the flora, the fauna, the air, and the atmosphere, in our world that had ended, we heard the voice of that thing on the tympanum of Notre Dame, the goat headed, nameless harbinger of death, the king lower than the embers of the Earth, and it said to us, "Buy flowers in year 45."  No one imagined that the sound which came at the end of world, which prophesied, presumably, our survival, would fall on ...

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End Of Shift

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End Of Shift     Located on the upper level of Lakeside Mall, Totally Hair  was always busy. But today the salon would be wild. It was black Friday and the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners were playing in town this evening.     My drive to work takes an hour plus, and I was late for my  shift. After my divorce, I’d tried finding a job closer to home but in a small town with six salons, the customer base wasn’t enough to pay my bills.     An hour and ten minutes lat...

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The Devil's Daughter

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Friday, 24 November 2023              Celestine Victoria stands in the shadow next to the streetlamp, staring into the elegantly gaudy window display, staring at her heart’s desire. The diamond-encrusted snow angels and snowflakes glitter and sparkle, but none so much as the jewelry on display. All on sale for one day only.              It is two hours past midnight the day after Thanksgiving, and soon the crowd...

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