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The end of everything

Submitted to Contest #297

10pm, suburban neighbourhood, early Autumn, present day. ‘Crash, boom!’. The sound reverberated around Tom’s house and woke him up from a deep sleep. ‘What the hell (followed by colourful expletives) ?!’ cursed Tom. Bleary eyed he fumbled for his bedside lamp switch. After his eyes had adjusted to the sudden bright light, he got out of bed, put on a bed robe and peered out of his bedroom window and into the yard in the general direction of the noise. Tom saw his neighbour next to an open shed door in his backyard. ‘Ah, it’s that strange neig...

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Petie Pest and Bailey on Zoo Island.

Submitted to Contest #297

Petie Pest and Bailey’s Zoo Island Hi, I'm Bailey. I live on an island. It's called Zoo Island! Daddy is the Head Zookeeper. He says all kinds of animals live on Zoo Island, including lions, camels, tigers, goats, bears, seals, walruses, and reptiles. Reptiles lay eggs and have scaly skin. Lizards are reptiles. Do you know any other reptiles? My best friend in the Zoo is Petie, the little Pig. And Petie is always asking, "What time is it?" Especially if he is about to try something funny or copy the other animals. Some pe...

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TORN

Submitted to Contest #297

The air was thin and damp around the maw of the ancient temple. Colossal stone pillars stood scarred and weathered, like old men burdened by time, bearded by patches of emerald that moss clung to jiggered stone. The faded carvings of long forgotten gods were barely recognizable beneath layers of grime and lichen. Resting innocently, a small nut laid on grass, protruding from stone floor. A flash of russet fur darted towards it. A squirrel. Its tail twitched with anticipation as it scrambled towards the prize. Its claws echoed as it approache...

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Roger - Cyber Security Officer

Submitted to Contest #297

When opportunity arrives, it does so without warning and at incredible speed. Actions that span only a few minutes can direct a mans life onto a new path, diverting his destiny toward a new future. Roger wouldn’t know anything about that though. His existence had, for as long as he could remember, consisted of one identical day after another. As he dropped his ever growing waistline down into his ergonomic office chair, his screen lit up and displayed the same program windows, in the same positions and showing the same content, as every othe...

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On Second Thought ...

Submitted to Contest #297

ON SECOND THOUGHT…Steve McCluer Some might argue that beer drinking and skydiving should not be associated with each other. But they usually are . . . although usually not at the same time.The guys at the front table had obviously started their beer-drinking game well before the sunset jump. I gave them a wide berth and looked for my group in a tavern filled with skydivers. I found them in the back.Beer in hand, I took a seat at the table and joined one of several conversations going on at once. Minutes passed before I notice Jim Porter s...

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The Unwanted Kittens

Submitted to Contest #297

The Unwanted KittensIt was just before midnight, and I was walking home from my friend Tonya's party. I lived ten blocks from her house and thought walking home would be no big deal. It would only take a short time to walk to my house.I was fine for the first two blocks. The streetlights led me down the sidewalk, but when I turned on Moonlight Avenue, there were very few lights, and it was so quiet. All I could hear was my heavy breathing. As I walked in the darkness, my imagination started playing tricks.While I was walking down the street,...

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Puffle

Submitted to Contest #297

A bird must learn to spread its wings, or it will fall like a pebble. Unless it’s a puffin. In which case it might land in a comical heap on the ground or end up in a classic belly flop on the waves. Such antics, combined with a plumage designed for attracting a mate during the Spring months, may be why this colourful auk is sometimes called “the clown of the sea.”Just before midnight, a pair of red-ringed brown eyes peep from a burrow opening set high on an Atlantic clifftop. Belonging to a fledgling puffin named Puffle, they are mesmerised...

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Final Offer at 05:00 hour

Submitted to Contest #297

Scheduling. Who would think of a plan to illustrate my time spent. Now a budget is simplicity with money. That would be a "time budget". There is only one major difference between time and money and that's we can borrow money and we can't borrow time. Once time is gone its gone and there is no way to get it back. Because there's no way to borrow more. We need to analyze focus on time spent wisely. As designing our schedule we create achievement. Anyway we don't let others dictate our agendas. Daily, weekly, monthly. Don't be discouraged. No ...

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The Rat the Cat the Fox the Dog

Submitted to Contest #297

“Everybody on the fuckin’ ground”, yelled Rat, while spraying a volley of bullets into the ceiling. Fox and Cat vaulted over the desk to police the tellers. Human checked all the corners just to make sure there weren’t any hidden problems lurking about. A man on his knees reached into his coat and Rat hit him with the butt of his gun. “A fuckin hero, huh”, said Rat as he reached into the mans jacket himself and retrieved a hidden pistol.“1 minute”, yelled Human, who was the only one not wearing an animal mask. Fox and Cat shoveled money into...

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On the Run

Submitted to Contest #297

When they came for her, she ran. It surprised Indie as much as it did the agents of the Federal Collection Unit crowded at her dormitory door. She spied the three men through her peephole after the first set of forceful knocks, but it was the follow-up demand to “open up” that stunned her. Every cell in her body froze for a beat, a pause just long enough for instinct to hijack her muscles and start them churning. It was an unexpected reaction, one that hit so fast Indie didn’t have a chance to curb it. She was out her window and down the cre...

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Last Warrior

Submitted to Contest #297

The midnight draws near, I sit and sharpen my blade in fear. Will I be able to survive this night, will I be able to fight back the dark. My Brethren all fallen, yet I still live.Our mother, preparing my meal for the battle ahead, while I sharpen my blade on the whetstone. “You don’t have to go.” My mother kept pleading with me. “You know I cannot.” I grind my blade, it shines brighter each time I cross it. “I am the last one. I must fight back the dark.” She hugged me tight. “Your brothers said the same, and they did not come back.” I lay m...

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Don't tell me! Just tell me!

Submitted to Contest #297

“Wait a minute,” said Hardcastle, wiping his glasses with his finger. “What time is it?”“Plus la diference, monsieur!” said Peters, the local watch seller. “You do not know how long I’ve waited to hear those words!”“Wait, what did you say?”“I said, of course, that I have been waiting over a century, over a millennium, for you to utter the words which thou has just…Would you like a glass of champagne?”“Champagne? Are you off your rocker, old man? I just wanted to know what time it was! This isn’t dentistry!”“I know, my friend.”“Well, if you k...

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Lightning X

Submitted to Contest #297

Lightning X The sliver of a new moon hazed over in what seemed the no motion of cloud with its light filtering away as though slowly being turned off. Scudding clouds at a much lower level raced above me from port to starboard until they disappeared all together into a nothingness that was my night.Off to the port bow was a barely visible thumping show of dull light flashings. A small ball of a lightning storm on an invisible horizon. I become a bit lonely having nobody to share the intoxication of it. I was beam reaching with mounding sea...

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Heir in Shadow

Submitted to Contest #297

Sunrise is supposed to be at 6:43. It starts at 6:39 instead. “Being a weatherman must be the easiest job on the planet,” mutters Cam, the whispers seeming to bounce off of the alley walls. We’re effectively hidden in shadows, but if that sun continues to rise, we won’t be much longer, and our entire plan will go sideways. “Because you never have to be right,” I agree, a breath huffing out of my nose. I touch the dagger strapped to my hip for probably the fiftieth time since we’ve been standing here. Cam echoes my huff, leaning their lean ...

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The Tiger's End

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Submitted to Contest #296

Captain Sphinx had found himself in dangerous environments before: both in the skies above and down on the ground. Once he’d had a dogfight in the middle of a thunderstorm and landed with part of a wing gone, and the cockpit full of water up to his waist. And like many of his least favorite situations, he now found himself outnumbered... and very likely outgunned. He gripped his pistol tightly as he sprinted back to the building on the docks. Mai, the elusive ‘Tiger’ the smuggler queen of Shanghai had to still be there. His cover was blown:...

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