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Adventure Short Stories – Page 16 of 554

“The Lone Siren” by Eden Corrie

Submitted to Contest #279

WARNING: Mentions of alcohol, trauma, blood, vomiting, violence/gore, and death. Nothing too detailed, but please keep this in mind.✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧The ocean is as beautiful as she is vast, and with that, she is full of terrors.Arvid looked down at the tarnished heirloom in his muddied palm, the arrow shaking before landing west. The scent of brine coated the air, and the sensation of salty droplets kissing his cheeks brought him back to the world around him. It had been ages since he had gone out to sea, not since… no he still could not think of ...

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“Tree of Life” by Daniel Rogers

Submitted to Contest #279

I trudged through a foot of snow, squinting as frozen missiles pelted my goggles. The wind had a physical presence like a wall of water. I swam through the storm more than I walked. I desperately needed shelter. Peering through the barrage of snowflakes, I could barely make out a darkish line. I pressed forward, refusing to surrender to the irrational desire to lie down and rest.The dark line turned out to be a forest. Once I entered, the relentless attack lessened. The wind howled through the conifer trees like wolves who lost their prey. I...

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“Lonely World” by Altea Ueno

Submitted to Contest #279

A 3.9 GPA in high school (damn you, gym class). Endless extracurricular activities. Graduating in the top ten of my class in college. And all for what? To end up eating brains for a living. Literally.See, the thing that no movie tells you about being a zombie is that it’s not nearly as miserable as being a recent graduate is. Because when you’re a zombie you don’t exactly have any other option. You just accept that that’s your life now and learn to live with it. Just walk around and eat when the opportunity arises.However, when you’ve just f...

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“Witch and Judge” by Zachary Ceselli

Submitted to Contest #279

I am here. In my skin. In my flesh. My spirit clings to the body not as a vessel, but as a home, and I will not be moved.I repeat the watchwords against division, clutching someone else's rosary. I repeat them. My nails grasp at a different bead, any other bead. My hands forget everything in their cloying desperation for the comfort of a warm wooden anchor. My eyes are drawn away from me - the tears do not help. I cannot see, but then I can. Judge is heaving a great piece of wood, striped orange and white. His back is hunched and his feet st...

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“He rose and the World fell” by Horváth Martin

Submitted to Contest #279

I should've stayed dead…It woke in a ruined room, the world spinning in shades of red and grey. Its body felt alien—stiff limbs, claw-like hands, a gnawing emptiness deep inside. Hunger ruled Its senses. It stumbled toward a mirror and froze.The face staring back was monstrous—skin pale and torn, teeth bared, eyes lifeless. Yet something stirred behind those eyes, a flicker of... a memory. A woman’s face. Dark hair. A smile. Her lips moved, forming words it could not hear. Then, nothing. The hunger pulled it forward. In the street, it found ...

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“Set In Colorless Stones” by Zoe K

Submitted to Contest #279

Why is the sky grey?The sky shouldn’t be grey.It should be pretty, so why is it grey?The ringing tumult, barely audible, had appeared. That piercing sound that lacked a single drop of context, one that lacked the simple explanation many longed for. My body aroused, my vision slowly cleared as I analyzed my surroundings. I was soon led to the conclusion that I was outside my house, though the house itself was not found in my line of sight. Perhaps a familiar smell, or maybe it was the way the sun hit my skin reminded me of home.I’m not sure.A...

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“Ten Deep Breaths” by J. E. Cannon

Submitted to Contest #279

Sensitive content such as coarse language, violence and mental health. I have to fire someone today. My eyes fly open as I wake. I feel like I have a weight pressing on my chest as it tightens. Great, here comes the anxiety. I lie there awhile before I begrudgingly roll out of bed and ready myself for what I only expect will be a shit day. I slowly make my way downstairs where my husband has breakfast and a coffee waiting.“Good luck today. Remember, you’re a boss ass bitch,” he says as he kisses me goodbye.I sigh. I don’t feel like it ...

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“Dalton's Wild Run” by Bohan Sun

Submitted to Contest #279

It was a high school auditorium. The stage was set, and a large projector screen was down. There was a podium in the middle, with "Z.V" etched in the middle. The polished leather seats gave way to some very high ranking scientists. The wood floor was accented with strokes of wood, and everything was all high quality, set up for the very best. They were all gathered here for a presentation, and the one presenting was a zombie. The camera started rolling, and the presentation was on. "The apocalypse was not our fault. Are we green? Y...

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“The Tiger's Den ” by M B

Submitted to Contest #279

Captain James Sphinx, leader of Misfit Squadron, stared out across the neon lined street, where trolley cars and autos plied the streets, the buildings all had a distinctive European design. If the young pilot didn’t know any better he’d have sworn he was in Europe. The distant hum of a jazz band seeped from the open windows of a nearby club, mingling with the scent of street food—garlicky dumplings, fried skewers, and an undercurrent of opium smoke that whispered of darker dealings. This was Shanghai, where East and West blended together.&n...

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“The Albatross from the Ocean's Heart Meets the Ship Destiny's Dreams ” by Kristi Gott

Submitted to Contest #279

The circle of life was sweet.Each pink glow of morning led to a day of seafaring, gathering food on the islands, and meeting by the firesides for meals, tales, songs, and dances.The little girl named Lani and the boy called Kai played with the other children in the tropical forest, chasing each other through the trees, and swimming in the sea.Overhead the twelve foot wingspan of an albatross often soared.The mythic tales about Lani and Kai were discovered over a hundred years later.A saltwater stained journal from the clipper ship called Des...

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“Until Satyid Voices Wake Us” by Em Krabs

Submitted to Contest #279

If my mother reaches Loki’s Star, I wonder. I wonder if she’ll remember us. Remember the day she left me on Earth, on the beach in Varkala. It was the last day of the final year of evacuation. Most of the men in our home village, my father included, had long since departed. That left my mother, Rakta, alone to care for me and my sister. After the final EVAC order was announced by remainders of Maharashtrian government — the last carrier launch, before the last evening in memory—she packed up her subzhi and cold rotis from last night’s meal ...

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“The Plaything of Irony” by Brayden Bonnesen

Submitted to Contest #279

Chapter 1: FriendUnderneath a violet sun, on a hilltop, sat a man. He wasn’t watching the swelling sun descend, or the secondary reflection of the sun for that matter. Nor was he looking out over the field of trees or the forests of grasses beyond. He was far too tired of all the strange phenomena that plagued the Earth these days. No, he was unconcerned with it all, and instead busied himself with the tinkering of something in his glove. There was a time when he still found parts of the world around him beautiful despite its seismic shift f...

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“The recipe” by Soham Saha

Submitted to Contest #279

“I got the recipe when I spent almost ten years stuck in nineteenth century India. You won’t even last ten days.” Archana said, her eyes locked on mine. She had just two shots of her special kala-khatta cocktail, but sounded very drunk. “Yeah, sure. A patriarchal system. No restrictions on drugs. It would be so.. hard.” I said sarcastically. “Just give me the recipe.” “Guess it,” she said with a wink. “It has lemon, yogurt, cannabis extract, kombucha, and cinnamon…definitely cinnamon,” I said. “Eww… not even close.” She said, laughing....

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“The Creature Known as Danger: One Wolf's Account of Humanity” by Ada Smith

Submitted to Contest #279

Her scent, caught on the snow-fallen breeze, was entirely new to me, but my mother knew her kind.We were in the tall-rock-place, and the scent on the wind was salt, blood, and something not quite floral that raised the ends of my thick fur with its echo touch. I had not yet survived my first winter.When I bounded over to my mother, she was weary. Did she know to whom the scent belonged?Danger, came my mother's answer, her tail stuck straight as a birch log.My mother was an old wolf, and she had spent her whole life learning our territory and...

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“The Tainted Wing” by Raven Vale

Submitted to Contest #279

THE TAINTED WINGHeaven appeared to me as a realm of endless light, a shimmering sky of golden amber merging seamlessly into liquid blues. The feeling surrounding me was one of tranquility and unshakable joy, where time was irrelevant, and every breath irrepressible love.I remember the moment I descended from my sanctuary, plunging through the ether toward the fractured world below.It was within the void that I first encountered the presence of something... aberrant. The journey between realms was meant to be swift, a seamless passage through...

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