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Journey Awaits

Submitted to Contest #186

Child peers under bed. World of magic awaits! Excitement fills heart. Door, barely visible in shadows. Turns knob and steps inside. Immersed in new realm. Color. Wonders beyond imagination. Everywhere, creatures scurry. Paths lined with exotic plants. Sparkle like diamonds touched by moonlight. Cautiously wander further until ancient tree. Green and alive. Full of secrets carved into trunk. Quickly climbs up through foliage thick like velvet against skin. Presence danger lurking nearby! Feeling danger. Hiding in shadows, watching. Leaping ...

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Please enter this in this weeks contest. I missed the timing. it's called Horgare and the Witches. Please. It's still Friday here.

Submitted to Contest #186

Horgare rose up slowly. It had been a long successful night of burning villages, eating women, and taking more treasure. “In fact” thought Horgare, “it was a record night. “Three of those women were really tasty. Yum.” And. “Look at all this loot. I could barely carry it all home and it’s almost completely filled the room.” The cavern was huge, with lots and lots of smaller caves and nasty crevices that only his body could breach. His treasure room was large and protected by four crevices. Even if some of those nasty men got in, they woul...

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Indiana? As in Jones?

Submitted to Contest #185

“We found him unconscious under the storage unit door.”“Strange. Well, get what you can out of him and fill out an accident report,” the sergeant said. “I’m heading back to the station.”“Sergeant, he's claiming he was attacked.”“Attacked?” his right eyebrow raised. “All right, I guess it's a crime scene. Go ahead, tape it off.” “Sir, he's concussed and confused. He can't remember much and, um, uh—-.” “Spit it out, Officer.”“Um,” he smirked, “He said his name is Indiana.”“As in Jones?” His brow took another step up. “Yes, I thi...

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A Lesson From Tiamat

Submitted to Contest #185

            Zyphon heard a rustling in the bushes and opened his nostrils, a capybara, not his favorite meal but he had to eat something before daybreak so he could get back to his hoard. Dragons don’t give off a scent that other animals recognise so the giant rodent just continued munching on leaves. Nowadays Zyphon preferred to save his fire. A quick pounce with his claws and teeth would work just as well. While he spent most of his time perfectly still he could move fast when he ...

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The Last Treasure

Submitted to Contest #185

On a barren mountainside glowing pink with sunrise, two fairies worried at the entrance of a rock-hewn tunnel that gaped hungry and silent.“Go on, then,” urged the fairy dressed in ivy leaves. His silken wings scattered refracted light across the landing as he flitted back and forth, back and forth.“Just give me a minute, yeah?” the other said, running damp palms down the petals of her iris tunic.“You said yourself this hoard’s been abandoned. Nothing to be afraid of, right?”“I know! I know it’s probably completely safe, I just…!” Iris pause...

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The Other Suicide Note

Submitted to Contest #186

Please don’t do it.Don’t do it because I am your father, and I am supposed to protect you. When your mother first told me she was pregnant, I quit smoking. I quit that very day. I needed to live a long life. I needed to provide a home where you would live and clothes you would wear and food you would eat. I needed to be there to teach you how to throw a baseball, to fish, to shave. I needed to be there to listen and to give advice and to hug. Don’t do it because I have so much more love to give, so many more stories to tell, so man...

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The Afters

Submitted to Contest #185

"It's mine, and you ... can't .. have it!"The cup of blood slipped from Mystic's hands and hurled itself into the air. It was one of those moments that's freeze-framed. Record-scratched. Suddenly I was no longer wrestling her for it. In this extended scene in my mind, I'm able to walk up to the two of us dueling it out on the linoleum, Mystic's arm outstretched to choke me while I bat her away. I push my own arm to the side and move hers so that it looks like she's going to town on some giant booger. Idiot. I easily grab the suspended cup an...

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The Much Needed Memory

Submitted to Contest #185

“My life has become so much boring”, sighed the sorrowful dragon. “Those damn weak humans. They can’t even put up a decent fight”, the dragon was growing more and more tiresome as the time passed by.  “Ugh!! I can’t take it anymore. I must really have a change in my dreary life”, the dragon exclaimed annoyingly. There was a stubborn dead end in his life that needs to be passed by any means or it will greatly affect the vigorousness, his life had ever made up.  “That’s the problem”, the dragon angrily stared at the hoard of gold an...

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The Good, The Bad, and The Tiny

Submitted to Contest #185

*Content Warning: Mild foul language, physical violence, mild sexual themes* Cody Cole scanned the horizon from atop the summit of boxes labeled “CDs”. No movement appeared through his scope. From his perch in the corner of the room, the entire expanse could be seen. Somewhere, amongst the various boxes of forgotten items, was his target. And he couldn't hide forever. The light would shut off at any moment now. Tonight's caretaker would be leaving soon. Probably taking a piss or something before he locked up for the night. For the ...

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Chait-&&-Manas

Submitted to Contest #185

It was looking inside, Peering into the light, Standing by the pier, Seemed like water, Shimmering like waves, Of mist moving, Slow and steady. It thought, When would this stop !! Seemed like it never would, It felt as though covered, In a dome, That was hard, That could never break !!! The conversation never ceased. It was making rounds after rounds as the physician would. The physician kept returning to check on it. This hazy character with whom it had a strange relationship. It felt embarrassment most of the time but few times even...

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Hoarder of Hridaya

Submitted to Contest #185

The effervescent spray of ocean sifted through the last rays of sunlight as Cintra lowered herself deeper into the Volcano of Moor. The faint zipping of the threaded rope she had spent months developing for this task echoed against the hollowed mountaintop. The darkness swallowed her as if thick wool were thrown over the sun, leaving nothing but the glowing crystals attached to her pack. She had collected them just this morning from the Field of Light.Her daughter Kali had followed just behind her, the obsidian curtain of her hair flicking a...

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Thomas The Terrible

Submitted to Contest #185

Deep in the Olympic Mountains nestled in the corner of Washington state, on the lush and beautiful Olympic Peninsula there once lived a dragon. He isn’t like other dragons, as most of his species have died off or been captured at this point in history. He is a lonely dragon, going by the rather unfitting given name of “Thomas The Terrible.” He didn’t grow up wanting to be terrible in fact; quite the opposite. He was raised by two loving parents, whose names having been translated through endless and beautiful tangles of legends and stories h...

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The Treasure of Ladora Shores

Submitted to Contest #185

With only two exceptions, the unexpected encounter with a basilisk guarding the riverfront, and fighting against playful water nymphs determined to drag me to a watery grave, crossing the Lorelai River was the easy part. Orphans, like me, who are mistakenly left at the doorstep of a covenant rather than a convent at 6 years old and, subsequently, raised by 18 witches, don’t scare easily. Most orphans, however, have never crossed the woodlands separating Navaria and the Ladora Shores. “It’s suicide,” my mothers would say. “We’ll ward these...

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I Need A Hero

Submitted to Contest #185

Wanted: Attractive, Battle-Hardened Warrior Seeking New Challenge.Calling all brave and handsome adventurers! Tired of slaughtering villagers, raiding camps, packing antique jewelry around the mountains, running for your life and fighting for Kings you don't believe in, all for minimal rewards? Doing all the work while your liege enjoys all the wealth? Do you find yourself, at various points throughout the day, staring into the reflection pool and thinking to yourself, "My chiseled jaw and jacked abs were forged for more than this"? If this ...

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It Rains Gold in Downtown Lexington

Submitted to Contest #185

A breath of fire licked the cave walls. The sudden burst of light illuminated the large space and reminded the dragon of its dilemma. Treasures that man could not possibly imagine lay in heaps upon heaps in the corners of the large cave. Well, I must say, the treasures could not be shoved in the corners, though the dragon tried his hardest. They lay sprawled about the room, leaving no living space for the creature. He paced the room, many times every day, thinking only about the problem he must fix. After all these years of hoarding away man...

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