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Immortal

Submitted to Contest #98

  The grand doors swung open, revealing King Marbow to the nobles waiting outside. The lords and ladies glided in, desperately wanting to be out of the cold winter air. Although they thought their pace was casual, Kelsiella eyes were trained from years of reading body language, and she saw the slight quickness of their step, trying to get out of the cold, and the outside. The outside was a place for peasants, not for the nobles. Kelsiella didn’t mind the cold; she had had lived on the st...

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Lost Love !!!

Submitted to Contest #98

Ok Kids !!! Its getting late, ride on to the bus and yes Zulqarnain so finally u got the parents permission, thats more like it the teacher said Its a Bus which has made more school trips then the number of entire seats in it. The Boys sat on the right portion double seats and the Girls sat on the left portion double seats, between the portions of seats there are 3 poles at a distance from each other indicating the Bus is too old yet It had the audacity to climb on hilly roads . Saima I want the mirror side please, Marina...

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When the true fool gathers luck...

Submitted to Contest #98

The Way of Lin… Always something new. Always something else. Always the way of her life. Cause Lin searched for this way, this very Dao, of being happy. And she came across a book called I Ching. She fell in love with the book. It was no perveted feeling at all. But the language was English and it dragged out her mind to the way of herself. The Dao that had the good luck written down as a sort of remedy in each chapter. To search for the correct number meant that mathematical spheres crossed bows and then – luck could begin! But hard work ...

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The Golden Opportunity

Submitted to Contest #98

                                     The Golden Opportunity                The sunburn cases began to mount up as the year 2300 drew to a close. Not just first degree burns, but second and third-degree burns--from only a half-hour exposure, in the middle of November.    ...

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Winding River Falls

Submitted to Contest #98

Winding River Falls Jordero Arriving at one of the key port cities of the A-rake jungles. Saze Abdul and his crew are eating in one of the better port city restaurants. Ordering a popular meal of shrimp and parsnip dinners. A lone female figure approaches the lead crew. “Excuse me, I was told by a priest of Valkur that you are adventurers who may be able to help me.” The cloaked female removes her hood and shows a lovely A-rake women with pale hair and elf ears. “Please my lady, have a seat. Bartender please bring this woman a cup of t...

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Banished

Submitted to Contest #98

At three in the afternoon, the gavel pounded on the table. We all rose at the sound. My mother arose to make the formal announcement of the Council. “The crimes of Consorting with the undesirable race of Humans and Treason to the society of Elves are serious and must be meted with an equally serious punishment.” My mother seemed reluctant to go on but was prodded by the Council Elder on her right. “Therefore, she shall be marked as a traitor and banished from the city and valley. She will no longer be one of us.” With that said, the gavel ...

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Rebound

Submitted to Contest #98

Six months earlier: Ahhhh, let's talk about a virus that shut the entire world down, just like that, it seemed. No large crowds, no going out to restaurants, nothing, get what you need and go home and stay home. That was the message the Government laid out for everybody. The one thing that was allowed at the beginning, was travelling. It was a time of panic, a time of fear. Julian decided to go on a little family holiday. He and his soon to be ex wife Vivian decided on joint custody - between themselves to save the expense of lawyers a...

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When the Age of Heroes Ends

Submitted to Contest #98

Lifting the mountain they climbed would have been easier than lifting his own legs, Dhyses decided. He felt a curse smiting the gods of Emsding for not dissuading him from following his blasted old man ahead of him and what remained of his retinue. Thirty men from across the known world, for their pride’s sake at least, had agreed to accompany Soreus Emberwood. Every single one of them had chosen glory over a boring life in their villages. They had all chosen greed over their wives and children. None of them had give...

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Asteria Delaney strikes again...

Submitted to Contest #98

You know, when I was a kid, breaking into small houses was actually kind of fun. I just didn’t know how far that would really bring me...  “Ugh” I groaned as I waded, and the deep flows of water passed and folded around my waist. “I just got dry, come on...”.   You probably don’t know me. My name is Asteria. Asteria Delaney. Yeah, all the wanted posters for the mass theft of the Ontario National Bank, the news of suspicious activity from gangs, the police ...

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Luck is fickle. Luck is fated. Luck is not real.

Submitted to Contest #98

I am one of the least luckiest people in the world. I am also one of the luckiest people in the world. How can that be? I had my business stolen from me. HUD did not pay for their tenants for seven months and I lost 43 rental units. My health deteriorated from there and my career as a professional auditor/scheduler went down hill. I lost my right ankle to zombie bacteria. Meaning my ankle died for 17 days and no one knew it and I was hurting and they finally cut it out of me. I was fired due to that experience. Went to work as soon as I coul...

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.-- .- -. - . -.. (Wanted)

Submitted to Contest #98

“.--  .- -. - . -..” The staccato tapping brought Eugene Belgrade, the telegraph operator, out of his daydream. Leaving the shade and comfort of the rocking chair, he made his way inside to his pad of paper and pencil and began to write. “WANTED: Buck Leiter. For Stage Robbery and Murder. REWARD: $2000.00. Last seen heading northwest towards the Llano Estacado.” He responded in acknowledgement and after a brief exchange of the who's, when's, and why's, Eugene ran the note down to the Ector County sheriff's office...

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A Bad Penny

Submitted to Contest #98

 It wasn’t as if I hadn’t heard all the phrases before. My favorite being if you pick a penny up, you’ll have good luck. Or, a penny for your thoughts. Boy, if I had a penny every time I’d heard that one, I’d have been rich. No, I was never that lucky. Never found. Never picked up. Everyone passed me by without a thought in their minds. Maybe I was too little to understand why folks were going by me. I could only look one way. Down. Did you know that ants will come cross over me when they can? I think one of them tried picking...

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Spain? Why not... Your home is where you live

Submitted to Contest #98

So that was it. I remembered the phone number that my supervisor had given me for emergencies, that I could always call and be helped, immediately evacuated from whatever country I was in at the time — sort of like an "emergency" for a sick person. You've drawn too much attention to your personal. Enough, no more adventures, and it's time to disappear from the radar screen. The question is, where will the Speedo boots take me? That's for me and me alone to decide. Well, of course, there can be no doubt: Barcelona, the international airport E...

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Weeping Maiden Rock

Submitted to Contest #98

By the time I realized a storm was coming in, it was already too late to make it to the shelter. It had come on fast, faster than I had ever seen, and I had lived out here over ten years. I thought I knew the weather patterns but apparently I did not. An hour ago the sky was clear, with not a cloud in sight. Now the wind whipped my hair around my head and half the dome overhead was filled with the towering shape of a massive cumulonimbus, lightning jigging and jagging within it. Pieces of plants and trees flew in the wind that buffeted me as...

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The Peculiar Adventures of a Tribe of Spiders

Submitted to Contest #98

Spinsel Walter sat comfortably in his little dirt house and as a matter of fact, so did the other spiders. They were neighbours, who hardly interacted with each other and mostly kept to themselves. Every now and then however, if the situation called for it they would all gather around a small dank wooden platform located in a garden and discuss how they would work together to solve whatever predicament bothered them. This month however, was the most chaotic month ever to have occurred, and no organised planning could help prepare the spi...

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