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Either Way, I'm Going to Die

Submitted to Contest #95

“Okay, here’s the thing. If you choose the plan in this hand, then I will die, and if you choose the plan in this hand, then we will die,” Nathaniel said as he held his hands behind his back; he didn’t indicate which hand made what decision. “If I die, there’s no chance that you’ll make it out, but if we die, then we’ve saved the world. Choose carefully.” “I choose this hand,” Naomi pointed at Nathaniel’s left arm without hesitation. “Did you not…? Okay, either way, I’m going to die, so can you at least show some remorse?” Nathaniel was ...

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The doors between mind and eye

Submitted to Contest #95

Isaac stood in front of the two doors, and thought it was ironic how they were both colored the same lame brown of wood.Ironic, because the Matrix was his favorite movie; because he realized, very clearly, that this was his red pill blue pill moment. Hell, even the man, the manifestation of his very subconscious was a bald, light skinned man wearing a long black leather jacket and round shades with no temples. He wondered how they stuck to the man's face, but figured that wasn't the most important question at the moment.The man called himsel...

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THE DREAMS

Submitted to Contest #95

Mr. Paul Angelo a tall, huge and attractive man has not always paid much attention to all of David’s dreams. His pot belly collaborated with his bald head to give him the appearance of a satisfied old man where as he was only in his late 50’s. He knows for sure that the die is cast and sincerely desired more time because the cut on his son’s arm has been his greatest fear.  Emma cheerfully rides in a bus thinking of happy days. While she was waiting for her connecting bus she realizes she has forgotten her handbag; she enters the firs...

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Once upon a time, Samuel made his own choices.

Submitted to Contest #95

Once upon a time, Samuel made his own choices. Each person has the right to make decisions and have choices about how they live their life. The decision making is the process of making choices by identifying a decision or gathering information and assessing alternative resolutions. There is a step-by-step decision making process or choices that can help you make more deliberate thoughtful decisions. Choices as in decision making is perhaps making the most important component of Managers activities. It also plays the most important role ...

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John only 'likes' his house

Submitted to Contest #95

It wasn’t unknown that John had a certain despondence about him during the winter. It sunk slowly into his heart in September and only truly lifted in mid-march. Like an ever present shadow in his head, it made him moody to say the least. The kind of moody you lost hours in. How he decided that a night shift would help was beyond him. But he felt like he was getting better, it was edging into the time of year when he could really think again. When he got back into his seasonal work. Finally having a home even just to wallow in was enjoyable,...

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Two Doors

Submitted to Contest #95

Two doors stand in front of him, each a towering mass covered with swirling designs and an aura of power that seems to emanate from under. It’s just him and these doors, nothing else exits, not yet. Many events took place for him to finally arrive at this moment, a journey full of pain and strife, the uncovering of secrets originating far below the surface, and a friend’s final decision. All these sacrifices led this boy to this very moment. The fate of everything that has ever existed or will exist rests in the small hands of a boy with the...

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Decision Devision

Submitted to Contest #95

The strange thing about fate is that it always seems to present itself in the most inconvenient of times. Such as when I fell from great heights, both metaphorically and physically, and fate appeared before me dubbing me dead, yet I arose and overcame. Unfortunately I don’t believe this is a situation I can escape. It began 17 days ago when I woke up, began my pandiculation and immediately got shot with a dart and fell face first upon the oaken floorboards. Not a brilliant start to a Saturday. I awoke (yet again) that day to the solemn chi...

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Luck E- 1 ( The Right of Mechta)

Submitted to Contest #95

Katia awoke from sleep in a cold sweat as she tried to get those eyes out of her head. Steele gray eyes of her husband that sent her reeling with emotions that she had not felt in years. For a moment her soul stone hummed with a soft vibration, barely noticeable, but enough to make her tilt her head softly to the left as she sat up, flicking her tail up and out of the way. With a hard stretch, she stood and began to dress, thinking to herself." I do not ever intend to mate. As my husband is still alive."This of course posed a problem for her...

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The Door Home

Submitted to Contest #95

The sound of my running feet dominated the silence on the moor. My heaving breath was visible in the cold air. A silver moonlight illuminated the ground and a fog was rolling in. My visibility was impaired and that made the sound of my running seem like everything. I headed uphill to escape the mist. I was lost. Although, that was the least of my worries. I was not trying to escape the fog. I was trying to escape what brought the fog. Halfway up the long slope, I stopped. I tried to get my bearings. I could hear a crisp, continuous patter co...

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A Dream Of A Day

Submitted to Contest #95

The wind whipped my skin as I stood on the steps of a strange red house.The house had always sat on the end of McDonna Road. No one ever went in or out of it. The bright red color of the house paled over the years. The strange part of the house was the fact that there were two doors an inch apart.The door on the left had a round top like a watermelon; the color was faded yellow.The door on the right had sharp edges, the wood of the door had no paint, but was just the natural brown of the oak wood.I knew walking into random housing was probab...

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Can't go to the Past

Submitted to Contest #94

“Fine, I’ll do it,” I said. I had just gotten dared to steal money from my dad and go on a trip to Mars with all of my friends. I mean, what? It's 2050, I’m a rich teenager, well, technically it’s my parent’s money, but, I guess I could steal money from my dad. “All right girls! We’re going to Mars, let's start planning!” Franny exclaimed. “For each teenager ticket, it's $3450, which means, with the four of us, you would have to steal $13,800, or make it $15,000 for necessities we need. Sadie said. 15,000 dollars I thought, that’s a lot. Y...

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I fall off of the tallest mountain...

Submitted to Contest #94

I accepted a dare that could end my life in an instant. Although I accepted the dare, I wanted to back out. The dare I was about to take, it was insane. Not just the regular insane. I’m talking about death insane! My friend inspired me of this idea. The idea was to fall off of Mt. Everest. With no helmet. Just my thick cloths because it’s going to be every cold. That and just a parachute (obviously). My friend first wanted me to just jump without a helmet but then I just told him that that would be suicide, so we changed it to helmets. I mea...

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Unpolished DIamond

Submitted to Contest #94

          Unpolished diamond “A very important piece of Italian culture, a gold cardinal's ring, with a large, red ruby, valued at over $ 2 million, was stolen from the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. Responsibility for the robbery was taken by the Cociaretto Mafia, the oldest and one of the most dangerous mafia gangs in Italy, founded all the way back in 1787. It is one of the biggest robberies in the history of Italy.  This event found our city totally u...

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A Broken Spear and Shield

Submitted to Contest #94

“FINE!!!”              Those words struck deep in my heart and slammed against my body with a violent jolt. I’m used to dealing with backtalk from hot-headed privates and cocky Pantheon pairs, but from my partner and betrothed? The pain weighed heavily on my body as if I was wearing the heavy conditioning suits in-training Shields would wear.              “C’mon, Míka, I’m not saying it’s your fault entirely, but—...

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Pessimism

Submitted to Contest #94

  A whirling whisk of rotor blades stirs the puffy batter of string-shaped clouds, its lifting force, a dragging weight to the metal rotaries that flap a pair of windswept wings. The skies sense a certain groan, unmistakable, in the wavering flight of unsteady airfoils that seem mistakable for unsuspecting onlookers who shall be left unnamed.   Directionless, the angles bend at the swipe of a sudden gale, its drafts thieving the helpless craft amid tussling, tossing drafts of flowing current, brash and shaken, rattled and brazen. ㅤ The ...

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