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STARFALL

Submitted to Contest #92

Six-billion. That’s a pretty large number. There are six-billion acres of land in the entire North American continent. If you line up six-billion pennies, it will circle the Earth three times. Galapagos Tortoises have an average lifespan of about six-billion seconds. And when STARFALL took place, six-billion people died instantly. Of course, it wasn’t a star, and it didn’t fall. But they called it that anyway. One-trillion metric tons of rock… about the same size as Mars’ inner moon, Phobos. When astronomers first spotted it, it was a pal...

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The Day The Sun Went Missing

Submitted to Contest #92

The leaves and branches brush past me but It’s hard to pay them any mind anymore. The night is silent except for the pounding of my boots on the ground and the crashing I create through the thick greenery. The sky is pitch black. And it’s the middle of the day.  It’s not my fault that the guardian of the day decided that she could just leave her post. And yet here I am fixing it for her.  “That idiot!” I cry into the darkness. I halt suddenly. Panting in the middle of the woods like a mere human. She has brought this humiliation ...

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Sunburnt

Submitted to Contest #92

I sit here day after day watching time pass me by. I hate that I get to see every one outside enjoying themselves not worrying about a thing. I go to look out the window and it feels like my eyes are going to burn out of my head.   “Don’t open that door!” I said to Wanda  “Why not?” She replied  "Girl, I told you a million times why not to let that door stay open.” I said back to her  “Okay, and how about you tell me a million and one then?” Wanda asked again  “Okay, because you know I have a sun allergy be...

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Shadows and Stars

Submitted to Contest #92

In a deep, dark and lonesome place, the moon gave a little light to a darkened countryside. The grass was a never ending sea of pitch black, rippling in the soft breeze. The sky was magnificent as the stars adorned their mother. The breeze shifted slightly, as a child shifted uneasily. The sea of onyx grass stopped their appeasement to the hypnotic wind. The breeze grew stronger, lifting up hopeless leaves and twisting around endless tree trunks. The wind found its way to a little abandoned shack in the middle of a plain. The wind sized up t...

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The locket

Submitted to Contest #92

    Samantha did not want to go the country for the weekend. It would mean an entire three days of no cell service and no contact. She was pretty sure that Grandma didn’t even have a phone out there in what she liked to call old bat country. This was not a kind thought, she knew, but Sam didn’t care much. She just wanted three things out of life. She wanted to be famous, adored and never bored. This had become her catch phrase and she would strike a pose, as if for a photo, snapping her fingers and making ‘the face’. Co...

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Acid air

Submitted to Contest #92

TW: violence Acid Air.   “ Emie wait up, you’re walking too fast!!!” Her little sister complained, her little legs just couldn’t keep up.   Emie reached over and grabbed her, they were walking back home from school. It was their daily routine, Emie would go from the high school section of her school and go fetch her little sister Rue. Rue loved walking home, because of two specific destinations.   The coffee shop and flower shop right by the coffee shop. The city was energetic as always, the sky a clear blue, no clouds in si...

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The House by the Road

Submitted to Contest #92

“We took the correct turn, dear” he said a little annoyed. He had Google map right in front of him and it was yet to let him down. The fork in the road was a bit tricky in the fading light. It did not look at all like he had imagined inspite of the faint street light. But the map. When in doubt trust the map. How about ancient mariners with just a compass and an infinite directions to mistake. I explained all this. But she was not convinced. I could sense that. But thankfully she remained silent with just the wrinkle at the corner of her ti...

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The Trail of The Map

Submitted to Contest #92

He knew he should not have listen at all because the moment he does he won't be able to help himself out of it. But he does. God knows he want to see what the outside he spent all his days drawing look like. It was a surprise to all when he came out before the emperor and take the job of mapping out the land far inside the jungle. His father is the map maker not him but who is so strong to go against the will of the heaven. His father had gone on the water to take a look at the land on the water. That year the army had conquer the Northland ...

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Japan's Hidden Hero

Submitted to Contest #92

There are tales that tell the story of an avatar meant to bring the light to Japan. Every one hundred years a new one is born, raised, and trained to fight the incoming darkness. This battle dictates the coming century, and whether it be of light or dark nature. The first hero to ever exist lost his battle against the growing darkness. He lacked the training and skill to be able to overcome it, and Japan fell to darkness fated to last one century. A century in which the soul of every inhabitant of the lands would become mortal, and could n...

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Haru and the fight with Yuki-onna

Submitted to Contest #92

     Snowflakes danced around in the sky, it was like ice-white dust, blending in with the trees that were already covered in snow from last night. It was that time of year when Yuki-onna the snow woman came to steal children from their warm homes and eat them. In the distance, Haru could hear the piercing sounds of women crying throughout the streets of Chichibu, Japan. For as long as Haru remembered, Yuki-onna would take a boy and a girl to feast on, this would happen once every year on the night of the first snowf...

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power shortage during time travel

Submitted to Contest #92

Let’s be honest. My shrink told me I was dead and reliving past lives. Me? I think you all are dead. This story is about Katrina when it happened in 2003, not here in 2005. Silly, what do you mean? I mean, I have lived more than you have. When I cracked up in 2016, I was hit hard. Meaning I was sent to the shrink by my wife due to the number of things I was talking about. People think I am crazy. But what I am going to tell you was real for me. The shrink? He told me I was living past lives. I told him. I could prove he was dead, and that I ...

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it is only a job

Submitted to Contest #92

Allergies? Sure, I have a lot of them. I am not able to use soap. I am not able to use Era or Tide on my clothing. I can not stand dust. Smells at times make my nose wiggle so badly that I start to cough and sneeze. I live in the shadows these days because of my latest problem with the sun. Light? Not electric light. No. The sun’s light? Yes. That is how I came to my profession, I suppose. I lurk in the shadow worlds these days. Not many people even realize I exist. I have been in hiding in the shadows for years now. My work? I do at night...

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Once upon a time, Joshua Jackson was accused of stealing a million dollars and was also accused guilty of the offence, but the Court through evidence found out it was not true when finally, the truth came to light.

Submitted to Contest #92

Once upon a time, Joshua Jackson was accused of stealing a million dollars and was also accused guilty of the offence, but the Court through evidence found out it was not true when finally, the truth came to light. There is a saying that Guilt as according to the evolutionary psychology is the brains way of making sure we didn't veer into behaviour that would leave us ostracized from tribes and other families. Also, nowadays, a little guilt is a good thing to not having any is a sign of sociopathy or narcissistic personality disorder entir...

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A False Victory

Submitted to Contest #92

    The light was everywhere. I couldn’t see anything else. Just the bright light that surrounded me. I felt at peace here. A special kind of peace. It was a mesmerizing place. Only me and the white glowing abyss that seemed to stretch forever. There was nothing below or above me. There was nothing anywhere at all. It certainly wasn’t home. Or anywhere else.     I realized that I was slowly rising up, towards the source of the blinding light. I squinted hard, unable to adjust to the ever rising light l...

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A bookstore

Submitted to Contest #92

I had just moved to town. Exploring the streets, I came across a bookstore. The sign intrigued me, so I went in. The front counter was unmanned. And not a soul could be seen in the shop. were I went to the first shelf of books. Wild. Indie books. Hundreds of them all printed. Opening a cover of a book titled: Bolivian Time Traveler. The book immediately impressed me with the adventure story. A writer trapped in parallel spacetime worlds. Traveling back through time to watch the end of the time of tribulation. The author. An expat from Mo...

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