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Music On The Road

Submitted to Contest #57

Am D Gsus C...."One step I'm soaring,Two steps I'm roaring,Three steps I'm living,Four....AmFive....D",Liv just finished his new song composition and now practicing it to perfect his guitar chords. This is the last song of his album that is going to be released by the end of the month. He composes all of his songs in all of his albums and just one of his greatest pride in the industry."Your album is magnifique! It's very musique country. Except the third song of the album which you said was your last to finished, it sounds musique pop to me....

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Duty's burden

Submitted to Contest #56

A twig flung into Sylvana’s face as she raced through the dense forest. She didn’t slow down to the stinging wound, it made her feel alive. They flew over a fallen log, as she moved her body with her horse. Her blood pumped furiously in her veins. “Come on, Colas, faster!” At the encouragement, the midnight black steed’s legs moved faster, their rhythm increased. Sylvana’s body relaxed into the familiar exercise. The brackets around her mouth slowly disappeared as a slow serene smile spread across her royal features. The tension from her...

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The friend who couldn't be

Submitted to Contest #56

Dec 8 2019 I look over my last kill. My penance is almost over. I wish to die. My name is the phantom question and I will rid this world of the monsters that inhabit it.  At the dawn of time, there was nothing and then everything. First, came galaxies, then planets,  then life, then evil. I’m the one of the first humans to walk the earth but I committed a grave evil and opened a box. For that, I was punished by the council of elders to walk the earth and kill all the monsters I helped unleash.  I unleashed a million monster...

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Para Bellum

Submitted to Contest #57

She thought about the waves, the way they caressed her skin and willed them to push her, higher and higher. Soon, she was eye level with the human, and she was a vision to behold. The scales on her face rippled with excitement, their golden and emerald hues glittering under the moonlight. Adria took in a deep breath and closed her eyes allowing the scent of the man to wash over her; she could feel his aura pulsating in the air around her, as if his very essence were calling to her. The loud hissing behind her stopped, and the air became s...

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Love, Loss, Lochs and Bears

Submitted to Contest #56

“There it is!” Jo squealed, through gritted teeth. She had always wanted to see the wizard train and there it was. Being the first to arrive at the viewing point, she had become more and more irritated as more families turned up, blocking her view so she had to move several times. Small children bounced up and down on their toes in eagerness to see the beautiful steam train, it's shiny red carriages and black polished chimney. Jo secretly pleased to be able to share the experience with them. A whistle sounded some di...

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Clouds of Anger

Submitted to Contest #56

The harsh rain attacked the pavements, roads, and cars creating a chorus of crashing. The cacophony of each raindrop smashing all blended into one sound, a sound not unlike metal scraping against concrete. The rain made a unique sound on each surface; concrete formed a hollow tapping sound, tarmac a duller thud, and the cars gave a metallic thud. Ajal was approaching the motorway, on his way home from work. The torrential downpour threatened the metal of his grey hybrid. He cursed at the top of his lungs, today was not his day. His projec...

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London and Olly

Submitted to Contest #56

I don’t know what drew me to him.  Maybe the fact that he was feeding the ducks, which no one seems to do anymore, or that he was wearing a shirt that said “Van Gogh, Van Goghing, Van Gone” with corresponding pictures, or perhaps it was because, out of everyone else in the park, he was the only one standing still. There were a dozen people in Hathaway Park that day, and most of them were moving hurriedly from one end to the other, head down, mask on, walking, walking, walking, getting on with their busy, important life. The few people...

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A Problem of Orcs

Submitted to Contest #56

‘Thence ill-favored creatures, Elves and giants, orc-neas, Came into being… ' —Beowulf Niki had never seen an orc before. She was taken aback by the grayish, mottled-green skin; the huge, hulking outlines of their bodies, and the massive tusks and fangs that protruded from their mouths. But the pointed ears looked a lot like hers, though more pronounced. Though she had been raised among humans, her half-elf heritage couldn’t be hidden without maiming her ears, and so her human mother had simply instructed her to wear her hair long. Sometim...

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The Future of Alyson Rope

Submitted to Contest #57

04-23-20 Dear diary, This is my first journal entry. I’m kind of nervous honestly. But anyways, this journal is about my coming up experience. My names Alyson, Alyson Rope. I work at a BioLab in Kentucky. We are currently working on a time machine. We’ve been working on it for going on seven years now. We plan on trying it out in a week. Me being the test subject. Its currently 2020, in a week I will be going to the year 2500, hopefully. I’m kind of nervous about it. I’m not sure if there’s going to be anything on earth anymore, or maybe we...

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The rebellious Princess: Weeping Willow

Submitted to Contest #57

Today was the day. The royal family of the enchanted forest sang joyfully, as it was the turn of the youngest princess to choose her future husband of the noble spirits among the ceremony. Amir, her father, was the king of all trees, while her mother, Kiri, was the daughter of a noble shrub. The family was excited to see who their daughter would end up with. Princess Willow's elder sisters, however, would not be attending. Despite their absences, the family tradition would continue. Willow was petrified. She was trying to figure out how ex...

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Lucrecia

Submitted to Contest #56

While I leave my luggage in the hotel room, I decide to go to the supermarket to get some things that I will need to spend the whole week in this strange but great city. I come down from the hotel and everything is a bit difficult for me, if I even feel afraid of getting too close to people who in large numbers and in a great hurry pass me without even looking at me, without even saying hello. And I think what a horror it must be to live in a big city. I think that Buenos Aires is not the city where I would definitely live. It must be around...

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The Sledgehammers

Submitted to Contest #56

(In 1946 nearly half of the world was either a colony or occupied territory of another country. The Soviet Union actively participated in most of the world’s liberation movements. By 1975 few colonies remained.) Moscow, Oct. 1945 Alexi Dzerzhinsky fidgeted in his padded chair. He couldn’t decide if he was nervous or if his back just hurt again. He wondered if his old bones might just collapse into his desk chair. When he felt this way, he tended to throw the seat cushion against the farthest wall of his office until his back pain demande...

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I ain’t ever seen him before in my life!

Submitted to Contest #56

I’ve been an agent for around 6 years now and no two day is the same. Last month I was escorting a high-profile ambassador from the airport to a World Peace conference, ensuring he wouldn’t get assassinated. This month I’ve been given a slightly different task. My agency, CKRUT Agency, had appointed myself and my partner, Agent Walker, to infiltrate a gun-smuggling operation. The plan was that I’d pretend to work for them, to get to know their structure and all that, and that Agent Walker would remain unknown and monitor their activities fro...

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On Board a Crashed Alien Spaceship on Mars

Submitted to Contest #56

Was this a good idea to enter a ship? Though our scans said it was uninhabited, you have to admit anything alien could happen. If anyone knows Data from Star Trek, his help would be greatly appreciated. Our scientist Sarah K. Fei discovered this crashed ship a month ago during an orbital scan. The ship since then has been dubbed “The Fei”. I personally would have preferred her middle name - Karima. The Fei had been permanently lodged on the mountainside. We believe because it’s red circular top matched that of the red clay of the Mars mounta...

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NO PARKING ZONE

Submitted to Contest #57

Jessica made her way down the porch of her newly bought house in Manhattan. It was the perfect house, with the perfect view. Whenever she saw the place, she knew she had made it, she had bought her dream house. She had succeeded in life. The only problem with her little paradise was that there was no real place to park her car. The gardener had cleaned the backyard and planted new saplings of tomato plants. She walked over to the plants and saw the little leaves swaying to the music of the wind.  “Love to dance huh?” said Jessica, to th...

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