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Ricky and Angie Walk Down West 57th

Submitted to Contest #60

Ricky and Angie walk down the West 57th Street. Together, but not really.  Friends still living can’t remember a time before they were a couple. Ricky and Angie were high school sweethearts. Ricky, the star quarterback, and Angie, the head cheerleader. He was the guy all the girls had a crush on, she was the girl all the guys dreamed of.  Ricky and Angie.  Angie followed Ricky to college, where Ricky played football on scholarship. When Ricky blew his knee out, Angie nursed him back to health. Everyone was blown away by Ri...

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Because I Care About Art More Than You Do

Submitted to Contest #60

“Alright, quiet on the set.”“Rolling.”“Background.”“Action.”The cast and crew stand motionless, except for the director, who is pantomiming direction to the background actors, despite the fact that they are incapable of movement.“Reset. Still rolling. Action.”The scene is being filmed on location at an amusement park, which is where most of the film will conveniently take place. The ones who were outside when the Pause occurred have remained uncorrupt. Alive but inanimate, without bodily function or the need for nourishment. Everyone who had...

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How it Went Down the Pan

Submitted to Contest #60

“I did it for a laugh,’ Death mumbled sheepishly, trying to look anywhere other than at the young girl glaring at him. That is to say, she looked young. Probably about twelve to human eyes but in reality she was older than all of them. “What?” she roared and took a step closer to him, tilting her head upward to get a clear look at his face, which was bowed down. Death met her gaze nervously and said again; “I did it for a laugh.” War, who was standing behind the girl sniggered. Probably relieved that he was not the one getting chewed out, ...

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Death By 1,000 Wuts

Submitted to Contest #60

"Died in birth. That is how I prefer to think of it. Human beings had sacrificed every last ounce of their intellect to bring new life into the world, and were so exhausted by their efforts that their own survival became impossible. That is how I choose to think of their civilization's downfall, no matter how cynical the outlook of humanity which most of our kind have adopted. This is why I was chosen to be head caretaker of the Homo Sapien Preservation Center." There were giggles from the crowd of tourists gathered around Stultus in the v...

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An Introduction to the Ever So Lovely Killer Bunnies

Submitted to Contest #60

October 17th, Week 2 After All That Crap Happened A lot of people in the world thought that humanity would eventually be brought to its knees someday, whether it be caused by global warming, war, technology, or even by bizarre and oddball ideas such as an alien invasion or the zombie apocalypse. Everyone had their own theory, unique to him or herself. However, you could bet that not one person in the world population of seven billion thought that humanity would come to the brink of extinction due to rabbits.  It’s been a couple of w...

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The Wired Rats

Submitted to Contest #60

From: A History of the Vischerpeople, 2065. Introduction Many students will be familiar with the Vischerz, a race who drill holes in trash islands to comb the ocean floor for idea chips. They then clean these up, using their advanced eyesight to detect any faults, tweaking them with tools at the ends of the upper limbs where you and I have hands and fingers, and transport these restored findings to Planet Jujj. The Jujii reward them with Ark Ma, a substance which provides momentary bliss and forgetfulness of the pandemic that has made ...

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Mumbai Love

Submitted to Contest #60

The story begins, when a small town boy first time , goes to Mumbai. He has never seen buildings, Malls and has never travelled alone. His journey towards Mumbai starts when his father gets transfered in Mumbai. Soon he goes with his father for his college education. A boy who doesn't how to speak with girls, always stays away from girls. Finally he reaches Mumbai and gets admission in Siddharth College. The process of college admissions is like becoming a doctor. So difficult for a small town boy like me to get admission and...

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Onè sentence

Submitted to Contest #60

Hi friends, this story is about the” One Sentence” Guys ,we often use the same sentence to your friends,relative or someone.The sentence was good means,Ok .Otherwise ,it gave lot of pain to others heart,because each and every word have meaning.So,please use the sentences or words be kindly.Lets start the story. A Rich Princess Yaffa,live in her palace .Yaffa parents was died at her 5th age,and her parents hand over the palace and her child yaffa to her moms brother Marthew.Now ,yaffa is 19 years old girl.Marthew was very strict person a...

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A Crazy Zombified Bad Romance

Submitted to Contest #60

I remember the first moment I saw her…Her beautiful blonde hair glistening in the sunlight.Blue ocean eyes twinkling like diamonds.Well, her beautiful eye…I guess I probably should have mentioned she’s a zombie. Yup, with grey patchy skin, bloodied black nails, and large yellow fangs. Her human days were definitely something in the distant past. The really distant past, but she’s still my girl. Who cares if she has a missing arm and maggots in her eye socket? Love is blind, goddamn it. And if I want to date a zombie, I will do it. ...

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Finding Phoenix

Submitted to Contest #60

“Marco, we’ve been walking for hours, can’t we stop and take a break?” “We’re in the middle of the desert, genius, we stop to take a break and we're dead,” he says, “besides, this place is probably crawling with screechers.” “But I’m tired,” he groans.  “Sammy, I swear to god if you don’t move your ass,” he says, leaving it open. He frowns but catches up to him, leaning against his arm, “please?” He looks down at him, the brown eyes widening as he juts out his bottom lip to pout. Marco rolls his eyes, “fine. We’ll stop for ten...

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I am not a zombie.

Submitted to Contest #60

So...I am basically a zombie. My body is rotting, I can't feel pain and other sensation either, my heart stopped and my head keeps rolling on the floor every time I turn it around. But I must say I am STILL not a zombie. As to why here is my story. It all started in the year 2050 when Science was taking over the whole world. Flying cars were invented, food turns into pills, houses were portable, and gadgets and other daily necessities can be stored in just a whip of a finger. Thinking back 50 years or maybe 100 years back it was impossible...

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Toxic Waste First Date

Submitted to Contest #60

I don't know what caught my eye first. Her beautiful smile or the wiggling green tentacle that was infused to her cheek. She had a strut that could cause zipper chafing in any room full of men anywhere. Her name was Kate and she'd been reborn out of a glowing puddle of toxic waste and floating spa cucumber slices. I was busy decapitating the head of a dog for lunch when I saw her. The dog's leg had been fortunately caught under the wheel of a truck of a driver who'd crashed after being impaled through the heart by a stray meteor shard. The...

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Goblin

Submitted to Contest #60

People have a lot of ideas about the end of the world.  Atomic annihilation. Disease. Zombies, perhaps zombie bovines if you're being fanciful.  A few have even given vampires a whirl, but nobody would have seriously expected a twelve year old goblin queen. Her three foot tall minions creep up to you from the cover of darkness, inject a magic needle in your body, and you somehow cocoon and metamorphose into an ugly, often diminutive monster.  The cocoons produce...foliage as their occupants depart and their ...

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...The brand of Sadar

Submitted to Contest #60

Missiles rained from the sky, hundreds at a time, exploding with mighty bangs and clangs before the villagers of Rena could let out a shocked cry. In seconds, houses, shops, dogs, children and more fell to the ground, engulfed in orange -red flickering flames ,all begging for death to soothe their pain. In an hour, the Iralion soldiers had stormed the Castle grounds, finding and beheading the prime-minister that had hid in the bottom bunker, hands pressed against his ears to block out the deafening wails of the people. In a month, the ...

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Porcelain

Submitted to Contest #60

Tok whirled around, eyes wide with panic. "Where's the pan?" Although his movements slowed down by a tiny fraction and his ears tilted back as if trained on a possible conversation, Tik kept rummaging in his rucksack, pretending he hadn't heard. On a good day, Tok already had no patience for it. Today wasn't a good day. He jumped up and in two strides was towering over Tik, drowning the older boy in a long, pale shadow. "What have you done with the pan?" "All our lines are busy at the moment," Tik said, clipping the words in a robotic wa...

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