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Star Crossed in the North

Submitted to Contest #24

“Where is that thing?!” Jodie whispered frantically.“I don’t know. I can’t see a damn thing out there,” came the whispered reply from her fiancé Doug.“Why is it after us?” she whispered back to him. She was afraid to make any noise, her mind having a hard time processing the events of the last thirty minutes. She was trying to regain her grip on reality.“I think it’s that thing the storekeeper told us about.” was his hushed reply. Doug was also having a hard time accepting the reality of what was happening.“That’s just a legend, right? It ca...

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The Last Date

Submitted to Contest #24

I hate this world. I really do. There’s nothing to it. I work a shitty job with shitty co-workers, making just a little over minimum wage. I’m here right now, sitting at my desk filing order forms for a shipping company. But there’s one thing, that I do love about this shitty job and this shitty world. She sits in the cubicle across from me, divided only by an isle. Black pin straight hair cut to her shoulders, olive coloured skin. Her eyes blue as the ocean. She catches me watching her and gives me a warm smile. Her name is Autumn, and...

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A Run From Death

Submitted to Contest #24

All throughout high school, Agnes and Fabian were known as ‘the most popular couple that nobody really knew’. They were always seen hand in hand, and when you saw one you knew the other was never too far behind. The circumstances at which they met were pretty peculiar, meeting in the local Coven at age seven, where they both felt the spark, metaphorically and literally (they were practicing electric current spells that week). They had been inseparable ever since, mainly because of the attached-at-the-hip spell they had committed to in sevent...

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The Flower of Ryder

Submitted to Contest #24

Has a letter arrived for me?" Rosalina asked, looking up from the history book"No, my lady," Jenna said, folding the towels"I wonder why he hasn't sent a letter?" Rosalina said to herself, worrying "My lady, you have to remember he's a knight of the kingdom. It's not going to be easy," Jenna explained "I know, but he should've received the letter by now. I'm just worried. What if something happened to him," Rosalina bit her thumbnail "None of that negative thinking, my lady. Sir Ryder is a strong man, he wouldn't let anything ...

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The Last Stand of Henry and Ann

Submitted to Contest #24

Hand-in-hand, they bowed their heads to pray.“Dear Lord, thank You for this day. Thank You for this food and for the chance to share it together. May Your blessing rain down on us during these trying times. Watch over us, guide us and protect us as Your will be done. Amen.” A cricket chirped outside. The large oak in the front lawn swayed in the soft breeze. The pair ate in near silence. Ann quickly finished her meal. The rabbit was tender and cooked perfectly, paired nicely with some rice and dried fruit and washed down with rain water...

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Shadows on the wall

Submitted to Contest #24

Odzi Country Lodge faces the beautiful Odzi River. Terry and Rose sit at the balcony of their room facing the open night. They quietly watch the beautiful moon shining on the river. A creepy sound of night creatures can be heard from their back ground; the two seem not bothered by the sounds anyway.Something draws the attention of the two and they turn to look at each other with questioning eyes. Two shadows pass by the building to their right. A loud noise comes from some buildings behind the lodge. It is a strange noise unfamiliar to the t...

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Something Swims Behind (Still My Sunshine)

Submitted to Contest #24

1We were just entering the hadal zone when we realised, we weren’t alone. For those of you who don’t know, the hadal zone is six thousand metres under the ocean. To put that into perspective, the twilight, or mesopelagic, zone – that’s where just one percent of the light from above reaches the depths – is just two hundred metres deep.Now, you’re probably wondering, What about the bit where there’s no light at all? That would be the midnight zone you’re talking about. Otherwise known as the bathyal zone. That starts at around one thousand met...

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Captain Hoggy

Submitted to Contest #24

   “Hey babe,” Mike greeted smiling over the phone.    “Lemme guess, you're smiling over there,” Molly teased.    “Maybe,” Mike answered coyly backing away from the window to the couch that sat in the middle of the spacious sitting room, hearing her giggle. “Will you be coming over tonight?.”    “I'm not sure. I'll let you know if I'm done from work,” Molly replied.    “So just you know, I cancelled a night out with Adam and that dude wasn't happy....

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ANOTHER LOVE STORY

Submitted to Contest #24

"You are mine, forever... right?" Chika beamed at her boyfriend, holding up a rose that had lost a few of its petals, which she had picked up from the garden floor. Kay was busy distracting himself, fascinated with how excellently the ants climbing the only tree at the backyard were dutifully passing on a tiny piece of biscuit someone had carelessly dropped close to the base of the giant tree. He paid no attention to Chika who he had convinced to come over for the weekend, since his whole family had left earlier this morning for Lagos, leavi...

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The Slithering

Submitted to Contest #24

I am in love, thought Eleanor. I was inclined to be cynical when people said that if you are, you don’t need to ask, you just know. But they were right. She had never imagined it could be so contradictory; could make her so restless and so calm, so fulfilled and so yearning, and as if she were a banal shadow when she was not with Owen. Her hands ached for the touch of his hands, her lips for the touch of his lips, and her whole body and soul for the waves of tempest and tranquillity that came when he lay with her.&nb...

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Two Flights

Submitted to Contest #24

Two flights landed at Heathrow Airport on that day in 2026, the story of one you should remember the other you would not.  Lou had tired of on line dating over a year before. In fact, everyone she knew fell into roughly two categories, people who met their partner through on line dating and people who had given up. It was fine though. As it turned out, Lou was a pretty big fan on being on her own and she had her friends. She didn’t have too many of those either, I mean where do you meet friends if you don’t have a partner, kids, or a do...

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The Noni's Thantophobia

Submitted to Contest #24

      Me and my husband newly moved out permanently stay to an abandoned house adjacent by the old Dutch town, such a historical site people went for aesthetic pictures thanks to the Dutch who used to occupy the land hundred of years ago. The house itself used to be a wood trading company, as I read on the banner upon there, surely a part of the elite colonial civilization.           The façade had made me being amative. It was eerie, yet evocative. The buil...

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The Love in the Woods

Submitted to Contest #24

The wind and the leaves rustled by it are loud this night, but not loud enough to drown out the sound and sensation pounding from Emily Swanson’s heart. The thunderous and arrhythmic beat courses through her as she gazes at the roof of the tent. Her eyes search, as though looking for something, something internal, as though she were deep in thought. Clutching her sleeping bag, she shivers as she holds tears in, drenched in sweat and her chest rising and falling faster and faster. Her sandy brown hair is made a complete mess from all of the s...

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Hunted Pleasure

Submitted to Contest #24

As the sun began its descent behind the mountains, a pink hue filled the sky and made the clouds glow as if cotton candy abounded everywhere you looked. Marie and William were both starring at the same sky, in the same little pastry shop in the quaint town of Davis Mills. It was the same pastry shop where they met 3 months earlier.William gently brushed the long blonde hair from Marie's face and hooked it behind her ear. Boy did he love those ears, she had the most beautiful ears he had ever seen. “Do you feel like we are being watched.” Mar...

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The Pain of Knowing You

Submitted to Contest #24

The white candle wax drips bit by bit onto the oaken floor. My hands are cold, and I tuck them into the sleeves of my sweater. But so are my lips, dry and purple with chill, and my flesh is dotted with goosebumps. This is how it always starts.  Every night is like the first - gloomy and mysterious until he shows up. Except this night. For some reason, I have no idea how it will go, although I’ve lived it a thousand times. My heart beats wildly inside my chest in anticipation of the unknown. My neck feels hot like someone is breathing on...

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