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Stress Test Ch. 6
Billey might never have learned to use the can opener, if not for the cops. Sometimes he would be alone for days after they came to see his daddy. He could sleep as late as he liked and forget about school. He and Black Wolf could root around the yard without fear. Only trouble was, they sure got hungry when they were on their own.
By Alan Gold4 years ago in Fiction
Journey to the Green Bucket
I sat in my cell wondering how I might escape what surely will be a most unpleasant outcome. Until my Mother's death, I had not truly feared the world or anyone in it.
By Pam Reeder4 years ago in Fiction
Hidden Places (Part 10)
Previously in Part 9 Part 10 The kids were unusually quiet the morning after our trip into the valley. We’d all been so unnerved when we got back to the little hamlet that we decided to forego the tents and sleep inside the little house where we’d discovered the information about the derricks and refinery business.
By Paula Shablo4 years ago in Fiction
MAN MADE 5
SETTING DR. LOWINSKYS OFFICE Scene opens in the computer lab where the back up data is at 99.7 percent in the blurred background Lilith and Nuk run out of the simulation room to call the police. The computer says completed and it says “uploading into brain” the system makes a sound and electrocutes Lows unconscious body. Lows body begins to shake as his melanin skin is turned white, he loses color in his lips turning pale and begins to recede at the edges making him smile. Lows eyes loses color turning them milky white and the skin surrounding them turned black, his hair stands up on straight. Low begins to vibrates really fast until he’s ripped through his clothes leaving his red under armor. Low continues to shake even after the machine stops, he eventually stops then there is a silence in the room until there is a sound from outside the window.
By La’Garyus Bonney4 years ago in Fiction
Stronger by Grief
Jacob looked out across University Street at Stella’s where he would meet his contact. It was raining hard as it normally did in Seattle. Middle of winter and yet not a flake of snow. Instead, he was cold and wet. Even with an umbrella he was soaked. He had to wait for his contact to enter first. Normally he didn’t mind, but days like this made it miserable, which was often.
By Chad Rhoads4 years ago in Fiction
Stress Test Ch. 5
When Sandy held steady at forty-five miles per hour down Westmore Avenue, she could make all seven green lights between America Thinks, Inc. and Kid'n'Kaboodle. Cars on either side flew by. Those on her tail downshifted, gave their engines a throaty roar and swung into the passing lane. She pulled even with them at each light as they punched it again from a standstill.
By Alan Gold4 years ago in Fiction
Radio Silence - Part 9
There was no one to blame but him. Not the engineers. They did their job, they did everything correctly. It was the compounds. Well, and maybe it was the idiot that didn’t secure the area before leaving the room too, causing the compound to escape the secured air locked space and get out into the main hangar. Yeah, that was him. And, Richard thought, he might’ve put a touch too much of the solidifying agent and not enough of the chemical that would make it fill the gap, and stay up there, like some form of cosmic caulking agent. Oh and the fact that it wasn’t actually loaded into the dispersal mechanisms. The rockets that were supposed to launch it into the atmosphere and send it to where it was supposed to go. The guys that had all those specific trajectories and timing and everything worked out. They weren’t given the opportunity to play their part.
By Caitlin McColl4 years ago in Fiction
The Wanderings of Cedric Slip
My mind steamrolled back and flattened the last 17 years of my life into a two-dimensional, easy-to-read document. I spent my days assessing and diagnosing eyes that stared back me. Eight devoted years studying and understanding how this observant organ operated, I knew all about the coagulation of proteins in the lens which would cause opacification of the edges, spreading inward to the space directly behind the pupil. Cataracts and glaucoma were my special friends. Fasciculation, congenital hypermetropia and strabismus, ate with me every night. Disease and malfunction excited me.
By Robyn Grant4 years ago in Fiction
The Tale of Ferhenmoore:Castle of Flames(Chapter 1)
The castle was under attack, again. Large blue and white dragons crashed through its ashy black and red walls. I overlooked the mess from The Peak, a hollow, triangle-shaped tower with a large pool of flames and lava at the bottom. I ran to the edge and jumped off, whistling a sharp call as I went. I free fell towards the lava for a few seconds, my wavy black hair and black cloak whooshing around me. Then I heard the rustle of giant wingbeats in the distance. A giant manta ray looking creature appeared beneath me and I turned myself to grab it’s black and orangey red back spikes.
By Chemical Legend4 years ago in Fiction
Eric's Journey
Beware the woman with appearance fair For she’s the kind who’s least to care Seek out the woman less pleasant to sight
By Steven Allen4 years ago in Fiction
The Intern -- Chapter 6
After nearly three days, Courtney finally heard from Morris. He overnighted a new burner phone. She scrubbed her internet use the way he taught her and removed the sim card from her old phone before pitching it into the back of a garbage truck. Everything would be fine now... At least that was what she hoped.
By Jason Ray Morton 4 years ago in Fiction
The Long Road
The fire popped and shot embers into the brisk night air, scattering a hundred little lights above the small camp. Once such light drifted from its height to land on the forearm of Ardak, who quickly swept it from his fur. Against the flickering firelight, the giant of a man looked almost peaceful, his blood red eyes casting his gaze into the fire as his strong hands fiddled with the small jade interwoven into his snow-white mane. Between the small gem and the gleaming suit of armour, the flickering light from the fire reflected dancing lights around the area.
By Matt Linde4 years ago in Fiction