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14 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.01
The room expanded into a broad oblong gallery. Lit by narrow and tall, oiled and burnished brass canister-lamps that cast a grainy orange illumination, breeding macabre-bending shadows that raced across the bare, basalt-flagged ceiling with every tw...
14 Jan 2025 4 minute read 0 comments RickyShadows $0.03
Year twenty-one hundred, Tokyo Japan: Ryosuke lay weary in the comfort of his bed, looking out upon the transformed Tokyo skyline, busy with ai piloted drones at work maintaining the city and assisting the people with day to day life. A clear blue...
13 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments kleo69 $0.01
Disclaimer: This story is like a big soup - some bits are from books, some bits are from my head. Slurp it up! In early 2020, amidst a growing interest in cryptocurrency, a young software engineer named Alex received a rather unexpected gift a...
12 Jan 2025 8 minute read 0 comments RickyShadows $0.01
12,000 years ago, Saudi Arabia He was going to show the beaurocrats and holy men in Atlantis that they were fools to cast him out, fools not to recognize his vision of ruling the world alongside titans of fire and shadow. Soon they would bow to his...
7 Jan 2025 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
By the time an apparently not-overly-concerned Clay arrives on the scene, it’s almost noon. At Emily’s insistence a number of them are loitering around the main house’s lobby, in front of Grace’s counter, which affords a tremendous view via i...
3 Jan 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney $0.01
Money is all but spent. That ship has almost sailed. Yanez is alone and lost, drunk in a dingy bar in the port town of Livorno, the ugly twin of Tuscan conurbations; medieval alleys and the renaissance ideal replaced by an industrial port belching...
31 Dec 2024 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.02
Denise had done her homework before reaching this decision, slowly accumulating what she needed over the past couple of weeks. Even so, when limited to what one might carry on one’s person, running out of supplies remained a legitimate c...
27 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Jay Lonnquist $0.01
Together the niveous pair - one willowy tall, the other urchin small - drifted with the mild night air through Nimblethorne’s broad-halled manor. Footfalls mute as those of solivagant spirits. The chambers were wide and lowering, and the narrow hall...
27 Dec 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk $0.02
He gazed into the vast space of nothingness while sipping a dense black fluid down his wrinkled neck. He turned his back on what looked like a window and started walking firmly on a thick glass floor. Underneath, you could see various creatures handc...
26 Dec 2024 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01
Jeremy knows enough about Denise to recognize when she means business. Therefore he makes a point of rising early himself in the morning, before the hysteria kicks in concerning her absence. He has business to conduct in Stokely, and knows th...
