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Why I didn't mind the ending of Game of Thrones

29 Jun 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Sanity Check

  Daenerys story One of Daenerys first scenes introduces her being bullied by her brother Viserys: "You don't want to wake the dragon, do you." Daenerys seems anxious and afraid. Her sole comfort is found bathing in boiling water too hot for those la...

Metamorphoses

27 Jun 2021 2 minute read 5 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Book Review) It is perhaps trauma dating back from the crib that led Kafka to write such a novella about the helplessness of our own fight against change. Change is inevitable yet we grow like old trees, with our flaws and seasons chang...

Burning Out

27 Jun 2021 2 minute read 1 comment RocketEnthusiast

Even the purest of intentions can end up having detrimental effects. A young child catching fireflies in a jar to keep for his own and take care of may not survive in a glassy world. Sometimes things just don't turn out the way we imagine, sometimes...

A Black Cat and a Yellow Room

26 Jun 2021 2 minute read 5 comments The Archivist

(The Library: Books review) I knew I would get your attention with a black cat image. Poe also knew it. Because black cats have often been associated with the occult and bad luck. It is said that cats have nine lives and black cat lives matter. All o...

Evading the Watchers

26 Jun 2021 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000

Somehow it would be easier to go into this deadwood forest if what I were seeing was smoke. At least then I would know that the danger was fire. This, however, was a mist creeping in from where the others lurk. With it came a fetid dankness - som...

In the dark - A (very) short story of fear (ENG) / Nel buio – Una microstoria di paura(ITA)

20 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming

In the dark (ENG) It was dark, black, absolutely obscure.I was groping, but I was absolutely not able to perceive what my hands were touching.One moment it was something soft, intangible, perhaps a cobweb. The next moment I felt something liquid, oil...

The cliff - A (very) short fiction story (ENG) / La scogliera – Una microstoria (ITA)

13 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming

The cliff (ENG) The cliff was so high that the precipice that sank beneath his feet looked more like an infinite chasm than a cliff overlooking the sea.The coast rose so high above the waves breaking on the rocks that he could hardly hear the roar.A...

Bitcoin cash goes back to school ...

12 Jun 2021 5 minute read 0 comments SA_Sam1971

Bitcoin cash was new in town. When he looked back on his past, it seemed to him as though he had appeared out of nowhere. You know, like he'd opened his eyes one day and found himself staring at a fork in the road and someone or something had sent hi...

Prologue & Excerpt: TYRANT STAR 'Sidera Sanguinem'

11 Jun 2021 4 minute read 2 comments TheRuneLion

A long time ago... ...far away across the universe. P R O L O G U E   Long ago, in the far and distant reaches across the universe, the K’Syth were the first to found an interstellar power that would encompass regions, territories, as well as thousa...

Meow - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG)/Miao – Un microracconto di fantascienza (ITA)

6 Jun 2021 2 minute read 2 comments lemming

Meow - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG) We will probably never know why they chose our small town to land and start the invasion of our planet.The aliens landed in the green field in which we were used to going to play football. It was a gr...