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The Xena Scrolls: Scroll #131: A Friend In Need

6 Jul 2021 47 minute read 0 comments Brandy Seymour

The Xena Scrolls By:  Gabrielle Bard of Potedia Scroll#131:  A Friend In Need September, 14 B.C. The universe is full of wonder and of mystery.  It is a tapestry woven with such complexity yet larger in simplicity.  I found myself awakening in the ea...

The Xena Scrolls; Scroll #132: When Fates Collide

6 Jul 2021 23 minute read 1 comment Brandy Seymour

The Xena Scrolls By:  Gabrielle Bard of Podedia Scroll#132:  When Fates Collide October, 14 B.C.      Who can define the fine line between what is reality and what is only a wild story imagined within a nightmare.  We don’t really know if we are in l...

The Xena Scrolls: Scroll #112: Livia

4 Jul 2021 15 minute read 0 comments Brandy Seymour

The Xena Scrolls By:  Gabrielle Bard of Podedia Scroll #112: Livia July, 18 B.C.      Xena and I awoke from death’s essence inside of an icy tomb upon a snow covered mountain.  Neither of us could understand how we had ended up there.  Xena immediate...

The Xena Scrolls: Scroll#121: The Abyss

2 Jul 2021 38 minute read 1 comment Brandy Seymour

The Xena Scrolls By Gabrielle: Bard of Podedia Scroll #121:  The Abyss September, 17 BC        There comes a time in a warrior’s life when she must realize the mistakes of the path which she has chosen and lay them to rest for the soul purpose of sur...

The Xena Scrolls: Scroll #75: A Good Day

22 Jun 2021 28 minute read 0 comments Brandy Seymour

Scroll#75:  A Good Day October, 45 BC The Xena Scrolls By:  Gabrielle Bard of Podedia        When does one know if upon awakening to the day if this day will be a good day, and when does one know if this day will be his last?  Men make choices based...

Goodbye Dad

5 Jun 2021 1 minute read 2 comments ByakuroStories

"Am I dying?" "... Yes" "Your white blood cells are attacking your red blood cells.""I see, and so I won't be able to see my 60s..." "Do you have any regrets?" "No, I don't think so." "Well, after all, you've lived a full life. You've traveled, you'v...

The hero - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG)/L’eroe – Un microracconto di fantascienza (ITA)

30 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments lemming

The hero - A (very) short science fiction story (ENG). Our hero was returning after fifty years of travels, adventures, and discoveries.He had been around the universe. He had encountered alien races and visited unknown worlds. He had reached the edg...

The Moon and the Sun

19 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments ToHu521

Two drunks are talking on their way home:- Look at the moon! It is beautiful!- You're wrong! It is the sun! They argue until a man staggers in the opposite direction. One of them asks:- Hey buddy! Tell us if that thing shining up there is the sun or...

Mall Walk 4

17 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments StealthySteve

Karen's head immediately calcified,  grew moldy and started to cave in on itself like a July pumpkin.  The greenish grey lump that was once Karen's head now pulsated across the carpet.  " all I ever wanted to be was a member of the PTA and spend my m...

Be Careful What You Say At Hole-9 Research Facility (Fiction)

3 May 2021 8 minute read 1 comment Epy

There are many peculiar jobs in the solar system, but in my humble opinion none are quite as strange as mine on Jupiter’s moon of Ganymede. For starters I’m the sole human operator of Hole-9, which is a lift station called a GOLF, short for Ganymede...