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Short Story challenge - Day 2

8 Nov 2022 1 minute read 2 comments Heruvim78

  As I promised, this month I will do another writing challenge, this time the focus will be on storytelling, and I will try to immortalize a fragment of life, a short story about something that made me wonder, being that an idea or a peek into a st...

Short Story challenge - Day 1

7 Nov 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Heruvim78

  As I promised, this month I will do another writing challenge, this time the focus will be on storytelling, and I will try to immortalize a fragment of life, a short story about something that made me wonder, being that an idea or a peek into a st...

Curfew (A novel)

30 Oct 2022 4 minute read 3 comments Cryptotexty

It was a warm autumn day. Saturday. She decided to go party with her female friend as they had not partied for a long time. Yesterday he did not answer her all day. And only now he got in touch. We are at Lviv Croissants in Podil Bon appetit! Wha...

MORNING PAINS

22 Oct 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Wopney

Dimitris The pain wakes Dimitris. A hatched pain that was difficult to pinpoint. He is spread-eagled on his back, eyes wide open. The room is immersed in a gentle penumbra. Behind the closed shutters, the hot light of day pulses angrily and creeps th...

A Wacky Story, Pt. 2

17 Oct 2022 4 minute read 0 comments jmalik6209

The cool morning breeze flowed around Jaquavion, the leader of the New Jersey geese flock. He was a fairly strong, black-spotted white goose with a lean silhouette and hazel eyes. Last summer things seemed perfect for a while up north, until bad weat...

A Wacky Story

17 Oct 2022 5 minute read 0 comments jmalik6209

It had been quite a relaxing summer for the New Jersey Geese flock. They had gotten plenty of food along the coast, the weather was beautiful, the sun shining and the wind blowing with a whoosh. Apparently, all the conditions were perfect. Until now....

Training for Purgatory

16 Oct 2022 4 minute read 2 comments stevenbhow

Koichi’s dark disheveled hair popped upright off the back of train seat as the chime for the stop sounded. He heard the doors of the train his open. He opened his eyes for a moment as the doors hissed shut again and the train lurched forward towards...

The Superposition Junkies

10 Oct 2022 17 minute read 0 comments stevenbhow

Jah Arc read the flashing red message from the Department of Health and Welfare on his screen again. “Find Astor Wilcott and bring him to OWOH headquarters immediately.” “No more info?” Arc thought. “They can’t give me nothing?” Arc was the primary s...

A spider's tale.

22 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Shadowghosts

Yes, folks, spiders. They are fascinating creatures that have been on the earth as species long before humans came along. They are a plentiful species, mostly. Unfortunately people go around killing such helpful species in their own environment, thei...

Short story - A man has a drink and a dance

21 Sep 2022 19 minute read 0 comments forstersphilosophy

Preparing for Friday night down the pub and something was in the air today that made me sure it was going to be a good day. The British sun was out so if there could ever be a day for pigs to fly this would be it. This wasn’t any ordinary Friday nigh...