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25 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RandomMusings
When the Regime commanded the unlawful books to be burned, teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires. Then a banished writer, one of the best, scanning the list of excommunicated texts, became enraged: he'd been excluded! He rushed...
25 Feb 2021 14 minute read 0 comments Dis0ri3nted
~Subject to change as I continue writing and creating this story~ “It’s like being inside a void. I’m there, but my body, and almost every part of my consciousness isn’t there with me. It’s just black… and silence all around. I’m just nothing, expe...
22 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments DaBea
When I come to a place, I see it through three filters: past, present and future. I see time rewind, A building I’m standing in melts away, the pavement un-builds, streets disappear, and I’m standing in a forest through which a dirt trail runs, then...
21 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Xeroxmac
The glass cracked and with it the peace. The calm of the night convulsed with tension as the once contained cabin leaked. A current, corpulent and corroded with carrion, breached the atmosphere. The boy crept to the curtain, his face frothing with fe...
21 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Xeroxmac
He looked up from the table and away from his laptop. It was too bright to pass for natural amidst the dim surroundings, and briefly he recalled that more than this exists. There was a girl once. She would smile and he would smile, stretching a face...
19 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Xeroxmac
Her voice was lurching between both a high-pitched whine that narrowed into a “question?”-implied silence and a low throaty drop, reminiscent of the stuffed way a person sounds when they talk right before throwing up. It made Ethan nauseous. And ang...
19 Feb 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Xeroxmac
The eyes did not blink. Do fish even sleep? thought Kyle, as he tapped on the glass of the small aquarium that he'd bought on sale at LowMart. He remembered how right past all the gardening gear, with its platoon of plastic rakes and bags of standing...
19 Feb 2021 8 minute read 2 comments Kim Tuyen Pham
This is part 3 of a multipart story. To read the beginning of the story head to these pages: https://www.publish0x.com/my-original-stories/like-the-color-blue-part-1-xmkgmxp https://www.publish0x.com/my-original-stories/like-the-color-blue-part-2-xky...
18 Feb 2021 2 minute read 1 comment Xeroxmac
Jesús swept. Hank's Hardware Shop ("We want your screws to be loose!") closes at 6 pm on Sundays. Watch check: 5:50. He kept sweeping, still wondering whether his technique was any more efficient than that used by mentally handicapped workers. As alw...
18 Feb 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Xeroxmac
The tangerines were going bad. Paul knew this. He could see it. Between the yellow bananas and the big red apples were the little oranges, which weren't oranges and which weren't orange, completely. One was different. Walking around the table to the...
