Illusions

It's all just an illusion. everything suddenly melts away. the sun plummets into the ocean, now just a glowing orb. the skies blacken and the clouds change texture, form a dry, cracking ceiling above me.

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Illusions

There was no way i would be able to hold up this illusion for long. so we waited. fen clearly had no intention of dying today, so as long as my illusion held, she would stay put. i just had to put all my focus into the illusions and hold it together.

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Packing and Truth (Otherwise Untitled)

~ linda turned in place to face the cassette player away from greg, who took a couple glances to realize the jackalope had momentarily dropped all of his illusions. "old enough to know that relationships are a gamble."

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Antlers Collide (Otherwise Untitled)

~ The polite fundraiser was a slog of patience and observation to Detective Clip, dressed in her finest civilian attire. She nodded politely to a Dean, shook hands with a princess, and nodded agreeably to the wild tales of some CEO. All the while she...

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Motel Pool (Otherwise Untitled)

The jackalope shrugged indecisively, "my illusions don't hold up well to standing water..."

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A Night with a Nogitsune

How often is it that you fantasize about someone? It could be anyone really. Someone physically attractive, or someone not really eye candy, but more a player of the heartstrings; you like the sound of their voice when they laugh, the light in their...

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Alantris, Chapter 4

Howl stood there stricken as he fought a wave of nausea and dizziness. The familiar leopard's gold fur was barely recognizable under the smears of blood, but the band that he always wore around his neck made Howl knew it was him. A sheaf of parchment...

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Hunting Death- The Draaknei Sunset

"the church is the center of town, the most likely source of that illusion and it only makes sense for that to also be their base of operations." "over here," i hear from nearby and see a human trying to get our attention.

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Offers Considered (Otherwise Untitled)

~ The poodle ducked into the raucous noise and bustle that was the strip club, patrons shuffling about in the dull symphony of colors of light. His attention swept the room, snagging on the ferret who was stepping up onto the stage wearing what looked...

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Detention (Otherwise Untitled)

#73 of short stories a phoenix finds herself in a cell with a bored jackalope who avails himself of illusions to pass the time. ~ the phoenix could see two things in her cell that were quite out of the ordinary.

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The Dragon's Illusion

I am a dragon of illusion, of magic. i am not the beast your people think i am, moreover, you will do well to understand your place, you have no escape, but i have my uses for you."

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