The Job - Part 1

#1 of the job a family is pushed to the edge in a future dystopia. how far will their father go to make sure he can provide for his family? chapter 1 * * * "honey, you know you don't have to do this, we can find another way."

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Wellspring

Soon, multiple people would enroll themselves into entering the meta space craze, and as more and more people gave up their tangible flesh to become immortalized in a corporate dystopia coated in pastel of many colors, the energy that they collectively emitted

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No good deed Chapter 16: Welcome home

Welcome home The train rumbled down the tracks at a brisk 45 kilometers per hour. Before my regression I probably could have kept pace with it on two legs as a sprint, or stayed by it for an hour on all fours. Of course now I could only watch the...

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No good Deed Chapter 5: Welcome to Nursing

Lying flat on my belly in a now familiar crib, wrapped up in a warm fuzzy blanket, my head on a soft, cool pillow, with a teddy bear tucked comfortably in my arms with the worst behind me had me feeling pleasantly relaxed. I tried to tell myself that...

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The Pound-Prologue

**News Report-James C. Callahan reporting, Date: 2019.10.05** **Callahan:**"James Callahan, here with Dr. Aaron Jefferson. We seem to have found a way to adapt to the climate change and thanks to Dr. Jefferson here, we can all rest peacefully...

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The Great Cookie Caper

The great cookie caper "Your mission. Should you choose to accept it...find. Acquire, and devour the cookies. Should you be discovered, we will disavow all knowledge of you and your mission..." "Hey! " I thought we were going with a medieval...

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A Journey Begun - Chapter 8 - Hard Boiled Cops in a Hard Boiled City

The caller said that he was being held in what used to be the stadium. Tonight, midnight, be there with Morgan and a million bucks in cash, used notes only. Sounded like a cliche straight out of some dime store video game about hard boiled cops in a...

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Weekly Mini: The Beckoning Forest

They always told us about the Forest. It had always been there, since the beginning of time. Always reaching for us at the edge of the city, at the edge of creation. As children, we were always told not to enter the Forest and its inviting, dark...

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No Good Deed: New Rules

New Rules I woke up with a chill down my spine. My mouth was empty and I was supposed to have a pacifier in it. Through the bars of the crib I could see it sitting on the floor, tantalizingly out of reach despite my best efforts to put a paw on it....

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Being Red- Chapter 13

Richard had gone away once his duties had been finished. This was a personal thing for him and everyone who knew him enough knew why he'd be so on edge this day compared to all of the others. He stepped into the cemetery with a bouquet of daisies. They...

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End of an Era

What happened to us? We were extinguished. Like a cold breath of air against a flickering flame, or the sun beaming down its withering heat on a chunk of ice, or a granule of sand taken by the dark and expansive and terrifying sea. A single...

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