Promised Land

Eli's parents had disowned her for having moved away to the Middle East with Mano, but Eli hadn't cared. If anything, she'd been only too glad to cut them out of her life as well. Mano missed her parents sometimes, but children grew up, pursued love...

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Fool's Gold

We got away with it, too. That, we take that to the grave. Normally it’s the sort of thing you’d say at the end of a story, but me? I’m not doing that. The others are all dead or have moved to other countries by now. Fair enough. We lived long and...

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Sources

Eli had always had body issues because of her shitty upbringing. Half sea turtle, half hermit crab, she suffered from the intersecting stigmas of fish, reptiles and hybrids alike. She needed to breathe but also to stay moist to be able to stay alive,...

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Scorched Earth

"À la claire fontaine m'en allai promener (I went for a walk to the clear blue fountain today) J'ai trouvé l'eau si belle que je m'y suis baignée (The water was so pretty I had to take a dip) Tu as le coeur à rire, moi, je l'ai à pleurer (Your heart...

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Only In Dreams

Eli rolled off Mano, lying back in bed to grab and light a cigarette from the nightstand. "That was good," she said simply, drawing in and blowing out smoke as she spoke. The poet had always had a minimalistic streak to her. "I hope you liked that."...

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The movie: part three (by Zanian)

Another room, another round of question assaulted him; how did he arrive here? What did happened between the moment the creature had his way with him and when everything went dark, once again. It seemed almost familiar, as if it was a fate that he was...

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Sticks & Stones

Dex hadn't been to this bar in a while. It was a lot easier to get drink than food, if anything. Those days were behind her, she mused. She wrapped one of her crinoid tendrils around her glass, thinking about how different her life might have been if...

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The movie: the first scene (by Zanian)

Wastrel didn't know what he was doing in such a place, but he knew that it wasn't the same place that the add in the newspaper promised him. Maybe he shouldn't have trusted mere words in the daily newspaper, but again, why shouldn't he? He had nothing...

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Face The World

The raft on the canal between the rows of cow carcasses led Mano to a white door with a scale carved in, Libra-like. There was no doorknob, but one of the scale's sides was high while the other one was low. Looking closely, she saw that the high one...

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