Need to Stop

"I used to be somebody once, goddammit." The reflection in the mirror stares back, a prettied-up rabbit who I barely recognize as myself. It looks unconvinced. And who the fuck am I kidding? An adjunct creative writing professor at a community...

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Endangered Species

This piece was submitted to the writerscrossing fiction workshop. i want to give a big thanks to:ib: royalserperior arcane reno wrenquireib: sumdumguy ib: thaddeus for all the feedback and help they gave me. this story is much better for their input.

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incubation

"... Warning! Evacuate! Hull breach! Emergency power low. Life support critical! Warning! Evacuate!...." Lurien jumped up, sweaty and shaken. Her helmet had hit the instrument panel in the cramped cockpit of the prospector shuttle. There was no...

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Ghostly Cafe Visit

The day looked to be... an overcast over the city of Thunderpass, it's always gonna start raining in the afternoon or just about any time of the day. Cole, an average office worker Dalmatian more specifically in the design department felt like the...

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Just What You Do

They really needed to get the lighting fixed in here. Only the dull red glow of the exit sign. Not that it mattered; I could climb these stairs in my sleep. Which step creaked. Just where to reach for the bar and shove open the door. My foot didn't...

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Easy Grade

"So when you're all finished up, you'll give me an A on my paper?" "What? Absolutely not." With a pouting frown, the 18 year old university student removed his tongue from the tip of the teacher's length, a hard glint in his eyes. His professor,...

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Cul-de-Sac (By Avoozl)

"Cul-de-Sac" By Terry Echoes Zeke Pulanski admired himself in the mirror. Yeah. This Halloween, he was good enough to eat. He flexed a bicep and kissed it, then rolled his abdomen. Truth be told, it wasn't much in the way of a six-pack, but Zeke's...

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Rainy Day

Delilah looked through her fogging windshield, resigned, pulling over with what was left of the dying motor onto the shoulder of the lonely interstate. The beat up Toyota, with its old, cracked, faux leather seats, missing volume knob on the well loved...

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Theory of Everything

?Theory of Everything? So, do you know what a virus is? Those tiny little things that get into your blood and make you sick, right? You know, it?s funny. Ironic even. We named computer viruses after the medical kind, but it really should have...

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Tending Companions

Sunorae was nested down in a large pile of otherwise smelly and decaying straw. It was not the smell that bothered her, nor the itching in her scales when it poked her. Nor was it the clutch of eggs that had peeped and wiggled. She was red in color...

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