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K's Stories
The One You Try to Run Off The Rails
“Watch this,” began the writer, “I’m going to start this story about a writer writing a story and once I pass it on to the next writer ...
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Witches and Toothpaste and Cats, Oh My!
Never leave a container of mint balls next to a witch's cauldron. But the trick to this is, what exactly is a witch? When I first came ...
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In A Purple Haze at the Edge of Space
Maybe it was the length of time I’ve spent in the silence of space, but music has meant a lot to me these last 5 years. I’d gotten ...
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Celtic Maid of Disaster
Grind the beans until they turn as smooth as sand in an hourglass. Pull the lever until the water streams down in an iridescent cascade ...
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The Mythical Sword of Fromage
It had been eleven months to the day since the storms first began. Most cities were but flattened piles of crumbling brick and rotting ...
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The Doorway Effect
How do you know if you’re crazy? What if you’re actually on to something you’re not supposed to know, and being labeled “crazy” is ...
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The Holiday Mixup
I twisted the noose in my hands, curving it into a heart shape. Happy Valentine’s Day, I thought. Nothing else I’d done or tried to ...
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Dreams Wash Away
Once upon a time there was a man who likes seeing stars. That man was married and he had 2 daughters. One day, while he stayed at home ...
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Demonic Dissent
I had always been an unremarkable demon. I came from a proud bloodline of many a well known incubus that had seduced some of the major ...
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Winter’s Tail
There is snow everywhere. It keeps piling up. It is not melting. It’s almost June.
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John Mason and the bizarrest case ever
The night was cold and foggy, the perfect scenery for a gruesome crime. Detective John Mason was assigned to the case, he was the best ...
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Short Term Memory Loss
Day 304: I am still all alone with no answers, just as I have been for the last nearly year. The lack of human companionship is finally ...
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Lessons Learned
You think you know me. But I’ve fooled you with my ordinary clothing and passive manner. I want you to think I’m weak, submissive ...
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Burt's Discount Dental review: ⭐ 1 star
The damp murk of the cellar, unaided by the arm of moonlight reaching in through the grime of a solitary window, was silent and still ...
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Under the Icy Siege
Before their eyes was the frozen ocean, fractured but solidified once more underneath. It seemed like an undulating ballroom floor ...
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Train Wrecked!
I ran up as fast as I could. I could hear the loud booming voice ahead, bellowing "Giddy up, Giddy up! Last train out to your new life ...
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Jim’s Bad Day
Jim had been stuck in a time loop for—by his estimates—a hundred and fifty years. At least the day he inhabited was sunny and warm ...
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The Companionship of Cyborgs
The flickering lamp was the only source of light in the darkened field of buttercups. The bunny couldn't pause to think of why it was ...
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Seeing Kate
I was walking, book in hand, when I bumped into someone. I was met by a familiar face. My friend, Kate, looked back at me. But then ...
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Destroy all humans
I was there alone.
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A DREAMY NOON
The gentle hum of the blowing fan in the corner, the slither of sunlight strewn across the room and settled on the tired, angelic and ...
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Who was phone!?
The hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach was overtaking me. I reached for the bottle of Lorazepam, only to find that it was empty ...
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Clownish Fate
"Baloney!" cried the clown. "I'm telling you, thanks to Stephen King, all the children in the audience were terrified of your antics ...
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The Boy who Stopped
Every morning, before the day started me and Lucy would watch the military boys run along the country side. Everyday I would ask Lucy ...
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Lodai Laundry
There are so many beautiful and subtle things about this planet that make it unlike earth, but the most striking has to be the red ...
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The Stoat Gambit
He approached me in the in plaza, smiling. Without a word, he handed me a card. It read “Marcus Wallaby the Third. Effing up the ineffable ...
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Adventures in WTF land
This is how the story goes, how it ends, no one knows. Line by line, we fabricate it ‘til we sound inebriated. Using only context clues, cleverly ...
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Night Owls
Jerry glanced down at the photograph in his hand, then back up again at the woman sitting alone at the back of the cafe.
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