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Inevitable
I was too late to stop it. I don’t know what I could have done. They were always so drawn to destruction, but I had always felt like I had to try. I had overslept, awaking to a racket, crashing back to Earth and its dreadful reality with a hard thud. I tried to close…
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Never Again
I don’t think I’ll ever walk in the woods again. They were a big selling point for the house. Woods, practically next door. Sweeping seas of nature, as far as the eye could see. They’d be great for walking the dog, taking the kids on adventures, getting away from it all after work. Not anymore.…
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Wandering Minds
It was half past ten, and she was thinking about lunch already. Poppy’s stomach snarled as she shuffled through the hall and gazed, with disinterest at the paintings. Sprawling, sobbing saviours hung from crosses as Poppy trudged through with her class, feigning some kind of feeling at yet another portrait of Jesus Christ in his…
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The Cure
The iron lung isn’t forever. I am surrounded by the insistent beep of the monitors, the relentless rapping of the rain at the window, the endless hum of the lights up ahead, and the constant ache of all the things I could be, and the things I could do, if I were free. The dreams…
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Fired
Old Scratch was displeased. The sky above him was scorching as he set eyes on the border between his realm and the human world. They sickened him. He tried to avoid the humans, and really only ventured into their domain when his daughter had been away too long, but as his home faded into the…