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Hot Blooded
Nicole watched through the window of the apartment with a degree of stealth honed over countless years of experience. The thin moonlight failed to pick out any recognisable shapes on her silhouette. The eddies and currents of the breeze excused themselves around the unexpected presence of her form as she remained perfectly still in the…
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Outside Perspective
People are strange. Methys knew this because she had been watching them for some time. She found it fun, trying to interpret the strangeness of strangers from a distance. She also knew, or assumed she knew, which is basically the same thing, that everyone thinks people are strange too. She was reassured by this. If…
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Grab a Bite
Today’s the day. Today’s my day. I have always loved Hallowe’en and wished it could last longer. It’s a time when normal sensibilities are weakened and prone to collapse if the conditions are right, and inhibitions flicker uneasily as the darkening air stirs. The whole month of October leads up to it, of course. For…
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Never a Dull Moment
You did it for the adventure. That’s what you tell yourself as the damp stone walls reflect your every movement back at you. You sought the allure of the unknown, the noble pursuit of peering into the dark and not backing down as it threatens to encompass you. That’s what you tell yourself publically, of…
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Underground
Theo studied the map in front of him, absorbing the network of lines and points and the stories they told. It wasn’t his first time seeing it of course, as every specialist underground engineer was trained on the layout and significance of the Tube. This was his first time here in person, however, and there’s…
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Suncatcher
The Sun was content with its lot. It had a simple but satisfying job that it had been quietly getting on with for longer than it could remember. There were a lot of things in the universe, and there was nothing the Sun enjoyed more than spending its time squeezing them together and seeing what…
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The first and last thing to go through Victoria Weber’s mind that moment were a satisfied “oh” and five inches of metal chair leg.
She collapsed, the surface of her table dutifuly rising to her head with an indifferent clunk that woke her with a start. Groggily, she regained her balance and reached for her forehead to inspect the damage. Nothing. No blood, no metal. Metal? Where had that come from? Just a sore spot that was probably going…
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The sky above the port was the colour of television tuned to a dead channel
A brilliant, mind-numbing blue stretching from horizon to horizon, uninterrupted by cloud to offer a sense of scale.
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And finally another test post
To round things off, let’s try a third and final test post. Only this one’s spooky. Wooooo. You can tell it’s spooky because I said so.
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This is another post
Because it helps to see how you’re going to lay stuff out if you have more than one stuff to work with. Otherwise that’s not an arrangement, it’s just a splat. also got some hella small text in this one Oh shit, son, it gets smaller!