Category: stories
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Little sister, part 2
I was sitting in the mahogany lobby of the hotel with my legs crossed. The couches, tables and chairs were the red brown color of mahogany, although the leather and fabrics were slightly redder. The floor was a fast expanse of red brown with a varnish that made it look smooth. I was reading one…
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Little sister, part 1
The red of dusk flowed into my room and streamed over his almost naked body.The light came in from the only window in the room. It was facing the door I had entered. The walls, now mostly hidden in shades, seemed to be made out of large stone slabs which had been painted with a…
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Signs of life: tax
The blue lined letter dropped on the doormat around noon. There was no mistake about the sender. The blue meant one thing: it was sent by the tax-office. The letter said, in more complex wordings; dear sir, according to our information you are in arrears concerning your taxes. You owe us the amount of twentythousand…
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Signs of life: legacy
When my father died from a sudden brain bleeding I had my brother sign a paper together with me that rejected his inheritance.My brother was already diagnosed as a schizoid, so I had to tell him what to do. Not that he didn’t understand, but I had to tell him these things regardless for whether…
Merit Coba
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Silly laws 2: moose
This was a flash version. Unfortunately for the prosecution, Raine Moya got the help of the defense attorney Bulwark Trotski. Raine Moya had been arrested together with her pilot after the latter had crashed landed their plane at Nowaki Airport. One of the two engines had blown and they had barely managed to reach…
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Silly laws 1: moose
Alaskan laws: It is considered an offense to push a live moose out of a moving airplane. It is considered an offense to feed alcoholic beverages to a moose. Moose may not be viewed from an airplane “Hey!” Raine grabbed the side of her chair. She made a sudden sideway motion, then felt herself drop…
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Signs of life 4: Fuzz
“No!” Meena, the eldest of the two daughters said with an indignant expression on her face when her parents proposed to go to the market fair. Eve, the youngest, fell into an uncomfortable silence squeezing a plushie against her chest. She did not dare to go against her older sisters opinion, yet she feared her…
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Signs of Life 3: Breach
Day 7: 13:15 Too many, John Atkins, systems engineer for Pacific Shipping Incorporated thought while he browsed his logs. He was at first intrigued by the large amount of failed logins on one of his monitoring servers. It wasn’t easy to pinpoint the source of the alerts as the logs contained a lot of information,…
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Flash: Collateral
Jonathan Ames had saluted with a blank expression on his face after they had pinned up his medal. “Well done, Captain.” the general had said, a man Ames had only known by name. “A vital contribution to the war against terrorism. ” He remembered that moment every time they held their ceremony at the veterans…
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