Category: stories
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When the caged bird sings..
It was perhaps not the first order the emperor Armadius gave, but the order to capture the bird was among the first when he ascended the throne. It was the witch Najeste who caught the bird with a fine net and put the petite colorful bird in a golden cage, which was then placed on…
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Xtralife:Unexpected treasure
Sandra landed the Raven, a crate with the pretense of a spaceship, as close to the space wreck as she deemed safe. A feeble automated distress signal had brought it to her attention. When she went out to investigate, she was surprised to see there was someone alive, because a shadow disconnected itself from the…
Merit Coba
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Marvelous
“What have we here?”, Harley said in that special way she had heard policemen say it(on real life television mostly) and that seemed to underscore that they were policemen and you were definitely not. Harley was almost too young and too pretty to be a security guard and normally she would not have been accepted…
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Mr Perfect
Sarah sat at her favorite table in that little Italian restaurant on the corner of Sixth Street and Main when Mr Perfect walked in. Of course, he did not wear a tag that said he was Mr Perfect, but she knew he was the moment she saw him. He was slender and dressed in a…
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Signs of life 2
Despite the drizzle the red male cat had been outside in our garden the whole morning. He had been making those weird howls males make when they are in heat. Somehow he had found out that we had a female cat even though she had only been with us for a few months and only…
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Signs of life 1
With a long penetrating shriek the double decker train came to an abrupt halt inside the station. The double doors unlocked with an audible low bang, hesitated for a moment, but then proceeded with opening very slowly. A boy, in his late teens, ran up the stairs that led from the lower part of the…
Merit Coba
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Bleh man
This flash story requires a bit of a background and explanation. One is that it is written because I heard about a row between Denmark and Sweden over a shows in which naked people were discussed. I sort of fantasized about it.The other is that I am sneaky introducing two characters from my vampire stories. …
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Perfect Isolation
None of the employees gathered in the conference room had ever seen Lars Sunden in the flesh. And even in this presentation, displayed on a huge screen, the head of the informational technology department remained a vague figure wearing a white shirt and a tie. He was only visible in the corner of the huge…
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Magnificent(for Sandor)
When, during the Crimean war, an English cavalry unit frontally charged a Russian line of guns, and got massacred in the process, the French general Bosquet (witness to this debacle) remarked that ‘ it is magnificent, but it is not war.’. This quote was on first Lieutenant John Maltowes mind when sixty two years later,…
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The bridge
Major Anders was writing a letter to his wife when his intimate thoughts were interrupted. Men barked agitated orders, vehicles backed up and fumes started to spoil the air. The cobbled narrow street below the window was cluttering with vehicles and men.. Anders got his jeep and drove up to his most forward unit to…
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