Tag: short
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Flash Fiction: History
“I had not expected you to be here, sir.” I said and I wanted to leave him to his moment of solitude, a moment which he would have seldom time to enjoy. He was standing near the balcony overlooking the boulevard that was in front the house. He was his usually tall self, slender to…
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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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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…
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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…
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