Category: The World
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The Shadow Dwellers
The garden looked different at night. Especially in moonlight. Shadows stretched across the lawn like long, spindly arms reaching out, trying to grab whatever was there. They never managed to. No. The grabbing was done by the other things. Them. The dwellers. The moon lit the path to an extent, but not completely. The shadows…
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Pumpkinhead
In the field.All day long.No one near.Waiting.Watching.Hanging around.I’m meant to be fearsome. Frightening.Instead I have to wear a bright green striped shirt that is two sizes too large for me.Oh, they’ve stuffed it.With tickly, itchy straw. They’ve tied a thick piece of string around my waist to hold my trousers up so tightly it’s hard…
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Trick of Light?
“The Illusion of Reality!” declared the compere. Three spotlights lit up three different areas of the stage, the rest of the place was in total darkness. The circles of light began to move, and danced around each other on the stage, all moving in separate figure of eight patterns, and all managing to overlap in…
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Can Legends Live Forever?
In Warrington, in Cheshire, in England, in the year 1367, there lived a seamstress who would darn and stitch and sew every hour of the day. She would sleep only when she really needed to, and she lived to the grand old age of 98. She had a sister, who would nowadays be referred to…