Tag: Short Story
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The Daily Stranger
This is personal. I’m sorry about that. This is the only way I can communicate with you. I’m sorry about that, too. I see you walking, I don’t know if you notice. You brighten the dullest of mornings as you walk along the pavement. I can’t speak to you as we pass each other, I…
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Reg’s Surprise
Reg the vampire, who lives on Bridge Lane,Called me and asked me to visit again.He had something to show me, something so good,He asked me to get there as quick as I could. I arrived at his bungalow in very quick timeAll seemed quiet, everything looked fine,Shawn, his cat, was asleep on the sill,I rang…
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To a new life
The sky was exciting that night. Reds and golds, and blacks and purples swirled and blended, yet remained completely separate from each other. The colours cast their reflections and shadows simultaneously across the vast and empty ocean. The destination was far beyond what could be seen of the horizon, but the journey had to be…
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Wyvern’s Plea (Repeated)
If you think I’m a dragonMore fool youDragons have four legsI have twoI have long strong wingsAnd a sharp barbed tailTry to find meYou will surely failBut pay attentionLook up and downYou may see my imagesAll around townIf it’s a dragonThat you think you see…Remember the WyvernRemember me
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Early start
I woke up thinking ‘what’s that smell?’ A pungent, rich, sickly, thick smell that was, well, vile. So bad, I had to smell myself (just to be sure, you know!) and luckily, it wasn’t me. I sat up in my bed, and realised that it wasn’t my bed. I was sleeping on some woven rugs…
The Mansionic Perspective 