Tag: Short Story
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A Long Long Time Ago Around Bathtime
Queen Ellimayee waited patiently as her four servants poured warm water into her bath. She then waited a while longer as the four servants left the room, to return a short while later with fresh goat milk to add to the water. Then, Ellimayee waited again as the four left the room, to return with…
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The Weather Controller
Maraganna looked out of the window to the torrential rain outside, and then glanced down to Huffle who was sound asleep on the sill. She walked to the olde woden bookcase and retrieved her Wizard’s Almanac. She opened the leather-bound book to the index page, and then touched the word ‘Today’ with her left index…
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The House of Enchantment
From midnight until the first glimmer of sunlight, the old clock only tocks. It ticks and tocks as normal during the daylight hours and up until midnight, but then it loses half of its rhythm. Also, equally as strange, between midnight and the first glimmer of sunlight, it only chimes once on the hour. For…
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Oddities and Goddesses
Aphrodite brushed her hair whilst admiring her reflection in the mirror. She would never describe herself as beautiful, but knew that was the description others used about her. She looked deeply into her own eyes. A radiant and deep blue that reflected reflections. Light danced and sparkled like sunlight streaming through a canopy of leaves…
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The Observatory
Professor Delp looked at the monitor on his console. A green light flickered off and on intermittently. “It’s still doing it!” He spoke into a disconnected microphone which stood beside the monitor. “Are you sure?” Oscar, the office junior, shouted from below the desk. “I’m telling you it is. It’s blinking. It shouldn’t be blinking.…
The Mansionic Perspective 