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Alien leaders at The Intergalactic Federation of Intelligent Life hissed and clicked and warbled and radiated amongst themselves, debating: Should humanity continue to live or be “dismissed”? Usually voting was easy: creatures were a threat or not. But with humans’, goodness and badness split them right down the middle—just like the alien votes. It was the …
As her boyfriend’s car barreled and swerved up the golden mountain, Lily glared out her passenger window. “Isn’t it beautiful?” he asked. It seemed as though they were driving on clouds. The altitude pressure squeezed her inner ears. This shouldn’t be happening, repeated over and over in her head as she tried to …
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What crooks Edgar and Silo lacked in brains, (they believed) they made up for in resolve. But instead of planning out crimes, they planned on manifesting one from the universe. We’ll get what we deserve, they’d chant incessantly. When billionaire Pierpont literally fell in their laps on the A-train, of course they kidnapped …
Twine cries as she lights her hand-made rocket. I don’t like you that way. She hears Starke’s words again and again as if they just happened. The tears pour as Twine runs for cover. She tried everything to kill her love for him. Eventually she realized her love for him was forever. It would outlast her own …
Silly, the word, reminisced. The 1100s, its infancy, were idyllic days. People saw silly as happy and blessed. That changed in the 1200s. People convinced silly it couldn’t be happy without being pious, so it aligned itself with the righteous. But in the 1300s piety lost its zest: to be pious was to be pitied. …
Every night, Vera woke her mom and dad with her screams. “There’s a monster in my closet,” she’d say. They’d turn on the lights, show her there was nothing there. They thought it would pass; it didn’t. They’d wake to her sobbing in the hallway. “He says he’s coming for me,” she’d …
Thirteen-year-old Lucy holds herself in bed as she sobs. The kids’ never-ending bullying at school. Her mother calling her a whore. Her stepfather sneaking into her room at night. “I can’t take it anymore!” she wails. Her bed creaks as a weight sinks down next to her. She flinches. But it’s …
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Fido the Pitbull whimpers when he thinks about his owner. He wonders where old men go when their bodies stop moving. He wonders if it’s his fault and that’s why he’s behind bars. Jailers give him toys, treats, and cuddles. But no one takes him home. A couple visit him sometimes. The man …
She keeps tapping her phone as she waits by their car. This has become her habit over the course of the last thirty minutes. The minutes won’t even roll over; they just stare back at her, rubbing in the fact that she’ll be late the rest of the day. She should’ve never run errands with …