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Most recently published stories in Fiction.

The Zax
I don’t know how long it’d been since they’d stopped chasing me. Not that it mattered, running is all I know anymore. I can’t stop now. They’ve broken me. They changed me. My mind is- wrong somehow. I have trouble focusing on any particular idea. The one thing I remember clearly is a picture book Mom used to read me, The Zax by Dr. Seuss.
By K. Rhen Hunt5 years ago in Fiction
An Adventurer's Spirit
These days are dull, sure scientists were wrong about how far technology could go and pushed us into a technological utopia. But, what's the point? There is nothing left to discover anymore. Everything is easy, simple and for some reason the whole world is OK with that. I want some fun, I want some excitement and the new hyper-reality TV ain't going to cover that. It's stupid I know, why can't I just be happy that we stopped wars probably forever, and solved world hunger and global warming and the expansion of our freaking sun. There's no reason for anything anymore, with new advancements every day, soon even dying will be optional and you will be able to choose how old you want to look. What kind of life is that?
By Glauticus5 years ago in Fiction
Every Breath
I get anxious every time she goes to sleep. Every mother does, and maybe has for millennia. They look so peaceful as they lay there, still smudged with your blood, mucous and placenta behind their ears. I wiped most of it away, but for some reason I couldn’t bring myself to complete the task. A bit of what’s inside me, marking her. Protecting her, as I have for the last nine months.
By Michael S Rogers5 years ago in Fiction
Dangerous Things
There are no boundaries. That’s the first thing I notice as the pod speeds toward the Preserve. Not that I thought there’d be barbed wire, but something. A fence, at the very least some tech. Dangerous things should be caged.
By Bethany Hudson5 years ago in Fiction
AFTER THE END
CHAPTER ONE The Package and the Pendant So, my story begins sometime after the unexpected ‘disease,’ a virus unlike any other worldwide with unprecedented death and infection rates wiped out the general population and afforded random chaos and anarchy to reign. And reign it did, as now the world is made up mainly of various Kingdoms occupied by those who took control of that area, created their own agenda/government, and either forced or allowed others to live under that rule.
By Ed Note5 years ago in Fiction
The Superior Inferior
Nora's eyes flew open and she began to violently cough. The scent of burning hair and flesh already filling her nostrils, her lungs fighting to cope with the inhalation of ash. Extermination of The Inferior was off to an early start today. She sat up and wiped bloody mucus from her mouth and grabbed a nearby glass of water. It was full of ash as well, but ashes to ashes, dust to dust; she needed a drink. This was life now, and her rations were running dry.
By Sage River Black5 years ago in Fiction
The Aftermath
Jake was alone, had no clue who was on his side and didn’t know who to trust, if anybody. The one thing he did know was he had to get back to Daisy and Caroline, and that had become his only concern. Ignorant of the challenges that lay before him, he would face them all head on if that’s what it took to get his family back together.
By Jackson Howl5 years ago in Fiction
Ouroboros
The slanting ruins of Hoover loomed, casting the sort of shadows that reminded me why I’d made a habit of giving Hoover a wide berth. Everyone knew the stories.
By Jodi Aleshire 5 years ago in Fiction
Maria was a Nurse
Maria was a nurse in an ancient hospital situated in the middle of Phoenix, one of the 400 small nation-states that made up the geo-political world. Nurses in the 20th century would easily recognize Maria’s work: fluorescent lights, blue scrubs, lemon-scented floor cleaner. Even the treatments and medicines were similar. As if medical science had taken a break for two centuries while the world heaved and shifted with wars, famines and great migrations of people.
By Justin Streight5 years ago in Fiction
Elocution Day
Faith died and I gave up. A coconut fell on her head in Hawaii when we were on vacation and Faith died and I gave up. I gave up because it had taken me so long to give in to love and Faith and then she died and it felt like God no longer existed so I gave up.
By Augustus Britton5 years ago in Fiction
The End of Time
The End Of Time Donald Bambrick Jamie looked at the Locket. He opened it again. His wife, Margaret, their daughter, Jacinta, who would be forever known as Jaccs, and himself.
By Doanld Bambrick5 years ago in Fiction
Aftermath
Larissa worked tirelessly creating fire, her almond face catching the moonlight while she worked. Her muscles begged her to end her laborious task but she persisted as she knew that warmth would be their only saving grace. Beside her sat Uma, a small girl of three with a soft olive complexion and bright icy eyes that looked to Larissa for comfort often throughout their journey. Uma was the purpose behind all that Larissa did, as small as Uma was, she was going to be the answer to all the horrors of the land.
By Brittany Arias5 years ago in Fiction