Excerpt
No Miracle Comes in Twos
“Identical Twins!” the doctor cried at the inky black-white sonograph. We all sighed through deep belly-waters. I hope she remembers, even after the foot-long scar above her hips, exchanged bite-marks on the extremities of her babies, the endless combat of teenagers, the double-tuitions, and a tummy-tuck 20 years later, was there was a moment that she called it a miracle? Did she think all the pressure would make us gems? It’s 35 years later. No phone calls, only voicemails saved. We talk about how we hope she imagines we are versions of her, made into perfect form from her sacrifice.
By Bel Beeson3 years ago in Fiction
Word Count
As he obsessed over his word count yet again the author wondered why such an arbitrary, meaningless number, seemed to be so important to so many people. After a great deal of thought the best he could come up with was that humans have an intrinsic need to measure things and believe that a thing which cannot be measured is a thing of less value. He went to bed that night and cried himself to sleep. A thing very typical for a writer like himself.
By Everyday Junglist3 years ago in Fiction
Some Glitch
It happened so quickly that I’m unsure that it was real. One moment, I was walking down the cold streets of New York City. The sound of construction. The smell of hot dog water. Then, for just a moment, I felt sand give way under my feet. The warmth of the sun on my face. The sound of waves cashing in front of me, followed by the scent of salt water. For a moment, I felt like I was on the beach of some paradise. I just told myself to keep walking. That it was a glitch caused by stress.
By Robbie Nagle3 years ago in Fiction
The Bog at the Edge of the World
There's a bog at the edge of the world where only frogs dare to go. At least, that’s what the legends say. To be fair, the legends also say that witches steal into your home and eat your babies, that swamp monsters lie in wait to wreck boats, and that you must wear something red while in the forest to ward off malicious fairies.
By Brittany Moore3 years ago in Fiction
WHAT IF WE LIVED ON A PLANET WITH NO SUN
consider the Rebel Planet the grandiose Drifter that no one needs to bring back home fundamentally a maverick planet is a planet that has been shot out from its own star framework and is currently drifting erratically through space like an enormous recluse these planets aren't simply a hypothesis researchers have really identified some in our universe as a matter of fact gauges propose that there might be loads of these Vast Wanderers drifting around the Smooth Way and they aren't little rough universes like Earth some of them are truly huge gas monsters ordinarily bigger than Jupiter these behemoths might actually have their own moons and, surprisingly, their own small frameworks circling around them for instance one of the most renowned maverick planets we are aware of has a convoluted name here you read it for yourself it's situated around 80 light years from Earth and it was found in 2013.
By Adomakoh Patrick3 years ago in Fiction
Flash
5 4 3 2 1 BOOM! There was bright light, followed by an impossibly loud noise, and then there were the screams. A terrible thing happened, and even though there were many not involved, all would suffer in some way. Some died because of the blast, others died due to the effects of radiation poisoning, and others, from undiagnosed cancers. Now, we look back on it as one of the largest mistakes humanity has ever made. One miscalculation, and- BOOM! Desolation, fear, pain, and suffering, cause by human error. We are our own downfall.
By Mercury Z. Fugere3 years ago in Fiction
