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Pride Before The Fall

At a time when Alexander Graham Bell was inventing the telephone and Renoir was painting Moulin de la Galette, the US Cavalry were forcefully dispossessing native indian tribes of their land to make way for gold miners and white settlers.

Recognition

The passages behind the walls were narrower than he remembered. Not that he remembered them exactly. Only the feeling of them - the smell of dry...
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The Last Human

yeah well, someone will be ... Image created at pulp-o-mizer ( https://thrilling-tales.webomator.com )

living on the threshold

living on the threshold when a man is a dweller on the threshold she's all he lives for, wrap your words around her soldier wrap your dreams around...
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Bron-46

Continued from Chapter 45: Bron-45 | ABCtales “What are you smiling at?” said Bron. They were in Hyde Park, Grace’s lunch break. The noise of the...

Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (2)

shattered his sinus cavity, pulled all the fractured bone forward until it formed a snout and covered the whole awful mess in hairless grey skin...

Banished To Earth Book Two, Souls Adrift (1)

Banished To Earth Book Two Chapter One Page1 Silhouette was not dead. But the shadowy figure looming over her had been—or should have been. He stood...

Chapter 3: Forced Recruitment

“Ah, he’s waking up.” A pause. “Heilig! He’s waking up!” “Coming, coming.” As he was joining Aurora, he grabbed some food from a bag and some water...
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Chapter 2: First Dream

I’m floating. An infinite void. Filled with memories. Moments of life. Of lives. Lives I’ve never lived. Lives I’ll never live. Yet, somehow...

Chapter 1: Kidnapping

A door slammed shut, shaking the wall around it. After bouncing and oscillating for a few seconds, a worn-down sign settled, crooked to the right. “...

Banished To Earth Book One (40)

Of course, the bed was a cozy nest of silky material spread over a cloud of comfort and warmth. After slipping into a pair of fur-lined sandals that...
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The Little Lamb

My Scottish grandmother, Helen, had a remarkably efficient system for deciding who was best. The firstborn won. That was it. No interviews, no...
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The First Witch Chapter 4

Chapter Four. The Lake. Das flew steadily over the Forest. Jasmine leaned over his neck, peering down through the trees and picking out the winding...
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Amanderella and the Ppockingstull Treasure Chapter 2

Chapter 2. Home Visit. Amanderella drew herself up to her full height, hat and all. “Mother, Father, I have come home to make something perfectly...
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Tom All Alone 17

I posted a version of this a few years back, as some may remember. It was a factual piece as the incident actually happened. I've rewritten it now as...
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Supper With Sarah...

An unexpected end to a romantic supper...

Banished To Earth Book One (39)

Chapter 22 142 Neither said anything as they climbed the thickly carpeted stairs, turned left at the top, and slowly padded their way to their...

Factory Haiku Set

Strong men with wrenches turning and yanking loose screws: teamwork and timing Robot and human minds and "hands," meet to produce sound shining...

Banished To Earth Book One (38)

“It’s kinda like found footage shaky, shadowy…” Trudy hesitated, “hard to watch.” She leaned forward, snatched the remote, and quickly turned the...

The Weiver

It wasn't until recently that they saw themselves; the face in the mirror was never their own. They were a mind piloting a vessel, two separate...
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