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Title: The Archivist's ChoiceThe library was a graveyard of ideas. Rows upon rows of petrified books stretched into an infinite distance, their pages turned to stone, their ink faded to a ghostly grey. This was the End of Time, the place where all narratives finally came to a halt. I was the last Archivist. I was bound to a cross made of the world's most forbidden texts, the spines of the books digging into my back, the...0 Comments 0 Shares 5 Views 0 ReviewsPlease log in to like, share and comment!
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Title: The White GalleryThe room is a perfect cube of blinding, matte white. There are no corners, no shadows, no exit. In the center of this void, I am installed. I am a living sculpture. My body is stretched across a cross of polished aluminum, my limbs held in place by invisible magnetic fields. I am not a prisoner; I am an exhibit. The title of the piece is "The Geometry of Absolute Agony." The "ritual" is a...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and MagnoliasI. The magnolias were blooming, which meant summer had arrived in a way that made the air so thick you could chew it. I stood on the porch of the main house and watched the flowers—white, perfect, obscene in their beauty—swaying in a breeze that smelled like damp earth and decay. I was twenty-eight years old, and I was the last Thorne who lived in the house that my great-great-grandfather had...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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The Paper Trail of Silence(Epistolary Novel Variation) Dear Clara, I am writing this from a room that feels less like a home and more like a waiting room for the inevitable. The rain has been falling for six days, a relentless gray curtain that has erased the horizon. I can hear the clock ticking in the hallway, each second a small, precise hammer blow against the silence. You asked me why I left the city. I cannot tell...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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The Weight of a Pebble(Act I: The Grey Shift) Sam lived in the town of Oakhaven, where the only thing more consistent than the rain was the sound of the factory whistle. For twenty years, he had worked in the stamping plant, his life a loop of grey concrete and metallic noise. He was a man of habits: the same coffee, the same route to work, the same silence at dinner. He didn't want power; he just wanted the noise...0 Comments 0 Shares 5 Views 0 Reviews
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The FloodI. The river was rising. This was not news. The river was always rising in May. But this year it was rising faster than usual, and the men at the weather station were using words like "fifty-year event" and "possibly higher," which is the kind of news that makes you check your insurance and then pretend you did not. My name is Dale Rutherford. I am forty-two years old. I drive a truck. I lived...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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The Man Who WatchedI am Nick Delaney and I write about things nobody reads for a website called The Brooklyn Beat that gets four hundred visitors a month and pays me in exposure. I am thirty-four years old and I have been thirty-four for six years, which is the New York version of being stuck. The story about Marcus Rivera was supposed to be my breakthrough. A rising star from the Bronx, the article was going to...0 Comments 0 Shares 4 Views 0 Reviews
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The Observer at Five PointsCase file #47: Margaret O'Brien, personal notes. Date: March 14, 1963. I did not want this job. I wanted to finish my degree at Columbia, like my father had wanted me to before the incident at the precinct that made finishing anything feel impossible. Instead I was sitting in a third-floor office above a laundromat on Broadway, typing up case reports for a man who treated the rules of criminal...0 Comments 0 Shares 9 Views 0 Reviews
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The Man Who WatchedI am Nick Delaney and I write about things nobody reads for a website called The Brooklyn Beat that gets four hundred visitors a month and pays me in exposure. I am thirty-four years old and I have been thirty-four for six years, which is the New York version of being stuck. The story about Marcus Rivera was supposed to be my breakthrough. A rising star from the Bronx, the article was going to...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and MagnoliasI. The magnolias were blooming, which meant summer had arrived in a way that made the air so thick you could chew it. I stood on the porch of the main house and watched the flowers—white, perfect, obscene in their beauty—swaying in a breeze that smelled like damp earth and decay. I was twenty-eight years old, and I was the last Thorne who lived in the house that my great-great-grandfather had...0 Comments 0 Shares 5 Views 0 Reviews
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The Ivory HorizonThe humidity of the Congo Basin was a physical weight, a damp shroud that clung to Colonel Alistair Finch's starch-collared tunic. It was 1884, and the map of Africa was being carved into jagged pieces by men in distant European parlors. Finch, a man of the Queen's service and a devotee of the Royal Geographical Society, was not interested in the carving; he was interested in the void. Finch...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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The Threshold of Echoes(Liminal Fantasy Variation) The town of Oakhaven existed in the spaces between breaths. It was a place where the fog never fully lifted and the clocks all ran at slightly different speeds. To the casual observer, it looked like a sleepy New England village, but to those who lived there, it was a threshold—a waiting room for the things that had been forgotten by the rest of the world. Julian was...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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