Short Stories
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My husband and I were an intellectual pair. We were together because we didn’t interfere with the other’s work and we had a handsome companion on our hand for social events people in our position were required to frequent. The only thing I asked of him was fidelity and the only thing he asked of…
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“This is your fault!” “What did I do?” I rolled my eyes as she smiled apologetically. Feeling sorry for me for the slump my writing was in, she had spoken the most intelligent words ever to have come out of her mouth, “Let’s do something adventurous. Even if it doesn’t work out, at least it’ll…
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The world was young, fresh and full of untold adventures. God was still sending down birds, beasts, trees and anything he could think of as His two favourite sons frolicked in the new Eden. It was but seven days since the beginning of time when a curious looking four-legged creature walked onto the scene, braying…
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The peace and serenity of the blue and green water finally allowed Zark to feel more alive than dead. He knew the waters of the Yalli lake gave the person swimming within its shores foresight but he had had no idea they also provided a sense of peace.
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“Subject 410 died of a cardiac arrest at,” a pause, a quick shuffle, “four hundred hours on the eleventh day of the lunar moon. Sample 41523 failed to graft correctly.” A click, a soul-weary sigh, then, “Even though it was showing the greatest promise until twenty minutes ago.”
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In a land far away, so far that you’d need to go by ship and wait until you reached the end of the world to find it, lived a queen who was kind and just. She had many subjects but no advisors. She lived by the principle of ‘Mother knows best’ and more often than…
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There was a little boy who wanted to know where all the birds and beasts came from. So he pestered his mother with questions, who in her infinite patience told him, “Why the good lord made it all.” Unsatisfied with the answer, he solicited the help of his teachers, peers and priest. All any of…
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