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  • Lunch Special

    A silvery flick of drones swooped and soared over a mirror lake. Transports streamed past Mount Shani. Their chem trails sparkled like diamonds against the platinum sky. Lewis 5 stared out the window over its station as it chopped Italian parsley.“What do you think it’s thinking?” William whispered.“Well it has been chopping herbs for three

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  • Glitched

    Enthusiastic applause erupted. Dr. Penelope Wolf smiled, pushing down the ripple of anxiety. Her eyes darted from the bookshop’s front door to the rear exit. Jessie patted Penelope’s knee and leaned in close.“Remember, breathe.”Jessie’s motherly voice smothered her forest fire of nerves. Penelope released a trapped sigh. Despite the lavender bubble bath, the honey ginger

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  • The Last Word

    No more blank pages! No more missed deadlines. Tired of countless hours wasted on writing and rewriting, let Alternative Intelligence do the writing for you. Meet our first narrative tool the Say Again. Stop wasting time writing the same sentence over and over again to your reader with the Say Again. At the click of

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  • The Doppelgänger Diary

    Achoo! I grabbed my head to keep it from falling off. Barking at my sneeze, Mr Wiggles jumped off my bed and trotted down off to the kitchen. “Et tu cane,” I shouted after my Yorkie’s fluffy butt. Ugg, every inch of me ached in novel ways. Ding. I turned my congested head on my

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  • Story Time

    It was the gathering time. In ThisPlace, there was a time for everything. Times to eat, times to work, times to sleep, and now was the time to gather and share information. They all adhered to the schedule because planning is life. To keep their island going each person had to do their share, each

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  • The Early Bird Special

    “Swallow verb, definition to cause or allow something usually food or drink to pass down the throat. Swallow, noun, definition the act of swallowing something usually food or drink. But the phrase, one swallow doesn’t make a summer. Explain please Dr. Shalim call me Jon. People like foods and drinks and people like summers. Does

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  • T.S. 15

    The first thing Dr. Esau Rankin, head of sleep psychology, Nash University, noticed about his trip from the airport to the laboratory was how beautiful it was. Structural agave and barrel cacti jutted wild angles from the flat desert scape. Dr. Rankin wished he could take some video for Lily. His youngest had started collecting

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  • Baby Carrots

    “Hello, hello,” Shanae asked.“Yes.”“Is this Yum Yum GoGo’s complaint line?” Shanae asked with an edge to her voice.“Do you not know what you called? I can direct you to medical services, brain trauma. Are you a minor in need of assistance? I can direct you to social services. If you are—““Back the truck up. I

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  • New Sheriff in Town: the field trip

    Marty scrubbed a hand over his shaved and cologne scented face. He hated Mondays and children and today’s bring Your Daughter to Work Day would be a nightmare. Why me?Lincoln and his five little horrors walked in through LifeWell’s revolving door. Marty’s smile widen as Lincoln approached. Lincoln quirked an eyebrow and they put on

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  • Santa Baby

    I lay my hands on the dingy brown paper sack. “The question isn’t where I got it. The question is are you willing to pay the agreed upon price.”Big Dollar was a six foot four tower of muscle, covered in the Consho Cru tats and scarred from death matches at the Naval Yard. He stared

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