short short stories
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May 17th Another day, another headache, dear diary. Arturo says it’s nerves. I don’t think it’s nerves. I think it is the opposite of nerves. I’m so happy my head is literally not figuratively splitting. Headache, schmeadache, my first week at the Copernicus went great. I’m not working on any of the major artifacts found
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I am the dark in the shadow. I am footsteps running across the night. The yowl that heralds the midnight sun. I am mystery, untamed. “No, no, Biscuits, shoo,” my human said. Thwarted yet again, I regrouped to my command center below the kitchen table. The door of treasures slammed shut. Fortunately, patience is my
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Ring Ring. “Hello?” “Hey, hon, what’s up? I just got an alert on my phone?” Reva said. “A what?” “An alert, you know, the Ring camera thingy you set up sent me a notification. Looks like the back door was opened. You didn’t leave it unlocked again, did you?” “Um, no, I would never do
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“Another one,” Detective Hank Langdon said. His partner, Detective Hen Ball, took in a steadying breath. There had been the elderly man found garroted in a tub of milk in the white tiled changing room at Maxim Gym. Eight days later, a teenaged couple were reported missing. Their bodies were found blue and bloated inside
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Every night there had to be one cowboy, Ember thought. He tossed another handful of sawdust over the sick on the carnival ride’s floor. Days like this made Ember wish he was on one of the classier rides like Pegasus’ Flight. Ember remembered a guy even proposed to his high school sweetheart on Pegasus’s Flight.
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Face hot from tears that she refused to show, Aliyah rolled silverware into paper napkins. She could not get angry, no one could see her lose her cool. HomeSpun was a casual eating franchise in WhitLawn Heights Shopping Centre. The “centre” spelling showed this shopping area was upscale. Only high end salons, luxury boutiques, and
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“I don’t care. You can’t stay,” Peter said as he handed his brother a hot cup of coffee. When Peter saw the news alert on his phone yesterday afternoon he knew either Percy or Pearl would be appearing at his front door with an outrageous story. His triplet siblings were always pieces of work. Thank
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Lavender, sweet and heavy, floated in the air. Not lavender from a field or a bar of drugstore soap, no the smell of one of those fancy candles. Sarah hadn’t known what to expect. The waiting area looked like a nice hotel lounge, of course it would. What had she expected a Halloween set with
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“It’s a paradox, isn’t it?” Luz had been pretending to scratch her nose to cover a yawn. She had been up since five cleaning the house then getting the kids off to school and herself to work. They were down three social workers at the Intermediate Unit and she knew the minute she got home
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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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