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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
dark corridor (short story)
It is a very long, dreary corridor. You hear a door slam behind you. You hear laughing and voices, but it is so faint you can scarcely understand what they are saying. You walk…
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
emilia (short story)
When I first met Mike just over a year ago, he hadn’t expected it to go so well, but it was one of those random situations where familiarity and common interests made chatting…
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
the magical object (short story)
There was a warm feeling in the air of the laboratory. The other scientists were excited at the discovery of their magical discovery. The magic was so powerful that they could…
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
the girl in the whirlpool (short story)
"And this one will make me a fully fledged Mage?" Lord Andrew gestured at the circle of runes sketched out on the stone floor. He felt he was about to burst with anticipation, it…
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
i miss her (short story)
This was the first time I had felt like this. The hurt was throbbing and the memories flooding back of my youth. I had wondered during those times if something was wrong with me.…
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
potions and portals (short story)
The girl did not look up when she entered her father's workshop. Her office had become a home of sorts, but she felt that it wasn't the same as being at home. She knew that she…
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- Author $1.61
- Curators $1.52
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
unwanted (short story)
You want your powers? If what you know is true, they're in my blood. Drink it and they'll be yours. Forever." It's hard to believe how a voice can be so seductive. I find…
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- Author $1.78
- Curators $1.69
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
sinner, evil, sorcerer (short story)
“I must protest, deputies!” Thomas Putnam, Esquire, said, standing up from his seat. “These girls are obviously being made to manufacture some falsehoods against this…
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- Author $2.67
- Curators $2.55
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
food for robots (short story)
I was awakened by an obnoxious buzzer. I swung my legs off the edge of my metal pallet, pushing myself up to a seated position and then stood up, groggily. The factory lights…
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- Author $2.20
- Curators $2.09
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
elves, witches and goblins (short story)
I don’t know how it started, but the trouble between humans and mononoke started after the witches were all executed in the early 17th century. Before the witch burnings, the…
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- Author $2.21
- Curators $2.08
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
madoopalus (short story)
On Madoopalus, there is no dawn, no night. But there is day, when the Queen shines her face upon her newest subjects. On such a day, the carriage of the Prime Minister Euler…
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- Author $1.86
- Curators $1.76
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
the alien plant (short story)
The team leader, Corporal Allen Coonrad, walked quickly through the snow-covered mountains of Scotland. The other members of the team, Corporal Kim Parker and Private Eugene…
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- Author $1.63
- Curators $1.54
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
the aranian hills (short story)
The smell of pine wafted through the air. As we rode, I soaked in the scenery. The Aranian hills were beautiful, lush with green vegetation and surrounded by fields of…
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- Author $1.84
- Curators $1.73
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 3 years ago
the guardians (short story)
As he was running away from his mother, he heard the whispers at being following. He knew for sure that he smelled something. His mother had gone crazy and she wasn't making…
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- Author $2.70
- Curators $2.55
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 4 years ago
houses of water (short story)
Just like the water had come in and surrounded the beach, so too people came in and surrounded the town. We were left with little fertile land, so we looked for hardier survivors…
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- Author $1.03
- Curators $0.98
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 4 years ago
robbie and the other eye (short story)
Turn on the light, I said to myself. Looking around the dimly lit room, I already noticed that I was not alone; there was another person, on the other side of the room. The…
$1.61
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- Author $0.82
- Curators $0.79
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 4 years ago
the man (short story)
“What’s the matter? You got a boo-boo?” “What do you think?” The man’s voice was cold and his face was twisted with anger. His blue eyes burned with a ravenous fire—an anger…
$2.89
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- Author $1.48
- Curators $1.42
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 4 years ago
the new world (short story)
Just another glorious, sunny day in the history of the United States, another day of leisure on the white man's land. Christopher Columbus, an Italian Explorer in 1498 (not the…
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- Author $1.50
- Curators $1.43
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 4 years ago
algorithm (short story)
They needed to coordinate a date to go to the store and get some items. They knew what humans liked to have in their kitchens for a snack (salty snacks like chips and pretzels)…
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- Author $1.76
- Curators $1.69
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xylophonevalley (54)in #story • 4 years ago
time glider (short story)
My time machine looks like a beat-up old motor cycle from the 1960s, in the days when such bikes were shiny and chromey. I call it my Time-Glider and have never told anyone about…
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- Author $1.58
- Curators $1.51
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Mylo Xyloto (54)