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"We're doing about 96, wouldn't you say?" Says the man resting on the tanker. Its belly rusted but its innards full of fresh diesel. John fills up an extra tank for the road and looks up in the sky as if he can better tell the temperature from the sun's appearance.
"That's not a bad guesstimate," John says and taps the hose to get a few...
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THE SECRETE WIND
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HRUUNTAG SNORTED.
" MASTER, MY MASER, HAVE I PLEASED YOU?"
" YES,MY SERVANT. AND YOU SHALL REEP THE REWARD."
HRUUNTAG SMILES HIS CROOKED-TOOTHED SMILE. RIKKIESH PACED IN FRONT OF HRUUNTAG, THEN STOPPED, COMING TO A HAULT. HE PUT HIS GLOVED HAMDS ON HRUUNTAGS HEAD. HRUUNTAG SMLED.
" THANK YOU,MY LORD, THANK YOU."
RIKKIESH LAUGHED...
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The pain surged through Private First Class Liam Harris's body as Master Sergeant .James Millwall pulls an eight inch piece of metal out of his leg blood begins gushing from the gaping wound. James places his hand onto the wound and presses down hard trying to stop the bleeding; this causes a scream of agony to erupt from Liam. Quickly James slaps his other hand over Liam's mouth while...
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A truck drives out through the flat bottom lands of the Permian Basin. The truck runs on diesel; the fumes of which float up into the air and sit in the noses of the passengers, 12 in all. The flat bed of the truck is boarded in an improvised fence railing, keeping any of the passengers from rolling out of the truck and onto the hard ground below that...
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I remember a blinding flash from below. Moments later, a shock wave pummeled my fighter, blasting it through the air and out of control, as though it were a tumble-weed caught in a tornado's fury. I fought to regain control though completely disoriented, not even able to discern the difference between up and down. Then I realized the control panel was black, no electronics. You...
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A name can mean nothing, or everything. He rolled over in bed as his mind spewed questions and answers unending into the empty confines of his room. With eyes closed he wandered with great imagination into all the places and palaces of The Chosen. What is in a name? He did not chose them, nor did anyone else he knew, so obviously they chose themselves. They created The Nameless to love and...
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At age 14, Evelyn stopped smiling. Two years earlier, also four years after Lord's first visit, David succumbed to pressure and reluctantly joined Lord's alliance. Evelyn enjoyed the entire thing far more than he did. There, she could do what she wanted. There, Evelyn could feel normal.
David, however, felt far less than comfortable. His membership was tentative at...
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Brian let his mind wander as he sat in the sun, soaking up a few rays as they used to say. He was an old man and he felt it, the arthritis in his knees had forced a life of leisure on him and he had recently celebrated his eightieth birthday. His mind strayed back as it often did, to the world as it had been before the crash of ‘09', he found it hard to believe that the world...
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A much shorter chapter, I'm afraid.
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He awoke to the sound of cereal falling into a bowl. Sunlight splashed across his face while the last vestiges of sleep took refuge from the luminance. Irene's necklace rested on his chest, one of his hands resting calmly over it. He found himself lying on the couch, one leg dangling off the side while his other...
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As he stepped from his vehicle; he lifted his protective visor and gazed outwards with awe at the shear beauty his eyes feasted upon. The scenery was disturbing in nature, but beautiful nonetheless. Rolling hills of greenery stretched out as far as he could see, and the sky was bluer then he had ever known before. He...
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A knock on the door roused David from his much-needed sleep. It was not a knock, per se, but rather an incessant series of loud and cacophonous collisions with the door. Groggy and caught within the final moments of a dream, David rolled over in his bed, staring blearily at the digital clock on his nightstand.
3:45 a.m.
As he wondered who in God's...
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He never had a chance of getting the job. Three signs, two customers, and the manager had made it very clear that he was not welcome there, lest he somehow order the animals to break free of their cages and kill them. When he sensed the hostility, David had ushered Evelyn away to the turtle tank while he and the manager spoke. In truth, it was more along the lines of David listening...
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The Hecatomb
His name was David Verre, and he was a broken man. War had come silently, under the cloak of piety. It was never outright warfare. No, there were no tanks, no missiles, no field orders sent from general to general. In fact, in the eyes of most of the populace, it could hardly be considered a war. It was a purging; a cleansing that tried to separate...
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Just
as he should, and always does, he sat up immediately at the sound of
the awakening bell. It was his day. Throwing the covers to the left,
folding them in half in the process, he turned and set his feet on
the ground. Oddly the wooden floor did not bite his feet in their
cold temperature difference. The closet stood immediately in front of
him. Ripping it open his black jump suit...
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Charley was working when Stan came over; he was working on a particularly complex part and was trying to understand the drawing in front of him.
"Did ya catch the match last night?"
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BEFORE IS START THE STORY, UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO LINEAR NARRATIVE TO IT. IT IS SET IN A CITY SOMEWHERE IN THE U.S. IT IS ABOUT A GUARDAIN, SOMEONE WHO PROTECTS BOTH THE EARTH AND ITS BROTHER, HALEN, A WORLD OF MAGIC. THE GUARDIAN BATTLES AGAINST THE FORCES OF GARTHOR, THE SON OF THE EMPEROR OF EVIL. I WILL TELL YOU OF ONLY ONE OF HIS TRIALS, HIS CONVERSATION WITH DEATH.
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Introduction
Please lets all sit and ponder this for a moment, read these words, question them, think about them, and apply them to yourselves and your reading.
The world we now live in is a horrible, terrifying, villian infested place where your modern man is now an ant in an ant farm, constantly working for a better environment and being watched and judged by the higher...
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He opened his eyes and remembered he shared a reality with others. Dreams fading, seemed to slip from his mind like trying to hold sand. Laying there he realized he remembered what it was to be cold. His instincts told him there was some other feeling, some other sensation, opposite of what he felt now, but he couldn’t remember. He couldn’t remember his name or his mothers face,...
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THE BEAST LUNGED FORWARD, AND WITH A GREAT SWEEP OF ITS MIGHTY PAW, IT NOCKED TWO MEN AW
-AY. RIKKIESH'S FORM TURNED INTO A THICK BLACK SMOKE, AND WIFTED AWAY. THE LYPHAX HAD LITTLE DIFFICULTY IN DESTROYING ALL OF THESE MEN, AND EVEN LAID DOWN TO MUNCH ON THE CORPSE OF ONE
OF ITS VICTIMS.
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