Tag: fantasy
member name: Xen Q.
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November 10, 2007 07:13 PM EST --
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Roselyn traced the thumbtack across her inner arm, the softer, lighter skin through which she could almost see her veins under faded scars. As she did, another line of deep red welled up . . .
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July 23, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
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While sitting in the bookstore, plotting how best to murder the pretentious middle aged writer who squeezed in next to me, I notice some woman with her child . . .
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February 01, 2007 10:52 PM EST --
Shane dreamt. All was silent and distant, sepia filtered and muted. She stood in the center of a field, posture strange. No, not a field but the ruins. Unlike her usual dreams, Shane watched herself from . . .
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March 26, 2007 05:53 PM EDT --
Virgil's grave presented an obstacle. They tore at soil packed tightly by ages of rain and settling, grass growing lushly over every fertile inch. Every fistful of earth she and her doppelganger freed . . .
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October 23, 2006 07:24 PM EDT --
Science fiction will not wholly lie to you. While there is not yet credible, immersive virtual reality, some people devote much too much of their lives in alternate reality games on the internet. A few . . .
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March 06, 2007 11:18 PM EST --
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Roselyn stood over Shane's body, buried under a cairn of pillows. She tapped Shane with her shoe, not expecting a reaction and thus not being disappointed. "How long has she been this . . .
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October 23, 2006 07:04 PM EDT --
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Virgil watched from his bunk as Jake left the room with the last of his treasured videogames in a satchel slung over his shoulder. These games had a lot more to do with Jake's recovery than . . .
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December 11, 2006 07:27 PM EST --
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She watched from a safe distance as the man exited his one of the faculty houses. There were many buildings dotting the borders of the campus, originally imagined as guesthouses for Blythewood's . . .
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April 26, 2007 10:40 PM EDT --
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Shane gasped, shocked that she could breathe, more shocked at the darkness of night. She groped above and around for a ton of dirt over her, for a coffin or cement or her destroyed body crumpled . . .
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December 13, 2006 09:42 PM EST --
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Shane called Eliot's name into the still air. The sun was setting in the distance. She spent the day rallying her courage for this conversation. She called again, glanced around, and cut into . . .
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March 22, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
"Come to pay some last respects?" Girl asked as Gabe entered the room. She strolled to him as if for a greeting hug, but walked passed and slammed shut the door of her room. She lean against . . .
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November 09, 2006 11:37 PM EST --
Shane was feeling far too awake to attempt sleep once she left the faculty tower. The coldness of the air against her exposed skin was too invigorating and stung far too keenly, though impotently. A quiet . . .
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March 05, 2007 12:14 PM EST --
From page 23$()@#g@ of the Codex:
There are some who say that visions are simply neurochemistry, the misfiring of a brain starved of oxygen, water, or entertainment. There are some who say, just as correctly, . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:35 AM EST --
Shane stood, threw down the papers she held, and walked a dozen feet around. Not-V gave no reaction, did not so much as raise his eyes from the pile Shane created. She huffed back and stood before the . . .
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March 18, 2007 03:18 PM EDT --
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No matter where she placed the pictures, it seemed like a child's game she was steadily losing. She placed one photo on the other in a way that made sense to her, though often to her alone. . . .
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April 02, 2007 08:34 PM EDT --
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The dry erase marker sketch of a prostrate figure of a nude woman covered the automatic glass door of the student union building. She held her half-lotus knees as though in ecstatic pain, a red . . .
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November 08, 2006 05:42 PM EST --
Virgil knocked on the heavy green door and waited. An announcement came over the speakers and he heard the clop of a student aide floors below beginning their nightly check for lingering patrons. He could . . .
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November 15, 2006 04:50 PM EST --
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Initially and despite his outburst threatening to kill someone who wasn't there, the only change against Jake was the removal of evidence from a crime scene. The police knew colleges in general . . .
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November 18, 2006 12:36 PM EST --
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Shane sat cross-legged on her bed doing her assignment. Silver gleamed across her naked thigh, flared red, then pale peach. The stopwatch read 23.55. She measured the flat side of the razor against . . .
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September 27, 2006 08:58 PM EDT --
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Finishing cutting the sacred circle into the air with her knife and drawing down a cone of protection, Roselyn knelt and rubbed the oil - a mixture of sandalwood, patchouli and myrrh, along with . . .
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