Category: Discovery
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Vivid Murderous Dreams Part 2
I have the bathtub running as I plug my shaver into the power point. The person in the mirror is a shadow hidden behind the faces of those facing death every moment of the day. They change and pass by me quickly in vivid blurs. I see and hear everything…
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Criminal Alibi
‘What the fuck is this about? I haven’t seen you in months and now the police want to bring me in for questioning. Whatever you’ve done, I want no part of. Jesus, you are stupid!’ The line is silent for a moment. Sean is lost for words and letting me…
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The Philosopher (Submitted by Juicy McBurger)
There is only one thing you can do with a degree in philosophy, and that is teach philosophy. The warning of my late parents echoed in my head. Turns out they were only half right. I can’t teach anything without a teaching degree, so I actually can’t do anything. Except…
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Vivid Murderous Dreams Part 1
All this blood on my hands, from crimes I never committed! The terrors that haunt my sub-conscience through the early hours of the morning, when the world is still dark. The streetlights beneath my apartment illuminate my room, barely. The screams wail in my ears of victims I’ve never met.…
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Basement paradox
I walk into the home that is so familiar, yet has changed drastically since I moved. The carpet is now grey instead of lavender. The walls are painted chrome with a feature wall of blue, and baby blue as well. The state of the house almost disgusts me, and it…
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Murder Reborn
Another body and person to my name, not once caught. I am a genius serial killer and have even got the attention from the FBI’s most wanted list. Consider me flattered. I don’t know or care who they are. A number on a long list of people who pay me…
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LAb RAt? Human?
I slowly blink my vision into focus and open my eyes ever so slowly. The lights are fixated on me, and the room is small. Perhaps that has something to do with the number of long white coats I can see lining the walls, clipboards in hands. I could easily…
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Stranded Story
Everyday, the gods are working hard to create life. Every single piece of life is created by them, and no one can comprehend what it means. Every piece right down to the amino acids combined to create deoxyribonucleic acid, all within a double helix. Thousands of gods with insurmountable power.…
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Okay Google
Can you give me any answer I want? “I can do my best! What is it you wish to know?” Where can I find alien life? “I am not sure I know what you mean” I said what I said. “I do not have the answers to that question currently.…
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Cultist Beliefs
The more I learn, the more I see myself aligning my values with this group. Some may call it teenage rebellion, want to be separate to my parents and their way of life. I call it home. They believe with all their hearts, follow their dreams, treat others as equals,…
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Closed Door, Open Door
‘When one door closes, another one opens.’ To you that may be inspirational to have yet another opportunity to walk into, but for me it is quite the opposite. When doors close, I am infinitely met by more doors opening up. An endless video game sort of Groundhog Day. I…
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Rewriting memories
You think this would begin like many stories with a book opening. ‘Once Upon A Time’. This is not that story. I was given this book from my grandmother before she died and told to never open it in the presence of others. It was a magic book. From the…
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Before My Time
I always tell my friends that I was born in the wrong generation. I would much rather live in the ‘80s than the current year, 2023. The music was better, the clothes were so cool, just everything about it appeals to me. I wish I got to experience the ‘80s…
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Swapped Philosopher
These are people that will hang on to every word that comes out of my mouth. I am carrying the weight of my credibility as this philosopher and all philosophers yet to emerge. Fuck, this is all a lot to deal with right now. I don’t know his past work.…
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Dreamcatcher
I am around. Floating. The things I see are insanely cool! Like I see all these stories come to life while she sleeps and I feel the emotion of disappointment when she loses the story. Then when she’s awake I try and give them back to make sure she tries…
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Reader of Self
This book continues to get more interesting as I read along! Seeing this character’s life fleshed out in such incredible detail is inspiring. Truly captivating! I see myself relating to the protagonist a lot. The author, P. Harrison really made a sympathetic and grounded character which I haven’t seen a…
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Two Paths Ahead
I expected that at some point I would come across a fork in the path. What I did not expect was figuring out which of the two ways I should keep walking along. I look up and try to see what is up ahead of each path. The left one…
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Small Talk
So instead of asking someone “How are you?” in a whiny, customer service voice and giving the prescribed syllabus of standard answers, I like to turn it on its head. Instead, I improvise a question that confuses the other person. Like “How many oranges does it take to elephant a…
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D-S-Y-L-U-X-O-E: Dyslexia
I’m a storyteller – or at least try to be. My brain loves jumping all over the place. Sort of how my brain jumps around the alphabet, possibly undiagnosed dyslexia. D-S-Y-L-U-X-O-E. Dyslexia. I am naturally drawn and intrigued by words and language, so I try to write lyrics, poems, novels,…
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A Death Too close to home
Shit! I opened my feed to see news of Jayden McNorton dying in a head-on collision. I went to high school with that guy. It is so close to home that I worry about my own life. I drive down that road every day to work and it could have…
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Letter to Other life
To the concern of the nearest life force, We have been trying to contact you for many years. Us humans are boring and stupidly complex. We want to know- or me especially want to know there is more out there. Us human beings have a thing called the spotlight effect…
The Main Character 