The Main Character

Stories

  • The Voice Says…

    Good morning Control Centre. How are things up top? “Up top? When have you ever referred to me as that? Do not do it again. Status report: functioning as per usual. You’re my best friend! Of course, I’m going to joke around with you, silly. You know me better than anyone, including myself. I can’t…

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  • Junkyard Adventures

    I hate people. I’m more content with life amongst the trash abandoned by others. The junkyard is my home. I can use whatever materials I want, I don’t need to pay the government stuff all to live here, and I have no neighbours to annoy me. It may not look like much, but I ain’t…

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  • Unblooded

    Emma walks home at a steady pace hours after the study hall closes. A brush of orange paints the skyline as the sun is slowly gets dimmer. The only noise coming from her ear buds and whisking her away from the world. The man looms in the shadows and sees a young girl alone: who…

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  • Power Hungry Boss

    My boss keeps nagging me about work. Well, really he keeps micromanaging me and my work. I’m doing fine, not making mistakes and I trust myself to get the work done. I am well and truly over the nonsense by now. Evan wasn’t always this stuck up and controlling, but since he stepped into the…

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  • A conversation with life

    “Hang on, let me get this straight. You are allowed to be hypocritical since you wrote the game? Rules don’t apply to you?” Silent nods follow from the person sitting across from me with their coffee. “I don’t know who you think you are, but you cannot control people in this manner. Especially playing with…

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  • Magic Raindrops

    The rain trickles down my window pane. I am thankful I am shielded by the warmth inside. A thought slips into my consciousness, but these thoughts only occur when it rains. Something in me is telling me to run outside with my arms open wide to the sky and embrace the rain. Something in me…

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