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The Black Box

I ran. I ran as fast as I could. I didn’t know what was following me, but I did know that I didn’t want it to catch me. So I ran. I have to admit that I’m not exactly in perfect shape, but I guess when you’re running for your life, you tend to run [...]

What if…

I stood there watching her as she walked down the aisle. She was beautiful. Her dress was beautiful. I’d never seen her in it before of course, so I was not sure what to expect. I shifted a little just so I could watch her walking down the aisle a little better. I don’t think [...]

The magician

This is a crosspost from cybrpunk.com.
I remember one time when I was eight years old and my parents took me to a county fair. It wasn’t our county as ours didn’t have fairs worth mentioning but the next nearest one to us. They always had the best fairs with ponies, demolition derbies, funnel cakes, lemonade [...]

When we were little

I remember the stories that I had once forgotten. When we were little, our parents and relatives and neighbors and friends would tell us gruesome tales of witches and ghosts; goblins and haints. The stories usually had some moral to them to try and scare us into not doing things they didn’t want [...]