Category: conversation
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A False King
“You think me a pawn!?” the knight captain booms, his voice shaking the hall they stood in “You think me a fool who would absently follow the heedings of a corrupt man? You think I would yield to your orders, and lay my life down for that which has forsaken me? That which would forsake…
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Lost No Longer
“To kindred hearts!” Marius yells, “That we may one day be lost no longer!” Adam raises his cup to toast his words into being, but his companion, Orion, stops it with a hand. “To be lost, is a merciful pain.” Orion says, “In our failure to find north, we learn the brittle reality of nomads…
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Beyond The Skyline
“What lies beyond?” she asked me with a voice so innocently sad. “Do the cosmos echo the melody of starbound travelers? Are there stardust rivers that ripple through still primordial skies? Or is there only darkness, a rumbling void that comes to swallow all we never knew to ask, about the world above?” I want…
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The Mountain’s Top
I feel a sharp pain shoot through my leg as I step on a piece of rock jutting through the grassy floor. My knees buckle as I struggle to find my balance, wobbling back and forth as I shift my weight to keep myself upright. As I do my awkward dance however, the round tin…
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A Failure, Through and Through.
He was a failure, through and through. The thought echoes through Yuri’s mind as he grips his plate tightly, struggling to cut into the fish on it with his plastic knife. “Here.” a voice beside him says. Yuri looks up and sees Brull, one of his childhood bestfriends sitting beside him, with a fork in…
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The Purpose of Rain
A soft rumbling fills the skies as Isaiah looks up to watch a wave of clouds envelope the sun. It would rain soon, Isaiah notes, as the skies turned gray and a chilly breeze sweeps through the park. He had been walking around the park for hours now, exploring the paths and hiking through its…
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A Peaceful Radiant Light
A short snippet from a story. A conversation of reminisce between a wonderstruck man and a curious young boy about a mysterious individual.
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