50 Word Story Expanded
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“Bobby, are you sure this is the way he went?” She asks, as they slowly make their way down the deserted hallway, their torches tearing through the darkness like knives. “He ran in here, I swear I’m not lying Sofie, it was Lyndon James, as god is my witness, and all that other crap, he ran…
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I don’t know when I first noticed it, the coldness, outside the air was warm, beautiful in fact, I could’ve stripped down to nothing, and still felt like I had too many clothes on, but, inside the house, it was cold, and I mean dead cold. Nothing I could do would make it anymore than…
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“Just put the fucking matches down, and let me help you!” She screams, his eyes nervously twitch, moving from the match stick in his hand, to the box in the other, and then to her, and back again, “Toby! For fuck sake, LISTEN to me! Whatever shit you’ve gotten yourself into, it’s not as bad as you…
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“So, how much bullshit is this guy full of?” He asks, pressing the phone against his ear with his shoulder, while reading over the words on the computer screen. “Depends who your talking to, some people say he’s a genius, others will tell you he’s a hack with no skill,” a voice replies to him…
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He raises the shotgun and holds it nervously towards him, “This ends HERE Jedediah!” He yells. A wry smile creeps onto Jedediah’s face, then, he begins to laugh, “Sorry, I know you’re trying to be all macho and shit, but, you look like fucking Cyndi Lauper on acid, after eating three full-grown giraffes.” One of…
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He grips the blade and thrusts it deep within her stomach, her eyes grow wide, her mouth, falls open, and quivers. “W-W-Why?” She asks, he smiles and pushes the blade in deeper. “Why not?” He replies, she grabs all the energy she has left and drives her head into his, sending him reeling backwards, he…
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“I said, I didn’t care what you thought, I just want you to do what I say!” He yells, smashing a fits down onto the table, a plate jumps with the impact, and crashes back down, splitting in half, She looks down at it, then up at him angrily. “Bastard! That was my grandmothers!” “Who…
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“The world in chaos, brother fighting brother, sister killing sister, families, dying, humanity, on the verge of extinction, yet” he says, gripping the podium tightly, looking around at the faces of the small gathering before him. He bows his head and closes his eyes, “Yet, they still abandon his word, they still ignore his existence,…
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“You son-of-a-bitch, I can’t believe I trusted you, I can’t believe, we all trusted you!” He yells, as he grabs her by the throat and slams her against the wall, she struggles for air, trying to free herself from his grip, then, suddenly, she stops struggling, relaxes herself, and smiles. “This is embarrassing,” she says…
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“It’s wrong, all of it, you need to start again,” he says, looking down at the young man’s handiwork. “W-W-What? B-B-But I…..” “But, but, nothing Foster, start again, from scratch. This is a blatant example of what I told you all not to do, just look around at the others, look at the time and…
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“Tell me, I want to understand,” she says, running her hands across the stone wall, feeling the rough edges of each word, of each picture, she turns to the wise man, and he smiles, placing the torches flame towards writings. “Before time, at the beginning, there was nothing but Rah, and for countless centuries, only…
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He grits his teeth and throws a wild, powerful left hook into the younger man’s face, the impact sounds like a water ballon exploding as it hits its target. He stands there, the older man, his fists tighten, his lip curls, then, he grabs the younger man by the hair and pulls his face to…
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His lifeless body crashes to the floor, smoldering holes of burnt flesh, now resided where his eyes once sat inside his head, then, seconds later, his body disintegrates, until there is nothing but particles of dust left, she screams in terror, falling to her knees, as HE, strides to her side, while the remainder of…
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“Damn it Damien, let them go, they’re innocent!” “Never, no one is innocent, everyone of these fucks has sin on their souls, and they’ll all pay the price, so is my word, so, it shall be!” He says, gripping the blade tightly as he slashes it into the air violently, coming to a stop in…
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“You impress me child, how is it that you’ve made it so far, in such little time? Not many make it here, at my feet, ready to worship me, normally the world swallows them whole, what makes you worthy of my attention?” It asks, as it sits, lazily back, on the large throne, made of…
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He stares at the door, sweat pouting from his brow, his bottom lip quivering nervously, he rubs his eyes with his free hand as Abby’s barking sends his ears into a spiral spin, as Gareth’s voice screams at him from the other end of the phone. “Marty for christ sake? MARTY? You hearing me man? I…
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“We had a deal,” it says, if words could be anything in this place, his naked, shivering form stands before it, if he could cower he would, but his body does not answer his cries, for if it did he would be running now, far from this thing, far from whatever is about to happen.…
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I lay there for an eternity, enjoying the air as it filled my lungs, the smells of life, the feel of the dirt against my back, in my eyes, my mouth, everywhere actually. Finally, I moved, it was dark, but I knew my way out, I remembered it well, it’s funny how when your life…
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I open my eyes, to find myself surrounded by nothing, well, total darkness is a better way to explain it. As far as the eye couldn’t see, it was darkness, except below me, when I look down, I could see a perfect, pale, sick looking reflection of myself in the watery, squishy ground beneath me.…
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Words, words, words, words, words, words… That’s all he wants, that’s all he cares for, days, weeks, months, it feels like all I’ve ever known is this place. The only light I see is from the screen, the rest of the room is darkness, my lips dry, cracked, my eyes aching, my fingers blistered, and…