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Story: deboree

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:38:00 -0800

I dream of cold, chittering stars. Wild things penetrate my mind with outrageous suggestions. I wake. My hand touches my swollen stomach.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:08:00 -0800

Globules of bourbon wiggled in zero gravity. Captain Jo could only watch as the Senator, cackling, reefed on the emergency escape handle.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:08:00 -0800

Dee scoffed at Di's plan: "We'll only get stared at more." But Dee was wrong. Everyone smiles at pretty twins; the disfigured are invisible.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:38:00 -0800

The fabric of time ripped, disgorging on Earth a rain of rusted hulks and dead astronauts, a pelting of future black hole mission failures.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:08:00 -0800

Veterans reminisce on lawns. Orange poppies, flutter. "I won't tell you anything!" Rebooting Notortu, they drop poppies from the simulation.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:38:00 -0800

I love being a solider now, what with the daily backups. It's like playing a VR war game, only better: my bank account keeps growing.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:38:00 -0800

By the end of the war, we were eager to end it and assimilate. They recognize nothing but our veterans. We're grateful for at least that.

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:08:00 -0800

Until Veterans' Day, I had no idea I was in an alternate dimension. What a shock to find our country's flag flying in red, white, and blue.

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:38:00 -0800

The last human was killed and all the Giant Pandas set free. Earth was reseeded with bamboo and declared a sacred, ancestral preserve.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:00 -0800

How long without sleep? I volunteered, she researched. She kept asking how I was. Day 15 I told her I was OK, but she looked like meat.

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:38:00 -0800

A poet diddled with irradiated ink. Post paper-cut, his editor, aglow with new-found sensibilities, sent rejections, submissions unopened.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:08:00 -0800

Lights sparkled within the shard of glass Sgt. Tayra held. "If they've learned how to shatter fairyglass, they've already won the war."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:38:00 -0800

At the reunion, Dan flirts with his ex-girlfriend. Smoke rises from her hair then flames as his wife unleashes her pyrokinetic power.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:08:00 -0800

"Last one out's a rotten egg!" I yelled. That day, I learned to respect the power of the amulet. We never did get the smell out of the car.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:38:00 -0800

"This is awful!" she said, trying to decide which of the others would have to die. "But let's start with a quiz about my blog."