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Submitted to Contest #286
"Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but she perished before she arrived at the clinic," doctor Desmond said as he pocked the dirt under his nails with the decorative dagger I kept on my desk. I couldn't look at him now so I turned to the window, at the blazing sun raining on the hills. Such a beautiful spring this would've been... "What about the parents?" I asked. "And the police?" "The parents are not an issue. They're simple folk — quite dense, these ones. They will believe anything I tell them and even if they don't, they have a great li...
Submitted to Contest #245
It stood in front of me... The darkness fell from the sky and spanned to the left and right of me into the horizon. It formed a wall of black ichor, dead yet alive, and impermeable by light. It stood here for generations... Impassable to time and invincible in form. All magic, from flame to light, fazed through it, eaten by it, forgotten in it. It stood expectantly, gnawing at my curiosity and boldness. What if my finger touched the darkness? Would it gobble me up in a hungry whirlpool of shadow? Or would it let me pass into its fold, show m...
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