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J. A. Greene

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The Truth about Fiction

Nobody believed me. That was their first mistake.Their second mistake? Asking me in the first place. Why, do you ask? Well, I'm a bit of an outsider, and many people don't like listening to me. I must admit, I don't really have much of a filter, and when it comes to answering questions, like a computer, I'll give you the straight answer whether you like it or not.So when they came up to me and asked me to help them, I was surprised, but gave them the truth nonetheless:"The answer you seek is fabricated." The follow-up questions were horrific...

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The Honesty of Imagination

Ok. I'm ready to write. Cool. Um... what to write? What to write, what to write... uh...I've... I've got nothing.Nothing?I've gotta have something. I'm a writer! I mean... it's in my title.Ok. Uh... what are the main elements of a story? Characters, setting, plot, conflict... hmm, let's start with a character. Essential part of any character is their name, so... let's give them a name. Let's give them the name of... Lucia."Hello?"What? Who said that? "Hello?""Yeah, I'm Lucia. You called me?""I... I didn't call you. I'm just thinking of a cha...

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Absurdist Enlightenment for the Entitled Generation

Weekly Contest #350

(*Moo* sound every 122 words) Once upon a time, there was a -*Knock Knock*Uhh... Who's there?"It's me! You dumbass."But... I haven't gotten to you yet."What do you mean you haven't gotten to me yet? I'm right here!"Yes, but you weren't supposed to be introduced yet!"Yet?"Yes, you're part of a story."Story? My ass. If this is a story, where's the setting?"Uhh..."Yeah, that's what I thought! There's no story."But there is a story."None that I can see. And hey! Why do I get quotations and you don't?"Pardon?"Why do I get quotations around what I...

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The Spiritual Stranger

“The trouble with your world,” he began, “Is that everyone has been driven to be selfish. If you have the money and resources, get it. If you have the power, do it. There is no need to self-restraint; self-check in your world.” I stopped and paused for a bit. I wanted to find a rebuttal, but I couldn’t. He was right. “Well… there’s still some good in this world, isn’t it?” It was the only thing I could come up with to say. I needed to find a way to defend my home. “Indeed there is, but that also comes at a price. D...

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Transcript 27710

Transcript 27710 – Commenced.Officer Schultz: Interview #3Time: 0473 OS: Ok, take a seat. OS: So, uh… would you please tell me who you are? HU: What I remember, you would not understand. OS: As in… you’re from another planet or dimension? HU: A different species. OS: Different species? You look as human as I do. HU: Humanoid, as you might call it. OS: Yes. So you are humanoid, but not human. Correct? HU: I wouldn’t identify myself as humanoid,...

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Memento Mori; Memento Vivere

Weekly Contest #311

I remember everything. Everything I once had. Everything that used to be. I wanted so much more out of life. But I have found myself without wanting. Wanting only for one thing. The one thing that I know. I wasted my time seeing you. Not that you were not worthy to be seen, but I only saw what I wanted to see. I saw nothing more than your face reflected in my eyes. I didn’t see beyond the visible. I never saw what needed to be seen. I never saw you. I have longed for being and meaning. I have longed so long t...

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The Journal Chronicles (Excerpts)

It was time for me to face him. He’s been haunting me for too long. AJ and I rode our carriage as far as the horses would comfortably go. After realizing this was our stop, AJ turned to give me his deep concern of the situation. We didn’t say anything to each other but knew what the other was thinking. We could only hope to see each other again, and that this wasn’t the end. Through the thick woods, I managed to find the mangled, spike fence with a metal plated gate. Skulls scattered the façade of the gate. Just like in my dreams. I mana...

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The Journal Chronicles (Excerpts)

Throughout the early days at the Academy, I went through trainer after trainer. I began to get annoyed, not because I knew I was difficult to deal with, but how this prestigious academy couldn’t find anyone adequate to deal with me. I started using it as a badge of honor, challenging and even scaring off many of these trainers. After a series of trainers, they brought in this older man who looked even weaker than the others before him. I did my usual where I lulled him into a sense of control over me, then spontaneously fire hand beams that ...

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Dance with the Devil in the Pale, Mundane Light

“Hello. Is this the gate to Hell?” The visitor asked. The Gate Demon stands there, dumbfounded. “Hello, yes. I’m looking to meet up with the Devil.” The same visitor inquired. “Uh... Do you have an appointment?” The Demon asks. “No. I didn’t know I needed one.” “Everyone needs an appointment.” “Oh! Ok. When would be a good time to talk to him?” “He’s booked up past the next Apocalypse, so it might be a while.” “How long?” “One thousand, two hundred, and eighty-four years.” “That’s when the next Apocalypse is?” “No, that’s when the next avail...

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Image and Likeness

Weekly Contest #213

“Who are you really?”He stared deeply into the young woman’s eyes.“Who do you think I am?” She responded with her soft, tender voice.“It doesn’t matter to me who I think you are, but it matters to everyone else.”“Why? Why is there opinion more important than yours?”Stephen crinkled his eyes in anger without breaking his sight with her.“Listen, I don’t give a rat’s ass who you are, but you entered into my dominion, and everyone here has a problem with you.”“What problem is that?”Stephen raised an eyebrow at her in disbelief of her reaction. “...

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The Journal Chronicles (Excerpts)

My friends,             In my current waning years, I have found that I am less independent than I would like to be. Not in the physical sense, but that I find myself cold and alone when I am too much to myself. Eliza comes on occasion to help out in at least to make supper. She is a shut-in, much like myself, but in her case, she chose that lifestyle. In any case, any attempts at conversing are brief and few between, so while she is there in person, no real attempt at a deeper co...

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