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Weekly Contest #368
There is no going back, it is a phrase from the Department of the Mysteries. It wasn't a very quotable line, but it describes the work environment that I entered every day. I wanted to quit but that isn’t a possibility anymore. I have lost interest in people who look at my job and expect me to say I was exaggerating but it is not exaggeration to say that I would kill anyone if I had to look at another tax report. Yes, that is my job. The Department of Mysteries is a government agency that looks after the wishes made by every citizen, and I d...
Weekly Contest #366
“I should have known better,” Tom said as he was looking at his new apartment. It was moving day for Tom as he finally moved out of his home. He didn’t like how things ended but despite being a man of forty years, he finally moved out of his mother’s house. It was embarrassment for him to admit that, but he accepted that he had to stay to take care of his mother as she lost her vision and her husband. No one respected that decision, but he had to acknowledge that people were quick to judge him regardless plus he lived in a racist part of the...
Weekly Contest #365
The Vex were, well, vexing. They can hack our technology without having to be in range for a counter-hack. There is not anyone to call for help nor know details of the Vex as they continue to hijack the airways. There are messages coming in languages not found on Earth. Hollering in an alien language became the norm of the military. It wasn’t anything bizarre to Major John, as he called it in. The rows of burning corpses used to make John want to vomit, even the chitin filled fuckers weren’t anything truly resembling human. The ma...
The Reverend Potter’s and the victims The dark night was cold and distant in the Luxe desert with only the purple flames from the factory vents being the only visible signs of heat, it feels like a rising uptake of the nightly warrens. A damnable ritual that takes the luck from people you truly hated, a nightly sight these days. The issue with hate is that it makes no sense, and it has both an inferiority and superiority complex. Hate comes from a fear of someone better will come along and ruin the myth of hate’s inherent superior...
Weekly Contest #360
The only time a monster was used in a competition was before the current era. The distinction between monsters and human are small but important. But the problem is that if you can’t tell, the government workers will knock on your door, and no one wants that. It was this thought that had Nako nervous. He finally was helpful to someone and that person was a monster. He looks at the mark on his hand and wanted to scratch it away, even if made him lose a chunk of flesh. The worst experience of his life was saving that stupid girl and seeing tha...
Weekly Contest #359
The world can be a dumb place; no one knew this more than Jane as she was gasping from exhaustion from stomping a man to death. The idea of a war that happens make no sense to her. Why have a war of attrition? But then again, she was kinda born into this. She had murdered by an older woman named Lana and she had for the past few lives, but that is the nature of this world. Everything is crumbling and few within it has anything stable to cling onto, one of the few materials that wouldn’t at once disintegrate was objects made from human remain...
The Advent Children Three young mice were chomping on a dead rat with gusto; it would have made Carol disgusted if she were not wishing she had something to eat as well. The young Carol looked at her arm’s appearance, with its yellow skin with bluish blemishes. She was disgusted and felt her lunch try to escape her month. She cannot remember when she last felt the cool night air, it had just been sunny days with no wind for months. All the plants show a similar withering that the people’s cracked skin. The cracks were disgusting to look at...
Weekly Contest #357
Robert Renalds was ill-fitted for the job. He knows it, she knows it and the world will soon know it. But that has been happening for the past few months. He remembered that he was a kid, he wanted to be a hero. But that passion died after the festival that happened a decade ago. The willful man worked the assembly line with a gusto that didn’t seem to fit with the atmosphere of the factory. But the man wouldn’t stop as he was fighting an internal battle that no one else did but the floor manager could see. But even he didn’t intervene with ...
Weekly Contest #209
The chefs were being run ragged from fulfilling the orders that the servers kept bringing in. The hectic environment was a clear sign that no one in the kitchen staff was ready for the lunch rush: the loud banging, the immense heat from the fires coming from the stovetops. The questioning looks directed at the dishwashers that they needed to speed up as the cooks were running out of plates and the servers constantly demanded utensils. The dishwasher station was overwhelmed by the wave of used containers, and the piles on the racks were in da...
Weekly Contest #206
The Reverend Potter’s and the victims The dark night was cold and distant in the Luxe desert with only the purple flames from the factory vents being the only visible signs of heat, it feels like a rising uptake of the nightly warrens. A damnable ritual that takes the luck from people you truly hated, a nightly sight these days. The issue with hate is that it makes no sense, and it has both an inferiority and superiority complex. Hate comes from a fear of someone better will come along and ruin the myth of hate’s inherent superiority. T...
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