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FFF Day Eight – The World Ahead
“Home is behind, the world ahead,And there are many paths to tread“ “The bus gets to the station at 4:27AM. That’s plenty of time to order and eat a pizza.” It was midnight on June the sixteenth, in the clammy basement of the Hodgeson household. Tim Hodgeson and his friends were lounging on the old
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FFF Day Seven – No Darkness
“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” My fellow Americans, I humbly accept the position of forty-seventh president of these great United States, even though I can only name ten of them: all the famous ones, plus Delaware where I grew up, and Maryland and Virginia because my parents took
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FFF Day Six – Gold
“All that is gold does not glitter.” Panto held out the torch and inspected the dungeon intersection. Both turns went down too far for the light to reach; it was a tossup. “Left or right?” they muttered to Bridgitte, who followed so close she was practically hugging their backpack. “Um,” she said, a nervous look
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FFF Day Five: Bore Me
“I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.” One minute, Xernox was at home in the bowels of the underworld, taking in the scent of the brimstone candle his mother had sent for his birthday. The next he was coughing up toilet water in a cramped bathroom stall. “FUCK,” he spat.
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FFF Day Four: Life // Hope
“Where there’s life there’s hope.” In the year 20054, if you fracture your chassis or sever a wire, that’s it. You’d better hope you can get on without it, because nobody is coming to fix you. Not that we don’t want to fix each other; we literally can’t. The organics made us to be careless
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FFF Day Three: Hole in the Ground
“In a hole in the ground there lived a…” On the cloudless night of August the 28th, 1994, in Owego, New York, something fell from the sky into the Aiellos’ backyard with a loud whirring and a bang. The six people in the household–most of them children–rushed to their windows to see what was the