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FFF Day Ten – No Adventures
“‘Good morning!’ he said at last. ‘We don’t want any adventures here, thank you!’” I was born under a full moon and a comet that only visits our sky once every six thousand years. I did not cry, or make much of any noise, really, and when my parents looked into my heterochromic eyes (one…
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FFF Day Nine – Beyond
“We are not bound forever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.” Alex Costa had lived a good, long life. When he died of heart failure, he left behind his wife, three children, ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren that he had thankfully gotten to see before he passed. He…
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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.…