Five-minute fiction - 00:23-00:28
I - uhh - shit! Grim said as he scrambled up, or tried to scramble up and out of the cart. It was proving to be a lot harder than it should have been. The clair cream had coated the majority of the carts interior turning the surfaces as slick as ice. Hit boots and gloves slipped and slid as he...
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I - uhh - shit! Grim said as he scrambled up, or tried to scramble up and out of the cart. It was proving to be a lot harder than it should have been. The clair cream had coated the majority of the carts interior turning the surfaces as slick as ice. Hit boots and gloves slipped and slid as he...
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Five-minute fiction - 23:12-23:17
The cart exploded. Or at least the contents of the cart exploded, as in they burst. Eclairs packed so tightly with cream that they threatened to erupt at the slightest contact, like some from of patisserie precussives, exploded fountaining cream and tiny flecks of dough into the air.
The driver of the cart, somewhat taken aback by the sudden explosion turned...
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The cart exploded. Or at least the contents of the cart exploded, as in they burst. Eclairs packed so tightly with cream that they threatened to erupt at the slightest contact, like some from of patisserie precussives, exploded fountaining cream and tiny flecks of dough into the air.
The driver of the cart, somewhat taken aback by the sudden explosion turned...
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Five-minute fiction - 23:33-23:38
They called them Bully Boys. A sad result of the current upswell in middle to upper income families combined with more modernized forms of medicine. Together the two produced a rather detestable group of vagrants prone to preying on the weak and staging elaborate bloody battles in the street.
No one is really sure when they began to take hold. But...
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They called them Bully Boys. A sad result of the current upswell in middle to upper income families combined with more modernized forms of medicine. Together the two produced a rather detestable group of vagrants prone to preying on the weak and staging elaborate bloody battles in the street.
No one is really sure when they began to take hold. But...
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Five-minute fiction - 02:56-03:01
I dont know what youre talking about, Grim said lowering himself to the ground, through the window. He scrambled across the floor of the room to its only other entry point, a heavy oaken door, which he bolted. He turned and placed his back against it in an attempt to afford some additional protection against whatever forces sought to batter it...
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I dont know what youre talking about, Grim said lowering himself to the ground, through the window. He scrambled across the floor of the room to its only other entry point, a heavy oaken door, which he bolted. He turned and placed his back against it in an attempt to afford some additional protection against whatever forces sought to batter it...
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Five-minute fiction - 23:45-23:50
I have no idea what you are talking about, Grim said raising his hands. He took a half-step backward away and to the right slipping neatly behind the large bulk of Darker.
The cluster of policemen tensed, hands on hilts. Darker smiled, or tried to smile, the corners of his lips twitched and jerked as they tried to rise in an...
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I have no idea what you are talking about, Grim said raising his hands. He took a half-step backward away and to the right slipping neatly behind the large bulk of Darker.
The cluster of policemen tensed, hands on hilts. Darker smiled, or tried to smile, the corners of his lips twitched and jerked as they tried to rise in an...
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Five-minute fiction - 00:47-00:52
It was a very large sum of money. In fact it was a very large stack of money, and it was more money than the two of them had seen in some time. Though of course, seeing one dollar would have been more money than theyve seen in a long time, but thats beside the point.
Grim looked from the pile...
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It was a very large sum of money. In fact it was a very large stack of money, and it was more money than the two of them had seen in some time. Though of course, seeing one dollar would have been more money than theyve seen in a long time, but thats beside the point.
Grim looked from the pile...
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Five-minute fiction - 23:38-23:43
Like most things in the City, it started with a body. Though, of course, not a living one, but a dead one. So perhaps corpse is a more accurate descriptor for the more or less large sack of bones, skin, muscle, and flesh that crashed into the rough cobbles of the alleyway.
The three city policemen were quite taken by surprise...
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Like most things in the City, it started with a body. Though, of course, not a living one, but a dead one. So perhaps corpse is a more accurate descriptor for the more or less large sack of bones, skin, muscle, and flesh that crashed into the rough cobbles of the alleyway.
The three city policemen were quite taken by surprise...
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Five-minute fiction - 01:25-01:30
Are you God? she asked. She stared up into his soft brown eyes, her face rigid with fear.
No, he said.
Bu-
There are no Gods. There are only beings beyond your comprehension. To be Godlike to possess powers in excess of those possessed by Humanity. I am one such being, though unlike others of my ilk, I have never claimed...
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Are you God? she asked. She stared up into his soft brown eyes, her face rigid with fear.
No, he said.
Bu-
There are no Gods. There are only beings beyond your comprehension. To be Godlike to possess powers in excess of those possessed by Humanity. I am one such being, though unlike others of my ilk, I have never claimed...
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Five-minute fiction - 01:29-01:34
Journal Addendum
The Boisterous Club: cont
The purchase of the club by the widow made for a slight change in the management of it. For the first time in its considerable history women were allowed not only to enter all areas of the clubhouse but were even permitted to join. As one can expect this was met with hostility from the...
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Journal Addendum
The Boisterous Club: cont
The purchase of the club by the widow made for a slight change in the management of it. For the first time in its considerable history women were allowed not only to enter all areas of the clubhouse but were even permitted to join. As one can expect this was met with hostility from the...
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Five-minute fiction - 00:14-00:19
Journal Addendum
The Boisterous Club:
The Boisterous Club is relic of a bygone era. An era when well-to-do men smoked cigars and sipped brandy while discussing all manner of things, from politics to science. In the latter years, before the change, it had slowly been taken over by more, in fact, boisterous men. These men were typically adventurers, but that didnt...
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Journal Addendum
The Boisterous Club:
The Boisterous Club is relic of a bygone era. An era when well-to-do men smoked cigars and sipped brandy while discussing all manner of things, from politics to science. In the latter years, before the change, it had slowly been taken over by more, in fact, boisterous men. These men were typically adventurers, but that didnt...
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Five-minute fiction - 02:04-02:09
Journal Entry #4 cont
I passed through the True Gate with little concern. The guards there, as Ive said previously somewhat of a formality. However, there are three more gates between the upper and lower sections of the city and with each subsequent gate that I passed through as I neared the lower city the guards attentions became more and more...
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Journal Entry #4 cont
I passed through the True Gate with little concern. The guards there, as Ive said previously somewhat of a formality. However, there are three more gates between the upper and lower sections of the city and with each subsequent gate that I passed through as I neared the lower city the guards attentions became more and more...
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Five-minute fiction - 00:30-00:35
Journal Entry #4 cont
The True Gate, so-called because it looks to the true South, is a marvel of modern engineering, and especially grand feat considering its advanced age. For more than two-hundred years it has stood sentinel guarding the way between the upper levels of the city and the lower. While in modern times its barrier is seen more as...
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Journal Entry #4 cont
The True Gate, so-called because it looks to the true South, is a marvel of modern engineering, and especially grand feat considering its advanced age. For more than two-hundred years it has stood sentinel guarding the way between the upper levels of the city and the lower. While in modern times its barrier is seen more as...
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