Five-Minute fiction - 10:41-10:46
Scant thumbed the drive into action just as the klaxons signalling an imminent landing began to wail. He adjusted his hearing protection and waited for the series of red lights in front of him to flip over to green. Numbers ticked by somewhere overhead and he fought the urge to look at them. That was always the urge to look away...
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Scant thumbed the drive into action just as the klaxons signalling an imminent landing began to wail. He adjusted his hearing protection and waited for the series of red lights in front of him to flip over to green. Numbers ticked by somewhere overhead and he fought the urge to look at them. That was always the urge to look away...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:59-00:04
Watch your descent, if you bring it in too hot Franklin were going to be digging our way out of that asteroid, Donner said from his position in the command chair.
Franklin, the flight operator glared, Donner didnt actually need to see his face to know the man was doing it.
If it happens, at least we brought shovels, Kathardy said...
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Watch your descent, if you bring it in too hot Franklin were going to be digging our way out of that asteroid, Donner said from his position in the command chair.
Franklin, the flight operator glared, Donner didnt actually need to see his face to know the man was doing it.
If it happens, at least we brought shovels, Kathardy said...
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Five-Minute fiction - 10:02-10:07
The world flickered into existence. Details coalescing out of the Void as Farrus dropped through the Wellspring of Time and landed on the soft grass of the Plains of Ethera. He winced slightly as the cool autumn air seeped into his lungs with the first breath in what seemed like an eternity beyond the Void and in the stinking slag pits...
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The world flickered into existence. Details coalescing out of the Void as Farrus dropped through the Wellspring of Time and landed on the soft grass of the Plains of Ethera. He winced slightly as the cool autumn air seeped into his lungs with the first breath in what seemed like an eternity beyond the Void and in the stinking slag pits...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:57-00:02
Cresa resisted the urge to look at his wristwatch, but he was confident that more than a quarter of an hour had passed since he had been ushered into the room. This was not something to complain about to the rather large, brooding man who stood guard by the door, his tailored uniform immaculate. Rather Cresa busied his mind by wandering...
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Cresa resisted the urge to look at his wristwatch, but he was confident that more than a quarter of an hour had passed since he had been ushered into the room. This was not something to complain about to the rather large, brooding man who stood guard by the door, his tailored uniform immaculate. Rather Cresa busied his mind by wandering...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:21-23:26
Fult felt the air rush out of his body as he collided with the ground. He wheezed and curled into a ball his hands covering his head and neck. Other figures, small, medium, large collapsed to the ground around him and lay there unmoving.
Slowly the rain of bodies seemed to come to a halt and he raised his head. The...
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Fult felt the air rush out of his body as he collided with the ground. He wheezed and curled into a ball his hands covering his head and neck. Other figures, small, medium, large collapsed to the ground around him and lay there unmoving.
Slowly the rain of bodies seemed to come to a halt and he raised his head. The...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:30-23:35
One could imagine all Id have to do is hit it with a wrench and it would all be better, Talia said as he pushed back from the vent and straightened up.
The majority of the engineering staff of the Arcimades were staring at him.
What? he asked brandishing the aforementioned wrench. I said, one could imagine, I didnt actually say...
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One could imagine all Id have to do is hit it with a wrench and it would all be better, Talia said as he pushed back from the vent and straightened up.
The majority of the engineering staff of the Arcimades were staring at him.
What? he asked brandishing the aforementioned wrench. I said, one could imagine, I didnt actually say...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:10-23:15
Cresa felt the cough wrack his body and he doubled over with pain. His entire body seized as if hed be struck by a sudden electrical charge. He staggered to the wall and followed its smooth paneling toward the singular elevator at the end of the corridor. Each breath was agony, each step a concentrated effort of will. His eyes watered...
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Cresa felt the cough wrack his body and he doubled over with pain. His entire body seized as if hed be struck by a sudden electrical charge. He staggered to the wall and followed its smooth paneling toward the singular elevator at the end of the corridor. Each breath was agony, each step a concentrated effort of will. His eyes watered...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:25-23:30
Hagen stared at the tiny, shivering creature and tried not to balk at its attire. It was dirty, filthy even, covered from head to toe in some indescribable ichor.
What is your name? Hagen asked trying to both get close enough to hear the answer, and stay far enough way not to smell the creature.
It mumbled something, unintelligible, but clearly...
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Hagen stared at the tiny, shivering creature and tried not to balk at its attire. It was dirty, filthy even, covered from head to toe in some indescribable ichor.
What is your name? Hagen asked trying to both get close enough to hear the answer, and stay far enough way not to smell the creature.
It mumbled something, unintelligible, but clearly...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:33-23:38
Dasin felt the energy course around him as the portal tore its way through the Aether that connected the two planes. He pushed on, propelling himself forward with just the power of his mind. Behind him he could hear, feel, sense, imagine all the monstrosities that snapped at his heels. Thick tendrils, long twisted, mutated limbs pulled at his cloak, his...
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Dasin felt the energy course around him as the portal tore its way through the Aether that connected the two planes. He pushed on, propelling himself forward with just the power of his mind. Behind him he could hear, feel, sense, imagine all the monstrosities that snapped at his heels. Thick tendrils, long twisted, mutated limbs pulled at his cloak, his...
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Five-Minute fiction - 22:20-22:25
Thren pressed his advantage. The guards retreated almost falling over themselves in their haste to escape his deadly blade. Each step drove them further and further back, and away from the helpless girl. He turned back once to make sure the girl was still all right, but she was unmoving. She lay in the street her hair and clothes soaked in...
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Thren pressed his advantage. The guards retreated almost falling over themselves in their haste to escape his deadly blade. Each step drove them further and further back, and away from the helpless girl. He turned back once to make sure the girl was still all right, but she was unmoving. She lay in the street her hair and clothes soaked in...
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Five-Minute fiction - 23:51-23:56
There is a given level of complexity in the nature of human interaction. On one hand one must consider all the typical interactions between humanitys two genders, both of which, while distinct, often possess shared characteristics that adapt, some way would say corrupt, those gendered individuals into acting in a given manner. However, that is simply one example of a given...
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There is a given level of complexity in the nature of human interaction. On one hand one must consider all the typical interactions between humanitys two genders, both of which, while distinct, often possess shared characteristics that adapt, some way would say corrupt, those gendered individuals into acting in a given manner. However, that is simply one example of a given...
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Five-Minute fiction - 17:05-17:10
Let the girl go, a voice said, the words cutting through the din that surrounded the central table and the solitary serving girl who had been corralled by some of the more drunken patrons.
Several heads, in ones and twos, and then more turned to see the pair of figures standing in the door.
I said, let the girl go, one...
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Let the girl go, a voice said, the words cutting through the din that surrounded the central table and the solitary serving girl who had been corralled by some of the more drunken patrons.
Several heads, in ones and twos, and then more turned to see the pair of figures standing in the door.
I said, let the girl go, one...
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