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Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"I'm sorry, what?" I asked. Death disappeared from in front of me, but I felt a chill run down my spine. I jumped out through the open door when I felt a brittle hand on my shoulder. "AAAAGGH!"
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Cedric strolled through the King's garden, his daily constitutional was a chance to bask in the sunlight. He stopped every so often to admire and greet a rose bush here and there. The royal landscapers took great pride i
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"What the hell's going on here?" I heard a gruff voice behind me and turned around. I didn't understand what he said, but I knew what annoyance looked like in humans. I noticed a sparkle under his thick blue jacket, but
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
My eyes fluttered open, and bright, but soft fluorescent light filled my vision. The first thing I saw was the fake wood table my head rested on. I straightened my back to sit up, then looked around at the empty food cou
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
1300+ words:
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Part of an on-going story created from different writingprompts:
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"Goodnight, Eury. I'll see you tomorrow." Dr. Argyris said into a camera. She spoke to Eury from a large screen display mounted on a wall in the girl's secure room. "I love you."
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"I caught something!" Jeff leapt up from the grassy canal bank yelling in excitement, his camping chair fell backward. He fought to keep the fishing rod up, though whatever he hooked threatened to snap the rod or line at
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Felix sat in the corner of his darkened cell and waited. No matter how comfortable he felt sitting on the large bed, he was a prisoner. They treated him well. Instead of bars, a clear wall with air holes kept him in the
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Abby woke up in darkness. Despite opening and re-opening her eyes several times, her vision remained pitch black. She attempted to wipe her eyes clean, but discovered she could not move her arms. She felt a tightness aro
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"Class, we have a new student. This is uh, Jerko," Mr. Willow introduced the boy to his Musical Mayhem class, causing an uproar of laughter.
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"Well, not none of what you said," I tried to explain to Juan. It was graduation night, and I didn't want to start the next phase of our lives without coming clean. We sat in his parent's room drinking and talking while
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
* This is a direct continuation of my response to this prompt: You were left for dead in the middle of an unknown forest, you pass out thinking this is it. All of the sudden you wake up and all your wounds are stitched w
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"Yeah, I'll be there in five minutes," Fred said to his wife through the cellphone. He left work late, which delayed their dinner plans. She was not happy with him. "I'm turning off no- ah shit." Orange and white barrels
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
I stretched in the large bed even before I opened my eyes. Once I greeted the bright orange sunlight I smiled and turned to get myself out of the bed. My foot knocked over a large, empty wine bottle. Mike had a bit of a
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"Are you sure about this?" Posie asked his wife. She carried their daughter, Threnody, while they walked into a large, black portal floating in their living room. Two men awaited them in the dust covered wasteland on the
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"I have been dead a million times," Milton said. He loosened his black tie while he spoke to the officer directing traffic. His dark suit no longer looked its best; now it was covered in wrinkles and dust. His full head
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"Adventure awaits the adventurous," the hag told me. I nodded at the disguised young woman, paid my five dollars, then walked out of the fortune teller's tent. I let loose the chuckle I'd been holding in since the woman'
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"What about you, Larry? Any plans for the three day weekend?" Lou leaned over my cubicle, his coffee cup tilted enough to spill some drops on my desk.
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"I GOT IT!!!" Edgar ran through school's courtyard towards his best friend, Buddy. Edgar reached Buddy, grabbed the short boy's shoulders with a vice-like grip, then shook him like a rag doll. "I GOT IT!" Buddy wriggled
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Abby walked out of the shimmering blue portal and stared at her large pink and white house. She saw no sign of her parent's car in the driveway. The dark haired girl smiled at the tall woman with horns exiting the portal
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
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Todd took a couple of deep breaths to relax before he pushed the solid, grey metal door open. It swung into the room easily, then he stepped across the threshold. The size of the room surprised him. When Ballisea told hi
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
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"I will NOT." Flutter growled at the kids in front of her. She stood still, though maintaining her composure took effort.
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Six year old Katie sat alone in the mall's food court. Though she never went exploring she knew the whole mall was empty. She colored a picture with crayons while she waited, looking up every now and then to check for an
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"You're sure it won't hurt my son?" Liv Hansen, a pale woman with short blond hair, asked the doctor. She and her husband, Arik Hansen, sat in the OB-GYN's small office exploring their options. Her right hand rested on t
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
The bright orange morning sun illuminated the temple's courtyard and the small group of prospective students standing within. The temple master double checked the list displayed as a hologram hovering over his metal hand
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Carlton Brown admired himself in the bathroom mirror. He eyed his costume up and down, flexing this way and that to make sure he had the range of motion he needed. The costume consisted of a while lab coat buttoned up, a
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
It was time for a break. I'd been working most of the morning trying to clear out my grandma's attic while my mom, uncle, and aunts worked on the rest of the house. I sat on an old bar stool to admire the sunshine throug
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"I can't do it anymore," I said as we drove home. We were supposed to be enjoying our anniversary at a hotel for the night, but instead another babysitter freaked out and needed us home right away. The teenager threatene
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"I'm not offering you anything, I'm leaving," I said. I waved to the pale woman with literal flaming red hair as I walked back to the stone arch I came in through. My face smashed into an invisible wall, like a bird hitt
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"You are hereby sentenced immediately to the Forest." The judge's gavel slammed down. Michael Anderson broke down into heaving sobs while the bailiff escorted him out of the courtroom in handcuffs. He had no resistance t
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"Dread, what are you doing?" Liv Hansen walked into her nine year old son's bedroom. His blond hair bounced as his head whipped around toward her. He shrank back and put his arms in front of him to try and cover light pu
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"This is how we all end up. No one knew that better than mom," I stumbled my way through the half-assed speech I wrote. As the eldest sibling, her eulogy was my obligation. I stood at the podium behind my mother's open c
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
I stared at my son from behind crossed arms. He kept his focus on the unicorn to avoid eye contact with me. I stepped closer to him and reached into his jacket pocket.
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"It just ain't fair!" Larry complained while we sat in the break room snacking. I didn't like Larry much, but he was about the only friendly co-worker I had left. He whittled down his slice of chocolate cake while I work
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
A golden streak coursed through a field filled with hundreds of walking skeletons. The red sky drowned out the sun, but Dread ran confidently. She ignored the skeletons to focus on her objective. As she moved, the skelet
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Dread sat cross-legged in the dirt, in front of a pitch black portal. She stopped "waiting" an hour ago and meditated to pass the time instead. A brilliant golden glow emanated from her body; its light kept an army of sk
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Dread stepped out of the black portal, and looked around. She felt glad to see signs of life dotting the dirt plain with green. She looked up and smiled at the violet sky. Dirge ran out of the portal after Dread and took
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Dirge and Dread followed the skeleton marked by Dread until they found Ballisea's shrine. It stopped on a hill overlooking something that resembled a stone gazebo. Black stone stairs led up to a pool of glowing crystal c
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Stephen Miller sighed as he clocked in. He felt a flash of disappointment when he saw the duty roster above the time clock; his name had all the worst boxes checked off. Supply run, Feed Spider, and Hide Spider. He chuck
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"So that's it? We just gotta kill the jailer?" Mickey hovered around Fig, the tall blue skinned troll that gave him the hint. It was Mickey's first day in the prison and he took to exploring the exercise yard when he ran
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"I don't see why I couldn't stay home," Oren complained to Eva. They stood in Grapefruit section of the Citrus Museum, surrounded by grapefruit themed sculptures and paintings. Everyone that walked by seemed to have eith
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
I opened my eyes, soft yellow sunlight filled my vision. A quick inventory told me I was laying down on a bed, but I didn't feel comfortable. I sat up and looked around. The place was instantly recognizable as a crappy m
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"Sit still!" Sam's father grabbed him by the scuff of his collar, and straightened him standing up. "Your brother's going to get his next, then we can leave." Sam tried peering over the crowd to watch his little brother'
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
Thomas Fincher smiled at his reflection in the bathroom mirror. His dark brown eyes roamed up and down his mostly naked body, making sure he attached the electrodes in all the right places. He grabbed the instruction pam
Read the moment ↗Before Stellar Tour · unassigned stories
"Do you think she's okay?" Dirge asked. The two girls did not wander far from where they landed before the girl with dark curls questioned Dread.
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