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Each time he dove into the water was like a bullet slamming into him, it was so cold and biting.
The wetsuit was climate-controlled in theory, but that system hadn't worked in ages.
So he suffered through the cold, murky water, swimming with an uncontrolled thrashing motion, looking to(more)
Indelibl... | Mark
cradle
The Parapsychological Institute was home to some interesting people, but one of the more interesting was Harvey Walthorp.
Harvey was telepathic. It'd been proven time and again, he'd taken the Miskatonic Standardized Revised Test, shown aptitude in that area, taken classes and trained to bring out his supposedly latent(more)
Don't | Go | Out
apple tree
"I need to find a place to live, I can't taaaaake it anymore..."
My reverie and solace in my music was interrupted by the violent shudder that passed through the floor, accompanied by an eerie, drawn-out wail that set my teeth on edge.
"Jesus, Kelsey, I wasn't talking about(more)
Blessing | In | Disguise
rejected
They were outside the door.
She'd broken up most of the wooden shelves in the hardware store with the axe she'd found way in the back, boarded up the doors and windows.
And so she huddled there, peering over the edge of the counter, clutching the nailgun that had(more)
Cold | Blooded
impossible hair
I slid through the airlock-diaphragm comfortably, discarding the husk of my EVA-wetsuit as the thick folds and membranes of the 'lock stripped it off me.  
Kelsey handed me a fresh cup of coffee and I turned to face the SSN reporter.  
"Look, buddy, I don't know what you seem(more)
Intergal... | Love | Song
footprints
Footprints in the sand; I
        was alone for a while but
                now I'm not so sure
Sand
goodbye
You said goodbye the other
      day and I thought I'd died but
             now things are still the same
Looking | Up
corked bottle
It was such a little thing.
It was always the little things, he'd found, that turned out to be the most important in the end.
It was ironic, he supposed, but then again that was how life worked sometimes.
A road forks, a river dries up, you peek in(more)
Deep | Versus | Long
been a long
The car had been his for a very long time. His father had bought it for him for his twentieth birthday, and it had aged well in the years following that.
But in the past decade or so it had began to fall apart. The wheels and the axle(more)
Reality | From | Fantasy
an artifice
It was a vast machine, a dazzling array of chrome and gears and cogs, a gigantic system of pipes and tubes and wiring, of circuit boards and of tanks of steam.
And they had no idea what it did.
They'd unearthed it in a cave in Puerto Rico. They(more)
That | Was | Pointles...
acidic
The way I see you
        is acidic; I'm melting
            melting like the sea.
The | Sea | Melts
rhinestone
"Where's my ring?"
"Your ring?"
"Yeah, my ring. I put it right there on the counter, I thought, while I was washing the dishes and-"
The recollection burst through his mind. He'd gone to pick up the china dish with the picture of the Eiffel Tower on it, to(more)
Ow | Ow | Ow
the way we
I hate the way we
        fight but I can't let you do what
                 you do to yourself.
Self-inf...
knell
The church bell struck eight and as it did, I found myself staring up at the bell tower and wondering why I was hurrying to get to work, to sit down at my desk in my office and read papers that I didn't understand all day.
I might write(more)
Existent... | Criminal | Crisis
mortified
The summer sun is
       watching the grass in the field
                as the river dies.
Old | Man | River