Kat watched the guy’s kid move first, and the guy follow a few minutes later. She’d been keeping an eye on him for a while now. At first it was just because she recognised him. She’d seen him walking down the street one day—which wouldn’t normally register with her, except he was quarrelling with some …
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Prompt Short Story: Escape (Blur #7)
Allen had had it. Fucking had it. Living in this grotty old warehouse on the docks that stank of rotten fish. Sleeping on a paper thin camping mat with a ratty blanket that kept exactly zero of the cold off of him. Eating crap so barely cooked it made his stomach churn, or so burnt …
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Prompt Story: Waiting (Blur #6)
06 – Waiting (Blur) Becca sniffed her clothing as she sat up, using the wall to help stand up from her ‘bed’—really just a thin camping mat with a sleeping bad that was losing its stuffing. Yep. She smelled. She sighed. Surely she should be used to that smell by now, but somehow it still …
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Prompt Story: Rebels (Blur #5)
Autax chuckled and shook its head as it snapped four of its fingers. There was a small glimmer of light on the left hand wall, and a door appeared, through which another creature appeared. This one was almost impossible to discern, as its form seemed to not only shift ceaselessly, but also to embody multiple …
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Storytime: Offer (Blur #4)
CW: creepy looking creatures, talk of violence (nothing shown), swearing Dylan slept in the uncomfortable metal bed. The mattress was thin; the joints creaked and screeched at every move; the single threadbare blanket felt like sandpaper on her skin; but she slept. She had no choice. None of them did. Sleep was forced upon them …
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Prompt Story: Takeover (Blur #3)
“They’ve never done this before,” Sasha frowned, biting at the skin on her bottom lip. “We’ve never tracked more than four at one time, never mind in one place. What are they doing?!” The tech looked around to see a mixture of confusion, panic and fear across the rest of the faces hurriedly assembled in …
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Storytime: First Patrol (Blur #2)
Months after her first meeting with Janice, Dylan found herself pacing the floor of the tactical centre, nerves fluttering in her stomach. Her first time out as part of the group. There had been weeks where anyone and everyone tried to find ways to not just control, but also extend, her abilities. Both had eventually …
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Storytime: Blur
Blur CW: eye stuff, swearing, some ableist words for mental illness (not used as insults), PTSD symptoms “Yep, she’s lucky we managed to fix her back up into one piece! Now don’t worry, she’s got a bit of a journey ahead, but she’ll come through just fine.” Dylan cracked open her eyes as the words …
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Prompt Story: Waiting [an Ixan tale]
Al turned a circle, weapons dripping blood into the ground around zir. It hardly mattered, everything was already bloodied and soaked. When ze was sure there were no more coming, ze knelt, finding clean patches on the clothing of the dead to clean zir axe and short sword. The axe was little more than a …
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Storytime: A Surprising Contract
CW: vomiting, some body horror [shapechanging-ish] Jordan looked at the letter in disbelief, closed his eyes, opened them, and read them again, his large, darkly tanned hands, turning the expensive cream paper into little more than a handkerchief. “What the fuck?” Jordan ran his free hand over his bald, bullet-headed skull and read the letter …
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