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  • No One Mourns
  • Dead Air
  • One Night
  • Laundry
  • No One Mourns

    No one mourns when a villain goes missing. The citizens celebrate months of peace, police relax knowing there’s one less calamity around the corner, politicians pat themselves on the back for a job they never did.www.onedoor.cc The city breathes.Atlas, however, found no peace in the calm. He saw it not as the peace following a war, but as the calm before a storm. Something was coming, something big. There had to be. Your nemesis doesn’t go silent for months on end unless he’s plotting his next scheme. And if Atlas knew anything about Ricochet, it was that the longer he had to prepare, the worse the impact o...l0Aone door

    Dead Air

    Story’s first line came from The First Line MagazineCW: allusions to war and deathRayna sat in front of the mirror removing her makeup and wondered who she would discover underneath. She reached over and flicked on the alarm clock radio on her husband’s nightstand. The soft whooshing sound of dead air began to echo in the empty bedroom. “I saw Tinny today. Had lunch,” Rayna mused while she began to wipe the darkened brows from her face. “She isn’t doing well. That boyfriend of hers always runnin’ around. But will she admit it?” queried Rayna as she held her right index finger aloft like the to...l0Aone door

    One Night

    Bright lights and the buzz of the city nightlife, she loved it, not to be a part of it but simply to watch. She had a keen eye for detail and from the view on her apartment balcony high above the city she always had a lot to take in. The fun part was filling in all the unknowns. She didn’t know who she was watching or the relationships of those around them. She made it up, just for fun, no one will know. There was always so much street noise and the conversations were near impossible to pick up. She read most of what she saw from body language and gestures people threw at each other. So much f...l0Aone door

    Laundry

    “Goddamn it!”“What now?”“What now? We’re out of laundry detergent again!”“So I’ll pick up some more later.”“I could’ve picked some up yesterday. I was just at the store.”“So why didn’t you?”“Because I didn’t know we were out.”“How is that my fault?”“Because you were the last one to do the laundry!”“What are you throwing things for? You could break something. That TV’s expensive.”“I don’t give a fuck about the TV! Maybe I should throw it out the fucking window so you can pay attention when I’m talking to you.”“What the hell is your problem? All right, so I forgot to tell you we were out of dete...l0Aone door

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