Cobalt Dreams_The Fight of the Century_The Collision_Maleficent Mustopher
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Cobalt Dreams
I stood watching the back of the stranger as he placed a kettle on the tiny electric stove.“Do you like tea?” He asked without turning around, already pulling open a drawer and rifling through a noisy collection of pots, plates, and silverware.I didn’t answer and the ship’s ambient sounds filled the silence between us. Weeks adrift in the Fringe had separated my mind from my body. The man’s jolly whistle, the ship’s dull hum, and the clattering of utensils all seemed like echoes in a waking dream.“Ah, here it is. Chamomile tea. Have you had it?” He asked me as he held out a tin can and shook i...
The Fight of the Century
Words: 2463The Fight of the Century FDNY Lieutenant Mike Mose worked a night tour in midtown Manhattan, replacing the regulawww.onedoor.ccr officer, who was off that night on Death Leave. It was his father in law’s time to visit that dark matter. After roll call, Mike drifted to the firehouse kitchen to get acquainted with the strangers he commanded that night. The kitchen conversation got around to the boys last night out as a group of ten watching the Golden Glove finals at the old Madison Gardens. Of course, they rooted for the few white guys who competed, leaving the arena in the ...
The Collision
Laura wakes suddenly from sleep, sticky with sweat and the lasting images of a forgotten dream, her memory scrambling to make sense of the feelings that still linger. Her gut lurches with a strange sensation, her intuition marking a shift in her day, something out of sorts. She hesitates, wondering if she should go to the airport as planned. Her flight is to leave in three hours for an opportunity that would change her life, for an internship she discovered by chance at a dinner party only yesterday. The caveat was that she had to arrive tomorrow at 7:00 A.M or the opportunity was lost, and sh...
Maleficent Mustopher
He’s gone rogue.It’s not easy being the Krampus helper. He never gets to do anything wicked outside of the realm, and he’s tired of carrying the Krampus chains to different shelves and polishing his hooves. He was too young to follow the Krampus to the human realm in the good old days. Perhaps now he’ll get his recognition. Now it’s Mustophers time to shine. There’s been talking going around in the levels of hell that the Krampus has gone soft. That’ll change now. Mustopher will do him justice. He’s walking down the street. It’s early December and there are lots of Christmas decorations about....