Procrastination!_Once upon a Clown_Rosie & Alex_The Smokeweb
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Procrastination!
Hey, now you may be reading this short story thinking it’s something exhilarating, important! Or at least interesting. But... Nah! This book is about my sad last day of winter break. So, I would ask you to reconsider wasting your time reading this...Still there? Ok, But I'm warning you- you better go off and watch Mickey Mouse or something.So, this story starts with Isabell, (me) waking up on December 31st. Ever since December 23rd, my school has been on winter break, and I treated it as a great treasure. I was so productive during the time! But enough of me explaining myself and let’s hit the...
Once upon a Clown
This was supposed to be the happiest day of their lives. Mom handed them each a little brown picnic basket as Benny, Carla, and Stacy skipped into the yard. They were all eight and wore light brown summer hats. They waited for weeks and weeks for this day. That was supposed to be the first time they went to see the amusement park! They were more than excited. The smell of the caramel popcorn, the wholesome cotton candy, the roller coaster, the unmissable carousel, the merry-go-round, the sound of people screaming out of fun, and then the circus with The hall of mirrors, the wax museum, the fre...
Rosie & Alex
It had been twenty-four years since she’d last seen it, but the place looked exactly the same. The lush green grass she used to run across as a child was still neatly mowed. The pine trees towered along the edge of the property, giving an enchanted feel to the air. The red roses she loved to pick and scatter still crept in-between the pines, weaving ropes of thorns and scarlet petals. The sky was bright blue, like the crashing waves she could hear in the distance. The air was mixed with tinges of pine and sea salt. Her heart started to hamwww.onedoor.ccmer as she continued to walk down the pebble driveway. ...
The Smokeweb
The tinny voice echoed in General Zamox’s ear.Your recruit, Caelan Wexer, will show up at precisely 5:02 a.m., and her excuse for being late was that she saw a felis in the hallway.That, of course, was the Smokeweb, the cutting edge technology humans had invented right before they went extinct one hundred years ago, being replaced by a newer species, the homos.Archeological digs had found Smokeweb and had been instantly intrigued. What was the small wafer of metal? What was its purpose?They had discovered that Smokeweb could tell what a homo would do. When they would show up, what they would s...