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Charlie BrightPeggy GerberLyra Stories 04-07

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  • Night Falls (and so do you)
  • Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory
  • Your Forgotten
  • Dejà Vu
  • Night Falls (and so do you)

    Passing through the fifth and final checkpoint, you suppress a shutter as the magic dampening runes wash over you. It’s been over six months since you started working as a security guard, and having your magic stripped from you every night was just as unnatural and obtrusive as the first time. But it’s not like you can complain; non-magicals couldn’t feel the runes, after all. Confessing that you could… You shake your head, strands of dyed-black hair falling in your eyes before you brush them back again. Tonight was your last night working here; after that, you’d never have to worry about the ...cbWone door

    Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory

    It was just supposed to be a joke. Well, I guess the joke’s on me because I am the one sitting in a jail cell waiting to be picked up for my arraignment. They’re keeping me in a holding cell, so it’s private, but the  toilet is right out in the open and guards keep walking back and forth. I have a shy bladder and can’t pee if people are watching. I wonder if anyone has ever died from a burst bladder. I really want to google it, but they took my phone.I’ve been charged with six counts of involuntary manslaughter and libel against a major corporation. A corporation that can afford top notch lega...cbWone door

    Your Forgotten

    Are you there God? It’s me.. Your abandoned angel, nothing like your image; for there is no image from which to compare. I’ve been down here for some time, among the others, among our forgotten race of angels and demons. They’ve become so bland.. As I myself have.. Why can we www.onedoor.ccnot let them remember? Are you waiting for me too, to forget? Did you forget? Did you forget or have you moved on; a new project across the cosmos. Are your new angels more fulfilling? Did you give them demons to challenge them? Or did they keep their Eden? Are we a long forgotten project of an adolescent God? A constant...cbWone door

    Dejà Vu

    What is the most important prerequisite for making any choice at all? Options! Without options there can be no choices. Of course we can opt out of options by choice as it is the case whenever a totalitarian regime is on the rise. You might ask: “So why do people eventually vote the autocrats in and let the democratic structures and institutions fall? Why do people do that!” Well, the answer is simple. Decision fatigue! Living in free society requires making choices but when the number of options to choose from becomes overwhelming due to the rise of the free market economy and the vagueness o...cbWone door

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