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  • Hellish Speed
  • World War F
  • Rocketship
  • Jazz-Mint Tea
  • Hellish Speed

    ‘Stephen? What did you do?’     He uncurled his fingers from around the bottle; it dropped to shatter across the patio tiles. A thousand green shards of light. He turned, his vision a blur, stirring awake to open his eyes and look out across the sea of dark, he thought he was still lost in the fever dream. A monster, huge claws held around his throat as he felt the air rush from his lungs. His vision blurred. Death. ‘Stephen. The police are downstairs, what did you do?’      Perhaps it wasn’t a dream after all. Smoke swirled in the dull light of the table lamp. It was her voice, wasn’t it?    ...K3oone door

    World War F

    Hello! How are you? Yes, yes, I’m talking to you, you the reader of these lines. Why?! Well, how else am I supposed to talk to you? I’m not telepathic. My name is Daniel, by the way. Why Daniel? Why not? A name is just a name in the end. What’s your name? Why? See what I mean? I’ll call you… Logan. Yeah, just like the Wolverine. You know who the Wolverine is, right? See? You like me already. OK, Logan. Let’s talk. Let’s talk about introverts and extroverts. Which one are you? Or maybe you’re an ambivert, one of those people that’s neither but both? Have you ever thought that we’re all ambivert...K3oone door

    Rocketship

    Jeremy steadied himself by his stand-up desk and stared, mildly bored, at the top-right corner of his 42-inch monitor, where displayed a floating-point number between 10 and 20 million.The number represented his net worth. By all traditional measures of finance, he knew this number was completely porced from reality. A little voice, doddy and impatient, told him he had better sell, get out while the rest of the crypto-schmucks were still hodling, huddling and huffing the fumes of thwww.onedoor.cceir respective tokens. But just. A little. Higher. If he stayed on the rocketship until $900, he could cash out w...K3oone door

    Jazz-Mint Tea

    The wind from the east flutters through the chimes on the front porch. The tables are set, the chill in the air has come. The grin on Beatrix’s face is… whimsical. She’s got a special recipe in brew and she’s thrilled to try it out on her next human customer!Autumnal Menu;Jinx juice - warm vanilla milk, cinnamon spice, orange peel shavings, and a hint of whimsy. To ward off bad luck for the day. Camel-meal - chamomile tea (water or milk), allspice to sweeten, lavender and honey.  To attract a peaceful day.Defeat-Me-Not; ground pumpkin seeds, thyme, bay leaves, cinnamon and rosemary. For protec...K3oone door

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