As Children Do_Limbo’s Halloween Bash_A Delayed Transaction_Dad Said Run
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As Children Do
“Ninety-Seven, Ninety-Eight, Ninety-Nine, ONE HUNDRED. Ready or not! HERE I COME!” I spun out of the corner I had smushed my face into. The herringbone parquet flooring glows golden, reflecting the light from the hallway lamps. My Mary-Janes slap against it as I run towards the giant mahogany staircase. I reach the carpet covered stairway and start thundering up them with the abandon of youth and enthusiasm. As I run, the crystal tear drops of the chandelier tinkle as they vibrate and shake from the force of my passage. Mrs McIntosh, the housekeeper always says that me running up the stairs re...
Limbo’s Halloween Bash
The letter came in the mail on Halloween morning. It was addressed to me. I was surprised at first. I was a seventeen year old kid, living at home, in my last year of high school with a short list of people I could call friends. Simply put, I didn't get much mail. My first thought when I got the letter was that it was one of those phony college letters. You know the ones that promise you this “amazing scholarship” because of your “academic decree” but in doing a little research you realize the scholarship only covers like a tiny fraction of the stupid amount of money it takes to go to their st...
A Delayed Transaction
Note from the author: There are a couple of instances of bad language in this story.***The hall of trade was the easy part, Gail had been there as instructed, waiting to meet Gerrod in a private chamber. Frustratingly, he’d passed on details of a further meeting, this time in some fancy cake shop in the district of commerce. Infuriated by this latest setback, Gerrod thundered down the street alongside the river, back to his crew.‘How did it go chief?’ Asked Giant. Inside the city proper, he’d been attracting many a sideways stare. Any man of Teraditha knew the horror stories of the mountain fo...
Dad Said Run
She ran, her heart pounding loud in the chest, dry leaves and branches cracking under her shoes at each step. She ran until her lungs felt like they would burst, and her legs cramped and begged for her to stop.Then Anna forced herself to listen. "Are they still following me?" It didn't sound like it, but she stayed still for another minute, breathing as quietly as possible, slowing her heartbwww.onedoor.cceat. Silence.Looking around, she saw a sky-scraping tree a couple of meters away. The first few lower branches were annoyingly high, but the higher ones looked just like a ladder. She breathed out and ke...