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The Lucky "Evox"_Seventeen_Sunshine on the Ones I Love_Deus In Machina / Deus Per Machina

Anastasia StratuAnna LoganGrah Stories 04-07

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  • The Lucky "Evox"
  • Seventeen
  • Sunshine on the Ones I Love
  • Deus In Machina / Deus Per Machina
  • The Lucky "Evox"

    Sequence One. AdagioThe bright yellow lights somehow compensated for the dismal décor of the premises, but still, the grey carpet and the bare nondescript walls were not exactly eye-feasting material. Ariadne saw no point in decorating her small windowless office. She was replacing the company’s graphic designer who was on maternity leave, and her contract was about to expire. So the only concession to embellishment was an Alpine landscape pinned in front of Ariadne’s desk. She took the photo for the poster herself at home, in Italy. She loved colours, bright and pastel, vibrant and gentle, bu...iXQone door

    Seventeen

    Seventeen.You know, it’s funny, the kinds of questions they ask at job interviews. I’ve been doing a lot of those recently. I’m seventeen and I still don’t have a job. All my friends have one that they got a while back, before the pandemic. Meanwhile, I’ve been going to interview after interview. Either no one wants to hire right now because they’re afraid of another wave of COVID, or I’m more socially awkward than I thought. The questions they ask at those interviews are always super weird though. I hear them a lot. My favorite is, “if you could say something to yourself from ten years ago, w...iXQone door

    Sunshine on the Ones I Love

    Red light of the rising sun caresses the cheeks of my two loves. Tina’s mouth lies open, cheek squished against her mother’s chest. Outside the window is a view that people remember forever. I’m watching the drooling beauties on my sofa.Breath catches in my chest as happy tears smear dark lines on my sleeve. For all the darkness in the world, the sun sheds light upon happiness I never knew was possible.Love fills an empty place inside me that knew nothing but dust and spiders for too long. Days are long, work is hard, but if I’m coming home to these two, I can manage anything.Billie’s heawww.onedoor.ccd tur...iXQone door

    Deus In Machina / Deus Per Machina

    Aesus Rides, a 30-year-old computer engineer of Nigerian-Greek descent, lived a seemingly normal life in the city of Eleusis, Greece. However, one day he woke up to a reality unlike any he had ever known. The world around him was twisted and distorted, breaking the laws of physics and nature in every way. Trees grew from steel, the fruit was filled with tar, and everything was a far cry from the world he knew.As Aesus struggled to make sense of the world around him, he began to notice that reality was becoming increasingly unstable. The sky was dark and stormy, even though it was a sunny day j...iXQone door

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