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  • Vanished

    Vance sat on a park bench as the sun and shadow washed over him as quickly as the passing centuries. He pushed his sunglasses against the bridge of his nose ...

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  • Draped in Time

    In a pitiful attempt to smooth them, each wrinkle became a deeper crease. The woman sighed. She held her iron more tightly. Held tightly, wrapped up in someone….She shook her ...

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  • Darkness of a Distant Home

    The group nervously went forward. Each step a venture. They eyed the trees with suspicion. Rhinegold was sure that there were things watching him from the brush. Anluan wasn’t perturbed ...

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He began to wonder why he had felt uneasy at all. It was like a man wondering in broad daylight why a dream had appeared so terrible to him at night.
— Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart