Tag: 50words

The fridge did its best to keep its humans happy. Fresh vegetables and snacks, juicy meat and sweet wine.

With the years it started failing, but did its best. Kicks of frustration denting its door and bruising its character.

Weary, broken, and frustrated, it poisoned them all one sunny morning.

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The crow yelled at the cat and flapped its wings. The feline retreated.

The next day, two cats. The crow crowed louder and flapped her wings faster. Her mate swooped down and nipped a kitty tail.

Third day, three felines: not a chance for the outnumbered crows, their babies eaten.

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Small black flies invaded the office, before taking over the whole city. It got so bad you had to wear a mask to avoid breathing them in. They formed a fine black film over everything, including your skin.

People went mad.

One day, all the flies died. It was over.

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Lucy hasn’t been tending her inner swamp lately. It’s starting to overflow, dripping from her eyes and ears. She knows the swamp monster is feeding on the gloom and growing each day.

With Patrick, she sets off on an inner journey to kill the beast.

They prevail, but remain forever joined.

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A couple, mid-thirties, obviously love-struck.

– So, where’s the catch? She asks.
– There isn’t one, darling.
– Oh no, there always is: attraction comes with a special variety of hell built-in.

Hand in hand, they make it to hell and back many times, love twinkling in their eyes to the very end.

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Here and there, people start discovering complete strangers who seem to be their identical twins. As the media start reporting these findings, a few pairs set out to track their origins and uncover the top-secret military experiment that is behind their mysterious births. They were cloned, and are deadly weapons.

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They are five. Five strangers who discover they are all born of frozen ova donated by one woman. She carried a mutation that will change the face of humanity.
They learn to join their minds, and discover others like them.

They multiply.

She tracks down her children to kill them.

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“I’ve got it,” said Paul.
The look on his face turned from triumph to horror as he watched the weapon he had retrieved from the abandoned craft weld itself to his hand and start shooting towards us.

“I can’t make it stop! Help!”

We ran for cover and killed Paul.

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The growth on his shoulder was becoming ugly. It was also starting to talk with him, which he found unsettling.
The doctor refused to remove it as it had sufficient sentience.

Three months later the growth had developed prehensile appendages.

A year later, it strangled him after a nasty fight.

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Tom’s marriage had turned into a nightmare. Janet and he fought all the time and the children had got completely out of hand. He became addicted to full-simulation dramas, and fell in love with an actress. He sought her out and discovered the ugly truth behind the profitable sim industry.

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