Read My Shorts

By TheOrangutan

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READ my SHORTS! ('cos eating them isn't very tasty) - A collection of very short stories, micro-fiction, one... More

The Last Theorem
Meet Bernard
Blood in the Sand...
Form A12
It's all Greek to Me
Aeolian Future
Ink Wraith
Blood of the Fallen
The Twubble with Twabbles
Thief of Time
The Mage's Touch
Come The Dawn
The Temptation of Words
See No Evil
Monkey Nuts
The Lost
The Ultimate Self-Portrait
Pass the Ketchup
Drabble - The Light
Decaffeinated
A Preferred Silence
Being Shown the Ropes
The Sands of Time
Quantum Reverse
'Gainst the Static of Space
A Shirt of Violent Green
Mirror, Mirror
The Promise of Distant Rain
Dark Blade
First Contact
Oi! Neil Gaiman...
A Triple Wybble
The Fool?
The Race for Her Affection
Beretta
In Void
Knights of North and South
Gladiator
Half Empty
And in the Darkness Bind Them
Under Pressure
Redemption
Five Bullets
Tuesday's Gift
Slenderman Collective
SWALK
Scout 09
Conchie
The Seep
At the End
Baby Blues
Now I Lay me Down to Sleep
Small Man, Big Hammer
#TenThingsNotToSayToAWriter
Alien Lights
13 Words of Halloween
The Back Seat of the Bus
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Username Acrostic
A Wonderful Chaos
The Bird Man of Alcatraz Road
The Dark Side of the Moon
Rain Man
Under London
Route 19
And Ridian Danced

The Absence of Light - #100WordScream

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By TheOrangutan


They say the last thing you hear are the voices, that there is a grain of truth at the dark heart of any legend.

Encase yourself in the uncaring darkness of stone and listen beyond the beating of your heart: it is never silent. Stone never sleeps, and neither do the beings who live there. The absence of light does not mean the absence of life, or the absence of knowledge. Older beings than us inhabit the lithic deeps, beings we used to fear and pay homage to.

They have never forgotten this, even if we have.

I hear something...

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A drabble, exactly 100 words (not including this bit) written for the #100WordScream challenge on the paranormalcommunity profile. 

Thank you to angusecrivaingenk01 and godhand for challenging me to do this one. 

And now I'd like to extend the challenge to rylanalessandraColbyLangMoranmollydianatulaJing_JingNickUskoskipantopicon, all the ambassadors and anyone else at wattpad 

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