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30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#30/30) : Twenty-Three Minutes After Midnight.

The writer didn’t even have the meager pride Faust’s reckless ambition. Instead, procrastination had been the culprit this time. Procrastination… and a demanding and needy child! Never a man to breach a contract, Mephistopheles gave the child her bottle as promised, and whisked the writer away to the lake of fire.… Read the rest

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30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#29/30) : Something Isn’t Right Here, Part 2

Tyrone thinks there isn’t something right about this DJ, with his Ray-Ban sunglasses, his corduroys, his nonchalance… but what could it be? As Tyrone tries to decipher the puzzle, he scratches his head with two of his tentacles while using the rest to light cigarettes and order drinks for the many women surrounding him.… Read the rest

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30 <250-Word Stories in 30 Days (#21/30) : Martian Sexcapade

Earnest, a cryogenically frozen astronaut, was excited to be the first human being recruted to study the experience of sex on Mars. While extensive experiments had been performed on scientists in Earth orbit and on the moon, NASA had to be thorough in anything and everything, and the gravitation field of Mars (and the affect of trace amount of atmospheric iron oxide suit permeation) was an unknown quantity.… Read the rest

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