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The problem w writing fiction is that you'll be like tee-hee I'm going to write a story about a fucked up little scenario that's got nothing to do with anything in real life, just some pure messed up nonsense, and then you finish it and take a step back and go aw rats I made a metaphor again

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Don’t tell my mother.

Let her continue believing in the life she wants for me. Let her think about me living well and making merry. Visions of her darling child with a loving partner and a fulfilling job. Dreams of a cozy house on some distant world.

Let her dream of her child.

Don’t tell her about the surgeries. About the scars. About the wires that occupy the spaces my nerves once did. The implants in my brain. Don’t tell her how I’ve changed. Don’t tell her that the fire in my eyes is dead.

Please, not a single word.

Don’t tell her that I’m a weapon. Don’t tell her that I’m a tool. Tell her that I’m living peacefully out on the Rim. Don’t let her know that I’m a killer. That the sight of my human form makes me wretch.

Let her live in blissful ignorance.

Don’t tell her that I’m not her child anymore. That I’m just a processor. Don’t tell her that my eyes acquire targets and my fingers neutralize. Don’t tell her how I’m treated. How I’ve grown to love it all.

Please, let her live a sweet lie.

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100,000 sad little worms just want to seek refuge in your body for the winter. could you really say no to a face as adorable as this? 🪱

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i feel like a corpse

that breathes and eats and sleeps

but feels no warmth

from the sun

food

my hand in another's

there's more than one way to die,

what is death but

stillness

stagnance

decay

8 years i was dead

then i was alive

but not warm

a heart forgotten how to beat

the rot stuck in place,

hidden beneath skin, in my mind,

sometimes a corpse comes back to life

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CoC Idea/Prompt #36 : An Alchemist's Tale

For so many years, people have searched for the secret of immortality.

Now, it has been found. Through the alchemical work of Nicolas Flamel, an Elixir of Life has been created, extending the life of those who drink it.

You have the privilege of being involved in the further study and experimentation of this Elixir.

After all, immortality might come with unforeseen side effects.

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CoC Idea/Prompt #35 : Creepy Crawly

If recent reports are to be believed, there has been a sudden rise in spider populations worldwide.

Incidents of mass infestations are increasingly common. In some cases, victims have even been hospitalised due to venomous bites.

What could be causing this surge in arachnid activity? Are we already caught in their web?

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Biogeodes, also known as Flesh Stones, are organisms that live encased in a rock deep underground. It is thought that they survive for millennia in this stable environment.

Breaking the rock and exposing the creature to outside air invariably kills it, making its study difficult.

Inconclusive genetic studies have suggested biogeodes descend from an ancient clade of sea urchins.

How they arrived underground, how they manage to survive and their method of reproduction remain a complete mystery to science.

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there are certain rules one must follow, in order to successfully survive a horror movie

#1. do not make meta jokes about horror movies. you may think being genre-savvy will save you, but in fact, it just sets you up to be killed by a trope subversion

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✞ 666 ✞

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not that it's her fault.

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they'll bury me for good someday, but i'll manage for now

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she sees right through me.

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a transactional relationship

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i just can't pull myself away from you!

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don't look at me like that

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CoC Idea/Prompt #34 : Forget Me Not

It's just another day in your life. Perfectly ordinary. Nothing strange.

So why are you so on edge? Sweating, breath heavy, paranoia hanging heavy over your mind?

Why do people keep disappearing, there one second and gone the next?

Why does it feel like your forgetting something?

Little do they know, a creature hunts them and their town, hidden by a perfect camouflage : the moment you stop looking at the creature, you forget it was ever there.

It can stride into a crowd, consume a victim, and leave with nobody remembering a thing.

Of course, it can still leave physical evidence behind. So this creature must be careful when it goes for the kill.

How can they hope to defeat a creature they don't even know exists?

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