Category: Short Story
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Sinking the Messiah
Winner of L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Honorable Mention | Quarter 42A 2025 Written by Jamiel Jones My heart shudders in my chest as it does during every sinking. I imagine it drowns in the frigid waters below and that’s why I can’t feel a thing. Even as I rest my eyes upon…
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Langston
I didn’t expect to write a story like this, but alas! I’m actually very in love with this story. I just like how authentic my protagonist sounds. And it’s nothing over the top. Many somebodies somewhere lived this or something like it. Enjoy.
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Stalker of Tomorrow
There it is again, that ebb of injustice. That shock in the back of my neck. It doesn’t hurt, only tingles, but that’s how I know someone’s there, watching me. I look back like I’ve done so many other times and see no one but a clear street. I walk more briskly, the bite of…
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Professional Bullshitter
I could go on and tell you that everything is dandy. The definition of dandy is good. Peachy. Great. Couldn’t be fucking better. I could spin that tale a thousand different ways, and trust me, you’d believe me because I’m a professional. A veteran when it comes to lying, to making people believe things they…