Written By Mike

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City of Ghosts

inspired by the art of klaus wittmann

By Mike

His blue cloak soaked away the colors of the city around him, and Digory smiled. "Lad, yer' too pale. Ya' need more sunlight if ya' want'ta find yerself a woman one day." They would often say. Digory's laugh echoed...

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What the Soldier Saw

inspired by the art of Damian Audino

By Mike

He looked out, emptiness and grass looming. He had trouble remembering what it was like to walk through quietness without the sounds of gunfire, or conversation. Years of proximity, sleeping always in sight of someone...

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Excerpt from History of Barbary the Red, "Orc" captain of the Sleight Wench.

inspired by the art of Fırat Solhan

By Mike

There have been many tales about the infamous pirate, a certain Barbary the Red. A large, broad shouldered human who was also captain of the Sleight Wench. You, reader, are likely apt to put this book down having...

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There are always flowers for those who want to see them

inspired by the art of eqwrewr ewqrewr

By Mike

- Henri Matisse

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When all the world has been wasted.

inspired by the art of Mark Kolobaev

By Mike

When all the world has been wasted, the two or three who're left will paddle out in the murky remains of our oceans, and squint in the dry morning to try and see through the fog of a billion skin cells drying in the...

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When the cowards desert him completely

inspired by the art of Alex Figini

By Mike

Onwe shuffled a moment in his armor, and felt air seeping in underneath the plates of his scale mail. Before him loomed an army, coming in the fog of the evening to destroy his home. Had he looked back, Onwe would...

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What do you mean the lollipop is poisoned?!

inspired by the art of Bráulio Gregorio

By Mike

"Incredulous humanity. Always looking for a knife in their back, when usually its you who put it there!" The gigantic blue frog hummed throatily. "It is a wonder you haven't blown the earth up trying to keep...

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She wore a dress

inspired by the art of ahmed rawi

By Mike

Of shells and grasses and all the world, in all its spinning could not spin like her. So Gaia, in her jealousy, caused her spins to flit with magic and the woman was burned alive and thrown headlong and tongue-tied...

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Toys and spatterings in the snow.

inspired by the art of Daniel Tyka

By Mike

Out of the cold they come; a terror sweeping through the ashes and snow before the children of the next town can wake to see the ruin coming for them in the distance. He knows that the winter may have killed them...

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Stan's Journal, No. 89

inspired by the art of Eren ARIK

By Mike

Well, it appears that the Lord (or the gods of this place...apparently) has blessed me bountifully. Some dwarf guy (like, a real dwarf. Like axes and beards and mining dwarf) figured out how to make rounds for my...

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The day my C14 broke.

inspired by the art of Eren ARIK

By Mike

Three years ago I was the concert harpist in the New Boston Orchestra. The only thing that stopped me traveling to join the old Boston symphony orchestra, people often told me, was that it had been destroyed in the...

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Ophelia, huh?

inspired by the art of Katerina

By Mike

"For women's fear and love holds quantity, In neither aught, or in extremity. Now what my love is, proof hath made you know; And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so. Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;...

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