Fellow Traveller
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For Old Times Sake
I was already sick of this and we weren’t even halfway there. I could tell because the old railway bridge which has been recently upgraded from defunct transport to antique decoration was quickly disappearing in the taillights. The van smelled like dried paint, sawdust, and a thick saturation of air freshener with a hint of weed.
By Fellow Traveller 3 years ago in Horror
The World is a China Shop
We're a bar, and we’re a decent place. We’re not sponsoring any little league teams but no one hears about any trouble here. I could say for certain that we were not their type of bar. My head snapped an involuntary double take after I saw them walk in, and then back to the notepad in my hands. The muscles on the back of neck were taught with every instinct begging me to look back at the nine men that entered my bar. All nine in uniform, each the same, all terrifying; a proverbial Hydra each careening their heads over the others to take in the place. They wore Luchador masks with red and yellow around the mouth and eyes. The faded patch of a kicking red bull adorned each of their leather jackets on the back.
By Fellow Traveller 3 years ago in Fiction
Cipher
The metronomic click of my turning signal didn’t seem to register in my dulled senses. It was only when I looked at the time and realized that I had been sitting in the car for 10 minutes did the sound re-enter into my consciousness. I don’t want to be here. If it weren’t for my mother telling me that my grandfather would have wanted me to be here I wouldn’t have. I would have felt closer to his memory at his small fishing hut near the river, where we would spend the afternoon when I was just a child. He used to call me “Chipmunk” on account of my red hair, prominent front teeth, and round face that I had as a child. He would tell me stories and answer all of my childish questions with more consideration than they deserved. He would often confide in me things that I didn’t realize the importance of until I grew older.
By Fellow Traveller 3 years ago in Humans