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Thaw Creatures
Introduction Living Conditions It is the year 2097 and almost 73% of the Polar Ice Caps have melted since the completion of "The Vast Shift". In 2032 the Earth's axis completely switched polarities and melted the glaciers. Most of what is the northern part of North America is at the North pole and under what is remaining of ice. The sun moved closer to the Earth and humans are unable to live above ground. They can soak up the suns energy and grow food in the shade, but if a living being were to step into the direct sun, they would receive major fourth-degree burns.
By Angela Gerber2 years ago in Fiction
Flowers In The Dirt
Charles Ringwald knew something was wrong the moment he walked out the door of his small brick house. His house was not much different than many other houses scattered throughout his quiet neighborhood. He quickly realized it wasn't just something that seemed off.
By Victor Ing2 years ago in Fiction
Love, Rocks & Ripples
Love, Rocks, & Ripples By: Angela Crystal McClure I just want to go fishing and create my own. He was from “good means”. A two parent home. He asked if he could walk me home. My response was, “No, I’m good.’ His reaction was so sweet, “I want to be sure you make it home in one “good” piece.” He even asked, ”Can I meet your Family?”
By Angela C McClure2 years ago in Fiction
Love, Rocks, & Ripples
Love, Rocks, & Ripples By: Angela Crystal McClure I just want to go fishing and create my own. He was from “good means”. A two parent home. He asked if he could walk me home. My response was, “No, I’m good.’ His reaction was so sweet, “I want to be sure you make it home in one “good” piece.” He even asked, ”Can I meet your Family?”
By Angela C McClure2 years ago in Fiction
the little voice in my head
The little voice in my head I was showering. I couldn't talk to Simon about any of this, he wouldn't understand. I think it is a Caribbean thing, because all the mothers around me were more than happy that their teenagers were going out with their friends. As if it was the perfect way to get rid of them.
By Carole LAPILUS2 years ago in Fiction
The Olive Tree and the River
The soft sound of rushing water fills my ears as I take one last look toward the River Erne. I see a man in overalls and a long-sleeved red shirt standing knee-deep in the water with a fishing hook in hand, but other than that, she is empty and at peace. A small part of me yearns to run across the street and through the bushes to lay flat upon the river surface one more time, but I am already bundled up in my fleece sweater and the wool jacket Gráinne gifted me as a good-bye present.
By Jacqueline Shea2 years ago in Fiction
The Proposition
For Christmas in my junior year of high school, I got a postcard from my parents in Bora Bora and a broken finger after falling on my hand because I slipped on a spool of thread. The other girls at Sacred Heart Academy got Macbooks, Gucci purses, and diamond earrings. And honestly, good for them. I wouldn’t have wanted any of that stuff anyway. What I’d asked for was a nose ring, but it would have to wait until I turned eighteen in June.
By Bijou Beausoliel2 years ago in Fiction
foreign to people Chpt. 1-7
Chapter 1: My best friend was another winged human type creature like me but he was older than me and had a broken wing, he never talked. He just showed me how to survive by acting it out as best he could. He was like a father to me, we never missed a day of practice, we would swim,run through the woods, practice dodging and a lot more fun stuff through the years. I assumed he had taken care of me since birth or he had found me somewhere. At one point he agreed on making a name for each of us, I would be Nozaki and his name would be Soiki. We live in a world where humans rule over the creatures of the earth, the animals and the original creatures. The humans refer to us, the original creatures, as monsters but for some reason when they see me lingering at the edge of the woods they go speechless, not in a bad way but like they are looking at something amazing. Unfortunately one day when I found out their true nature when I was fifteen still very young for our species I heard something coming from a nearby village the humans had built not long ago. I decided to go towards the strange noises but came to realize the noises were going to come to me, before I could reach the forest edge Soiki came running at me from behind and grabbed my hips thrusting me in the air about twenty feet. I instinctively started flapping and saw him from below, at that point he was screaming at me to fly away and forget about him and this place. It was the first time I had heard his voice but also the last, he used a deadly hissing voice that was like nothing I had ever heard before. I did as he commanded and started to fly away but I could never follow his words completely, I would never forget about him or my home. Not long after I started to fly I turned north and looked back to see flames shooting out of the trees below, my home and everything I had ever loved was being destroyed and sent up into flames by the creatures known as humans. I would never forget what they had done, most importantly I would never forgive them. At that moment I decided I would get my revenge on the humans but I knew I couldn’t do that with my weak child body, I would have to get stronger and survive until the day I could pay them back. After the longest flight of my life I decided to take a break and land near a ravine, there had to be water at the bottom and maybe some small animals I could snack on if I made a weapon. I landed near the edge of the ravine and gathered some branches from the nearby forest, as I was walking around gathering wood I heard a strange voice. It was a soft woman’s voice but it wasn’t quite a woman, when I looked around I found a large panther and two small cubs but before I knew it the adult panther had spotted me and hissed “Leave us be human!” strangely enough I understood what she said and slowly spread out my wings from behind while speaking in a small voice,
By Abigail Wright2 years ago in Fiction