2,880 words
3AM
By Draconias Galactica
2003 Draconias Galactica
I was at the edge of the world once. It was...nice. The edge of the world was actually a ways back, because by the time you got to the physical edge, the world had just given up. There was nothin...
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1,567 words
Argument
By Draconias Galactica
2003 Draconias Galactica
I was born into this wasteland about twenty years ago. It's hard to tell how long it's been. My father used to carve hash marks into a stone outside our cave. That rock is still there, and s...
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1,387 words
Desert
By Draconias Galactica
2002 Draconias Galactica
The main problem with being lost in the middle of the desert is that every damn thing looks the same, so it's pretty likely you're gonna stay lost. I think I passed up this rock fifteen times ...
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2,130 words
Highway
By Draconias Galactica
2003 Draconias Galactica
I've been wandering around in the wasteland for years now. I don't remember how long it's been since that so-called "firestorm" fucked up the world, but it's been a long time. When the bomb h...
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1,948 words
Karma
By Draconias Galactica
2002 Draconias Galactica
His name was Rob. If you asked me now why I picked him up, I couldn't tell you. There was no real reason. It was a dark night (yeah, as opposed to a _bright_ night), and it was chilly. I was dr...
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1,178 words
Mother
By Draconias Galactica
2002 Draconias Galactica
Here's a breakdown of my mom's life. She was born, and twenty-seven years later, when she was starting her life, the firestorm came around. All of a sudden, her life was changed. Now she was j...
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1,898 words
Noise
By Draconias Galactica
2003 Draconias Galactica
About a week before the bombs hit, I was listining in on a debate about what civilization was. Don't ask me how I got into that situation, because I'm not really sure. It just happened as a res...
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1,048 words
Reality
By Draconias Galactica
2002 Draconias Galactica
Everything has a purpose, maybe. Nothing happened just for the heck of it - there are too many possibilities in reality for it just hope for things to turn out right. If everything is happeni...
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