Wizardness

Fantasy and Speculative Short Stories

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  • For a Hill…

    His knees were screaming in pain. His breath was ragged. Sgt. Ali was scared. He could hear the energy beams slam into the dirt just above their foxhole.They’d been fighting over this stupid patch of ground for weeks now. Upper command never explained why this hill was so damned important for the colonial marines to…

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  • An Arrogant Colonizer’s Propaganda

    Oh, I just must tell you, dear reader, about the latest discovery on *****. You will simply delight about it. We’ve found intelligent life on this horrendous planet, but like everything else, it’s marvelously confusing! You know the pictures you’ve seen, of these adorable little things? Well, reader, those are the “elders” as they care…

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  • Trials of Meditation

    Robert sat in his favorite chair. This was the chair he sat in every morning for his routine. He just finished his breakfast and was settling in for his meditation. His coffee was still too hot, so he liked to spend about 10 or so minute meditating to cool the coffee enough to drink.He used…

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  • How to Become a Mountain Goddess

    She struck a pose as she thrust the head towards the sun. The head had been severed recently enough that blood still emptied out of the neck wound. That and she had wrapped it so the blood would stay in the head. The blood dripping added a lot to the effect.A cry came from the…

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  • Mountainfall

    Sam looked out the window. The mountain was on fire. The entire face of the mountain was ablaze. He was over 30 miles away but he could still see the smoke. He could smell the smoke. The worst part was that the trees would burn relatively quickly, the bigger problem was the coal fire burning…

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