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1. ONLY HIS NAME • by Michael Ehart 20 Comments

   The bell rang, and Petey stood up, knocking back the stool with his calves. “This is the fifth,” he thought. “Gotta watch for that left.” He flipped his forehead to the left to flick off the sweat, and banged his gloves together, his routine, his ritual, that made every fight okay.
   The kid was big and [...]

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2. THE TOWER OF BABEL: A TALE OF DIVINE REJECTION • by Andy Plotkin 3 Comments

   Finally reaching the head of the line, I bowed low as my Lord thundered, “Weren’t you in charge of that engineering fiasco?”
   “Sire,” I whimpered, knees buckling, “You caused that.”
   “Yes, remember: only I create mountains. Now come in.”
   “No thanks. You also killed all these multitudes when you caused them to misunderstand one another.”
   In addition to having [...]

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3. GHOST GUN • by Bradley Mason Hamlin 12 Comments

   Gus picked up his brother’s pistol, immediately struck by the weight of the thing in his hand. He popped open the barrel, filling it full of lead ammunition and slapping the gun shut. He considered the whiskey on the bar counter. Maybe later, he thought, then walked out into the street.
   Jork, Moore, and Whistletop sat [...]

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4. THE BRAVE • by Oonah V Joslin 12 Comments

   The bombardments had been relentless. Night after bloody night stuck down a hole in the ground, pissing into the rancid mud. It was a world filled with excrement, guts and putrefaction. Convulsive blasts on gun positions shattered valour. Private Martin couldn’t raise his head or open his eyes. Sobs choked from his throat along with [...]

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5. THE EDGE OF THE SKY • by Tommy B. Smith 3 Comments

   “The world is round!” argued one of the angels.
   “No!” contested another. “It is flat!”
   Many of the angels believed that Heaven was round, and they assembled to construct vessels of divine radiance. The answers were revealed to them in an unexpected fashion, when the shimmering beings inadvertently sailed off the edge of their world to plummet [...]

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