“You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.”― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting The life of an immortal is generally pretty boring, but Jack enjoys watching the centuries go by. He loves the new gadgets and gizmos that humans come …
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The Land of Forgotten Dreams
“Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it? It lives on in Fantastica, deep under earth. There are forgotten dreams stored in many layers. The deeper one digs, the closer they are. All Fantastica rests on a foundation of forgotten …
How Far will your OC go?
“White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.”― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Persistence of Memory Create a scenario where one of your OC's is forced to take a pill. There are four pills, a white one, a blue one, a yellow one, and a purple one. Decide what each pill will do …
A Tiny Heart Beat
“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby She was a toxicologist and often found herself wondering the woods to admire plants and fungus. She had a sort of "tender curiosity" for them, and liked to watch the way the local fauna reacted with them. Being …
Three Strikes
“I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.”― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex In life, Charles had been pretty mediocre. He had homicidal tendencies and often daydreamed of brutal murders, but because he enjoyed his luxuries, he decided not to act on them lest he end up in jail. In death, upon meeting Satan …
Behind her Eyes
“If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.”― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth Erin had always had perfect vision. She was the only one …
Faceless
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book Darren came to a fork in the road, both paths looked about the same. Because he didn't know where he was going anyway, he decided to start down the left path and, if he got bored, he would head back and …
Run Away Mage
“Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.”― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders If Bernice could have it her way, she …
Astral Projection and a Body Bag
“How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless …
A Call for Help from the Shadows
“If light is scarce then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty.”― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows Her power went out and all she had were candles for the night. It was too early to go to sleep, and too dark to read, so she sat …
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