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The bronze tea kettle is so heavy that petite Darby must use both hands to pour the fragrant beverage into the dainty cups. She painstakingly performs each step in the ceremony. The trio of hooded figures around the table sing the melodic Tea Prayer. One by one each drank of the holy tea and Darby held her breath until the blessing took hold bestowing each with a soft glow for but a moment. They smiled, their applause echoed warmly in the stone chamber. "Welcome," they whispe

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/75993/harry-and-the-apocalypse Someday I will finish this story I started to help me process losing my cat Harry. The world as I knew it ended on a Tuesday in late September 2023. I was just sitting at my cramped home computer, virtually on Zoop, Math 107: Math in Society. I was internally screeching about compound interest when the screen suddenly warped, flickered and then all the power went out. The house was suddenly very quiet as the ele

I wrote this one as a Writing Battle Challenge as well. This one made it through 3 rounds before it lost in round 4 of 10. The Genre: Alternative History, Location: Arcade, Character: Magician. “If you do everything right, then no one will notice the changes.”  These were the last words my boss said to me as she pushed the illuminated button. I had thought to reply but before I could, I arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on September 27, 1849. I materialized into a booth in Joey'

This was my entry into the https://writingbattle.com/join-battle Writing Battle Competition. I didn't win, but I got a lot of great feedback and wanted to share my 1000 word entry. Genre: Horror, Person: Hopeless Romantic, Object: Hammer. Ravi, 27 .5 miles away Pros: free dog walks Great hot glue gun skills Excellent curry Cons: frequent jay walker Allergic to felines “Well that won't work!” I say to Georgie my fat orange cat. Swipe left. “I know I said I was going to avoid

Cat's Paw Excerpts from 17 year old Riley Fernandez diary before she lost her right leg. Dear diary, What a weird day. Like it was good but it was also awful. Like it was good because I'm going to prom and Lucas is going as my date! Like, I can't really believe Lucas agreed to go to prom with me. He's so cute and so much more popular than me and I didn't even mean to ask him, but then he like, said yes so I am happy about that. And tomorrow is my big driving test in driver's