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Stories by: thniels
9 stories
Steps In Slowmotion
The lives - and fates - of seven people cross in five-and-a-half absurd tales of seemingly unrelated grim horrors varying from subtle to downright gory. People who cause each others' pain through their ignorance, inabilities or just sheer arrogance.
Blind
A young man escapes from a 1930s lunatic asylum and brings with him a blind old man on the brink of senility. However, he soon turns out to be more resourceful than he first let on. When they kidnap a young woman, things take a turn.p.s. Someone will get bitten. I promise.
Connection
The navigator of a mining spaceship is caught in a mutiny.* This story was a contest entry for Avatars.inc but didn't make it to the finals. I revised slightly to detach it a bit from the original brief, which was this...Established in 2038, Avatars Inc is the world's leading producer of robotic avatar systems that can transport a human's senses, actions, and presence to a remote location in real time. For the next few decades, they developed hundreds of avatar models and enabled millions of operator-hours.In 2079, they launched a campaign to physically retrieve, preserve and archive the memory cards from their most valuable units. They searched the world, and deep into the solar system, to acquire the chips that contain avatar memories spanning the 21st century. However, one memory was missing. Avatars Inc asked the public to find and upload this missing memory - in the form of an original short story.
Sympathy for The Devil
For "Smoke on the Water: A Bookshop Writing Contest" by @The_Bookshop, this is my take on Rolling Stones' Sympathy for The Devil. I hope you're not too comfortable.
Robberies & Broken News - A Mark Twain Pastiche
Mark Twain, Reporting - A contest entry for https://www.wattpad.com/785896163-mark-twain-reporting-open-mark-twain-reporting
Ghost Town
A ghost story for the Ghost Stories writing contest @ https://www.wattpad.com/693561381-ghost-stories-a-2k-writing-workshopping-contestThere is only one chapter. First chapter is the original, the second a rewrite following comments on the first version, and the third is identical to the second except in a different paragraph flow to accommodate other reader settings.The second, finalised part was elected for the anthology ☺️ which can be found here...https://www.wattpad.com/story/197562722-the-bookshop-summer-anthology-2019
Kami
Just how jealous can a god be?*** This story will not be written by association, chapter by chapter. Rather it will be one finished story and published in fall/winter of 2020. Just a prologue here to tease you a bit. ***