Shimmer #09 – Thicker Than Blood (Part 2)

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Sitting outside the principal’s office I waited for the final word. It should have never come to this, but there we were with me kicking my heels impatiently for my fate to be sealed. While I wished it could have ended some other way I also knew it was inevitable. This was a long time [...]

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Shimmer #08 – Thicker Than Blood (Part 1)

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Two weeks ago: Betty Bruiser sat. That was all she could ever do anymore as she awaited her death sentence to be carried out. Her shoulders, spanning the width of the carriage, and arms stretching to the floor had been bolted to the wall: a precaution in case the collar she’d been fitted with or [...]

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Shimmer #07 – Year One (Part 5)

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“I don’t believe it,” someone groaned. “Asleep for her own party. Can you believe that?” “Portal Man or whatever his name is must’ve really given her a work out,” another responded. Neither voice belonged to people I knew. I pried my eyes open, momentarily forgetting that I was being held upright within a wheel of [...]

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Shimmer #06 – Year One (Part 4)

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The next thing I knew I was lost in the golden haze. Maybe I wasn’t as dead as I thought as I was. When my hard light body finally reassembled itself I looked up to see an assembled SWAT team aiming cautiously in my direction. “Er… I come in peace?” I smiled sheepishly. “Let her [...]

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