《Amusement Park》Season II: Chapter Ten - Goodbye
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They told me to be myself. Everyone told me to be myself. Yet, that was the problem. I refused to be like everyone around me, and now I'm disqualified from the eyes of many to be acceptable.
Maybe that was too dramatic, but it sounded like it got through the point.
I can't blame my parents for they taught me that the world is a very competitive place. Where the best will bloom and the losers will have to settle at some cheap supermarket for their entire life. But they ended up backtracking from that. They backtracked and now are telling me all the lies I should've known as if they're truths. What kind of world do you live in? You're telling me I can be anything! Why can't I be successful? Why can't I find the job I studied for? You said I'll find a beautiful wife! I found a hoe. A fucking hoe who left me riding on someone else's cock. You said you were proud of me, but I know what you were talking about when the door was closed. How I turned into a fucking loser. And you're saying in one moment how you don't know where it went wrong and the next you're saying it's not a surprise! Which one is it? Did I become a loser or was I born one? And worst of all, nobody is going to care. I'm doing what I can to get away from this shit. I don't have it in me anymore. I was betrayed, I was used, I was thrown away like a used condom. I'm nothing. And I don't matter.
You don't care. None of you do! Look at you. You didn't care. None of you did. Nobody did. I was just another pair of lungs wasting air. I tried to not end up like this. I tried to not only make myself happy but other people too. And what happened was the homeless guy getting angry for not giving him his dollar he expected after I got laid off. And what happened was the woman I married leaving me for someone better. And what happened was Mary from the front desk "borrowing" $300 from me two and a half years ago.
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But did you really care? You're like the rest of them. You're saying that I'm what's wrong. I just wanted a little something back. Maybe some appreciation. Not a single piece of gum. I didn't even like that brand. It loses its taste after five seconds. I bet they carry that brand just to belittle me. They know it loses its taste as quickly as I disappoint those around me. Because what? I said no. I said no ONE FUCKING TIME and now it's thanks to me that their life is ruined. They can't even look at me. How am I supposed to get by? Let everyone step on me like a rug? I don't think anyone will have me around because I tie the room together. I'm an eyesore, as though the mere sight of me will cause distress.
Nobody understands me and nobody wants to. I tried. I really tried. This is goodbye.
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Deviation
There is a place in the far off reaches of space. It is a lonely place in the barest portion at the edge of the universe. There are no stars or other planets for light-years. A region few have ever wanted to visit and fewer still actually have. If you were to visit you'd find and small rip in space-time leading to the most bizarre and out of place thing you have ever seen. A solar system consisting of five planets, all with life, all stuck in conflict, and all absolutely bursting with energy. For some it seems like a paradise. A land of sword and sorcery? Why would anyone pass that up? That was the thought process of the freshly dead boy. This boy, like many before him and many after him, was trying to find the bright side. Things had finally been going right for him, good grades, new friends, and best of all a girlfriend when the entire world ended. No huff, no puff, just poof the end. At least being reborn into this world would be fun. That definitely sounded like a bright side to most. Fracture, one of the five worlds in question, was massive and full of magic. It looked sounded and felt like it would be just another game, it even had prompts and levels. Piece of cake. Well that might be the case if Fracture was meant to be a paradise. The hottest fires forge the strongest swords. This fire has the habit of melting away oneself. A pixie clan searching for a new home, a boy who just lost his, a reality bending forest, and a bug that doesn't belong. All with an intense desire for power. Who will make it through the fire intact, and will they choose to be a hero, or will they join the long history of villains and monsters?
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The call of adventure was prevalent in Eric's mind since he was a fledgling of a boy. He loved exploring new places so much, that he happened upon a magical tome in a cave he found when he wandered around his neighbourhood. And from this tome, manifested the ghost of a dead sorceress who made a home in his mind. And so began his journey in becoming a legendary mage; and also a royal pain in the ass. NB: Just a side project made purely for fun! HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. NO PLOT! Well, maybe a little plot. Okay, it has more plot than I first intended for it to have. And uh, there's not much, but expect profanity.Check out my edgelord book:https://books2read.com/u/mgg7dD
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8 181Hinterland
Simon sincerely believed he was saving Morgan's life when he pushed her off the second-story roof of her family farmhouse. To be fair, his mother was burning it to the ground at the time. But Morgan Mumford, a lonely outcast with a chip on her shoulder and a full skeleton of remarkably unbroken bones, is not particularly convinced of his good intentions. Because the instant he pushed her over Simon also whisked Morgan into the realm of Hinterland: a shadowy world that is a perfect replica of their home town of Coching. But Hinterland is a hungry and dangerous place, where ordinary objects have taken on a life of their own. In Hinterland you might be ambushed by a gang of motorcycles or eaten alive by a duplex. And by god, you run from scissors. Morgan is now trapped in this hostile realm, unable to find a way home. Hunted relentlessly by Aqualung, an evil-minded Buick Skylark with a love for Jethro Tull and hatred for all things on two legs, she is forced to join a ragtag band of fellow castaways to ensure her survival. But the embittered leader of these children has plans of his own, and before long Morgan finds herself swept into his vendetta against Hinterland's imperious ruler: Simon's mother, who commands the living, breathing town to do her bidding and schemes to transform it into something worse than it is now. Something ravenous. It's time for Morgan to decide whether to ditch her new allies and find her own way out of the belly of the beast, or stay and help her fellow outcasts weather the violent feud that brews on the horizon.
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8 291Reincarnation Royale
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