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Imaginary Nikoda: April 2013
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Thursday, April 25, 2013. Dying is an interesting thing. I imagine it’s different for everyone, of course. How you take it depends on many different factors: how old you were, how sick you were, if you had people you didn’t want to leave, etc. Business that’s been finished for so long you wonder why it took so long for your heart to finally grind to a halt. For me, it was bittersweet. I was old, had lived a good life. I had two husbands. We raised them well.
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Imaginary Nikoda: Rite of Passage
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Killing Banshees ran deep in my blood. I was born on a ship infested with the screamers and my first wails drowned out theirs. My first kill was at age seven after spying one washing the armor of my father. He lost sight in his right eye that day, but he lived and would continue to live until the Old Ravages came to take him away. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Other Writing By Nikoda. We Had Stars Once for Kindle.
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Imaginary Nikoda: July 2013
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Wednesday, July 17, 2013. Killing Banshees ran deep in my blood. I was born on a ship infested with the screamers and my first wails drowned out theirs. My first kill was at age seven after spying one washing the armor of my father. He lost sight in his right eye that day, but he lived and would continue to live until the Old Ravages came to take him away. Sunday, July 07, 2013. Thousands of years had passed, breaking down the why and the who of the missions.
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Imaginary Nikoda: March 2013
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Thursday, March 28, 2013. Our ancestors roamed this land since The Dawn. We were the rulers, the protectors. Our justice was feared. Our mercy offered relief during times of sickness and drought. Never did we require assistance or favors. Never did we have to meet with one of the Kept in the middle of the night to arrange food for our kin and safe passage through our land. We had always known of the Furless. Sometimes, our kin became Kept. Killing the elders ca...
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Imaginary Nikoda: The Hive
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Sunday, July 07, 2013. Thousands of years had passed, breaking down the why and the who of the missions. Billions of drones had been copied beyond recognition and degraded to pure psi energy to feed the Central Minds. All intelligent life was the enemy. As soon as it became detectable, the Executives searched for weakness. All of those Aware had fear. All fear was theirs to exploit. Distance did not matter. It killed quickly and brutally, ignoring the screams.
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Imaginary Nikoda: June 2013
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Thursday, June 06, 2013. The Rise of Arrrbuckles. When the zombies came, it was a bit of a surprise. For a lot of people, it was slightly more of a surprise when their chosen deity didn’t bamf into existence and vanquish the unclean things. Turns out no one- gods included- really wanted to touch them.). They came out of nowhere and the putrefied heads began to roll. City streets were covered in decapitated corpses. Until the Pirates showed up. It took a few dea...
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Imaginary Nikoda: October 2009
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Thursday, October 08, 2009. Out of Sight Unedited. This is the unedited version of Out of Sight from We Had Stars Once. My warts. Let me show you thems. A spray of super heated plasma narrowly misses the sharp nose of Master Sergeant Shibukawa Hisaki as he draws back quickly from the hall. He turns his obsidian eyes to his training squad and sees there are nine of the eighteen and nineteen year olds left. He stands and walks over to it. His squad nervously stan...
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Imaginary Nikoda: The Rise of Arrrbuckles
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Writing shorts from a traveling handbasket. Thursday, June 06, 2013. The Rise of Arrrbuckles. When the zombies came, it was a bit of a surprise. For a lot of people, it was slightly more of a surprise when their chosen deity didn’t bamf into existence and vanquish the unclean things. Turns out no one- gods included- really wanted to touch them.). They came out of nowhere and the putrefied heads began to roll. City streets were covered in decapitated corpses. Until the Pirates showed up. It took a few dea...