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Brayden S
@braydensaucier
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Writing stories for the best people.
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Brayden's Stories
The Streets Will Run Red with Marinara
A long time ago…there lived a chimney sweeper and his family, who ran a not very well-known chimney sweeping business in a very distant and isolated town you probably have not heard of. Now the chimney sweeper and his family have often tried to do their best, as they were poor
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This little place at the edge of everything.
The Diner At The End Of The World sits on the edge of a great cliff that leads to the gnarling waters of the Atlantic below. Although nauseating for some, for others it was something short of a strange sight to be seen, especially in the fog of an early morning when it’s red glow
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The strongest among us
How she was so strong, many would never understand. At least that’s what I imagine.
Creeps
“Why do you look at me like that?” Asked my confused sleep paralysis demon, who is standing at the foot of my bed right now. “It’s like you’eve seen a ghost.” I could’t respond to him; if I could, I would have asked him politely to leave. He looks at me with a hint of annoyance,
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How (Not) To Get A Man
It’s been a long time, but I’m back again.
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Achievement Unlocked: How did we get here?
Heldren had always been the emotionless one.The one who couldn’t feel.No doctor understood it.No employer,no friend,no mentor,and certainly no one who had ever felt like family at his small orphanage.But, no one ever expected such a boy to receive a job offer from the king’s boy.
Party Rock
The party ship crashed into the planet of no parties. Miraculously, all of the inhabitants of the party ship survived, thanks to their ginormous automatic airbag system they invented prior to losing their minds to the booze. When they walked out they decided to throw a new party.
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Smog’s Fog and Sog
There is a jazzy looking man who lives alone in his mansion. He has 3 dogs and 3 hogs in his backyard. In his free time, he tends to a large ranch and has lots of farm animals to care for. He does not have much of a life outside of working on the farm, but he is dedicated.
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Hope
“Father?” The child asked, “Why do stars die?” It was past midnight as the boy and his father walked alone in the garden surrounding their cottage between Little Peak and East Peak. “I guess the simple answer is that they are too tired to carry on” the father answered smiling.
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The Gift
The Alien Cadet burst into the room with pouring sweat on his face. “Sir we found something that was attached to the strange object we found in space!” He said wiping his forehead with a rag. “Well then what is it?” The commander asked. The cadet held out a strange golden disc
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A Slight Misunderstanding
I bolt up in bed sweating profusely, my heart pounding. I had been having a terrible dream, and by the looks of things, my experiences to come in the waking world would not be any more enjoyable.
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A Request..
The letter wrote “Dear friends”. “As much as i want to live in this life of happiness, the stress of a thousand things that i do that people would always misunderstood me for has come back to bury itself deep inside of my head again. The stress of a thousand memories that came
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Fortune
He again awoke from his dreams about the stars in the night sky and the “others” who were constantly watching over him. “Dreams are sometimes messages from the unknown parts of this strange universe.” his mother would tell him when he was younger and still learning.
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It must be murder..
Detective Hathaway stood at the corner of the crime scene, the officers had given him permission to observe the scene and see if there was anything that could give them the lead towards the poor victims killer. “This must have been the fifth murder that happened on this street
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War and Moles
The Underground City of Yumaria was a sight to see, if only if it hadn’t been so filthy as it was. It was common though, at least for some people to have the dirt from the surface rain down upon them and the streets due to the trolleys from the higher district which ran between
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Test Run.
The misty streets were empty as he walked to work that morning.
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Judgement
There are a lot of people out there who think that the world is dying fast. It had been slower then since they didn’t have the tools we have now that had gotten them this far into the future, but leaving behind in their wake the forgotten ones that tried and tried to be better.
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An Odd Twist
“Father?” Asked Tiny Tim who was on the shoulders of his overworked and underpaid dad; Bob Cratchit as they walked home from their daily Sunday’s at church. “Do you think we might be able to try a turkey one christmas day?”
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A Destroyed Dream
7/9/23. I’m so hungry. The Mist hasn’t left in Months. Everyone is Dead. All i hear is ringing. He is coming.
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The Betrayer
“Listen to me please”, the woman begged her journalist friend who she had invited over for dinner, she had a confused yet scared face on her as if she had seen the ghost. “You’ve got to stop this please” there was a long silence in the room after saying that. “I saw his body”
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A Lost Memory
“DISAPPEARANCES LINK TO ABANDONED AMUSEMENT PARK” Local law enforcement made a new breakthrough today regarding the Disappearances of 12 College Students who left their dorms for a night out to celebrate the end of the spring semester at Rutherford B. Hayes College in Canton.
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Contact
“Is it possible to determine that we’re not alone out here?” The Scientist asked his coworkers who were talking to him via video call. “It depends what you mean by alone”
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A Strange World
The first contact humanity ever had with an alien race was a dead alien race, their dead lifeless bodies scattered among endless ruins on what was left of a huge advanced civilization. The four crew members of the Perses Mission which was named after the Greek Titan.
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Action
They Found the body mutilated beyond recognition. The stomach area was slashed and ripped apart up towards the chest area with a long bloodied like symbol across and up, the face was much worse as the eyes were ripped out of its socket and shoved into the victims mouth.
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Encore
He pushed opened the doors that led to the abandoned ballroom once used long ago. Looking around he could that almost everything was preserved, other than moss growing in its separate places.
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New Year
The world ended at midnight, that was what most people agreed to although there weren’t many people left in the world at the moment. It ended when there wasn’t screams of terror or pain, but with screams of happiness as billions around the world gathered to watch the countdown
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