SparksInTheNight's Stories

SparksInTheNight published 36 stories
A Lady on the Bus
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So this is not a work of fiction. It's the true life story of a person I met and the experience I had with her. I'm sharing this so that you can keep this lady in your prayers, as she is struggling. She is a beautiful, amazing ...
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The Forestwife
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The kings and queens were satisfied ruling in their large palaces. They thought, falsely, that their people loved them. The people were struggling to scrape by with their poverty and their oppression. But the Forest glowed beyo...
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The Daughters of Zeus and Poseidon
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An orphan girl. Forced to live and work with people who see her as less than human. Forced to sell her human dignity to get by. A pair of storm-filled eyes in a sea of overcast pupils. A bowed head in an ocean of fearful worshi...
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Fly Away (1)
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Synths are designed to be the perfect companions for their owners. They are genetically engineered to be sweet, kind, loyal, agreeable, and submissive. Arden's synth Luca seems to be the perfect playmate and servant. He seems p...
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The Gift
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A young mother knows that the people who control her land will take her baby from her. This is what happens to children sometimes. The rich and powerful need a new slave that they can bend and mold to their will sometimes, on...
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The Boy with the Bow and Arrows
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Robbie Hode is thirteen years old. He is hungry, he is tired, he is grief-stricken. Sherwood Forest stretches green in front of him, his little impoverished community lights a fire in his heart, and the prince's castle casts lo...
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Have a Heart Day 2024
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This is not a work of fiction. This is a letter I wrote to the Canadian Government for Have a Heart Day 2024. I am asking the government to stop discriminating against First Nations children, to stop giving them inadequate serv...
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The Damned Children
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Humanity has unlocked the elixir of eternal life. The brain can be cleaned and washed back into youthfulness. The body cannot. But by transporting the brain to a younger body, one that can host it, it can continue living. T...
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Solstices
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Miri kissed me three days ago. Before I set out onto this journey with the blocker of my light. She told me to be brave. Be confident. Be brutal. And I'm not brave. I'm broken. But when Miri kisses me hope runs down like molten...
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Death Hangs Over Us
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We are children and teenagers who have no one. Who have no shelter. Nothing but the streets and the fear and the apathy of the well-fed and sheltered. Nothing but hunger and poverty and pasts we would rather forget. But despit...
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The Census
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They want us to have poverty. They want us to serve them. To work for them. To be happy with our unbearably meagre lot in life. But we have each other. We have each other and that means that we have power. We can't let them kno...
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Ways People Will be Killed by Climate Change
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This is not a story. It is a real life collection of facts about what will happen if humanity does not stop the climate catastrophe.
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Acts of Kindness that Changed my Life
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These are the experiences that defined me. The experiences that made me who I was. The times of kindness and compassion and care that taught me the lessons that I value most deeply, that can teach you much as well. This is not ...
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Unbreakable Youth
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The Young Lightning Rehabilitation takes the most problem of youths and turns them into good citizens. It makes the most troubled of rebels into compliant and obedient pieces of society. It restructures the most stubborn of min...
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Dragon Wings and Wishes
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The little girl with dragon wings who works at the dress shop is silent, obedient, and most of all, loyal. She always does all the work asked of her without complaint or question. Nobody sees what's truly inside. Not even her. ...
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The Water Screams in Protest
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So i had a dream. Two young men, one escaping terrible exploitation and one escaping terrible luxury, meet. They set of on their individual journeys to change their lives. On the way they meet angels and monsters and mermaids a...
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Mother Mutilated
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Mother Nature's body mutilated. She lies there, her power, her glory, her immortal liberty Rendered helpless by our slashing roads and our piercing pipelines Our factories spewing pollution into the air, the lands, the water O...
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Finding Stars Despite the Urban Light Pollution
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Harmony Ametsenya is too young to face the cruelties of the city. At ten years old, she shouldn’t be hungry, she shouldn’t be cold, she shouldn’t be worried about where her next meal is coming from. But it doesn’t change the fa...
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A War Not Won
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A young man and an old man are talking. But the truth lies in all that is left unsaid.
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The Forest and Her Children
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The free people of the town - the masters - always said that the Forest was a fierce, dangerous place. The Forest has always begged to quietly differ. It weeped for all the people who were stuck under the yoke of oppression and...
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