SparksInTheNight's Stories - Page 2

SparksInTheNight published 35 stories
Underneath
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The city is beautiful and glittering under the shine of the sun. But everyone knows of the people living underneath the city, in their subterranean world. The girl from the comfort and luxury of the world above ground doesn't k...
9 reads 9 readers 1
The Land of Perpetual Misery
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The lands are burning in misery, drowning in tears. My name is Mihu. I was a peasant farmer, in the years long since passed. In the times long since gone by. I was taken from my home, back when I was alive. I ascended into go...
13 reads 4 readers 2
The Mothers of Dragons
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Once upon a time there was a kingdom. A kingdom full of common people who were scraping by however they could. A kingdom full of nobles who had more than they ever needed. A kingdom full of imbalanced power and inalienable long...
2 reads 2 readers 0
A Tarnished Coin
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Two worlds, placed in stark opposition with each other, placed intimately nestled close to each other. The world of hunger, thirst, sickness, and need. The world of the beggars. The world of luxury, comfort, pleasure, and conte...
5 reads 5 readers 6
A Princesses Choice
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I love my dad, the king. And I love my mom, the queen. They are so kind and full of love. They are good people. I know that they're good people. So why are all these people against them? Why are all these people saying such pro...
6 reads 5 readers 1
A Place Paved with Dreams
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All I know is toil and work and rice and beans and saying goodbye to loved ones too early. All I have is a family made up of broken people and a community paved with broken streets. All we have is stories and hope and the Lifem...
6 reads 6 readers 1
Babies
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This is the way it has been for my people, for as long as anyone could remember. Each new life brought with it the threat that the creature posed. Each new life could be snatched away from us too early, too harshly, and far too...
3 reads 3 readers 2
The Wall
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The city is filled with everything anyone could ever ask for. With entertainment and fun and beauty and intrigue. So why do I feel so dissatisfied? So why do I feel so empty? The Wall around the city is high. It's thick. No-o...
8 reads 5 readers 1
Beyond the Horizon
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Eric and I are the perfect couple. The young, strong, will-be soldier and the pretty blonde girlfriend by his side. Homecoming prince and princess. Children of the Empire. With everything stretching out for us to conquer and su...
5 reads 4 readers 2
A Motherless Child
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Why did they take her from me? Why did they put me in this strange place where everything is so big and shiny and I'm surrounded by all these strange people who took me from my mother?
1 read 1 reader 1
A Story of Forever
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The world was murdered. The world will live again, will rise out from under its fetters. So will the people. In the meanwhile, the Yemars have magic. The Yemars have magic, and they have each other, and they have hope.
14 reads 10 readers 2
Two Children
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Malina-Deprassi was a world of extremes. The Big People had more than they ever could need. The Small People struggled to get by. Events occur which cannot be explained. Prophecies are told which gain widespread attention. Chil...
3 reads 3 readers 3
The Doctors Daughter
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I watch over her. I feel her pain with her. I feel all the many injustices done to her. And I wish I could intervene. I wish I could intervene but ever since my powers became depleted, this is all I can do. The child is away f...
4 reads 2 readers 1
Sheelo the Prophet
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Nobody knows where the stories of Sheelo the prophet originated from. But everyone knows that they believe them. The stories are amazing, fantastical, inspiring, and so very empowering. And everyone knows that with Sheelo on th...
1 read 1 reader 0
The Farlens Orb
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Once upon a time, in a land far away filled with magic of all sorts, there was a type of creature called a Farlen. The blood that they bled, when it hit the sunlight, would turn into a grand host of rubies, one ruby for each dr...
28 reads 2 readers 1