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G Shamshir

G Shamshir

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I quickly closed the distance between us and, now standing directly infront of the cripled amature, trained my gun on his head. "W-Who are you?", he stutered.
"I am Marcus Gielhowse, you and your two compatriots were given an assighnment by a man I used to work for. You were told to kill a young woman in her early twenties with blond hair and green eyes. You were told that she would be waiting by herself in Dresden Central Station for the midnight train to Dusseldorf. What you wern't told is that her name is Elizabeth and that I won't allow her to die tonight.", I said, looking into the eyes of the visibly frightened twenty year old laying on the hard cement sidewalk before me. I began to walk past him, "Maybe I can make the train and Elizabeth and I can escape to Dusseldorf together," I began to think. But these thoughts were sharply interrupted by the sound of a gun's hammer clicking back. I imediatly turned around and put a round through the amature's head. As I walked over to his body, I could see the hammer pulled back on his gun, still clutched in his hand, "If he'd just given up, I would have let him live," I thought, "such a wasted life but as long as Elizabeth is safe it doesn't matter." Just then a female figure stepped out from the dark alleyway to my left and, before I could react, fired two rounds into my torso. As I was falling to the ground and darkness was closing in on me from every corner of my vision, I had just enough time to squeeze off one round, though I don't know where it went.
"Thank you for your time.", said the police officer standing by my hospital bed.
"Wait, there's something I need to ask you. Do you know if Elizabeth made it", I asked the officer, half-fearing the answer to my own question. He replied, "I don't know but they found the body of a young woman in her early twenties at the train station's entrance." My heart skiped a beat and I was sudenly filled with a sense of complete dread as though everything I fought for had

22-Jun-2010 01:43:23

G Shamshir

G Shamshir

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just been taken away. "Please, could you tell me what she looked like?", I begged the officer just as he was about to leave the room. "She had short black hair and brown eyes; we think she bled to death from a gunshot wound sometime around 12:05.", he replied. "So she did make it.", I quietly said to myself, finaly fealing at peace. "you know, there's going to be an investigation now.", the officer said as he was about to leave. "It doesn't matter, so long as Elizabeth is alive, it doesn't matter.", I responded as he finaly left the room and I began to drift off to sleep.
It's funny, my illustrious criminal career began with stealing credit cards from wallets and now it ends here, in this hospital bed because a beautiful girl found out my boss was stealing credit card numbers from a video game website. I don't know where I'll go from here or even if I'll survive the night but I suppose as one life ends, another begins.

22-Jun-2010 01:44:28

Logan Shafts
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Logan Shafts

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Scout574:
I'll try to get to it soon.
Crocefisso:
You are welcome to post it wherever you like. It is your story after all. =p
Considering the unknown release time for the results, I wouldn't want to stop people from posting their own stories places - it doesn't make sense.
Labryinths/Pownhydra:
I'm sorry but I havn't got the slightest clue when my next competition will come around.
I've been overly busy and havn't even had time to grade this one (something that only should take a few hours) - which makes me think it is unlikely for me to start another competition.
If I do start one though, it will be announced.
G Shamshir:
Thanks for sharing your story, it will be added to the Index ASAP.

23-Jun-2010 01:04:54 - Last edited on 23-Jun-2010 03:43:10 by Logan Shafts

Logan Shafts
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Logan Shafts

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You're always welcome to post a story - but it won't be inside the contest.
I'm afraid it would be unfair to the contestants to let you submit a story after the deadline, because they had to write their stories before the deadline.
Moving it back almost a month would've given them more time to think it over, meaning that you would have an advantage over them.
Perhaps the deadline on my next competition won't be so close to its begining. We'll see.
I will however do a review of a story for you, if you post one, and I will add it to the index. The review will come after the contest results are done, and of course when I have time.
As always, please keep it under 5 posts.

23-Jun-2010 23:23:31

Logan Shafts
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Logan Shafts

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I wanted to let you all know that I will be leaving for a few days, but when I get back I should (hopefully) be able to manage the grading.
So keep an eye out for it in the next couple weeks. =]
See you all around sometime soon, with any luck. ^^

24-Jun-2010 22:39:28

Areno3

Areno3

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— “The Darkness of Dungeons”
The floor and walls vibrated from the powerful creature's breathing, and my heart raced faster than it ever had before. My grip on my Fractite rapier loosened as I looked over to my left, gazing at my unfortunate friend. The entrance, the final door, lay before us, and there he lay, slumped against the brisk stone wall. His Protoleather armour was torn to shreds, and his Tangle gum longbow had been cracked in two. He only had a few Novite arrows left in his Protoleather quiver that was adorned to his right shoulder.
“I am sorry,” I said, collapsing to my knees as I stared into my companion's forest green eyes. His pale skin was slicked over with blood and sweat, and a gruesome hole had been propelled into his stomach. A few shards of metal lay there, from the creatures that were made to be obstacles for us. “I let you down, my brother.”
My brother sighed, coughing up a fair amount of sanguinary liquid as he reached out his hand, grasping mine tightly. “You never let me down. You did your best, and that is all I could have ever asked from you. Stay safe, my brother. Finish this, and delve deeper into this horrid fortress. I. . . I love you, Jakaden.”
Those were my brother's last words as his emerald green eyes became dull, and his face relaxed into nothingness. His neck craned to the left, his head sliding against the wall until it lightly hit the ground. His inky black hair had been covered with that awful crimson liquid, and it smeared all over the bitter wall.
A tear slid down my unattractive face as my brother's grip loosened, and his hand grew cold. I let out a single sniffle before rising to my feet, clutching my Fractite rapier more securely in my slightly tanned-skin hand. My knuckles turned a pearly white, and I gritted my teeth together to block away the emotional pain that wracked ever orifice of my human shell.
I deliberately brushed my hand over my silver trimmed, Fractite armour, cleaning off the gore. “I will

25-Jun-2010 00:04:27 - Last edited on 25-Jun-2010 00:43:04 by Areno3

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