Stuck

James and his worry-wort mother get stuck in a lift, trapped between floors.

With asthma and an anxiety disorder complicating things, it makes for a tense situation as they wait for rescue.

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Out of Body Experience

What happens if you become a ghost after you are bitten by a zombie? For one young scientist, 'a lot of embarrassment' is the answer.

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The Hungry Mimic

"There are certain things that we know that we don’t have to be taught. They are just there in our minds right from the beginning; I know that I am a mimic. I know that my kind reproduces by duplicating ourselves, but the offspring is a separate being with none of its parent’s memories. I can understand the common tongue, though I cannot speak it. I know how to shapeshift and secrete the sticky sap that helps us catch our prey. And I knew that I would spend my whole life alone, in a dungeon, luring people and creatures to their deaths.

Or at least I thought that I would."

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At The End

"He took an unsteady, deep breath in and let it out slowly.

I gathered my strength and climbed the steps beside the bed to join him. I used to be able to jump up here easily, but old age has caught up to me. Now, my joints ache, and something once so simple seems impossible.

I need to be here. I can feel the end coming for both of us, and I wonder if he feels it too.

Can one who lives such a long life feel the end? He must. He must be able to feel the weight of the lifetimes he has lived.

It seemed so impossible that one such as he could age and die."

He has protected my family for so many generations, sharing in good times and bad, holding each of us at the ends of our lives and laying us to rest in our ancestral burial ground.

Now as death finally approaches him, I can only hope to live long enough to be here for him at the end.