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Goblin Dinner

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       Image Credits: Freepik     It was half past eight, the air cemetery-still, and the darkness of the sky hung above us like the blade of a guillotine. The wagon of death had arrived to pick up my brother and me. Our destination: a dinner at the House of Goblins. To the man and woman who had come to take us away, we must have seemed ecstatic—grinning ear to ear as we stepped into this vehicle of doom. Of course, we couldn’t let them sense our dread; they’d sink their fangs into our necks if they did. As if the atmosphere wasn’t ominous enough, a torrential downpour began, straight out of a Friday the 13th movie. Sheets of rain slammed against the windows, blurring the world outside into watery streaks of shadow and light. But I had to make it out alive—and so did my brother. We exchanged glances in the backseat, silent prayers flitting between us like moths. If any supreme being happened to be watching, now would be a fine time to intervene. As we neare...

The Boy with the Cloud.

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Image Credits: Generated by   AI using OpenAI's DALL·E model (2025).          Ever met someone who unsettled you before they even spoke? A face unfamiliar, yet strangely significant. They slip into your life like a recurring dream—appearing in hallways, in fragments of conversation, in places they shouldn’t be. And though you tell yourself it’s coincidence, a small part of you wonders if something else is at play. If the universe has stitched your stories together in ways you’re only beginning to understand. His arrival wasn’t foretold in any prehistoric cave painting, nor was it heralded by some mind-boggling miracle. Maybe it was a clerical error from the heavens. Or a prank from the underworld. The gods, amused, watching one mortal unravel. That’s how Tora felt: like the punchline to a cosmic joke. He wasn’t Atlas Corrigan, he wasn’t a Greek god, and he certainly wasn’t her type. Still, girls fawned over him. That swagger, that chaos. A magnetic storm of...