Lyra woke with a start to her blaring alarm clock and frantically silenced it. She held statue still for a moment, straining to hear even the faintest of noises from her little brother’s room or that of her parents. The alarm clock silently ticked another minute by, the glowing numbers reading 4:01, and Lyra let out a soft sigh of relief.
Excitement bubbled in the eight-year-old girl as she carefully slid out of bed and tiptoed across her room. Carefully, quietly, Lyra opened the door and
Stocking Stuffer
By: Tyslan03
The Right Work
Human beings believed all sorts of silly things.
They thought reality was fully knowable in a way that could be readily proven and replicated. They also thought that only the things they could experience in some way were the things that existed. And that, when most would never have the education to take what their so-called scientists said on anything but faith.
Things hadn’t always been that way, of course, but humankind had alway
Christmas Story: The Right Work
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