by Murakami Kasumi (村上かすみ) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/30869.html) The New York Times December 24, 2183 On December 23, at 8:34 in the am Standard Global Time General Jonathan Aller breathed his last after reaching 122 years of age. General Aller had been out of the political spotlight for over 2 years when declining health forced him to […]
Category Archives: Bang*Bang no. 8
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Dec
In Dreams
by Satoru (サトル) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/31061.html) I can never love you. This is what I think as he wraps his arms around me, smiling. I am enveloped by him, his hair cascading around me like waves, his scent filling me like aeros. How am I to know you? How am I to feel you, taste you, […]
21
Dec
Angora Socks
by Wo Xi Huan (我喜歡) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/31413.html) There was once, for there is always someone, a boy. The boy grew up in a brood of about twenty-three, thanks to the amazing reproductive capabilities of were-rabbits. Somehow, though, despite his parentage, he was not a were-rabbit, in fact not a were-anything. He was a were-without, really. […]
21
Dec
Cookies
by Seiwa Kaiyura (性和 界由来) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/31534.html) August “Are you gay?” asks one of the idiots crowded around the new kid, in an overconfident loud voice that always gets on Ian’s nerves. Reading’s impossible, he won’t remember the chapter later anyway, so he just puts the book away and watches the little scene unfold. The […]
21
Dec
Those with White Hands
by Noberu Izari (叙いざり) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/31879.html) “We are from the Outer Regions.” The discordant recitations of rows and rows of school children can still be heard in his mind. He remembers being one of them, small and dark-skinned, his frame enveloped in hand-me-downs. He had struggled with his collar, trying to keep it away from […]
21
Dec
12:24AM
by Eric Shun (エリック旬) illustrated by pearljamz (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/32160.html) One Christmas Eve (and coincidentally, on his 23rd birthday), Norton found himself in a bar a lot smaller than the ones he usually frequented after his shift. This one was the size of a tiny outdoor shed, much too small to be a bar, really. He […]
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Dec
A Cold Winter Night
by Ms. C. Mouse (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/32260.html) “Jump! Jump! Now go to the left.” Henry gritted his teeth. “Shut up. I know what to do.” “Watch out. No, use the sword. Hurry! Ah, you’re dead.” Henry threw down the controller as his cousin Bret pushed him out of the way. “My turn,” Bret chortled. Henry thought […]
21
Dec
A Night in Blue
by Tamari Erin (玉里えりん) illustrated by 草庫 (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/32718.html) Second Lieutenant Simenon had enlisted in the 6th Company of the Infantry Corps in search of glory and adventure, to travel the world and see the ruins of its many former wonders. As the third son of one of the lesser noble houses, he wouldn’t have […]
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Dec
First Snow
by Jian Jie (鉴戒) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/33077.html) It always seemed fitting to me that the first day of December was also my first snow, during my first winter of my first year of college. It was also the day I met my first love. I had the day off, away from a two-hour shift of folding […]
21
Dec
Pyrophoric
by shukyou (主教) illustrated by amei (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/33309.html) That Saturday night, Kip lay naked on the bed in the room two flights beneath the stage, eyes shut, recalling the week prior that had changed his life. He felt her juices still slick on his loins, his seed drying in his nether regions, and wondered not […]
21
Dec
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas
by Natsuno Owari (夏野オワリ) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/33747.html) “It’s no good, son. You’re going to have to be an elf.” Mr. Santa stood in front of Sven, sizing him up. Sven was in his early twenties and had yet to look like he was even remotely in with a chance of developing the kind of belly that […]
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Dec
Amantes Sunt Amentes
by kumoinezu (雲井鼠) illustrated by kann_opener (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/33798.html) A Brief Introduction By the Melodramatic Protagonist I have never been one to obey authority, and for that reason I have always hated soldiers, and dogs, and the quiet, studious ones who sat unnoticed in the centre of classrooms, hiding behind their textbooks until they were called […]
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Dec
The Light In Your Eyes
by Zack (ザックス) (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/34508.html) I just couldn’t imagine a world where aliens were nothing more than a sci-fi fantasy. They’d been a part of my life for as long as I could remember, looming threateningly over my future. They arrived when I was two years old, and I have them to thank for not […]
21
Dec
My Cousin My Hero
by Satoimo Taro (里芋たろ) illustrated by tongari (mirrors http://s2b2.livejournal.com/34610.html) Once upon a time, there were two cousins born of a dark, sinister, bloodthirsty race, into a lightless, ruthless society where the quality of mercy was very much strained, no holds were barred and winners ate all (including the losers). One was possessed of a sinuous, […]
