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Brass Ep. 36
They headed into the stationary room and nudged open the doors to the connected classrooms. Copper walked through the history classroom.
Irons opinion of the school lowered dramatically. Scanning the walls, she noticed a poster with the heading ‘Great Rulers’. She dismissed it as uninformative when saw no mention of the Helix 30cm Shatterproof.
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Brass Ep. 35
“It’s blocked,” grumbled Copper as she put her weight into the door. “OK, we can go around.”
Copper led Iron back down the corridor and into the math classroom. Iron paused and read an equation on the chalkboard. At the top was the word ‘Seven’. Following that was a series of plus and minus numbers. Underneath read the line ‘make seven even.’
Iron clamped her claws around the board rubber and removed the S.
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“Shogmagrathagratiu,” croaked Deer.
“Whatever you say, mate,” replied Lucy.
Deer slumped to the ground, his skin fell from his body. The features of his face slid off piece by piece until just a skull remained.
“Hey, hey,” chuckled Lucy, tugging on an antler, pointing at Deers skull. “No eyed deer!”
“Oh, for god’s sake,” sighed Yuffie. “Now what do we do with him?”
“Chop it up and sell it to passing people?” suggested Lucy. “We could chop off his balls and tell a human they have medicinal purposes.”
“We wouldn’t get much for them,” sighed Yuffie. “Deer testicles are under a buck.”
Deers corpse and pixel art trees are snap-shotted, printed and doodled on with permission of the rather awesome, lum. It’s from a free game, Devil Haunts Me. A free survival horror game by lum. Check em out here: https://lum-scum.itch.io/. You can hit ’em up on Twitter at @uberprawn.
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Brass Ep. 34
“It’s a long way to Brass,” sighed Copper. “We’ll need some extra spares.”
Iron mewed an agreement as Copper led them into St Francium school. A map hung on the wall inside. It looked as familiar as everything else that was falling apart around here.
She used to strip the RAM and hard drives out of computers. She had some good memories.
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Brass Ep. 33
Copper turned away, starting her journey to the city of Brass. Unable to watch her home and old life sink further into the earth. The rot of these lands had hounded her for so long she couldn’t remember what life was like before.
She could visualize scenes, but they never related to her current situation. Copper pans with the lady. Building alongside Iron.
It was like she had a photographic memory. It just never developed.
Photo by Pablo García Saldaña on Unsplash.
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“So she plays a dwarf?” asked Fuen.
“Yep,” replied Yuffie. “She’s trying to gather a hunting group of us, all under four foot tall.”
“I see,” replied Fuen. “That’ll be a little party.”
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Brass Ep. 32
As Copper and Iron left the house, it began sinking into the ground. Copper gasped when she realised it was going to take her vintage ladder collection with it.
Iron placed a consolatory claw on Copper’s leg. Her new friend may be a mute, but Copper was glad she wasn’t facing this alone. She knew when this was over she’d be able to rebuild her life and ladder collection.
Step by step.
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Brass Ep. 31
“You can’t talk, can you?” sighed Copper as they headed towards the exit. Irons silence offered a reply.
Copper grabbed her Hi-Fi’s keyboard as she left the house. She’d heard voiceless robots would only communicate with keyboards synchronized to musical devices.
She immediately chastised herself. Clearly, that was stereotyping.
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Brass Ep. 30
Iron stepped out of the bath and shook herself off. “We need to leave,” said Copper, filling her bag once again with supplies. The rumble of buildings collapsing up the road urged them into action.
Copper grabbed the map and looked for her sat-nav. She darted into the kitchen where she’d left it plugged in to charge and update.
Cursing herself for a silly mistake, as it was now in sync.
Ooo, now that’s one that works better over voice!
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Iron Nick
Iron Nick was really quite cheesed off. His boss kept badgering him to work harder. He was getting pretty steamed up about it all.
Lucy, meanwhile, was egging Nick on. She advised him to tell the boss where to stick his lousy job.
It became so heated that the three of them got together to sort things out once and for all. If we can’t agree, the boss said, I’ll have to get the board to make a decision. Really, it’s Iron Nick. He must decide.
Sorry boss, Nick said, I quit. I have more pressing matters to attend to!
Story by Peter Matthews of pollymermaid.wordpress.com. Check out his blog for more of Peters ponderings. Thanks for the tale, Peter!
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Little Fears 