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A seven years old boy finds a doppelganger of him while playing in his backyard and he does the worst he could've done, he brings him home. Reading time: 23.93 minutes. Chapter One Changed Plan I had been watching him for a few days now. He was seven. Only child. I had learnt his routine. Six hours in the school, rest in the house, secure and out of reach. The only time he would come out was just a little before sunset, to play in his backyard. I watched him play all by himself, alone. I pitied him. He had no one to play with but that was ideal for me. This was the perfect time to strike. So I made a plan.  The next evening, when he was playing in the backyard, throwing a big ball around, I approached him from the bushes. He heard me and got alerted. He was looking in the bushes and then without any prompt, he threw the ball at me. I caught it. He knew that it wasn’t an animal. He knew that whoever was in there, it had hands. He took a few steps backwards. “Who is t

When a serial killer breaks into a house then begins the chase of cat and mouse, the game of a predator and the prey. Reading time: 14.47 minutes. Chapter 1 The Chances T here was something eerie about that evening. The wind was witnessing the gloom that covered the city. Street lights were trying to light up every dark corner as if they were afraid that if they didn’t, something sinister might develop. A stray dog was lurking in the street, looking for something to eat, it stopped to smell a piece of garbage beside the pedestrian path. It was trying to decide if the piece was edible just when its eyes lit up, and its head jerked up in response to the sudden development. I turned on the light of the living room and looked outside the window at the stray dog, who stared at me for a second and then went along to do whatever it was doing. I looked across the street and the hazy sky. It was so calm that one wouldn’t suspect a thing before stepping out of his home. I

A strange tale of an alien, a time travelling woman and a man with a library of hidden knowledge, the tale of their adventure through a desert when they are chased by a mysterious phantom. Reading time: 15 minutes 25 seconds. Previously - An Evoking from the Stars – An alien lands in ancient Egypt and walks across the middle east following a signal, looking for someone. & The Creator and the Creation – Bela decides to fix the time machine that she found in her basement to go meet her father who went missing before she was born. Chapter One T he dry and hot desert was unwelcoming. The scorching heat was like hell-fire. The sun may as well have sucked the life out of any inhabitants right way instead of drying them up bit by bit. The hot winds were no comfort either. Every gust was like a slap to the face. Every shrug was a decree of death to the ears. The hot sand covered the land that one could see from their feet to the horizon. There was not a single tree in sight, a petty littl