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Who has Noel from ASSTR.org?
There was a story called Noel in ASSTR. It was practically perfect in every way. But ever since the site went down, so did the story.
Does anybody have a copy of it?
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Book series where a family living in the country is attacked by fae
I’m trying to remember a series I read 2-3 years about a family of 4 living in a white house in the country. Brother and sister were trained to fight, brother was supposed to be the protector over the ...
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Manga where a female character not main character throw potion, the female character has atelier class
I am looking for a specific fantasy Manga where the female side character throw potion at party member to heal them, the female character has atelier class. She not main character i remember. I ...
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Manga with a female protagonist. She gets locked in a tower and returns to her family as a maid. Earth control powers [closed]
Girl was born and had different colour hair and eyes to the parents (brown hair and purple eyes), so the father thought the mother had cheated on him, and has her locked in a tower.
She goes back to ...
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Isekai manhwa about the female lead not wanting to marry a momma's boy
I'm trying to identify an isekai manhwa where, in the female lead's original life, she was married to a momma's boy who refused to come home one night while she was sick. From then on, she resolves ...
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Dystopian future story set in Oceania? about Maori trading clipper ship intervening inattack on town
Would appreciate help to trace short story/novelette featuring a post fuel/atomic future based about a clipper ship with New Zealand/Maori ??? crew who are visiting a trading port. This is attacked by ...
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SciFi story about father and son after world is destroyed
The story has these elements, world was destroyed in a war, lots of electrical storms and colors in the sky. The father gets younger as the days progress till the son is asked if he is his father. ...
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Webcomic about a boy trying to find his parents
A webcomic about a boy, about 14-16ish in age, whose parents killed the king and queen when he was very young, in the 1-4ish range, and promptly disappeared.
I'm pretty sure the majority of it was in ...
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Why didn't the original melting of the hook count as destroying it?
Rewatched the Supernatural episode Hook Man earlier- to banish the Hook Man spirit the Winchester brothers had to destroy his remains including the silver prosthetic hook he originally used to commit ...
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SF authors plagued by weird events (pre-1970s story)
I read this one online, possibly at the Internet Archive: a group of SF writers are at their favorite bar (or some location they go to regularly), I think enjoying the opportunity to be away from ...
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Was Castro in "The Call of Cthulhu" named after Adolphe de Castro?
H. P. Lovecraft revised two earlier stories by Adolphe de Castro for publication in Weird Tales in 1928 and 1930: "The Last Test" and "The Electric Executioner." Neither is ...
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Did the success of "Star Wars" contribute to the decision to make "Strangers" starring Don Henderson?
British actor Don Henderson's two best known role were General Tagge in Star Wars and George Bulman, who he played in three successive crime shows from 1976 to 1987: The XYY Man, Strangers, and ...
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Time travel short story. Man meets his friend after 50 years
An old man is living in a place similar to an old London gentlemen's club. It is in the future, they are waited on by robots.
The old men all sit together in the club. One of the club rules is that ...
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Short story. Some men discover a window into another dimension and watch a Victorian family through it [duplicate]
The life being led by the Victorian family seems wonderful, much better than the life of the watchers.
One of the men jumps through into the Victorian world. He is immediately eaten by the family who ...
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How did Data beat the card sharks in TNG: "Time's Arrow"? [duplicate]
In TNG: Time's Arrow, Data needs money and enters a poker game, apparently winning just about everything from the card sharks. However, it's also pretty clear that the card sharks are more likely to ...