The Box Has Twelve Sides: Thirteen Curious Tales to Delight and Disturb
mkbagwell
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  • Reads 406
  • Votes 45
  • Parts 16
  • Time 6h 31m
mkbagwell
Complete, First published Aug 13, 2017
Mature
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A homeless man discovers a mysterious box which transports him back to his childhood. On each side of the box, both inside and out, a new world reveals itself to him: 
        
  He experiences another man's worst day of luck. An old, dying man befriends an alien creature and shares an inexplicable bond. A unique blanket helps a young woman in a time of crisis. Another man's grief of losing his dying wife is tempered by a ghostly haunting. The first manned mission to Mars reveals a personal past for one colonist. An Indian Brave concludes a ritual as a rite of passage to adulthood. The end of the world brings a woman and her ailing father together for the last time. A man has an opportunity to right one wrong from his past and realizes the true meaning of regret. Another man's senses are replaced one by one with something alien. A golfer in the aftermath of the apocalypse sets out on a quest to keep the game he loves alive. A conversation between two sides of one man's psyche reveals something in us all. A snowbound woman holds the fate of the world literally in her hands. 
        
  Once all sides of the box are revealed, the homeless man discovers the promise of a new future built on memories from a past he never had.
  
  The Box Has Twelve Sides is a collection of thirteen stories all connected as visions given to a homeless man in search of his future. I will be posting each story as a chapter every few days until all are published and the book marked as complete. Please check back and pick up the next story in the overall arc.
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Old time's, new changes, and a lot of reality bending idiots.

12 parts Ongoing

The void. Ah, how do i describe such a realm? Splintered across hundreds of factions, possibly more, with subfactions.... No wonder they always have a civil war. Alas, we speak of a rare time where one of the two AVG's take a break. A break....in the distance stars, one with aliens, humans. And parasites. Nothing new, right? Well, yes. After all, what is there to fear, if you were the fears nightmare? 8023, June 23rd. A gateway long forgotten in the void reactivates accidentally, and, it just so happens to have been near earth.... This wasn't a normal earth. War? Oh, wars normal. it was oddly peaceful. "So...you decided to change where i was sent, GOV."

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