Korridorium

A daily dose of corridors in prose

Kategorie: fract

11/11/11

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The cover art depicts a lengthy hallway, lined with many open doorways on either side, featuring a painted floor and a celestial-themed ceiling. A fractured sign rests at the front left, with a key positioned to the front right.

♫ Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate! ♫

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I enter the corridor…

13/11/11

3/398

The cover art shows a woman in a long black dress in a magnificent, dark corridor with a large, snarling dragon head on the ceiling, while another person stands at the end of the hallway before a bright door.

♫ Dance Dragon Dance (Intro) ♫

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I enter the corridor. You run towards me with open arms, laughing. Ardinea! I recognize you by the wild color of your eyes.

19/11/11

9/398

The cover art features a vintage black mechanical typewriter, paper already loaded, its round keys all bearing the letter E. A digital button displays a crossed-out 'I'.

♫ Accidental Break ♫

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O rmyrt yjr vpttofpt. (Oops, wrong keys, off by one.)

27/11/11

17/398

The cover art captures a boy leaping across a numbered hopscotch grid on the floor, a stopwatch in the foreground ticking at "0h00min09s".

♫ Ohoominogs ♫

17/398

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I enter the corridor: One small hop for mankind, but for a little squirt like me, one giiiant step.

30/11/11

20/398

The cover art of a vintage sci-fi periodical features an astronaut, suited up and peering through a circular viewport. He gazes at a celestial panorama of planets and stars as his luminous weapon is trained on a distinctly purple entity.

♫ His Countenance Like Lightning ♫

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I enter the corridor. This is the last one that hasn’t been sterilized yet, according to the display on my hardsuit sleeve—soon these wretched Kxax will be history on my ship! I grip my zapper tighter, scanning the shadows in the corners of the hall. A sharp pain stabs into my left ankle. A Kxax stinger has punctured the hardsuit. I take aim. The searing blast doesn’t just shred the attacker, but takes half of my left leg along with it—yet the alien secretion is faster: The diabolical poison of the Kxax has already reached my heart. I knew the risk; I know they’ll hail me as a hero. It’s just a shame I won’t be around to reap the rewards.

04/12/11

24/398

The cover art, rendered in an impressionistic style, depicts a lengthy hallway. On its right, a series of rectangular window openings punctuate the wall, leading the eye to a verdant vista at the corridor's end. An urn is positioned within one of these window apertures.

♫ Uppgötvun ♫

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I enter the corridor. This is where we agreed to meet, should we lose each other. And sure enough: the urn is on the windowsill.

18/01/12

69/398

The cover art shows a hallway with dark walls, a framed picture on the left, and a sideboard in the background. A carpet with a 3D pattern, depicting sharpened stakes, lies in the middle, with a skylight above it, revealing the starry sky.

♫ Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously (Pt. 1) ♫

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I enter the hallway. It’s the one with the carpet. Well, that’s not going to stop me. With a quick yank, I flip the carpet aside, and there it is, just as I suspected, a few steps ahead: a deep pit with sharpened stakes jutting up from the bottom. Staying true to my principle of not taking anything personally, I shrug with a smile, get a running start to leap across, and continue my journey with a light heart.

26/01/12

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The cover art features a home cinema setup, complete with rich brown leather recliners facing a grand screen. This screen depicts a roaring fire, complete with wisps of smoke. To the lower left, a digital button displays a computer monitor with abstract, flowing waveforms.

♫ Crackling Fire Drums ♫

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I enter the “Korridor,” a digital cinema specializing in matinees with screensavers. Today’s feature: “In Front of the Fireplace.”

07/02/12

89/398

The cover art shows six small, roundish, peculiar creatures with large eyes peering out of a damp window frame, surrounded by ferns and leaves.

♫ Kelpwelt ♫

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I enter the corridor. The doors are glass: display windows into the cages of the nocturnal. They stare at me with large, round eyes. I stare back with large, round eyes. Will they recognize me as one of their own?

28/02/12

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The cover art shows a game-over screen: a pixelated font with the text »GAME OVER« in red, above it a row of small skull icons, below it the text »PLAY AGAIN« as well as the selection »YES/NO« in yellow pixel font on a green background.

♫ Déjà vécu ♫

110/398

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I enter the corridor as the last of 110 and sit down to write my life on paper scraps—and wait until the clock runs out.