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Highrises.

7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Highrise

I never realized just how high the flats in this area stood. Concrete giants standing over this urban world which I a...

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Epiphany in Media Res

It rose. She held his hand and it felt like grass. It was grass between her fingers; but for all she cared at that mo...

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Prayer Request

The message was received. "Prayers are needed for a friend. he has cancer." Horrible! Terrible news! Certainly not t...

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The New Job

My singing was awful. Didn't matter as the audience were drunk, I could see Lorna sticking her tongue down John's thr...

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In the dark.

The lights dimmed. Mary-Rose, in her black-and-white jail-striped dress entered the stage from the left. My left, not...

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The Circle of Life

She sang. Her beautiful voice rang out through the dense smoke in the room, pushing out into the ears, minds and hear...

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I'm dead. Really dead. Not in the "there'll be a twist at the end and I'll be saved" kind of way. Just dead.

25 stories · started about 15 years ago
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The Crash

I awoke to the sound of waves, big waves slamming against the walls of the... house? No, boat. It was definitely a bo...

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The candle

I'm dead. Really dead. Not int he " there'll be a twist int he end and ill be saved kind of way. Just dead. Somet...

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Rachel's Revenge

I didn't take her seriously. I mean everyone cheats. At least that's what I told myself. I can't imagine my face when...

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6 Minute Story

Signs were put up on the wall, all help is lost . The war took the lives of many great, respectable people but this w...

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Doodle

Becky hoped Tom saw what she had written before her teacher did. Mr. Smith was notoriously tidy about the things in ...

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Tree Hugger

I never liked autumn leaves as you do. I watched you look at trees, the delight on your face intensified when you clo...

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Homeless Man · Public Bus · Life

5 stories · started over 16 years ago
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The Substitute

Every morning, the No. 7 bus drives down Cherry Lane. The kids waiting for the bus get splashed by a puddle whenever ...

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Dead Man's Hand

Leave me behind as you do is because of my fault. The fault you saw in me is the one you said you'd fix, it's the fau...

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Small Choices

It was an odd feeling. Looking at a family. He'd been away from his own family for so long that he felt like he'd nev...

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In 1921, he flew from the Great Rift Valley.

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Bob from Calpfinn

In 1921, he flew to the Great Rift Valley. He came back from the world called Calpfinn. The place where not only ordi...

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listful

In 1921, he flew from the Great Rift Valley to the California shore In 1934, he was spotted near a bank robbery that...

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Biplane

In 1921, he flew from the Great Rift Valley, along the trails left by the ancient Martians, to find the Temple of the...

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Plantation Lake

The plumber did not arrive on time. Later I found out he'd been fishing in Plantation Lake, that place near Kingswood...

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Bapa's Boat

I sit high in the tree above the water. Watching. Bapa sits in his little green boat rocking gently in the water. The...

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An American Setting

swallowed by the water flowers at last the canoe breathed across the swamp I found the roots of an ancient oak felled...

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The maple leaves will change and fall with a certain grace – November will begin.

8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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#hashtag condolivin'

#hashtag condo livin. Last year i bought a tiny orange tree to spruce up my tiny patio. #condolife. Over the many m...

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Tree Nymph

The colors bleed into brown, red to rust, green to yellow. The maple leaves will change and fall with a certain grac...

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Winter worship

then the cold A wet cold that moves through you that clings to your insides A cold that whispers soft and true _You ...

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Liquid Dreams

Cindy yawned and stretched as she started her day. It was time to walk her pet octopus. She pulled Ollie out of his...

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3 friends

This is the short story about the journey of three friends from plumstead to central london at 23/02/2015. Friend ...

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Spray

Penelope loved the fountain, loved the way the water sprayed, cooling her in the hot sun, making her clothes cling as...

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The pistol was cocked, ready to go.

12 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Highwayman

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. Aiming at the highway man was easy, pulling the trigger was the problem. I couldn...

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Pull the Trigger

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. “Your turn” she said, as my hands trembled in fear. Why was I here? Who was she? ...

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Denny's

The pistol was cocked, ready to go. I was going to show him. I was angry, no, furious. He cut me off! In this city, t...

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