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The water was clear.

16 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Water

The water was clear but her conscience was not. Carla gazed into the crystal goblet's depths, the sparkling liquid r...

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Narcissus

The water was clear, so I stared at it, looking at my reflection. I was ugly, there were no two ways about. She had b...

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Do We Really?

The water was clear and not a cloud was in the sky. Melody lay in the tall weeds near the lake under a weeping willow...

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Midnight on the roof.

24 stories · started over 14 years ago
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Night Climbing

Midnight on the roof. The roof of one of the university buildings, to be exact. "We've made it," he says. I nod, sti...

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Forbidden

I stared up at the stars the beauty overtaking my sight, the bright lights occupied me while I was waiting. For him ...

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Rebel

Midnight On the roof. A shouldn't-be time in a shouldn't-be place, Thad pecked a shouldn't-do cigarette from the...

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My body relaxes slowly, despite my furious attempts to resist the drug making its way through my limbs.

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A Drop of Color

I don't know how I got here. I don't know why someone has strapped me to a table and is trying to knock me out with d...

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Acid Attack

My face turning a scary shade of blue, hands stiffening, heart slowly...slowly shutting down. Panic surrounds me, but...

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9 stories · started about 15 years ago
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The Teleporter, Part 6

As the walked along a long fenced pathway, she told Martin, that she was bringing him to a refugee camp, and that she...

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Vantage Point

She pulled her head back from the binoculars, a scowl on her face. The were all over the streets, and it was only a m...

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The fat girl at Kentucky Fried Chicken touched my forehead with the palm of her hand. Her skin was oily and she had p...

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The disco ball was turning.

27 stories · started about 15 years ago
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What a night

I was dancing. The disco ball was turning. It was Monica's sweet 16 and I got invited. But unfortunately, I regrette...

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A real horror story

The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...

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A real horror story

The disco ball was turning. Just in case there were any senses left unassailed, it was supported by several lasers an...

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Speak When Spoken To

"What the hell happened here?" The man in the blue button up military coat came up to the wreck. He wore a hat on his...

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Memory

I saw the thing. It was preserved in the glass case, the only one of its kind. So faithfully had the curators touched...

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Whoops

"Well shit, that didn't work," the conductor said. He walked around the wreckage, pulling out passengers. Women, mos...

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Barren Beach

I don't know what to say. The image was... IS astouding, but other than that, nothing. What do I see? A lonely figure...

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Rock

That is one big rock. Or a whole buttload of really, really small rocks. If you jumped from the top of that rock, and...

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Rock Hard

"It's like a huge, deformed penis sticking up out of the ground," she said. Red Gatorade sprayed her cheek. Nick wipe...

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Good for her.

It was her masterpiece. Jutting out of the water, everyone around could see what she'd created - what *she* had crea...

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The Party Crasher

His dive, performed in front of the small, half-drunk dinner party, was perfect in his mind. He'd had a few martinis ...

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Chain Mail Ponderings

For some reason, I couldn't stop staring at the picture. It was... gorgeous, sure. The colors were somewhat exaggerat...

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You had me at 'ox bow lake'.

11 stories · started about 15 years ago
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On Second Thoughts

I wonder. I really wonder. He always enjoyed pulling a fast one over me, he did. So I suppose this wasn't a surprise,...

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"Adventures" with Jerry

Ox bow lake? I said looking at Jerry. He sat there with that evil kniving look on his face. I knew i should have stay...

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You had me at ox bow lake, knee deep in dark water. "It's not so bad, right?" you said. "It's no Jersey Shore," I s...

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I jumped.

21 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Jump

The wind whistled around me, caressing me like i was its lover. Its icy touch leaving trails of fire all over my skin...

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The Fake Suicide

i jumped off the bridge and hit the water. OK, so i didn't judge the height of the bridge or he depth of the water, b...

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Open

You could use a little direction, said Junie to Sam. They were sitting cross-legged in the wood chips on the playgr...

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