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She'd always come running when I called.

15 stories · started over 15 years ago
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She'd Always Come Running

She'd always come running when I called. That's why when she didn't come, I freaked out. My girlfriend was kind and g...

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the run away

since the days have past, a girl of a young of her time has to run away as if she ever knew what was going on. She ha...

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The Time She Didn't Listen

She'd always come running when I called. That one girl I relied on throughout the toughest of times. I couldn't imagi...

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They gathered in the woods.

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The Gathering Storm

They gathered in the woods. There were seven of them, rangers all. Alifer the Bold arrived first, his great yew bow a...

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The Wicker Man

They gathered in the woods. On Summerisle. The pagan community anticipating a good harvest. Burning the trapped victi...

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Secure

And so another group assembled. The moon shone like the eye of a great forgotten deity, peering down on the hooded fi...

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The city was empty.

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The Final Girl

The city was empty, like the set of a sci-fi movie when the aliens have chased everyone away or a nuclear explosion h...

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Empty

I sat on the bench in the park. Breathed in the air. Smelled the ash and dust. It was quiet here, beneath the shade ...

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In the Shadows

I've been following Soulscum for a while now. I don't know what he wants. I don't know why he's here. All I know i...

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I held it at arm's length.

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It’s all relative

I held it at arms length. A scruffy business card in battered Russian. Something like “путешествие во времени” (“pute...

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Birthday Present

I held it at arm's length. Three feet long from blade to hilt it, the replica Confederate cavalry sword is beautiful....

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Mission Possible

I held it at arm's length, pressing the butt of the gun into my shoulder. It was heavy and my muscles screamed and bu...

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Kenya.

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Kenya

The heart beating, dazzling country Kenya is the home of millions of people all formed into one loving family. To som...

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Start Over

It was a random trip, picked quite literally with a dart to a map. Jon would be going to Kenya. He'd never been outsi...

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Seeing Double

Kenya was the name of my doppelganger. I thought it a strange name, thought he might call himself Jim or John, both m...

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They were listening.

21 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Listening

Blood dripped down from my arms to my legs. I was bound to a pole in an empty room with nothing but a mirror to look ...

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They Were Listening

I crept silently through then corridor, the occasional creak of the floorboards abruptly halting me in my path. The...

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Interrogation

They were listening. I wasn't worried though, It's not like I had anything important to say. Just knowing that they w...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

A shadowy princess · A brooding bishop · Claim the throne

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Random Prompt

Reading the random prompt for today I felt a shiver of unease as though someone had been spying on me throughout my l...

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Draya

Draya looked out through the trees to her castle. She had been in hiding ever since the rebellion had started. Her fa...

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Poisonous Princess

She wasn't sure she could do this. the bishop had been her friend for a while. he was trying to kill daddy, though, s...

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A Cure for Existential Crises

A small woman in her mid-20's sits in a doctor's office staring, seemingly at nothing, right in front of her, as if p...

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The Box

The jigsaw box cover was a bit different to normal so Megan decided it could be worth doing. Especially with the capt...

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Radiant Orange

The alligator with the cardboard mouth. The whipped cream on the stairs. Hollow clang. Syncopated clatter. The brigh...

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First 6 minute story

Janelle stood behind the old tree she used to climb when that sort of thing was appropriate for girls her age. In one...

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Friends

He watched as she leaned against the tree, staring at him. "What?" he asked self-consciously as he shifted in his sea...

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Gloria

Last time I saw Gloria Metcalf she was standing by the trees looking at the gravestone of her child. I had a premoni...

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7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Just One Length

"You know," Clark said, in-between rising above the water to take breaths as he swam. "I really hate you." John shru...

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Longing

When I swam across the ocean to my new home, I never guessed that I would meet the man of my dreams, or all the hassl...

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Suzy

The pool was larger than any that I had ever seen. When my parents told us that we were going to Sea World, I never t...

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