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The conversation lasted two words:

27 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The conversation lasted two words: "Too much." Too much pain? Too much regret? Too much suffering. And who's? From tw...

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"Go"

I am trying to make up words as I tremble in Fear. I can feel the first drop of sweat starting to run down my face. H...

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Till death do us part

"I'm sorry", the two words that shattered her world. She let the dial tone ring out, as a hot tear ran down her cheek...

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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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"You're here because someone recommended you to me. Someone who passed the test. Someone who promised you that you'd ...

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My Sister

My sister was called Heather. She only lived three years. I've never been told what really happened to her, only that...

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I Will Plant a Garden

I will put my fingers together and pull the grass up from the roots. I will do it before my mother comes outside. If ...

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There was blood on my pillow.

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That all wrapped up nicely

"there was blood on my pillow and a noose in my heart" These country singers were getting downright moros, good thou...

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Blood On My Pillow.

There was blood on my pillow. It's 6 a.m. and there is blood on my pillow. I started to try and remember what happene...

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Terror In Their Midst

Whitechapel 1888. There was blood on my pillow again this morning when I awoke. My landlady has already been asking ...

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Twist.

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Twist

"And now, a nice, juicy twist. That's it. Keep twisting. One final push! Aaaaand release. Other side, now. Raise your...

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Wooing in a Bathroom

Twist. Twist. Twist. The doorknob wouldn't turn. The door wouldn't open. And then Liz would find out why Sebastian wa...

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First Day of School

The first day of school and he was already in a fight. Mark sighed as the three seventh graders approached him from t...

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Fault.

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Blame

It wasn't my fault. It couldn't have been. She was dead when I got there. I know my fingerprints were on the gun. It...

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Fault Equals Anger

"This is your fault," his wife said to him. If you would just put your mother in her place I wouldn't have to and we ...

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My Middle Name

Fault. Such a familiar word. Im not sure what it means and what it looks like but i can feel it. I feel it for a lo...

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Goodnight...

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Protection

Goodnight sweetheart, well it's time to go... Goodnight sweetheart, well it's time to go... There's a contentment th...

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The Antithesis

Sleep and you may dream. Remain and you will surely regret the decisions you make in the night. Intermittent car ho...

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A Good Night Turned

"Good night," the bar manager said, as he tapped a stack of bills on their side to even them out. The waitress dumped...

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The results were in.

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The results were in...

Marie wiped her sweaty palms on her jeans. Breathing heavily, she glanced impatiently at the bland, hospital door; it...

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The Results

The results were in, she said. And he ran and ran and ran and ran, disregarding the shouts of teachers behind him, ju...

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Winning is Everything

The results were in. The young men standing before the judges fidgeted anxiously in their military-style uniforms. Ja...

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The year was 1986.

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Mother's Lost Story

The year was 1986 and she was a high school softball star. So young and full of potential. She was beautiful. She had...

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South Louisiana Boy Laments

The year was 1986 and I was 10 years old living in south Louisiana. My family had been living in Louisiana for gener...

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Running

The year was 1986. My home, a typical home in Suburbia, USA. My life, a typical American teenager, filled with angst ...

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Perfection

I stare at the row of perfect houses resting on the perfectly manicured lawns beneath a perfectly blue sky by perfect...

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The Ring

I found the ring on the bowling green. Slipped in my back pocket for later as I was in the middle of the tournament. ...

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My balls

Set down the light set it down anywhere The pure clean of a random weeknight on the coach staring at the white ceili...

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