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100 feet away.

14 stories · started over 15 years ago
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The Imminent

I am really nervous. It's there. Looming. And I feel like if I move it will know, and everything around me will crumb...

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Synchronicity

100 feet away I watched the smugglers struggle to get over the jagged stones, collapse onto the wet sand, expel salt ...

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X-Files

100 feet away Mulder knew the Sasquatch was waiting. This was it, the moment of truth. Jonas, the new field agent c...

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First line

It approached.

14 stories · started over 15 years ago
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It Approached

She could feel the terror drenching and cloaking itself around her. Don't be afraid, it whispered. You've known for y...

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The Gang

It came at me. At a speed of lightning. I couldn't think. Speak, or even hear correctly. The crowbar was flung direct...

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The fires

Looking out my thirteenth floor office window, I marveled at how dark, gritty and simply dirty the air looked. It wa...

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Images

Thank God the image was blurred thought Johnston looking over his daughter's shoulder. She had accidentally found his...

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I stepped into the bathroom, which was green. There was a tape player and it was playing Chinese gongs. There was a s...

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Up

Harold finally decided to turn his life around while he was standing in front of the elevator. Even though his meet...

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First line

The lamp wouldn't turn on.

34 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Stalker

It was dark inside. I toggled the switch, and nothing happened. Shit. Thunder rolled and I sighed. Power outage. ...

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Wishful Thinking

The lamp wouldn't turn on. I was going to have to help deliver a baby in pitch darkness. With the elevator stuck betw...

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Her Work

The lamp wouldn't turn on. "Shit," Mel muttered. "Jerry!" Of course, he wouldn't come. He was in the tiny bathr...

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Whoops

"Helluva storm, Joe," I say. "Ayup," he says shakily, gazing out into the fog. His uniform is wet through and he's a...

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Four men on the port were looking for a penny stuck in the sails. It was the 4th Annual Whale Hunting Organization of...

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90 Years Before the Mast

Away. He'd escaped. And not in the usual way. Home from school at 7:30pm, another long day of detention for crim...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Kelsey · Kent · End the bloodshed

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To Make a Change

Kelsey had always hated Kent. Kent was a skinny, chaste, and weak man. His skin was light and ashy, his hair not blon...

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Kent was stabbing someone. I think it was Mary. Maybe it was Bill. I don't know. The important thing is that it was a...

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Bromley 2012

Kelsey was afraid to go out at night. Afraid of big, bad Bromley. When she told people she met online that she left i...

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Bug dead

Once upon a time there was a bug who wanted to live on my finger. I called the little fella over and asked him to sta...

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The swarm

It was a swarm. They were trying to get in. Surrounding the house. I was running frantically throughout the house, ma...

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The Flying Bug

He didn't know what to say. No one did. It had never landed on anyone's finger before. The fabled winged bug, unlike ...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Student with an Umbrella · Snow · Beer Run

3 stories · started over 16 years ago
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Beer Run

Bobby crossed the street at precisely 11:15 that night, his umbrella head firmly in hand to keep the snow off his you...

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Remember that one time?

I looked at my fellows roommates and had to suppress a giggle. I know costumes are supposed to be in jest, but we ha...

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The Past

Beer - Bier - l'alcool - it's all you really wanted You are just so damn cold, inside and out. First day of November...

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