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Goodnight...

14 stories · started about 15 years ago
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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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I shot my butler.

12 stories · started over 15 years ago
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I Shot My Butler

I shot my butler. He was a mole! I should have known. I'm trained to tell whether someone is lying or not. I'm a secr...

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I shot my butler.

I shot my butler. I never really wanted to though, He was a kind man. It was a week ago, and since then I've been a...

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Twist Endings

"I shot my butler." I threw the manuscript across the room. Grabbed a scotch. No. Wait. Wanted a scotch, grabbed a bo...

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The city was empty.

13 stories · started over 15 years ago
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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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In hindsight, the solution was obvious.

19 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Sherlock

In hindsight, the solution was obvious. It was the one time Watson had solved the case before I had. He teased me abo...

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Superstition

The idea that bad luck happens when a black cat crosses your path is completely ridiculous. Maybe if the creature tri...

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Interview

I saw it then, I see it now but somehow the access or more the feeling of ownership yes the feeling of ownership over...

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In 1921, he flew from the Great Rift Valley.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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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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There's somebody standing in the corner of my room.

22 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Darkness

There's somebody standing in the corner of my room. Well, "standing" may be the wrong word. There's someone IN the c...

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Dependence

He likes his own room, but he likes mine more. He's five. Half the time, if he had his way he would climb back insi...

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Corner of the Room

There's somebody standing in the corner of my room. That's what she told me most days and as normal, I ignored her. I...

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Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway.

123 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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The girl in the red gown

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was snowing, freezing her slowly. She continued...

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Red Gown

Rain poured down, next to her, the doorway shielding her. She clutched her red gown as she huddled down close to the ...

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Liun

Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway. It was raining, her hair was plastered to her fac...

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Kenya.

7 stories · started over 15 years ago
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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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Absent.

11 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Absent

Absent. The perfect word to describe the situation. Paul and Maria Strickland sat at their kitchen table eating brea...

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Absent

The episodes were getting more frequent. I'd forget where I was. Friends looking at me strangely as I carried on conv...

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Absent Professor

He was absent. Again. The kid would only show up on test days - on which he performed well enough. But that wasn't th...

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10 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Flickr blues

He sighed as he read: "This image or video is currently unavailable." "Thank you, Flickr," the man said to himself. ...

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Unavailable - unfinished

All he needed was one picture. That was it. Just one. Too bad for him it was a specific picture. But the Internet alw...

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I was walking to grandma's when I spotted the yellow box with a question mark on it. I liked it so much that I leaned...

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