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Pension

6 stories · started over 15 years ago
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Pension

He searched through the records, long dusky fingers flipping rapidly through file after file in the Archives. He kept...

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Pension

Maurice looked at the empty mailbox and sighed. His pension was supposed to be delivered today; first of the month,...

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The Pension Book

I remember my Nans pension book. The smell of the paper and the ink. I would hold it to my nose as I walked to the po...

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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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8 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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We Won

I hid behind the low, green trees. Gunshots scream as the team squatted behind the sandstone houses. 'RUN!' The chief...

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Desert Flower

When I see these flowers, and this man standing here (that's me, by the way), and I see all the men with guns walking...

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Desert Flower

When I see these flowers, and this man standing here (that's me, by the way), and I see all the men with guns walking...

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10 stories · started almost 16 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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17 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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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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Spinning.

16 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Spinning

Spinning. Spinning. Spinning. That is all she knows now. "You'll become dizzy soon," he whispers in her ear. She smi...

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The Telltale

Four minutes away from the burn point, one of the telltales switched from green to red. Tears streamed from my eyes, ...

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Chasing Freedom

The room kept spinning for the delicate human. You could tell by the way it swayed in its place on the floor beneath ...

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12 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Jailed

"I am slowly forgetting her here" Dante whispered to himself "I did this for her and I let myself be punished in her ...

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The boxing girl

Being punched in the face for the first time is always a shock. Even with the gloves, it still hurts, and that mouth...

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The other woman

We spent the last 36 hours in bed ticking off everything from the list, blindfold food tasting, leather fetish, schoo...

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She could tell I was faking it.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Wordsmith

Savouring words was a joy to him. Illiterate for many years; he learnt to read and write late in life. His appreciati...

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Just a thought

She could tell I was faking it. My smile felt wrong, though no one else knew. She knew. A glance at the priest standi...

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5 Seconds

She could tell I was faking it. They all could. They'd have to have known I wasn't "fine". I mean, come on. It's not ...

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11 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Feelings

If you ever pass this house on 23 silverdores street, your sight will be mesmerized. A red checkered pattern clock ha...

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The Border

The border. He had. To find. The border. He'd made this trip a hundred times before and each time the damn thing move...

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You know damn well the head is in the box. You know damn well how this movie will end. But her legs are across yours ...

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2070.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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2070

2070. Last digits of the code. No matter what they did, I was not going to tell them the rest of it. My undercover me...

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Joskus

I liked Erica, but Daddy didn't. She did everything for him, like the man on the advert said she would, and it had me...

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what i want for 2070

2070, by 2070 i want all the bad things to be gone. i want there to be a cure to all the bad things that affect our w...

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