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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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The Newcomers

The alien craft exploded invisible to the human eye. The inhabitants had exited over an hour ago, running amazingly f...

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Red Squall

He smoked pipes, ate limes, ate the gnats he swiped from the air. The lions lounged in the front yard. He chose lions...

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On the fourth day of the invasion, the defenders opened the gates of the zoo. Let those bastards contend with lions ...

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I jumped.

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Jump

The wind whistled around me, caressing me like i was its lover. Its icy touch leaving trails of fire all over my skin...

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The Fake Suicide

i jumped off the bridge and hit the water. OK, so i didn't judge the height of the bridge or he depth of the water, b...

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Open

You could use a little direction, said Junie to Sam. They were sitting cross-legged in the wood chips on the playgr...

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Gradually.

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Genesis

Slowly it built, piece by piece. The atoms of its essence compiling line after line, upwards and outwards, exploding ...

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A Great Morning

"Big wheels keep on turnin'..." Paul's hands beat on the steering wheel in time with Lynyrd Skynrd as he drove down t...

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Gradually

Gradually. That was the secret, wasn't it? Build up their trust or indifference, either one would do, like in t...

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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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She cradled the faun's head.

7 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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A long long way to run

Feeling like a fool, alone but still wondering how she looked, how she looked to other people. She should just allow ...

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Bedtime Stories

She cradled the faun's head and he went to sleep. I had read the final line of the bedtime story about a thousand ti...

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13. She cradled the faun's head.

She cradled the faun's head. She listened to its soft breath, listened to its complaint, listened its petition. But...

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Light.

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Broken Morning

Face down on the cold floor of the cathedral, Brother Fidelis whispered his prayers. Though his lips brushed the dust...

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Coward

Light. Fuck light, right? Right. Light just shows what I don't want to share, it takes away my CHOICE. Isn't that ...

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Light

Light as a feather. Light on the eyes. Light flashing into tear streaming eyes. Light in my arms, My long-lost love...

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I wish

Sometimes I still feel like a kid - excited about silly things like jumping into puddles, watching how the water spla...

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The Dying Place

It was a vast open space. Where the distant hills cling to the horizon, and the blue sky above curves to fasten to th...

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Shiny Boots

The anti-grav boots were worth every penny. Shelly had saved for weeks, mowing lawns, delivering papers, collecting ...

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The Window

The woman at the window was dead. I knew because it was my sister. She appeared whenever we left the house. We no lon...

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Nurtured into a Mighty Oak

Sophie stood at the window, the curtains snug around her shoulders,trailing behind like a dress, or veil. The sun was...

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she watched for him

she watched for him. the curtains engulfed her as she pressed her nose to the glass, eyes intent on the driveway. As ...

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The Party

Fancy dress at Tom's party was optional, but all the children wore something wacky. First prize was for the circus ri...

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Mothers and Daughters

Dear Mom, Do you remember this picture? I do. I remember a lot about those days, when we were a family. Yesterday, I ...

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Mess With The Bull...

"What the hell kind of superhero costume is that?!" My dad was yelling so loud I could hear him from my room. When th...

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