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You had me at 'ox bow lake'.

11 stories · started about 15 years ago
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On Second Thoughts

I wonder. I really wonder. He always enjoyed pulling a fast one over me, he did. So I suppose this wasn't a surprise,...

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"Adventures" with Jerry

Ox bow lake? I said looking at Jerry. He sat there with that evil kniving look on his face. I knew i should have stay...

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You had me at ox bow lake, knee deep in dark water. "It's not so bad, right?" you said. "It's no Jersey Shore," I s...

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Hero · Villain · Goal

Writer · Americans · Hemingway

5 stories · started about 16 years ago
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Ink

Sitting at a desk with pen in hand. "It's us against the world." "Watch out, America." The circle of faces tight...

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Traitor

I was an optimist. I thought that I, like Hemingway, could weave my influence between countries, live in the welcomin...

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Dying in the rain

He couldn't see through the rain. The rain covered everything in sight, like a thick veil of mosquito netting had bee...

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The day after tomorrow, this will all be over.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Impatience

The day after tomorrow, this will be all over. The waiting, the anxiety, the impatience will end. I have paced my roo...

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Dead lines

Martin Adams began to type. He wasn't sure what to say; a fact that the repeated DELETES and EDITS made clear. Love l...

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The Day after Tomorrow

The day after tomorrow, this will all be over. End of the world according to the Mayan predictions. It didn't seem wo...

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First line

He ran into the room, his heart pounding, and his clothes soaking wet.

31 stories · started about 15 years ago
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A very rainy day

He ran into the room, his heart pounding and his clothes soaking wet. Just earlier that day, he headed out for the d...

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Dust

Immediately he ripped his dresser draw open. Rummaging through the clothes all neatly packed. Foot steps are heard fr...

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So much for God.

"Damnit Christine, god damnit, call 911!" I shouted, dropping my sisters limp body on the bed. There was froth aroun...

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I'm a Walker, not a Wanderer

I have always been a walker. Not a wanderer - that is what I sometimes hear them calling me now. No, I have always be...

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Old fool

Good Lord! What is that old fool doing. He is out and about with only a tatty old dressing gown and a pair of mouldy ...

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Step

Just one more step. That's all it would take to step into eternity. Not even that. If the day had been wet instead o...

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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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First line

The audience stared open mouthed at me.

19 stories · started almost 15 years ago
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The golden sea

Never before had he entered this room. The dream of the golden sea was clearer in his mind than ever before. There wa...

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Mr

i start my journey very hard from 2010 when i come to London i done my level-4 diploma i give my three papers out of ...

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School Story

I couldn't believe what I had just done. I ran outside the school, my breath coming out in raspy gulps. There was not...

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There was blood on my pillow.

15 stories · started about 15 years ago
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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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Lost, without a hand to hold.

20 stories · started about 15 years ago
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Lost without him

My father had died.I was lost without any one to hold my hand.I was left alone. With no family.My hand just banged ag...

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Looking Back

It was such a long time ago. Such a very long time ago. Yet for some reason she had still believed she would know t...

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Lost

When I lost my mother in the store, I was only three years old. I can't remember what happened but I still wake up in...

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She opened the envelope and screamed.

15 stories · started almost 16 years ago
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Acceptance

She opened the envelope and screamed. "I got in!" she told her parents, hopping excitedly as she held out the accepta...

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Poetic Justice

She opened the envelope and screamed. This was not the day to be squeamish. This was the day her daughter would be ...

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Letters to Paris

She opened the envelope and screamed. She could not believe him, she simply could not believe that he was still persu...

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